The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-02
Real Estate Business

AS an indication of the volume of the
real estate business in Los Angeles, and
evidence of what may be accomplished by
single firm by persistent and 1udicious
advertising it is interesting to note that
Messrs. Clark & Bryan's books show that
they sold over 81, 000 600 worth of properly
during 1894, and with the start they have
made this year they estimate that their
sales for 1895 will easily aggregate 81 800, :
600. These gentlemen aScribe much of
their success to a liberal use of printer S
ink. Their system of subdividing and
improving desirable residence tracts and
selling the lots with building restrictions,
has also been the means of increasing the
volume Of their sales.
Clark e. Bryan report that their sales
for the month of February amounted to
s1s5, $50, in the following localities: On
Main street. four sales, for $1,000, $13, 900
$l4 600 and ST. 500 respectively; on Spring
street, two sales, SIS, 600 and $31 900; on
Broadway three sales, $13, 900, $40, 0O0 and
$685. 900; at Eighth and Hope streets, one
sale, S11, 0c0; on Flower street, near
Sixteenth one sale $500; in South Bon
ME Brae tract, three sales, $500; house
and lot on Figueroa street, $780, in the
Clark & Bryan tract five lots, $4050, and
on Lelong street, one house and lot, 800.
All but four of these sales have gone to re-
cord, the papers for the rest still being
WIN tne aDSuract company.
Hubbard d Love have sold to A. 2. West
of San Francisco a residence on Winfield
street, near Burlington for $500. Four
lots on Waterloo Heights, north of Tenn
pie, are also among their weeks sales.
Cook & Pearsons report sales of six lots
in the Hammel & Denker tract; consid-
Grafton $40, 800.
Order & Dow have kept up their record
of sales for the week in the Adams street
tract. They also sold good many lots in
other tracts handled by them.
Easton, Eldridge q Co. report sales this
week of twelve lots in the Wolfskill tract,
consideration $500; also fifteen acres in
Sunnyslope Ranch, to Mr.. Pearsons of
st. Paul, at $500 per acre.
There is good inquiry for Sunny slope
Ranch property, principally among Chi
cago buyers
Richard Altschul reports the following
sales: Ono lot on Hemlock street. one lot
on Central avenue, one lot on Los Angeles
street, two lots on Hawthorne street two
lots on East Twelfth street, two lots on
Redwood street and three lots on East
Eighth street. Mr.. Altschul says the pros
poets ahead are promising and that he
looks for an increasing demand for all
kinds of real property.
McGarvy & Innes sold lot II, Keifer
tract, on Seventh street. near Lemon, for
| $500.
.Holway & Schetter have sold their flats
on First street, near the corner of Olive,
to S. H. Streeter for $4,000; also to the same
party 77x85 feet on the southwest corner
! of First and Olive for $4,000.
| Calkins & Clapp have sold house and
lot on Seventeenth, near Oak street, for A i.
| B. Judl1ins to William Jackson Cleghorn
of this county. Mr.. Cleghorn will make
this his residence. The same firm bought
lot on Shatto street from NJ. Shellem
The agent of the Moro Bay Improve
ment Company reports several sales re-
| Gently at Moro Bay, San Luis Obispo
| county, and more in prospect.
| Oceano and some OF the other townsites
| on the new cost line of the Southern Pa
! cific in San Louis Obispo county are show.
| ing quite lively developments in real
| estate movements.