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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1910
Page
3
Rochester is a new town at the junction of several railroads with a promised electric interurban. Set in a fertile valley, it lists a $15,000 school, multiple stores, hotels, churches, and abundant crops. Lumber is available cheaply from nearby mills.
The Rochester townsite owners promise a thriving economy with a future factory for furniture and boxes plus sash and doors. Half of all property sale funds will fund plant building and street upgrades, with free factory sites for investors who build and equip plants.
Rochester’s townsite sold 1 000 lots in 60 days and 145 more by October 31, setting a regional record. Promoters claim substantial profits for early buyers with ground floor lot prices at 15 dollars before factory development. Statements from Seattle investors assert 200 to 260 percent gains after short holding periods and praise Rochester as the best investment opportunity seen.
North Coast Land Co of Vancouver advertises cheap farm land near Fort Gear in the Huntieh Columbia area. It touts mild climate, ample water, and high potential yields with 18 to 100 bushels per acre for crops, 3 tons hay per acre, and cattle grazing advantages.
A described farm offers 120 acres level and fine with a large home, several barns, stock, and all included. The listing mentions an attic, a veterinary reading, and a beer rabroid phrase, inviting buyers to inspect and bid. Charles Somers Company, Alaska Building.
Land sale notice for Snohomish County offering 1 000 acres in 10 20 40 acre tracts with red loam soil and creek. Terms include $50 down and $10 to $16 monthly, 7 percent interest, free deed on death, time extensions available. Also suburban acreage 1 acre to 209 extends from city to Tacoma with easy terms from H White Co and P Dixon Co.
An apparent historic real estate advertisement describes farms and storefronts near Fremont with a 2000 population area, listing land for vegetables fruit and poultry, and offering payments and timber supply. It touts proximity to Beattie markets and transportation, with multiple prices and payment plans. It promotes Farrar, Inc offices at 406 to 408, urging readers to inquire and inspect.
A jumble of real estate and goods ads lists furnished rooms for rent with low cash payments and monthly rents, plus furniture for sale and auction listings. Homes, stables, cows, and dogs are offered with prices, locations, and contact cues amid a crowded classified page.
Advertises direct mill purchases of lumber mouldings doors windows and hardware with catalog No 4 from Williams Co 1948 First Ave near Walker Mt North Seattle Wash. Includes pricing for doors panels frames and front windows and mentions baby sealskin coat and moving picture theatre props plus pianos for rent and purchase options.
King County voters face a November 7 1916 election to decide a bond issue of 1 766 006 00 for harbor improvements including canal excavation and channel deepening. The measure seeks bonds at up to 4 1 2 percent to fund harbor and river works benefiting Beattie Duwamish waterway, Lake Washington Canal, and related districts.
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