, 1881-06-26

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| amounted to S2l1.G4.
| Tile Seymour estate sale, May II, 1869
amounting to SS03. 209.
SALES OF THE WEEK.
One of the most important sales Of the
week was Of the valuable lot on the south
east corner of Van Buren, and Market streets
177xl5S feet including alley, for $a0, ,0W, one'
quarter cash, and balance on Or before five
years, 6 per cent Interest. to Louis f. Frank.
1t was sold last fail for $4,000 to B. 2.
Hutchinson. but owing to delay in getting a
deed the sale fell through, and the price was
advanced to $3.50. 1t was twice listed on
the Rea[Estate Call Board ut all upset price
of S:'G, 900, without any bidders. In March, the
price was advanced to $4,000 with sundry
offers at "a, 600 TO So, ,0o0 and strong intima-
tions that $4,000 to S39.00O might be OBJ
tanned. Finally Mr.. Frank became the
buyer. About the year 1874 some forty
feet Of this Van Buren, street 'front.'
age sold for $3.50 front font to
Elisha S. Wadsworth, who bought it
Of Duncan, Sherman & Co, the New York
bankers, who got it on foreclosure Of the
Opera-ll0nse Manager. Graw, in ante-tire
times. Mr. WadsWortll, who owned also the
other portion, borrowed ut one time SO 900
on the Whole tract just sold, but taxes and
interest were TOO much for him, and il fell
by foreclosure into the hands Of lis recent
owner, all English gcntleman-represcntcd
III this city by Mcssrs. Chandler & Co., who
have had charge of the property. 1t is u1l-
dtrstood that Mr.. Frank has also bought tile
property ad joining this OH the east rs far as
Franklin street for $4,000. The location Of
the new Buard Ut Trade makes the property
worth to-day $4,000 to $4,000.
No. - Clark street, being the centre twenty
TWO feet Of the Superior Block, opposit the
Courthouse, has just been sold by the
owner, Mr. Lester Il. Eames, of Ottawa, to
Northrup d Lyman, Of Toronto, Canada, for
$4,000 cash. This sale shows tile value of
the ground at that point to be $500 a front
foot
Michigan avenue property has reached the
highest figure yet recorded in tile sale just
nade OF the northeast CORNER OF Twentieth
Street Three lutS, having q frontage ot
eighty feet, were sold to Mr: Howard Vi Fox
u Howard, for al aggregate 0f $54,0J0, all
average OF SG75 Il foot. This is tile highest
price that has ever beelt paid. The culsitt-
GRAFTON really represents only the value of
the land, as one Of the wooden houses un the
property is worth nothing, aud the other is
to bc moved off by the seller. Mr.. Howard
will build handsome private residence for
himself on THIS site.
George ". Bugue sold for Mrs. Pierce, Of
Will County, the ten acres on the northwest
corner Ut Fitty-ti1st and Wallace streets tor
S2l, 100 cash. He also sold for the owners to
James ". Rich twenty-five and half feet
OIL the east side Of North La Sale street.
e'Enty nG feet north Of Chestnut street, for
Mr.. 3. Philpot has sold 200 feet between
FIfts-il1tll aud FiftysiXtl streets, l50 un Wa
bash ;uM fifty feet OIL State, at S225 (: foot.
THIS sale vas made some months agu.
john Johnston. Jr:, has so!d forty feet OH
North Ha!sttd street, near Milwaukee ave-
hue, for 5000; twenty-five feet un Third
avenue for S., 5V0; 0 feetnorth Ut Humboldt
Park.
One hundred and twenty-five feet on tile
corner Of Peoria and Adams streets
was sold fur Ss,U0U. The inferior buildings
built by Moses Wells, the buyer.
lie following sales OF real estate were made
BY Judge l.. b. !OlIs, Receiver Of the State
Savings Institution;
On Tuesday, June l4-200 feet north front, |
i'll Forty.fo1lrth street, between Grand boule-
vard and Eincennes avenue, to George r.
kessler, for S6,00.
= On Saturday. June $3.50 feet in Mason
y Mcktrhan,s Subdivision, OIL the south
avenue, in Hyde Park, 10 James E. Strawn,
sur $3.50.
On tuesday, June 81. seventy-eight acres,
one mile north OF Washington Heights, iii |
See. y, Town 81, Range II, and fronting
20 10 On The sane day Thomas 7. Phil /
ips, Ut Wheeling, w. va, purchased Block
j, III Daniel t;oolwin's Subdivision, contaill-
ny eight anu one-il;1lf acres, fronting south
'n Donslas Park oouleyard, and one-llalf a
nile west Of Douglas Park. This piece Of /
properly was su1d at $1,000.
i sale has been made If LIZ acres at South
sngiewood for $4,000. This was sale Of
ne olh Dyer purcll;lse-nOney mortgage on
hcse premises, and hence does nut appear in
he ordinary conyeyances in fee SIMPLE. 1t
$ sutnised that possibly this property may |
?e USED for purposes connected with the |
Hxstcrn Indiana Belt Railroad Company.
Mr.: l.: T.: Litter has bought twenty-five
street, at tie kensingtnn junction
II the Western Indiana, for :45UO0 Lots
lre retailing at One Hundred anu Fifteenth
tfeet for $40 each, and a sale has been re-
'or1eu, fronting the rairoad at One Hundred
md tllteetitll street, at S7U i tout
AZ tie ninlh annual sale Of the Chicago
Call Board there was q good at
and active bidding. The managers
III this occasion adopted the plan Uf not all
the "upset" or limit price, bl,t al
nd only Declared sold if the amount bid
,ro'ed equal to the upset price Of the owner,
ms price being known only to the manager
ND auctlonetr.
The following are specimens of the bid
ling:
$500 offered for property held at $3.50.
SSSu on ered Tor property held 1T <S5,5D-
SSnN offered for property held at S..Ai0.
Si.5n offered for properly held ut ST. 5..5
Sl@,5o0 offered for property held Ut Sl3,SD
$d9o offered for property held at $3.50.
The bids were, therefore, submitted to the
WnerS " Ut the property, for their approval.
". T. Larkin has sold one house anu lot
Or 81 you: aud six lots for $as.40J, at Hum
oIdt Park.
Among the important sales recorded dur
II the week were 9,1zx125 on Calumet ave
ue, northwest corllrr of Thirty-secvnd |
rect, $3.50; 125Xl25, improved, On Bliss.
orthwest corner of Hickory, 81 GOO; fiftcr1i