The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-07-04
REAL ESTATE ACTIVITY
THE PAST SIX MONTHS
Real Estate Activity Continues on Rising
PriCeS-BuiIding Has Not Abated
and Promises to Keep
Up Until Fall

Considerably more than a hundred
thousand dollars worth of real estate
has changed hands since the first of
March, and judging by the continued
activity the outlook is that fully twice
that much will change hands between
the first OF July and the first of Sep
tember.
Two years ago Mr.. R. Coleman
came here from Seattle and bought
FIVE lots north of the track, well in the
outskirts, paying 800 per lot. Two
weeks ago he returned and had not
been here twenty-four hours before he
was offered 5000 profit per lot, but in
stead of selling he bought more lots
and was so we'll satisfied with the out
look of Leavenworth that he decided to
make his home here.
Less than a year ago W. c Roach
bought the Tumwater Hotel and last
week sold it at a handsome profit, the
purchaser again selling in less than
four days. The story is told elsewhere
in this paper. Not half Of the sales
are reported until it is too late to make
newspaper mention of the transaction.
The activity in building is keeping
fully up with the activity in real estate.
Not week has past in the four months
but three four or a half dozen houses
have been started.
The three story Barclay Brick Block
on Front street is well along towards
completion. The walls are practically
completed. AS was mentioned in last
weeks Echo, Messrs Roach and Wei
gand, owners of the adjoining lot, have
decided to erect a three story brick
block next to the Barclay building,
work on which will begin in time to
be completed before winter.
The Weigand block, on the corner
of Commercial and Eight Street, 80 x
los is under contract to be completed
by September first. The excavation for
the basement is about complete and
the forms for the basement walls will be
put in by the end of the week.
The hotel proposition has not yet
matured, but the need OF hotel is be-
coming every day more apparent and
insistent, so that if the parties having
the hotel under consideration decide
to give it up others are ready to take
it up.
Among the residences recently start
ed is the $4,000 bungalo Of Mr.. Hale,
on east Front street.
Contractor Lindblom is at work on
residence for Emil Bauman, in the
Leavenworth Land Co.'s addition that
will cost considerably over $4,000 when
completed.
Mrs. Gussie Meyers residence, on
the north side of the track, another
handsome bungalo, will soon be ready
for its occupant, while the Williams
residence, one OF the best on the
north.side of the track, is almost COM
pleted.
w. c. Roach will begin in a very
short time on a residence that will
cost between three and four thousand
dollars.
A little calculation shows that, in
round numbers, one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars worth of building has
been done here since the first OF
March, and the end is not yet in sight.
good indication in the calculation
shows that most Of the money has gone
into homes.
1t is slightly. comfortable homes,
with green lawns and trees that indi-
Gates thrift and progress, and no town
Of which we have knowledge is get
ting them faster than Leavenworth.
And yet there is no boom. Neither
do we encourage a boom. We are
lust having steady, healthy growth,
which makes for permanence and
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