The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 266, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 12, 1919 Page: 37 of 52
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Sunday October 12 1919
INDIVIDUALITY in new
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CONTRIGTOBSTO
RESUME NEEDED
CONSTRUCTION
Labor and Material Situa-
tion Better Says Build-
ers’ Exchange.
BIDS ARE ANNOUNCED
Prices Show No Tendency to
Fall on Projects Soon
to Start.
Building activities in Sun Antonio:
last week responded promptly to improv-
ed conditions in the labor situation and }
as a result there is promised a renewal •
of building construction which will equal
if not surpass that of a few months |
ago. It was pointed out by F. O. |
Thompson of San Antonio Builders Ex-
change who is in close touch both with I
the labor and building situation that i
for the last month or so prospective I
builders wore afraid to start work on
projects because the labor situation made I
their completion problematical. It was!
for this reason that for the last two!
or three weeks scarcely any new con- j
struction was begun. Now however
Mr. Thompson asserts labor conditions j
are greatly improved and contractors.
can make their plans tor construction
with some degree of certainty both as I
to cost and time of completion.
Among the most important building
operations began during the week or |
for which plans were drawn as given i
out by Mr. Thompson are the follow- •
ing:
New Buildings Planned.
Plans were prepared by Ralph Cam-
eron architect for a two-story resi- •
dence for J. H. Holmgreen to be erected •
on West Russell Place.
Mr. Cameron also hue plans ready i
for a two-story frame residence for J. •
F. Blair on East Craig Place and for a
home contemplated by E. Levine nt the
intersection of Main and Evergreen ।
streets. The latter is to be a one-story[
brick affair.
Improvements on business property;
Mr. Thompson states include the fol- •
lowing:
A. A. Herff architect has plans ready |
for the addition of a second story to the I
warehouse of the G. A. Dmerler Man-
vfactiH’lDg Gotnpißy on Herff stieet.
Bids op this work indm^al the follow-
ing: K. G. Granberg $17900; H. F?
Renneberg $1(1450; A. E. Reiner $l7.-
Jacob H. Wngner & Son $15473
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
r and Henry Schoenfeld $14591 mvord-
; ; ing to Mr. Thompson.
Two Store Buildings.
I * Two stores of reinforced concrete
construction. Mr. Thompson states are
I । to be erected at the intersection of St.
I Marys and Nueva streets. The name
! of the builder is not available at thir
. time.
I Bids on the three-story reinforced con-
crete garage on Travis street announced
by Mr. Thompson were as follows:
J Wright and Sanders $57841; J Dupuy
$55844 : Coleman and Jenkins $54224 ;.
Charles Schoenfeld $57792: Jacob Wag-:
ner $59299 and the McKenzie Construe- 1
tion Company $(15988. T?»is building!
is to be 59 by 190 feet and of elaborate j
design in brick and tile.
Bids have been received also Mr.
Thompson states on the Guenther im-
provements on Garden street nt the!
intersection of South Alamo which in-
I elude five stores to be constructed there.
SMALL HOMES SELL WELL
Dold-Fuller and Company Repcrt Active
Realty Market.
The new firm of Dold-Fuller and
Company occupying suite 307 in the
National Bank of Commerce Building |
announce that the demand for homes.!
j apartment houses and business buildings*
during the week was greater than ever j
| before. Mr. Dold states that people)
• from the North ami East are constant }
] ly coming here and that they are buy-
। ing houses and seeking apartments in I
| all sections of the city.
I The weekly sales as report cd by this'
firm total $19.250. The largest sale
was a home at 1012 San Pedro Avenue
to Miss Rose E. McCowan. for $4750.
J They reported another in this section of
the city at 212 Ogden Street. which was
‘ sold to O. Gonzales for $2500. A home
in L<>« Angeles Heights at 318 Redondo
। Street was sold to Mike S. Schwimmer
j for $2500.
