The herald., 1894-12-09
CITY AND COUNTY LANDS.
The Rain and the Real Estate
Market.
Prospective Demands for Small
Farms.
CITY xxtspsion ~ Indicated by Build :
spg Permits Issusd and by Re-
ports of Contractors
and Architscts.


soaking rain storm 10 not very sudden,
but IL 10 very certain and very extensive.
The immediate result seems to be the
withdrawal from market OF many tracts
mot supplied with irrigating water, by
reason Of discrimination on the part OF
the owners to rush in Q crop Of wheat
or barley; for dry.land owners, this
season, as heretofore, are only anxious
TO sell while they live in fear Of partial
or total failure OF crops. The same
tightening Of the market 10 manifest,
too, % regards smaller tracts, more or
less improved, eithSr Of moist lsnds or
those carrying water right. With the
reasonable certainty Of q good crop
comes also Q reasonable certainty OF .
good supply OF buyers. and the rancher
whom the late lack OF rain had some
what discouraged takes heart Of grace
and concludes to hang on until he gets
his price.
In Los Angeles county, more plainly
than In other portions OF Southern CAL
fornis, the tendency to tho Improvement
OF small tracts by individual owners 10
distinctly marked. This county seems
TO have passed the stage marked by the
purchase by syndicate OF capitalists OF
. big tract of land. the development OF
more or lees untrustworthy water eys-
tenn. in tho hope that sometime. from
somewhere, will come q population OF
email farmers willing aud abls to pay big
prices for subdivisions, reaching
. stage In which the small landholder,
working his own land. is the typical Los
Anualaa Nnnntv farmar.
70 Judge from past attachments,
Southern California will find its best
development along the lines indicated.
Even now the successful farmer OF the
south is the conservative agriculturist
who sesks to discover the crop, whether
OF fruits, OF cereals, or OF vegetables to
which his land, and each particular
section OF his land. 10 best adapted, and
with intelligent patience devotes him
sslf TO the raising OF those products.
The old theory that plenty of land and
plenty OF water added together made a
good crop somstimes, 10 rapidly giving
way to the practical denomination that
even little land and q very little water,
supplemented by good deal OF work,
will produce living income for an in.
telligent man.
Land in Los Angeles county has al
ready reached such prices that the
former resident Of the middle west who
comes here to make living for himself
and his family and brings only the moo i.
est capital representing the value OF his
Nebraska or Dakota homestead farm,
must per.orce content himself with q
small section OF California land. And
as about one farmer in twenty OF al
those who inhabit the states bordering
the Mississippi has already determined
90 try California farming a. coon as he
can turn himself, land values are very
much more likely to rise than to fall. la
word, with the reasonable assurance
oi rain enough TO assure crop on un-
irrigated mesa lande, land owners may
LOOK for Q steady increase OF prices and q
steady increasing demand for lands in
small tracts, wanted for actual and i'm
mediate occupancy by the purchasers.
Possibly owing to interest in the late
political cam paigu, as we'll IS to un-
favorable weather. building operations
in the city during the past week showed
telling of from the activity which has
lately characterized that branch Of
local improvement. Thirty-two permits
were Issued for the seven days, repre-
sentipg, almost without an exception.
dwelling houses varying in price be-
tween $500 and 1890. No psrmits were
issued for brick structures, and the
builders Of apartment houses seem for
the moment to have "pRused In their
pected to begin again Immediately after
tine beginning vi the new year, for
apartment houses arc we'll adapted to
the use OF the tourist. and the tourist
promises to be with us verv numer.
ously during the coming winter.
WORK IN PROGRESS
The Builder and Contractor makes
note OF new work for which contracts
have been let, among which are the fol-
lowing:
Thomas Ball is making brick altera-
tion TO stoTs front ct $685. South Spring
strest.
A. P. Wilson is making additions to
dwelling on. Belmont avenue tor Mrs.
Emily Lemon.
E. r. Downie received the contract to
erect l2-room residence for John Amy
on Alpine street.
j. Prefer ID building . cottage for Mrs.
M. B. Dolar on Santee street. between
Twelfth and Pico street.
o. NJ. Anderson is building o cottage
for Matte Anderson on Twenty.seventh
street, near Naomi street.
j. II. Courtney is building q cottage
for Mrs. Sarah H. Mshon8y on Thomas
street, near Thirty-eighth.
AVN. Sellenscheidt 10 building COT
tage on Tenth strees, between Overton
and Blaine, ior H. Tostmann.
ID. +. Sheldon 10 building frame fac.
tory building on the corner OF Prudent
and College streets for James Jones.
Marsh & Bunk are building q cottage
for @. b. Crist on Twelfth street, be
tween Sentons and Georgia Bell streets.
Behlow & Castleman are building .
double dwelling for John q. Enke on
Short street, near Fourth.
+. H. Byron has the contract to build
. cottage for w. B. Thompson on Trsn.
ton. between Twelfth and Pioo streets.
M. Mckenzie received the contract to
build the Central Baptist church. On the
corner OF Flower aud Fico streets.
jacob & Fink are building 10.room
residence for A. Valla, on the north west
corner Of Boyle avenue and Third
street.
J. F. McIntosh il bnilding two-story
residence for O. Schetter, on First
street, between Olive street and Grand
avenue.
D. Liddell has contracted to erect
two.story residence for A. H. Brockamp,
on Orocker street, between Third and
Fourth streets.
". II. McKillican has the contract to
build 600 residence for John Wolf
skill, on the north wsst cornar of Grand