she owned jointly with Gant the shop on the Square, which had thirty feet of frontage, and was valued at $20, 000, from which he got $65 a month in rent; $20 from Jannadeau, $25 from the McLean Plumbing Company in the basement, and $20 from the J. N. Gillespie Printing Co., which occupied all of the second story. There were, besides, three good building-lots on Merrion Avenue valued at $2, 000 apiece, or at $5, 500 for all three; the house on Woodson Street valued at $5, 000; 110 acres of wooded mountainside with a farm-house, several hundred peach, apple and cherry trees, and a few acres of arable ground for which Gant received $120 a year in rent, and which they valued at $50 an acre, $5, 500; two houses, one on Carter Street, and one on Duncan, rented to railway people, for which they received $25 a month apiece, and which they valued together at $4, 500; forty-eight acres of land two miles above Biltburn, and four from Altamont, upon the important Reynoldsville Road, which they valued at $210 an acre, or $10, 000; three houses in Niggertown—one on lower Valley Street, one on Beaumont Crescent, just below the negro Johnson’s big house, and one on Short Oak, valued at $600, $900, and $1, 600 respectively, and drawing a room-rental of $8, $12, and $17 a month (total: $3, 100 and $37 rental); two houses across the river, four miles away in West Altamont, valued at $2, 750 and at $3, 500, drawing a rental of $22 and $30 a month; three lots, lost in the growth of a rough hillside, a mile from the main highway through West Altamont, $500; and a house, unoccupied, object of Gantian anathema, on Lower Hatton Avenue, $4, 500.
In addition, Gant held 10 shares, which were already worth $200 each ($2, 000), in the newly organized Fidelity Bank; his stock of stones, monuments, and fly-specked angels represented an investment of $2, 700, although he could not have sold them outright for so much; and he had about $3, 000 deposited in the Fidelity, the Merchants, and the Battery Hill banks.
Thus, at the beginning of 1912, before the rapid and intensive development of Southern industry, and the consequent tripling of Altamont’s population, and before the multiplication of her land values, the wealth of Gant and Eliza amounted to about $
