San Antonio Express. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 308, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 3, 1918 Page: 41 of 58
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REAL ESTATE & CLASSIFIED SECTION
SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 3, 1918
HERE'S A STRAIGHT TIP, AND THERE WILL NEVER BE
SUCH ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE THE
HEALTHY. WEALTHY AND WISE SHORT CUT
MR. MAN WITH MONEY TO INVEST, do you w?
a straight tip? Do you want to invest that mo1 |
where it is as safe as in the great thief-triumphant ? v
vaults of the United States Treasury? Do you wa &
put your money where it will grow; where it will d & "*
almost while you are thinking about it? Do you w >
put it in the best and safest proposition on earth n
the earth?
Well, then, invest in San Antonio real estate—and
DO IT NOW!
You will never have such an opportunity again, for
never again will prices for vacant land and dwellings and
business blocks be as low. Today is the time to put that
money of yours to work. In San Antonio it will work for
you with the energy of a mogul locomotive, and you
needn't worry about it. It will be going ahead along the
Track of Fortune under its own steam.
How are we so sure? What backs up the assertion?
Listen:
The war is in progress now and, although San Antonio
is one of the few cities that have made big advances in
building and have been even more prosperous than in pre-
war days, the situation is comparatively quiet in regard
to advancing prices in property. One can pick up many
an attractive proposition. There is no attempt so far to
anticipate the future, the immediate future, and raise
[values. At the present prices San Antonio real estate is
the cheapest commudity in the market. It is a gilt-edged
iinvestmcnt, so protected by the values of the greatness
I the city has already achieved and so doubly insured by
the rapid growth that is even now painting in certain
colors a rainbow future, that a man must be blind, indeed,
who cannot see that there is nothing else in all this great
country so attractively certain; that no place else spells
Fortune so surely.
Because—
Immediately following the end of the war, there will
be an unprecedented activity in real estate, not only here,
but throughout the United States. The building restric-
tions, now imposed as a war measure, will, of course, be
removed and the dammed-up flood of necessary construc-
tion, and the building of homes and business edifices, and
public improvements, will sweep before it labor and prices
and materials. Unusual activity brings unusual prices.
It is as certain as the sun will set this evening that prices
will soar skyward. All values will follow suit. The de-
mand for homes will be enormous. The investor who has
homes for sale or rent and who has vacant property on
which to build will find himself in golden clover.
Savings of Millions to Seek Real Estate
HISTORY has the habit of repeating itself. The five
years following the Civil War marked a rise of 55
per cent in sections in the North, as against an increase
of 35 per cent in the five years immediately preceding the
war. But because of the far greater wealth and more
secure position of the country today we cannot take those
figures of half a century ago as a basis of comparison.
We know this, however: peace will see a skyward flight
of values in an era of unsurpassed activity.
Advances in prices of every building material have
taken place during the last three years until there has been
obtained an average increase of 60 per cent more than the
same materials cost before the war. Building of new fac-
tories has largely increased, while the building of homes
all over the United States has fallen far below the average
before the war. During peace times the building of
homes amounted to four times that of factory building.
Therefore, with the enforced slackening in home construc-
tion, the housing situation already in many sections of the
country has become acute. Especially is this the case in
those cities and towns where the population has increased,
due to war work. Rents are beginning to advance in
every section of the United States and values of rental
property are being inflated in proportion. Indeed, every
wind that blows carries the straws of certainty; these in-
dications of what is coming should be followed by the man
with shrewd money sense.
Now is the ideal time to buy, before conditions be-
come more pronounced. That values here have not fol-
lowed the ascendant scale beginning over the country,
makes this the ideal hour in San Antonio for investment.
Let us go further into facts.
The war debts incurred by the United States, which
have taken up the surplus ipcome of the American people,
will have a decidedly stimulating effect upon the real
estate business. The debts of the country, it is true, will
have to be paid from the pockets of the citizens, but the
economies and savings effected by the people in response
to the Government's call for loans will directly after the
war react favorably on the real estate market.
