Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-05
A HOWL FOR HOUSES.
Pittsburg Capitalists Reminded That
There Will be Great
DEMAND FOR THEM NEXT YEAR.
Rapid Transit Causing the Suburbs to Boom
and Blossom Like the Rose.
SALT WATER KNOCKING oUTOIL AND GAS

| oALT WATERkkOCkINGOU OUTUlL ANDGAo
Gentlemen who propose to build houses
next year, for sale or rent, should not over
look the fact that the great need is for
small ones with from four to six rooms.
People desiring palaces to live in are gen.
orally able to build them. 1t is the bone
and sinew of the land-the toiiers Of all de-
grees. who touch crude material and turn 1t
into eold-that must be provided for. They
would flock here by thousands ii they could
buy or rent houses at prices within their
reach. Such people are needed. Give them
a chance to become part and parcel of this
great community by building houses for them
to live in. Build small houses. There will be a
great demand for them next spring.
|
Strangers who visit Pittsburg at intervals Of
a year or two notice the rapid growth of the
| city more than citizens. What impresses them
most is the wonderful development OF the
suburbs. Within few years they have passed
from the primeval collaboration fields ten
| anted only by browsing cattle and woods de-
| voted to picnic parties-to that OF thickly
settled communities, covered with fne houses
and presenting all the evidences of refinement
and comfort. A great deal of this growth is
due to the introduction of rapid transit. with
out which the diffusion of population into the
suburban districts would be slow, since very
few, only those whose time is their own, could
arrange their business so as to make it conve-
nient for them to reside beyond the limits OF
the city proper. With the facilities for quick
passage already possessed, and still better
| promised, the movement toward the outlying
| districts will increase in volume. People want
| to get out of the city, which should be entirely
| given up to business Capitalists could ac-
| celerate this movement by building several
thousand small and medium-sized houses
They would quickly find buyers or renters for
all they could put up.
The oil and gas operators of Northwestern
Ohio are having serious trouble with the salt
| water, which, as the field grows Older and the
| draft upon its resources becomes greater.
seems to be increasing everywhere as a disturb
! ing element, and many devices have been tried
| to obviate this difficulty, but thus far without
| success. The oil wells can be relieved by
| pumping the salt water away at regular inter
walls, but in the case of a gas well the presence
| Of salt water means ruin, and some of the
greatest producers in the Findlay field are now
| practically worthless on this account. In Wood
county there are a few wells that have not yet
| been troubled with salt water. but the vast
majority have to be relieved regularly or they
would produce little oil, while a large number
of gas wells have been abandoned on account
of its presence. The great Karg well. of Find
| lay, the fame of which was worldwide, is
among the number.
Sewickley, pretty town nesting in pretty
valley IL miles from Pittsburg, down the Fort
Wayne railroad, is to have an important ac-
m hor
ESQ.,, has purchased from W. P. Murray lot
there, l4Ox2OO feet, on the northwest corner of
Beaver and Nevin streets, for s.. 500, or S35
foot 'front.' and will build fine residence on it.
There is good inquiry for property in the
borough, and vacant lots are being bought up
very fast. The price paid by Mr.. Ivory is con.
sidered very reasonable, considering the high
character of the neighborhood.
$50
c. E. Mitchell, the Commissioner of Patents,
has filed with the Secretary of the Interior the
preliminary report of the operations of his
bureau for the year ended June 80, 1882 There
were received during the year &c, 74O applica-
tions for patents, sos applications for design
patents, 10l applications for reissue patents,
l,2S1 applications for registration of trade
marks, T2 applications for registration of
labels, and 2,S45 caveats, making a total of
1901. The number of patents granted in the
year, including reissues and designs, was
q, ,5lS; number of trade marks registered, Ill;
number of labels registered, S12 making total
of 2294l. The number of patents withheld for
non-payment of final fees was 2S5S; number of
patents expired, Il, ,920.
The receipts from all sources for the year ag-
gregated 81, ls6, 557; the expenditures, including
printing and binding, stationery and conting-
ent expenses s999, ,697; leaving surplus for
the year of Sl86, $50, which makes the total
amount in the United States Treasury to the
credit of the patent fund, SS,524, 526
The Commissioner says that an opinion has
found expression that the policy of the Patent
Office in adjudjcating upon questions arising in
the granting of patents should conform more
nearly to the decisions of the Federal courts
There can be no doubt of this view. and accord.
ingly the Commissioner believes it would be
wise for Congress to require the clerks of the
Federal courts to furnish certified copies of all
decisions and opinions in patent cases for pub
lication in the official gazette.
Every now and then the old question of es-
tablishlng a real estate exchange comes to the
surface in one shape or another showing that
the idea has not been abandoned. A real estate
broker broached the subject yesterday and
said 81 opposed the scheme at first but have
thought over it more carefully since and have
come TO the CONCLUSION Inab IL WOulQ pc good
thing for the real estate business. 1 was
bothered half to death the other day by man
who wanted to sell house and lot. He went
around among the agents to find out who would
handle the property the cheapest. Then he
came to me for a bid. 1 told him my terms
but he was not satisfied, and had to talk very
plainly to him before he would leave. If we
had an exchange such worry and ANNOYANCE
would be impossible Owners would 90 there
for a m arket and that would be the end of it
until sales were made"
Thos. ]. Smith, living near jackson, Mich.
who owns a patent on a wire-fence machine.
recently received letter from the Globe
Patent Company. of San Francisco, Cal, Offer
ing him a big price for the right to sell on the
Pacific Coast, also request that Smith should
send s24 to pay for having the patent papers
examined at Washington. Smith sent the
money and the patent papers, but United States
Express Agent Brown, thinking all was not
right, telegraphed the San Francisco agent of
his company to investigate. The result was
the arrest of a gang of frauds, the Globe
Patent Company" being bogus concern that
has been working the schemes a long time
yictimlzing inventors throughout the United
States by receiving from them large sums of
money Smith will probably be called to Cali.
fornia to appear against the Globe gang.
Letters from the bogus concern have been
received by Pittsburg inventors.
NEXT TO NOTHING.
Apathy ReiRns nt the Stock Exchange