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The Fourth Ward comprises all that portion of said city lying be- tween the center line of State Avenue on the north, the center line of Fifth Street on the east, the center line of old Ohio Avenue on the south and the city limits on the west. Tenth Precinct -All that por- tion of the Fourth Ward lying west of the center line of Ninth Street. Eleventh Precinct-All that portion of the Fourth Ward lying east of the center line of Ninth Street, and north of the center line of Tau- romee Avenue. Twelfth Precinct-All that portion of the Fourth Ward lying east of the center of Ninth Street and south of the center of Tauromee Avenue.
The Fifth Ward comprises all that portion of said city lying be- . tween the center line of old Ohio Avenue, and old Ohio Avenue ex- tended, on the north, the Kansas River on the east, the main line tracks of the Union Pacific Railway on the south, and the city limits on the west. Thirteenth Precinct -All that portion of the Fifth Ward lying east of the center line of Mill Street, and north of the tracks of the Riverview branch of the elevated railway. Fourteenth Precinct -- All that portion of the Fifth Ward lying east of the center of Mill Street, and south of the tracks of the Riverview branch of the ele. vated railway. Fifteenth Precinct-All that portion of the Fifth Ward lying west of the center line of Mill Street.
The Sixth Ward comprises all that portion of said city lying south of the main line tracks of the Union Pacific Railway and west of the Kansas River. Sixteenth Precinct-All that portion of the Sixth Ward lying west of the center line of Coy Street (formerly Fourteenth Street in Armourdale). Seventeenth Precinct-All that portion of the Sixth Ward lying between the center line of Coy Street on the west, and the center line of Fourth Street (formerly Seventh Street in Ar- mourdale) on the east. Eighteenth Precinct-All that portion of the Sixth Ward lying east of the center of Fourth Street.
Real estate since the consolidation has been one of the leading interests in the city's commerce. From a small beginning, as an ad- junct to the real estate business of Kansas City, Mo., it has attained to such proportions, independently, that Kansas City, Kas., now ranks
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as one of the leading real estate centers of the West. For several years past the real estate transactions have aggregated nearly $1,- 000,000 annually. The following are the transfers for 1889, as com- pared with those of 1888:
1889.
1888.
January
$
915,000
$ 530,982
February
697,896
848,472
March
638,094
545,408
April
699,326
790,168
May.
974,367
932,320
June.
1,007,990
1,020,320
July.
892,283
951,986
August.
514,503
523,371
September
505,282
422,851
October
514,605
603,839
November.
1,242.066
1,287,271
December
900,000
842,536
Total
$9,501.412
$9,299,624
Without doubt, the year 1889 marked the opening of a wonderful era of building in Kansas City. Real estate, while commanding good figures, is yet so low as to allow a very handsome profit to those who build residences or business blocks, and for this reason houses of all descriptions have arisen as if by magic in every portion of the city. The safest and most conservative estimate of the number of buildings erected during the past year is 3,000, at a total cost of $4,200,000, or an average cost of $1,700 each. The portion of the city north of Min- nesota Avenue contains at least 1,500 of the new buildings, while the west and southwest and central portions contain the major portion of the balance. On Minnesota Avenue alone $250,000 has been placed into business blocks of the most substantial kind, which, as soon as completed, were immediately filled with first-class merchants, who have been and are more than favorably impressed with the business importance of Kansas City. August 5, 1889, a system of building registration was instituted in the governmental department of the city, under the supervision of the city treasurer, whereby the pro- jector of a building is required to make application for a permit, giving a description of the intended building and also its probable cost. Quite a number of the buildings begun in the past year will not be com- pleted until late this year, showing that besides being built with care the buildings are immense in size.
