Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-16


Light. heat, power and transporta-
ton companies 43............... 1885,, 600
Building and loan associations, l3.. 81, 00O, 600
Irrigation companies, 3............. ~ O0O
miscellaneous companies, l6l. ..... u,SO4, $50
Railroad Earnings Disappointing.
Railroad earnings for the month of Janu-
ary have not been what was expected, but
the returns are very small and they COM
pare with very good month last year.
The increase for 139 roads is only 21S per
cent for the whole, but there are heavy
losses in some localities. This is easily
accounted for by bad weather and almost i'm
passable country roads, Looking at it
more in detail, says the Journal Of Finance,
We find that the earnings for the last week
in January were less than one-half of 1
per cent greater than tor the same week
last year on 81 roads reporting For the
first week of February the earnings of 40
roads were almost u per cent greater.
Bus'ness News and Gossip.
An important deal in West End acreage is
in good shape for closing this week.
The McKeesport and Reynoldton Passen-
ger Railway Company has extended its line
across the bridge to Reynoldton and ordered
additional cars for that branch.
James Fl. Thompson, of Baxter, Thompson
Co., will consummate an important deal
to-day. He will get married. The wedding
trip will take in all the principal Eastern
cities.
mill says, as reported in the Chicago Journal
of Commerce: II was in Pittsburg a few days
ago and in conversation with the manager
of one OF the most prominent iron works
there he told me that the business has sud-
denly sprung into great activity, and for the
last ten days orders have been pouring in
giving them all they could do for months to
Gomez
George j. German, President of the Me-
chanics' National Bank, is building fine
Queen Anne residence at Edgeworth, on the
Fit. Wayne Railroad.
The latest sales of seats in the New York
Stock Exchange were at s22 600. Seats in the
Pittsburg Exchange are quoted at about s450
According to the Journal of finance George
Westinghouse's friends deny that he is in
any way interested in the new Edison Gen.
observation-disclosures consolidation.
Nine permits were issued Yesterday for
the erection of Is buildings aggregating s1s,-
240 The most important of these was taken
out by E. Mcknight for seven brick two
story dwellings on Locust street, Fourteenth
ward, to cost IS 500.
The Ohio Legislature has been petitioned
by the citizens of Fremont for permission to
issue bonds to SECURE the rebuilding OF the
Thomson-Houston Carbon Works, destroyed
by fire.
A standard Oil man is authority for the
statement that a big deal in pipe line certif-
Gates is close at hand
Checks for the S1 per cent semi-annual
dividend on New York and Cleveland Gas
Coal Company were received by stockhold-
erS yesterday.
Movements in Realty
William N. Pollock sold for Mrs.
Mary Elder to William Schildecker a new
Queen Anne brick dwelling OF ten rooms,
Rebecca street, Twentieth ward, with lot
5Ox13O feet, for price approximating sl2,-
600.
John K Ewing Co. sold to well-known
tSSta /, Il
house on Arch street. Second ward, Allie
gheny, for $l2, 900 cash. The purchaser will
occupy it after April l. The same firm also
sold frame house on Arch street, near
jackson street. Tor s., 500.
Hoffman & Baldridge sold now frame
house of nine rooms on Kelly street, Will
kinsburg, with lot 25xl2O feet to an alley, ior
s., ,2O0.
to Clarence M. Green two lots on Perrysville
avenue, Allegheny, 50xl50 each, for 81, ,0GO
cash. The purchaser will build.
C, L. Straub & Sons sold three more lots on
Kincaiu street, Fairmount Place, for $500
cash each. Three new houses are under
roof in this plan of lots, and five more will
be started in the spring.
Herman Moses a business property, No. 65
Center avenue, a frame house of four rooms
and storeroom, and in the rear q house of
two rooms, lot 20x7l feet for S., 500.
Black & Baird sold to Joseph Swain lots
Nos. 573 and 374, Alta Land Companys plan,
on Duquesne Heights, for $50; also lots Nos.
1876 and 1856 in the same plan for $l45, and lots
Nos. l20 and III for $780,
The Burrell Improvements Company re-
port the following sale oflots at kensin,to
Herman Sigl, lot i52, block 2. $3.50; Frank
Miller, lot II, block T. 500: John MEMBERS,
lot Is, block 2, $3.50; Carl Hoffman, lot $50,
block g. $3.50: Samuel Falkner, lot south half
81, block s. 1915; John Zurawski, lot l25, block
Z, 1915.
A. Leggate g. Co. sold Mt auction for the
Fidelity Title and Trust Company the ma
chine plant of Washington Beck. deceased,
consisting of lot 601s0 on South Six
teenth street, with building and machinery,
for $50.
The sale through Charles Somers of the
Joseph n. Waters property, on Neville
Island, at a price appro1imating 81, 900, re-
ported some days ago, was concluded yes
lerday, and the purchasers, Messrs. Theo.
F. and Albert j. Beckert, of Allegheny, will
take immediate possession of the place.
w. f. HamneGt & Co., of Williamsburg, sold
lot corner OF Beech and Walnut streets,
Edgewood, for 81, 900 cash.