Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-02-09
SUBSEAS MIGHT
FIND THESE LOTS
SUBSEAS MIGHT
FIND THESE LOTS
Muddy Missouri Flows Over the
Land Which Figures in
Brisk Real Estate Deals.
G. G. WYER SELLS NINETEEN

Omaha is some real estate city; at
least it has just claim for recognition
among the boomiest municipalities in
the world when public records show
that land is seemingly at such a
premium that ambitious and soil
seeking investors let loose of their
cash and other valuable considera-
tons" for lots underneath the swirl
ling waters of the muddy Missouri
river.
Recent real estate transactions
recorded in the Office of the county
register of deeds evidence the fact
that Missouri river lots are enjoying
the briskest trade in their history.
Notwithstanding the fact that to get
to the lots prospect" would have
TO be taken there in a rowhoat, launch
or some other craft, the filings in the
registers OF deeds Office indicate that
purchasers are not lacking.
They're On Map.
Some OF the lots may be sandbars
and some may be on the bottom of
the stream, but in reality they are
all in the Missouri river and have been
for many years, ever since the Big
Muddy on one of its erratic ram
pages changed its channel. These
lots would be the last parcels of
land i'll the world to require irriga-
ton.
These lots, in the south part Of
town and originally a part of Grand
view addition, are shown in the litho-
graph maps of Poppleton and Byers
additions Of 1857. True enough, they
were honest-to-goodness, high and
dry lots at one time, being such in
1873, when the late N. P. Dodge, ST.,
transferred them to Miss Annie
Dodge, his niece. daughter of the
late General Grenville Dodge Of
Council Bluffs.
But the changeable Missouri long
since has cut into that part of Grand
view addition and now the dirty
waters Of the famous stream eddy and
swirl over what once bid fair to be-
come a residence district, or per-
chance, fashionable suburb. Its only
chance now is to become a watering
place." and from the general outlook
fashionable" wouldn't fifty describe
il.
Jack Johnson Buys One.
One OF the recent transactions, as
shown by deeds filed in the registrars
office, was twenty-eight lots from An
ME Dodge to John A. Johnson of the
South Side. The deed was recorded
February 2, 1917.
The records show that c. c. Wyer
transferred four lots in this somewhat
damp neighborhood to Ida M. West
on January 26, 1917, the lots being
transferred back gain on February g..
The Wcsts-the husband being {. w.
West, who was fined and later SEN
fenced to jail in the federal court wild
horse case-are said to have traded a
fairly valuable chicken ranch in the
south for the estate" in the Missouri
river.
Martin Quick transferred twenty
two lots to John Weber last March.
The deed shows a consideration Of
$500, but Weber told employees in the
registrars office that he traded a
house and lot and gave $1,000 mort
gage as his part OF the transaction
Many More Buyers.
Some of the recent deals in choice
Missouri river lots, as recorded in the
Douglas county register OF deeds Of
fee, are as follows:
C. C, wyer to r. J. Dumont. April II,
1916, two lots In block 43s.
C, G. Wyer to A. p. Lillis, December "A,
1916, two lots In block i42.
c. C. Wyer TO Oscar Yates. December ~,
1916, two lots In block A2.
C. C. Wyer to Joseph Martin. December
H. 1916, one lot in block H2.
C. c. Wyer to A. q. Alvord, December 1s,
1915, two lots In block 40.
c, c. Wyer to o. D. Whitzel, December is,
1916, two lots In block 44s.
c. C. wyer to NJ. ]. Oberiy. December 81.
1915, one LOT In block 40.
c, C. Wyer to David Etherton, December
20, 1916. two lots In block $50.
c. c. Wyer to George Casey. December 81,
1915, two lots in block $50.
c. C. Wyer to r. u. Garrety, December -,
1915, one lot In block 4b4
c. C. Wyer to John j. Madden, December
10, 1915, two lots In block 4bA.
C. C. Wyer to Pete Dickey, December IL.
1916, one lot in block 4bt
Advertising circulars, calling attcn-
ton of real estate men and investors
to the lots near" the glorious Mis-
souri, river are in existence. They
were signed by F. R. Siltz, who is
now dead. The circulars portrayed
in glowing terms the beauties of the
locale and said that owners were ask
ing $500 for corner lots and $50 for