Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-15
RUNNING TO WASTE.
Property That Should be Improved In
the Interest of Business.
OWNERS WAITING FOR A BOOM.
Fresh Movements in Realty Showing That
the Buyer is Still Abroad.
THE NEWS AND GOSSIP OF THE CITY

The frmness with which property In the
less progressive parts of the city is held is
attracting attention. On Fourth avenue, be-
tween Smithfield and Grant, it is rapidly
approaching the s., 900 foot mark. Several
offers at about that figure have been re-
fused. On Fifth avenue, above Grant,
prices are pretty steep; on Grant, between
Sixth and Seventh, where Improvements
are rare, prices range from $500 to 81 900 a
foot, according to the situation and character
of the building. There is considerable
leased property here which is an lmpedi-
ment to improvement. All OF these localities
are admirably adapted to business, and if
built up would be a great relief to the more
crowded part Of the CITY,
Business News and Gossip.
Wood street, Williamsburg, is to be widened
ten feet from Singers gate to Penn avenue.
1t looks as if the autho rites of Edgewood
borough will have to pay big price for a
schoolhouse site. An acre OF ground is re-
quired. Several lots of that size on Maple
street have been examined, and the best offer
SO far is $4,000.
Fears of famine in building lots are entirely
eroundless. One thousand lots, large and
small. situated in and around Brushton, are on
the market at moderate prices.
The largest m ortgage reported yesterday was
for $50 OOO-D. II. Barr to II. Sampson for pur-
chase money. Thirty-four others were re-
corded. the most important being for $500.
A deal is on for SOoacre farm in an adjoin-
ing county. Hand money has been paid.
Rapid transit is giving a wonderful impetus
IT,
Highland reservoir, or from the summit of the
McKelvy farm, at Edgewood, discloses an al
most solid mass of buildings IN every part of
The article on Neville Island which appeared
in yesterdays DISPATCH caused considerable
talk among residents of that place. Nearly all
the market gardeners have something to say
about IL. One of them, popularity called MAT"
expressed the drift of opinion among them. He
remarked: ITS the only accurate statement
of the condition and sentiment of the people
down there that has ever been published, We
annroye everything Mr.. Chaplin said.n
Messrs Baxter. Thomson q Co. real estate
broisers have onened a branch Office at VIII
merdinr
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sonirrsI hi, mar the schenIev Psrt beauti.
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