The Springfield herald., 1918-08-30
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| )StOries and Incidents
Old Boston
L And the old Days
Newspapers, Towns
And Town Lots
BY the Writer

towns hereabout, has chosen
Boston as the place to invest,
and made himself the possessor
of several lots. $1,000 is the cold
cash he paid for the naked lot
cornering on Main street and 9th
avenue, OF Forney Jennings. A
mong other investments was a
years subscription to the World
to be sent to independence till
his return here.-World, Aug.
II. 1887.
Business in D.ston has been
growing continually better.
Town property has been going
rapidly and at good figures.
Twenty lots were sold here in
one day Ia week. From one to
half dozen immigrant teams
come in every day. The livery
and hotel business is looming ur.
our merchants sleep harder and
smile louder, and our people are
more hopeful of the future than
ever before, etcelera ad infinit-
um. Boys, this is only a fore
taste of what is coming during
the winter and spring. World,
Nov. 10, 1887.
The Mulvane News as authori
ty says that the choicest lots in
Mulvane can be bought for $50.
We know of one lot in Spring
field that the party owning it re.
fused $3.50 for it. and in sixty
days i1 will be worth I vice that.
Springfield Herald, Jan. 10, 1889.
Mr.. Vickers bought half in
terest in one lot in Buston, pay
ing ST, ,0O0. dollars for it. He will
refuse $1,000 for it before sixty
days. MIR. vickers lives in Trim
idad, and will verify the state
ment.-World, Jan. II, 1889.
OF course our readers will un-
derstand that the information of
a lot selling for $1,000, coming
from Forney Jennings. is strict
ly reliable--so not to speak, as
was the Information nf lot sales
elsewhere in those booming east
end towns in those old days. -
while the food gates were down
and emigrants were pouring in.
OF course it doesn't follow that
because the information came
from the Jenningses that it was
in correct. Town lots sold during
1887 at big figures, and some
may have sold even ns high as
$1,000.
A good story on the writer
and by the writer, is illustrative
of the booming old days, and of
the comedies and tragedies at
tending them.
Ave had a good number of lots
in Boston, and among them were
two on 9th avenue, one block east
of the center of corner
lots.
One day Mr.. McGinnis of
Ashland, Kans., drove up to
where we were building a shack
on those lots, and wanted to
know what we wanted for chose
two lots. This was probably
along in April or May of the great
boom year 1887.
Mr.. McGinnis stated that he
didn't come out with the inten-
tion of locating, but he liked the
looks of things, and if he could
get those two lots he would build
a livery barn on them.
He had a fine coach team with
silver-mounted harness and fine
piano finish surrey, the outfit cas-
lily worth $500-and if we wanted
that outfit for the two lots he
would take the stage the next
morning for Granada, and come
back and put up a livery barn on
the lots.
We told him 'no'-we wanted
81 900 for the two lots, and moth
ing less would get them. So he
drove away, and that was the last
we ever saw of McGin1is or the
outfit.
1t was about one year alter that
that a Mr.. Cain wanted 60 know
what we would take for the 10
adjoining him = he wanted two
lots together, just for what pur.
pose we don't now recall.
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