The morning call., 1894-06-16
REALTY Is ASTIR.
49,
:.
Fair Business in SUI MINER
Among Agents.
A SALE ON EDDY STREET.
Big Purchase for a French Sym
dictate Is rIade.
PLAN FOR THE NEW RACETRACK.
Present Prospects Are Considered
!: Quite Satisfactory-Two Nota-
3
T.. bic Auction Sales.

: :sThe summer season is beginning to be
=: felt in real estate circles. as a slight
APATHY is noticed already. In June and
July the market is always quiet, and
falling off at this time is taken as a matter
of course. Still there seems to be healthy
tone TO realty business, without much of
stir among the agents offices. If the mar
ketls not brisk there is enough doing to
keep things going along in quite salts
factory way, with occasional large sales
TO sustain confidence in city lands.
ION Thursday Harry l. Thornton sold a
:; lot on Eddy street, having a frontage of
.45 % and depth of 1877 &c. fifty varas west
:. of Mason street. There are old improve
:. ments on the property that pay a reason
able interest on the price paid. which is
given at $40, 800. Experts valued this prop
% erty at $1,000 a front foot, or something
approaching that figure. Two years ago
the 1lvOi property, on the next block,
sold for S125, 900, or about $500 q front
foot; this lot is 6S :9X175 feet deep. In the
block in which the Thornton lot is stu
ated, but on the Ellis-street side, 1871 Is
west of Mason street, Claus Spreckels
bought a 5G-vara lot last month for
sos, 600. The purchaser of the Thornton
lot is Attorney P. Alexander Bergerot,
who acted as agent for a French syndl-
ChLes WUlcU Will erect q uhuuSOG16 Dullu-
ing on the lot at a cost of about 100000.
The engineers drawings for the new
Golden Gate racetrack at Ocean View
were finished yesterday and forwarded to
Chicago for approval by the owners. The
track as laid out is similar TO the cele-
brated hawthorne and Washington Park
tracks. There will be a grand entrance
from the Ocean House road amid plats of
trees and ornamental shrubs, from which
point the track is reached over graveled
walks and between shrubs and gardens.
Inside the gates, according TO the design,
there will be clubhOuses, grand stand,
shelter stalls, weighing paddock, an in
closure for boOkmakers, etc. and the
judges stand will be between the track
and the grand stand. On the opposite side
of the track will be several rows of stables,
offering accommodation for 1900 horses
and an extension to stable 500 more horses
is in contemplation. AS soon as the plan
- is approved work will begin without de-
lay on the track. 1t is stated by the
agents that at least 100000 will be ex-
pended in this enterprise.
The following new buildings have been
contracted for: Two dwellings on Steiner
street, near Hayes, 5000; a dwelling on
Hampshire street, south of Butte cost
$1,000; residence on California street,
near Br0derck, cost $4,000; cottage on
Douglass street. near the Ocean House
road. cost $1,000; two-story dwelling Cd
the corner of Twentieth street and Treat
avenue. cost $4,000; a cottage on henry
street. near Castro. cost $1,000; a cottage
on Z Chth avenue, near California street,
cost Sl700.
ShainwaId. Buckbee & Co. have again
sold the Finigan property On California
street, west Of Jones. A month ago this
property was sold for $50. 900, and $1,000
has been expended in Improvements since
then. Some time previously it changed
hands Tor a smaller sum, and now IL has
aHv
second price. The lot is 50x137 e in area.
An important auction sale will take
place on Thursday, June %, at 10 Mont
gomeIy street Public Administrator
Freese will then offer for sale properties
including: First avenue and Eddy street,
lot 25x100; Washington street, near Du-
pont, rents SIPS; Clay street, pear Jones,
rents S120; Stevenson street, near Fifth,
rents $50; Sherwood place, near Thru
street, lot 20X55; Nineteenth street, near
Guerrero. lot 50x114 and improvements;
Twenty-seVeEth street, near Church, lot
53:4x114; Columbia street and Ripley
place, lot 80:9x120; Allen street, near JEFF
feIsOn, gift map. lot 5OX70; lots g.
10 and IA. West End Map 1,
each 60X237. These sales will be
made subject to the approval of the
Superior Court, the property being pOr-
lions of estates in the Public Admins
traitors hands. Baldwin & Hammond
have been chosen as auctioneers. They
will also offer at the same time City Hall
lot, 50X10O, on Park avenue. I'LL west from
McAilister street aud opposite Leaveu-
worth; 325 Suffer street and 20 Stockton
place, 25x120; ten lots on Pacific avenue,
SO :9X127 g, 80 feet west of BrOderick
street, from which an uninterrupted view
of the Golden Gate can be had and also
lot, So :6X47 g, on Sacramento street and
Waverly place. in Chinatown. The auc-
ton affords good chance for spectators
and investors.
The auction sale of property in the city
of Alameda, as already announced in this
column, will be held this afternoon at
O'Clock at Eagle avenue aud Lafayette
street, Alameda. William J. Dingee, the
Oakland real estate agent. will conduct the
sale, at which the following attractive
property will be offered: Four cottages. on
the southwest corner of Pacific avenue and
Chestnut street; twenty residence lots in
block 90 bounded by Lafayette and Schil-
Ter streets and Eagle and Clement avenues:
seven choice residence lots on Pacific and
Railroad avenues, corner Of Ben ton street;
large residence lot on Pacific avenue
near Second avenue.
Alameda is the model city for municipal
govern ment and all that comes of 90 id
management-eXcellent streets and side
walks, lighting, water and sewer systems
and street-Tallroad communication. 1t
certainly has many attractions for people
desiring homes In the suburbs, and this
auction sale will be found by such home
seekers to be well worth watching.
San Mateo County is showing signs of
progress in the right direction. Marten Is
d Cotfey, the architects who recently built
the schoolhOuse in the town of San Mateo.
are erecting schoolhouses at Redwood
City, Searsville and PalO Alto. This ia n