Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-08
BELOW THE SURFACE.
GlimpSes of Big Deals Showing That
Things Are Moving.
EAST END DWELLINGS PICKED UP.
A Still Hunt Said to be in Progress for
Good Downtown Property.
NEW CHURCHES FOR NEARBY TOWNS

As q notable instance of the demand for
houses in the East End, it may be stated
that seven fine dwellings in Coltart square,
Oakland, have been sold by W. A. Heron
& Sons in the last three weeks. Equal
activity prevails in several other districts.
A Fourth avenue real estate firm has made
Is important sales since March l. The
largest involved 500 900 and the smallest .OOO
This shows that there is something going on.
The recently incorporated borough of Edge
wood will hold its first election to-day, when
full complement of officers will be chosen.
The first important improvement that will
have TO be provided for Is schoolhouse to
cost about $4,000. Streets and sidewalks will
require prompt attention.
AS the population is small, taxes will prob
ably be levied up to the maximum allowed by
law.
A still hunt is said to be going on for down.
town business property, and options have been
secured on several good pieces on Penn and
Liberty streets 1t is not definitely known who
the hunters are. but they are supposed to be-
long to the syndicate which has been operating
so mysterIously in other parts of the CITY,
Their agents are kept pretty busy, and from
indications it is safe to say that something will
happen one of these days.
Plans have been completed for Welsh Bap-
tist Church building at Johnstown, and work
will begin on it April !. 1t will cost S50.Oo0
Plans have also been prepared for Presby-
terian Church edifice at Beaver. 1t will be of
stone and cost about s5O,OOO
A gentleman just from Wheeling, said yes
terday that the principal feature in business
circles there just now, was agitation for the
appointment of a building inspector, and
strong pressure was being brought to bear on
the Chamber of Commerce to urge Councils
to make the appointment.
The city, he added. is growing SO rapidly that
official inspection is necessary as protection
against accidents involving life and property.
Eighty men are employed in mining sand on
the land recently purchased by ]. w. Moore,
c. H. Elery and A. B. Rutledge, of this city, in
Mercer county. The tract comprises several
thousand acres. and the gentlemen claim it Is
the richest find of glass and furnace sand ever
made in Western Pennsylvania.
The present output is about 25 tons day. It
will be increased.
The general office of the Braddock Wire
Company has been removed to this city. Work
on the company's new wire mill, at Braddock,
is being vigorously pushed and it will be put in
operation about May1.
1t will be one of the largest in the country,
having capacity of from 500 to 1000 kegs of
wire nails per day
The following mechanical patents have ex-
pirej and thereby become public property:
Sawmill. D. c. Prescott; saw set, ]. N. Leslie:
combined latch and lock G. Mullar: oil burn-
ing steam generator, q. w. Ketchum; lining
rotary pudding furnaces, s. Danks: manu-
facture of fuel from coal waste, ]. R. Hayes;
stationary fire pipe for buildings, 81. Palmieri;
sectional steam boiler. Pancoast and Maule;
iron bridge, W. Sellers.