Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-26
HIGHEST PRICE YET.
Two Acres In the Squirrel Hi District
Bring $4,000, an Advance of $4,000 In
Six Months-Other Sales, Gossip and
Building Permits.

| Two Acres In the Squirrel Hi District
| Bring S1S, 900, an Advance of $4,000 In
Six Months-Other Sales, Gossip and
! Building Permits.
| TUESDAY, Oct. 25
The sale of another piece Of property SIT
uated in the Squirrel Hill district was
closed to-day. W. G. Stewart sold for Levi
De Wolf two acres of land located on Bea-
con street, near Schenley Park, for s1S, 900,
or $9, 1000 per acre. Though property in this
section has been bringing very large prices,
| the price paid for this piece Of ground Is the
highest that has yet been paid for un1m'
| proved realty in the Squirrel Hill district,
! and shows an enhancement in valuo of more
F.! than 5000 in less than six months. MIR.
stewart says that acreage in this vicinity
| for sale is becoming very scarce, which
| probably accounts in a measure for the sud
Den increase in valuation.
Items OF Gossip.
Ira NJ. Burchfeld to-day sold for Mr.. A. T.
Rowand ct al several pieces of realty in
close proximity to the city. for s13s. 900.
| The Scaife Foundry and Machine Com
pany have commenced the erection of q
large plant ut Oakmont on the Allegheny
Valley Railroad.
1t is reported that large manufacturing
concern of tho Southside ls negotiating for
the purchase Of site near Hutton. If the
deal goes through a large block of dwellings,
so the rumor has it, viii be erected on the
premises now occupied by the company's
plant.
Building Permits.
The following permits were issued to-day:
Mrs. Flora Dothorn, two two-story frame
dwellings, Nos. so and 81 Stanton avenue:
cost 81, 0U0 for both. John D. BurkS, eight
two-story frame dwellings, Girard street,
near Bigelow street; cost q. 600 for all. Mrs.
Mary Mary Bowers. two-story frame dwelling,
and the river; cost 81. 600. Charles Reinke. a
three-stOry frame dwelling, Brereton
avenue; cost s., 0OO. Mrs. Susan W. Patterson,
frame addition, Bingham street; cost $SoO.
Late Sales.
Peter Shields sold in schenley- Park Land
Company's plan, Twenty-third ward, lot No.
223, 25xl47 feet to 2O-foot alley. located on
Stanley street, for $500 cash.
Reed B. Coyle & Co. sold for the Fidelity
Title and Trust Company lots Nos. 92sh and
2e9 in the Watson place plan, Tenth ward,
Allegheny, fronting 100 feet on Natchez
street by 125.26 feet to Modoc street, for
81 400.
John 4 Ewing & Co. sold through Baxter,
Thompson i Co. for Martha Grier two brick
houses of six rooms each on the corner OF
Congress and Frnnkltn streets, the pur-
chaser being MI. NJ. Maloney. Considera-
tiOn, $5, 100 cash.
W. A. Heron & Sons sold three lots in the
Wilkins estate third plan, at Edgewood.
Pennsylvania Railroad, adjoining the VIII
kinsburg line, and not far from the Du-
quesne electric line, each 30 feet front
East End avenue by l20 feet deep, for 5000
each.
Black Baird sold for H. F. Bossert to L.
F. HoltZman lot in Braddock, fronting 20
feet on Halket street by depth OF 100 feet,
for $500 cash.
George H. Beckwith has sold the following
property: Lot on South street. Williamsburg,
for Haymaker & Miller for 5000 to Joseph W.
Cottrell: lot on Biddle avenue for s. Leroy
McRhea to Jeannette Rhoads for 81, ,750 five
lots on Stanton avenue, East End, for E. B.
1vay for 81, ,425; house and lot on corner of
Hill and Mill Streets Williamsburg, for Eliza
beth Horr to B. F. Beazell for $4,000; house
and lot on Center street, Williamsburg, for j.
M. Crawford to W. H. Hall for 5000: lot on
Manning street, Stewart & Pitcairn for $500
to Martin Bell; house and lot Roberts street,
Eleventh ward, PittsDurg, for WE. Hamnett
to r. B. Ivoy for S., 800.
Howard Brown sold lot No. 514 in the
Bank of Commerce addition plan, Brush
ton, 40xl50 feet, to George Limegrover for
5000 cash.
The Burrell and Kensington Improve
ment Companies report the following sale
OF lots at Kensington: Enos s. Bartholo-
NEW, Coalport, Pa, lot 359, block %, 81, los;
Mrs. Margaret Casey, Pittsburg. lot 3S2,
block, 25, 81, los; Charles Shmltt and Charles
Parrot, Bennett station, Pa, lots 1853 and s69,
block %, for 1898 75 Michael Hlavac, New
Kensington, Pa, west half of lot o. block
Il, 1925; Amanda Turner, New Kensington,
Pa, lot $50, block %, 1915 cash.