The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-08-31

a.t. trr l0ffbhA-l 10 aIIt, IA
SD $4,000 g. rice put Ia deco, SO.
&c --iy % aossa~esi COS ner Of Eds ana
fol $4,000 II was Sol1 beivre about tales
months ago, for $4,000.
Ihe property on northwest line of Markei
street ia feet northeast OF the northeast line OF
fourteenth street, 25AlUO IN size, Las been sold
fpf $500.
Tie property on east side OF Sixth avenue, "a
norh OF Lake street, 257 ieet front by 119 aud
. l3S deep, has been sold in two parcels fol
SS5O0-S33 per front foot.
Inc property, which WAS sold in June last on
west line OF Cough street, 81 IS north of Fulton,
deed, $40.
1h- property on the northeast corner OF Jack
son and Laurel streets, Two blocks west of Gem.
eIery avenue, has been sold Tor $4,000; price
put III deed, $40.
The property on the west side of Jones street,
Just south Of Eddy. 25xS7:6 feet IN size, has
been sold for $4,000.
The property on the southeast corner OF Jack
son and Laurel streets. 127:S feet Laurel by
15l g on jackson, has been sold for $1,000; price
put IN deed, SO.
The property on the south side OF Jackson
street, 127 IS feet west of Laurel, 1877 :6xI27 e
III size, has been sold for $500: price put in
deed, $40.
The property on the northeast side OF Second
street, 30 feet northwest OF Howard, 22X75 feet
III size has been sold for So 600: bought BY The
owner Oh corner adjoining; price put IN Decd $40
Tie lot on tie north side of Paclie avenue, l .
feet west OF Scott street, 5oXl32:S feet in SIZE,
has been sold for $3.50 front foot; sale made IN
June Lass pflce put In deed, $40.
The properly on the north side of Geary street.
so feet wessef LaIki1, 3oxso feet in size, has
be Ell sol 81 900; pilce in deed, $40.
t777~51e DEBT AND WHAT SHE HAS TO
SHOW FOR IT.
We are urged here 10 90 IN debt TO beauty
the city, and II the city would Indeed be beduti-
Ted and made more healthy We would say amen
the issuance OF the bonds But We believe
that three-iouTths OF The money would be dss-
pated. by politicians. That was The experience
of New York. = commission there thus referred
to II:
The magnitude ana rapid increase of this debt are
10 less remarkable than the poverty OF the results
itDre 1t was aoundahty sufficient Tor the eonStruc
ton OF all the public works OF great metropolis
Tor century to come, aud TO have adorned II be-
sides with the splendors OF architecture and art
Instead OF this the wharves and piers are. Tor the
most part, temporary and peTishabie structures;
the streets poorly paved; the sewers in great
measure. imperfect, insufficient and III bad order:
the public buildings shabby and inadequate, and
there Is little which the citizen can regard with sat
isiaction save the aqueduct and its appurtenanceS
and the public park.
Tie property east side of Webster, 20 north Of
Fulton. 80 feet front, 1913 feet Is III IS deep
and the balance 57:4 deep. has been sold for
$4,000.
REAL ESTATE REMINIsCENCE OF 1645.
During the year 1913 ex-Judge o. C. Pratt
came TO California 10 the pueblo OF Yerba
Buena, now known as san francisco, in the
services of the Government, and, not long alter,
obtained from the Alcade, al the usual small
municipal charge OF S3T 80, block No. 10.
bounded by keIrny. Dupont, Bay and North
Point streets. containing six 1fty-YaTa lots. or
an area OF 4l2:6 feet In length BY go teet IN
width. Soon after Judge Pratt was appointed
BY The President to the Supreme Bench OF what
was then Oregon Territory. The Pacific Mall
Steamship Company, in the spring OF 1949'
its FIRST business establishment at BeDicia,
but soon finding that place unsuitable, IL deter
mined to remove Its steamers, docks and busl-
ness place 10 San Francisco. On looking about
tie water front for what then thought
the best locality, uniting deep WAFER.
hot liable TO I'LL III with sediment,
together with GOOD, hard bottom, on which
to construct and maintain necessary wharves,
Block 10 (mostly covered With WateD was Sc
leeIed, and Captain Carlisle Patterson, Of Inc
United States Navy Qben In the steamship
company's employmenD, was sent TO Oregon TO
see the Judge ana buy II. An offer OF S75,0OO
was made, but was declined. Not long alter,
tie company located its steamers at the FOOT oil
Folsom street, and subs quently removed 10 us
present position, south OF and near Rlnc0n
fOiul. In the latter vicinity, values largely In
creased ana heavy business was brisk, while at
and about North Point growth OF any kind was
hardly pereeplible. Alter the lapse OF several
years, Judge Pratt conveyed an undivided bali
they in turn, several years following, sold II, as
We remember, TO AlyinZa Hayward Tor 100000.
laTteTly IN that quarter OF the city, real prop
efty is Enthusiastically improving In demand; its
great natural advantages are, IN short, at last
attracting deserved attention
THE JACKSoN-STREET CABLE.
Tie cable now IN use the Ferries and Cliff
House road, from the engine-house corner d
Mason and Washington, on washington anu
Jackson out 10 Cemetery avenue, ana ooWh tnt
latter to California street. has now been IN use
for nearly eight months, and IS good Ioi Two ol
three months more. The cable would last for q
year, bnt that, when first put IL IL was IN 1--WE
pieces, and being splIced was thereby otherwiss
badly used. During the FIRST year OF It's OPEL a
ton The Jackson and Powell street cables ONLY
lasted for TWO or three months. Now they vii
last for year. Tie wlTe-cable companies which
supply them willing to guarantee The cable!
now which, OF course, at FIRST they were not
Wire cables are now worth 21a cents less PEI
mound than they were Two years ago. Reduction
OF the price OF cables aud increase OF their abll
inv 10 Withstand the wear aud tear OF use are nov
both doing much toward increasing The net earn
tngs of cable lines.