The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-01-26
Richmond Realty Becomes
the Talk in Uttermost
Parts of Earth.
LETTERS OF INQUIRY
FROM BEYOND SEAS
Valuable Business Property
Changes Hands-Satisfactory
Auction Sales - Optimistic
Agents Complain of Bad
Weather, but Keep on
Doing Business.

Damn weather and showers or rain
may sometimes have bad effect on
the real estate business and prevent
or delay a sale here and there. put IL
would take second edition of Moan 2
deluge TO wipe Greater Richmond on
the realty map OF to drown it's reputa-
ton as a good town in which 10 inyest
money in realty. for that reputation mas
gone TO the uttermost parts or the
earth Yesterday | saw on the desk
Of Main Street agent letter from
Hong Kong. China; ono from Cupds
one from Panama and caelegram
from Rome. the Eternal City. and also
a letter from the State OF Washington.
which is about as far away from Rich-
mond as Cuba or Panama, ana all OF
these communications bore upon the
real estate business and had references
70 transactions that have been made.
or are yet hanging upon the STRING. or
likely to get there soon.
Must Come to Old Virginia.
The letter from the distant State or
washington was in the nature of an
inquiry and a little peculiar. The agent
gave me the pribilege OF copying H.
and I propose to take the privilege OF
printing it. Here 1t is: somewhere
down in Old Virginia there is good
farm of 200 acres, more than half OF
which is under cultivation, stocked
with team and tools ready for work that
a practical farmer who gives good oank
and other references. who has aoiuty'
is honest and knows good business
methods, and who could rent for year
or two with the privilege of buying
l want it, and because it is in Old VIZ
rinia am forty-four years DID,
married, have five children, two good
sons, and we want to settle IN Ola
Virginia" He will ind the 2oo-acro
farm all right.
ners of the earth. so to speak, and all
received by a Richmond real estate
agent in one day, create at least eus-
picion that little old. solid old Rich
mond is very much on the map and
LARGELY IN the eyes OF the people OF the
| whole world. u
Coed Auction Sales
| Business was fairly good during tie
week, although there were agents ~no
blamed the rainy weather sor the dull
ness they seemed to see- However. all
| of the hustlers were optimietlc as 70
| the outlook, although large maJority
| of them were pessimistic or cusslmistfc
when called upon to divulge facts ana
figures concerning the sales tnat tney
claimed to have made
j. Thompson Brown Co. report the
sale of some West End acreage at $40
| per acre; number of lots IN Scott
Addition, and other sales OF minor
Importance, two days our of the week
being consumed by them in an auction
ale of GEORGE w. Saunders estate. in
CONJUNCTION with Pollard & Bagby. and
| in spite of the unfavorable weather, they
/ report the sale well attended They
disposed of the entire estate. consist
ing of eleven different pieces OF prop
erty-
,os East Canal Street, to p F. Teiser,
for 81. 500: io7-I071s East Canal Street.
To Solomon & Kiewe. for 1900. io9 East
] canal street. to Solomon & kiewe. for
81 $50; IiI-li3 East Canal Street, TO W:
( T.. Rupp, for $3.50. ii7-1l9 East Caoat
Street. to solomon q kiewe. 1or
| IS $50 2Io South Second Street. to Dr.
Uriah Hartman, for 5000. sIf East
Leigh Street, to Mrs. Bridget Mahoneys
I for a $50: lr3 ESgleston Street, to rev.
Alfred Bagby, for $72s- Total. SCI .72s-
Most OF this property. it is said. was
purchased purely for permanens I'M
vestment of idle funds
amount of their sales during tie week
at albeit $4,000, including q Broad
street store to s.. t. BeveridGe and
Edwin l.. Frost for $4,000. and an Allen
Avenue lot and a Park Avenue lot 20
w. j. Gilman for $4,000 they eiso
sold old Putnam's Theatre TO W. II.
I Adams. for s. 500. This firm recorded
on Yesterday a deed to George Sore.
conveying the property at the northease
corner of Second and Broad Streets Tor
$50 600. This was a sale made two or
weeks ago.
valuable Factory Property Sold
seldom Taylor 4 Son sold seve-aa
West End lots, mainly on Grove
Avenue. The big sale which they closed
up was Of manufacturing property TO
the amount OF $1,000. the same being
three factory buildings and the iand
upon which they stand on the east see
OF Seventh Street. between Cary ahc
| Cana. Streets. the buildings that have
so long been used as leaf tobacco
working plant by the American To-
I hacco Company. This property has
frontage on Seventh Street Of 90 feet
and runs back on Canal something over
Ia0 feet. Il Is the largest and Il consso-
cred the most valuable tracksse P'op-
e-fv IN the heart of Richmond O. o.
Worsham was the purchaser Mr.
Vorshsm declines for the present to
! IKE known his intentions. but the
cc-taiutr - that The property VIII be
used Cor some kind OF nanufacfurinx
purposes.
some deals amounting in the asgrcsats
10 nearly 5000. Among Their sS.es
wr-e No. II North Fifth street Tor
I szr 900 Nos. zzf0. n. 70. - = and = Ncss
/ Csrv street for 1890. and IFS feet on
The Boulevard. between floyo Avenue
and Main Street. for ti7.coo
Colssn a Nash sold 50 feet on Grove
Avenue between Lombs-dy and Vine
streets 20 Mrs. Benson. who VII ersct
handsome home or the same. : nis nrn
aiso roid I've houses on PAGE stress
near the locomotive works, houe> On
Washington Terrace and seVers- i>'s
in the same suburb.
sutton Co sold during the week.
the eight brick tenement houses On tne
Eat side OF Harrison Street. rct~c1n
franklin street and Park Avenue for
80 90 The same nrm elfo msoo se~>r@'
smaller sales. -
rneorpozzfcd Company succeeds T.
W. Amos.
william ~. Miller z Co eoi1 80
no.,sr- on church Hiu fer "a 90 z>4
soune property Of the vacant Etr1 -
ne west End Robinson fhA1p4
solo the store ard nst a. lt,ckory -