The morning call., 1890-05-31

vernon fark tract fronting on clare
and Vernon street, with n frontage. OF
70 to 276 feet and depth OF 100 TO 236:6 feet.
third cash, with lie balance payable In one and
two years, with interest at per cent. Ten per
cent OF the purchase money Is required oil the
continuation OF the sale by the SUI elior Court,
the California Title Insurance and Trust Com
nany furnishing policy OF insurance insurlng
the tue Tor nominal sum-,
on Thursday. June 9th, McAfee Baldwin s.
Hammond are golng To TEMPT tho public with a
catalogue OF 40 residence lots on Clarendon
Heights, the lots fronting Stanyan, Alma, Rlyoll,
Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Belgrave streets
and Clarendon avenue. The growth OF the fash.
ionable popular taste for marine Views In this
city for residence sites, as so largely illustrated
this season, especially at auctions where such
opportunities have presented themselves, speaks
as loudly rs II can In support OF the belief that
very much enhanced values are shortly coming
for these sles.
On Wednesday David Stern & Sons win hold
grand credit sale, when they Will dispose OF
1orty-four choice business and residence lots In
the warm belt" at the Mission. The property
fronts on Folsom, Twentieth, Treat avenue aud
Iwenty-nrst streets.
PALo ALTO.
quite special interest attaches to the auction
sale OF lots In University PARK at the Palo Alto
station by the Arthur X. Briggs Company this
day week, June TIN. No other lots eau ever be
offered TO the public nearer TO the University
IMAM these are, each subsequent subdivision be-
Ing OF necessity further and further distant from
tue coveted neghb0rhoOd at the seat OF learning
Aside from all other reasons the Leland Stanford
university IS destined 10 carve out for Itself such
niche In the temple OF California successes that
adjacent property Is bound to acquire large
ADDED values, and so share, in small way per-
baps, ID The Univeistty's reputation. The easy
mature OF Inc terms, 20 per cent cash. with bal
ance payable at SO per month on each lot, with
out any Interest, 10 per cent deposit being re-
qured at time OF purchase, Is an additional at
traction. The special excursion train leaves cor
ner OF Third and Townsend streets at ~ o'clock
next Saturday morning. IN
AsHBURY HEIGHTS.
What has been designated the "cream resi-
dence location OF the city," commanding. as II
does, view OF ana in The Immediate vicinity of
the main attractions OF Golden Gate Park, is TO
be put up at auction on Monday next by O'Far-
Iell q Lang In the gulse of slXty-hye residence
lots on Ashbury Heights, the sale being per-
emptofy one. The lots front on Frederick, Six
teenth ana Clayton streets aud fremont avenue,
only TWO blocks south of Halght street and lying
between Buena Vista Park and the Golden q ate
Park. The streets are severed, graded and
macadamIzed, with a cement sidewalk on Ire
mont avenue. The terms OF The sale Will be one
thiId cash, With balance in two and three years
at per cent.
SANTA ROSA.
In connection with the winding up of affairs
IN the Donahue estate still another opportunity
Tor the investing public is offered at c. H. Umb.
sen & Co.'s sale lbis day week, at the Athenpum
Iheater, Santa Rosa. On that occasion ten
shares OF the Santa Rosa Atnen9um 1heaIer
dIhg9 as well as lots l, 2, 10 and II, IN Block
OF Il. j. Johnson's addition to Santa Rosa, be-
sides lots 1913, 354 and 800, in Block In the
city. AT the same time lots %, %, "a, 20, &c,
u and 70, In Green's addition, well as one
nall acre adjoining The above lots will be offered
Tor public compeIlIion, the whole being known
as Tie Hospital Property" Further, lots 80
and 50. ana the south hail OF lot 81, all in Block
10 OF Clark's addition, together with L 2O-acre
farm formerly known as The "Nluidock Farm"
being portion OF The Rancho CabeZa de Santa
Rosa, as well as lot 90 in Block Il, at CIark's
addition, VIII be offered for sale Then there is
l.lG-acfe farm, an So-acIe farm one and half
miles from w luuSOf, The IlaQ sbuTQu Santa
Rosa road: the 272. 6S-acIe farm, known as the
wright Farm, about TWO miles from The Court
house, with other lots, and third interest in the
Lakeyille Landing property, containing four
acres, and BENG portion Of Petaluma Rancho, as
well as an undivided third interest in strip of
iand adjoining the above tract running along
side The county road 10 marsh lands and Peta-
luna Greek.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
During The week, Shanwald, Buckbee & Co.
nave sold lot p ;6Xl0O on the east side Of
Hyde street, close 10 Green, for 1920, and
have also placed another on the north side OF
Vallejo, b tween Octavia and Lagund, 3OXI25,
for $4,000, with Improvements.
