Omaha daily bee., 1914-10-04
GOOD FUTURE FOR OMAHA
E. R, Benson of Hastings G. Hey
den Sees Bright Prospects.
REAL ESTATE MAN PIONEER
Omaha t. in Far BETTER Condition
Than Almost Any other City
of the Country and
stu Growing.
BY II. u. BENSON.

BY II. "A. BENSON.
The real estate man of the United
States has been to the public and to the
development Of the country what the
drummer boy is to the army
Were II not for the real estate man the
entire west and all that the west holds
would still be almost UNEMPLOYED or un-
developed. To him belongs the crown Of
advancement. The real estate man is al
ways first in the upbuilding Of a city. He
Invests his money. plans, develops and
enthuses the public with the thought of
making money and having a home, until
he actually develops and popuiates one
city. one location after another.
There is no place in tho United States
where the real estate man has not been
the fororunner OF prosperity and up
building OF communities. 1t Is a profess
sion all OF its own. 1t is a business that
takes nerve, enthusiasm and integrity to
make II a success
Business of Importance.
In this busy life everybody is constantly
pursuing their own business with such in
terest that they do not give much thought
to anything else. 1t, therefore, takes
someone TO do this, and the real estate
business is of as great an Importance
and perhaps more so. than any other
business with the exception, perhaps, of
that class of people who produce the
commodities and the things that we eat.
Take for instance, our own experience.
We have for twelve years been developers
and subdividers We have laid out one
addition after another: been criticized
hY al1 r1naGaa e %,
were going out on the edge and develop
ing tracts OF land when everybody
thought that there could not possibly be
any increase in the value of the tracts
| that we were selling; and let us say here
that there is not one addition that we
have placed on the market in the last
twelve years that the original purchasers
of lots or tracts OF land in these sub
divisions cannot today take a handsome
profit on the original investment. Every
city grows in cycles and we simply have
taken advantage of our knowledge Of the
business and there has been absolutely
no risk so far as we are concerned; and
IL has only been a matter OF educating
the people to buying.
Property is Improved.
A year ago we plated 1G0 acres OF land
one mile from the car, one mile from Ben
son; laid 1t out into acre and two-acre
tracts. People wondered and were sur
pnsed that such an undertaking could be
carried on to success and today this l6O
acres has been developed from a crude
piece OF farm land to one OF the highest
acre subdivisions adjacent TO Omaha
Trees have been planted, roads have been
put in and homes dot the tract here and
there. People are living there and con-
tented 1t is only fifteen minutes walk
to the car and only thirty minutes ride
downtown. The entire tract has BEEN
SOLD. We believed that Omaha needed a
subdivision OF this kind; we believed that
the people OF Omaha would be glad to
live on tract OF land.
II has been an entire success, not only
from our standpoint, but from the stand
point or the purchasers. Everyone is
satisfied and some OF them have been
Offered. even at this early date. an adj
vance on the original purchase price.
Good Car Facilities.
The next time that you take a trip
away from Omaha investigate the value
OF land similarly located In the city YOU
visit with the place you are living in and
find out how far from the car and other
oonveniences the average home is in the
city that you are in. See II Omaha has
not better accommodations from street
car companies; better service in every
way than you can find in any city where
the land is the same as It is in Omaha.
In travelling from one city TO another
you find that the cities have grown alb
normallyi that there has been a ire
mendous rise In value; that there is an
oVerdeveloped condition In the downtown
district; that the residence districts have
been built up quickly without thought OF
the future and you find a stagnant con-
dition
II is not an uncommon thing and car
| be found in almost any city, with the
possible exception Of four OF five, In the
| United States-Omaha is one OF them
Our business men are slow 70 enlargs
their stores They are slow to increase
| their expenditures. They are satisfied
with the reasonable profit at the end OF
each year, in other words. they arc con,
sentative, and as they are conservative
In their business. so they are in thelI
homes, and that one factor has done NOR,
towards keeping Omaha from beins
doomed; and has assured all the pur,
ehasers OF real estate In Omaha of an
advance in value. and there are only rars
cases where you hear a man say. %
bought some property five years ago ant
lost money on IT," You hear invariabl,
or some one taking a profit but not 1
loss.
City of Coed Homes.
In riding through the West Farnam dis
trict' Dundee and Kouutze Place, arouns
Miller park, II occurred TO me that n,
where in the United States have 1 eve
seen better homes, and believe tina