The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26
GOV. HOOPER PAYS
 VISIT TO COREY
Tennessee's Executive Much Pleased After His Trip Over the
 Property

1 Gov. D. w. Hooper of Tennessee spent | three hours yesterday in Corey with Rob ert Jemison, Jr, president of the Corey | Land company and on his return to the city expressed himself enthusiastically
 about the new model industrial city Ac- comparing MT. Hooper and MT. Jcmison
 was Joseph o. Thompson, internal reve- nue collector.
 The party went through the steel wire and nail mill which the American Steel
 and Wire company is building at Corey. went over Corey and visited the various
 building there. Governor Hooper said
 "The one feature that impressed me
 most forcibly about Corey is the fact that every investor knows in advance what he is buying, and can see at a glance that there is a substantial reason for Corey. Many real estate propositions
 and subdivisions are built on promises, but Corey Is built on a reality. All the purchaser has to do is to look at the IS
 acres of steel building, and the other evil dences of industry, and he knows that there is value in the property he is buy ing. One look at that enormous steel plant is better security than the finest guarantee that could be made by real
 estate firm, backed by guarantee from broken, but that steel plant is a cer- tainty. Not only that. but the improve
 ments which the company has had the l foresight to make at Corey are of the nature that give value to the property | It is well known fact that improve
 ments help not only the property on which they are made, but all the ad- | joining property, and the immense scale of the work at Corey is certainly value giver.
 "As to the improvements themselves, 1t has never been my pleasure to see any | that quite equal those at Corey. I nave
 made a study to a greater or lesser de- | gree of real estate development, have
 seen several modern cities. but in none of l them have I seen any improvements that
 equal those at Corey. In the first place ], the drainage is adequate and modern. | Corey should be a healthy city, for tn 2
 scientists tell us that the health of a l community depends to large measure on | the sanitation and drainage. Corey Is 2 clean city and it will be easy to keep
 clean.
 | Corey will certainly be a beautiful | city. No one can study the large tree planting plans and note the immense
 number of shrubs that are being planted without realizing that Corey will be a bower of flowers with the beautiful green of the leaves and the trees making a | framing for the flowers. The natural lay I of the land, the level sections for the l business district and the wooded hills for l the residence sections, lends itself most
 favorably to the efforts of the landscape
 architect, and I note that every feature
 has been taken advantage of.
 "The stores impressed me, visited the bank, the drug store, the furniture house
 and other places of business, and I was impressed with the architectural effects
 that are being obtained. It insures beauty
 at all times, and prevents unsightly build ings that are the drawback of so many American cities
 l Just one more suggestion. A person
 may pay too much for property at Corey;
 a person may pay too much for property
 anywhere; but there is one certain fact,
 and that Is that Corey property has a very considerable value and a value that | l should say would become stronger steadily"