Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-23
NEW STEEL WORKS
Win Be Erected in the Seventeenth Ward
by Eastern Capitalists, Who Buy -Four
Acres for $50, ,OO0-Good Price for q Lot
on Ellsworth Avenue.

VIII Be Erected in the Seventeenth Ward
by Eastern Capitalists, Who Buy Foul
Acres for s50,OO0-Good Price for Lot
on Ellsworth Avenue.
THURSDAY, Sept %
A large deal In Lawrenceville acreage
was closed to-day. Black g. Baird sold tor
Mrs Mary B. Foster four acres of land 10
Gated in the Seventeenth ward, and bounded
by the Allegheny Valley Railroad, Fifty
fourth and Fifty-fifth streets and the AlIe-
gheny river, for $4,000. The purchasers
are Eastern capitalists who will commence
for that purpose. This tract was formerly
known as the Burgess property, and origin
ally contained 6h acres, Of which ~ acres
are now under water. The new works when
IN operation, it is reported, will employ over
ooo or 600 men and boys.
Another Good Sale Closed.
y Henry A Breed yesterday sold for D. W.
G. Bidwen to a well-known business man q
piece of property fronting 100 feet on ELS
worth avenue by 25O feet in depth for 81, 900,
or s226 per foot front The purchaser will,
ing, the cost of which will be considerably
more than the price paid tor the site.
Notes of Gossip.
Ground has been broken for tho erection
Of the Christ NJ. E. Church, corner of Liberty
and Centre avenues.
Five large dwellings are nearing compile
ton t in the College Place plan, fronting on
Ellsworth avenue.
The sale of tract of sh acres of realty
located in the eastern portion of the city was
closed yesterday, the consideration being In
the neighborhood of $50 900. The particulars
OF this deal will be in shape for publication
In few days.
Many large deals which have been side
tracked owing to the cholera scare and vari-
ons other difficulties have been taken up
again and are nearing the consummat1on
point at very rapid gait
Building Permits.
The following permits were issued to-day:
Mrs. l. Mohler, q brick two-story dwelling,
Farragut street, near Stanton avenue; cost,
$3.50. W. q. Melaney, q frame two-story
dwelling, Dauphin street, near Rebecca
street; cost, s., 100. John Geib. two frame two
story dwellings, Root street, near Bailey
avenue; cost, s., 900 for both. Baker q Lowe.
near McCandless avenue; cost, $3.50 George
Grass, frame two-story dwelling. Mary
street; cost. $500 George Minsinger, frame
addition, Joels lane; cost, $3.50.
Reports From the Agents.
John Z. Ewing & Co. sold for Mrs. Anna j.
with a lot 2o1l0O feet, on McGirr avenue. Co.
lumbta Park, Second ward, Allegheny, for
s1,6Oo.
Reed B. Coyle & Co. report the sale Of two
more lots, Nos. and II, in their Highland
Place plan, overlooking Highland PARK,
Nineteenth ward, fronting so feet on the
west side of Negley avenue, corner Bunker
Hill street, and extending back 20S feet to
Pacific street, for 81 900.
Black & Baird sold to Edward A. Sheehan
lot No. 367 in the Alta Land Company's plan
on Duquesne Heights for $50. Also sold to
Robert Beaven lot No. 404, in same plan,
for $25.
E. T. Schaffner, the Hill Top real estate
agent, sold for the Birmingham Land I'm
provement Company to Samuel Simpson
lots Nos. ISL, 49, 1853 and 154, in their South
View plan on the Suburban Rapid Transit
electric railway, each lot fronting 80 feet on
Birmingham avenue and extending back 150
feet to an alley for 50, 900.
Another lot was sold for So 500 on Heberton
avenue in the Highland avenue district by
Samuel W. Black & Co., fronting so feet on
the east side of said avenue, beginning 100
feet southwardly from Highland Park. This
leaves but one lot on this delightful avenue.
Peter Shields sold lot No. 107 in the Schen-
ley Park Land Company's plan, Twenty
third ward, being 25x10O feet to a 20-foot
alley, located on Haldane street, for $500.
c. II. Love sold two more lots in the Hun
ter plan at Williamsburg, being Nos. 63 and
GA, to Alexander Glass tor $3.50 each.
s. A. Dickie & Co. report the sale of a lot
on Linden avenue for William Corbett to
". P. Knight, being 49x120 feet, for 81, $50. A
brick dwelling will be erected by the pur-
chaser very shortly.
W. A. Heron s. Sons sold q fine business
property on Fifth avenue, near Stevenson
street, size 40xso feet, for sl9, 500.