The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-29
MORE new HOMES
Permits for Twenty-Five DWELL
ings Issued This Month.
Dwellings viii Cost in Round
Numbers $4,000.
MARKET is ACTIVE
Numerous Sales Are Reported
by Realty Men.
Chicago Land Show Is Interest
ing State Association.
MARKET is ACTIVE

Building permits for the month of
July on the point of closing, total
more than fifty thousand dollars,
which Lrings the aggregate for the
wear in round numbers to S655,O00. In
Guiding the G.. A. r Memorial building
and other structures for which per
mits were taken out in 1910, but which
have not been completed, and the
buildings now in contemplation, the
contractors in the city are interested
in work valued at approximately
S2,OO0.0OO.
The same thing may De said about
the permits issued this month that
has been said about the records for
previous months in 1911. and that is
that this is essentially a period of
marked activity in home building IN
Topeka, while the permits for large
business structures have not been
numerous.
More New Dwellings.
There is no immediate demand for
new Office buildings due to the recent
completion of the New England and
population which the capital city is
enjoying necessitates the erection OF
more dwellings The fact Is while
Kansas cities further vest including
Wichita, and also Oklahoma towns,
are lust now burdened with a surplus
tions are that when the annual rush
for homes for rental purposes begins
the last of August or the first of Sep
TENDER. desirable dwellings will be at
premium. Right now in the College
Hill district and other portions of To-
peka dwellings are hard 10 find
This month permits We're issued for
the building of Twenty-Five dwellings
at cost of 1000, or an average out
lay of $1,000. The most expensive
item in the list called for the erection
of a $4,000 home. and the least expen-
sive home will be put UP for $1,000.
This is not a poor showing when it is
considered that permits usually take
a slump in midsummer. More than
200 new dwellings have already been
contracted for this year.
Since the rains began there has been
renewed activity in the realty market,
and the land sellers are looking for
ward to a lively fall trade. The list
of transfers as published in the daily
papers has increased in length ma
terially in the last ten DAYS.
State Exhibit at Chicago.
The realty men are particularly in
terested in the present time in the big
Kansas agricultural exhibit which will
he on display at the next annual Chi
caso Land show and for which the
Kansas Association of Real Estate
Agents is responsible. According tC
Secretary w. J. Rickenbacher of this
city $50 checks have begun to come il
from various counties to defray the ex-
penses of the display, which together
with the exhibit of the Arkansas Val
ley Development association, which oc-
cupy space next to the state realty pro
duce exhibit. will be the only Kansa:
display at the exposition with the pos.
sible exception of a railroad display OF
two which will be general.
The secretary of the association ha.
recently sent out the following letter
to the members in all parts of Kansas
1T viii cost about $500 in casI
besides the products that will b,
shown from each county to give {
creditable state exhibit. A fine bookIe
Will be published giving a short histor!