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The Winnipeg Tribune from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada • Page 10

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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Li to li a :4 Fortune Awaits You In ElSiii If You Buy Now! Tho natural and only possible line of growth in North Transcona is east from tho site of the C.lMt. yards. The industrial development must closely adjoin the C.P.R. line, whore there is an abundance of trackage and transportation facilities. Lack of these requirements renders any great growth to tho itorth extremely improbable.

Old Transcona offers an effective barrier to the south, whilo the property to the west commands as high prices as suburban Winnipeg real estate. Consecnently North Transcona must always grow east. EASTMOUNT is therefore situated directly in the line of North Transcona's greatest development. It adjoins Gunn Street, the great east and west highway through North Transcona. Gunn Street affords ready access to the grwit centres of industrial activity.

North of the property, less than an eighth of a mile distant, lies tlte main line of the C.P.R. "You must see, therefore, that EASTMOUNT will be(a residential area right in the heart of the Industrial district and commanding high prices through its proximity and accessibility. Whether you buyto hold for an enormous profit or to turn over quickly at a reasonable margin, you cannot beat EASTMOUNT. Xo one now doubts the enormoiu future of North Transcona as an industrial centre. Eastmount is so situated that its values must grow to keep pace with the city's development.

Today we are selling these choice EASTMOUNT lots at from S4.50 to $6.00 per foot. One-quarter cash, balance li. 12. IS months. Why not come in today and talk things over? THE MONEY-MAKING COUPON.

TIIORNSTAD, ROED LIDHOLM, 643 Main Street, Winnipeg. Gentlemen, Your properly, Eastmount, interests me very much. would like to have full particulars reiranling.this money-making investment. Name Address PlUJi 1 1 Hue i ki ii ioi i THE WINNIPEG TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1912 MAP TP I I TMF QTiHPYI Work will begin shortly on 4 The C.P.R. have an army of Ground has been broken for The first of the two big 40- the multi-mmion dollar plant of The Bank of Montreal hav.

men at work gar North roundhouses thJ the Manitoba Iron Works. One secured a site for a branch in iranscna ya.8- inese- of th. buildings will exceed in iz completed, will total 105 miles vator of the C.P.R. in Trans- in North Transcona is being ICt Norttl Transcona. -the largest individual yards cona fushed tQ completioni alone will employ over 1.000 men.

in the WOrlCl. THORNSTAD. Real Estate Dealers and Financial Brokers LIDHOLM Ground Floor Bon Accord Block, 643 Main Street Phone Main 2874 Office Open Evenings Investment Not Speculation The Reason The Grand Trunk Pacific are the fathers of this new industrial city, because it was at this point that they located their mammoth works, which, when completed, will be the finest on llie American Continent, and will employ over five thousand men. The first unit is now completed and will be. manned July 1st.

The second unit is under construction and it is expected that it will be opened next fall. To see these huge shops is to be convinced of Transcona's future. The Dominion Tar and Chemical Works of England recognized Transcona's ideal location and chose it for their Canadian works. This factory is now operating atid have on their pay-roll over one hundred men. have just secured a ten-yenr contract from the Canadian Pacitie Railway to creosote two million ties per year.

This contract will keep over two hundred men employed all the year round, irrespective of the other branches of the business. The Eli Cartridge Company of England selected Transcona for their Canadian factory, and when you consider this Company is, the largest makers of explosives in the world, it was indeed a tribute to Transcona to get this recognition from a Company of. their standing. This plant is less than four hundred and fifty yards from our property. The Canadian Pacific Railway are now lo- efltinsr their immense yards, roundhouses and transfer elevators at Transcona.

The contract for ninety. five miles of side-track, one thirty-si stall roundhouse, and a one million bushel transfer elevator has already been let. They will employ over 1.000 men." These immense works are only half a mile from our property. The Manitoba Bridge and Iron Works. have purchased the property for their new one million dollar plant in Transcona.

This ideal site has a frontage on Gunn ftoad, a ninety-nine foot street, and has llie Canadian Northern Railway on the east and the Canadian Pacific railway on the. north. This site, containing, as it does, over three-quarters of a mile of Canadian Pacific and Canadian Northern trackage, is one of the most desirable It is here that the Manitoba Bridge and Iron Works will employ over one thousand men. Opposite this lite and bordering on the C.N.R. it our forty-acre plot, also fronting on Gunn Road, which will be one of the first streets In Transcona sared with a car line.

The lots have a frontage of from thirty feet up and are one hundred and thirty-eight feet deep. Our property only extends back six hundred and sixty-six feet from Gunn Road and the midway of the Manitoba Bridge and Iron Works meets our Minlkada Street. We also have five hundred and ninety-four feet frontage on Redonda Avenue, jn ninety-nine foot street. The two Electrlo Power Lines which serve Winnipeg pass through Transcona. One belonging te the Winnipeg Electrio Railway and the other is the Winnipeg Municipal Plant.

This Company is erecting a sub-station on Redonda Avenue, on the east side of our property. This power means much to Transcona and assures its future as an industrial city. Our property has, to the north, the Manitoba Bridge and Iron Works, to the east the Eli Cartridge Company and the Canadian Pacific Railway, and to the south the Mammoth Shops of the Grand Trunk Pacific. It is Inside the present townsite of Transcona, and Gunn Avenue is beyond doubt the coming street of Transcona, Study the plan and then telephone for an appointment and we will call and take you out to see this choice property. The price is from $7.00 per foot up, on terms of one-quarter cash, balance Bix, twelve and eighteen months 6 per cent, interest.

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Pages Available:
361,171
Years Available:
1890-1949