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Governor JOHN A. JOHNSON.
"I know from experience that
the Minnesota Mutual companies
have the best, safest and cheapest
system of Insurance that Is pos
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Thesa statements do not apply to Mutuals In general, but only to those In-
suring dwelling property, Las year the cost to policy-holdersfor each $100 of
insurance In these companies was 17 cents-fis against 45 cents in Old line com-
i paniesslightly more than one-third old line cost
What would you think of a company which insures dwellings in towns on
the same mutual plan, and just as cheaplyabout one-third of the rates vou
are paying'
The North Star Mutual
Dwelling House Fire Ins. Co.
Is such a company. It insures nothing but town dwellings, and hence can make a
low rate It operates in Minnesota only, and has hundreds of policy holders and
is growing daily. "Why not join it and get the low rates your neighbors are get-
ting? There is probably an agent in vour town. Look him up and get our rates.
If there is not write the company for information We want an honest, reliable
man in every town in Minnesota to represent us and tell people what they should
pay for their dwelling house insurance. Address
6. W. HARSH Manager, Easota Block, Minneapolis,
If you live in this city, call up Main 3772 J-2 and ask our rates..
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If all insurance concerns were
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Building progress in Minneapolis
this season is particularly gratifying to
its citizens, and to real estate men es
pecially, because every bit of it is con
struction that is absolutely necessary.
In other words, there is no building
boom on, altho building is actually
booming. In days of the last typical
boom, contsruction was far ahead of
the needs of the city. When the col
lapse came it was discovered that Min
neapolis had buildings "to burn."
These remnants of twenty years ago
are still scattered about the 'city, sad
lemindeis of a time when Minneapolis
was too ambitious and builded worse
than she knew.
A glance at the building permits for
the year will show that the larger ones
are for buildings that were actually
necessary to relxeve congestion in di
ferent activities of the city. The lesser
permits will be found to cover repairs
to old buildings, additions, passenger
elevator installations, and other things
which tended to increase the usefulness
of existing structures. They also cov
ered a feature of Minneapolis building
which is decidedly gratifying, and that
is the hundreds of small houses which
are to be occupied by their owners, or
to be purchased in installments cor
responding in amount to monthly rent.
I I All Needed.
While the building of larger struc
tures is pleasant to contemplate, the
additional consideration that there is
still a lack of nearly all kinds of build
ings, save possibly flats, to accommo
date the demand is a straw showing the
legitimacy of the building movement.
Earely is a structure put up nowadays
on a hazard. Builders and capitalists
are accustomed to find out just about
what patronage they can expect before
they begin erection of a store, office or
whatever building it may be. When
ever, however, some less conservative
capitalist has gone ahead and built a
store building, for instance, some
situation that good sense seemed to
dictate, he has generally found his
space all taken before the structure
has been inclosed. While the lack of
accommodations for new enterprises is
to be deplored, nevertheless the verv
scarcity goes to show that there is no
boom, in the unfortunate sense of the
word.
Improvements of Best Quality.
Another feature of the season's build
ing is the fact that it is of the best
quality. The advantage of combining
the esthetic with utility in building has
been growing on Minneapolis for many
years, manifesting itself in the sev
eral new implement warehouses, the
Cream of Wheat factory, the Electrical
Engineering building, the Chamber of
Commerce, the Northwestern National
bank, the German-American bank, and
so on thru the list.
"What is still a thought for some self
congratulation on the part of the Min
neapolis public is that the buildings
which are already outlined for the rest
of the year and for the first of next
season are of the same distinctive type.
These will include the Securit bank.
buildingr the First National bank build
ing, which promises to be unique in
Minneapolis the Wyman, Partridge &
Co. warehouse, the Hurty-Simmons hard
ware store. It will be noted that the
construction mentioned as slated for
next year is in each case an actual
necessity, on account of the growth of
the different institutions. The Security
bank building will relieve the, office
building congestion and at the same
time will force an improvement in the
cheap office structure, as tenants move
to the better ones, malting way for
concerns which do not wish to main
tain high-priced quarters.
A Higher Standard.