The class of buildings that were erected in 1889 is far superior to any built prior to this time, that is, taken as a whole. There are
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some cheap buildings, but the majority of structures erected are sub- stantial, well built and good looking. The old, and none too beauti- ful, plain box and "L" style has been relegated to that obscurity which it so richly merits, and houses and cottages of pretty design and pleasing exterior have taken their places. Not only are the out- side improvements noticeable, but a wonderful change has come over the internal arrangement of the houses. They are modern in every respect, and replete with the latest improvements, both artistic and useful. In business houses the change has been equally as pro- nounced and remarkable. Minnesota Avenue a very few years ago, could boast of no office buildings that were such as should adorn a principal street of a city like this, but a vast change has come over the appearance of that thoroughfare. Nearly a quarter of a million dollars was expended in buildings on this street during 1889, and the structures erected are as handsome and substantial as any to be found in the West. One noticeable feature is the westward tendency of the buildings, all of the new buildings of any size or importance hav- ing been put up west of Fifth Street. Riverview and the South Side have also come in for their share of new buildings, and a vast amount of money has been expended in these localities.
The section of the city, however, in which the bulk of the build- ing was done is north of Minnesota Avenue. The various additions that adorn that part of the city are fairly alive with carpenters, brick- layers, painters and plasterers. It is impossible to stand at any point without seeing from one to a dozen houses under process of con- struction. A factor that has done much to build up and populate this part of the city is the excellent system of rapid transit with which it is blessed. The western and southwestern part of the city and the central and southern parts have been aided in the same manner. Her business future assured, Kansas City is becoming more and more a city of homes. Men who have made fortunes and competencies here are preparing to enjoy them here. The residence section of the city is being extended in every direction in a most substantial and attract- ive manner, while here and there large apartment houses further tes- tify to the demand for homes. Many of the new residences are of the most modern construction and ornaments to the city, as they would be to any city of the country. Among the permits, too, are some for the construction of business houses of a superior character. The whole building record shows the substantial progress of Kansas City in the right direction, her home-building at last keeping abreast of
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her business advance. The feature about the past year's business is that so many small sales have been made. It would seem that the mechanic, artisan and laboring man is providing himself with a home in the consolidated city. Outside and suburban property figures more largely in the transfers than anything else. It would be diffi- cult to say that any one section of the surrounding suburban residence property was favored in this respect more than any other.
In this city the cost of grading a street is borne by the property owners whose lots abut on the street improved. The cost of curbing and paving is borne by the property adjacent, extending to the middle of the block. In both cases the cost of the improvement is assessed against the property block by block. That is, each block pays for its own improvement. The cost of improving the cross-sections of the streets is paid by the city at large. When a street is improved, the city issues internal improvement bonds, running ten years, and bear- ing six per cent interest, for an amount sufficient to cover the cost of the improvement. These bonds are sold at the market price, ranging from $1.01} to $1.02, and the contractor is paid out of the proceeds. This amount is apportioned and assessed against each lot, or parcel of land, according to its appraised value. The property owner may, if he choses, pay the entire special tax assessed against his property as soon as it is apportioned, and save the interest, six per cent; or if he does not choose to do so, it is divided into ten equal installments, and assessed against his property as taxes. In this way he has ten years in which to pay for the improving of the street adjacent to his property. The special improvement bonds are assumed by the city. They form a part of the bonded indebtedness, and enter into the debt statements of the municipality. The law allows the tax-payer to pay one-half of his annual taxes on or before December 20 of each year, and the remain- ing half on or before June 20 of the following year-really divides the special taxes up into twenty semi-annual installments, still lightening the burden of special improvements.
A careful compilation of the real estate statistics for the first half of the year 1890 show that without the aid of booming times and easy money the metropolis is going to repeat the figures of last year. Every city in the Union has, with few exceptions, experienced a period of dullness in both business growth and real estate sales, but Kansas City is holding her own and presents the figures, $4,388,547, repre- senting 1,403 transfers of realty since the year began. The average amount of each transfer is $3,127.75, or a trifle larger sum than the
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average of last year, which fact, together with the smaller sales of this year, goes to show that the commodity is increasing in value.
The following table gives the figures of each week up to June 28:
Week ending, 1890.
