The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-04-05
round demand, with some few good-sizeG
business transactions pending.

round demand, with some few good-sizes,
business transactions pending.
COUNTRY BUSINESS.
Greenwood s. De Wolf note a speoiallv
good feeling, and also an improving in
quiry in the Richmond District.
Middleton u Sharon report very active
inquiry for country lands, with sales pend
ing. Ihey placed yesterday nearly 700 lots
or eight full blocks, in the town site of New
Chicago, at Port AlvisO up to S25.
The Carnell Fitzhugh- Hopkins Company
advise sales OF thirteen lots at University
Heights S175 to $500 each. Also twenty
Jour acres Of fruit fand in Livermore Val
ley, near Pleasanton. A house and two
lots at Lorin Station, for $500. Also 1000
acres Tor subdivision purposes, near Wood
land. Yolo County. for $4,000.
The commencement of what will result
in a most desirable improvement is to be
noted in the pulling down Of the old brick
building on the north side of Hardie place.
from Nos. l to 6. The building, which. for
the last twenty yeaIS or moro, has been
known as the Wolfscheucht Lunch House.
is owned by that old pioneer, Charles
Sehroth, who is now going TO erect new
building to cost probably in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000. 1t will be of brick and.
iron and five stories high, the basement to
be occupied by Young 81 Helfrich of th,.
German bakery and the upper part to b.
used Tor offices or other business purposes
The building is to be specially strong and
substantial, as, indeed, are all of Mr..
Schroth's many houses. The architect is
l. MARQUIS and WatterSon is the contractor
Tor the brick werk.
The Executive Committee of the Golden
Gate improvement Club has received in
structlons to petition the Board of Slper-
vIsors for permission to grade by private
contract Golden Gate avenue from Stanyau
street to First avenue and from Fulton
street to Turk.
John Nightingale is reported to have seri-
Gus intentions of erecting q grand four
story building, with basement, on a lot
owned by him on the northeast corner of
franklin and Page streets, directly fronting
on Market street.
Work on the Don0hOe Building corner of
Taylor street and Golden Gate avenue, is
going ahead and will soon begin to make
quite presentable showing
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The property sold at the auction sale of
the johnson, estate in February comes up
for confirmation in Judge Coffey's court on
the 9th inst. at 10 O'Clock in the morning.
Won Rhein u Co. report the confirmation
OF the sale by the Probate Court of tAe
estate OF A. Martinoyleh, deceased, at
S2S,500 to Mrs. E. White also that thew
have listed for this months auction the
realty belonging to the estates Of Ellen
OBrIen, deceased, and Of Thomas Attridge.
deceased, in addition TO other fair sales.
w. III. Dowsing will shortly put on the
ma AOl PAihabC SdAO ObCI lOO lUbo III
Ocean View.
The Southern Pacific Colonization Agency
have since their starting in September last
introduced into California over 100 families
from Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and
England They chiefly aim at securing
families of practical farmers with from
$1,000 to 5000, and expect between next Sep
TENDER and April to Introduce from 1000 to
1000 more families into various parts Of the
State.
A., ~
Southern Pacific Railway COmpany's TIM
Der lands. mainly on speculative account.
John b. Briggs, Secretary of the Wood
land Noolen-mills, announces that this
property will be sold under the hammer on
Monday next. The land consists of three
and a half acres, on which the plant
stands, being a two-storv brick building,
with full machinery for two sets, all in good
running order.
The Park Lane and Seventeenth-street
Improvement Club has received notice that
Adoiph Sutro has given Quit-claim deed
to the city for the following streets: From
the north end Of Seventeenth street soath-
erly to the center of Eighteenth street. and
from point 136 feet west of Clara avenue,
on the east side of the district, to the east
line of Park lane, on the west size of the
district giving an opening for Merritt
street, Corbett road TO the center of Eight
eentb, Ross, Mars, Uranus and Minerva
streets through to Park lane.
Aoaldtubd NAIL Oil OtdIy SlIeet. near Lar
kin, was sold by Jacob Scleicher to Edwin
K. Alsip of Sacramento for $685. last
Monday, and on Tuesday the latter sold it
to Benjamin w. Steinman of Sacramento
for $4,000. The lot is of irregular shape,
with frontage of 80 feet on Geary street
with depth of 137 IS and 81 % with depth
OF 156 feet. The building is three stories in
height and includes theater, stable aud
living apartments.
TRANSFERS, MORTGAGES, CONTRACTS.
The number Of deeds filed at the Hail of
Records for the six days ending Friday. the
4th inst, at o'clock in the afternoon, full
details of which have appeared in the daily
columns of THE CALL, is 207.
The number of mortgages for the SANG
period is ninety-nine, with sixty-nine re-
leases put on record.
The month starts in braYely in the matter
of building contracts, this week making
very good showing. AS detailed particulars
have appeared In these columns each day.
1t VIII be only necessary to note that they
foot up to a total of thirty-six, involving an
expenditure of S266. 476.