, 1881-01-30
Large Amount Of Figuring on In
side Real Estate aud
Acres.
Sales Of the Week-Building-
Permits and Loans.
Rents Strong-canai Pumping
Works Landlord and
Tenant.

ary. negotiations take for the most part but
TWO CHANNELS
uowadays. Buyers want central business prop
cry, improved or untIDprOved. and acres south
between the city limits and the Calumet River.
The numerous new manufacturing concerns
going into the neiphborhood Of Pullman and
South Chicago have given \ great stimulus to
the prospects OF real estate there. Tha North
Division. too, ts awakening. and
NEW ENTERPRISES OF IMPORTANCE
are finding sites on the North Branch.
Great curiosity exists as to the purchaser OF
the southeast corner OF
ADaAs AND FRANKLIN STREETS,
12511B9, recently sold by Mr.. c. N. Henderson
tor $l.x50 foot. One mau's guess Is as good as
anorhers, bur the most popular surmtse points
to the Brooks estate OF Boston rs the
buyers Another guess is in favor Of 4. T.
Stewart L. Co. II either Of these have bought
the land it will be improved by an elegant build
ing. The Brooks estate have IN ambition to
Guido in Chicago the beautiful Roreel Building
In New York.
The Connecticut Mutual Iffs-Insurance Com
pany, through 1sham &; Prentice, have sold their
property on the southwest corner OF
. MONROE AND Ii SALE
streets for IS, ,000 The piece sold was the east
half of Lot and the north forty-f1ve feetof Lot
4tu Block 90. School Section. This property has
. frontage OF ninety-tiye feet on Monroe. The
. Hfty feetan the corner runs back forty-dve feet
on La salle, and the adjoining fortg-lve feet on
Monroe has depth Of 100 The purchaser is q
well-known Chicago capitalist
Twelve hundred dollars an acre has been bid
TOR land on State street west Of Pullman.
"A quiet inquiry Is on foot for the stock OF the
CALUMET 1 CHICAGO CANAL q DocK COM
PAEY.
Ten dollars share has been freely bid for it,
and as freely refused. The property OF this
Company consists Of 6,000 acres Of 1nnd at South
Chicago. The Company eve On stocks, bonds,
and accrued interest about $500 an acre. The
value Of the land ranges Us high as $4,000 an
acre. and very little OF it would go for less than
$500 an acrn. at $500 an acre on the average
! the stock would be worth par, and at an average
! of 81, 200 an acre It would bring $500 share.
Hence the unwilingness Of the holders OF the
stock to sell to the bondholders at 10 cents on
the dollar.
George T. Clarke & Co, No. eMutual Lite Build
- ing, have sold the stone front house No. 1000
Lake Park avenue, With lot s3xae to 16 foot
alley. &, 900: stone front house 10. 30e Lake
Park avenue; lot s8x92 to is foot alley, &, go;
stone front house No. 300l Grogelaud Park av-
enue lot 23x02 S. 500; 50 feet, east front, Grove
land Park avenue, hy 81 feet deap. at $75 per
foot: Is feet east front, on southwest corner Of
Thirtieth street and Grovelaud Park avenue, by
I feet deep. at $50 per foot; 100 feet east 'front.'
on northwest corner OF ThIrtiefh street and
Groyeland Park avenue, ut $87.50 per foot: 80
fce1, west front, on northeast corner Of Th:r-
t1eth street and Groveland Park avenue, at $50
per foot
Garnett &; Thomasson have sold the two-srory
brick building and lot 88 State street for $la000
This is at valuation OF $425 foot for the land.
E. s. Dreyer e. Co. sold Lots IS and ~, School
Section Addition, Sec ID. for 5000 per acre cash.
These two lots consist Of ten acres each loo atod
about three-quarters OF q milo due west Of Pull
man. 1t WAS purchased By the firm eight months
ago for $500 par acre, and shows therefore 100
per cent profit In that time The same firm also
cold l50x16l feet On Michigan avenue, near
Forty-ntnth street, for $50 per foot.