Two or three of the newest build
ings may be mentioned as showing the
tendency of architecture and construc
tion towards a higher standard, ,with a
superior inherent protection against fire
and a style of design different and
apart from the sterotyped forms. The
influence of prosperity is being felt and
recognized in larger expenditure in the
way of substantiality and appearances.
In fact, it is a recognition of a demand
all along the building line for better
things and better effects.
One of these --instances is the new
Soo line general office building on Sec
ond avenue S- I the first place no
icost is being spared to produce a max
imum of safety for life and contents
against fire. The floors are of concrete,
the exposed windows are of wired glass
and the exterior walls are of a brick
which has proved to be very successful
in resisting fire from outside. Mean
while the door trimmings, and the gen
eral line of fixtures that partake of the
nature of decorations as "well as of use,
are to be of the best quality. In exter
ior the design by the architect, W. M.
Kenyon, is calculated to enhance the
appearance of Spcond avenue and at the
same time to maintain the standards
set by the New York Life, the Metro
politan Lif and the Security bank,
which grace the same thorofare.
Another building worthy of mention
in this connection is the Plaza apart
ment house, which W. J. Keith is hav
ing put up between Loring park and
the Parade. This hotel is a distinct
concession to the prosperity of the peo
ple. I is an edition de luxe of the
apartment buildings, such as would not
have been cpnsidered feasible ten years
ago. In architecture, in interior de
sign, in preparation for the safety and
comfort of its patrons it is unique.
Following the lines of the t-ypical Ber
lin concrete building it will impart a
zest to the enjoyment Of the architect
ural picture of Minneapolis. With an
exterior coating of concrete it is dis
tinct from any other style of building
in Minneapolis save the Keith com
pany's one-story office building on low
er Hennepin. Its interior construction
of concrete, terra cotta tile and mar
ble makes it absolutely safe from fire,
so far as human ingenuity has pro
ceeded to the present time.
A third structure to be enumerated
herewith is the armory, facing the
Parade. Every precaution is being
taken to make it a structure ideal for
its purpose. It will provide a building
for balls, public gatherings and indoor
sports, such as the city does not pos
sess on the West Side. Its enormouB
arched roof girders give a tremendous
clear space and its exterior of cement
blocks will provide a test of the new
construction, -whic this is the first
large structure to employ here.
1 Homes of All Sizes. V.
While it is a very desirable state of
affairs in Minneapolis that thousands of
lo-priedhousae going all ver
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Real Estate Prices Still Far Below the
Average of Prices for Similar Prop=
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Heavy Building of All Kinds in Response
to an Urgent Existing Demand.
Building to Aug. 25, $5,781,331, with four months to come.
Real estate transactions to Aug. 25, $10,568,624.
By J. EDWAR SMITH.
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workingmen's and salaried clerks'
homes, it is none the less a satisfaction
to_ note the increasing number of per
mits for the erection of "fine residences.
Lowry Hill and Park avenue furnish
the best instances at the present time
of this class of dwelling. It is neces
sary to detail only a few to illustrate
the point. For instance, the Swan Turn
blad mansion on Park avenue, the C. J.
Martin, W. H. Dunwoody, Clive Jaf
fray, L. E. Brooks, J. B\ Hudson, E.
Pennington homes in the Douglas ave
nue and Mount Curve district, and the
E. L. Carpenter, F. W. Clifford and J. B.
Gilfillan houses on Clifton avenue. The
tendency to "make more of the landscap
ing of the new and even of the older
premises is another evidence of the
great growth of the city. This is the
case in the Lowry homestead on Grove
land terrace, the Clifford raindrop brick
mansion going up on Clifton, the George
Partridge home, with its new Italian
gardens, the Morrison estates adjoin
ing the fine old Washburn grounds at
the top of Washburn hill, and the Frank
Fornian country home overlooking the
waters of Calhoun.
