Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-17
FEATURES OF TRADE.
The Voight Property on Liberty
Street Changes Ownership.
A BLOCK OF TRUST STOCK PLACED.
An Oil Baron Figuring on Stone Palace in
the East End District.
DRIFT OF MONEY AND SPECULATION

People who think that Piitsburg is aslee
are badly mistaken. They should cut loos
from their narrow environments and fin
out what is going on. All of the grea
arteries are pulsating with business, Will
the central part of the city is crowded to in
convenience. In trip of several mile
yesterday these facts were so manifest as t.
compel attention. Everybody seemed t.
have something to do, and went about do
ing it.
This is certainly an encouraging condition
of affairs, and all the more since this il
about the dullest season of the year, til,
winter trade being over and the sprinf
movement held in abeyance by bad weather
The city is in good position to profit BY
the revival which is sure to come.
A Deal In Central Property.
The L. H. Voight property. No S13 Lib.
erty street, changed ownership yesterday
through the Black & Baird agency for SAT.
9oo' MI: G. j. Young being the purchaser.
1t consists of a lot 26.6x110 and a brick
three-story business house.
The same firm leased Nos II and 10 Wood
street, the former to a New York and the
latter to Franklin, Pa, firm, and No. II
Diamond street to a Pittsburg company.
Agents report the outside demand for bust.
ness stands greater than in any former sea-
son. Some of these people are locating in
the surrounding towns
1t has been stated that T. A. & r. G. Gil
lespie will each erect nine-story business
house on Penn avenue this season. Keech,
Wade and Ewart will also build on the
same avenue. Itwas learned yesterday that
plans for another nine-story warehouse in
the same quarter as the above have been
prepared and will be put into execution as
soon as preliminaries can be arranged. The
site has been secured, but, as the deed has
not been passed, report of the transaction
is withheld for the present
A prominent oil man is figuring on plans
for an elegant stone mansion out Fifth ave-
nue., where he has about closed deal for
upward of 200 feet frontage.
Ali the Stock Taken.
The balance of the trust stock of the Syla-
cauga Land and Improvement Company,
800 shares, has been taken bv a syndicate of
East Enders. The deal was closed yester-
day evening. This company some time ago
purchased the material of the Penn Cotton
Mill for removal to the new town of Syla-
cauga, where large building is being
erected for its reception. In addition to
developing the town named, the company
is largely interested in timber and mineral
lands
This is a Pittrburg enterprise, and from
the high business standing of its promoters,
success seems well nigh assured. The cot
ton mill will be one of the largest and best
equipped in the South.
Business News and Gogsip.
swissvale is getting in shape tor boom.
There is need Of 1t.
Three nine and two eight.story buildings
Will be erected on Penn avenue this year.
This is certain. There may be more.
Property on Penn avenue beyond the
Forks Of the Road is largely owned in
blocks and by wealthy estates. This ac-
counts for the backward condition of that
Mr.. d. P. Black is in Chicago on business
n that city.
W. B. Salt has sold to NJ. Mawhinney 20
hip, near Williamsburg, for $12 5OO
The annual meeting of stockholders of the
;ustsr Mining, Company will be held on
Application has been made by the Amer
can Sugar Refineries Company to the New
Iork Stock Exchange Tor the listing of
%, 600 600 Of new stock, one-half common |
nd one-half preferred.
Baltimore advices state that the scheme
n connection with the Western MARYLAND |
5 to make it IL connecting link between |
leading, and Baltimore and Ohio and Nor. |
Five permits were issued yesterday for |
hree frame and two brick dwellings, the |
stimated cost of all being $6775.
= At the morning call $50 was offered for the |
f1vllege OF calling 100 shares Philadelphia /
Ias at ls1a during the month of April.
Movements in Realty.
Indications favor the supposition that the |
hrist NJ. E. Church property will be mar. |
eted IN parcels, and be improved with q |
umber of business houses.
James w. Drape & Co. sold yesterday at
heir salesroom on Wood street the proper-
es of Sarah S. Getty, deceased being Nos. |
!, 81 and b5 First avenue, for $21.4O0. There
ere lively bidding and keen competition,
lowing an active demand for central
roperty.
A New York firm has bought over 200 acres
ear Ellwood City. It is said large manu-
!cturtng concern will be located thereon.
Black & Baird sold to Daniel Rea lot on
osetta street, Nineteenth ward, in the Fair
oun5 place plan, being part of lot No. 81,
13xl00 feet, and smaller in the rear, for
John F. sweeny sold to prominent Car
tion the property No. 1923 Sarah street.
'uthside. having frontage of 20 feet on
rah street and extending back to Carev
ley. The consideration is private.
Peter Shields sold to James Patterson,
illow Grove, Pa. lot No. $50, 3Ox9l feet
Gated on Alger street in the Greenfield
,enue plan, Twenty-third ward, for 5000
M. +. Nipple & Co. sold to Paul Pricoysti |
ID John Kurowski, for s. 500, a ten-room
anne dwelling with four lots, each aoxl00
ct, on the east side of Downing street, in |
g Dickson plan, Thirteenth ward. Sold for |
F. Nipple, ct al.
D. Behen & Son sold for Miss Annie Slat-
~ to Withholding, for 81, 400, lot 30xlC0 feet, |
Calvin street. Seventeenth ward.
SOME IMPROVEMENT