Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-03
The City Secures About All It Wants
Around Highland Park.
1T OWNS THROUGH TO THE RIVER,
The Panhandle Railroad Secures . Big
Slice Of Land at Grafton.
RUMOR OF A DEAL on DIAMOND STREET

about all the land it needs there, and future
movements will be the result of private
enterprise. 1t Is not generally known that
the city now owns to the river
Picked Up by the Panhandle.
Nothing presents in clearer light the
PROSPEROUS condition of the city than the
steady enlargement by the railroads of their
facilities for handling freight and passen-
gers. An important step in this direction
was taken yesterday. Morris & Aisbitt
sold for Reymer Bros. to the Panhandle
Railroad a strip of ground at Grafton, 'front.'
Ing 300 feet on the railroad by depth of 40
feet, and extending from the Seubenville
pike to Nevada avenue, at S13 foot front,
certainly a reasonable price for that locality.
The object of the railroad people in making
this purchase is to enable them to lay an ad-
ditional track through Ingram and Grafton,
making four in all, to meet the demands of
local traffic. Other improvements in the
nature of stations and offices will follow.
This transaction will have an important
bearing on the development of large dis
trict contiguous to the city, and excite fresh
interest in real estate, particularly acreage.
The city is extending it's limits westward
mucn faster than the public apprehends.
A Deal on Diamond Street.
1t was reported yesterday that Black &
Baird had sold property on Diamond
street, between Smithfeld and the market
house, at figures between $50, 900 and S40,-
600. The firm, while not denying the re-
port, had nothing to say additional to the
above.
Yesterdays Building Permits.
Thirteen permits were issued Yesterday
for IA Improvements, aggregating SIG, 4s5.
Those of most value are: John Winner,
frame dwelling on Soho street, Thirteenth
ward, $1,000; G. McMasters, frame dwelling
on Cedar street. Twentieth ward. 81, 500;
Mrs. Shaw, brick dwelling on McCandless
street, Eighteenth ward, $1,000; George
Freedman, frame dwelling on Park avenue,
Twenty first ward, So, 200; I. L. Beatty. two
brick dwellings on Dithridge street, Four
teenth ward, 81, 100.
Special Features Of Trade.
Work on the Finn houses in the Green
field avenue district is being fastened as
much as possible The Senator's programme
is to build about 100 houses a year.
President Thompson. of the National Lead
Company in which many Pittsburgers are
interested, says that all but a little over
per cent of the old Lead Trust certificates
have assented to the new plan.
Fourteen houses are in course Of erect ion
on the Blair Land Company's Subdivision at
Blair station.
Work has been commenced on the Peters
Creek branch of the Pittsburg, Virginia and
Charleston Eailroads Its completion will
open market for the coal in Jefferson town.
ship.
Citizens of Williamsburg are considering
the feasibility of annexing the fragment OF
Sterrett township, adjoining the borough on
the northwest.
Three handsome dwellings, will soon be
started on Atwood street by the Higgins
estate.
The consummation Of rapid transit on
Greenfield avenue has greatly stimulated
tine demand for building lots in that quarter
and Improvements schemes are multiplying.
Two or three Allegheny City capitalists
apartment house on Montgomery avenue.
1t was reported yesterday that the Colum-
bus Club had selected site for permanent
home. but the location was not divulged.
State Superfntendent of Banking Krumb-
haar hos issued his call to State banks for a
report of their condition on June l.
Fred Rinehart sold yesterday bunch of
switch stock at l75l. E. p. Long disposed of
25 shares OF U. S. Glass, common, at 81.
Additional Points in Realty.
Hoffman & Baldridge sold four new brick
houses of five rooms and finished attic each.
with lot s4xl20, on the south side of Wallace
street. Williamsburg, near Water street, for
S., 500 cash.
Black & Baird sold lot No "a in Melons
plan, Bank of Commerce addition, fronting
40 feet on Grazier street, Brushton, by 1875 in
depth to an alley, with a two-story frame
dwelling, for So, loo.
Reed B. Coyle Co. cold lots Nos. 1855 and
l67 in their Marion place addition, Twenty
third ward being so feet on Gladstone street
and AS feet in depth to Parnell street, for
500.
j. E. Glass sold for A. C. Watkins to Mrs
Mary L. Graham lot No. 3D. in the Alfquippa
pla ce plan, Tor $400
john X. Ewing & Co.. sold to Mrs. Saran
McClelland for F. q. Rohrkaste, lot 2OxIO0
on Howard avenue Tenth ward, Allegheny,
for $3.50, on monthly payments
James W. Drape & Co. sold six lots in the
Keystone plan, Grafton, al a figure verging
on s., $50
A. T. Byers Co. sold another lot for the
Ridgeview Land Company to James
O'Rilley, being No. l in their plan, Eleventh
ward, Allegheny City, fronting 81 feet on
Fleming avenue and extending through l20
feet to a 20-foot alley, for $780,
C. T. Beeckman sold for the Larimer Land
improvement Company in the Grand View
Dla ce plan, at Larfmer station, PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad, lot No 49, to C. Eisenberg, Jr., for
$3.50
Peter Shields sold lot No 19s, 30x9O feet, 10.
Gated on Hoosac street, in the Greenfield
avenue plan. Twenty-third ward, for $780,
M. T. Hipple & Co. sold to H. j. Lang for
DR.. W. H. Daley lot 50xl33 fronting on Pa
cif1c avenue, between Friendship and Har-
riett streets, for S., $50.