The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-21
ARE THEY SELLING
FOrty-Seven Lots in Elmhurst
Sold Since Last Friday.
Three Hundred and Eighteen
Sold i'm Elmhurst in One Year.
25 HOMES BUILT.
HOMES BUILT
Thirty-Seven Definitely Planned
to Be Built This Summer.
Elmhurst Alive With Home
Buyers Today, Lots Going Fast.

Forty-seven lots were sold in Elm
hurst since last Friday. The beautiful
new addition to the city of Topeka is
alive with home buyers today and will
be so until the last lot is sold.
Three hundred and eighteen lots
have been sold during the past year
and within sixty days there will not
be single lot owned by the Elmhurst
syndicate.
All the east front lots in Elmhurst
on Mulvane, Garfield and College ave-
nues have been sold. Every west front
lot on Mulvane street but four. all but
thirteen west fronts on Garfield. for
ty-four west fronts on College ave-
nue. have been sold. Twenty-one east
fronts on West street. nineteen west
fronts on Boswell street eight east
fronts Jewell street and two east
front lots on Grand avenue have been
sold.
The west twenty acres of Elmhurst
was placed on the market today and
forty lots were sold in this portion at
2 o'clock this afternoon. The open
ing of the west portion of Elmhurst
met with the greatest interest and en-
thusiasm ever demonstrated in To-
peka. Inquiries about ElmhurSt lots
began pouring into the office of the
Elmhurst syndicate last night and kept
it up until II o'clock, then bright and
early the real estate men about the
city began calling as early as o'clock.
Checks and deeds are being exchanged
today like compliments at the Coun-
try club.
have become interested in Elmhurst?
This addition has been plotted and
graded for home building and that is
what the people are going to do with
IT, twenty-five homes are being built
or have been. Thirty-seven have been
planned and will be constructed this
summer. Stakes have been driven and
trenches started for the first home in
the west twenty acres. The house will
cost about $2,800. Twenty-four thou
sand square feet will be constructed
this summer. Is there any wonder
that people are noticing and buying
in Elmhurst?
Buyers from every part of the state
from cities with bigger booms than
Topeka ever knew, are coming to To-
peka and investing in Elmhurst as the
one big possibility in the city. A. M.
Reitzel of Wellington, Kansas, down
where oil flows out of the top of the
ground, came to Topeka and Elm
hurst to invest.
banker and a business man left Nc
PherSon, the big boom in western
Kansas to buy six lots on college ave-
nue..
Those in the city and elsewhere who
bought Elmhurst lots for speculation
have realized handsome profits and
enormous offers for their holdings in
Elmhurst. Carl Ericsson, the travel
ing salesman for the Wolff Packing
Co, of this city has been offered twice
the amount given for his lots in the
original purchase.
Dan Haggart bought four lots in
Elmhurst less than a year ago and
sold them the other day at a net pro-
fit of $500 on each lot Probably this
increase in price and valuation is
what is bringing the people to Topeka
Even from 'Bill Whites town, EN-
pory'' they come. they buy and are
glad of it,
Mr.. N. B. Burge of the Elmhurst
syndicate, said this morning, eff any
one in the city of Topeka doubts the
authenticity of the sales herein re-
ported, they can come to my office in
the Shawnee Fire Building and find
that every word stated above is abb
solutely true"