Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-06-02
TEACHERS, t
IN INYESl MEN'I
INLOS ANGELES
Makers Write Tale Of How Three
knowledge Givers Make Money
as Realtors

following letter how three high school
teachers make good use Of their leis
ure hours
The city may get the big Durant fac
tory here for a final conference that
will decide the location Of a $100O,OOO
factory will be held. r. G. Durant,
yice-president left for New York city
to confer with his father president
of the 500, 100000 corporation bear
ing his name. The plant will cost 81
900 900. Completed plans for two i'm
portant structures to be erected ON
Seventh street have been announced
One will be II story building addl-
ton to the Balboa hotel. The entire
structure will cost about $1,0O0.0OO.
There are also plans for fine 10
story and basement loft building to
be erected at the corner of Seventh
street and Bixel. The cost Of this
building will be 100000.
This is the way you can make mon
ey in California. One of the most i'm
portant real estate deals in the his
tory of Glendale. a small city eight
miles from here was made when 8
sisters, all teachers in Los Angeles
high schools, pooled their funds and
purchased the famous Spanish res
taurants, Casa Verdua & La Ramada
for 100000. The sisters lived in
Glendale II years and at first bought
a home and few pieces of property.
They then devoted their leisure time
after school hours i'll the study rooms
of the Los Angeles schools to buying
and selling property. They sold a bus
mess lot a few days ago for $4,000
cash. Some nerve and good judgment
are all-that is required.
Tremendous strides were taken by
Los Angeles in April in all kinds Of
business. Compared with April of last
year the bank clearings increased $13,
150,815; indications are that the
years clearings will develop more
than $4,000, 100000. New building
record was $7,25O,571 for the month of
April. Graumans Metropolitan the
atre, being erected at the corner of
Sixth and Hill at cost of $3,000,00O,
was the largest permit with seat
ing capacity of 1000 will be open Jan
1st, 1922, the building will be II stor-
les high, will have 400 offices and will
be one of the finest theatres in the
world. There will be 100 pieces in the
orchestra.
Los Angeles is to have the main west
ern distributing plant of the great
Westinghouse electric and manufac-
turing company the first unit will be
a class A story concrete building to
cost $1,000,000. Los Angeles is the
worlds mecca. Tourists are here from
every state. Where do they all come
from? Iowa leads by a big majority.
c. F. Braun Co. with a yearly pay
roll of $500,00 will move it's large
fOundries from San Francisco to Los
Angeles This city is lucky in pos
sessing one of the largest building
concerns in the world. This COM
pany has built on an average of 26
houses a month for the last two years
They own their own lumber yards,
sand pits and shrubbery plants. Los
Angeles is the most prosperous city
in the u. S. is the testimony of two
men who arrived in New York re-
Gently. One is millionaire lumber
man the other a day laborer. Indus
trial conditions are bad in New York
The laboring man said he had walked
from one end of the city to the other
and couldn't get work of any kind.
Another new 10 story hotel is plan
ned for the A. P Johnsons property
on the east side of Olive between the
Sixth and Seventh streets. The hotel
will contain 400 rooms and cost about
81, 900 900.
Fifty per cent of the citrus grow
ers are facing disaster as they cannot
sell their groves for enough to pay
off the mortgages. Fruit is very cheap.
a slump in the market and very little
shipping and that by water as the
freight rates are SO high they can
make nothing.
Plans for a new apartment house
one of the finest in the t Y
will cost $2,OOO,OO0 A long term lease
with total rental of 100000 has
been taken by the Owl Drug Co. on
the corner of Fifth and Hill street
The building is owned by Mrs. Gepard
and will be remodeled. A $1,000,00C
cotton textile mill is assured for Los
Angeles and will give employment tc
500 women. Plans also have beer
made for a series of 63 story apart
ment buildings to be erected in var
1ous parts of Wilshir district. The
cost of each will be 100000 and as
much more for the ground We thinl
some are making a mistake well,
think we have blowed enough Re