The morning call., 1893-12-23
COUNTRY LANDS.
They Will Be Benefited
by the Fair.
PERMANENT IMPROVEMENT.
Real Estate Men Expect Many
Settlers.
IN THE HOLIDAY SEASoN.
Agents Are Busy Concluding the
Years Business and Preparing
for Better Times.
IN THE HOLIDAY SEASoN


| wait awhile to thoughts of the season. ID
real-estate circles this has been the rule
| for many years, and consequently the
| market is dull around Christmas time
| This year agents are clearing decks Tor
| brisk business which they expect after the
yearly turning. Also enough to keep all
hands busy is found in winding I'D the
present years affairs and Strengthening
| things out for better times. And now that
| a retrospective view can be taken, agents
congratulate themselves that despite
universal financial crisis. which of course
affected San Francisco, real estate upheld
it's value remarkably well. and proved
profitable to brokers and many others.
Even money itself did no more.
Looking forward the belief Is gaining
strength that the Midwinter Exposition
will not materially and permanently i'm
prove the situation in city real estate.
The Improvement is expected In country
lands. For that reason local real estate
men are making preparations for a large
volume of country business. Some are
bending their efforts almost exclusively IN
| this direction. All sections of the State
will receive the benefit, which is inferred
| from the fact that agents show neither
prejudices nor preferences regarding loca-
| tiOn.
u.
with the Wolfskill and Goodyear tracts,
which lie near Winters in the fruit belt OF
YOlo and SOlano counties. The land is
subdivided and will attract attention from
| Eastern visitors who wish TO take up
homes in California. Wendell EaSton
says he feels almost certain that a great
many people who come to see the fair will
| either invest IN country land or settle on
| farms, and he expects that desirable i'm
migrants will go south to San BernardinO
| County and live on the Chino rancho,
where farmers are growing wealthy on
! raising sugar beetS.
McAfee Brothers will attract visitors to
| Palermo i'll Butte County, here thousands
| of acres of orange and dCcduOus fruit
| lands await settlement. This firm believes
| firmly that the interior Will receive most
| benefits from the Mldwinter Fair, and a
very large increase In population will be
! the result.
A Midwinter Fair edition of Alsip IS
| Co.'S county land circular has Just come
| from the press. 1t contains an exhaustive
| list of lands in the most attractive coun-
ties, ana will be distributed during Janu-
ary. February and March. Fruit ranches,
country homes and small colony farms are
| offered on all manner of terms to suit capt.
| talists and honest, industrious people of
small means
Another temptation which will be pre-
Se.ted to the stranger within the gates is
| TIE Norris ranch tracts in San Ramon Val
ley, Contra Costa County. "
! Ii is offered by Umbsen & Co. q prices
ranging from 500 to S100, ana being within
| easy distance of San Francisco il COM
mands many advantages which. 10 doubt,
will attract settlers
The Ferry and Cliff House road has a
track on ID street as far west as TWENTY
| fourth avenue. The street is graded fully
though the track is not yet fully ballasted.
| 1t is expected that passengers will be car
| Fl
on January l. From that point people can
walk down the speed track to the beach
| boulevard and enjoy a spectacle of fast
horses dashing at breakDeck speed along
the wide and straight avenue now inele-
gantly styled speed track" TWENTY
fourth avenue terminus will represent the
extreme western limit Of 5 cent fares for
some time TO come, but it is only a step
further TO the ocean. Before the Mid 1winter
Fair is well open this avenue will be an
nObstructed thororghfare from the Pres
ldlo grounds to Golden Gate Park, as grad
ing Is being carried IN at two points along
the avenue with great speed. Once COM
pleted charming driveway will be- opened
from Golden Gate Park to Lake street aud
thence into the Presidio reservation. 1t ia
probable that the Government authorities
Will make connection between its present
northern end and Mcdowell avenue imme-
diately behind the new Notifications,
From all parts of the drive good views of
the ocean. city, bay and Golden Gaze can
be had. The probabilities are that this i'm
provement will enhance property values in
the Immediate vicinity.
Recent sales made by Will f. Fisher &
Co include the following lots in Fairs sub
divisions, Holly Park Tract: Lot 5, in
block II. $3.50; lot II, in block S. $3.50; lot
l, in block 10. $3.50; lot 5. in block IL. $3.50;
lot z. In block 10, $3.50; lot 3. in block =,
$3.50; lot 20. in block ). $3.50; lot 10. in
block g. 5000; lot II, in block 9. $780, lot |
in block Z. $500; lot2l, in block 6. $500; lot
8, ia block 10, $3.50; lot Il, in block Z. $3.50; |
lot 50. in block 8, $3.50.
A. Nj. Speck reports the following sales |
Seven'roomed house. two stories, lot 20xS0
feet, on easterly line of Castro street. near |
Hill, $4,000; small cottage off San Bruno |
avenue. near Fifteenth avenue, 1915; So
acres partly improved land near Petaluma, |
to II. Bowman, S2400.
Edwin h. Alsip & Co. report sales of |
county land as follows: Fifty acres in |
Santa Clara County to settler from Scot |
land, S20.000 so acres near Saratoga, with |
orchard in bearing. for $4,000; ranch near |
Loomis, Placer County. 40 acres, $1,000;
ranch in Sacramento County, belonging to !
DR.. HughsoD, 100 acres. $4,000. 10 acres in |
fruit; 100 acres in Monterey County, grain |
and fruit land, $500; $50 acres in NaDa |
County to DR.. Baldwin, $500: $50 acres |
near Napa, belonging 10 Join Beck, SlI.-
300, with little improvements; 500 acres |
near Yuba Zity, Sutter County, belonging |
" Ii. Levy of this city, $50 acres in fruit. |
$4,000; 10 acres unimproyed land In Sac |
ramento County. $3.50.
Shea & Shea will open bids to-day for /
block OF flats and stores at the northeast |
corner of Ellis anu Hollis streets. The |
building will be three stories in height. |
containing six flats and three stores. The |
cost will be about $4,000. Construction |
Will begin Immediately, as the work must
be com pleted within three months
Records of building contracts for the first |
half of the month numbered fifty and |
amounted to S1S2, 203.
A frame building. to cost $1,000. will be |
erected on the northeast corner OF Sixth |
avenue aud ID street.
Several small building contracts were |
closed during the week for residences, |
alterations, etc.
A row of one-storv buildings, to be sold
on monthly installments, will soon be built |
on Twenty-fourth street, west OF Castro.
The cottages are to cost S25e0 each, and |
construction of five will begin after the !
holidays.
Architect Lyon has completed plans Tor
five-story hotel which is to grace the cor
n nfN Ia