The great extent of the season's flat
and apartment-house building corrobo
rates to aft extent the report the re
cent state census that Minneapolis had
been growing rapidly in the last five
years towards the 300,000 mark in pop
ulation. The duplex house fever is at
its height, and its popularity of style is
vouched for by the ease with which the
builders have contracted for their
space, on long term leases. The Wis
consin Syndicate, in' its most extensive
venture at Twenty-fourt and Nicollet
in this line, has been justified with re
markable quickness in the demand for
its new dwellings by "the best peo-
ple." Flat building this season has
been of the better class. The accom
modations offered in them call for a
higher rent than the average flat build
ing of ten or twelve years' standing.
Possibly one of the most favorable
straws snowing the growtn of tlie city
is the list of church permits. One of
the notable instances is the Trinity
Baptist church at Lincoln' and Bryant
avenues. This structure, designed by
he Keith company, is a gem of old
English adaptation, and yet it is made
to conform to the ^demand for a mini
mum expense in 'the elimination of
spires and appendages at on'e time, in
Minneapolis, considered necessary to
proper ecclesiastical construction.
A Picture in Figures.
The comparison of building permits
for the last fifteen years, and in 1905,
up to the week ending Aug. 2D, gives iff
graphic form the descent from the
building boom of years ago down to the
minimum reached in 1897, and up again
with steadiness to the height attained
in the first eight months of this year.
he table com^il^d by the Dail Le
al News follows:
BUILDING PERMITS.
Year.
1890 $7,218,498
1891 4,709,500
1892 4.S19.195
1893 4 .427,095
1894 3,249,520
1895. 2,704,205
1896 2,543,465
1897 1,591,500
Year. 1898 1899.... 1900.... 1,901 1902.
$2,271,755
3,009,839 3,943,774 6 02 963
6,873,419
1903 6,210,747
1004 6,701,465
1905, Aug.25 5,781,331
A Season's Building.
A. resume of 'buildings for the sea
son, including only estimates of $10,-
000 or over, is convincing testimony
of the growth of the, city. While the
list prepared and given below does not
take in the Soo ijajjway office build
ing, still under way ithe Cemetery as
sociation improvements, including the
-water towerth Janney, Semple, Hill
& Co. $25,000 warehouse the Clifford
residence, largely built this year the
Minneapolis Brewing company's new
restaurant on First avenue the new
$60,000 Minneapolis Paper company
building, just started the Peterson
building addition of one story to cost
$16,000, for wliicli the permit is not
issued, and the same- of the E. L. Car
penter holise, to cost at least $25,000,
the list is impressive. It must be re
membered that, while very extensive
improvements, such as street paving,
sewer building, water-pipe laying and
new tracks put down by the street rail
way company are not included in the
enumeration, these all tend toward the
rapid advancement of Minneapolis,
mean the expenditure of hundreds of
thousands of dollars and the employ
ment of thousands of men at good
wages.
The following building-permit list is
from the Improvement Bulletin:
BUSINESS STRUCTURES.
Milwaukee road, warehouse, Second
stieet near Fourth avenue S $32,000
Washburn-Crosby conipanj, machine shop,
tanal near Seventh avenue S 20,000
Hale Homestead company, store build
ing, 117-429 First aTqnue S 105,500
Soo road, machine shop and boiler house,
Twenty-ninth avenue NB and Qulncy
street 43,000
G. A Fisher, factory, 221-223 First
street N 20,000
St. Anthony Falls bank, bank building,
Central avenue and Fourth stieet SK. 15,000
Misses 12 and Knoblauch, store aud
apartments, 1020 1031 Hennepin avenue 15,000
Electrical Engineering company, ware