Many of the Government's debts are represented by
short-time loans. For instance, there are the War Savings
Stamps. .These debts doubtless will be paid off in a very
short time after the end of the war, and the result will be
that persons in moderate circumstances who were not
accustomed to saving before they began to buy War Sav-
ings and Thrift Stamps, will have lump sums of from
$200 to $1,000 coming to them from the Government.
They will naturally seek to re-invest this money, and
the logical investment for the man of moderate means
who wants to own a home will be real estate. He may
have long considered buying a home, but the incentive
for saving was not strong enough to induce him to ac-
cumulate until his Government asked him to save in order
to lend his savings to his country so the war could be
adequately financed.
Just Turn These Pages and Compare
HUNDREDS of millions of dollars have been accumu-
lated in the hands of the wage earners as a result
of the loan campaigns. Certain kinds of business may
have suffered curtailment, but there has been a compen-
sating acumulation of wealth in small sums by the mass
of the people. As we have said, this will find its way in
more widespread investment in real estate. 1 The first
movement will be found in the great demand for houses,
which will result in an astonishing spurt in building. Un-
doubtedly, also, farm lands will be in demand, but the big
building activity will be in the cities.
We have been so busily prosperous down here in San
Antonio that our minds have been chiefly concerned with
our allotted tasks and our city's part in the great war
drama. It is time we noticed the changing conditions in
the country at large. This great upward sweep is bound
to affect us, sooner or later. That was a significant sign
of the big city's growth when, the other day, the authori-
ties in Washington permitted the construction here of
200 new dwellings to assist in solving our own housing
problem.
Do we quite realize the great influx of new popula-
tion we have received; are we quite cognizant of the in-
dustrial, commercial, the business, growth, generally, of
San Antonio these past two years? We know we are
growing rapidly; that, as a city, we are in the most favored
class. We are convinced we are to keep on growing, just
as we have so wonderfully grown in the past fifteen years..
But just because of our elbow-touching familiarity, day in
and day out, with these progressive changes we are not
as fully appreciative as is, perhaps, the newcomer. It's a
gratifying thing to hear when the New Yorker says of^
Houston Street on an afternoon: "Why, you've got a*
Broadway around Times Square here!"
And this is the final tip, Mr. and Mrs. San Antonio
and Mr. Newcomer:
Turn to the next page and the succeeding pages in
this section of this morning's Express. Read the lists of
real estate offerings, in houses and property of various
descriptions, for sale. Consider the prices or terms, the
advertisements set forth. If you are familiar with other
cities that might be placed in San Antonio's class, you will
realize that there is no comparison with the bargains of-
fered here. The best the rest of the United States has to
offer to the investor today is poor, indeed, in comparison
with what he is offered here.
Not only does San Antonio give him opportunities to
purchase at prices below actual value—and prices that
will appear ridiculously low in a year or two from now—
but the opportunity to become a property holder in the
best and fastest growing city in the 200,000 class in the
entire country; a city with superb climate; a city owning
the most romantic and glorious history and traditions,
and an ever-appealing picturesque charm; a city with the
purest water on earth; a city with schools and colleges
ranking among the best—in short, a city that holds its
newcomers and keeps on growing by reason that it is an
ideal place in which to live, to work, to grow prosperous
and successful!
TWENTY-SEVEN DEEDS FILED
WITH COUNTY CI.ERk S.VTl 15-
DAY— BIG CONSIDERATIONS.
Thirty five mor^ real estate transfer*
wore* recorded for the week ended Saturday
than for the previous work, and the total
expressed consideration jumped from
5»l47.fcs4 to $.",20..'IP0. lUiildin* permit* num
bered forty seven and the amount involve.I
was Saturday's realty record was
$«7.."»K.' for twenty seven deed*. Three
building permits were issued for $.1,285.
DEEDS FILED.
$8,000 Mr*. lieo rgc M Steunike et a| to
E. J. Martin. Octoln i 30. l'.«lx. deed to lot '.Ml
sn-1 east half of lot -•"> block 12, uew city bio. »
1704. Adam's Laurel Helght-
$.*rfiO—Ale jo* (iouicx to A. ('. Tmidouze. Sep-
tember 2. 1018, deed to 1 ; *<; #, p,-* . f land
known as division 7, as per fi' Id notes.
