Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-30
Business News and Gossip.

| 1t was learned yesterday tnaI Mr. L. HERBERT
| Hostetter was the purchaser of the MCKINLEY
| property, on Bayard street, Shadyside; sold by
| w. A. Heron & Sons. He will make handsome
improvements on it in the spring.
| A glass factory. located in Eastern Ohio is
/ about closing arrangements to remove TO the
| new town of Kensingtop. There is also talk of
a large hotel at the same place.
There is deal on foot for a we'll known busi-
ness stand on Liberty street, near the Seventh
Avenue Hotel, involving s65.OO0.
Mr.. H. W. Strickler has just secured about
! 1000 acres of gas coal in Westmoreand county
| on the line of the Turtle Creek Railroad. There
| is a growing demand for this Kind of property.
Eight of 30 mortgages on file yesterday were
for purchase money. The largest was for S.. .0O0
| Each of ten was for less than s., 600.
A letter from Burmah was received by a
| Fourth avenue real estate broker yesterday
| 1t states that that is becoming one of the most
| prolific oil countries in the world, and that the
| production promises to be equal to the de-
| mands of the East. Twenty Pennsylyanians
| are engaged IN putting down wells. Two of
them, Colonel Maze and his brother; are ON the
way home, and are expected to reach Pittsburg
Considerable building is going on at sewick-
| ley. The houses are all of high class of
! dwellings.
The absence of sensational rumors on Fourth
avenue yesterday strengthened the belief that
| the bottom has been reached.
| A workman excavatIng at the Old Fort a few
| days ago dug up a Spanish coin Of very old
date 1t is in the possession of Mr.. i. P.
| Black.
as ever, but large ones are slow. They will
pick up early in the new year.
The Building Record.
During the past week A building permits
were issued, representing 81 buildings-2O brick
and 81 frame-the total cost of all being slS7,-
| 290. The Twentieth ward led with II buildings
| followed by the Sixth with eight
The number of permits issued the previous
week was &c. representing 50 buildings. The
total number of permits issued to date this
| year is $50, representing 2sn buildings. Yes
terday's list follows:
A. NJ. Entress frame two-story store, S0xSO
| feet, on Webster avenue, Thirteenth ward;
cost 81, ,loO
Katherine ]. Phillips, two frame two-story
dwellings, l6xSO teet each, on Spahr street,
| Twentieth ward; cost 81, 900.
Frank s. Pears, two frame two-story dwell
| ings 14xS0 feet each on Susquehannah street,
Twenty-frst ward. Cots. 81 10.
Mrs. Emma Waller, frame two-story dwelling,
2lx44 feet on Industry street, Thirty first ward.
| Cost 81 900.
James Aston, frame two-story dwelling, 2Ox
80 feet on Woodville avenue, Thirty.ft ward.
| Cost, s., 900.
Movements in Real Estate.
G. 7. Beeckman sold to syndicate of Pitts
| burg gentlemen for E. II. Watkins, 25 more
lots in the Park View plan, in the Fourteenth
| ward Oakland, for a sum approximating
sl4, ,0O0. This is over so lots sold by Mr. Beck
| man in the past 10 days.
Reed B. Coyle & Co. sold for John Wilcox
tract of land in the Twenty third ward, con-
| tanning about four acres, which will be divided
| and put on the market in a few weeks by this
| firm.
w. @. Stewart sold the property known as
| No. 20S Grant street for the Pittsburg Improve
ment Company to Joseph Loughrev for $4,000.
Finiay property located on Luna street. East
| End, for 81, 800 cash.
Samuel w. Black & Co. sold the property No,
1St Myne aa asenue, between washington and
story brick building, tne storeroom and DWELL
ing of eight rooms, for $4,000.
Baxter, Thompson d Co. sold to W. Reuck q
lot on the north side of Fifth avenue, near
Boston street, fronting "a feet on Fifth avenue