The Real Estate Tycoons of Early Seattle

It will not be out of place at this time to state that it is good business policy to advance with the work. Nearly two months ago we mentioned in our advertisements that the early building of an electric line out Filbert street to Lake Washington and Union Bay, and of a double-track cable line from the foot of Madison street to Laurel Shade, was timed. At the last meeting of the city council, applications were made for franchises for these two routes, partially corroborating our statement of two months ago. No one who is acquainted with the character of the men heading these enterprises (Cyrus Walker, Pope Talbot, John Collins, John Leary, E. C. Kilburne, and others of the Electric Company, and J. M. Thompson, L. S. J. Hunt, H. G. Struve, Maurice McMicken, A. B. Stewart, G. H. Heilbron, and others, of the cable company) will longer doubt that our entire prediction will be fulfilled. We are now selling lots in Renton Addition at the old scale of prices. About one-third of the lots have been disposed of, and prices will be advanced 10 per cent on all lots unsold by July 10. Both of the lines of transportation will pass through the addition.