". D. Kerfoot Co. have sold the corner
house Of the nine owned by Mr.. Jesse Spald,ng
on the southeast corner Of Superior and Sinclair
streets for $500
B. F. Bead sold for Thomas and Cathariue Nc
Kenna to Winfield S. Baker twenty-three lots
in Maher & .McKepna's Subdivision for $1s.75o,
all cash.
IN THE SALES OF TIE WEEK
were IS feet to alley, improved, on West Lake,
west OF Wood $1,000; 491l00. improved, on Cass
street, south Of Erie, S19,00D, 20x148 on South
Water, east Of Clark, $9,5QO; 'E0x90 on Fifth
avenue, near Monroe, coo: 12411 11lo on Mar
ket. northeast corner Of Jackson, 500; 205
feet to river on Grove street, uear Seventeenth,
$6l.600; 751l0o On Thirty-1fth, southeast corner
OF Calumet avenue. IS 600; 5sxltB on Maple, east
OF Dearborn avenue, $500; 50Kl14 Gu Wabash
avenue, south OF Thirty-fourth, $3.50: es4 x100
on State, northwest corner Of Fourteenth, 1880;
5cxlS9aa on West Madison, west OF Desplaiues,
$a,@@15: @tlIl10 on State, north Of Twelfth,
$660o; 22x1s5, improved. On Calumet avenue,
near Thirty-third, $500: 2lx100, improved,
on Ontario, west OF Dearborn ayenue,
$65N; a3x60 On Lake. east Of Fifth |
NTEA
avenue. southwest corner OF Thirtieth.
$500; 267 on Broad, north of Archer avenue, to |
f1foey. with csd0o on northeast corner OF |
Archer avenue and Pitney, $la, ,U0; same, &c.,
000: @@.1xl94 on West Madison, west of Robey. |
5000; 24x1o5 on West Monroe, east Of Wood. |
5000: 6ox93 on West Indiana, east OF Robey, !
$4,000.
4 comparison Of the records in the Recorders t
Office with the lists OF transfers published in the !
newspapers since Jan. shows that Is per cent Of |
the transfers recorded
HAVE NOT BEEE PUBLISHED. I
At the request OF persons interested. Recorder
BrocKway hn6 been emitting numbers OF sales
from the published lists. Sales to the nmoup1 of
$33f7. $50 were omitted during the hrst four weeks
OF this month. Hereafter there will be no mora
such suppresslous, and those who wish to keep
their business a secret will need to withhold |
their deeds from record.
J.
has been made by the ST. Louis & San
Francisco Road through the Chicago firm Of
sidway, Bogue Co., toa
SCOTTISH LAND COMPANY.
This land will be resold to Scotch and English
farmers who Intend to make their home ia |
America Mr.. Subway reports that there is an
increasing disposition in Great Britain to invest
n the stock of American Innd companies. This
g5oWs largely OUT of the fact that there are a
<rcat many persons desising to purchase land
for future occupancy who cannot conveniently
come over ut present to select 1t, but IRE willu.
70 invest upon the judgment Of others in whose /
integrity and ability they have confidence
through personal knowledge. Its convenient
say OF asgregnting capital for buying at the
owest prices. Certainly great many persons
sii come here through becoming intercsted IL, a
company that otherwise never would withou.
ONE such assistance. The signs are that there
7ill be an unusual Influx Of persons Of means
nrtug 1851. and especially among the farming ,
lasses, and Others who desire 10 engage in cot- .
e- growing on the plains, many of. the latter ,
cling young men IRON the cities.
THE ANNEXATION or BRIGHTON {
} Chicago is one OF the coming issues, This | 8
lburb politically belongs to Cicero, but has no |
ther connection With it. It's geographical, bus :
less, and an other relations are VILE Chicago. ! q
hen fs.r1T /