The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-08-18
REALTY IMPROVES.
The Signs of Returning
a.. ... Confidence.
INDICATED BY BUSINESS.
Agents Are Almost Unanimous
H.. in. That Opinion.
INQUIRY FOR BUSINESS HOUSES.
The Weeks List of Building Con-
tracts Show That Many Improve
ments Are in Progress.
INQUIRY. FOR BUSINESS HOUSES.

- The feeling in Iea1estate has improved
good deal, and indications of a return 10
satisfactory business are beginning to show
themselves. Especially among small buy
ers is an improvement noted. Inquiry for
business houses to rent is slightly better.
which is taken as sign of returning pros
perity in: commerce. The cause assigned
for this change for the better is a feeling
of renewed confidence In the future, the
accumulation of money which should tend
TO lower rates Of interest in savings banks,
and no doubt settlement of the Senate
tariff bill.
With exceedingly few exceptions the re-
port from agents is times are better"
= This was not unexpected for months past,
for feeling Of insecurity or doubt regard
ing values of real estate, and all manner
OF securities for that matter. obtained
while tariff duties were suffering from too
much tinkeTng.
Nov, however. people know how mat
tiers stand, and whether for better or worse
the tariff settlement gives a basis for cal
culation which appears to be felt in realty
circles.
Souc & Co. report that sales of Mission
property. which they now handle almost
exclusively, have been satisfactory, not
wlthstanding the depression in city realty.
Their move TO the Mission has shown the
:
STABILITY of Mission property.
u Mrs. Belle DODahue bought lot on the
north side of Turk street, IS feet west of
Mason, 30x62:6, with old Improvements,
for $4,000 last week. The property was
sold by Joseph Marlborough.
q. II. Umbsen q Co. made sales as fol-
lows recently: House and lot 25x114, 325
Twenty-ninth street. for $500; improve
menis and lot on southeast corner of
Eighteenth and Noe streets, 30X101 6. for
$1,000; improvements and lot 50X100, north
west line of Market street, 1913 feet SOUTH
west of Church, for 500. 600; lot 25x120.
west Of Boyce street, 354 north of Geary,
for $3.50; lot II :2X137 Is, east line of Web
. sieT street, 1877 :6 sou b of McAllister sold
for $1,000; lot 25XS7, north line of Post
street, 1877 west of DevlSaGerO, for $1,000;
81 Steuart street. 20x45:10, sod for $4,000:
lot 25x75, north line of Nineteenth street,
100 west OF Diamond, sold for SIPS; lot
25X16l, cOrrer of COTbett road and Merritt
street. 81 west of Hattie, sold for $1,000
and house and lot 1908 Turk street. 25x
1876, sold for $4,000.
L. l.. Orr 81 Co. sold lot and improve
ments on west side of Bryant avenue, No.
2714. 40 feet south Of Twenty. fifth street.
A 6x100 for $4,000.
=, Shainwald, Buckbee & Co. report sales
as follows: Lot on north line of Turk
street, IS feet west of Mason, 3Ox62 &c, J.
MacdOnOugh TO Mrs. Belle Donahue.
llue of Washington street. west of Lyon,
28 :9X102 So. $3.50; Two lots on De Haro
street. near Nevada, 50X10O feet, 5000; lot
on north line of Pacific street, 100 feet east
" Of Devisadero. 40x127 :8A, $40. 900; lot on
east line OF Bryant avenue, 50 feet south
Of Iwentv-hrst street. 50X100 feet, $4,000;
lot on Fourteenth avenue, near Lake
street, 25x120 feet, $500; lot on Eighth
avenue, near California street. 2jx120 feet,
$1,000.
w. f. Whittier is having plans drawn
for a residence to cost about $50. 600 This
luxurious dwelling will be on the north
. east corner Of Jackson and Laguna streets
and be built OF pressed brick, stone and
terra Gotta chiefly.
Building contracts as follows were re-
corded this week: Two new buildings.
each three stories high, on HAYES street.
near Fillmore, cost $4,000; four-story
= building on OFarrell street, near Taylor.
= cost S100 fats on Oak street, near La
.:guna, cost $1,000: two-StOry dwelling
on Frederick street, near Golden Gate
avenue, cost $500; a dwelling on Clover
street. near LeayenWOrth, cost $1,000: a
residence on Lyon street, near Hayes, cost
$4,000; a frame structure on Tenth street.
near Bryant, cost $500; a dwelling cost
Ing 5000, on the corner Of Twanty-sixth
:. and Bryant streets; Improvements Oh lot
On.HoH avenue. near Sixteenth street
cost $1,000; fats on a 50-foot lot on Devils
adero street, near McAlister cost S16.-
600; a $1,000 dwelling on Mission street.
near Thirtieth; frame building on lot
Oh Union street, near Stockton. cost $1,000:
additions at 1917 Howard street, at a cost
. of $500; a $500 building on Fillmore
street, near Union; brick building on the
southwest corner of Howard and Beale
streets, cost $4,000.
Contracts for construction of the Lick
School of Mechanical Arts at Utah. Gem
ter and Nebraska streets have been let.
The. total amount is S3S, O40
A four-story frame building to consist
of fats and stores win be constructed at a
cost of $4,000 on O'Farrell street, near
Mason.
contracted Tor. The total cost of construc-
ton is about $4,000