In the 1500 block on South Presa
i Street a home was sold for $3300 to
i Luria McConnell and another was sold
। to F. Schroeder for $3009 being a cot-
• tage at 129 Uvalde Street.
TO DEALS IN LANDS
I ——•
W. L. Coleman Opens Office at 312 i
Moore Bldg.
। W. L. Coleman who has for twelve
j years been connected with real estate
: firms in this city has opened an office
• nt 312 Moore Building under the name
of the W. L. Coleman Land Company.
• Mr. Coleman is well known among
San Antonio real estate men having
been instrumental in closing a number
( of big deals in this territory. He has
i recently returned from the Desdemona
| ojl fields where he spent nine months I
i in the interest of a colonization scheme
। for South Texas. Thia projwsition.
| which was started by a local real es-
tate firm ha<l as its object the col-
onization of large tracts of land in Live
; Oak County.
Mr. Coleman has sold land in prac-
tvally every county fa ScutbwAst
Texas ami has a wide acquaintance
among both the real estate men and
farmers and merchants of this section
of the state.
Ft £ OF'
frOMJLEIGHTOI
ON BEACON Hit
PURCHASED
i FROM G E-
X MELLIF F
V'WEiTMKMBa 11 I■IM I ■ 11 ■
NEWLY COMPLETED cottage OF FRED A J3URtvS OR MUI SACHE
SONORA IN SUTTON
COUNTY WILDING
THREE-STORY HOTEL
Editor Shys $150090 to Be
Expended for New Struc-
tures There.
।
San Angelo. Tex. Ort. 11.—Between
• $150000 anil $165000 will likely be
t expended in Sonora county seat of Sut-
' ton County during the next twelve
months in a building boom tiiat is now
assuming definite .shape according to
i Mike Murphy one of the publishers of
■ The Devils’ Hirer News who is spend-
' ing the week in San Angelo.
i The erection of a modern three-story
‘ hotel of reinforced concrete and brick
to cost around $109999 is the most im-
portant project says Mr. Murphy.
Twenty five thousand dollars in stock
has already been subscribed by business
men aud ranchmen who will build the
j hostelry. The location will be opposite
the court house on the corner of Main
I and Water street will have 46 guest
• rooms >4 of them with private baths.
! bath rooms on the second and third
I floors a big lobby and a spacious dining
hall.
The First National Bank is to have
I a usw home. costing between $40000
I and $50000. on the corner of Main
street nttd Conrho Avenue opposite The
News office. This site is known as the
old Drug Store corner. The bank
building will be of brick aud concrete
two stories high. The institution at
present is located on the opposite side
of Main street.
Next to the now hank aud up the
street. George Hamilton is to erect a
one-story building that will cost $lOOOO
for the occupancy of The City Grocery
of which lie is proprietor. The walls of
the new bank and of E. F. Vander
Stucken’s store will be undzea.
Mr. Vander Stucken intends to spend
$5OOO or more in remodeling his build-
ing which houses n general mercantile
buisoess. Modern fronts will be one
jof the features. With these new build-
ings only one building site will inter-
vene between the three now ptaevs men-
tioned’and the new hotel.
HOTEL FOR LAND
Sau Angelo De.tl Involves 820000 Is
lieport.
San Angelo. Tex.. Oct 11.—A $20000
deal was closed in San Angelo this week
when .1. M. Holman of Pittsburg Texas
traded the Goodwin Hotel here to George
P. Lester of Marble Falls for 850 acres
of land located on Lipan Flat fifteen
miles southeast of Sau Angelo. The
hotel is on the banks of the North
Concho Biver near the Chadbourne
Street viaduct an 1 is t‘vo storks liigit
with a basement t*at is equal to another
floor. It was built seven or eight years
ago. Two hundred .-.nd fifty acres of
the 850 received by Mr. Holmaa are in
cultivation.
BEININGEIITO I
■ESS BE1LI?
HGDNW
Secretary oi Assessors’ As-
sociation to Attend Lunch-
eon Tuesday Noon.
