The herald., 1893-07-25
SANTA ANA.
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a Oourt house blt0 boleeb0u-HVcht Mht-
ters.
SANTA ANA, July 42.--The board OF su-
pervisors met this morning, with all
members and the clerk present. Quite
a number of people were present to
hear the decision "a to the court house
site.
Supervisor Hawkins was empowered
to employ q nurse for James Tedron, in
digent.
The clerk was instructed to advertise
| for bids for supplying the county with
stationery for the ensuing year, bids to
be opened at the session OF August 7th
at 10 am.
And thus the matter over which much
discussion had been had came mp for
consideration. The following bids for
q court house site were received and
opened:
From Hsnce II, Roper: / hereby offer
to furnish for court house site lots l,
2, 8 and east l50 feet of lot 8, in block @
Of Hickey, Andrews & Cranes addition
to Santa Ana, and also lot Of Bireh's
addition to Santa !Ana, and agree to
extend Riverine avenue from Sixth to
Fifth street.
The above land will be 100 feet 'front.'
ing on Fifth and Sixth streets and 250
feet fronting on Birch and Riverine ave-
nue.. / propose to furnish the above for
the sum Of s10,50O, payable $4,000 cash,
balance in go days.
Or, I will furnish $50 fronting on Birch
street, 200 feet fronting on Fifth and
| Sixth, and open up q street 30 feet wide
on the west side thereof. for the sum of
| $13, 1000, $25O0 cash, $2600 In 30 days and
the balance within 80 days. Reserving
from both of the above property all
buildings and improvements except
those situated on lots l, 2 and 8 in block
@ of Hickey, Andrews & Cranes addi-
tion to Santa Ana.
From John Avas: agree to furnish
you block for court house site fronting
250 feet on Birch street, $50 feet on
Fifth and Sixth streets, and open up a
street 80 feet wide on the west thereof,
for the sum of $16,500; payable, $4,000
cash, $4,000 within 80 days, and the bal
ance within go days; reserving from the
above, however, all buildings and inn
provements situated thereon, except
those buildings and structures situated
on lots l, 2 and 8, in block O, of Hickey,
Andrews & Cranes addition to Santa
Ana.
From W. H. Spargeon: hereby
offer to the board of supervisors for q
notice for bids, the following property,
situated in the city Of santa Ana, Or
ange county, CAL, to wit: All of block
81 OF the city of Santa Ana, being 25Ox
250 feet, and will deed to the city OF
Santa Ana 20 feet off of the south side of
block B of Spurgeon addition to Sauta
Ana, making Seventh street 30 feet
wide, for $4,000 cash; or all Of said block
2l and all Of block B of Spurgeon's addi-
tion to Santa Ana, being 386x250 feet,
containing little over one block and
half, including Seventh street, you to
have Seventh street vacated for $4,000;
one-half cash and balance on such terms
as may be agreed upon between US, at 8
per cent interest per annum. All OF
said property is situated between Sixth,
Church, West and Sycamore streets.
Gen. James Buckley: will'sell that
block of land in Price and Stella Fruits
addition to Santa Ana, containing ten
lots, each 50xl50 feet, between Eighth,
Ninth, Bush and Main streets, for the
sum Of $4,000.
1t was moved that the offer of W. H.
| Spurgeon be accepted, provided the city
would vacate Seventh street.
Supervisor Armor moved that the mo-
ton be amended by substituting the
substituting the name of James Buckley
for that Of W. II. Spurgeon.
Supervisor Schorn here expressed q
desire to inspect the two sites under
consideration, and the board took
1 recess for that purpose.
! After the inspection, Supervisor Ar
mor's motion failing to receive second,
| "a ~ virrfv1 ~ 1Htv mas v,rvt IL
| Spurgean's offer unanimously accepted.
W. HlSpurgeon proved true prophet
when some l6 years ago he said that
this block would be reserved for court
house site for county not yet formed.
Everybody ia pleased with the decision
OF the board.
This morning at IL O'Clock, at the
residence of Mr.. and Mrs. G. W. Beard,
their daughter, Miss Jessie, was married
to Fred P. Hewitt. Mr.. and Mrs.
Hewitt, who are we'll known here, will
make their home in Santa Ana.
H. W. Bessac Of the Orsnge County
Herald and wife returned Saturday
evening from trip to San Diego.
NJ -. w WlCKuhm anu Ls D. w 8ll2Cos
president and secretary of the Republi-
can League of this city, attended the re-
ception given J. s. Clarkson in Los An
geles Saturday evening.
Paul Knauf is visiting the different
summer resorts during his vacation.
The new irrigating ditch on the San
Joaquin ranch has been used for the first
time in irrigating the 120-acre walnut
orchard, 80-acre olive orchard and other
fruit trees near the ranch house. The
irrigation Of our great mesas will trans-
form the whole county into the most
beautiful OF orchards.
| Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Turk Of Los An
! geles are visiting friends here.
Henry Oilar, who won reputation as
q destroyer OF squirrels on the San Jor-
quin ranch last year, has made applica-
ton for a pension oil IS per month and
the bounty of 160 acres Of land under
the act providing for such aid to the
veterans of the Black Hawk war. Mr..
| Oilar 10 81 years old.
Walter Moore, and Tom and Henry
Kerr went to Long Beach for an outing
today.
Geo. Harlin, assistant agent at the 8.
| p depot left YESTERDAY morning III