St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-04
ST. PAUL REAL ESTATE.
The Condition of the Real Estate Market
Not Much Changed From
Last Week.
Property Firm All Around, and Prices as
Stiff as They Have Ever
Been.
what the Unions in the Different
Wards Are Doing for Each.
Locality.
West st. Paul Suffering for Improve
ments That Will Be Very
West st. Paul Suffering for Improve
ments That VIII Be Very
Expensive.
Business Property.

who regard all that property east
OF jackson and south of Seventh
street, down to Trout Brook as al
most, Or quite as valuable as that re-
ferred to above Jackson. Thesespeople..say
that 1t lies nearer to the freight depotS of
all the roads; that it does not require so
long haul;that it does not make necessary
long, uphill haul, and that it is, in all
respects in which business man looks at
it, more desirable for the purposes of trade.
Besides this, the property in that locality
can be obtained for a price considerably less
than is asked for that above Jackson street.
These reasons seem quite plausible, yet the
business Instincts of men still leads them
to buy in the district above referred to, west
of jackson street. That part of the city
still has the call over any other portion of
the city, and undoubtedly will continue to
have until that whole district is full and
men are compelled to go somewhere else.
1t has obtained too big start, and will not
give up the contest till its building sites
are all occupied. Seventh street from
jackson to Wabasha is now almost filed
up. On the north side Of that thoroughfare
the block now being erected by Stees Bros,
fills up the space between the TWO points
named except two or three lots which now
have small buildings upon them that rent
for satisfactory prices. In the nature Of
things these little cheap buildings
CANNOT REMAIN THERE LONG.
Other and more costly structures must be
erected in their places. On the south side
OF the street. between jackson and Waba-
sha, the addition to the Ryan, now being
erected, will fill up all the space between
Jackson and Robert streets. From Robert
to Minnesota it is filled up full of buildings.
and from Minnesota to WabaSha it will
soon be full. The block now being erected
by Mark l.. Patten and Mr.. Reardon, on
the corner of Seventh and Minnesota
with 100 feet front on the former. fills up
the block on that side. On other streets
south of Seventh great deal of building
is in progress, and the intervening space
all along between Sixth street and Third is
being rapidly filled up by some of the
largest structures in the city, and business
is rapidly gathering into that central
locality. 1t is no stretch of the magma
ton to say that the elderly people Of this
city will live to see the time when all that
territory bounded by Wabasha street and
Trout Brook, Seventh street and the river
will be solid business quarter. One of the
distinctive agencies that is doing very
much to build up st. Paul, and one, too,
that has come into operation very recently,
is the local ward union. Though
its existence has been so brief it has accom-
pliShed great deal. Especially is this the
case in West St. Paul and on Dayton's
bluff. Naturally these two sections of the
city would receive less attention than most
other parts Of the city. This would occur
not from any intention to neglect either sec
ton, but simply because they are remote,
and because of no special effort on the part
of anyone. to look out for the interests of
such portions of the city. The unions just
fill the bill These organizations have
weekly or semi-monthly meetings, and by
full expressions of opinion ascertain pre-
cisely what the ward requires. They then
formulate these requirements and place
them before the council with suitable sug-
gestions calculated to show the
reasonableness of the request and the
necessity of the improvement. In
this way Dayton's bluff obtained the cleo
trio lights, large amount of sewerage and
grading and many other things that it would
not have obtained in a long time but for
this organization.
WEST ST. PAUL.
1t is probable that large proportion of
the people of st. Paul have no very ade-
quate idea of what is meant to-day by the
term "West ST. Paul" The walk across
the bridge is SO long and uncomfortable that
few persons will voluntarily undertake it,
unless it is necessary to do so, or some
special thing attracts them there. Conse-
quently, many people regard this part of
the city as kind of village.
They do not seem to COM
prehend the fact that it is city of 10. 900
inhabitants. When told that $125, 900 have
been invested this year in building on Da-
kota avenue, extending over space of two
or three blocks, they are astonished and
cannot comprehend the fact They cannot
understand how little village like the
Sixth ward could require structures, nor
can they understand what she is to do with
them now that she has them. The truth is
that the Sixth ward has been growing and
increasing more rapidly in population than
other part of the city and has, in some re-
spectS, overrun itself. That is to say, it is
now, on account of its rapidly increasing
population, forced into position where it is
compelled to have certain public
topography of the country these
improvements will necessarily be very ex-
penSive. The surface is very much broken.
called the flat, and is sometimes overlooked
by the river. Above this is a terrace or
table land, and high above this is the
high bluff, at least 100 feet above the level
of the river. When the matter of grading
the streets over this irregular surface and
the putting in Of sewers is considered,
the engineers have problem before them
of no ordinary difficulty to solve. The eX-
pense of grading and sewering will be very
great indeed. This difficulty is now engag-
ing the earnest attention of the members of
the union and the city engineer. Until some
thing is done towards grading the streets
the steam fire engines can be of little use.
These machines were not constructed with
a view of jumping precipiceS and running
over rough and rugged places. Besides the
expensive blocks that are being erected in
that ward are such as to render a fire de-
partment of considerable pretensions nee
essary. How to deal with all these difficult
ties the board of public works and the
council has before them. To settle them
satisfactorily will require good deal of
patient consideration. At its meeting last
Friday night the West Side union consid-
cred the matter and finally referred the SUBJ
ject to a committee.
MISCELLANEOUS.
motifs Be1feld is putting In the founda-
lions for four-story brick block at the cor
ner of Ducas street and Fairfield avenue.
The structure will be 100x118 feet wide and
the cost $4,000. Mr.. Charles Filter will erect
similar building adjoining at the same cost.
The two buildings will cover the front of the
block Oh Ducas street between Fillmore and
Fairfield avenues.
Two hundred acres have been conveyed to
the Burlington & Northern road, down below
the fish hatchery for SA0. 0O0 and an arrange
ment made with the road that when the time
comes for certain improvements to be made
the road shall make them.
F. J. Schultz has bought four lots at the
corner of Grant street and Aurora avenue
for $11, 1000. 1t is Mr., Schultz intention to
erect $4,000 residence at that point.
William Dawson has bought of Kavanagh