The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-10
Insiders Are Expecting Offer to Trade Success Hill Property In This Case Something to Boot Will be Offered to City,
 Town Farm is Valuable
Control of Water Supply, Own ership of Railroad Right of Way, and Policy of Keeping Elements of its Plant Con- nected Indicate Ambition of Company.

Real estate men, city officials and business men who have had their ears to the ground for sometime past and who are familiar with some of the moves that have been made in the real estate market in recent years, where large tracts of land have been involved. are forecasting that the day is not far distant when the Union Metallic Cartridge Go. will make an effort to trade a part of Success Hill property for the town farm tract. It is understood that the Cartridge company stands ready to give the city tract of land running along the Stratford town line and to pay enough money in addition to meet the cost of erecting new buildings on the new tract. How much money the com pany would be willing to give has not been stated, or how much land the firm would give for the no acres of town farm property which would bring a large sum if 1t were cut up into building lots.
 The Union Metallic Cartridge Co. has a very valuable water right in Pembroke lake which it owns, along with the property on both sides of its banks. It also owns Stillman's pond and the stream connecting it with Pembroke lake, but it does not own Success brook, which flows through the town farm and feeds Stillman's s pond, although it does own Success lake, which is the source of the en- tire system. If 1t can secure the town farm 1t. will own this entire wa ter system from source to outlet. Much water is used in the operation of the gigantic plant of the Cartridge Co. and is worth thousands of dollars per year to the company.
 Another reason why the Cartridge company could use the town farm is that it's northern reservation at Sue cess Hill is connected with its plant in Barnum avenue by a standard reach it's magazines without running its trains over the town farm. The city could cause the tracks to be taken up at any time after the ex- piration of the lease under which they are operated. The company old time method of team transporta- ton for its powder, from the maga- zines to it's factories.
 The Union Metallic Cartridge Co.,, with its massive shot shell depart ment, shot tower, and ball cartridge cent of the ammunition used in North America. Its plant is going to grow and it has been the policy of the concern from the start to have all of its property connecting.
 There has been talk of the com pany bringing other manufacturing concerns here, with which it is con- nected, but whether it does or not it is a certainty that the plant of the U. M. c. Go. is going to grow in fu- ture years. The management does not want to wake up some morning factory building on land not connect ed with it's main plant.
 The closing of Pauline street, be- tween Barnum avenue and Arctic street, is also said to be a part of the plan. The company owns the proper ty on both sides of the street and the thoroughfare separates the shot tow CT plant from the rest of the prop erty contrary to the policy of the company to have all its holdings to- gether.
 1t is understood that the men who are engineering the plan do not want to launch the proposition until such a time as the legislature can be asked to move the Stratford town line to the eastward in order to bring the entire Success Hill tract of the com pany into the city of Bridgeport: It would not do to have the citys aims house property in another township.
 The company's Success Hill re- seryation is composed of several hun dred acres. The improved part on which the powder magazines are To- cated due north of the town farm so that a line could be drawn to the eastward of Success lake and the company would gain a splendid tract of land extending from Boston road to the Trumbull town line on the north.
 Recently, as a result of a resolu- ton offered in the common council, committee was appointed to con- sider the advisability of building new buildings at Lakeview Home. The committee that has been appointed is composed of Aldermen Griffin, Conlin, Lavery, Stewart, and Jackson.
 Whether any of the aldermen req lize the magnitude of the proposition that is likely to come before them is not known, but 1t is whispered among real estate men that the movement to replace the buildings at Lake view Home with new structures is the advance guard of some such gigantic real estate scheme as de- scribed above.