$HjO - August ('. TcUdooEe to Jesus and Ale-
Jos Teji-da. Octotier s lt»18. «le«n to l:i.Wi a- res
of land known an division 7. as per field notes.
$."».750- Km**#! and Matilda Fischer to K.
Itownura. October 1»18H deed to O&.l.'i acres
of.land out of M. «i<mri survey.
82.IiOO- -Marccllus II. Ilavi* t<> J M. Flledge.
July 17. 19ls, deed to lot 12. Mock 21. now city
block «2».
*2.~>—It^elamn Cemetery. Inc.. to Mrs. flan
Ortega. October 2. 1918. de» d to lots 3."»4 and
3.V., block *. llo#elawn Cemetery.
#1 and other .•oos.de-atlon- Andrew O. Ron
nett to Kdith Ronnell. September 1918. deed
to lots s and 9. n» w city block .*»W4. Commerce
and olive Street*-
$2."i00—«J A « . Ilalff t" Pari Sthellhase
November 1. UMS. deed to lot 12. block
Mission Park Additbn. ciM block except
wrst 4."i feet thereof and the %tore building -»n
»ai<l property.
$2^ an>l other consideration.^ -.1. R. R*md >n
to Harry l ollptt. (J.t« b. r IS l!ll8. deed to lot*
m. 20. block 4. Sau I edro Terra* • Additior
$3.309—Fred H'Jtn .ert and wife to i; W.
Morrison and wife. N'ovemlier 1. 191 *. deed t >
west 29.5 feet of lot 3. block 10. also lot 2,
bbfk 10. I*e*ine Str^t
$1,2'JO—ii. W. and May K< kenroth to Got
Pmmgoole. October 31. 19i«, deed to 1. t in.
Muck new cily block 2151, fronting 48'a ou
Smith Street.
$4.."'«>0 1>. A. Bants and wife to Common-
wealth Rank and Trust Company. October 28.
1918, deed to lota 1. 2, Hock I®, new < i t \ block
19.10, corner Murphv A+cnue and Rlmendoif
Street.
$."•00- South San Antonio Ind. Company to
Kate Wurzbach, October 15. 1918, deed to lot 4,
block 12. South San Antonio.
$,'1.150 \\ C. William* to Jabies C. Perry.
October 31, IMS, .I.-* (j (.» lot 17, Mock 88, new
city block 18tkJ. Laurel Heights Addition. W'es
Russell Place.
*100- The Mission Cemetery Company to
Harry W Hamilton. October .".o, 191*. I t<»
••ast 20 feet uf lot u">, block Mission Burial
Park.
$-.270 1. M. Maun and w ife to IMxon Ouliej.
October 29, 191*. deed t«» two lots out «-f
northwest one-quarter of surve,' ltd of Florida
Heights sudvision: also lots 5. t). city block
yil7. Virginia Boulerard.
$4.5O0 'ins Scfcoeuert Jr. and wife to A. II
Polley. November 1. 1917. deed t<\ lots 13. 14.
ldock 3. new city block 21»S5, Iiuustock Addi-
tion.
$9,500- The Summit Place Company and tl.r>
Commercial State Hank to I: Kiliott Jone*.
Oi tober :&0. 191\ det d to lot «■ and east fifty
feet of lot .*». new < n»- Mock VU, Summit Place.
*4«*» S. i;. (iautt to Osiuan V wberg. Novem
t>er 1. 1918, deed to lots 8. block 25. Kings-
ton Heights Terrace
$3,500 S. Marrow and wife To Thomas W.
Burns. November 1, 191* deed to ion acre*
of land out of survey 135. n* per fb'ld notes.
S7.."ss» Marion T. ('unlabel t.. William I..
Rlehter. October 22. l!*l*. dc< i to lot I#u
rango Street, as per Volume 4ti3. page* 209 and
212.
$10 and other considerations Walton W. Blunt
an>! wife to William I. Rlehter, October 22,
1918. quitclaim <le«-«! to lot ". Ihirango Street,
as per xolumo 4«13. juiges 209 to 212.
