Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-03
THE GOOSE PASTURES
Assessed as Valuable Building Lots,
According to Appellants.
WIDE DIFFERENCES IN FIGURES
A Westinghouse Tract Valued at $l56,0OO
offered for Sale at $4,000.
THE PANHANDLES VIGOROUS PROTEST

THE PANHANDLES VIGOROUS PROTEs,
Yesterdays record of appeals filed wa
one of the largest the city assessors has e1
perienced. The Third Twelfth, Eight
eenth, Nineteenth and Twenty-secont
wards. which are open for appeals, turned
in great number, particularly the Thirt
and Twenty-second. A few came struggling
in from other wards, but as the time fol
filing appeals in all but the wards men
toned has closed, the assessors will moi
likely give them any attention.
Among these was one from the Panhandle
Railroad Company in relation to their depot
lot in the Fifth ward, which is 7o1x127 feet
and COB feet in the rear on Grant street
from Seventh avenue to Washington street.
It is valued at $685., ,634, but the company,s
agent thinks it should not be fixed higher
than $3.50, 900, arguing that it is not as desir.
able as the Government property on Penn
avenue, recently sold, and having but little
more area than that for which $3.50, 900 was
offered. The claim is also made that the
property is inaccessible except by Grant
street, and its value to the company does
not measure its taxable value.
James R. Mckee, whose buildings in the
First ward at Liberty and Decatur streets,
were burned down on January 12. is as
sessed S11 $50 on buildings and $685. 700 on
lot 45x91 feet. He asks to have the latter
reduced to S11, 900 and that the buildings be
not assessed at all.
The Fifth Avenue Protest Entered.
Me- llor & Hoene. the Central Bank, Wat
ties Sheafer, Morganstern & Bierman
and the owners of the Commercial Gazette
building, who were among those repre-
sented at the meeting of Fifth avenue prop
erty holders Monday evening, filed their
appeals yesterday, and, in accordance with
the resolution then adopted, ask for a cut of
about 20 per cent on their taxable valua-
tion.
Mellor & Hoene have 3oxe4O feet, above
Wood street. assessed at $l50OOO. Their ap-
peal is for 200, and accept 1923, 900 on the
building.
The Central Bank has e5x14O feet below
Wood street assessed 1T $l05 600, and build-
ing assessed at S15, COO. Their appeal is SS4 600
on lot and $l5, 900 on building.
Wattles 4 Sheafer were assessed at SS2 900
on their 201ax12O foot lot on Fifth avenue,
below Wood street. Their appeal is for
$65 900.
G. W. Reed and the N. P. Reed estate we're
assessed sl20.0O0 on 3Ox120 feet, $4,000 on
building and 81, 900 on machinery, being the
Commercial Gazette property. Their appeal
IS lor $9G 900 valuation of the lot, and SO 900
on machinery.
Morganstern & Bierman, 1ol13o feet. Fifth
avenue and Market street, assessed $2O5 232;
appeal $l64, 900.
Annie NJ. Bissell considers the assessments
OF the board unreasonable, and says she
would take $4,000 less than their figures for
her property. She is assessed at $57, 500 on
27x6O feet on Wood street, between Fifth
avenue and Diamond street, with SIS 600 on
the building, and $4,000 on 40x100 feet on
Diamond, above Wood street, with $1,000 on
building.
w. w. Patrick is assessed $2S, $50 on 15x35
feet, and s., 500 on his bank building, No. 50
Fifth avenue: He values his lot at $4,000,
ana says: 81 bought the lot 3z years ago for
$4,000, and the building cost $500. The lot
house has not.'
Campbell & Dick are assessed $4,000 on 30
xiZO 1eet, Virgin alley, above Wood street,
and $500 on 20160 feet in rear thereof
Their valuati is $4,000 for both lots.
Thinks the Valuations Absurd.
