Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-28
BUSINESS ON PAPER.
Hints of the Largest Development
Scheme of the Season
BACKED BY ABUNDANT CAPITAL.
Eleven Acres Situated Near Homewood
Cemetery Change Ownership
A TRANSACTION NEAR WILLIAMSBURG


As mentioned on frequ ent occasions, there
are number of important enterprises un-
der consideration by Pittsburg capitalists,
which, If carried out, will be of great utili-
ty to the city. One of these is the building
for the use Of doctors and dentists. which
was fully described in The SUNDAY DIS
PATCH. But greater enterprise than this
is on foot It contemplates the purchase Of
several hundred acres within and just be-
yond the city limits for improvement and
sale to people of small meana Some promi-
nent people are interested in this scheme,
two or three of whom went over the ground
last week and made q favorable report. It
Is not Schenley or Denny property, but be-
into details, but the prospect for favora-
BILE issue of the pending negotiations is very
good.
Two Interesting Reports.
It was reported yesterday that . piece Of
ground in the Twenty-second ward, In the
neighborhood Of Homewood Cemetery, COM
prising about II acres, had been sold to
prominent wholesale liquor dealer at
6eure close to $4,000 O. II. Loves name
beng mentioned in connection with the
transaction, be was called on for iuforma-
tion, but, while admitting that he bad made
q sale in the locality mentioned. said that
part of the contract was that nothing should
be said about it. Another interesting re-
port that came to the front yesterday indi-
Gated the sale of about 25O feet on Penn ave-
nue., near Williamsburg, adjoining the Snow
den property now owned by Prof W. G.
Lyme. For property in that locality $50
foot front is considered about the proper
thing.
Sale OF Lumber Plant.
The plant of the Hulings Lumber Com
pany, on the West Virginia Central and
Pittsburg Railroad, Tucker county, W. Va,
purchased some time ago by Welsh Bros, but
tied up by legal restrictions was transferred
to the purchasers last week, and they will
begin operations at once. This plant is one
of the most extensive in West Virginia, and
cost originally about $4,000 1t includes,
besides two sawmills and a standard gauge
railway, several thousand acres of very fine
hardwoods. 1t is reported that the Messrs.
Welsh will put 300 men to work operating
the mills and telling timber
Yesterdays Building Permits.
Ten permits were issued yesterday for 18
improvements, aggregating $30,675. Those
of most value are: H. Siedle 3 Bro, two
frame dwellings on Euclid avenue, Nine
teenth ward, $4,000; Bucking & Houston,
four frame dwellings on Harrison street,
Eighteenth ward, $6, 600; same, four frame
dwellings on Fifty-ffth street, Eighteenth
ward, $1,000; Joseph Fuchs, frame dwell
ing on Kipes alley, Twentv-seventh ward,
81 300; James D. Gallery, two frame dwell
ings on White street, Thirteenth ward,
$1,000.
Special Features Of Trade.
Tho First National Bank OF CHARTERS
started on its business career yesterday
morning.
h. T. Elliott, the Williamsburg grocer, has
purchased DR.. Bruce's residence on Hill
street and will occupy it in the fall.
The Philadelphia Sock Exchange will
close from Friday evening. July !, till Tues
Good tour-roomed houses, with hard and
soft water and centrally located in WASH |
ington, Pa, can be rented for So month.
There is movement on foot to cut Buffalo |
township, Washington county, in two. II |
divided as proposed, Taylorstown will be in |
the northern townshiI and all all OF OH the Na-
road in the southern township.
Boston's semi-annual dividend payments |
due July aggregate $l5, "a, Ill. decrease of |
s, 1875 5l5 over January l.
The annual meeting Of the Iron and Glass |
Dollar Savings Bank will be held on Friday |
next.
Jacob Henrici has purchased IS acres,
with improvements, in Leet township, for |
s6 633.
Julius F: stark y ,ys, yesterday sold $4,000 Du-
Pittsburg and Mexican Tin was quoted
yesterday at 25@4b Howard Plate Glass |
Company stock was offered at 100.
Exports of gold from New York for the |
week ending on Saturday, as officially re-
ported, were $5,2s2,5A5 nearly all to Ger |
many.
Additional Points In Realty.
John F. Sweeney sold for James Nesbit,
the Allegheny contractor, another of the |
houses they are building on Heron Hill, |
being a new four-roomed house on lot |
fronting q feet on Clarissa street and ex-
tending back 100 feet to a 2O-foot alley, for
s, 500, the purchaser being H. Garlick, Of the
Southsfde. l.
James H. Bell is reported on good author
lty to have received 81, 750 an acre for the 40
acres he recently sold near lakewood, on the
Allegheny river, just above the city.
John X. Ewing Co. sold to Charles
q new frame house of five rooms
and hall, with lot 20xl15 feet, on Virginia
avenue. Tenth ward, Allegheny, for s, 200
Black & Baird sold to c. A. Herbst lot NO.
Is. in Adam Rolls plan, Twenty-second
Forbes avenue by a depth of N feet, for s70O
The Burrell Improvement Company re-
port the following sale oflots at Kensineton:
Mars csTs o 10; pos s eocs @ ss s s1s
n. Aker. lots 9. 10 and II, in block II,
!. .576 So
Peter Shields sold lot No. 1Ss 30x9O Feet
located on Coleman street. in the Greenfield
avenue plan, Twenty-third ward for $500.
W. A. Heron & Sons sold lot No. 8 in
Speck's plan, Flowers avenue Twenty-third
ward, % by about 200. for $780, They also
closed the sale and delivered the deed for a
large tract of land near Penn avenue adjoin-
ing Williamsburg. for price approximating
$50, 1000 cash.