The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-12
MORE THAN LIFE
Is the Valuation Placed on JOp-
lin Real Estate.
Undermined, CatacOmbed, I'm
stable Yet Values Are High.
JOPLIN VS.. TOPEKA.
Comparisons Show the Missouri.
ians Know Property Values.
Neighb0rs Talk About Topeka
and Her Possibilities.

| The premium price for a miners
life in Joplin Mo-, is $2.25. The high
est price on business lots is $4,000 a
front foot. Vast difference that. Al
most as much difference as between
the real estate values in Joplin and
Topeka.
Joplin's cheapest ground in the
| business district, four blocks from
! the postoffice sells for 800 front
| foot more than the highest values in
| Topeka. In Joplin they buy and sell
| just the upper crust. All beneath the
! surface is owned and controlled by
| the mine owners. Further many of
the finest business buildings are built
over verita BILE catacomb of mine
! drifts.
Trains running in and out of Jop-
lin have repeatedly broken in two in
the middle and dropped into a cav
ernouS hole, mine drift right in the
dipped their noses into these caveinS
and threw their single electric eye in
the faces of astonished miners.
Yet the people pay $4,000 a front
foot for business property there. And
again they pay $40 a front foot for
residence lots, out sixteen blocks from
the business district and the owner
knoweth not whether he will be blown
up or sink into one of these excavated
pockets called a lead mine beneath
him.
Here in Topeka, out In EImhurst
the ground is firm and solid clear
through to China and can be bought
for $40 to $14 a front foot.
Joplin has 10000 inhabitants and
the enumerators must count them on
the fly. Theirs is a transient popula-
ton. Yet note the vast difference be-
tween prices paid by those people
who stay but day and are gone
again and the owners in Topeka who
live here now and always will. Its
the difference between $4,000 and
5000 or, $4,000.
The consumer of beer pays the bur-
den of the tax in Joplin, but then the
levy is $1-54 on every 500. Owners
of business lots pay three times the
amount of taxes as does the Topeka
man.
Joplin has no such residence dis
tricts as does Topeka, no Elmhurst
there.
They have not the factories and big
institutions as are located here in To-
peka. Nothing in Joplin to brag about
but mines. a foundry and breweries
The leaden tainted water from the
mines flows about the streets and
homes of Joplin and kills vegetation.
Can't have a garden in Joplin unless
it is a portable affair and is protected
and nourished with distilled water
No comparison can properly be made.
Forget Joplin. Topeka is bigger, broad
Ell JULIET hSSp dn eye on
too while the days are growing warmer
and longer. The little Office in Elm
hurst must be moved at once because
the former owner has sold the lots on
which it stands. realizing a profit of
$500 per lot in less than six months.
Mrs. Anna Greenwood will build u
modern homes in this addition this
spring and summer. This will be the
work of just one person. There are
hundreds of interested people nosing
around in that addition. Investors and
real estate dealers from all over the
state are being attracted to Topeka
and her exceptional low values.
Il talked to several real estate men
from various parts of the state yester-
day." said ]. Will Kelley, land all ex-
pressed surprise at the difference be-
tween the appearance of the business
streets and tn residence portions of To-
Peka while here attending the real es-
tate convention.
when prices were quoted to them,