, 1876-04-02
The Transactions Of the Week Not
Numerous or important.
loan Business Dull and Rates of
Interest Weakening.
Che4p Suburban Trains .-.Keu SnbdiTis-
'fans.-.Building Permits, Etc
SALES OF THE WEEK.

contained advertisements offering cash for de-
sitab1e improved business property. The de-
unand for thia spedes Of investment is better
than the supply, At the prices insisted On by
huJera. There are valid reasons for expecting
m improvement in prioes,-the growth of the
city for one, and for another the difficulty expe-
rience3 by capitalists in finding safe and satis-
factory Investment for their accumulating
means. The rate OF interest Is will De seen In
cur report Of the loan market Is being ri shaded
down" to 715 and per cent VIC know
OF ons case where an advantageous cash
offer for productive piece OF prop
nrty was refused by the owncr-because hs
did not know what lie could do with tbs money.
He was getting per centfnet from his rents,
and I'D not care to disturb 80 good n invest
ment It can hardly be doubted that the same
competition Of capital for good Investments that
il sending up week after week the prices OF the
leading securities. will before long begin 10 be
felt in real estate. The principal transactions
". b. Kerfoot i Co. have sold \ lot, 47xcs, On
River street, near Michigan avenue, for S10. 600.
The st. Francis Xavier Fe1nals Academy have
sold to Michael Burke. 61x171 feet on the west
side OF Wabash avenue, near Madison street, for
e60. $50.
Henry He1mholtz has sold to Fred. E. T. Helm
hotlz for t35,000. Blocks 4. 6, and 2, on tue
northeast. southwest and southeast corners Of
Well d Sherman have sold house &nd lot No.
1884 Indiana avenue to Moses Blume for 314,-
POO caah. The lot is 95x170+
D. F. Keeney 4 Co. have sold house and 200
feet Ut South Evanston for $40, 900; eight lots
On TompIdns street. 81, 500 per lot, for $l2 900;
Two houses and lots on Paulina etreet for S12-
200; 200 feet in Harbert 4 8ickard's Addition to
South Evanston for $1,000.
Bogus X Hy6e hare sold during the week
three two-storY honses WITH lots 1t Normal
School Station for $11 500; ten lots 1t South
Englewood On V1nc6unes avenue for 50, 500;
aud . fruit farm II st. Joseph, Mich., for
&15ooo
North Wells street., 411125 feet, with improve
ments, Tor S2o 600; tho south third Of Lot 50 in
North Ndditlon to Chicago. uear Lincoln Park.
Tor $4,000.
G. q. Bater has sold the Phoenix Block, 461<1
100 feet, four-story and basement stone-front
eorner Madison street and Fifth aveuue, fc,
E50, 900.
A. 9. Webster and ". ". Perkins have pur-
shased f5x1e5 feet On Cottage Grove avenue,
toutheast corner Michigan aod Iasalle streets,
Tor $50, coo.
r. u Decker has sold No. II Sheldon street
br1ek house and lot to Frank Krum for 312, 600.
F. ". James has sold 4311xl74.3 feet On vs.
bash avenue, near Tni1ty-t thlrd street with house,
for $4,000
z. S. Hawley has sold los feet on southeast
serner Of Wabash avenue and Forty-fourth
north Of Tifty-ninth street, for total consldera-
tlon OF $4,000 to J. q. 1ice also 100 feet on
Wabash avenue, south OF Fo1ty-four:h street,
and $50 fee: on Prairia avenue, northeast corner
.. F. Eecnev & Co., bought eight lots in Block
8. Pitner q Sons Addition to South Engtesood,
for $l9, 500.
F. Is. Cossitt hns sold block of marble front
houses. 80 feet front, On northeast corner Of
Panlina and Park avenue, for $25,0 ,0oo.