Ellen c. Speer declares the assessors valu-
atfons are simply absurd. She owns the
at the southeast corner of Smith
field and Liberty streets. divided UP into
lots. One, 19x9O feet, assessed at $42, $50: her
$4,000. One, 1Ox3O in rear, 81, 1872;
appeal, $1,000. Triangular lot, S7x6O feet, $41,-
l69; appeal, $25 600. She also asks cut of
3. 500 on buildings assessed at $l1, 800.
j. W. Heron appeals on behalf of Mary J.
F. Morrison on 20xSO foot lot on Wood
street. between Fifth avenue and Virgin al
ey. He places the value a SAG, ,OOO and says
it is a fair price. Higher rates have been
paid in extraordinary cases where buyers
had special reason for desiring location in
the locality, but such cases are no criterion
Of values.
NJ L. Hagan is assessed $50 600 each on two
OTIS on Sixth avenue, above Smithfield, one
2Oxle5 feet, and the other e0xlIO
Black & Baird, making the appeal, say:
We have these lots for sale and will take
'22 900 each for them" The same firm offers
20 sell for $29 600 lot, 261ax9O feet, at Sixth
lvenue and Cherry alley. assessed at sS7, ,s95,
together with the house thereon, assessed
vt So 900, the property of DIR. W. H. DAILY.
they also offer the property of J. NJ. Batten,
assessed at $34,45o for $780, and the dwell !
ng, assessed at s4, 500, at So 500. A lot 6Ox63.
IN Cherry alley, assessed at $l2, ,O0O they
,tfer at $40, 500 and intimate they might take |
G1a xl2O feet on Diamond square, owned by
n. f. Lloyd, they say: .'The assessment is |
imply absurd. 1t is not worth over Sol. 200,
f that" |
Mrs. Eda Mckee is assessed at sIO9 4sO on |
6xS0 feet at Diamond and Wood streets,and |
ppealing for a cut to s96,20O she sets forth |
hat the property can't be sold owing to the
of widening Diamond street. |
vhich, if done, would take 30 feet of the 81
u the two lots.
NJ C. MILLER is assessed sl62 500 on 6Ox475
eet at Market street and Diamond square,
lie asks for cut to Sl20,000 and complains
hat his taxable valuation was increased to
he amount of S92,500 from the last assess
1ent.
Seemingly Endless Array.
George X. Stevenson is assessed at sl20. 600
n 4oxe40 feet, Sixth avenue; appeal, slOO, ,OOO
.obert Fl. King, 20x 100 feet, Smithfleld street.
ear Virgin alley. $46,OoO appeal, sS4, 900.
[enry Shaler, 20x60 feet, Smithf1eld, near
eventh avenue, $40 900: appeal, $50, ,OOO Mary
S. Shoemaker, 25xl30 feet Wood street, be-
ween Sixth and Liberty, $50 900: appeal s6O.-
10. William Carr, 24x60 feet No 436 Wood |
treet. with 15x27 foot lot in rear, s77, $780, ap-
cal, $69073 including building assessed 1T
800: African Methodist Church, 96xllO
,et, Virgin alley, in rear Hotel Duquesne 4
2, 400; appeal, ,$4S, 600; on the l2 2-story brick
wellings thereon appeal from valuation
$4,000 to 5000. Methodist Book Concern. /
,Ax90 feet, Virgin alley and SmithfieldJ i
rect, sS5.500; appeal, $4,000. James Held
IAN. 1719xS0 feet, No. 433 Wood street.
8, 900; appeal, $4,000. David Sands, 24xlI0'
irgin and Cherry allevs, sl6.3S0; appeal
1000. John Smith, 20x55 Montour wav'
200; appeal, 5000. Susan L. Robinson
" xl2O feet, Diamond square near Market
ley, $46,S0o; appeal, S25 000 Michael Nav.
x120. Sixth avenue, 10000; appeal, $40. COO
ary Hemminghouse, lsx4O feet, Strawberry
lev anpeal S0O |