Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-12-14
HELPING THE CITY.
What Real Estate Firm is Doing
For Us.
PLACING VALUABLE PROPERTY


rsttins 1t On the Market and Getting Good
Prices For it-Tbe Real Estate Firm of ,
Rooster & Martin and How 1t is Advance
ing Rock Island Realty.
Sometime since THB ARGUS spoke of |
ire wo that Is being done for Rock ISL |
and by the real estate firm of Rooster & |
Martin, how the enterprising gentlemen
composing it have brought out real estate |
that has, it may be said. been dormant for
years, sud placed value upon it, how
they have taught the very owners of
thst property the value Of their own pos
sessions. srdh they have demonstrated
real estate business will prove of sdvsn-
'sge 10 the c''y and to its property
holders
Important Real Estate Deals.
In connection with the article hereto
fore published. THE ARGUS noted num4
Der of important real estate transactions
Since then the same firm has been instru>
mental in bringing about number of
deals Of equal importance and moment.
Chief am ing these may be mentioned the
sale / = Mrs Ellen Riley of the property as
heretofore spoken Of at the southeast
corner of Seventeenth street and First
avenue, s 10 21O by $50, to the Rock
Irla
$50 md which VIII rise early in the
spring q handsome power tuilding. And
also tie sale By Mrs. Hastings t. George
Wood of a valuable piece of property on
Thirteenth street between Third and
Fourth avenues, SOxSO for 8 600. \
lot st tae Coroer of Fourth avenue and
Sixteenth stree by George Wood TO
William G!ockau for $l.575; and TIE
sale by Mr. Flugel to J Price of lot Oh
Thirteenth between Fifth and xth
avenues Cor $500.
The most important ansaCiion ac-
cmplished through the firm of Rooster
& Martin. however, was the sale nv
Simon Rock to DR.. j W. Stewart of the
property on the southeast corner of
Third avenue and Eighteenth. a 10,
60xl5O. .or 81 900. The sale is significant
more ways than one. Ia the first
place it means the erection on the site
early in the spring of handsome busi>
ness block, which will DE designed for
DR.. Stewards wholesale hardware housg
and which it will contain when COM
pleted.
Placing Value on Real Estate
the transfer of this valuable property
Is significant also in another wsy
1t originally belonged to the Krel! estate.
and when KOester Il Martin went to
work upon il to get it on the market they
were surprised to fud that the greatest
obstacles TO fixing good marketable
price met were the way Rock Island
people moderated their own property.
Even after they h, d found in Mr. Kock
purchaser for IS zoo they discovered
that Rock Island people were stating
that the property could be had for 81 600
Notwithstanding this the firm succeeded
in impressing Mr.. Kock that he had
bargain at $4,000 and emphasized the
same by disposing of the same property
for him the other day at an advance of
$500 and to Rock Island citizen at
that.
1t is such Arms as Rooster & Martin
that develop city, that proclaim its ad
vantages and opportunities This was
surely amply shown in the last mem
TONED sale.
The firm has its own handsome once
building at 1915 Second avenue as here
tofore noted. in which, by the way, there
are yet some handsome Office rooms for
rent on the second floor.