, 1879-06-15
REAL ESTATE.
Numerous Purchases of Lots by
Working People.
CAPITALISTS After Bargains in the
Business Centre.
improvements Near the Stock Yards
and Elsewhere.
Sales, Loans, and Building Permits Of
the Week.

The extent to which working people and per-
sons OF small means are buying lots IN Chlcaeo
is not generally understood. One reai-estate
dealer reports that during the past week he sold
In one day $4,000 worth OF properly 10 tnls
class Of buyers. People who work at the slocH-
Yards and in the neighborhood OF Inc fou1ns-
mills arc buying lots
TO PUT HOMES on.
In Dreyor Il Co.'s Subdivision, near the Stock
Yards, tventy-four new houses have been nuht
in the last three months; nine houses have oeen
moved ia; church has been begun, and Is no"
nearly ready to be rooted; sidewalks and water
have been introduced in this subdivision on
Ashland avenue and the side-streets- When
workingman buys lot he becomes anttcom-
munist. These investments are doing more
than the Militia law to root out Communism.
ANOTHER SUBDIVISION
|. to be made near the Stock-Yards W. u.
Kerfoot d Co. have sold to f. 8. Dreyer & Co.
five acres on the southwest corner OF Ashland
avenue and Forty-seveuth street for $6,0oO.
Three lots have been already sold for $1,Uo
This property will be improved in the same way
Us the adjoining land, which has been sold to
persons employed at the Stock-Yards.
arc the capitalists. There is good de-
from this class, many OF whom are now here in
person. ". D. Kerfoot i Co. report sale Of
an improved piece OF business property on Clark
street, near Madison, for $751; 900. Further par
ticu1ars will be given hereafter. Among other
sales By this firm arc 631l1o teet on Pine street
and Chicago avenue, $500; 49 feet at the cor
ner OF Chicago avenue and Wood street, $4,000;
25110o feet at Sheldon court and Nineteenth
street, $1,000; 25178 feet at the corner OF Nor
gan street and Eighteenth Pase s9oo: o Ax23 1a5s3
feet on DAYTON street, near Willow, S650; 103x
1870 feet On Madison street and st. Louis ave-
nue. $3,o50.
E. s. Dreyer & Co. have sold five lots on Ash
land avenue, near Forty-eighth street, At SsW
each; two lots on Justine street, near Forty
eighth, S170; brick house and lot on Clv-
bourn avenue, near Blackhawk street, for $2,3o0;
lot on Milwaukee avenue, near Wood street,
for 5000; a lot on Townsend street, near Oak
E. 4 Hotchkiss sold for an Eastern party fifty
feet front on Wabash avenue, north OF Twenty
first street, for $500 to A. II. Dupce, OF this
CITY.
Edwin Lee Brown has sold to 4. 4; L: Smith
fifty feet on South Park, north OF Fifty-third
street, for S105 q foot cash. Dir. Smith buys Tor
investment, and possibly for future residence
1Vater-ppes are being put in front OF this lot,
and It is in close proximity to the horse-cars
In the other
SALES OF TIE WEEK
"e[e ~ ~ ,1ssa+ 60 5o1. MI f.af m South
Clark street, south of Fourteenth, street to
Fourth avenue, 50, $50; twenty-five acres on
State street, near Forty-hfth, to Stewart avenue,
excepting railroad, $4,000 25xl23 feet on
noa moa"H fa.t ;nn,oved on Nohie street north Of
n;1;so IL nit1. 61r110 feet IN Fulton srreet
west of Unou, $500: 24x125 feet Oh West
oea4ea foot ~ West Nonroe street vest of
ioAnoo n: So 50 mn. 1nn|71L feat m sholdon
ttraht Lant1' 'H, sonthwest Corner Of Fulton,
81 ss!s6t' s05'. s541UO feet on South Hal-
So,2oo: a,,+h - E;ohteentb street. s. ono: 50x
saeo, souen ~ Mranty-si-th ~ strce, cast nf port-
~ leee @ ~ ~ M. 5Ir12I fact tmnrored' m
wv Mnhamt- etrect northwest corner Of Centre
teaat g IN. Il fect to alley. on Archer ave-
s.,e0s, ,e s,,nth ~ Halsted street, $4,000; 5Ox1l6
nus fa iuusu N MURRAY street. north OF For
tSes3 - sH3fth ~ e1rect s95D.
'enler 'eThero zero ci~htv-eiobt So.
n.n,r1ra pou nnnn1raa
,x,.a a1. t,,a ree,- r amnne then, us-e
those to Charles freylnutn 10 ereet two-sto5y
dwelling, Pnulina street, near Ml!"aukee ave
nue., to cost s2,5oo; 20 w: L. bnitertleld, 3 to
erect ioul t"ossory o SMess' aan - nno' n1s ngaF
to erect two three-story dwellings, Halstsd a
street. near Catherine, to cost S4,ooo;
Charles Neaman. to erect t"o-story
dwelling, No: l37 Ruole street, TO cost
9l,oVO4 w. e. 1'i1''oe's ~ ~'e~' - .A~e 49,!
dwelling, Dearborn avenue, near DlVlsion street,
to cost S4,2o0; q. NJ" clark, nve t"o-story
stone-front dwellings: corner OF Calomet aye eo
nue. and Iwentf-sl1tn street., 10 cost S5s-uo
each; Jacob Bcldlsr. t~o t"o-sto1{ sLooe-Iront
dwellings On JaCks3n street, near Morgan street,
to cost $30oo; N: bene1, tn1ee-story omellins ,ns
at 4S6 North CLARK street, TO cost s4'2U9;
Nicholas Koch, three STORY dWei1inS az 3oo
North Clark street. 20 COST 5o'ooo, PTS. Jonn
iunker, tnfec-slory uMeltn.S an oI AaAe, ne'al
Ealzaoc.n stt tnro .1d 5wcling N Hrcher aren,,.
a"or ."w Raare to cost 81 SOD: William Evans.
tSraa. eas storv stone-front dwelling at 337 West
Wa.-oo e,rcnt, To cast Sc. 600: P. Horn. two
.torv nwr1ln~ at 23l West Fourteenth street.
9o coet sS ni1: Edward Lynch, two-story stone
fr,,t dwe1i;np at * Loomfs street. to cast
e. Sno. Wrs Marv Stacker. two-story dwelling
IT 1So Sonth Union street to cost $4,000:
Rndo1,h Sehafanek. two-story store and dwell
no at M 106 West Eipbreenth street, to cost
IL 2no. Matt Iilliy. two-story store and dwell
no conner Of Ambrose and Hoyue, to cost
90 3n0. Nrs Barbara Dixon. two-story dwelling
~ Ch.stnut street. near Wells, to cost 81. .0oO:
1ah1 S1anhens three story stona-front store
,,,d dTajiiner m Archer avenue aud Deering
street tn cost $4,000: Henry Lehman, two
stnrv dwe,iinr. corner of Ohio and Elizabeth
s+nas+s ~ cost si5(O: John ". Carroll. three
osnrr s+oro and dwel1;no on Milwaukee, avenne
nsor Nav street. to cost $4,000; l.. sc /.