No. inst'm't.
Amount.
January 5.
31
$ 27,635
January 12
65
157,831
January 19.
42
126,598
January 26.
46
160,900
February 2.
30
112,400
February 9
65
140,191
February 16.
48
238,312
February 23
40
130,400
March 2.
74
235,397
March 9
74
302,176
March 16.
50
203,411
March 23.
65
275,960
March 30.
67
300,049
April 6.
56
241.100
April 13.
49
210,357
April 20.
55
105,720
April 27.
67
237,900
May 4
58
154,840
May 11.
77
141,001
May 18
67
167,674
May 25
65
120,653
June 1.
50
240,101
June 15
52
131,406
June 22
50
115,905
June 28.
50
112,010
Total.
1,403
$4,388,547
The financial affairs of Kansas City are in an excellent condition. Her bonds, issued for the purpose of paying for special improvements, bearing interest at 6 per cent per annum, find ready takers in the money market at a premium of from 2 to 2} per cent. The entire bonded indebtedness of the city, including bonds aggregating $170, - 000, issued by the former cities of Wyandotte and Kansas City, Kas., amounts to $1,670,749.86. Of this amount over $1,500,000 was issued in payment of special improvements, which are paid by the property-holders in the several taxing districts where the work, for the payment of which the bonds were issued, was done. In most States special improvement bonds do not enter into the debt statement of the city. The assessed valuation of the property in Kansas City, Kas., is $8,425,629.97. The average assessed valuation is considera- bly less than one fourth of its real value. According to this estimate
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the market value of the property would be in round numbers $40,000, - 000. Below is given the bonded indebtedness of the city:
Kansas City, Wyandotte & Northwestern Railway bonds. . $ 30,000 00
Viaduct and bridge 30,000 00
Special assessment and internal improvement bonds. 1,464,044 00
Total issued. $1,524,044 00
Special assessment bonds ordered issued and sold,
but not registered.
56,716 80
Total $1,580,760 80
Bonds redeemed. .
80,550 00
Bonded indebtedness. $1,500,210 80
In Kansas City, Kas., the rate of taxation, State, county and city, is 45 mills, or 42 per cent. In the former city of Wyandotte the rate is 51} mills; in the former city of Armourdale the rate is 401% mills; in the former city of Kansas City, Kas., the rate is 421% mills. The average for the three portions which compose Kansas City, Kas., is 45 mills, or 43 per cent on the assessed valuation.
During the past three years seventeen miles of streets have been paved out of a total of 240 miles, while previous to that time about three miles were paved, making a total of twenty miles of paved streets in the city. The number of miles of streets graded within the same period is 34.81. This has not only been the means of beautifying the city and facilitating street travel, but it has increased the value of property wonderfully. Two of the most important improvements are now under construction-the viaduct over the Union Pacific and Rock Island yards at Armstrong and the new bridge across the Kaw at the foot of Fourth Street. The construction of the sewerage system in the Sixth Ward and the Splitlog Creek sewers cost an immense amount of money, but they are very valuable improvements. There was ex- pended by the city in 1889, almost $1,000,000 for public works, appro- priated as follows:
Grading 607,134 cubic yards, 6.51 miles. $101,739
Paving, 159,279 square yards, 6.66 miles. 259,048
Curbing 62,007 lineal feet 6.16 miles. 30,343
Sidewalks, 19.64 miles. 33,639
Sewers.