—
PL AN BOOK ON CITY
Realtors Preparing Volume
Answering inquiries About
San Antonio.
i
i
lii order that eyery real estate man ।
in this city may know just how the :
people of Sau Antonio and Bexas County .
are being imposed upon in the matter
of unequal ahd nou-unifurm state taxa- J
tion the Real Estate Board has secured i
Gus Reiuinger of New Braunfels sec-1
retary of the State Tax Assessors* As-1
soeiation to talk upon this subject ati
the regular bi-monthly meeting of the
board. This meeting will be at a lun-:
cheon held in the ballroom of the Gunter
Hotel next Tuesday October 14 at ।
12 :15 p. m. Mr. Reiniuger promises to I
bare facts which win startle those in-
terested in equal aud uniform taxation. J
He will show how Bexar County tax-
payers have borne the brunt of the
bunion how they pay one quarter of a
million dollars in taxation mor* than
they should. j
’ln securing of Mr. Reiuinger at'
this time the Real Estate Board is ex-
tremely fortunate” said Wallace Rogers
president of the organization yesterday. |
•'The active real estate dealers of San |
Antonio have surmised for some time
that tbeir clients have been paying
more taxes to the the county and the
state than those people of other cities
mid counties who own property; but
as in similar cases throughout the
country we have not had the exact
figures.”
Has Made Study of Taxation.
Mr. Reiniuger has made a close and
intense study of conditions over a period
of four or five years. He has at bis
finger tips the exact discrepancies and
irregularities mid he promises to make
a full exposure before the board. So
important will this be that I am sure
every real estate man in the city
whether he is a member of the board
or not will be anxious to hciy; Mr.
Reiniuger. Because of the manifest in-
terest in this subject we have deluded
to throw open the doors to all of our
fellow real estate men who desire to
• come and also to the people who have
big property holdings here.’
। At the meeting of the board of di
' rectors Thnrsday it was '(le<<dod that
the membership of the board would be
held o{»on to other real estate firms
iu the ciiy who might want .to join
befoi‘“ Jrinuary 1. 1929. The real es-
tate board is contemplating the publi-
• cation of a very important work the
; pages of which will contain valuable
* information about San Antonio and
1 vicinity and this will bo sent broadcast
throughout the country. "There have
I been so many inquiries <*oming ipto the
j offices of the real estate board” said
•a' prominent realtor yesterday "that
we cannot possibly Loop up our answers
| to them unless they are stereotyped.”
To Tell About the City.
! “To overcome this difficulty the
j board is working on a general prospec-
! tus which can be mailed to anyone who
asks information about conditions in
San Antonio. This work will prove of
j incalculable value to me residents of
. San Antonio and especially to the busi-
I ncss men. The members of {he real
I estate board will naturally reap a great
benefit by merely having their names
I linked with the publication.
j "The back pages will contain the
1 names and addre/cs of nil members.
active rtnd associative. Knowing that
■ many men will join the board when
। they realize this opportunity we have
re-organized the campaign committee
] A drive for more membership will soon
I start and we intend to canvass thr
| field thoroughly.”
। To date there are 125 members in the
| real estate board according to announce*
I nient made at the offices of the board
! yesterday. It is expected that this
j membership which is the largest the
I local board ever hgd will be increased
|by another 100 in the near future. With
। the publication of these figures it is
I learned that the local board is one of
; the most important organizations of
j its kind in the United States ranking
with the real estate boards of San Frqn-
cisco. Seattle and other cities of great-
er population.
LARGE RANCH DEAL
Large Acreage Near Eagle Pass Sells
for $49610.
Eagle Pass. Tex. Oct. IL—An im-
portant land deal has been recorded in
the Maverick County ’ clerk’s office
wherehy William Watson and wife of
Lampasas County Texas convey to
C. Kownslar and C. L. Granberry of
Wichita Falls Tex. fourteen surveys
about four miles east and northeast of
Eagle Pass and containing 9051.01 acres.
