Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-25
AN ACTIVE MOVEMENT.
The Real Estate Business Picking Up-Im-
portunt DeaIs-Morfgages Placed.

James W. Drape & Co. placed asnortgage Of
$4,000 on a manufacturing property in the
city at per cent; also three mortgages of
SC, 700 at 6per cent on city and suburban proper
ties They also sold threelots of ground in the
Nineteenth ward, Penn avenue, near Pearl
street. 24xlO0 feet for 81 700; also two pieces of
ground in the West End for Sl,740 and also
closed the sale of a house and lot on Penn
avenue, near Fifteenth street, for s., 800.
John F. Baxter, 5l2 Smithield street, sold
lot No. 70, Baum Grove plan, near East Liberty,
situate near Euclid avenue, size 50x120 feet to
a 20-foot alley, sewer, curbing and sawed stone
sidewalk included, to John E. Carroll for 81 500.
Thomas McCaffrey, S5Us Butler street e. sold
20 on "hirty-thlrd street and Brerton avenue
for $780,
Ewing & Byers, No. 10Y Federal street, sold
for Miss Mary Gray to John Limegrower two
houses in the Second ward, Allegheny, being
No. SO Alpine avenue a two-story brick house
of eight rooms and all conveniences. and No. 6S
Carroll street fwSSt9y % SriSS OK house noss OF ve
Major A. j. Pentecost is having good de-
mand for building sites in the Watson place
plan on Perrysyille avenue, having just closed
ham, County Recorder; lot No. 2l0 to Arthur
Kennedy. Esq, Select Councilman from the
First ward. Allegheny, and lot No 2l2 to Mr.
Taxes in Allegheny City, at prices reserved
Several residences are to be erected in the
plan Immediately, and great improvements are
looked for along the electric road this year, the
cars on which are running regularly.
Allies & Bailey. 164 Fourth avenue, placed
mortgage for 81, 900 on property in the Twenty
seventh ward, Pittsburg, for three years, at 6
per cent.
Thomas Liggett sold lot on Roup street 4Ox
100 feet, for 5000: also, piece of ground on
the same street. 100 feet square at price ap-
proximauing $500. The purchaser will i'm
prove it at once. Mr.. Liggett also placed a
mortgage for 81, SEQ on Mount Washington
property at per cent. He also sold about ~
acres at Hawkins Station for S3, 200.
]. R. Cooper Co. lO7 Fourth avenue, sold
for George s. Martin in the Maplewood Park
pIan Williamsburg lot No. l70. corner Grand
avenue and Mills street, 40 feet on Mill by I'll
feet to Fahnestock lane, for $500, to ]. h. Will
liams; also lot 143 in the same plan, fronting 40
feet on Fahnestock avenue by SO feet to Singer
street, for $780, to James Stratton.
Black & Baird. 95 Fourth avenue, sold for W.
]. Ray to NJ. A. Rea a vacant lot on the west
side of slang avenue. Twenty-second ward,
being 23x100 feet for $3.50.
w: q. Stewart placed mortgage for $4,000
on city property for three years at ~ per cent,
free of State tax.
Baltensperger & Williams. No. 154 Fourth
avenue, sold for K. Q. Bigham, ESQ.,, TO j. Mil
ligan and ]. D. Allen, lots "A and rs in the Big
ham plan, Mt. Washington, having a frontage
of "A feet each on Bigham street and extending
back 120 feet to an alley.
l. o. Frazier, corner Forthwith and Butler
streets, sold for McIntire & Brand. lot 20xl09
feet to 2Gfoot alley, situate on the northeast
teenth ward, to George g. McAleese for 81 900.
Mellon Bros. of the East End. yesterday sold
d. R. Crawford lot 26xlS7 on Fairmount ave-
nue..