Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-24

ures are unreasonable because "a portion O
! the land stands on end and is almost worth
/ less"
| The Silver Lake Grove property, 81 acres
! owned by George Finley, on Frankstowl
| avenue, is assessed at SCI, ,000 He asks for {
! reduction to SIS 500.
W. A. Hoeveler and E. W. Tabor are as
sessed $50 900 for Is acres at Fifth and Lem
| lngton avenues. Their valuation is SH 400
and their affidavit reads 81, 600 an acre i.
out of reason, as it is a very unstable p1ecs
an impossible township road. Through il
runs a crooked creek which drains large
part of the East End, and $500 an acre is 6
big price for ii.
John Murtland is assessed 81, 400 on u.
acres on Lang avenue which he values al
Sl2, 900.
r. 3. Ward accepts an assessment of 81, ,S0
an acre for two acres on Lexington avenue
but on a lot, 66xlS0 feet, asks cut IRON
81, $50 to $50.
E. NJ Martin asks cut from 5000 to s., ,o0t
on q lot OKLA on Lincoln avenue, ana +. T.
Doak asks reductions on "a acres above
Lincoln avenue from 81, ,oo0 to $500 an acre
On three acres he asks a cut from $500 to $500
an acre and on 2OA acres, near the river
the assessors valued at s400 an acre he fixes
value of SIS an acre.
j. U. Beckitt is assessed at So, $40 on 6Si
acres occupied by his brickyard on the
Pennsylvania Railroad. He puts the figures
at $40 900.
On piece ll5xI2O feet on Lincoln avenue
and Meadow street, belonging to David
Moore, q value of $40, 76i is placed: his figure
is IS, 500. On another piece, 140xl00, on Lin.
coin avenue, the assessors put value oil
$l0,64O; on 1e0x134 on Winslow street he
figures So, 200 against the assessors s, ,050.
George Finley appeals as follows: On
acres, Frankstown and Fifth avenues, occu-
pied as hrickyards, assessed S72.000-appeal,
S42, ,00o; 515 acres, orchard in rear of above,
assessed SIS, ,500-appeal so, SEQ; l acre, Nc
Combs street. assessed $7,000-appeal, 5000;
81 acres, broken. untillable and unproduc-
tive oScPeSa6 S31 0l0-onneoi Sc 200
Joseph Spencer is assessed $57,lS3 on 14L
acres and S65. leo on l6lz acres on Lincoln
avenue, which he values at $4,000 and Sle,-
600 respectively, the whole being dairy
farm. Finley Torrens is assessed S57, 900 for
four acres on Frankstown avenue; his value
is S32, co.,
Twertv-third ward-samuel S. Brown is
assessed $4,000 on 80 acres of hillside land,
which ne values at $3.50, and $46,s00 on 90
acres on the Monongahela river, which he
values at 500.
on the valuation of about 200 lots in their
plan at an average of 20 per cent less than
the assessors figures, and their appeal
states: AFTER abundant advertising we
held two public sales but we could not in
duce buyers to come, and only sold
l3 lots, principally to stockholders of
the company, at much lower figures
than your assessments. Since our
sale more desirably situated property has
come into the market at lower rates, and the
coming value Of ours is pro5lematical."
Frank Mcknight offers to sell for s., 500 ten
24x120 foot lots and one l7xl20 foo5 lot on
Mansion street which the assessors value at
S4,02l.
