The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-02-10
AUCTION SALE OF LOTS
A Large Number in Attendance and
the Promoters Score a Big
Success

!
ruary Z, under the direction of w. l.
Phillips and Company of Jacksonville,
came off as advertised, and the pro-
moters scored big success.
| The strains of music from brass
band, and the decorated vehicles an
nouncing free rides, told us that the
sale was on, and when a representa-
tive of this paper reached the grounds
he found quite number present, wait
ing to put themselves in possession of
corner lots at their own figures.
AS a number of lots were to be sold
Mr.. Phillips, the auctioneer, did not
wait upon formalities, but proceeded
at once to business.
He mounted the seat of a moving
vehicle, and began a rapid and an in
| teresting spiel of the marvellous
growth of Ocala as he had witnessed
/ it. He said that the first sale that he
conducted here was some property adj
joining the old Caldwell pond, then
out from the city some distance, and
that when he told those then and
there assembled that in the course of
a very few years the lots that he was
about to sell would surely double in
value he met only incredulous smiles,
but the self-same lots are selling now
at fifteen and twenty dollars per front
(, foot.
! Mr.. Phillips said that history is al
ways repeating itself, and that the
lots that he was now proposing to sell
would double and treble in value in a
! little while, because the property is
located in the manufacturing centei
of the city, and that people are now
coming into Florida in batallions
where formerly they came in as strag
glers following in the rear of an army
Mr.. Phillips said that he had con-
Quoted yet other sales in Ocala since
his first advent, and that every lot
that he had ever sold had increased in
value, and had paid the buyers a
| splendid interest.
The first lot sold was a corner one
and was fringed in front with row
of beautiful oaks. The bidding began
at $50, and was rapidly increased in
/ So bids, and was finally knocked down
to DR.. J. Walter Hood for $3.50.
The next lot adjoining was bought
by Rev. J. B. Ley for $1O0.
| Mr.. J. J. McCranie, manager of the
Ocala House dining room, was the
next fortunate bidder. His lot brought
| $95.
Rev. ]. B. Ley was fortunate in Sc
curing the next lot for $S5.
The next was corner lot, and DR..
j. Walter Hood again became the for
tunate possessor. 1t brought $165.
Mr.. J. D. Small, one of our new cit
liens from Blountsville, Ala, bought
the next lot, just across the street, for
$110 1t also is corner lot.
| Mr.. Small bought the next lot for
$50.
| Mr.. William Footitt of North Dako-
! ia, who has been with us about two
months, and expects to become per-
manent citizen, bought the next lot
for SS5.
| Mr.. J. W. Aiken, our successful
plumber, got possession of the next
lot, his bid being s95.
Mr.. j. L. Smith of Martel, merchant
and farmer, bought the next lot, for
which he paid $S5.
| The next two lots were sold to Rev.
| j. B. Ley, his bid being $120 each.
Mr.. NJ. T. Orr of Missouri, who
comes to make his home amongst us,
bought the next lot for SOS. Mrs. Orr
was present with him and made her
own selection of lot
Mr.. M. Fishel, who has the faculty
of knowing a good thing when he sees
| it, bought the next lot for $50. Mr..
Fishel has attended nearly every auc-
tion sale of lots that has ever mate
rialized in Ocala, invested at every
sale, and his experience is worth re-
lpeating. His purchases have always
| paid him good interest; indeed, some
of the properties he bought were so
cheap that he was almost ashamed to
take advantage of the sales.
ldr. ]. S. Grantham, our popular
member of the school board, and a
prosperous merchant and farmer IL
Fort Mccoy, who has recently had
the good fortune to be side partner
with little Dan Cupid, bought the next
lot for s105.
Mr.. Fishel's luck continued to pur-
sue him, and he bought the next lot
for s55.
Mr.. A. L. Barber, who owns prop
erty at Burbank, Fort Mccoy and at
Palmetto Heights in Ocala, was the
next and last purchaser. He bought
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