180,573
Eighth Street Bridge (county). 60,000
Miscellaneous. . 96,785
Grand figures are they that show nearly a half million dollars spent in obliterating the mud from the streets, placing instead the
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splendid asphalt or cedar block paving. Man is not known by the clothes he wears, yet a city is to be fairly judged by its streets. Dur- ing the year 1889 the paving record reached the enormous total of 35,235 feet, or 6.66 miles, for which the city paid in cash $259,048. Streets once hilly in spots, with the inevitable mud hole further on, have given place to veritable boulevards and wide avenues. The past year has seen the following streets and avenues brought from disfigured homeliness into thriving and beauteous thoroughfares: Bridge Street, from Riverside Avenue to the Kaw River; Central Avenue, from Park to Eighteenth Street; Fifth Street, from Reynolds Avenue to Bridge Street; Freeman Avenue, from Sixth to Seventh Street; Kansas Avenue, from Railroad Avenue to the East Side city limits; Minnesota Avenue, from Fourth Street to Eighth Street; Ohio Avenue, from Seventh to Tenth Street; Osage Avenue, from Adams to Twelfth Street; Seventh Street, from Ohio to Central Avenue, and from Oakland to Parallel Avenue; Sixth Street, from Virginia to Par- allel Avenue; Tauromee Avenue, from Sixth to Seventh Street; Or- ville Avenue, from Sixth to Seventh Street. The era of sidewalk building in the city was during the past year, when nineteen and one- fourth miles were laid, costing $33,639.19, thus running the grand total of street and sidewalk expenditures up to the stupendous amount of $424,769.63. To undertake the great amount of work done in this direction during the past year reflects first, great credit and enterprise upon the citizens of Kansas City, and then upon the city engineer and his assistant. With the coming year these officials' duties will not be decreased, but on the contrary, they will be increased, by reason of the improvements that are yet to be made in the streets of the city.
Ten first-class banks are located in this city with a combined capital of over $1,000,000, and a paid-up capital of nearly $900,000. The bank reports show a healthy state of affairs existing among these institutions, which must be gratifying to all who have the welfare of the city at heart:
Capital paid up. $ 856,000
Surplus and undivided profits. 172,097
Deposits.
1,781,432
The following is the cash capital of the ten local banks:
Northrup Banking Company $100,000
Stock Yards Bank. 200,000
First National. 100,000
Wyandotte National. 100,000
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Exchange National.
51,000
Armourdale Bank
30,000
Citizens' Bank. 25,000
Central Avenue Bank 27,600
Wyandotte Loan and Trust Company 100,000
Fidelity Savings Bank.
100,000
Total paid up capital.
$833,600
These banking institutions are located and officered as follows:
Armourdale Bank, 416 Kansas Avenue, A. W. Little, president; N. McAlpine, vice-president; J. R. Quarles, cashier; A. S. Lemmon, assistant cashier.
Central Bank of Kansas (The), Central Avenue, junction of Simp- son Avenue, Samuel W. Day, president; R. W. Hilliker, cashier.
Citizens' Bank, 401 Kansas Avenue, C. E. Moss, president; S. D. Beard, vice-president; S. S. Kirby, secretary; J. J. Hovey, cashier.
Exchange Bank, 427 Minnesota Avenue, I. D. Wilson, president; Charles Lovelace, vice-president; A. W. Little, cashier.
Fidelity Savings Bank, 551 Minnesota Avenue, J. D. Husted, pres- ident; John Blomquist, vice-president; C. E. Husted, cashier.
First National Bank of Kansas City, Kas., Minnesota Avenue, southeast corner Sixth, D. R. Emmons, president; J. D. Husted, vice- president; William Albright, cashier.
Kansas City Stock Yards Bank, Kansas City Stock Yards Exchange, C. F. Morse, president; M. W. St. Clair, cashier; W. C. Henrici, as- sistant cashier.
Northrup Banking Company, 501 Minnesota Avenue, H. M. North- rup, president; A. B. Northrup, vice-president; K. L. Browne, cashier; E. N. Lovelace, assistant cashier.
Wyandotte National Bank, Minnesota Avenue, northeast corner Fifth, Isaac La Grange, president; A. N. Moyer, vice-president; C. W. Trickett, cashier.
There are in the city the following incorporated companies, devoted to real estate, investments, loans, manufacturing, publishing and gen- eral and miscellaneous interests.
Acme Investment Company, 531} Minnesota Avenue; D. E. Stoner, president; George Stumpf, vice-president; C. G. Eaton, secretary and treasurer.
