Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-03
LANDS AND HOUSES.
Some Important Deals, With More of
the Same Sort on the String.
THE DEMAND STILL VERY ACTIVE.
Westinghouse Stocks Under a Cloud, With
Philadelphia in the Van.
OIL ADVANCES NEARLY TWO CENTS

Several important real estate transactions
were consummated yesterday, showing that
business is still in full vigor. Among them
were: A Westmoreland county farm, 81. 100;
block of fine houses on Stanton avenue,
Allegheny, $12,250; a brick residence on
Fifth avenue, Oakland, $500; II lots in
Reserve township, 5000 to $275 each, and
two lots on Penn avenue, Twentieth ward,
81 900. Progress was reported in two or
three large deals that have been on the string
for several weeks. This shows that interest In
real estate is being kept up.
Zone of the most interesting features to me
of the license business has been overlooked,
remarked prominent citizen yesterday. u
refer to the devotion to law which the disap-
pointed men and their friends have shown.
Hundreds were thrown out of business by the
word of one man. but they didn't rebel; they
didn't attempt to incite riots; they didn't make
attempts on the life of the Judge; they didn't
parade the streets to excite sympathy for their
cause. Like loyal citizens they bowed to the
majesty of the law as represented by the Court.
In any other country in the world this would
have resulted in riot If not revolution. While
1 am opposed to the liquor traffic SIS great
public evil. cannot refrain from giving these
men full credit for exhibiting one Of the best
qualities of American NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
to the law under trying circumstances. Their
splendid forbearance has raised them several
degrees in my estimation"
People may be met almost any day on Fourth
avenue with pockets full OF money, looking for
snaps" in real estate. They have no connec-
tion with any of the syndicates that are COB
bling property right andleft but act upon their
own hook, in the belief that lands and houses
afford the best and safest investment for their
surplus cash. While this feeling prevails the
land trade of Pittsburg can never be lifeless.
Business Just now is q little sluggish, by COM
parison with the brisk.:times of the winter and
early spring. but there is considerable inquiry,
with fair amount of sales. That the interest
will keep up all summer there is no doubt. The
demand for building loans continues un-
checked. Money to be thus applied is sufficient
to meet the demand.
The improvement of subdivision property is
going forward rapidly. This is especially notice
able in the East End, at Shadyside, Roup and
Dallas. 1t is now becoming necessary to have
something more to show to intending pur-
chasers than naked sod, and sub-dividers have
become, in a manner at least, improvers. Side
walks grades, roads and numerous trees are
the common adjuncts to q properly handled bit
of outlying ground. This is good way to at
tract customers and insure quick sales.
According to reports from New Zealand there
is a good opening there for several kinds Of
Pittsburg machinery. Binders and corn drills
are in great demand, and have large sale. A
large number of horse hayrakes are yearly sold.
The very superior cheapness and lightness of
the American nearly gives them monopoly of
this instrument. For the past three seasons a
number of cleaning machines have been on the
market, and their low price makes them favored
by farmers. They are being sold at less than
half the price of the English machine. Disk
harrows and cheap hillside plows find ready
sale.