The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-10

ular as the place grows in beauty and
more animals are added to the zoo"
At the present time there is great
demand for good building sites in the
west portion of the city. and lots are
changing hands in Elmhurst, Melrose,
Auburndale, Lowman Hill, College Hill
and other attractive residential addi-
lions.
The demand for suburban property
is not and will not, however, be con-
hned entirely to the western portion of
the city. The city is also spreading out
towards the south, and there is High
land Park, a suburb of Topeka which
Is building up rapidly and which may
become a part of the capital city at a
later date
number of employees of the Santa Fe
and the demand for better homes has
resulted great building boom in the
shops district. A number of new addi-
tons have been opened up in that por-
ton of the city in the last year or two,
and building sites have sold like hot
cakes. 1t is safe to say that the ex-
pansion in this section of the city will
go ahead with marked rapidity in the
next few years to come.
An important feature of the move
westward is the improvement, by the
county, of the roads leading out of the
city from the west. Take foz example
the West Tenth and West Sixth avenue
roads which are now used by hundreds
of automobiles and drivers of vehicles
who are simply on pleasure bent.
| The great demand for west-end
property has caused an advance in
price, and it is certain that those who
contemplate building in the not far
distant future will do well to do their
purchasing of a building site before
much time elapses if they do not want
to pay price greatly in excess of that
at which the property could be pur-
chased at the present time.
Development of Industries.
| From a manufacturing standpoint
there seems no reason to believe the
| increase in volume of trade will not
continue at the pace of the last few
years.
/ There were 2O2 establi. hments in
1909, as compared with 153 in 1904;
an increase of 4S, or 81 per cent.
The value of products in 1909 was
17.821,O0O. and $14,449. 600 in 1904;
an increase of $3,372,0O0, or % per
cent. The average per establishment
was approximately $SS.0OO in 1909.
and about $4,000 in 1904.
| The displays of Topeka made"
goods in the store windows this week
while the Kansas merchants were here
shows that the useful articles which
are manufactured in the CAPITAL city
are almost without number.
! The Commercial Club is an organ
I 1LdllOH Which, VIII nave IuuCh ~ uO
with the future development of the
city and the president of the organiza-
ton J. Will Kelley tells in the second
issue Of the Commercial Club Bulletin
of some of the things which the club
will make an effort to accomplish.
Now that warm weather is here"
reads the message, land the monthly
meetings of the Club will be dispensed
with until September, it is fitting that
your attention be called to the fact in
advance, that the work of the Club
must not lag, but that the various
committees of the Club, should keep
actively at work upon those matters
referred to them or that may come to
their attention.
AT this time I feel confident. that
before our regular meeting in Septem-
Der, some matters of considerable i'm
portance to the members of the Club
viii have been accomplished. We hope
to be able to retain and rehabilitate
some factories for Topeka that are
Inow standing idle and there seems