Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-23
A BOOM IN BUILDING.
One Hundred Houses to Go Up at Ken
sington Forthwith and
SIXTY Or MORE AT wILMERDIEG.
Upward of 500 Acres of Westmoreland
County Coal Land Picked Up.
A DEAL IN THE sHADYSIDE DISTRICT

/ 4hc ShdmuctB 0ldbe OOmp6uv COuCluuCS
a deal yesterday by which it acquired from
the. .Kensington Improvement Company 10'
lots, and will proceed at once to contract fo
the erection of 100 brick houses, to be com
| pleted by September Is. The aggregate
cost of the lots is about $50, 600. The house.
will range in price from $500 to $1,000
They will be built separately instead of il
blocks, and will be well distributed through
the town above the railroad An individual
capitalist is considering plans for % houses
in the same place. There must be some.
thing substantial behind undertakings Of
such magnitude As these.
A Boom for Wnmerding.
Wilmerding is constantly improving its
position as a manufacturing center. The
headquarters of one of the greatest indus
tries of the day, its growth is rapid and
permanent. The Westinghouse Airbrake
people, whose shops are located there, have
just closed . contract for material for 60
town and to be completed this season. They
will be sold or rented to employees of the
company.
A Sale in shadyside.
There is good inquiry for residence sites
in the district of which Fifth and Ellsworth
avenues, Shsdyside, are the center, and the
best property is being picked up and i'm
proved with fine residences w. A Heron
& Sons consummated a sale in this quarter
yesterday. They disposed of lot 104x220
feet, between Fifth and Ellsworth avenues,
for SIS, 900. The purchaser will improve
with one of the handsomest homes in that
part of the city.
Coal Land Picked Up,
Another important transaction in coal
land was consummated yesterday. Galen
c. Hartman, Is attorney for the owners,
sold an interest in $50 acres in Westmore-
land county, on the line of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, for s37, 800. The pur-
chasers, a long established coal company of
this city, win develop the property at once.
and to enable them to do this effectively
they will lay switch connecting the track
with the main line of the railroad.
Special Features Of Trade.
The building booms at Kensington and
Wilmerding appear to be in no danger of q
collapse.
Forty new houses can be seen from one
side 60 are visible from a position on Charles
street. These cities are evidently growing.
The People's Light and Heat Company Of
the work of development Immediately.
Gross earnings OF the Buffalo, Rochester
and Ptttsburg Railroad for the second week
of June. s60, A9; increase, $54l0
The Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and
st. Louis reports for May an increase in
gross earnings of $l47,s74, increase in e1-
Five permits were issued yesterday for II
houses, estimated to cost $,S75. The only
one of Importance was taken out by Trimble
Wilcox for seven frame dwellings to cost
$1,000.
The New York Produce Exchange has
voted to close on Saturday, July 2, until
Tuesday, 5.
The increase in the freight business of the
Western railways during the past week has
been SO great as to cause fears of q car
famine in case it should continue.
Real estate is in good condition for the
summer lull. Large sales are unusually
frequent for the season, and single lots are
moving satisfactorily.
just after the last stock call yesterday
stock.
John D. Bailey yesterday sold 100 shares Of
Pleasant Valley at 26H.
At New York Yesterday $500, coo more gold
was ordered for export.
Additional Points in Realty,
Nathan D. Jones has acquired sOxsoo feet
of ground on Center avenue, Twentieth
ward, for which he paid $11, 500.
= A. 2. Byers & Co. sold for the Rfdgeview
Land Company to G. W. Wright lot No. GA,
in their plan, Eleventh ward, Allegheny
City, on the line of the Pleasant Valley
Electric road, fronting 4s feet on California
avenue and extending through 100 feet to
Michigan avenue, for 81, 900.
Reed B. Coyle Co. sold five more lots in
their Glenmawr Park plan, at Haysyflle
Pittsburg, Fit. Wayne and Chicago Railway,
being Nos. 2s, 20, 30, 81 and 80, fronting $50
depth, for $3.50.
John X. Ewing & Co. sold to Mrs. Kare
Lang a lot, 24x154, on Ellis avenue, in the
Mayfield plan, Tenth ward, Allegheny, for
$500
Black & Baird sold to D. o. & N. Harris lot
No. 81, in the d. H. Barr plen, at Brushton,
for $3.50.