Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-25
Business News and Gossip.

High water is retardIng operations on the
false work of the Neville Island bridge.
This is the day for the sale of the Kuhn prop
erty on Diamond street. Whether or not it will
elevate values in thatlocality is the subject of
considerable talk.
A committee of citizens has been appointed
at Washington. Pa, to take steps toward es-
tablishing system of sewers.
The Derry Electric Light Company is erect
ing plant at that place at a cost Of $1,000
Sixteen of So mortgages on file yesterday
were for purchase money. The largest was for
Sl4 $50. Sixteen were for less than ST. 0OO each
Mortgages are being satisfied as promptly as
required. There are few foreclosures
The majority of building permits taken out
at Chicago are for fats, with stores on the first
floor. This lyle of building is becoming quite
popular in Pittsburg.
Hotel Leland, Harrisburg. is being enlarged
Pittsburg has o fire insurance companies,
local and foreign. with an aggregate capital
stock of nearly 10000
The property sold by Mr.. Mellon in the tri-
angle formed by Grant and Sixth avenues and
Webster street is not that portion known as the
Ba terry, owned by Mr.. P. Z. Duffy, as some
might infer. but is the other end and with
which the Battery building has no connection.
Local stocks are easily moved, any attempts
to buy or. sell, putting them up or down as the
case may be. The execution of selling order
yesterday depressed Philadelphia Gas to the
lowest point ever reached by it. There Is no
good reason for loss of confidence in this i'm
portant interest,"
present condition of the cotton harvest is by no
means encouraging. Reports received from
various parts of the Arkansas Valley all COM
plain of too much rain.
Mortgages on ordinary residence property
with from so to gu per cent paid up are in de-
mand but otherwise they are neglected Pro-
ductive business, well located, is in good re-
quest.
AT Amsterdam yesterday the price of fine
silver declined from 81 to S6 guilders per kilo
New Buildings.
Yesterday was the best day of the week at
the Building Inspectors Office. Fourteen per-
.mits we're issued. nearly all for high class
dwellings. The following is the list:
Elizabeth A. Christy, brick two-story and
attic dwelling. 2sx4s feet on Terrace street,
Fourteenth ward. Cost, 5000
John Biesinger, frame tso-story and attic
dwelling, l7x34 feet, on Ella street, Sixteenth
ward. Cost, 81. 800.
Mrs. Janet Kuhn, frame two-story dwelling.
I7xSO feet, on rear Cedar street. Sixteenth
ward. Cost, 81, $50.
Mrs. Farmaree. frame two-story dwelling. TX
80 feet, o. Dearborn street, Nineteenth ward.
Cost, 81, 900.
R. W. Downing, brick two-stor7 and attic
dwslng I4S csst tess $1,000 an Sessy
F. A. Sawerts, frame two-story and attic
dwelling, l9x4S feet on May1ower street,
Twenty-first ward. Cost. s.. l0O
2Ox34 feet on Carson street, Twenty firth ward.
Cost, $3.50.
john Boland. frame two-story wagon shed, 25
x5O feet. on rear OF Second avenue, Sixth ward.
Cost, 500.
w. 3. Knolle, four brick two-story dwellings.
l3x27 feet each. on Crawford street. Eighth
ward. Cost, Sz.750
w. B. Knolle, brick addition onestory DWELL
ing. 52x2S feet, on Whitesides alley Eighth
ward. Cost, $1,000.
Edward T. Dickson, brick one-story office IL
x24 feet, on Liberty street. Twelfth ward. Cost,
$500.
James Brooks. frame one-story dwelling. Tx
q teet. on Arch street, Thirteenth ward. Cost.
500
II. Gernert brick addition two-story store, %
xs0 feet, on rear Fifth avenue, Fourteenth
ward. Cost. 81, ,201
Mary and Bertha Sauer, brick two-story
dwelling, l7x30 feet on Tustin street. Four
teenth ward. Cost, 81, 500