Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-31
200 ACRES CHANGE HANDS.
Colonel Piper, of Piper & Clark, Buys
Tract Near Latrobe and Will Erect
Large Canning Establishment Thereon
Other Late Deals.

Tract Near Latrobe and Will Erect a
Large Canning Establishment Thereon
Other Late Deals.
FRIDAY, Dec. 80.
It is reported on good authority that
Colonel George Piper. OF the firm of Piper
& Clark, the Fourth avenue real estate
brokers, has purchased 200 acres of ground
adjacent to Latrobe, for price close to
$4,000. Thls.property, it is said, will be
subdivided into small tracts, u number of
which have been taken up by residents near
Latrobe. A large canning house is to be
erected, so the rumor has it, on portion OF
this ground, in which enterprise the Colonel
is large stockholder.
Though MI. Piper could not be seen to YER
ify the report being out OF the city, the In
formation was received from very reliable
source and is undoubtedly correcT.
Little Gossip.
The consideration in the sale of the Schen-
ley leasehoId, No. Al Cedar avenue. Allie
gheny, made by Jonn K. Ewing & Co.. re-
ror'ted in this column Yesterday as being
Soe0, should have read $500.
he final papers in the sale of the proper
ties Nos ls and 20 Diamond street from W.
Z. Lyme to N. S. Snyder, we're passed to- day
in the office of NJ. f. Nipple & Co. This
realty, as WAS mentioned in this column
some time ago, sold Tor S500OO. As showing
is noted that Mr.. Lyme purchased it less
than three years ago for about $50 600.
BuiIding Permits.
Only one permit was issued to-day. That
was taken out by the Twenty-seventh Ward
School Board for a brick addition of two
stories to the Twen ty-seventh ward school
house, near the Twenty-second street in
cline; cost, $1,000
Latest Sales Reported.
ninlyi q 70 eaId for 7 70
NJ. W. Dickie lot on Frankstown avenue,
Brushton, 4Oxl4O.59 feet, price confidential;
also sold for j. Montgomery to w. H. ain
450xI35% feet on Bennett street, for $l0,375
Liggett Bros. have just sold for Mrs. Ellen
NJ. Edgar, of Omaha, Neb., to Frank r. Lig-
gett, AZ acres OF ground situated on Water
street, ktnsburg, for 81, 900.
Black & Baird sold the property on the
northeast corner of Breeds Hill and flannel
streets, Nineteenth ward, being new frame
owelling on a lot 2O1l0O feet, Tor $500. The
purchaser was James NJ. Clark.
The Burrell and Kensington Improvement
companies report the following sale of lots
al Kensington: James NJ. Patterson, Salts
burr, lot 905. block 2S, 1925; Thompson NIGEL
fresh, New kensinSton. lot l09, block 1,
SYST 80 cash; Harry Lightenstein, Allegheny
lor 81. block g. $1,000.
D. Behen & SON sold to William Quigley a
corner lot 27X12 feet, on Forley street, Six
teenth ward, with shop and slaughter
house, Tor 1000.
Scott s. McAEillen sold for Harry Crab to
Taylor Glass the property corner Sweeney
and Overhill streets, Sixth ward, Allegheny,
being lot 20X105, for $3.50. Mr.. Crab bought
this lot from the above-named firm in No
vember for $475 cash.
James H. Drape & Co. report the following
sales: y house and lot near t'essemer, on
Pennsylvania Railroad, for 81 $50 cash; a lot
and small building on Webster avenue for
$1,000 cash; transaction in two houses and
lots in the suburbs Tor 5.0O0 also of colIat-
eral interest in iour pieces OF property of
$500.