house and store, 21 SixtH Btreet N.... 20,000
William Peering, Security Bank build
ing, 405-409 Second avenue S 500,000
Powers Mercantile company, addition,
First avenue S and Fifth street 27,500
Boyd Transfer & Storage company, ware
house, 2933-2951 Fourth avenue S... 70,000
F. E. Spraguc office and store building,
Hennepin and Fifth street 50,000
J. B. Andrus, Moulton-Jordan garage,
215-217 Fourth btreet S 16,000
Josephine V. Rust, stores, 118-120 Hen
nepin avenue 13,000
Prior Seed company, stores, 304 Sev
enth street S and 617-631 Fourth ave
nne S 15,000
BlntUfl Manufacturing company, factory,
726-728 Central avenue SE 22,000
0. H. Peck & Co, store, 114-116 Fifth
street S 18,000
Memmau-Barrows company, warehouse,
613-615 First avenue NB 18,000
Manchester Savings Bank Qf New York,
printing office, 225-229 Sixth street S. 15,000
Minneapolis Paper company, foundation,
400-4 Fifth street S 5,000
H. A. Smith, stores, 223-7 Fifth street S 45,000
Dr Cotton, -veterinary infirmary,
617 Fourth avenue S 14,500
Johnson-Smith company, factory, 1314-8
Yale avenue SB 10,000
Pabst Brewing conipany, restaurant, 242-
4 Nicollet avenue 40,000
Northern Light lodge, addition, 2023-5
Central avenue 11,240
Diamond Iron Works, nxtfctiine shop, X7XO
Second street N XTT
F. B. & L. L. Long, office building ad
dition, 830 Hennepin avenue 10,000
Minneapolis Fire Insurance Patrol, sta
tion. 524 University avenue SE 10,000
C. M. Pond, stores, 619-26 First ave
nue S 40,000
Minnesota Loan & TtuBt company, alter
ations, 313 Nicollet avenue 15,000
Southeast Minneapolis Building company,
stores, 300-4 Fourteenth avenue SE 20,000
Nloollet IJand company, alterations, 804-
Nicollet avenue 15,000
Minneapolis Brewing ttinpan^, miscel
laneous, stores 24,800
W. & T. B. Lindsay, daditionv' 210 Sev
ent avenu S 11,000
Albert Dickinson company, warehouse,
ptc Dearborn and Twenty-flf th are-
SB 16,600 36,000
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nue S 15,000
E Sash & Door company, factory, 1213-
1223 Jackson street NE n,000
HOTELS, FLATS AND APABTMENT HOUSES.
W. J. Keith, the Plaza, 1700-10 Henne
nepln avenue 200,000
John Bailsman, flats, 215 Eleventh
streets 10,000
I. Berry, flats. 2214 2300 Emerson
avenue S $20 000
Mary Kerr, flats, 1710-12 Portland avenue 12io00
C. & M. E. Dennis.. flats. 11 Spruce
Place
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Chase & Bonn, flats. 116-26 Twelfth
street S 55,000
Hampshire Arms Co, addition, 120 28
Thirteenth street S 10,000
J. F. Malone. flats. 606-08 Seventh street
SE 80,000
Fritz Shreyer, apartments. 714-18 Fifth
street S 20 OOO
H._H. & Wadsworth, flats, 2417-10
Emerson avenue S 16 000
Edna Baylcss, flats. 2713-5 Hennepin ave
nue 15i70
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Geoijje Dickson, flats. 1932-6 Aldrich
a\ enue S 20 500
Matilda Bishop, flats, 608-10 Rid'ewood
avenue x2 OOO
Georne Harrison. apartments. W-67
Eleventh street 60.000
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avenue SB 15.000
IA IF Edmonds, apartments. 1913 9 Hen
nepin avenue 25 000
E. L. Eastbrook. flats. 17-23 W Twentv-
eiRhth street 20 000
Mrs Fannie Stafford, flats 4300-02 Park
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T. Jaffray, 1616 Mt. Curve avenue..
Wisconsin Syndicate. 2424 Nicollet
Johnson, 1515-27 West Twenty
sixth street
E. Carpenter, 314 Clifton avenue",
barn
Mrs. L. R. Brooks, 1526 Mt. Curve
avenue
Way. 960 Fifteenth avenue* south
east
J. Hudson, 1776 Colfax avenue south
A. M. Robertson, 1820 Dupont avenue
south
W. H. Dunwoody, 106 Groveland terrace
W. S McLaughlin, 1806 Fremont avenue
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fifth street go 000
F. Curtis, apartments. 821-3'Tenth
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12.000
DWELLINGS AND BARNS.