Allentt Packing Company, county road, between Osage and Kansas Avenues; W. P. Allcutt, president; C. T. Allentt, vice-president; E. H. Allentt, secretary and treasurer.
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American Land & Trust Company, 26 First National Bank Build- ing; W. R. Stebbins, president; C. M. White, secretary and treasurer.
American Live Stock Commission Company, 64 and 65 Kansas City Stock Yards Exchange; H. W. Creswell, president; Samuel Lazarus, vice-president; Paul Phillips, treas .; J. W. T. Gray, secretary.
Argentine Sand Company, Twenty-third and Kaw River bank; T. T. Lewis, president; H. A. Blossom, secretary and treasurer; G. W. Bransford, superintendent.
Armour Butterine Company, Levee, foot of State; K. B. Armour, president; A. R. Turley, secretary.
Armourdale Foundry Company, Kansas Avenue, southeast corner Adams; Robert Gillham, president; Gus. P. Marty, vice- president and treasurer; John Gillham, Jr., secretary and general manager.
Armourdale Heights Land Company, 553 Minnesota Avenue; J. D. Husted, president; T. H. Rowland, vice-president; C. A. Al- bright, secretary and treasurer.
Armourdale Safe Investment Association, 201 Kansas Avenue; J. M. Enochs, president; C. F. Buchholder, secretary; W. J. Brouse, treasurer.
George R. Barse Live Stock Commission Company, Kansas City Stock Yards Exchange; G. R. Barse, president; George Holmes, vice- president; J. A. Waite, secretary and treasurer.
Bonner Springs Town Company, 553 Minnesota Avenue; D. R. Emmons, president; J. D. Husted, secretary and treasurer.
Boulevard Investment Company, 553 Minnesota Avenue; J. D. Husted, president; T. H. Rowland, vice-president; E. M. Smith, secretary and treasurer.
Boulevard Land Company, 553 Minnesota Avenue; J. D. Husted, president; E. M. Smith, secretary and treasurer.
Boulevard Park Company, 553 Minnesota Avenue; J. D. Husted, president; T. H. Rowland, vice-president; E. M. Smith, secretary and treasurer.
The J. H. Campbell Co., 24 Kansas City Stock Yards Exchange; J. H. Campbell, president; J. F. Wares, vice-president; J. H. Mc- Farland, secretary and treasurer.
Chelsea Investment Company, 8 Odd Fellows Building; D. M. Edgerton, president; W. E. Barnhart, secretary.
Consolidated Electric Light & Power Company, corner Fifth and Central Avenue; I. D. Wilson, president; Marens Harris, vice-presi- dent and treasurer; B. Schnierle, secretary.
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Consolidated Iron Works Company, Fourth, near Central Avenue; C. R. Griffith, Jr., president; S. J. Thomson, vice president; R. B. Thomas, treasurer; T. O. Cunningham, secretary.
Dobyns & Fields Live Stock Commission Company, 60 Kansas City Stock Yards Exchange; J. B. Dobyns, president; Joseph E. Field, secretary and treasurer.
Driggs Manufacturing Company, 15 and 17 Ewing; T. C. Driggs, president; S. M. Stone, vice-president; E. R. Stone, treasurer; R. E. Stone, secretary.
English & American Mortgage Company, 553 Minnesota Avenue; Henry Seton-Karr, D. R. Emmons, chairmen; G. L. O. Davidson, L. T. Gray, secretaries; Eli H. Chandler, manager.
Evans, Snider, Buel Co., 16 and 17 Kansas City Stock Yards Ex- change; A. G. Evans, president; Chester A. Snider, treasurer; A. T. Atwater, secretary.
Fish & Keck Co., 9 and 10 Kansas City Stock Yards Exchange; G. O. Keck, president; F. O. Fish, secretary and treasurer.
Hopkins Planing Mill Company, Kausas Avenne, northeast corner Adams; P. B. Hopkins, president; O. L. Miller, vice- president.
