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Show H NEW ENGLAND'S VACANT LAND. H In a recent interview with ono or H Boston's largo promoters or suburban H real estate, printed in tho Boston H Transcript, that gentleman, says H tho Village,, stated that, not- M withstanding tho vast areas of H undeveloped land between the larg- H er cities from Portland, Mo., to tho H Gulf, and westward from tho coast to H tho Rocky mountains, ho had found no B spot whero a man can get as much B land for his money as in Now Eng- land. Ho said this was tho result of observation and experience in tho last few months, during which tlmo ho had visited twonty-rour or tho great M industrial centres whero real estate B seemed to bo "booming" and had M found surprising conditions. H In the first plnco ho was soon made B aware of tho fact that a great deal H of land five, ten and oven fifteen miles H from cities nnd large towns Is held by H the owners at figures that mado pur- chaso almost prohibltlvo. When nskod 1 why prices were so high, tho owners M appeared to have no, valid reason; thero seemed to bo a tacit understanding understand-ing between holders that tho higher t)io price tho more attractlvo tho proposition prop-osition might be. Land outside Heading, Head-ing, Pa.; Wilmington, Del.; Pittsburg, Pitts-burg, In fact all over tho states of Delaware, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland Mary-land nnd Pennsylvania, that for availability avail-ability for homo sites or for manufacturing manu-facturing purposes is easily matched In Now England, near largo cities and towns, is not for salo at any price; henco tho investor and developer, sees no opportunities for making a profit. Ho found In his travels that tho eyes of tho investing public aro resting rest-ing now upon old Now England to a marked degree, and It Is his belief that In tho next decade thousands of acres of undeveloped land that today aro within reach or electric and steam lines will bo bought up by promoters and Investors Trom all parts or tho country. In tho now interest Trom outside that Is observed In tho vacant ncrcago or this section or tho country coun-try It would seem that thero Is a beginning be-ginning or another era ot prosperity ror Now England, a section of tho country which has long been neglected |