16,800
6.000
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18,000 10,000
15,000 40,000
10,000
Arcade Investment Co., 8510-46 Archi
tect avenue northeast 16,750
E. Pennington, 1784 Colfax avenue S.. 25,000
H. Smith, 1801-5 Park avenue
Wisconsin Syndicate, 2424 Nicollet
avenue
Wisconsin Syndicate, miscellaneous
S. Langdon, 2200 Pillsbury avenue
John Lind, 1771 south..
J. C. Oswald, Bryn Mawr,AMUSEMENTS. miscellaneous
Girard Investment. Co miscellaneous..E
J. Gilfillan,h21street 8 avenue
13,500 13,200
44,423 20,000 15,000
28,500 18,300
30,000
Dominican Fathers Hol Rosarv. 1719
Twenty fourt 25,000
St.BBoniface, school.Clifton Seventh street and
University avenue NE 22.000
St. Paul's Swedish Lutheran, church.
Twenty-eighth street and Fifteenth
avenue S 20.000
Grace Presbyterian, church, 2743 Hum
boldt avenue S 12,000
St Marv's Greek-Russian, church. Tifth
stieet and Seventeenth avenue NE.... 86.000
Miscellaneous churches .t. 12 400
Park Construction Co Wonderland sljc
buildings 27,200
PUBLIC AND EDUCATIONAL.
Park Commissioners, Minnehaha pavilion 13,850
Board of Education, Horace Mann school.
Chicago avenue and Thirty-fourth
street 25,000
Board of Education, addition, Washing
ton street and Seventeenth avenue NE 30.000
Board of Education Lincoln school Penn
and Tenth avenues t\ 38.756
Armory Board, armorv, 207 Kenwood
boulevard 150.000
CItv Minneapolis fire station, Hennepin
avenue and Thirty-fifth stieet 14.000
The Real Estate Market.
Tabulated figures from the Daily
Legal News of the transfers of real
estate the last fiftfcn years also indi
*eiite a rapid^rise ""\\the bottom figures
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reported in. 1898, when transactions
were at an ebb. From $32,145,324 in
1890 the drop was noticeablein 1896-7
and 1898, when the tide turned. The
figures for 1901 were slightly off, but
they were offset by the totals for the
next year, when another slight drop was
noted. Again, in 1904, there was slight
falling off, but 1905 bids fair, at the
close of August, to put the records of
the past few years to the rear. With
four months to go, the total is already
$10,568,624.
The figures are as follows:
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Year. 1S90 $32,145 324
1891 28,733,744
1892 28,202,350
1893 22,236,460
1894 14,222,305
1895 14,089,018
1896 9,383,986
1897 7,779,426
A Feature of the Minnesota State Fair
THURSDAY, SEPT. 7th.
Remarkable! Interesting! Significant!
A
HIGH QUALITY
AND UNIFORMITY]
UNIVERSAL. Portlan Cement is not exceeded in value by any
other brand for Foundations, Brickwork, Masonry, Artificial
Stonework, and all types of Steel-Concrete Construction as used
in modern buildings. Its use In the following structures Is the
highest Indorsement: Northwestern Knitting Works, Boutel
Bros.' new store, new Armory building, Plaza hotel, Washburn
Crosby machine shops, Moulton-Jordan garage, Security Bank
building, Soo Line office building, postoffice, new state capltol
and many others of equal prominence.
Guarante Cemen tan Ston Co.,
Northwwterji Sales Agent,
New York Life Building, Minneapolis,
Year.
188 $6,OOT.esi
1809 9.717,749
1900 12,483,446
1901 11,557,585
1902 16,873,194
1903 14,224,364
1904 13,565,470
1905, Aug 25 10,568,624
Several phases have a part in de
pressing the real estate figures, as com
pared with those of several years ago,
when the boom was on. In the first
place the values are now on a low rock
basis, instead of an inflated one. True
values have not yet been attained,
comparing with the figures of other
cities which have like conditions of
prosperity, population and business.
For this reason, had the transfers re
corded this year covered the same
properties as were deeded te_n years
ago, the total registration would not
have been much lower than that of
the former date.
Another ceason for the comparative
ly small aggregate of transfers is the
fact that the burden of the buying is
of small lots of land. The single lots
sold at $1,500 and under are numerous.