The consideration is $49910. The land
is to be stocked with cattle.
A real estate deed was filed whereby
Elizabeth Terrell Leighton and hus-
band L. B. Leighton convey to Bur-
leson & Baker part of lot two. block one
between Webster and Short afreets
Eagle Pass for $1200.
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WFST CPAIG
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NORTH TEXAS FARMERS
BUYING FARMS IN
SAN ANTONIO DISTRICT
I
Tendency Is to Improve
Them—Young Men Going ।
to the Country.
Sales in both ranch and suburban ।
property during last summer and fall.
j showed a satisfactory condition with a !
tendency toward improved ranch lands i
’ according to H. E. Dickinson of the;
I real estate firm of Hagelstein and Dick- '
insou.
Sime the summer campaign started. '
Mr. Dickinson states colonization aud '
farm tracts in Atascosa and Live Oak !
Counties to the extent of 9890 acres |
have been sold ranging iu farms from}
59 acres up.
Most of the buyers for these lauds
were from the North and Central |
Texas seeking locations in Southwest [
Texas because of the excellent water:
and climatic conditions.
A number of young men. Mr. Dickin-1
son asserts are among the farm aud ।
ranch buyers indicating that the "back:
to the farm” movement is again at work.
A noticeable tendency is prevalent he •
i says to greatly improve the farms once •
they are purchased.
The great number of automobiles in J
use on farms also is another interest )
ing feature. This. Mr. Dickinson be-
lieves is making farm life much more 1
j attractive than heretofore.
Suburban property is also in good de-1
maud. Mr. Dickinson states. In the!
subdivisions of Ix>s Angeles Height’ |
and Angeles Terrace both vacant lots;
and improved property are being sold}
rapidly and an increased demand is ex- j
pected this winter.
TO BUILD ROADS
Toni Green Highway Program to Be
launched.
San Angelo Tex. Oct. 11. —Tom
Green County’s highway building pro-
gram will be launched on or before Jan-
uary 1 the commissioners’ court has
decided. Materials are high and labor
scarce but the officials have concluded
that such conditions may continue to
prevail indefinitely—aud Tom Greeu
County needs better roads right now.
County Judge C. T. Puul left w*-!
nesday afternoon for Dallas to attend ]
the State Fair primarily for the purpose
of investigating methods of modern
road construction. Upon his return
bids for contracts to build several
stretches of highway in Tom Green
County will likely be advertised for. The
present plan is first to construct a per-
manent ^ike to the fifteen<nile rock ou
the Christoval Road this being one of
the most traveled in the county and
then apportion the remainder of the half
million dollars available for the improve-
SHOt of otlier roads.
ADD TWO SUITES
Smith and Smith. Realtors Also In
crease Staff of Employes.
Oue year ago last week the firm of
| Smith and Smith relators opened its
door on Market Street and to cole- •
brute their anniversary in a fitting way
land to otherwise strengthen their busi-
I ness they leased another suite of rooms
।in the National Bank of Commerce
I Building this week and now occupy
I suites 493 and 405. They also have add-
j ed several clerks and salesmen to their
• staff' of employes.
j The policy of this company according
; to Mr. Smith is to give the other fel-
• low a fair chance. Iu this way the com-
। pany has added a number of customers
I to its long list of friends and patrons.
Mr. Smith says his friends and pa-
»trons are constantly sending others to
। him and thereby his business is always
'good. He also states that he docs not
; « redit himself with the success of his
[business but that his friends have done
I much towards that.
i Mr. Smith advises patrons that is
; they want to buy homes they had best
i buy today as the demand for real es-
itato is so great that it is getting to be a
problem to find houses for all and tberc-
| fore the price is constantly increasing.
I He states that the working man is get-
: ting more ambitious to own his own
। residence and that the last ten nr twelve
i sales he has made were to workers who
’ usually select homes in the sub-
urbs.