Evans & Grey protest against an out
rageous increase in valuation, " is the way
their appeal on four acres on Winterburn
avenue, assessed at $l2, 900, reads. 1.-THE high
est offer ever made was s., 600 an acre. We
complain against any but an agricultural
class :flcation, because it has never been
used for any other purpose. We also pro-
test AGAINST discrimination in of
neighbors, in that the acres in the same plot
owned by Miss Blanche Lytle and imme-
diately adjoining ours have been assessed
as agricultural and ours have not. We also
protest that the Lytle property is assessed
lower than ours. Evans Grey have no city
improvements and think LOCO an acre high
enough for tax purposes"
J. +. Ed;nundson mas grievance against
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad His ten
lots, 24xll3 feet each, at Blair and Lytle
streets, are assessed at ST. .O60, but he says he
only paid $500 each for them, and they have
deprecated in value since, owing to the OBJ
struction of the property by the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad. He has four a4xll0 lots
on Blair street, four of same size on Lytle
street assessed at 1850 and s2,112 respect
lively, and he says the same cause has re-
duced the value to s400 each.
Other appeals in the TweDty-third ward
are as follows: Hill Burgwin s acres on
Second avenue. assessed, SIS OOO appeal,
So, 900; 534 acres, Hazelwood avenue, S37, 800:
appeal, $4,000. Ross Johnston estate, 1Slx1S4
feet on Chester street, assessed, 1856; ap-
peal, S3 0e0; 75X1aO feet, Elizabeth street,
ss $50; appeal! 81 500: l45xl90. Elizabeth street.
4,O56; appeal, $. 600; i321l22 on Blair street,
IS, Ill; appeal, 5000; 256x2Ss, Second avenue
and Melancrhon street, Sl6S53: appeal,
$4,000 lo0xl20, Lytle street. S3.075; appeal,
g, 600; 81 acres, Johnston avenue, sl0,925;
Adams street and Sylvan avenue, s64, 500.
appeal, 1000. Robert Robinson, l5SxiOO feet:
Ha zelwood avenue and Lytle street, 5000:
appeal, $1,000. S. S. and Harry Brown, ~
acres, Second avenue to river, 81 s6S; appeal,
$500; frame sawmill, $4,000, appeal LOCO
Simon Johnston estate. So acres, Second
avenue, S2s.700 appeal, sl2, 800. NJ E. Johns
ton estate, 4s13 acres, Sugar Hill, s24, ,307; ap-
peal, $4,000: also a large number of other
properties with similar reductions asked.
Blair estate, 10 lots 25x100 each, Second ave-
nue., $4,000; appeal, Sc, 900. Alice B. Laughlin,
acres, Second avenue and Lauglin street,
s50, 900; appeal, $4,000
Wilson & Frew, assessed 500 s56 on 43I acres
on Bedford avenue, Thirteenth ward, value
it at $4,000. On another tract of l53sI
perehes, assessed at 1888, they place value
OF S. 500.
Grace Malone, assessed s., 700 on lex1oo lot
No. 1923 Penn avenue, appeals for re,Iuc-
ton to 81 200. On No. 142l I7xlO0 assessed at
IS. 100, her value is S., 500.
The Alexander McIlvaine heirs lot, 50x
100, on Fulton street, Eighth ward, assessed
at $500, fix its value at 5000, which they
will sell it for, with SEQ additional for the
brick house thereon.
c. E. Ramsey. assessed $1,000 for 4sx265
Cliff street, values the lot at s. $50, and lot
3 x265, assessed q sc, 400 he values at So $40.
The Peoples Savings Bank in the Seven
eenih ward appeal from SC, l43 assessed on
l46xlOS feet, divided into seven lots, on
torty-hf1h street, and offer to sell the whole
1t $500 per lot, which they think fair valua-
ion. Arthur Kirkpatrick asks a cut from
1850 to ST SEQ on lot 241l0O on Forthwith
street: Other appeals from this ward were
or tr1filng changes.
The Citizens Traction Company appeals
or the following reductions in the Sixteenth
ward: On 721l00 feet, Penn avenue above
fhlrty-third street, from Sl00s to $500: on
4xlcO. feet from S, 030 to 81 745: on, i71%xlO0
Get on Liberty street. from 81 SIS to 81 3I3; on
IL 100 feet, Liberty street, from So s5s to
:, 262; on stone power house, $4,000 to $4,000