Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-29
BARGAINS IN FARMS.
Some Of Them offered to the City
for Less Than Half the Price
DEMANDED BUT A SHORT TINE AGO.
Twenty-Eigbt Sites That Must Be In
spected Within Five Days.
RAPID TRANSIT NEEDED BY THE BOARD

Farms at reduced rates. All our mag
nifcent stock of summer and holiday farms
at less than cost, to make room for spring
stock"
Such was the bargain-courter sentiment
OF the bids Tor Poor Farm sites opened yes
terday by the Department of Awards at its
second attempt to find resting place for
the city's wards Several Of the farms
offered last summer were presented again,
but at marked-down prices. One is re-
duced from $500 an acre to S400. another
from $3.50 to S135, and still another has
dropped S150 an acre from the July quota
tion.
The ordinance requires that the Depart
meut of Awards shall visit each of the sites
offered, and within five days make report
OF its selection to Councils As 2Sfsrms are
offered the gentlemen will have 10 examine
nearly six farms day. The Board is there
fore at a loss to know whether to inspect the
land from car windows, with field glasses,
or to have a balloon ascension and take a
bird's-eye view.
The Inspection to Begin this Morning.
According TO the wording of the ordinance
every farm offered last summer and pre-
sented again yesterday will have to be re-
visited. The board will this morning CON-
mence the inspection of the farms up the Alle-
Eheny river. and will take the $40 train on the
West Penn Railroad. As there are only two
farms offered on the right bank of the river,
they will be visited on the way home. These
farms re located at Sandy Creek and Hutton.
The farms on the Youghiogheuy and Monon-
gshela rivers will be visited tomorrow, ana all
persons offering sites on those rivers are re.
quested to meet the Board of Awards at City
Hall tomorrow morning a. o'clock.
OF course all the tract> offered have a river
frontage, but in some cases it would require
inclined plane TO establish communications be-
tween the farm lands and the hlgh-water mark.
The following is the list offered:
Long Array of Poor Farm Sites.
Crescent township-w. 3. Anderson, go
acres in two tracts. at $40 per acre.
Forward township-Snyder, Silbers & Co.,
so acres in three tracts three miles above
Elizabeth, at Sl00 per acre.
East Deer township-J. B. Ford l25 acres for
5000 This tract is underlaid with coal, but
al the mineral rights are held by Harry K.
West
HaImar township-Alex. Stewart. trustee
for Alex. ]. Montgomery. 200 acres at SlS5 per
acre. The same tract, with 100 acres additional
offered last July at $500 per acre.
Elizabeth township - Heirs of Anthony
Dgavo. 24S acres and Il perches 225 rods from
the river. at s63l per acre, including coal, or
tIol o. this tract was $500 per acre.
Plum township-F. J. Glass $40 acres at $3.50
per acre.
sprugdale township--2S5 acres by S G.
Barnes at S375 per acre.
Elizabeth township-Charles Summers 2S6
acres at SI6O Der acre or sl5l $50 for the tract.
jefferson township-Wllliam and Maggie
Glue, 20 acres, 3.711 feet frontage on Monon-
Sahela river. at S6U0 per acre. Also $50 acres
on the west, ana If the whole 400 acres is taken
the price will be $500 per acre.
La oNS
acres tor $4,000.
Penn townshIp-Joseph and Mary Boyd, 24S
acres 81 Sandy creek for 500 an acre.
Mlffiin townShip-Thomas ]. Kinney ten
miles from CITY, 80 acres for $3.50 an acre or $50
acres at $500 per acre. When the mercury
kissed the nineties last July this land was
quoted at $500 per acre.
East Deer township-Henry T. West, 200
acres farm land and about go of coal land for
S2O0CO0 Mr.. West does not own l2S acres of
tue coal land, but 1t is all TO be sold together.
One That Would Cost SI5O,OO0.
Harrison townshiD--Joseph L. and George
Beale, 500 acres at Cairns station, for $500 an
acre.
Elizabeth township-Heirs of w. A Newlin,
lS7 acres and l27 perches, less one house and
lot reserved for Lucinda Newlin, s245 an acre
Harrison township-John Mueller so acres
four and one-half miles from Tarentum, for
Sli 400.
Plum township-H. W. Alexander, 444 acres,
near Hutton. at $500 acre.
Twenty-second ward, PIttsburg-George 7.
Oliver trustee for Isaac Mills, l36 acres at the
salt works and one-haIf mile from Swissvale
for $1,000 an acre.
versailles township - Executors of John
SHAW, 100 acres, 1000 feet frontage, at $500 an
acre.
Harrison township-Nancy J. and Charles P.
Romsay, l62 acres. for S52 200.
Penn township - Mrs. James Mckay l35
acres. eight miles from Union station, for
100000.
Harrison township-Georce r. and Joseph
I. Johnston, 1919 acres, for 1850
U ara towns hIp-W. A. Gomlinson, 50 acres
and 40 perches, at $3.50 per acre.
Plum township-H. A. Tomlinson, 2l3 acres
and IS perches, at $3.50 per acre.
Plum townshIp-James W. Drape 500 acres
at Sl15 per acre.
jefferson townships. P. and R. B. Large
so acres at Blair station and another tract of
p acres for S93. 500.
Elizabeth township-J. P. Henderson, 2ls
acres and Of perches. at S3l2 per acre
Elizabeth townsbip-Heirs of Samuel Fields
l7O acres, fronting on the Youghiogheny river,
for S2l5 per acre.