The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-09
Ground-Hog Month Is
Years Beginning With
Real Estate Men.
ACTIVE INQUIRY
AND MUCH SELLING
Several Large Transactions in
Business Property - Railroad
Valley Much in the Lime
light-Big Doings About in
Reservoir Region and to
West-New Apartment.


February as the real opening month
OF the year. so far as their business of
buying and selling portion OF the
earth is concerned. No matter how
dull a month January may Eavc been.
no matter how mean thc weather
sharps may think the clouds are going
to run. and no matter wha- ultra-con-
servative bankers and money lenders
may think about things, February is
generally a Kind of Ciilead balm 20 the
soul Of the average Richmond real es-
tate agent The month is short on
DAYS. but il is usually long on real
estate deals in and about ihis good
| city
In January of each year the men
who operate IN realty take much time
I to cast up books. Some OF them VINO
! do buying are drawing their DIVIDENDS
I on bank stocks and other Investments.
and the size of the same rftimcs de-
ternfnes the length and strenat IN of
their realty transactions for some time
10 come. And then. too. January Is q
! kind of jockeying month, during which
the agents and the spectator and the
investors and the plungers 10 good
! deal of sparrirg for position and all
that kind of thing. January is 4 long
month and they get = suIticiency or
| this kind of thing By the 3isL ard SO
as Il general rule they sre al in posi-
| ton and ready for the word go" when
the first day of the shortest month IN
| the year dawns.
Healthy Business for the Week
The doings of the first week of this
February not only verify the above
statements. but indicate that. IKE
Woodrow Wilson. the real estate agents
and dealers OF this city have no fear
of the "l3'' at the shank end of this
good years name and that something
/ like Wilson luck has been with them
/ all the week.
Some big deals have been pulled off
| ana others are being warmed up in the
! incubator and win be Matched out IN
due time. The real estate records show
NUMEROUS more or Tess heavy transac-
tions that were wound up last week.
such. for instance as the sale Of Dr.
Edward MeGuire's Grace Street resi-
dence to O. G. Swink for S2ceC2. the
American Tobacco Company's property
Z at Seventh and Canal Streets Tor
! SIC. 0Oe. that West Broad Street prop
/ erty TO Morano Francione, Jackson and
others aggregating possibly sSV,eee.
and Franklin Street properties TO the
amount of as much as $4,000 and
Main Street ground to the amount
| of quite S6oo0o. but about which
neither the buyers nor the sellers
will tell anything until all OF the
deeds are recorded. And then scores OF
smaller pieces of ground all about
downtown and out in Railroad Valley
In Residential Sections
/ All of this refers mainly to business
properties The good selling and the
B activity of the past week went on out
+ to residential sections. and coming res
ideutiaI sections. not only within the
I citv limits. but TO points that are yet
/ 10 come within the city limits. and out
in the suburbs There was marked
activity in the Reservoir ami Byrd
Park section and to the west of that
locality about Park Place In the tat
ter region Green < Redd ana Niittam
{ NJ. Miller 4 20. and perhaps other
agents made number OF most sans
factory sales of lots upon which II Is
said neat and COSY homes are soon 10
be built.
Gibbonv K Nuckols. MOore.ieid &
Blake. Green & Redd. Amos 70 anu
others did much business IN the re-
zion of the Reservoir and the new lake.
and they tell me that the activity out
there is likely TO continue sor some
( time 10 come Judging by the much IN
ouiry for home sites thereaoouts.
In Railroad ' aiic.-
But coming back to the business part
of town. There seems to have oech re-
newed activity in the Railroad Valley
section. Green x Redd sold six factory
ar warehouse sites in thu local'tS
last week and say there rs just mat
/ inquiry for more as To lead 10 the
prediction that the valley VIII ere long
be the leading manufacturing sect'o"
I of the city .-<.,.
IN, nroposSd ooeninS % Fifteenth
.-,-eet and the trackage facilities that
Az, now and vet TO be provided may
have something to do with bFine'hk
forth this prophecy. Ramsey n - nave
aiso sold between nve ana siN huH
dred front feet in the Naliet' IN"
they have a long page in their note-
me- - =
for r.ore.
T \ T-honpSou Brown 4 60 report the
7 lie 81 the Ioveuberx property ifont-
B iu- fsz al the corner % Main and
AsamS streets TO Charles Miifnisef
for $500"
ho-eht this property about the time OF
~ r.bsiidinx 81 the Jefferson Hotel
ia which be was largely Interested
,ns aid for 10 about S1s.vee This last
safe shows up pretty SocH 'tie
r.-art FOR hts estate. Brown 4 80. as"
.t.srt the sale 81 warehouse OF
f...-o~e site on Hermitage Road tor
Ef4zna. four dwellings on AGdisor
street for s. 5.e-a. and other propertie~
b.. ....rious localities. which MAKE tncir
fetal Tor the drst week ir the ground
nos month about sien.r9e.
10 Reservoir HcEi.s-.
ttrborv & NuckoiS report ONE
I'D saies. among them The follow tx
4 ift - the northeast CORNER 9i TIC
boulevard and TAYLOR street o.
uafrher upon which The fr n'1fr -
,-o.re % build tl9.Hff res. 70 rec
slN., feet on the seutn~~ei coINcf 81
the Boulevard aud Taslor street -
a.. simon Srci~. or which she = ~
f.-ae.-.d ~ ou-r 20 r~,ct an up-to-@ate
' afs4rfrneut house which yin oe an
egart counterpart. 81 the Brooke apart
s,-rt. on Monument tvcnrc. az feet
o- zshlaud street frcntiua The rev
lake. % T.hu y. koliu. 81 Columbia :
e. a gentleman who SAYS real STATE
A. rirfword - a better i0restrfe1t
than he can nnd 80 home. snd De- rs
s.r,s tails ~.ay Co. ar Iu feW feet ~
f,a,t.. = few acres - COCO Dirt bat
witl In time bring srodt rs rrsn
$50 sold sixfg feet ~ Boelevar'i ssd
- u. lord