$1 Perrj J. I.ewls to W L. Rlehter. No
vetnl.er 1. 1918. qui-<-lalm deed to lot 3, front-
ing 70.70 f»'« t on hurango Stre**!. as per volume
463. page* 309 21*.
$50(» Katie I.. Bedinger to Vicente Pamirer.
Noveml«er 1 1918, cited to lots 114. 115. Reutii
olme Addition.
$2.STiO—Sam Friedman and wife to Jrrry
Schwab. 0« tober 15. 191K. deed to lot 20, block
12. new city block 3153. Marlborough Addl
tfM %
$1,500- S C. Walker and wife to A H
Pr cut. O« to»>er 29. 191K. d»-ed to part rf Jots 1
and 2. bbn-k ti*. new city blo- k 468. Iwing th-
east «»ne-tblrd of sa.d lots.
fl.9.w V. ( Knder to Kd Eivln. (»• -'otier .'.1
1^1*. deed to "lot .5. biock F. new city bio •;
1«5«.
BUILDING PESMIIS
J. P Griffin, dwe dng. HaM Cmckett Street.
Mock 574. $2.:-on
Adolph Wagner. i*o-r«-m addition, i.arden
Street: blo<-k 179
K. A H^lmgreen. one room addition, Fren 1
riace, block 1892: $100.
Uncle Sam Sees Value in
Southwest Texas Realty
Sends Agents Here to Investigate With View
to Buying Large Tract to Be Set-
tled by Soldiers.
When the Government places its stauip
of approval on any part of the country,
this i- not done until after thorough in-
vestigation. When tho Government inves-
tigate- there is usually a logical reason
for doing so. and if the subject l.e real
estate, tho investigation is made with a
view ro bettering the condition «-f people,
for the Government knows that a very
large per cent of.the wealth of the world
|j. near the surface of the earth.
1 or the last ten days two representa-
tive ■ f the Government. I' A. NVelty and
.1. «; Sinnard, have been here investigating
a number of traets of land with a view
to pur'basing, the satin' to be settled by
sol liers ut the close «>i the war The Gov-
ernment asks for tract* of 10.000 acres or
mote If purchase is made, the tract will
le divided into small tracts suitable for
farming purposes.
Tic very fact that these men arc here
to investigate gives *01110 notion of the
value that is placed on the lands in this
part of the country for agricultural pur-
pose.- This of itself |s a guaranty* that
those in a position to know place confi-
dence in the ultimate prodm ti\etiess of
le\a- land. URd that values will lucre:;*e
just in proportion to the manner in wlii- ,
the land is tilled, l'or it must be accepted
as a fact that Fticle Katn is not planting
to hand the patriotic men who have offered
their live* in the defense of democracy a
••gold brick ' in the form of real estate.
This investigation is one of tho pointers
Indicating a rise in real estate value.* as
-.-on as the war eloses and money flows
! a< k into the channels of peaceful trade.
For the wealth of the ! nited Stat - in the
future, as in the past, must come from
the soil in an enlarged measure Very
naturally Texas will evpe-ted to fur
ni-!i ait increasing proportion of that
wealth. ^
Intensive farming is beginning in no un-
certain wav. and the volnnie will grow-
larger as the popuiatlou increases. While
cotton will continue to be tho main crop,
the area devoted to this will be more cir-
cumscribed as men learn to niHKe a given
area produce a more abundant crop. This
problem i- booium- better understood as
a result of the efforts of the agricultural
- hool. and in tie final analysis will add
to the value of t > land. That the Gov-
ernment sees itici ■ a sing value in Texas
land is beyond -a.:! when men are sent
lore to investigate with a view to buying
large tracts.
But this is not t> <■ only thing that prom-
ises remunerative investment in lands This
city is growing larger year by year. There
Is "not a sugge-tion that !t lias grown large
enough to heil- in and that increase in
population ha- i' bed its limit. Ti e fact
Is Ju*t the re\. r«e ol any such conclusion.
