Volume 9 , Issue 38

Alva Real Estate Notes - 1893

The Alva Pioneer, dated Friday, Sept., 22, 1893, M County, Alva, O.T., publisher W. F. Hatfield & Oscar Habelein, Editor., had this to say about Lots and real estate in the City of Alva.

"There were not enough choice corner lots in Alva last Saturday to go around, but everybody got a fine lot somewhere on the townsite; the editor of this paper, for instance, drove his stake on a very choice corner lot in the (future) most fashionable residence part in a suburb removed from the clatter and turmoil of the business centre of the city, while the publisher of the "Pioneer" had the good fortune to secure a whole quarter section in the aristocratic vicinity of the Eagle Chief, whereon he may erect some future day a splendid mansion and rest on the laurels earned as the pioneer publisher of the metropolis of the Salt Fork.

"The early bird (some say the jaybirds) got the choice lots on the square, and had no trouble to locate themselves, if rumors are true, but those that followed the advance guard were in no danger whatever to stumble on anything like a bonanza. As no plat of the townsite was accessible to the settlers until yesterday chaos reigned for some time, but finally the high grass covering the townsite was trampled down and an idea formed of the different streets and blocks.

We fellows on the train were "not in it" by at least twenty or more minutes we were on an excursion train, out seeing sights, as it were, and are under everlasting obligations to the train managers for the precaution they have taken not to endanger our precious lives by running to close up to the cow ponies who were keeping up their fox-trot ahead of the snorting but fully controlled locomotive.

"Swapping ponies and hard dollars for choice lots on the square began about as soon as the second man struck the townsite, and real estate has ever since been on the move. Lots selling for from five to two or three hundred dollars. At this time the average price of lots fronting on the square is about one hundred and fifty dollars. Since the copious rains throughout this section the demand for inside lots has increased, and those holding down desirable lots are not very anxious to sacrifice them for a song. There are many "soft snaps" for enterprising men here and these are picked up very fast.

"Alva is undoubtedly destined to become a good business point, and men making judicious investments in town property now will surely reap a rich harvest in the near future."
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