Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-23
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Center avenue, assessed at sl1. .o4s.
Elizabeth O'Rourke, Overhill street.
| Eleventh ward, assessed $50 on 0x100
| feet, appeals for 81, 200.
| Charles Bockhart was assessed $253, lis on
! 80 stone front dwellings on both sides of
| Dinwiddie street and SSl, 129 on the ground,
or SSsA, 24l on the whole. His appeal Is Tor
| S303, ll3
! julius Groetzinger, in the Thirteenth
| ward. appeals on the assessed values on a
| long list of lots. 4 lot 22xl00, on Ruthven,
| assessed at $40, he values at $3.50. Three
| lots of e2x100 assessed at 81 $40, lie values at
| $50. Others in same neighborhood show
! the same difference of opinion between the
| owners and assessors.
Mrs. Sarah A. Reed fixes SC. 200 as the value
! of 2Sx75 feet at Fifth avenue and Pride
! street, Sixth ward, assessed at s., ,233.
J Twentieth ward-The appeal OF A. e. v.
! Schott on 50x120 feet on Maripoe street, as
! sessed ut s. 55l, says: There have been no i'm
! provementS since my purchase year ago
| Mt 81, 800. Our street is impossible: we have
] go pavements. no improvements, and would
; be fortunate to get $1,000 less for my prop
erty than your assessment"
! Mrs. A. w. Hamilton asks to have the as
/ sessment on two lots on Aiken avenue, ag-
| gregating l0lXl90 feet, cut down from $S5 to
$50 per foot front.
Lemuel Spahis heirs fix value of S3S 600
OH 24xl20 feet fronting Ellsworth avenue, as
sesSed at $63,250 On several other lots the
assessors figures are accepted.
Robert Fleming, on 80 acres on Penn
avenue between Rebecca and Friendship
avenues, is assessed $63G00, but says acres
across Penn aventle were sold within year
and a half at $32 500 and that his could not
be sold for more than $50, 900, though he is
willing to accept an assessment on $S5, 900,
and desires to be put in the agricultural
class.
Wants o Lower Foot Front Rate.
c. B. Seely, assessed s54 go on l5Oxlso feet
at Penn and Winebiddle avenues, appeals to
be rated al $500 per front foot
ID "a n
on the Pennsylvania Railroad, near Fifth
avenue, asks n reduction TO $4,000.
Roxana Pinkerton makes appeal on $S3 962
assessed on the lot 109x200 and dwelling
thereon on Fifth avenue at Bidwell street,
and asks to have it valued at S27, 800.
Mrs. Jennie Gillespie, assessed $4,000 on
1S0S214 feet on Westminster street, appeals
for $1,000, and says the former figure is out
of all reason, according to recent sales IN
the vicinity.
a. II. Childs asks for a reduction from s13,-
l25 to S, 800 on lot S5xlT6 at ANDERSON avenue
and Baird street. He also calls down the
assessors figures for three acres on Am
berson avenue and the Pennsylvania Rail
road, assessed at 81, 600. lie says, "I went
to a real estate dealer Yesterday and he said
l could not get over $4,000 for the land.
consider that an outside valuation. Much
oftnis land lays low and has little value,
besides its contiguity TO the railroad takes it
it out of the class of desirable residence
properties
w j. Friday asks for a reduction from
SOL, 800 to 1000 on his residence and p acres
around it on Ellsworth avenue, the land
alone being assessed at $4,000.
Nilsack, Friday & Breil. who a year and a
half ago purchased the United States Marine
Hospital site. bounded by Ellsworth avenue,
Filbert and Belief ionte streets. for $3O,525, are
assessed S62, 490. They are willing to pay on
an assessment of So, 600.
Doubled in the Twenty-First.
Twenty-first ward-Alex King is assessed
M, tyVn a. a nd Tor
avenues, and $4l, ,OOo on 2O15 acres at King ave
nue. ard Hooker street. His appeal fixes
5000 for the two-acre tract and only $l025O
on the other and he says: 'tI am conscien-
tious on the figures 1 place as the value
You certainly made a great mistake in
yours"
A, NJ. for Mrs E. L. Murdoch, appeals on a
long list Of Twenty-first ward properties,
some of which follow: 96xl2o feet, Landen
street, s., &C., appeal s., l,420; three 24xlG5 lots,
Putnam street, 81. co. appeal $i.S33; 4SNl20,
Putnam street, SLe2O, appeal SsSs. Most OF
the others are on the same streets, and the
assessments agree with those given. In his
appeal he says his figures, based on actual
sales, were accepted three years ago, and
hopes they will be this time.
The Real Estate Savings Bank offers for
$4,000 on long payments block composed
of 3 lot 40X120 on Continental street, and a
lot 1S3Il40 on Fraukstown avenue with
buildings thereon, assessed at s2s,6
3. Z. REYNOLDS appeals for a cut from S37,-
SAT to 600 on long list of properties on
Lincoln avenue, Point View, Olivet and
Bower streets, most of which are vacant
He says: 81 paid 81 800 for the vacant prop
erty two years ago. The city has been to no
expense; we have no light water OF other
improvements With the buildings erected
/ have added to the city's taxable valuation
S25, 500. l believe my figures just and gener-
GUS to the city"
Hartman Bros. fix value of S36, $50 on 5214s
acres on bennington avenue, near tho city
lire, which the assessors valued at Sl05, ,000
Twenty-ninth ward-George A. Macbeth,
trustee. asks for a reduction from Sl2 400 to
S., 600 on G0xS0 feet on South Tenth street, in
cluding brick warehouse thereon.
A. NJ. Byers & Co.'S block, 332x559 feet on |
Bingham, from Sixth to Seventh streets is
assessed at S1l7.GO0. and they value it at $780,
000 Their J50x96 foot at Eighth and Bing-
ham streets is assessed at $l93 go, their value
being S33, GO.