The herald., 1895-09-05
REAL ESTATE AND BUILDING
What Is Shown by the Records
of the City
NOT MANY STORES BEGUN
Eut the Number Of Dwelling Houses
SweIis the List
The Number Of Building Permits Issued In
Five DAYS Greater Than Has Hsree
tofore Been Recorded

Tue weeks work among the builders
indicates new life rather than fatigue.
So far as mum Der i, concerned the record
Gas not broken 70. the week. but the
number of working days in the week was
red duced by the observance of Monday as
holiday. For the five days during which
the Office o. the city perintendent OF
buildings was open eightytwo permits
were issued. which is a greater number
than has been recorded in any other con-
seoutive five days in the history of the
city. On Tuesday thirty-fonr permits
were issued. which is a larger mum ber
than has been issued in one day, so that
although there have been more permits
issued for one or two weeks in the recent
past, the week just ended may still be re-
garded as a record breaker.
The buildings proposed to be crested
under the permits issued for the week
ended yesterday aggregate in estimated
cost Si09. $50, and it is noteworthy that
there is but one building IN the list which
will cost over $500. The handsome
stores which cost up into the hum
dreds of thousands of dollars swell the
aggregate COST footings handsomely,
bnt they are not, after all, so true an in
dex to the city's progress nor so certain
guarantee of continued prosperity as
the numerous dwelling houses which
shelter the growing population coming
to develop the resources OF the city and
OF the surrounding country.
The building referred to above as the
lonely representative of high class struc-
lures is three-story brick store to be
Lxx 49, -
Third and Broadway, the estimated cost
being $24, ,000
Among the more expensive buildings
for which permits were issued is one
for the erection OF the home for aged wo.
mea, to be built on Boyd street by the
Sisters of Mercy, between Wall and San
Pedro, the estimated Ecost being S14, 600.
The Standard Oil company took out a
permit for the construction of q two
story brick stable and shed on Olympia
street at its intersection with the Santa
Fe railroad, the cost to be $500. OF lodg-
ing houses and flats there are three; |.
Hetherington will build a two-story Hat
on Solano street near Buena Vista. at
cost OF $2400; o. Morgan will build for
stores and lodgings on Fifth street be-
tween Crocker and Towne avenue at a cost
of $3400; J. r. Nogel. at the corner of Sew
enth and Broadway, will build two-story
fats to cost $4,000. and Mrs. Taggart Will
build on Hill street, between Temple and
Sand streets, building for like purposes
to cost S6500. In addition to these the
Lankershim flats, at the corner of Hill
ana Broadway. recently damaged by fire,
will be repaired at cost of $4,000.
With verv few exceptions, covering re-
pairs to and removals of buildings, all the
rest OF the long list of permits were is
sued for the construction of dwelling
n IT, n iph
cost, and most of which represent an in
vestInent sufficient to build the comfort
able house com only desired by well-to-
do people. The most expensive is the
two story dwelling to be situated at 240
South Hill street, and to be Duilt for g.
Whitemarsh at cost of $780, Mrs. L.
S. Hughes will build q $500 residence at
III South Hill street. and c. A. Runels
will do likewise at 23015 South Spring
street a5 a cost of $1,000; ]. J. Rutland
will expend $4,000 in the construction OF
dwelling at 2l08 Grand avenue, and DIR.
Gosewich, at 1887 Twenty-ninth street,
will buiid dwelling to cost $4,000. There
are numerous other dwelling houses rang
ing from $1,000 to $500 in cost and not
few7m ore modest ones costing a less sum.
A little examination of the county re-
cords of mortgages sntfces to show that
the houses now in process of erection are
built with money coming from the east
or from abroad. The total amount OF
mortgages recorded for the past week will
scarcely equal one-fourth of the sum ex-
pended in building operations, and the
men who have taken out building per-
mits are very shmly repre- ented in the
list of names OF mortgagors and it is en-
tirely safe to assume that the vast am
cunt of building done is not indicative
OF indebtedness represented by thirty
day bank paper which does not find its
way into the county records.
Altogether the week building opera
tions may be regarded as among the most
satisfactory recorded in the history of the
city, indicating as it does a tremendous
increase in the number of inhabitants of
the must desirab class.