While the sum total is not impressive,
nevertheless this is considered one or
the# most desirable forms of real estate
activity. It means many new homes.
Other reasons are the fact that spec
ulative buying is not vigorous. Prpp
erties are sold at# real values, or less,
a nd are not changing hands under com
petition of a feverish market, at which
time considerations named in deeds do
not always represent real values, but
inflated ones. Again, annual invest
ment buying of large properties is not
heavy yet I has been scattered over
several year s. The total is a fair fig
ure, but it does not count up much for
each year. Still another phase is the
fact that some of the best transactions
are on a lease basis and do not appear
in the records as transfers.
The lease of the Lillibridge estate
and the Fletcher property on Seventh
street between First aWd Second ave
nues S to W. L. Harris, for the New
England Furniture & Carpet company,
is an instance. While Mr. Harris bought
a good deal of property for the site, he
leased more than half. The First Na
tional bank has leased the F'fth street
and First avenue S corner belonging to
the McKnight company. This would
have made a good sale, but does not
appear as such. The list is a long one,
where these conditipns prevail. This
is a good phase, however. Investors,
such as S. T. McKnight, J. E. Andrus,
and others, are thus being recompensed
for their heavy investments, and their
faith in Minneapolis realty as an m*
vestmnnt is being indorsed.
While the numerous large deals, such
as the heavy purchases near Eighth aWd
Min A Se. Saturday's Journal i
KtlXlSJnXjXJL* tor Fall Details.
Profits on Small Investments in supplying the demand for
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Minnesota ranks among the most
healthful states in the union, as St.
Paul and Minneapolis do among the
cities of the earth. In 1900 the twin
cities stood at the head of the list
among the cities of the Union in having
i death rate of 12 to the 1,000. Phy
sician's recommend the climate to those
suffering from lung and throat troubles
and malaria. Invalids should come in
the spring and summer. The soft audi
healing summer air, with its tonic in
creased by the delightful Indian Bum
mer air of the fall months, prepares the
system for the exhilarating atmosphere
of the winter. The delightful sunshine,
the fishing, rowing, sailing, hunting,
riding, and other outdoor exercises and
sports aid in building up tne system for
the bracing treatment of winter. Every
want has been anticipated by good ho
tels, with educated and competent phy
sicians at call. Those who prefer to
camp out can find places innumerable
on the margin of fishing lakes wita
timber all about and wild berries and
flowers at commanvl. All that Minne
sota asks is to be seen.
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XI. Pel lit S, Second avenue
with edificationr.
might be enumerate
and the sale of the Warner corner ax
Nicollet avenue and Fourth street to
the Palace Clothing house, it is suffi
cient to say that
itcorner
is very hard
cure a down town1
by purchaseseot
The market is practically cornered by
the far-sighted investor. Good dwelling
sites are becoming scarce, and it will
soon be necessary to open new districts.
Trackage property has to be created
also to fill the demand, as is illustrated
by the Boardman syndicate's plans for
the six blocks between North Washi'n'g-
ton and Third street, to Tenth ave
nue N.
The real estate situation is very
promising from an agent's point ot
view. For five years the market has
been narrowing down thru the clear
ing up of the less desirable stuff
thrown into it because owners could
not carry it any longer. Heavy for
eign holders have regained confidence
and now absolutely refuse to sell,
where the property is being held for
investment purposes. Thru the pur
chases by local moneyed men, the city
is becoming Minneapolis-owned, show
i ng a good degree of confidence. I is
for local confidence that the real estate
agent^ have pleaded for a decade. Now
that it is secure, one long step has been
taken toward placing Minneapolis
realty on a proper basis of valuation.
In the Minneapolis real estate mar
ket today the decks appear to be
cleared for action. All those condi
tions which have caused the market
to drag for so many years are removed
and everything is readv for good, active
sales in the spring. Continued invest
ment will be a feature early in the
seasont and it is not improbable that
the slight indications of the specula
tive feature may grow into a lively
market. Many a hundred dollars has
been made this year by the small in
vestor who has been able to double his
money in twelve months. This possi
bility of investment for quick returns
once thoroly impressed on the people^
trading in real estate will b comfort
ably lively.
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