Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-26
TRAFFIC In REALTY.
A Fine Residential Property in the
East End Changes Hands.
MANY SALES ON THE NORTHSIDE.
A Good Day on Change and Almost Every.
thing Mounts to q Higher Level.
OFFICE AND STREET NEWS AND GOSSIP

The proof of the pudding lies in the eat
ing OF it. By the same rule, the frequency
and importance of transactions in realty are
evidences of a fairly active and healthy
market A few weeks of good weather will
put it securely on its feet.
Among the transactions which wore un-
bottled yesterday was the sale of the Dawes
residential property, corner of Center avenue
and Craig street, Fourteenth ward, for 500
600. The lot is 1O0x142, and the house an
elegant brick two-story Queen Anne. 1t is
one of the finest places in that quarter. The
purchaser is Mr.. Nicholson, of the Rose
Hartley Betting Company.
Mr.. W. H. Devore, the well-known
Grant street undertaken, yesterday closed
the sale of 100 feet on Rebecca street, Will
kinsburg, for Sc, 600, or $50 foot front. The
purchaser will build two handsome houses
on this lot this spring.
Algeo Bros, the Allegheny agents, are
doing a land-ofice business During the
past three weeks they report selling % resi-
Dental properties, ranging in value from
s., 800 to $4,000, the aggregate amounting
to upwards of 500, 900.
A deal was consummated Yesterday on
Third avenue, below Market street. involv-
ing 50, 500, but the property could not be
definitely located.
Special Features Of Trade.
Paint and an additional story make the
Gusky building look like q new one.
The Vandergrift building. on Fourth ave-
nue., will soon be ready for occupancy.
Doors are being hung and fixtures put in.
Ellen Wheeler has sold to Mary E. Wheeler
a residence property on Meyran street,
Fourteenth ward, lot 22xloO, for 81. 500.
George o. Jones, Esq, trustee of the estate
of John Cooper; deceased, sold at public
sale farm of % acres situated about two
miles north of Washington, Pa, to Mrs.
sophia Weaver for Sl35 SO an acre, on the
old Pittsburg pike.
Four building permits were issued yester-
day. aggregating $500. The greatest value
was s. 200 for frame dwelling on Bedford
avenue, Thirteenth ward, William C.:Charl-
ton, owner
There is a report that the Johnston proper
ty in the upper part of Williamsburg, is
about to change hands through an East End
agency.
Contracts have been let for number of
good houses at Finleyville.
The contract price for the Solomon-Ruben
block on Smithfield stree. is said to be
$4,000.
Henry NJ. Long yesterday sold S., 900 Pleas
ant Valley lateral road bonds at par and
interest.
Wheeling Gas was doomed little yester-
day on report that Moorhead No had
been drilled in and was producing at the
late of 100 barrels day. The advance in
the price of oil also helped the stock.
In New York $780, coo Pittsburg and Western
Is sold at S25S6S2A aud 400 shares of the pre-
1erred stock at 20.
Major A. j. Pentecost is rushing the work
on a number of houses at Valleyview, on
the CHARTERS Vallev Railroad.
Muslin & Kuhn Bros. were the principal
bulls on Change yesterday. They have
faith in everything relating to Pittsburg.
From the way manufacturers are taking
hold of real estate. it is quite evident they
city.
Sales Reported by Agents.
D. Behen & Son sold for Sidney ID. New
bury to Francis Tighe, a new frame house
of four rooms, attic, etc., neatly finished
with lot 24xl0O feet on Dauphin street. two
squares from Penn avenue, for s., $50; also
for James Heminger to Sarah Collier, two
lots, 19xioO feet each, with two-roomed
framed house. on Dauphin, near W1nebiddle
avenue, for $3.50
Hoffman & Baldridge sold q new frame
house of seven rooms and modern fixtures,
with lot 5212xl20 to an alley, on Miflin street,
Williamsburg, for S3, 200.
Samuel w. Black & Co. sold for the Blair |
state a rwo-story frame dwelling and lot 4s |
Black & Baird sold to James Hogg lot No. |
A in the Paramount Place plan, Nineteenth |
ward, fronting 2l1S feet on Rosetta street by |
depth of 95 feet. FOR $500.
James W. Drape Co. sold house and lot |
n the First ward for 5000; also II lots in |
dunhall Terrace plan, near Homestead, for |
4, 00O also two lots in the Keystone plan,
Iratton, for $3.50: also lot on Nit. Washing. |
on for $3.50: also closed an interest in prop |
,rty at CHARTERS for s., 600 cash.
The Burrell Improvement Company re-
,orts the following sale of lots at Kensing-
on: Charles Rainer, McKeesport, Pa, north
lalf lot 49, block s, for SeS7 so: Mrs. L. Her.
I'D, Allegheny, Pa. lot 90. block o. for $500;
'Irs. Henrietta Riser, Parnassus, Pa, lot
D. block 49, for $675.
w. A. Heron Sons sold lot 40xlA feet
o an alley on Fisk street, Seventeenth ward,
or S., 200 cash; purchaser intends to improve
anne at once. They also closed the sale of
louse of five rooms, lot 19xl00 feet, on Gen.
er avenue, near kirkpatrick street, street
paid, for 81, 800.
John F. Sweeney sold to j. A. Adamson an
lot on Madison avenue, Thir-
zenith ward, having frontage of 25 feet on
iadison avenue and extending back 100 feet
o 20-foot alley.