, 1875-01-10

Harrison street, for s26 500, including bricks and
foundation. The latter were valued at $500.
The ground value, at this price, is $525 foot, 4
very considerable reduction from the ant-panica
price.
Tia eame firm have sold 95x100 feet On Illinois
strrsr, between Dearborn and State, 1or IS, 600.
La1kin, jerks & Co. have sold 143 acres at
Spaulding On the Chicago Il Pacific Railroad, for
E35.001 all cash. Two-story house, with lot Ask
l25. corner Western and North avenues. for
$4,000. Cottage and lot. 25s125. No. Page
One lot o5x1o6, on Chicago avenue, near Hum
bolds Park. for 800.
One lot 25xl25: on Polk street, near California
avenue, for 81. 600.
Ono lot 2sx125. on Central Park avenue corner
L. n. Sawyer sold 100 feet on Michigan
avenue, 100 feet south of Thirty street,
west front, with improvements, for $4,000.
Bash l. Potter hare sold house and lot on
Egan avenue, east Of Cottage Grove avenue, for
$500.
B. ". Kean has sold Lots 8, 9, 10, and II in
Block SO. Rogers Park, for $3.2o0 also, Lot 10
in Block II, for s., ,0c0.
John F. White sold Lot 1852 Wabash avenue
(25x175) near Thirty -eixths street, to D. Harry
Hammer, Dec. 81, for $1,000.
Charles 3. Holmes L. Co. have sold q two
story and basement brick house on Ellis avenue,
near Broo6s street, for 5000. Also, e @
Block IL. Halstod street Addition to Washing
ton Heights. being on the corner Of Hough
street and Ninety fourth, for $1,000.
lIa Brown has sold ten lots at Park Ridge for
81, 900.
Messrs. 4. P. Blanchard d Co. have exchanged
four-story aud basement stone-front business
block on South Clark street, between Lake and
South Water streets, for 125 feet On Madison, $50
feet on Warren avenue. $50 feet On Washington
street, $50 fest on Park avenue, and LIS feet on
Lake street. Both properties are clear Of iu-
cumbrancc. and each mas estimated at $50, 600.
The same firm sold GOO feet On Madison street,
corner OF Sacramento avenue, and GLE feet on
Barry Point road, corner of Sacramento avenue.
for total consideration Of $64, 900, $4,000
cash, balance on short time payments.
Mason l. Mills have sold Is feet. east front,
on Oakley street, 800 feet north Of North ayeuue,
for $500; 25 feet, east front, on Shober street.
north Of North avenue, for 81, 600 A-acre lot.
the Milwaukee & St. Paul crossing. for 81 ,900.
Fred L. Fake has sold IS feet on Dearborn
street, South OF Forty-fourth, for 9, 400.
Bu81SEss FOE THE YEAR
The Real Estate and Building journal gum
mnrizea the business Of theyear and compares it
with the two preceding years:
The total consideration Of sales for 1874 VAS
SCI, 81 ,636
Tor 1873, SIS, 1891.
For 1872 S78. 9s3, 43l. .
The first half OF 1873 was An unusually brisk
period in the real estate trade Of this city, tao
grand total for the six months ending June 80
being s43 AIS, SIT. This was an increase of
SO, 26C, ,263 over the corresponding period OF
1872. The total for the last six months of 1873
was s34, ,952, OLA. making the grand total for. the
year 1873 S78. 81, ,39l. This leaves difference
in favor OF 1873 over the total OF 1874 OF $10,-
555 755. The total OF 1879 WAS S78 983, 431, be-
ing $556.040 greater than that Of 1878, and
5ll, Ill, ,795 greater than that Of 1874.
BUILDING.
J. L. McKeever is now erecting block of::four
houses on Bowen avenue, between the Doule-
Yards, to be octagon fronts, two-story and base
ment BRICK. with handsome stone trimming and
all modern improvements. MIR. Mckeeyer has
added twenty six fne brick houses to thus locali-
TT within the past year. AL are sold and occu-
pied except those now building.