Sau Antonio ha- Jn.-t leached that period
In it- life whei r is beginning to grow
along those - '<sianti.il lines that Insure
increasing v.-ilm The character <»f bofli
the buildings 1 ! the busine.-s emphasise
the fact that ^ • iter things are ahead for
this city. It ha- reached a point where
it eanujt be -topped until its contributory
ed the zenith of Its
1- i* far in the future
I. it is bound to be the
Southwest Texas. The
of a wide area of pro-
must pass through its
a home where there is an indication of re-
ceding values.
As yn evidence that there is activity of
the stable kind in the local realty market,
the C'onness Realty Company reports sales
aggregating 2*30,000 for the last week, as
follows
George l'.erry to Nicholas do los San
tos. 201 Gerald Street, two room
cottage H00
Joseph Pent* 1" .!o-eph W. Schofleld.
515 Carson street, eight-room brick o.OOO
Charles Hoefle to Mary C. I.ykins,
."•04 Kast Simpson Street, seven room
two-story house 3,000
Frank i: (iillett to >f. II I>nvis. lot
on Saunders Avenue 550
\V. I' I'agg to Felix Chappa. 404 West
Marshall Street, five-room cottage.. 3.500
Kuntz Albaugh Lumber Company to
otis M Ballard,, 407 South Hamilton.
four room tottage 1.050
p K Crowell to F. W Hamkc. 415-
Ib lmar Street, three room cottage. 1.525
William I rban to J. L. S «»tt. 211
Castro Street, four-room cottage... 1,200
Thomas II. l'olau to William Well
bacher, 214 Idaho Street, four-room
cottage ljJOO
.Iidin \N Taylor to Jose c. Tainayo,.
1.5 Clinton StriM't. four room cot
tage 1.7G0
11 I> Ilarrigan sold two lots on 'Tain
pico 2.S00
Joseph M Smith to K. Mason, 5.35
i hrexel. five room cottage 1.250
; Walter Davenport to lla.v. F. Walker.
12;J Loretta l'lace, five-room cottage 3.700
Will Peace Depress Cotton?
II.v W. W. MORRISON.
Dl KING recent weeks the opinion has . how drastic has been the economy iu
become widely current that peace will ' cotton Koods.
briiiB lnwf-r prlrvn for cottun. It l« matn ; '» 'TUIn t« fln.1 thewforo, the
. . . . . need lor cheap clothing throughout tho
ly based upon the assumption that, in such , world, especially throughout the old world,
an event, the Government would cancel all | most distressing. It can be safely as
orders placed with the spinners. The fal- I Hl,ro('d that the allied aud neutral govern-
... , . . . . . .. . ments will make a tremendous effort to re.
ho y of this claim is obvious. It is unthluk- 11«>Ve this distress Immediately after pea'**
able that the Government will go back on is declared. The ships of out own country
its contracts after the goods were made up, 1 can be expected to be largely absorbed by
or cancel contracts for goods not made up. j the necessities of demobilization, and of
unless the raw material required to fill the 1 Kngland. also, but to a less degree. The
l itter could be profitably and promptly ah j vessels of our other allies, however, and of
j sorbed iu goods required for the civilian all the neutral countries will be. more or
J trade. less. free. Ilence, It seems that the chance
There is pot. however, the least evidence of relieving this distressing need uf cotton
to sustain the view tfiat cancellation would will be greatly Increased as soon as the
be necessary. On the contrary, the most, sea* are free from the submarine i»eril.
It I* argued also, that |»ea«e will mean
the passing of an era of inflation, which in
turn mean* that the purchasing power
of a dollar will increase and the price of
commodities will de« rease. They do not
! mention, however, that for this to be true
it must tnenn also that the cost of produc-
tion will decrease in the same ratio. As
this relates to cotton. The « top now lie-
\v VTC'II Tin: WKATIIKR FORECAST.
