St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-24
ST. PAUL NEWS.
ST. PAUL'S REALITY.
All the New Business Blocks
Rented and More
Wanted.
Breaking Ground for More On
Jackson, Seventh and
Minnehaha.
Seventeen New Dwelling Houses Be-
gun Last Week on Ran
doiph.
One New Lumber Yard Supplying Bills for
One House Each
Day.
of the Weeks Sales.
One New Lumber Yard Supplying Bills for
One House Each
Day.
st. Paul People Too CONGRATULATIONS
of the Weeks Sales.

! WINE the real estate market has not shown
any distinctive and marked increased activity
during the past week, it may be said to be much
improved. There has been much better in
| curry than there was during most of the sum-
mer while the number of inquirers from abroad
! mas very largely increased; and it is noticeable
that among these inquirers there are good
many wholesale men who are looking for stores
in desirable locations. This is one of the features
Of the situation, and indicates, to some extent,
the standing of st. Paul abroad The superior
banking facilities which this city enjoys, in ad-
dition TO the commanding position she occupies,
taken IN connection with her great railroad adj
vantages is gradually and securely
establishing her upon firm basis.
This is seen on every hand and is evil
denced by the continuous and multiplying ten
denotes of large capital and heavy business inter
ests to locate here. The commercial supremacy
OF st. Panl has long been admitted and need not
be dwelt upon here. The fact, however, that
during the past week several large eastern firms
have had representatives in st. Paul anx-
iously and continually looking around for
suitable buildings and other facilities for carry
ing on the wholesale business, is mentioned
simply for the purpose Of showing the tendancy
of the times, and business. This department of
business is likely to receive large accessions in
the future. With the Development of the terri
! tory north and west of us, and the filling of it
up with an industrious and prosperous popula-
ton, must necessarily multiply and enlarge
wholesale facilities and render them as limitless
as are those Of airy other city west Of New York.
There is still another feature the present
| business Of hp ri Df
merits notice, and that is the scarcity of stores
on good business streets and the readiness with
which they rent. Take Third, Wabashaw Robert,
Fourth, Jackson, Seventh and other similar
streets, and Notwithstanding during the last year
| or two large number of desirable business
blocks have been constructed, there are practi-
| cally none for rent to-day. In this respect
Seventh street presents peculiar record. From
above Stahman's brewery West Seventh to
the Harvester works everything is rented not
withstanding very large number OF nice large
buildings have been erected there during the
past year. Take the four story block erected by
Mr.. Constans, Reeds and Knauft's blocks, all
are rented and yet they not completed. 1t is
the same way all the city. There is abso-
! lutely variation as regards this in any
part of st. Paul While we
is to say, no extraordinary sales of property and
no fabulous prices, business has been gradually
improving and month by month and year by year
there has been gradual, steady, unbroken
flow of solid, healthy business. Each years
footings of our wholesale dealers showed very
distinct increase over the preceding year, such
as left no room to question the solid and sure
improvement This being the case there is no
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latter class in such limited supply as they are
to-day. The fact OF it is the people of st. Paul
have really no conception OF the possibilities of
this city, and this, united to the generally con-
seryatlye disposition OF our people has served to
cause them TO hold back and 90 slow
about building. This is. of course, the
safest way to do, but at the some
time would it not be well to wake up to the pos
sbitics of ST. Paul, and comprehend the de-
mands of her vast business interests. Every fall
and winter many people think that we have bust
ness houses enough erected to last for several
! years, and express the opinion that we will not
during the coming season build as much as we
did the preceding year. Yet when the next
spring comes, along with it arrives the demand
for business houses and more dwellings,
and so we find ourselves just a little behind
hand. 1t is well known that many people have
come here to st. Paul for the purpose of settling
aud going into business, but have actually been
driven out of the city for want of suitable bust
ness houses and dwelling houses The complaint
is that rents are high. This is simply differ
ence in the form of expression. High rents sim
ply means u scarcity of houses and stores II
there was plenty Of both, rents would be low
enough There are many who think the people
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other words, that they go too slow and that it
would be better TO move along little faster.
MISCELLANEOUS.
New buildings are now commenced az readily
and almost as rapidly as they were early in the
spring Foundations being commenced
every day, while excavations are going on all
around just as much as though this was the be-
ginning of the season.
Chester Hitchcock to John ". White block
a5 Brown II Jackson addition TO West St Paul
$500. Quitclaim.
Peter Grcve has commenced brick block on
seventh street between Broadway and Pine
streets.
Mr. Rachel Is erecting brick block on West
Seventh street, just north Of Judge Emmett $
former residence
IA excavation for store is being commenced
on the corner OF Ramsey and West Seventh
streets
Three weeks ago K, c. Sibley II Co. opened
lumber yard near the st. Paul and sioux City
shops, and have sold lumber for one house each
DAY since they commenced business.
ON Randolph street seventeen new houses
have jast been started near together, which
makes that .Yu, quite lively locking place
The hri making business in S. Paul is re-
; ceiying quite On impetus. The people here
are II 70 think tha; they hsve gone 10 Carver
Chaska and Mankato long euou-h for their brics
and that ;hey ought ;c utilize the splendid clay
: that Is ABUNDANT sl asong here. They have nc
cord.aaly opened mp number Of new bricE
; wards. in the sixth ward there are i've Of thes,
yard. c.o>e gvsacr and they appear TO max,
thinss lively oyer there.
, pr steele has commenced excIyutiag for
h]oes OF handsome dwelling houses on the north
: ,yes, corner OF Fourth and Washington streets
to front on Rice park.
L. y bell has commenced the erection of
new hoass a; Merriam park.
ar. samuel Nsyall has sommcaced excsva;ia.
81 5sSksen street next 10 the Iateyuatioaa
ha.ei fcf The erection OF hi;y foot !ditior {,
a The International II VIII have frontage o
af,y feet Oh Jackson street. by is) feel deep aus
seven stories high.
Three new hril& stores on MiEacaaha stree,
/ at its Junction with Seventh street, have beef
started.
: new sserc on East seventh s:r>et, just ives
/, of phzlcn Avence, IS about completed.
, Il.~ Record.
I. The following are tie deeds recorded last wcel
in the tooks Of the register Of deeds;
MONDAY.
Ed Rice. Jr 20 NelS ! WismtErC II; : bloc