Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-05

peal, S., 500 Mary A. Menold, So acres, Ma
tilda street, s35 rs: appeal. $lS 397; ~ acrcs,
High street, Sll75o;appeal. s., s4lJ S. O'Neill,
60Xl45 Penn avenue and Beatty street. sl7 $40:
appeal, SO, l5O; S. w. Menold, Hxl50 Penn
avenue, $40 200 and s., 500 on buildings: appeal,
$4,000 on ALL ID. Z. Kuhn, 2615xlA Penn
avenue, s26, 500; appeal, sl:2oo same, .n 2Oxl.l
beth Philips, % acres Herman street, sl66l3;
| appeal. slo,O T. D. McWillinms. SOx26o
Penn avenue, sl0,4oO appeal. s6,sO0 II. w.
s26es0: appeal, $l5.437. H. II. Nieman. s4s4x14i
feet, Penn near Highland avenue, 24,sls; ap-
peal, SIG, 14a.
john ii. Bruce, IN the Twenty-second ward,
sends in his appeal blank with the indorse-
ment 81 see nothing wrong with my assess
ment." On So acres, Homewood avenue, he
is assessed $50 6Ss. on 81 perches, Linden ave-
nue., ssSls. and on los perches, Edgerton ave-
Thomas Pitcairn, assessed 81. 200 on 5Ox20o
feet on Forbes, near Wilkins avenue, lacon-
1eaiy says; Vacant x gns
for $500 and glad to get it,"
Quite . Decided Difference.
The heirs of Thomas NJ. Howe place a
valuation of only $4,000 on nine acres, on
Fifth avenue near Roup street, assessed at
$ls9,0 and on a little over nine acres in tho
rear, assessed at $50, ,6Sl they ask a substantial
reduction and agricultural classification.
J. p. Smith is assessed at s45,S90 on 1874
avenue, which he says is away beyond its
value, being assessed last year at Sl5,67s.
He says the land might as well be in Pine
township Tor all the city conveniences it
has. THE land is adapted to corn, potatoes,
cabbage and pasturage, and the whole Quilt
rents for 500 a year. If the gentlemanly
assessors who value the place at $50, 800 will
bring buyer at that figure it will be made
so Interesting for them that they need not
devote any time to that kind of labor for a
twelvemonth at least
l,11,z z,ylf Co., Il
allow per cent commission besides on "a
acres on Forward avenue, assessed a. So, $50,
and buildings at S6,O25
Alex Murdoch appeals for a cut from $s5,;
Wilkins avenues. On 371& acres on West
Shady avenue, assessed last year at $22,524
this years figures are S220,240 He protests
for reduction to the legal value fixed by
ward assessors" declaring that a powder
magazine on an adjoining farm depreciateS
the value of this land.
Colonel Schoonmaker is assessed S55. 900 on
"a acres on Penn avenue; appeal, $A, ,250
$3.50 on 2O7x9j on Lang avenue; appeal,
$I2,25O With buildings the total assessment
Is S69,I5J, but he has been trying to sell 1t Tor
S40,OOO for two years. The best offer was
sSo,OoO and for that value he appeals.
Figures That Are Far Apart.
Twenty-second ward-Mrs. f. Bradley,
three acres, Dallas avenue and Reynolds
street, S24 200; appeal, $l5, 600. Francis C.
$4,000; appeal, $4,000; 1h acres in rear, s2O,-
900: appeal, SIC, 500: IA acres at Dallas avenue
and Reynolds street, $3.50: appeal increases
to ,OG0. A. NJ. Marshall, acres, Wightman
street, So, 900: appeal, q. 600. Mary A. Howe,
"a acres, Fifth, near Penn avenue, $6S $50;
appeal. 900. Mrs. Matilda Rea. is acres,
Penn avenue, near Dallas, $3s, ,s13; appeal,
s279o3: James B. Murray, 172a acres, Shady
and wilkins avenues. $l05ss7: appeal, $685.
600: 30 acres, Edgerton avenue,
sl5o,46s; appeal, slo5.o0O Mary Nor.
ris, acres, Dallas avenue and Rey-
nolds street, $4,000; appeal, $780, J. J.
Ricketts,, five acres East Shady avenue S.
600; appeal, $500. Mrs. c. Hamilton, three
acres, Penn and Dallas avenues $45, 900; ap-
peal, s22, 500. William Force heirs, 80 acres,
Forbes street, SCI, 500; appeal, sS7, 500 James
l. Kay, 10l acres Forbes and Murray streets,
So. 600: appeal, S30,s75. z. @. Whitten five
acres, Forward avenue, $l2, ,5O0;' appeal, S.
600. George Schmidt, four acres wilkins
and Wightman streets, $50 900: appeal, $l2-
800. William Coleman heirs Is acres, Dallas
near Penn avenue, $s2, 500; appeal, $4,000. N.
P. Reed estate G. w. & j. P. Reed, six
acres Forbes street and Shady avenue, S54,-
900 and $40, 800 on buildings; appeal, $40 600 OH
all. George w. Reed 31A acres, Fifth ave-
nue., near wilkins, s57,0Ss appeal, $4,000.
Same, "a acres, Daum street, So, 100; appeal,
5000.