Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-23
AN IMPORTANT DEAL
In Real Estate Involving a Very
Large Amount of Hard Cash.
THREE BIG WAREHOUSES; GOING UP.
A Racy Sketch of Steubeuville as it Was
Sixty Years Ago.
HOW TO AVOID OIL LAMP EXPLOSIONS

One of the largest sales yet made Of unim-
proved suburban property, has just been
closed by w. A. Heron & Sons, they hav-
ing sold part of the Rose estate, on the
West Penn Railroad, near Sharpsburg.
The plot contains about 200 acres,
and the price paid was $155, 900. The
purchasers, whose names are withheld for
the present, have formed a land company and
will subdivide and sell in acre lots at once.
E. B. Mahood, a prominent local operator in
grain, will on April begin the erection of three
warehouses; each six stories high, on the cor
ner of Seventh avenue and Cherry alley The
lot IS 6S16 by 124 upon which are two or three
buildings, one of them being the old Leonard
homestead, erected nearly three-quarters OF a
century ago. Mr.. Leonard was one of the pio-
neer merchant tailors of Pittsburg, whose
establishment on Wood street, below Diamond
alley, will be remembered by all of our older
citizens. He was patronized by the late Mat
thew Simpson, when he was pastor of Brim-
stone Corner, in 1884, long before his elevation
to the Episcopate.
Steubenville is one of the largest and most
thriving suburbs of Pittsburg. 1t has popu-
lation of about 80, 0OO and is full of energy and
enterprise. 1t is thus described in document
bearing the date of lS29-60 years ago-in pos
session of real estate dealer in this city: 1.-THE
town contains about 5000 inhabitants. 1t is
well situated for manufacturers, having mex
haustible beds of stone coal in the neighbor.
hood. There are in the town and neighbor-
hood three merchant Touring mills and a very
large woolen factory, at which $1,000 pounds OF
wool are annually manufactured into cloth.
Large focks of sheep of the merino breed are
owned by the neighboring farmers. There are
beside two cotton factories of 1900 spindles,
large paper mill, belonging to Mr.. Holdship, of
Pittsburg, three iron foundries, steam saw
mill, two brcweries, court house, five
churches, two printing offices and land office.
A mineral called copperas stone (sulphate of
iron) is found more or less in all the coal
banks, from which about $50 tons of copperas
are manufactured per year"
W. A. Heron, the veteran real estate agent,
who fell and broke his arm few weeks ago,
has sufficiently recovered from the injury to be
able to resume Office business and may be
found, as regularly as before the accident, at
his old quarters on Fourth avenue. Mr..
Heron is one of the best posted men on real
estate in the city.
Accidents arising from the use Of petroleum
as an illuminant are of frequent occurrence.
Two or three of serious nature have taken
place in Pittsburg within week or two. These
could be avoided if the oil were tested before
using in the following manner: Take pint
lineup, fill it nearly full of water warmed so
that thermometer immersed in it will show
120 degrees, pour a small quantity of oil on the
water. stir little. then pass a lighted match
quickly but closely over the surface of the oil
once; if it ignltes, the oil is unsafe. If pur-
chases are made of three to five gallons at a
time, and this test is made. people can protect
themselves.
The following is an additional list of patents
expiring March 26 when they may be appro-
priated by any one so disposed Automatic
boiler feeder. D. Vaughn; water-tube steam
boiler, c. G. Beitel; derrick, Il. 8. Blood; cleo
tro-magnetic apparatus, ]. w. Powell; recipro-
eating steam engine, Shepherd g. Clark: manu-
facture of coal gas, A. M. Giles; lubricating
device, g. Hirsch; photo-engraving on metals,
McGill and Pine; manufacture of steel, g. F.
Wilson; safety valve, T. D. Rand; driven well
tuhe w ID. Andrews.