WATER FROM WELLS
.•
■ San Angelo May Secure Supply From
New Source.
San Angelo Tex. Oct. 11.—Deep
; wells instead of the Concho River may
ibe depended upon for ISan Angelo's
water supply in the establishing of a
municipal waterworks plant it devel-
oped Saturday. The city commission
in adopting a resolution instructed City
Manager E. L. Wells Jr. to proceed
‘‘at once to sink the necessary test
wells on lands held under option by
the city or on other suitable property
to determine the best location for the
city water supply.”
The resolution set forth that samples
of water taken from irrigation wells
north of town have been analyzed by
chemists of the University of Texas and
have been found to contain no organic
matter; aud further that state geolo-
gists have estimated that possible flow
that may be obtained from deeper wells
lainee the source that tas been only
। slightly tapped extends over an area of
several square miles.
Shortly after $500099 in bond® were
voted here in March either for the pur-
chase of the San Angelo Water. Light
& Power Companys holding or for the
establishment a municipal plant ne-
gotiations for a •purchase failed ami the
city had u survey made of the water*
sheds of the South Concho River nd
its tributaries. The latest plau to sink
test wells for water north of town in-
dicates that another course is to be
given serious consideration.
Classified Real Estate.
bosoms r/X£^
AND STUCCO NOME \
MV/ or MRS. JOE HORY 1
JI 1142 IN. WOOD 4 A was 1
V^NJE ITWASDEStGMFO i
BY HENRY rPHELPs]
APCHtTECT /
ONE REALTY FIRM
BUILDING MORE THAN
ONE HUNDRED HOMES
Richey and Casey and Asso-
ciates to Help Solve City's
Housing Problem.
One hundred and forty houses are un*
der construction many of them noaring
completion while work on others has
just been begun by one real estate
firm in San Antonio. The firm of
Richey and Casey and individual^ con-
nected therewith including H. U. Rbo-
dius P. E. Gragg and James C. Perry
are putting up these houses in various
parts of the city the size ranging from
three rooms to five or six rooms and
the prices from $750 to $5OOO. While
a number of the buildings are being
constructed as rent houses others are
being erected tor the purpose of sell-
ing. to meet the great demand for homes
prevalent in Sau Antonio.
Although this building campaign cov-
ers a wide area in the city the major-
ity <»f the work is being done on Pros-
pect Hill work having started there o®
a number of houses recently. Extensive
building operations according to Mr.
Perry authority for this statement
were begun some thirty days ago when
the demand for rent houses and homes
in San Antonio became so urgent that
it necessitated the taking of immediate
measures to relieve the situation. Theru
is now a movement on f»»ot among the
real estate men of the city to promote
the building of both homes and tenant
houses to take care of the increat.’ 4
population which is a natural ••nose’
quence of the city’s growth and also
the temporary tourist population which
visits the city every winter.
Fear had been expressed by promi-
nent real estate men that the short-
age would become so acute that an
unfavorable impression would be gained
by the tourists this winter so every
effort has been put forth to get peo-
ple to build homeu the Richey aud
Casey Cojnpany being om 1 of the first
big real estate firms to initiate the
movement.
Seeing the chance for safe invest-
ments the salesmen and office men of
the Richey Casey Company started a
campaign of their own. each one putting
up a few houses with the resultant
impetus to building activity enumerat-
ed above.
Mr. Perry himself is at present build-
ing a modem bungalow in South Parle
Terrace.
Japanese Rent Profiteers.
The renting agents of Kobe being ac-
cused of extorting higher rents without
the consent of the ownetn of the houses
have brought down upon themaelvet
strict regulations by the. governor hc-
cording to the bulletin of the Japan So-
ciety. The new rules specify that rental
agencies must not be conducted by
‘ minors and incompetents people *bo
have been aenteßced to rn^re than one
year's imprisonment (unless atnerrely
repentant) unredeemed bankrupt. and
persons of had behavior ard dangerous
to public moMlity.”
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