Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-22
DICKERS IN REALTY.
Citizens Traction Company Secures
a Place For an Electric Loop.
LINE TO BE PUSHED.
The Lumber Trade Badly Crippled Blythe
South American Collapse.
FEATURES OF LOCAL SPECULATION

The Citizens Traction Company has pur-
chased go feet on Butler street. near the
| cemetery gate, for 81 5000, OF thereabouts.
The buildings will be torn down to make
room for a loop for the Lawrencevflle end of
the electric road which is being built to
Sharpsburg. This purchase gives the COM
pany all the-road facilities required, and the
work will be prosecuted with renewed en-
ergy. Sharpsburg people are anxious for Its
completion, as 1t will place them in direct
and easy communication with the city and
contribute materially to building up one of
the finest districts on the Northside.
No. Il Clark street, owned by Mrs. Perry,
property consists of a lot 20x55 and three
story brick dwelling.
c. Il. Love sold property on Forbes street
near Craft avenue, consisting of a lot 20x70,
with u two-story frame dwelling, for j. u.
Neyman TO j. G. Schaefer, for 81 oOO
Bad for Lumbermen-
One Of the best markets for lumber has
been practically cut off. A wholesale dealer
explained the matter in this wise: "The
yellow pine industryAha been particularly
affected by the distressed financial condi-
tion of South America. For several years
South America has taken about 2GO G00, 900
feet of lumber per annum- During the last
year it did not take one fifteenth of that
amount. The country's financial affairs are
in terrible condition, and there Is no
money to buy with. The worst of it is that
there does not appear to be any prospect of
Improvement.
'fThe lumber which has been taken by
South America is now thrown upon the
Northern market causing a glut and conse-
Quently a weak demand and low prices"
Business News and Gossip.
The DePuy homestead, at Homewood
Station; is in the market. It fronts 400 feet
on the Pennsylvania Railroad by 200 feet in
depth.
The purchasers of the Vilsack, Scott and
Tappan properties, on Penn avenue, Law
renceviIle, arc Knoxville borough capital
lists. They will at once begin the erection
of row of 10 or 20 dwellings instead of q
market-house, as at first supposed.
James W. Drape & Co. have sold upward
of 100 lots in the Munhall Terrace plan,
Munhan Station, within month. Some of
the purchasers will build this season.
The Burrell Improvement Company sold
% lots in Kensington on Monday at prices
ranging from s225 to $50. This place is
growing in the estimation OF investors.
The only change made in the directory of
the Bridgewater Gas Company was the cleo
ton of George 1. Whitney in the place of
the late J. Halsey Williams.
Andrew Caster sold 5000 Moorehead
school As at par and interest.
Statements of Pittsburg national banks
under the recent call show an aggregate sur
plus of IS, ,S33, ,9ls, an increase of 1851 ,526 as
compared with statements Of July is, 1890.
The compilation was made by R. j. Stoney,
Jr.
st. Paul has preferred charges against Bur
lington of cutting wool rates in connection
with lake lines, and all the roads have been =.
authorized to make the same rates via the
lakes to the seaboard
Citizens Traction dividend is payable to-
day Pleasant Valley dividend is payable
next Saturday.
The Building Record.
Permits for the erection of the following
buildings were issued yesterday:
Thomas Shanahan, frame two-story dwell
ing, l7x32 feet, on Howley street, Sixteenth
ward. Cost, LOO.
John Othel, frame one-story shooting gal
ward. Cost, $l25.
Sophie Lappe, frame two-story dwelling,
l4x30 feet, on Climax street, Thirty-first
ward. Cost, sS40.
d. p. Thomas two frame two-story dwell
ings, l6xSo feet, on Bennett street, Twenty
J. Painter, Sons Co., iron addition one
story boiler shop, 5Ox4s feet, rear Carson
street, Thirtfeth ward. Cost, s., 200.
DR.. W. H. Winslow. frame two-story dwell
ing, 22x26 feet, on Claiborne street, Twentieth
ward. Cost, l,500.
Armour s Co, brick four-story storage,
streets, Twenty-hfth ward. Cost, SO. .000
Peter Coleman. frame addition two-story
dwelling, l6Xl9 feet, on Edison street, Thirty
sixth ward. Cost, $500.
Movements in Realty.
A. 2. Byers sold for Walter Ernest ct al, to
Miss Lizzie Young, a two-story brick house
of six rooms and hall, with lot 2Gx74 feet,
being the property No. 242 Sandusky street,
Third ward, Allegheny City, for $4,000
n.
Mrs NJ jackson, a lot on Grafton street,
near Highland avenue, Nineteenth ward,
l4l feet Tor 81 $50.
Black & Baird sold to Richard Scuven and |
wife lot No. 4 i'll the John A. Roll plan at |
Linden station for $500. |
Samuel W. Black & Co. sold a lot on Lytle |
street, near Elizabeth street. Twenty-third |
ward, size 25xll0 to an alley, for $500.
George Schmidt sold f1ve-roomed house |
on Lookout avenue, being on lot No. 10 in |
his Eureka Place plan, Oakland, to Henry !
Preiss for 80 COO.
Charles Somers' & Co. report the follow
sales previously reported: Charles King,
No. 6242 Station street, E. E., lot No. 10, block |
{, $500; Sanders & Co., Monongahela City, Pa,
lot No. !, block 4, $3.50; Max Freykowski, No.
Is Twelfth street, S. S.. lots Nos. "a and 35, |
block l3, $400 and $500; Bennett Levi, No. 200 |
Wylie avenue, lot No. 81, block 1s, $500; Ed |
ward rSdd Hqnke, Jeannette Pa, lot No. 81 block
county, Pa, lot No. 15 block 5, $3.50; Lewis!1
Gray, West Newton, Pa, lot No. is, block 5,
;25O; Conrad Blehe, Buena Vista, Allegheny
county, Pa, lot No L. block 5, $3.50; B. II. |
Logan, West Newton, Pa, lot No. "A, block s.
Pa, lots Nos ls and II, block 8,
ESQ each; John o: Snider, Elizabeth, Pa,
OTIS Nos. Is and 19, block 5. $3.50 each.
John K Ewing & Co. sold for Mrs. Mary |
". D. Watson, to Zeph B. Collins, two lots,
0Xl50, on Sycamore street, in the Watson /,
East Bellevue, Pittsburg, Ft.,
Wayne and Chicago railroad, for s., 500 cash.