Shipper* of food and other products,
liable to Injury from freezing are urged
territory has
possibilities
generation* 1
trade capita i
vast productb
ductive territ"
gates In tor it has made itself the dN
trlbutlng |". it for those things that come
from othef i of the country in the
processes of trade
Locally t ere I- a demand for home
site?, not al '>'■ for the modest cottage,
bet the -p • : I home, the cost of which
will run in: ■ thousands, and during the
last week c-ite was bonght hi Sum-
mit Pla-e. • ■ 1 which the owner plans t«»
build .. 1 e that will cost $lo.0oo
;is -ooti aa Government fWga la
; a i» e 11 off of I "perations Men vbo
build on sin 1 1 -'-ale as that indicated in
the foregoing :«»m plant their money iu
! to w;it' h the dally forecasts, issued by
i Weather Bureau stations during the winter
' In lities and town* of considerable size.
of minimum temperatures expected to 00
• • ■ 11 r within a shipping radius of one dav
! or two days of41ie station. These fore
j cast- ina. be had by telephoning or tele
I graph! 111: the Weather Bureau office, or
i arrangements may be made iu advance to
have them sent as desired. When freezing
temperatures are forecast, shipment* may
be given adequate protection or delayed
until conditions change, or if they are en
route orders may Im» telegraphed to have
I them placed in shelter F\|*»rien«o of
I large produce shipping firms, a* given iu
their voluntary testimony, H that as a
re-ult of ■ arefnl attention to these fore
asts their losses from freezing of goods
in transit have been negligible The im
I ortan'-e of this servb-c is thought to be
especially great during the war with Its
food ne<e*sity.
fa«t. the only, reliable evidence indl-
< ates that it will take something like two
years to demobilize the army. In any
event, should pea«e come this year, de-
mobilization could net be accomplished
until long alter the marketing of this crop.
and probably the next, has passed Into
history. Then, the fundamental fact re-
mains that the suldier as a civilian will re-
qulr* just as much • lothing as he did as 1 ing marketed cost more perhaps, than any
a soldier ! crop ever grown and there Is no reason for
What I* the outlook for demand should j a sinning that the cost <>f the next crop
l>ea e come in the next s:\ month*? Now, will be any le-s 1 »n the contrary, it looks
mi Individual may economize iu his wear • that it might be higher. Labor that cost
Ing apparel for an extended period, but *20 |»er mouth in 1913. cost $75 per month
there finally comes a time when repleuinh-
ing hi* clothing becomes Just as Impera
tive a- replenishing his food. The meager
siipplle- of the raw material held abroad,
a • olid it ion which has been continuous
-Itn e the war l»egan. and the continuously
dwiugling exports of American cotton,
allow in a very conclusive way that the
this year, ami the indication* point to it
coating still more next season.
Farmer* Will Hate Say.
The South'* financial Independence ha*
made the «ost of production a dominant
factor in determining the price. The cotton
cotin rv will no longer sell a crop of cotton
at a sa< rifb-e. Had the southern country
(teople of probably half the world are near- • been a* strong finan tally twenty year!
ing now just su b a desperate extremity. | ago a* It is today and had the cost of pro-
pence to Hrinv 4• renter Needs. ductlon then f>een a* much a* It is now.
Had ft l»een available and the , the crops of that period would certainly,
normal processes of Increase had not t»een have brought the prb-e* current toda
interrupted by the abnormal conditions whether there had l»een inflation or not,
wlil« It have prevailed. th«- record definitely It is history, that. In recent years, regard
indicate* that consumption during this ; |e*s of depressing fluctuations and all
year would have been. *»methinc more j other untoward event*, in every Instance!
than 17.000.00". In other words, these ah- (the spinners had finally to onform to thai
normal conditions have red need consiimp- more constructive views of the prod®eer*j
tlon for the year about 5.000.000 bales be- i On the whole, in the light of the recordj
1 r.
rtH
Ion the 'lormal requirement* of |«ea«-e.
Figured on a logh-al ratl«». this Irdicites
a shrinkage of the kind of around 12.000.
000 bales #in«-e the war began. These fig-
ures >liow In a most c©o< luiivt way also.
the opinion that pea^e would have a reac-
tionary effect on the valie of «-«tton. seems
the veriest sophistry. It really has the
ear marks of the propaganda that ha« b«*eu
aciivcljr i-rouiuica agamst cotton mm.m
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