E. s. Dre5a1 has sold No. G22 Milwaukee av-
enue house and lot, for sG,2o0; thirteen acres
il Sec, u. 10, Is, near Irving Park, for $5200:
sell. Of Cincinnati, Of George A. Perkins, three
lots fronting on the South PARK at Fifty y-seventh
street.
Aatson Hill has sold on Indiana avenue. BE-
front 70 O. A. Mair, and Is feet front to & ".
Thomes for cash. Plans have bean made and
handsome residences will be built ~ aoon ~ the
weather. becomes favorable
SATURDAYS TRANSFERS.
The following Instruments Wsra filed for
facozd Saturday, April l.:
CIT PROPERTY.
The premises No. 2la Portland av, dated Sept
rioafnoS m st, Il; It Of cainpbe1 .;, a;1 '
& ~ ns;a + a.ted = M1.sh - ,nr :, so.;;: 2ooo
"' dssea s Ma1eh " ~ ~ $500
Rabey st. u r of PoR 1t, II, asxiia t-1oft,
rhs 1a Premises a1S 60 81 Hubbard st. d.ied ~
geat at:Ga 1aetson s ii 4io tt v Of winchester
AZ, I, ls1l2 c-lof It, dated March s1.....- 1000
Michigan ~, near Thirty-alghth st, Y I. coz
Michigan m ", " near near Tsoai5ishtn Ts St, 5oi
E7eze4sea a. -. ies + ii Robsy Il: i. a5ii5o
rhs T. pre93.es axsea INC Ro. nis South Dearborn i:
rsntz aa,sd PafF ha1ea a. Is i; oi Vest ohio st.
6oxl19 It, with other property, dated Gzrc1
vet Honios st. i s"io II o, sssle; 81, III,
r.
Park ~. n conner q Psalina 81, ) I, s9x1l42
6sms as The above datad March 2s.......... 25.c0o
Oak 81, sos 210 + Q Of Bush It, n I, Skill It.
walnut a st, corner 81 Yassf it. : /. IS Lilo ..
Robey s, -. ! y s1 corner Of Ferdinsad ST. I, Is
;-1oxs6 #, With inprotemsnt.. dased Ap9a1 a'soo
ris9 s.1a m t..t dated AnriiI I..'....... 1850
eou1H OF c1rX I1H11s, WITHIN AAp1us or 111.3s
Forty second st, 1ss tt Of Westarn II, n I, IS
1ll5 #, dated Jan. n.2S......---...-.-........$ CIV
Western 4lof,s M,.o1 Of F. nv soo
xensxoih a. e45ea 10 ass d fyihid s. w.
ss;i2s 4, dated M.rch .. ISIS. 5.:::.:::;;.:. so
Pifty-nrst 81, near Tracy ~, n +, IS It 70 alley
1hirty.uinth st, cor Il Johnson ~. entiTe ~.
H5ao io:h P.5k ~. ~. cor d fort5-nnth It. ii.
same ~ sbose. dsted March a,ooo
1o4 It, with other property, dated Jan- L.. lt25o
srNAAnT OF TRASsEERs FOB TIE WEEK.
ruburbau transfers within radius Of Z miles Of
the Courthouse filed for record during the
weak ending Saturday; April I: Gty-sales. 81;
consideration, $3.50, 043- North Of city lInits-
sales, /; consideration. s425. South Of city
linits-Sales. 81; consideration, 990.ao4: West
of city Ifuits-Salea, 3 consideration, 81, coo.
Total sales, 109. Total consideration, $686s372.
CHEAP TRANSPORTATION.
yon51SGMES's TRAIN oS TIE c., B. Q. E. B.
The officials Of the G., B. h @. Railroad with
their accustomed Iberality, have responded to
the request OF the residents and property-o"n-
ers on tbs line of the road between the city aad
Do1ncr's Grove, and will commence running 3
1o-cent train about the 10th inst. The train will
reach tee city a httle before t. m., and leave
The Central Depot at about 62o p. N. a 10
cent MONDAY train has not yet been conceded
but IS some Of the officials regard this PROPOSE