The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-18
! BIRMINGHAAlS ADVANTAGES FOR THE HOME SEEKER
By I. c. BEATTY "eneraI Manager Birmingham Realty
 Company


 General Manager Birmingham Realty
 Company
 Quite a bit of discussion has been carried on in our newspapers as to the hous- ing conditions in Birming- ham, as affecting injurious ly Birmingham's efforts to secure manufacturing : plants.
 A study of conditions here and in other manufacturing centers will dis close the fact that there has always been an adequate supply of good rental houses to meet all require ments, and, more gratifying to the permanent employer of labor, abso- lute provision of unlimited amounts of residential property, which has been sold on terms so easy as to make the purchase of a home like the payment of rent.
 Birmingham ranks high among Ameri- can cities in the proportion of home owning population, and this has tended of course to settled conditions among employees and permanency that is ab- sent in community made up of ten ants Any plant management, desiring to locate in Birmingham, can safely do so with the assurance that it's employees will be satisfactorily cared for either as tenants or home owners. Our real estate market, in common with that of the country, has been going through waiting period for the mast three years. Those of us WSno know orr Birmingham feel more convinced than ever that 1t has GdIy been a waiting period ana the tscnre holds more for the Dlinilis nam district than the past has sNeh us, ds we have only laid the foun- ua.ols for the prosperity and develop hiedc which is to come. In our discus slon Of Whats the matter with Bir- minghan,' some have overlooked the iact that Birmingham pig iron fixes the Iron price for the United States; that we have in this district every natural advantage of climate, location, transpor- tat1on Goth water and raiD and the as- seInblage of all the necessary raw ma terials to make the Birmingham district the predominant producing steel and iron district of the world. It will be shown to the armor plate board by world known experts that Ala oalusI oIeS Will make any quality of steel oesired at price lower than can be produced elsewhere in the country Our coal mines, after a period of de- pression, are now limited in their out put onfy by the supply of railroad cars 9ld the amount of labor that can be se- { cured to mine the coal; and prices are above any heretofore received.
 our lumber interests are in the same | shape
 FREIGHT BUREAUS WORK In the organization of the freight bu- l reau, the district can properly look for 1 ward to constructive work which will l eliminate inequalities and discriminations ] and thus facilitate the growth and ex- | pansion of our trade territory whole sale and retail, and bring about estab- hshment of small industries needed to round out development.
 Birmingham has been fortunate in it's real estate development and all classes nave been able to secure residential prop erty at moderate prices. Looking at the | whole situation one cannot but feel that ] the future of real estate in Birning- nam IS extremely bright. The largest | fortunes in Birmingham have been made out of Birmingham dirt during the period | when we have only been preparing and | laying foundations for the ultimate de- l velopment of the district. The judicious purchaser at this time can feel sure that i prices on Birmingham property are as low as they will ever be, and he should ] reap a reward as large as those who have made money out of their real es- tate investments here