The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-11
Building Operations Have Been
Resumed With Vim.
Permits for Week Exceed Those
Of January.
TO ADVERTISE STATE.
Local Business Men Favor I'm.
migration Bureau.
Items of Interest to Builders
and Land Men.

In another few weeks the real estate
men of Topeka will be doing a rush
business-that is present indications
would point that way. The warm
weather of the past ton days sug-
gested to prospective builders that. the
season for construction work is not
far away.
Exterior work on buildings now in
course of constitution has been re-
summed. For several weeks workmen
abandoned activities In respect to the
erection of the ]. c. Gordon building
on the old Copeland hotel site. but
this week much material has been I'M
loaded and active work has begun.
The first floor of the W. B. Kirk
patrick reinforced concrete building at
the corner of Seventh and Quincy
streets will soon be laid. For the pres
ent this building will one story in
about a year, when the lease on the
building adjoining at the west expires
the structure will be run up another
three stories, the second and third
floors to be used for Office purposes.
The frontage will be seventy-five
feet and will be of terra Gotta con-
struction. 1t will be one of the most
attractive of the Topeka business
buildings when completed. The cost
will be about $4,000.
Good Showing in Permits.
1t is marvellous what a little warm
weather and the approach of the sea-
son of building activity will do Last
week there was a poorer showing
made in respect to building permits
issued than at any time in the last
year and a half. This week the figure
scared to the $2S,50O mark-a decided
contrast. The items in the list in
cluded permits for the building of ten
new dwellings. The largest single
item was for the new sausage factory
and lard refinery which the Wolff
Packing company is building-$12,0 900.
A number of contractors are bid
ding on the new three story L. M.
Penwell building and the contract will
be let within a few days.
The question Of an immigration
bureau for Kansas will be up for the
consideration of the legislature within
a few days. Members of the Kansas
Association of Real Estate Agents are
working in the interests of such a bu-
reau, as they feel that 1t would mean
that the property values would go up
and that there would be an influx of
population into Kansas
Favor immigration Bureau.
Some of the business men of Topeka
have expressed themselves as favoring
a bureau which would advertise the
state. According to A. A. GODDARD,
Kansas should be advertised as an
ideal location for industrial establish
mentS on account of the lack of sa-
looms. He says that the fact that the
Santa Fe retains its offices and shops
in Topeka largely on that account
could be used as an argument
There is no reason why it should
not be as much Of success in Kansas
as bureaus of the kind have been in
other states.'
Here are some of the reasons why
the bill should be passed as suggested
by the real estate men:
'It will bring a large number of first
class European farm laborers directly
here who now stop in the seaport and
manufacturing cities of the east be-
cause of the lack of knowledge Of the
opportunities offered farm laborers in
Kansas. This class of Europeans and
their descendants make good citizens.
1T will remove the prejudice against