What is known as the Burling property has
also been sold by b. Nj. Gum & Co. To A l..
four residences, for $4,000. The property In
question lies on the south side of Tux street,
only short distance from Taylor, and stands on
a lot 81 :6&l3f 20. Au unlmproyed lot, size
3OXl2O, has also changed hands through the
same firm during the week, for the amount OF
$4,000, ON the west side of Scott street north of
Pacific.
The Carnall-Filzhugh-H Hopkins Company re-
port sales OF twenty-fOur lots in the Excelsior
Homestead, for $1,000. Also the northeast cor
ner Of Eighth avenue and X street, 57x1oO, for
$3.50, and one 5oXl2U, east side Eighth avenue,
for $1,000.
DEEDS, MORTGAGES, ETC.
The number Of transfers filed at the Hall of
Records Tor The week is 1o3, the number OF
mortgages 72l, and that of releases IS.
BUILDING CONTRACTS.
II the month of May shows diminutton in
q taar. tGtnr
engagements have been. 50 freely made ahead as
to leave little room tor additions, II any. Con-
tractors and builders have their hands lust about
as !ull as they'll stick just now, and The appar-
ent decline IN the mouths figures Is traceable
more 10 this than any other cause. For the
month OF May contracts have been let for some
$50 new buildings, running into 4 total OF S7S4,-
OOO, or therea0Outs, as against only 100000
III round numbers for Il corresponding period
last year, tie fist i've months of the year, as
already set forth IN The CALL, showing over u
million dollars IN building contracts TO The
credit Cd 4S9C, as compared with like time in
1889. For the week-a broken one, neither
whole nor n hall, be II remembered-the build
ing contracts are represented by money value
Of l33,OUO.
OAKLAND OFFERINGS.
The ;aammOth sale Of large building lots and
Villa residence grounds 2t -feremptory auction
to-day. al 2 O'clock, on the ground, Oakland
Heights, adjacent TO the Piedmont cable rail-
road,wll be one OF the prominent offerings Of the
season. A free tide is announced Tor the pur-
pose OF conveying parties to the sale. This mag
ment and on elevated ground, afOrding a fiue
view OF Lake Merritt, Oakland, Alameda, the
bay, san Francisco and surrounding country,
and not lar from lots that are now selling at $50
per front foot. Only oue-tifth in cash is required
and The balance In equal instalmeutS in Que,
lwo three aud four years at per cent per an
mum Interest. The SAFE will be conducted by
W llliam j. Dtngee of Oakland and EastOn,
Eldridge & Co. OF this city.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT.
L. W. Woodward & Co, successors TO Wood
ri call elite
salesroom 0O2 Broadway, Oakland, by the di-
rectlon OF Sherman 4 Pnney. 46S Ninth street,
SXty-two desirable lots In the well-knOwn Pied
mond villa tract on the most liberal terms, TO
Wit, only 500 cash for each lot sold and the
balance on easy terms and low rate of interest
This property is only 10 minutes walk from the
center OF Oakland and is situated on Piedmont
or Webster avenue, the Washington street cars
passing every few minutes aud the new Pied
mont cable running only one block distant. IL is
a sacrifice sale and each lot Will be sold without
reserve.
FUTURE SALES.
william J. Dingee. Oakland. Is preparing a
catalogue for big sale OF real estate, which
VIII take place on the l4tn day oil June. The
advertisement Will appear in the usual columns
next week.
E. ". Woodward & Co. will offer at public
auction on Saturday, 18th June, at 2 O'clock, on
the grounds, 400 acres In the celebrated Bell
Ranch, situated near lie new town of Fruitland
and the town Of DeGOto The block has been
divided into live, ten, fifteen and twenty acre
parcels, and viii be sold on liberal terms OF pay
ulcuk. ub usual announcement VIII appear III
The advertising columns next week.
OG June 7th, William j. Dingee, Oakland, and
EaStOn. Eldridge y Co., San Francisco. Will dis
pose of Il portion OF The Blasde tract at auction,
on the grounds, Twenty-thrd avenue aud East
Twenty-fourIh street. fronting on rwenty-third
and Orange avenues and East Twenty-fourth,
Twenty. nth and Twenty-siXth streets, and ad-
joining Highland Park on the east.
There arethirty- nine subdivisions of from 80
10 so feet front by 12l to 16o feet in DEPTH
These choice lots are situated on the elevated
land along The upper portion OF Twenty.third
avenu and command a handsome view OF the
bay and the surrounding country.
The improvements In the immediate vicinity
are exceptionally fine. On account of the eleva-
tt0D this land is unusually well drained.
Iwenty-ihird avenue Is graded. curbed, sew
cred aud macadamlZed within two blocks OF this
property. Tie soil Is Il rich, black loam and the
entire tract is planted in choice flowers shrubs
shade, ornamental and fruit trees IN full bearing
Including forty orange and lemon trees, apricots,
cherries, plumS, peaches, prunes, ete, all of
which grow luxurianty In this charming spot
Almost all OF the lots have bearing trees on
ara dat hu oxrpra