Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 71, Hammond, Lake County, 11 September 1911 — Page 5

Land Sale Thursday, September 14, Friday, September 15, Saturday, September 16, Sunday, September 17, 2 p.m. each day, corner Calumet & Morris Ave. Thursday, September 14, Friday, September 15. Saturday, September 16, Sunday, September 17, 2 p.m. each day, corner Calumet & Morris Ave.

Land Sale

Why Don't You Own a Home in Hammond? Three reasons: I never thought about it. Well, I intended to buy a home some time. The third is that you have never learned how to save anything out of what you earn. The last reason is by far the most common. With the increased cost of living you have been more easily satisfied with your reason for spending all that you make. The strange thing, however, is that the people who are making the low wage are the ones who are buying lots and having homes put up for them and paying fo Ahem. The conclusion is then that economy has

almost to be forced on one. Try it once. After you have made the first lew payments you find it easy and feel a great satisfaction in owning something. - A Traveler from the East says "I am surprised at the Wonderful Resources of Hammond"

Few Cities in the Country

have so good a future" BRIEF FACTS ABOUT HAMMOND Compiled by A. W. LEWIS.

Population 1884, 2,000. Population 1910, 30,000. Area of city, 15 square miles. Railroads, main or trunk lines, 18. Freight rates are the same from Hammond as Chicago. Passenger trains, daily, 140. Miles of street railway, electric, 28. Four electric roads connect with Hammond. Miles of water mains, 70. Miles of pared streets, 37. City Water System, dally capacity, 8,000,000 gallons. Number miles public sewers, 41. Number telephones used In city, 2,400. , Newspapers and publications, 4. Daily newspapers, 2. Public schools, 9 89 teachers. Business colleges, 2.. Churches, 20. Hospitals, 1. Banks, 4. Railroads, 21

Interurban Lines, 3. Combined capital, surplus and profits of Banks, 1510,000.00. Deposits over $2,500,000.00 Postal receipts, about $55,000. Number of City Carriers, 15. Miles from Chicago, 20. 40 minutes by train to Chicago. .Value of city and school prop erty over $1,000,000. Hammond has churches of every denomination. Hammond has four beautiful parks. The Superior Court House is located here. The value of taxable property Is over $8,000,000. There are over 50 manufacturing plants in Hammond. There is over $25,000,000 Invested in the manufacturing plants, with an annual product value of $35,000,000, and over 10,000 men employed, with a monthly pay roll of over $500,000,

These Large Factories are Known all over the Country.

Simplex Railway Appliance Co. Standard Steel Car Co. American Maize Co. Reid-Murdock & Co. Enterprise Bed Co. Stewart Machinery Grasseli Chemical Co. Illi. Car & Equip. Co.

Champion Potato Machinery Co. Standard Mfg. Co. Hirsch-Stein Co. Hammond Distilling Co. Sraube Piano Co. Bltz Manufacturing Co. W. B. Conkey Co.

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Hammond, Indian

At Last the Chance has Come to buy your own Price at the

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Thursday, September Friday, September 1

Saturday, September

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2 p.m. Each Day, on the Lots Rain or Shine ON -CALUMET AVENUE Between Morris and Merrill Avenues Take So. Hohman Street Car, get off at Conkey & Calumet Ave., walk north 1 block

Valuable Presents Free! As a means of advertising, and to, entertain you during our GRAND AUCTION SALE, we give away FREE $500.00 worth of Beautiful Presents, Silverware, China Articles and Cut Glass for the ladies. You will be surprised at these Attractive Gifts.

LIBERAL TERMS:

10 per cent Cash.

5.00 Monthly

TITLE PERFECT. Warranty Deed and Free Abstract with each lot when paid for. Remember the Dates and be present at the Auction tor this may be your one chance to

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Q. W. FRYHOFER, Auctioneer, New York City.

Facts About Hammond Real Estate. Activity In the Hammond real estate market during the pact five years has been beyond all the precedents of the city's most notable periods of growth and expansion. The market for realty in the period stated has undergone wonderful changes in the city, as well as in the territory contiguous. The records of the Lake County recorder's office show that during the past five year real estate to a total value of $4,500,000 has been changing hands. On every side of the city ground has been plotted and there is a steady and rapid expansion of the actual area of the city in every direction. All this is, for the most part, the result of a healthy growth

and an unwavering faith in Hammond's future. Property is Increasing steadily in value and in some of the districts of the city's business center property has doubled in value. There is a great need of more store rooms and residences with moderate rentals.' The wonderful progress that this territory around Hammond has made hSs been shared by Hammond and a wonderful advance In factory sites will take place the next few years. The records show that Hammond has In the past five years made remarkable progress. Real estate has changed hands as follows: In 1905, $550,000; 1906. $675,000; 1907, $900,000; 1908, $1,100,000; 1909, $1,350,00o. There were 900 different instruments recorded in the recorder's office during the month of January, 1910. A Bankers Judgment The question is often asked, "Will it pay me to buy real estate in Hammond! " My answer is, "Yes, if you buy in tlie right place and at the right price." My answer will be, "No, if you buy in the wrong place at the wrong price." Our city is so laid out that there can never be but three north and south streets of any considerable length, namely: Hohman St., Calumet and Columbia Aves. Hohman is already well built up, the range of prices per front foot of all south of the

river is from about $40 to $60 in the resident district, and from $100 to $1,000 per front foot for business property. I have never yet heard of any one regretting having secured a lot within this district and I do not know of any one who does not regret that he did not take advantage of the past prices. I maintain that Calumet Avenue, being the center one of these three important thoroughfarts, is destained to outrank Hohmaii Street in the near future. Hence, we say without hesi

tancy, this is the right place to lay the foundation

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A. M. TURNESr

Merry Christmas. Lillian Suppose on Christmas morning when your wife is wreathed with smiles and expectancy of the gift she is to receive from you, that you hand her the twelve monthly receipts for rent that you have paid during the year and you say, "Merry Christmas, my dear, here is your present." I knew a man who had the nerve to do this. For a few moments, until he had time to explain to his wife, it looked as though a domestic tornado was due. At the beginning of the year the landlord, to whom this man had been paying rent for many, years, told him that if he would sign a contract to buy the house he would let the rent apply on the purchase of the house. He took the contract out in his wife's nanie., When he gave her the rent receipts he told her that with these receipts she would get a credit of $420.00 on the payment of what was now her home. It was the largest Christmas present she ihad ever received from her husband, and somehow it was the merriest Christmas they had ever had. You can buy one of these lots and build a home for the rent you are paying. The Auction Popular in the East The Auction is the popular way of sellinglots. In the East they call them Land Sales. Everybody goes. Presents, and many of them, very choice, are given away free, and everybody has a good time. People must see lots before they are interested in them. The Auction enables them to be entertained while on the land. . The lots are sold to the highest bidder. It is the only way of knowing what the people think the lots are worth. You are well entertained whether you buy a lot or not.

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TLIN-MEYN

COMPANY

Phone 1-41

Corner Hohman and State Street

Hammond, Indiana

See title Land before the Sale and select the Lot you want to Bid on.