Husted Building Company, 553 Minnesota Avenue; J. D. Husted, president; T. H. Rowland, vice-president; E. M. Smith, secretary and treasurer.
Husted Investment Company, The, 553 Minnesota Avenue; J. D. Husted, president; F. D. Coburn, second vice-president; O. R. Burn- ham, secretary.
International Mining Company, 553 Minnesota Avenue; P. W. Mikesell, president; G. W. Hunt, secretary; C. S. Rogers, treasurer.
Kansas Broom Manufacturing Company, The, 110 Berger Avenue; J. F. Frese, president and treasurer; C. O. W. Stolte, vice-president; A. W. Lewis, secretary.
Kansas City Gas Light & Heating Company, 612 Minnesota Avenue; Winfield Freeman, president; N. McAlpine, vice-president; H. S. Smith, secretary and treasurer; J. F. Williams, manager.
Kansas City Glue & Fertilizer Company, Osage Avenue, corner Adams; L. M. Darling, president; William Peet, vice-president; H. B. Arnold, secretary and general manager; W. F. Wyman, treasurer; G. R. Collins, superintendent.
Kansas City Ice Company, 553 Minnesota Avenne; L. H. Wood, president; S. E. Harness, treasurer and manager.
Kansas City Live Stock Exchange, State corner Sixteenth; H.
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P. Child, president; Frank Cooper, vice-president; W. C. Henrici, treasurer; R. P. Woodbury, secretary.
Kansas City Packing & Chase Refrigerating Company, Osage Ave- nue, corner Baird; F. H. Odiorne, president; George E. Parker. treasurer; A. F. Nathan, secretary.
Kansas City Refrigerator Car Company, east side James, opposite Splitlog Avenue; George Fowler, president; G. A. Fowler, vice-presi- dent; M. M. Vincent, secretary and general agent.
Kansas City Soap Company, 18 to 22 North Second; G. W. Hal- lar, president; C. R. Hallar, treasurer; R. R. Kreeger; secretary.
Kansas City Stock Yards Company, State, corner Sixteenth; C. F. Adams, Jr., president; C. F. Morse, general manager; E. E. Richard- son, secretary and treasurer; H. P. Child, superintendent; Eugene Rust, assistant superintendent.
Kansas City Water Company, 813 North Sixth; G. E. Taintor, president; L. M. Lawson, vice-president; Robert Weems, secretary and treasurer.
Kansas City & Wyandotte Pressed Brick Company, west side Fifth, one block south of "L" road; J. F. Perdue, president; D. W. Longwell, vice-president; Charles F. Gilmore, general manager; W. K. Reeme, secretary and treasurer.
Kansas Desiccating & Refining Company, east side Adams, be- tween Wyoming and Shawnee Avenues; C. F. Morse, manager; E. E. Richardson, secretary and treasurer; C. W. Bangs, superintendent.
Kansas Elevator, 657 Adams; E. D. Fisher, president; A. S. Pierce, vice-president; R. E. Belch, secretary and treasurer.
Kansas Paving & Construction Company, 538 Minnesota Avenue; George Jenkins, president; G. A. Libbey, secretary.
Kansas Triphammer Brick Works, Waverly Avenue, corner North Second; Tillman Puetz, Jr., president; E. F. Andrews, vice-presi- dent and manager; J. Kraemer, secretary.
Kansas & Missouri Land & Investment Company, 553 Minnesota Avenue; T. A. Scott, president and treasurer; R. H. Hamilton, vice- president; Mac Armstrong, secretary.
Kaw Valley Investment Company, 553 Minnesota Avenue; J. D. Husted, president; W. H. Humphrey, vice-president; E. M. Smith, Secretary and treasurer.
Kerr Refractory Composition Company, 411 Minnesota Avenue; R. McAlpine, president; M. W. Clay, vice-president; N. McAlpine, treasurer: G. R. Clay, secretary; T. B. Kerr, general manager.
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