The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-01
was hoped that it would be completed
before that time

DeIOr6 Time.
The excavating for the general Of
flee motive power department $4,000
fire-proof concrete building, which
Contractor Spencer is erecting for the
Santa Fe has been completed, and
grounds so that when the weather
will permit the work of construction
can commence in earnest. This build
| ing will be three stories high, not in
| Guiding a commodious basement.
One of the more costly Of the build
| ings which will undoubtedly be put
up during 1910 is the new storage
plant which the Charles Wolff Pack
ing company contemplates erecting
Work would have been commenced by
this time had it not been for the dixie
controversy. AS at the present time
there is not sufficient protection
against floods to warrant the company
to build plant which would cost fully
/ equipped in the neighborhood of
! S150,000, so for the good of Topeka
it is hoped that this matter will be
settled as speedily as possible. Di-
rectly this is done workmen will get
busy on the job.
| Charles w. Whitehair state college
Y. M. C. A. secretary, will occupy
after the first of the year a very at
| tractive bungalow on the corner of
| Wilson & Neiswanger, who have built
this home, state that it will be open
| for the inspection of those who are
| interested in the bungalow style of
dwellings all day today, including this
evening.
| w. j. Rickenbacher has purchased
| house as a matter of speculation at
406 East Tenth street It is five
room cottage.
The real estate dealers at this sea-
! son of the year-Just between Christ
mas and New Years - never report
that great deal of property has
changed hands, but they take this fact
| into consideration and have not be-
come alarmed because there is not so
| much activity in real estate circles as
was the case during the fall months.
There is no one com planning, for the
land men are anticipating a big har-
vest at a later date, when the prospec-
tive builders begin to consider seri-
ously spring construction.
Now is the time to buy property as
the prevailing prices will not continue,
but within 60 days will have done
some soaring-at least, this is what
the realty dealers say.
| In taking retrospective glance
over the year just gone by it is evident
that it has been successful season
in real estate circles. Values have in
creased from 10 to 80 per cent in al
| most every section of the city, and on
| account of a record having been
broken as regards building permits
the land sellers have necessarily pro-
flied largely.
Especially have values increased
along Kansas avenue and there con-
tinues to be a big demand for prop
critics along Topeka's main thorough
fare, especially as a matter of specula-
ton. Vacant lots in the central por-
ton of the city on account of the fact
that hundreds of dwellings have gone
up during the year have become few
and far between, and prices have in
creased to a marked degree.
tt is expected that values in this
portion of Topeka will continue to in
crease during 1910 and that it will
soon be necessary to pull down the old
shacks if one wishes to build home
''close in
In the southwestern portion of the
city. Westlawn. the Elmhurst addition
Potwin. the shops district, Highland
Park. the South side and other resi-
dence districts where the click of the
hammer has been heard on every
hand. prices have naturally gone up.
Taking into consideration the fact
that the contractors and real estate
dealers are predicting that another
record will be broken in respect tc
building permits granted during 1910
it is safe to predict that the property
market will be anything but slow.