, 1876-03-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
| HUMBOLDT pAnk.
Real estato in the vicinity Of Humboldt Par
has held its value despite the prevailing deprel
sion. Oue Cause of this has been tho fac: tbs
| 1t was never worked up TO d fancy basis, and an
other: the Numerous improvements that hav
been made. Ths most important of these ar
| those providing
| ADDITIONAL MEANS OF COMMUNICATION
with the business contra. a double track ha
been laid Oh Milwaukee, avenue. 4 horse-rail
road on North avenue to Humboldt Park, lii
riaduct Oh Ia!stcd street, md the prosperity
opening Of Milwaukee avenue to Canal street
with viaduct, are among the new means Q
communication that are to multiply the popuia
| tion of tho northwestern district OF the city
! The planting OF trees has been in progress al
winter III HUMBOLDT Park. which will be thrown
! open next summer to the people.
/ BUILDING PERMITS.
Tho Superintendent. of Buildings issued til q
| following permits this week for :ho erection Of
buildings:
E. Spring, t.o.stcrr :5s4n, at I'll ahash a;,nue.
James statfer one story isx4o, at - Folk street
% Conueu. TWO buildings, each thrre~story stone
front 'xa. On Prairie avenne near Thtty street.
W. T. Jan, two story a2xaG, at 2ls North ayenue.
T. D. Cleveland, three-ktory, 2ors6 Ut :;6l Park
avenue.
OTIS Smith, threestory. :'x.o, on Fifth avenue near
char'cs 1Ierberts, fourstory stone 'front.' osx65 1t
357 South Canal Street.
A. 3. Field, tousstosy, el1oo, corner Of Wells and
Goethe streets.
John Sheldon. twostory, as3s, southeast corner of
Wood and Huron streeta.
areuue-
Jonn Bet t.o buildings, each threeEtoty 1exr4o.
Jnl:ns wadsworth, four buildings, e.ch two-story,
l2ox - ut 2G2 South Nzte- street.
John brown, oae-s.or3, 24Ai4, =: rs C1sbourn
Haiferkamp + Kcash two buildings, each three
story, :3x5o, It l5s Onia street.
John Hayes, two-storS, :1s,,. On Indiana street.
Total number Of buildings for which permits were
Issued, IL
WHAT ro7uLA11oS CHICAGO CAN HOLD.
1ne lfd1,s Do1ngS, a new periodical published
in thia city in tha real cstate interest, makes a
computation Of the number Of lots in Chicago
occupied ard nnoccupied. their capacity for
population, and the probable date when the
supply Of vacant lots will be exhausted. It
says:
An es:im.te ana computation shows that Chicago
has lots Q: 3 by 1so feet, average tie
size capable OF holdng population six to the lot
Q! IL The c4sy has Glready population, Jau.
1876, Of occupying oa.s Of the 1ots leav-
increase cf popula1oa Of to occupy lie bal
ance- The Suburban villages, fitty-6va OF them
named here, 5i7e40 lots, within the coee range Of
people, These yillages have already u population Of
4G0 occupying G.4.o Of the lots leaving unoccuped
st thts tine IL &c., requiring M a1 increase Of popula
We conpate the increase Of population for the next
ten years ut rcc cent. per annum. net. and ind
city, ll75,oib, which number estimate for January
1886. This shows that tlat day, the entire sup
lily OF lots now iu the city, will b. taken ior occu-
her present limits, End viii have to divide up Gu less
number OF feet tetc In more territory or 60 in
with tho suburbaa population and extend the Limits to
include I'll.
a VOICE FROM LOUISIANA. |
The following e1trac. from letter from a |
real estate agent in Shreveport, L., to 3 resi- !
estate dealer in Chicago, in reply to inquiry for
cheap lauds,. ls rather fciicitoua IN its ex-
pressions and. it ia safe to say Shreveport is |
nllead at latest ndyices. |
Yours OF tho o4h received. Ton say you are irving
10 make trade aud have few nibblcs tr,,s the |
n''srs srs viii ;ss 5ss to sonr A. aG that ye1 and
you uean7 DO you want to sell you brick house
Tor Is cents and thousand acres thrown IN, with
stock OF mules, steamboat. sugarhouse, coton-fac-
sanlc price7 Great God! Dc soto Wien he dis
,esssea the 9ose Ted EvGs so q sa1h
/ offer ron the most fruitful, productive,
4 man en- have no conscience. 40 belief in Nature
y Natures God, cannot recognize the hand Of Di-
ne Providence, when he nsks for cheap lands having
'eeu offered lands from ss9 to 50 cents per acre;
ands that lough the whole year round with harvest
vhen you tickle them with a ultoneue. G.r-e-a-t
Ieavens! Western lands in the same breath, too
lans.s and Nebraska wi., the sch alinvai ianis Of
ia sway with I'll the world for lis coust:
there the rose blooms Throughout tho year,
nd nd the h. ,rs ,moskng;ot1d e s:nss IL every tree;
'rost approaches With his hat in his band! aly
riend, are in the land business we want to in
crest you, and thought we had done so; thought we
al presented to yD1lr notfce a rooi thina |
But suppose II We should offer to sumo Chicago
IAN the Garden Of Eden, with the house Of rnasy
hrown in come little mistaken and n.isanthro2c land
mark would still clamor for death the pale horse,
Fes, though We should offer the 1os for Mexican |
ond.
NEW YORK .1o8TGAaFs.
There are Il. GOO acres of land in New York
for about 81, ,0U0, 00O. .000-eight- ]
lnths as much as the interest-bearing debt Of
10 nation. and paying nearly twice as much in-
'rest. The New York San. without giving these +
g1res, a!ludes in recent article to this subject
I'D insists that under auch burdens business {
rospe1ity can be recovered only by the most {
aneral and widespread economy. I
REAL ESTATE N BHoOKIYS.
TIE condition Of the real estate market Of | +
rookirn. says the ArJus, at the opening of tho | Is
resent seaeon may bo summed up ia q few ! t
utenccs. The business of buying and selling q
'ope1 ls absolutely ftaenant, and promises to
'ntiuue Nat until rapid transit in one form or g
lother, has becomo an accomplished fact iu 8
rooklyn. Prices and. as consequence, rents n
e lower By from 10 to % per cent, with the ex-
ption OF certain favored districts On tho "
Hill " and on the Heights, where the de- b
case i'll the yalne of housc-property is t.
1t 90 great, and where, in some cases, q
eh-priced dwellings hold their own. .Oc- "
sionally = sa]o ia made at loT figure,
It this as Will be explained below, is
q c1cre result Of adventurous circumstances. q
d By no means an accurate criterion Of the ri
ark1tIbie Tatu8 OF Hucf nronnrfv FThora | ~
me little activity in transfers. and this Sums y,
the condition of real estate at tho present q,
ae. As to sales there are none this IL, they +,
80 few aud Insignificant as not to he worth m
counting IN IeF1e" Of the market; but get ! III
IRE is no diincults IN nxing the value OF prop b,