The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-04-28

town a Is included within the original plat
made BY Ira Bruuson together with Rice 4
Irvipe's addition, DO and the same are here
by created . town corporate" an area Of
900 acres altogether.
BY another act passed on March 3lst,
1851, the corporate limits were extended to
include Bazille & Guerin's addition, Ro-
bert's 4 Randalrs addition, Hoyt's add.
ton, Whitney Il Smiths addition, a. part
offs. Ell Of Sec. 81 East Of Hoyts d
Whituty L Smiths additions 3. w.
\ Of Sec. 80, town 20, range az,
and lot Is in section s, town %, range ~.
An additional area OF about 200 scres
more, or 500 acres in oil. =.
BY act of March 4th, 1854, the city OF
81. Paul was incorporated, with limits ex.
tended TO Daytons Cave, on the East and
nearly to Fountain Gave. on tho South
west, with zigzag rear boundary conform
ing to section lines, and embracing about
24O0 acres.
By act OF the Legislature, granting the
new charter of 1883, these boundaries were
further extended 80 that now the Western
limit Of the city runs due North and south
for two and three quarter miles--its North
eru boundary due East and West for three
miles-its Western due North and South
for about mile-while its Southern boun-
dairy along the river, is nearly four miles
long. and embraces the islands in the Mis-.
sissippi opposite the city, known Is Boal,
Ames, lambs, Raspberry, Bames and
Harriet Islands The whole present area
being about 5000 acres.
BUsIN Ess oP REGISTER or DEEDs.
We may serve in this connection to show
the activity 10 transactions in Real Estate
within the ten years past, that the number
of Deeds recorded 10 the Registers Office
within that period Is l3,500, filling twenty
three Record books which will average 700
pages each, including one or two books cop
led BY our first Register DR.. Day, from the
old Saltwater Books Of ST. Croix county.
The number of Mortgages, Bonds and other
instruments, will count near 5000, making
81 500 instruments Of Record in the Regis
ters Office of Ramsey County. About one
hall the real estate OF Ramsey County Is
free and clear Of ell membranes OF the
other half on large proportion the incum.
brsnces are light and temporary, about one
fifth only OF the whole amount being EN-
barraSed.
The Office Of Register employs four clerks
beside the Register. In lS49 three little
books embraced the whole apparatus OF the
office.
COMPARATIVE PRICES or RIAL ESTATE FOR
rHK LAST TEN YEARS.
Goodhue on bis arrival found lots at the
lower end Of Third Street where the little
business and large hopes were principally
concentrated, held at the preposterous price
Of from 500 to 5000. The same lots are
now worth $500 and 5000 per foot front
and from ten to twenty thousan dollars for
hfty feet front. From IAmbert's little house,
where the Bank OF Minnesota stands now,
Nd to the corner of Wabashaw Street Lots
were held at SIS, now to be bought for 80.
900. Further up on Saint Anthony Street
as lots receded from the business centre
viz: Jsckson's saloon, they decreased In val
ne till according to q we'll authenticated an
ecdote Of the time il was hard TO some peo.
ple to accept them az gift. Henry N.
Rice in lS49 gave Billy ID. Phillips lot on
st. Anthony Street. near Edgertons Bank
and Billy graciousIy accepting that slight
testimonial Of the donors distinguished
consideration, charged him doildIfor max
ng out the deed.
Three years afterwards, Billy sold the
same lot for 81 800; it is now worth Us 900.
In April, 1881, Gordhue says. " consider
able operations in real estate have recently
transpired in Saint Paul, with rather an
upward tendency. A lot lis feet by so
adjoining our Office, then on Bench Street
near the old Post Office, held last year
1850, at 5000, afterwards sold at $3.50
changed hands last week for $3.50 II il
DOW worth thirty times that sum.
Inis5l, Col. d. A. Robertson bought the
lot at the north eastern corner Of Waba.
shaw and Third Streets, for 5000. 10 1883
ia the height Of the financial revusion, he
sold it for $4,000 cash.
Two lots on the opposite corner, the sea,
OF the old Sligo Iron store, were purchased
in lS4s, by VIM Is. Brown who recently
died in West ST. Paul, for . dilapidated
orse and buggy, worth perhaps SEQ OF
$l75. The property measures 100 ieet on
Third street by $50 on Wabashaw. Ia
1852, II vas offered for $1,000. In 1889
opposite corner, il is worth $4,000 cash
and probably could not he bought for that.
ASSESSED AND REAL VALUE ov REAL urArE
Assessors sppraisals Of real estate, though
they do not give the actual valuation, an
very valuable measures Of the actual valua'
ton, that is 10 say they preserve Q genera
and nearly Uniform average relative to tb'
real value.
Assessments OF real estate for example a
they are conducted here, do not indicate vha
lots are held at or what they will sell at
bat what will afford the best possible bash
Of taxation. The competition among rea
estate owners in deprecia,ing the taxable
basis, produces an average result on tb'
Assessors estimates OF about 80 per cent
below minimum value, and 10 bard times I
q good deal more than that.
The progressive valsatioa Of real estAt'
in Saint Paul, a. indicated by the assessor
estimates, have then this authoritative eject
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