Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-20
Business News and Gossip.

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stable, 30xl00 feet. on Shakespeare street,
Twentieth ward; cost, $500. 7. P. Marshall,
frame two-story dwelling, 1Sx43 feet, on Lang
avenue, Twenty-nrst ward; cost S., $50. John
F. Schmidt, frame one-story addition, Sx16
feet, on rear sos Carson street. Twenty-ninth
ward: cost, ST..
Captain Thompson will go to West Virginia
on Monday to make an investment in oil lands.
gentleman who came in from Torrens
station yesterday morning said that when he
left all of the five tracks were occupied with
moving trains-something that rarely occurs.
This goes to show that the Pennsylvania Rail-
road is doing an enormous business. The gen.
tleman added: II am informed that the CON-
pany will have four tracks through to Phila-
delphia within two or three years."
The Odd Fellows building, on Penn avenue,
Williamsburg, is well under way. 1t will be
finished by January l.
Philadelphia capitalists have just concluded
the purchase of Is, 600 acres OF timber land in
Winn parish, Louisiana.
The most important of 81 mortgages on file
for record yesterday was for $1,000. Eight
were for purchase money.
Building is active on Rural, ST. Clair Bond
and Sheridan avenues, and in the neighborhood
of the Highland school More than so houses
are in various stages of completion in this dis
trict, the most important of which are those of
Mr.. Wainwright, the granite front stone of Mr.
D. e. Kuhn, and Masonic Hall.
Crowded streets and stores refute the idea, if
it be entertained, that business is slack. Such
evidence of thrift should inspire confidence in
the present and hope for the future.
Glass will be made at Charleroi early in the
coming year.
The bank building at Wilmerding is up to the
top of the second story. 1t is being built of
pressed brick, with stone and terra Gotta trim
mings. and will be three stories high.
Movements In Real Est7te
Judging from the small lumber of sales re-
ported, 1t would be reasonable to infer that
real estate was fiat on its back yesterday, but
such was not the case. There was considerable
done that did not reach the surface. Three
brokers counted up an aggregate of 15 deals
that were receiving the finishing touches.
Everything except bad roads favors good fall
and winter business.
Black e. Baird sold to T. n. Barnsdall, of
Bradford. Pa, an elegant new stone residence
of Is rooms on Thomas street, Boulevard place,
East End. with lot S2115xl42 feet for $4,000.
MIR. Barusdall is well known Oil operator of
Bradford, who proposes removing to this city,
and will occupy his new residence at oEce.
Ewing & Byers sold through the agency of
Beckfield & Bracken for ]. I. Hutchinson to
Theo Dauble. a two-story frame house of six
rooms and hall, with lot 75xl00, on Florence
avenue, Avalon station, Pittsburg. Fit. Wayne
and Chicago Railroad, for s., 200.
s. A. DIckey & Co. sold to R. w. Bayley for
Melvin Smith four lots on Bennett street,
Murtland place plan, for SS, 200.
Allies & Bailey sold for Mrs. ]. Smith to
August Meirer No. 479 Tustin street, a brick
dwelling of five rooms and finished attic, ETC..
lot 20x6O feet, for $500.
Baxter, Thompion & Co. sold lot No. SOL in
the Fort Pitt Land Company plan, at North
Jeanette, fronting 40 feet on Zimmerman
street by 100 to a 2O-foot alley. for $3.50.
James w. Drape & Co. closed a very import
ant transaction of suburban real estate, over
$50 acres, involving cash consideration of a
figure verging on 100000.
NJ. F. Nipple & Co. sold to Amelia Laughrey
lot, 24x120 feet, on Perrysville avenue, IN the
B. A. Elliott plan, Tenth ward. Allegheny, for
$500 cash.