St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-18

The Whole Week Shows a Strong and
Vigorous Market in SANITY City
Dirt.
Over half Million Dollars Worth Of
st. Paul Property Recorded During
the Week.
Much Inquiry for Inside and Mid
way Lots and West St Paul
Property.
The Chicago, Burlington d Northern
Condemntng Property for Its
Track TO Minneapolis.
ST. Paul Real Estate sales.

ST. Paul Real Estate sales.
The buying, selling and trading In
real estate goes on steadily. Many parties
who are not heavy dealers are securing lots
for homes or for business, merchants, me-
chanicS, school teachers and professional
men generally, and indeed all classes seem
to be permeated with the idea that little
realty lis not bad 10 have" 1t is quite
difficult TO indicate any special locality
which seems TO be the fayorite direction for
investments. There are some particular
districts where property has been and is
/ still low, caused by lack of confidence or
from the fact that. it is changing from
residence to business property,
and while in this transitory state
is dull and slow of sale. The
most notable Of these localities is that in
kittson's addition, south of Seventh street
and east of Broadway. The railroads have
occupied all south of Fourth street, and
there has been general feeling that the
necessities of the transportation lines
would sooner or later require all south of
Sixth and east Of Broadway for trackage,
freight houses, passenger depots, etc. But
the Transfer has met the wants of the
companies for large yard room, and now
manufactures are steadily seeking ground
IN this district on account of its nearness to
railroad facilities and TO the wholesale dis
| trict. A few sales have been made
recently at about $500 per foot and
there is a good deal of ground
that can be bought between Fourth and
Sixth, KittSon street. and Pine at from
$50 to $500 per foot 1t is the cheapest
real estate near the business heart of the
city and is likely to advance in value quite
considerably in the near future.
LAKE COMO SUBURB.
East. west and north of Lake Como lies
some of the handSomeSt land surrounding
st. Paul. Lack of transportation facilities
has retarded its development but the COM
| pletion of the ST. Paul and Northern Pacific
railroad with station at the crossing of
Como avenue and at Lexington avenue will
soon change the situation. The widening
OF Como avenue into a beautiful boulevard
and its extension around the shores
Of the lake and westward to the state fair
| ground with line of street cars running TO
the lake. and the fair grounds will reyolu-
tioniZe the face of the country. This year
will make more marked changes about
Como than the past five years have wit
| messed. Several shrewd operators have
made large investments north OF Como, and
1t is confidently expected that some system
OF transportation will be devised to bring
business and travel 10 the railroad station at
Como avenue. The time is not far distant
when the beautiful park region north
of the city will develop into a de-
| lightful suburban residence district
South of Summit avenue. bending like a
Semi-circle, is a most beautiful line of
| bluffs, skirting from st. Clair street clear
to West End addition. 1t embraces sew
eral large tracts of unplatted land. such as
the Kidd piece. the NettletOn Tor Hatch)
property, the ii. NJ. Rice and Magoffin and
Breckenridge lands. Nearly all this prop
erty, except the Kidd property, has changed
hands recently and will soon be plated and
placed upon the market. The Kidd prop
erty has been cleared of underbrush, water
pipes have been laid through il rustic
bridges and a lookout built and
propositions made on a large scale
TO open il up as a pleasure ground. In
| plating West End addition, Mr.. William
Dawson laid out a magnificent avenue fol-
lowing the irregular contour of the bluff,
which he called Summit avenue SOUTH"
He procured the extension of il by proper
dedication through the Breckenridge and
Magoffin properties through Ii. NJ. Rice and
William Nettleton's land to where it inter-
whoever plats the lands north of this beau
tiful avenue, as now laid out will
see that it is extended in the
same general way. following along
the edge of the bluff, either to intersect
Lexington avenue or Summit avenue proper.
When Lexington is opened, and Summit
avenue south'' is improved, it will be one
of the finest drives in the city. Within a
| few weeks 1t will be the popular avenue
! for the coming wealth and fashion of this
city. No one who has not driven over this
area can form any idea of its
GREAT NATURAL BEAUTY.
A few far-Seeing men have secured and
| held this land, amounting i'm all to several
hundred acres. TILL it has become of i'm
mense value. The construction of the mo-
| tor line (which is now aSsuredl, out Pleas
ant avenue, along the foot of the western
bluff until it intersects with Seventh street
at or near city limits, will furnish quick
transportation to jewellers in this new
region. 1t will soon be plated, and within
few years the development in that direc-
ton will be most marvellous. A depot at
some convenient crossings on the Chicago,
Milwaukee IL st. Paul railroad, like st.
Clair street or Lexington avenue. the
| motor line service and an extension of
the street car line out Randolph street, which
Is reckoned as possibility. would trans
form that natural park region now covered
with native trees into a thickly settled
suburb. Mr.. Kidd of New York. who
owns the lookout and the springs is ex-
pected here shortly, and some new ievel-
opments in that direction are not unlikely
There has been great activity i'm that di-
rection for several months past, and while
everybody denies ali knowledge OF any spe-
cial projects of interest the race to secure
all desirable property lying along or near
that bluff continues.
LIVING SPRINGS
| gush out of the foot hills. near Agd's old
mill, which are clear as crystal and furnish
several thousand barrels of water per hour.
enough to run the old mill On the old
Hatch place and on the Ii. NJ Rice tract.
| recently purchased by the Motor Line syn
dictate, there are some magnificent, clear
deep springs, furnishing an ineXhaustible
supply of pure water. Why should not the
city, now, at once secure some land and
some of those fine living springs and make
a park that would furnish pure air aud
pure water forever.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Northern Railroad and Terminal COM
pany, which really means the Chicago, Bur-
lington Northern, has advertised for gen.
eral condemnation of property, from the Neu-
rer property at the junction of Como and
Western avenues eastward almost TO the