The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-01-19
SEVERAL KINDS OF
BUSINESS ACTIVITY
All People Who Investigate Are
Not Land Buyers--Tendency
From Stock Exchanges Back
TO the Solidarity Good
Business All Along
the Line.

activity that was just d little puzzling
to some of the agents. This activity
consists very largely in the matter of
inquiry. 1 am using this expression
advisedly. for l got 1t from one of the
best-known real estate men of the city
He was asked for an explanation and
he gave it in the manner following:
Il have had within the past week in
terviews with not less than thirty men
who | know have money to invest, men
who are looking for only safe invest
ments. They are asking about Rich
mond property here. there and every
where and making most diligent and
searching inquiry. This. of course,
means. or / am led TO think il means,
that these people have discovered that
Lichmond realty is the safest and best
thing to invest in while the country is
wondering what the new President is
going to do and the stock markets are
resting on their oars and the bank
officials are paying good deal more
attention to sneeZes they may hear
from Wall Street than to local doings.
And yet for the past week it has been
impossible to tic a single one of these
new inquirers down to bargain and
sale transaction They just keep on
inouiring and INVESTIGATING This kind
of thing is well calculated to work us
real estate agents up and get US in a
rather nervous state-puts US to look
ing for things that are new and yet
that do not materelize." That is one
kind of activity that was observed in
the real estate market last week. 1t
may mean something great for the
future or it may not. The future has
it's own secrets and keeps them pretty
WELL
Something In the Suburbs.
Another feature of the week was
increased inquiry relative to suburban
property. There is some evidence that
the broad annexation schemes that are
in the minds OF many good men are
nearer to naturalization than even the
optimists have heretofore imagined
Whether this evidence be good or not
the fact remains that there are specu-
lators and land buyers who are willing
enough to bank on it and the reports
are that they did do little banking
last week along this line. increasing the
sales and charging the prospects of
other sales for the agents who make a
speciality OF suburban properties. Ginter
Park, Barton Heights. Highland Park,
Wright Park, Battery Court. Westham.
Washington Terrace. Forest Hill and
Virginia Place figured considerably in
this feature of the weeks activity.
Down In the Bottom.
That part of Richmond which used
to be known in the old days as Butch
ertown Flats" and sometimes called
the Fifteenth Street Bottom" fig
ured not a little in the past weeks
activity. The railway connections and
the siding facilities down in that part
Of the bottom" lying between Thir-
teenth and Fifteenth Streets have
brought this region into prominence
as a manufacturing and shipping
centre and IL is said that several new
Industries are likely to be located
there Anyhow, J. T. Ramsey & Co.
Green & Rcdd. Richeson & Crutch-
field and perhaps other agencies made
some good sales there last week. Ramsey
4 Co. sold two big lots that they hap
pen to know are to become manufac-
turing sites.
H. Seldom Taylor & Son were large
sellers of business and residential prop
critics during the past week, and while
they are. as usual. very reticent il
has leaked out that ono of their big
sest sales was a business site tina. is
to be occupied and developed by a
manufacturing concern from the North
that will bring TO Richmond not only
a good lot of capital. but quite a num-
Der OF workingmen- II may possibly
be that this sale was in the bottom
The Taylors' other sales made their
biz tota. for the week close 70 $1,000.
Some Other Big Deals.
j. 0OHBSVI DIONH 10 con-
fessed to a $4,000 sale of property that
is to be utilized for manufacturing
purposes. and while the junior mem
Der of that concern tried TO keep mum
as 10 particulars. some JGdicious pump
ing led TO the opinion that the sale
was made somweherc no: Ear from this
famous bottom" country. although
not Immediately within that terri
tori. Other sales OF one kind and
another BY this firm ran THAR tOtsi for
the week I'D close 20 SIS
Pollard & Bagby. already re-
ported in the local columns, sold a good
deal Of property during the week
Deeds already recorded show their
footings 20 be near 20 $50 ooc-
Golssn & Nash put IN some sales
IN various parts Of the CRY. which,
along with sco.oD tract OF land in
Nelson County. made their books
for the week foot up considerably
more than S50.eao.
George G PoiudeNter K Co. q new
concern under old hands a. the bel
lows. sold s. 90 worth OF good Ntr-
siuia dirt. more than half Of which
Vas within the city limits and the bal
ancc away out IN the nearby counties
Meredith 4 CO. hint about safes
they made during the week. footing up
- 90 but they sold mostly 70 specu-
iators Who are avcrse to exposing to
public gszo figures and locations
All the agents had good enough
business but the fe~ss. number OF
them vii tell tales out % school ana
the real estate column Of The Tines
Dispatch u decidedly out % school
when IL comes to the tale telling
business.
Tan Prom the Records
Among many deeds recorded IN Ire
Charccrv Court clerks Office yesterday
we're the following
= W Johnson - y. T. brsxs- ~
East leigh Street. a. -.
Bette Cooke 20 =. -. an1 ". D.
Nelson. . south Twelfth Street
M p Rraxe % ~ $. Wsiisrsteln.
iie East Leigh street
|. J. A. Brooks % J. ". Brooks. Jr.s
lot No . Park Avenue.
Boulevard Land and rrnproysrnent Co
to yuo. A. Trsyior. los No .. Bo1lsvsrd-
Claude T. Sprenkie 20 I1oUas