, 1881-09-04
Crazy Exaggerations Of Specu-
lators Trying to Sell Swamp
Lands.
The Railroads and the Belt Line
Two New Towns to Be
Started.
Interesting History Of the Fluctuations
Of Value OF the Forsyth
Tract.
Yew Board of Trade Building-The Under
ground Road-New City
Railway.
Sales.
VALUES ADVANCING NE.A1: THE NEW BOARD


VALUES ADVANCING NEAL: TIE NEW BOARD
OF TRADE !
Many important sales have been in negO-
tiatlon the past week. but the number con-
su,,linated So far that they can be reported Is
not large All important transaction SHOW
Inc an advance Or 20 per cent in two months
is the resale of the lot near the new Board Of
Trade sold short time ago to Nh. Lorlng.
Henry S. Eyerllart less than sixty days ago
purchased for Daniel \. Lorlng. Ut the Sears
estate, of Boston, through William d. ker-
foot l. Co., ;;0xo1:; feet on Clark, east front,
10 feet south of Jackson, for $4,000 cash. !
Yesterday Mr. EverIlart sold the same lot for
Mr.. Loring to n. +. llawley for 10000 c;sll. |
Mr. J. u. Casson has bought for $4,000
forty feet OIL Wabash avenue, east front, for
t. teet north Of Congress street.
II. n. Payne has sold seventy acres. being
the ". y of y. ". i. Sec. Is, Town OF Lake,
for so 100; also $50 acres i'll Secs. . and 80.
between Hammond and Lakes Wolf and
George, at $l55 per acre, or ,22jO. one-thlrd
cash. balance in one, two, and three years Ut
Gper cent
E. S. Dreyer s. Co. sold S5S1Co feet on the
Lake~Shore drive, southwest corner OF Cedar
street. for $4,000: :sSl0S feet on Oak street.
east of Kusl, street, for S2,@>o; Il two-story
and basement brick house and lot, 70 Grant
place, for 5000; two-story brick house aud
lot, :425xs0, Dearborn avenue, near Chicago
avenue, for $4,000; 5ox109 feet OH Belmont
avenue, near Green Bay road, for ST. .200;
two-story brick house OIL Cass near Chestnut
street. for 50, ,ooo> and 4sxloo feet on Blue ISL
a,ld avenue, near liobey street, for 81 ,io0.
Larkin Il Dorr have sold five lots ut 1lun,-
boldr Park for 100, also twelve lots ut
Garfield for 400.
Sales Of real estate have been greatly stlnl-
ulateI by the news published in The TE1i'-
rSE Of last Sunday about the location OF the
shops and transfer yards Of the Chicago q
Western Indiana IS
At SOUTH ESGLEWOOD.
Seventy acres in the west half School
Trustees Subdivision, between Stewart anu
ualsted streets and One Hundred and Fourth
and One Hundred and Eighth streets, have
been sold for 500 an acre LII dc 1ouns
Subdivision, adjoining the above, i'll the
southeast quarter of Sec. 9, 81, Il, thirty
eight acres have been sold Tor
5000 an acre, and the purchaser
has since refused sGa5 per acre. Sixteen
pcrcs in Forsythe's Subdivision i'll the n. r..
j of Sec 3, :>s, II, were disposed OF some
tine ago for $3.50 an acre and have now been
sold for $500 all acre. Blocks and Il i'll the
Webster Heirs Subdivision, i'll Scc. 81, Is. II,
we're sold for S400 and rcsold for S3oo.
Blocks g. 1G, and Is, comprising twentyacres'
III the same subdNlslola' soAo aot e'oo'
IN THE SALES OF THE WEEK
we're ten acres OH western avenue. ~ nottn
west corner OF Augusta 5io'ooo, -oNio' l:s'
OH Van Buren, west OF ftlh asenuc, Nlt,'
building No. Isl, S122,aQQ0; 30xlso, linprovea'
OIL Ellis avenue, souln u nlooA, 80 S'''uv, ~,
triangular lot OF h1nctySiye lee. oon. ~
North franklin, north OF e1'1A, @.,ooo'
GS92, improved. on 1ro'e1ailo 81. ~ oao A.
north Of. Iillrflc'h suee'' ~'0oo'
undivided half OF :!4Nl3l7s. lhplo'eu' ~
Michigan avenue, south ot oo"." 'sIt'
$1,000; 773'}}zx1Gl OIL Lake ohore orl'e, sout'l.
west corner of Cedar, S13,Ooo; :oAllosa ol'
Judd west OF oteWar1 aseH"e' so'oop' ,r'.e-.s.
improved, OH Ellis avenue, south OF lhlits'
seventh street, SG,sO0; 1oO feet OIL DlS street.
near George, to river, Sl0,op; i@Sloo ol
West Washington, west OF Curtis, in'proSed'
ElG.O0O: 9l0x14U oil Western avenue Dousc
yard. northeast corner of Illlrty-1ourtt
street, Sl6.4O0; 39$SlSl0t15 on fl1ti
avenue, south of Polk. S6,0oo; ~
x1S} on Fullerton avenue sou,il
west corner Of Chicago River. SUES
d C-10xl, improved on l."s'1 ',,. 1a1a',@
avenue. northeast of Twelfth street, $500
ely1Go $40 on Michigan avenue, llea
Twenty-eighth street, $1,000; 5ox115 9lo o1
Canal street, northwest corner Of -Four
teenth, $500; .o45544x:a;6 o-10 adjoining TN
Turner Casing Company, near the Stock
Yards, SdIs,0U0: JOxl03, improved, OIL oeus
wic, ct rcc1. nortl, Of Twoley. 81, ,00O; un'll
49,, ~ - .,,.,,1.5 mn North Green street
Slueu Il I'll -ooAi:o otA -NoAeAA
north of West Erie, SSU0
The Chicago tical Eststte IAeE"''Se .1Ao,
sale at at auclio' VI t"e"'s u.,....
Gated oil Fifty-thlru street, west ot l1aisteo
sr},a ,,rit,as ranged from SI40 to $50 each to
,-,s1, 80. trh, ,++an.sancc was m
Io1s ~Ni-u 1eet- a.'e ,',N .e,',;~ -,
large, Il picnic n South i.llh Hols9Ais "
tAeAAet ,.,, .., ;,t,,>aoa 4, ,o =,
properly M,uoaA ,l.''. ''''A''