The San Francisco call., 1896-04-20

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as possible. The work should be done gradually,
however, so that it will work too great hard
be first commenced on Market street ra' her than
the SIDE business streets. Market street is the
main thoroughfare of the City. 1t is street that
ever yone uses and the street that strangers first
! see when coming to the City.
| If any work is to be done on the downtown
streets Market street should by all means have the
preference 1t should be paved out as far at least
| improvements would be the best plan, but it
would be some time before such proposition
/ could be acted upon. Meanwhile the streets are
getting worse, and they are bad enough now
| Samuel Center of the firm of Center &
| Spader said:
Of two evils it is always best choose the lesser
| and as between raising the money on the next tax
iievy Tor repaving the downtown streets or allow.
the former. know taxes are too high, but on the
other hand the streets downtown, especially Mar
they will be unfit for traffic. Either asphalt or
that new block pavement of the kind Just laid at
Market street with.
Jacob Heyman said:
| am in favor OF street improvements being made
only by bonding the CITY 1t is unjust and unwise
| purpose Of repaving the downtown streets. know
such Improvements are badly needed, but am
| opposed to them being made by tax levy made at
this time for the purpose.
REVIEW OF THE RECORDS
There were seventy-three mortgages recorded
pal ones were:
By the Hibernia Savings and Loan Society, for
one year at 61 per cent, $4,000 on the following
property: On the northwest side of Mission street.
west side Of Mission street. 2o2 feet southwest OF
Elrst' lSxao;6 and on the northwest side OF Mis-
65x7s:s: by by , the same for one year at e1a
per cent 10000 on the following property: The
southwest corner of Ellis and Mason, 27 :6xS2 IS;
on the east side Of Stockton, 1886 north of Suffer-
641I37:6; on the north side of Bush go feet east
| b,
Geary, 62:6 west Of Grant avenue, 22:6x60; by
$4,000 on property on the south Side @ Of Geary
| street. 90 feet east of Buchanan street
Sy m 5he or @ b year at e per
OF Geary and Buchanan streets, 62 :6x75 IS:
by the 1h for one year At s cent
and East streets, 142xl17:6: by the same, for one
year at 61a ner cent, $4,000 on property at the
avenue. S6:8x137:6: and by the German Savings
and and Loan Society. for one year at 619 per cent,
25x101.
| The releases granted last week numbered
| forty-nine, aggregating 1921, ,757. The larger
| ones were as follows:
By the Hibernia Savings and Loan Society to
Mary Mary j. Anthony, $4,000 on a lot at the corner of
Third and Stevenson streets, 45x75; by the same
to John McDermott, $4,000 property at the
corner Of Tehama and Fifth Streets 55x73: by the
| German Savings and Loan Society to James D.
Byrnes SIG 800 on lot on the south line of Clay
street, l24:6 feet east of Davis, 50:6xl19:6; by
Emma Joseph to Fitel Phillips $5O,760 on prop
e2s feet w west % Of Grant M avenue, sfs 22 saS sFeo
by Thomas Magee to Mary J. Darnell, $4,000 on
q one-half interest in property on the corner rth
line Of Clay and southwest line OF East streets
I42x3o, and the property on the southeast side OF
100, and by the Hibernia Savings and Loan so
ciety to Clara L. Arguillo $4,000 on lot at the
southwest corner Of Baker and Grove streets,
A deed of trust has been made to the San
Francisco Savings Union of property on the
| southeast corner OF Sixteenth and Carolina
streets for a consideration of $11 900. deed
of trust has been made to the same society for
10000 OF property on the southeast corner of
Union and Powell streets, 137 :6x122 2:11%.
There were 10Y transfers recorded last week.
| Seventeen building contracts, the particulars
of which are published each day in THE CALL,
500.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.
The California Title Insurance and Trust
Company at the last monthly meeting of its
board of directors declared dividend of ~
| 1896.
| The Burnham & Marsh Company is now To-
Gated at 62S Market street, having removed to
that location last Saturday.
! G. G. Bemis has sold for the Tallant Bank to
DR.. George H. Palmer the two-story dwelling
and lot, 81 :6x117, at the northeast corner of
jackson and Steiner streets, for sic, 500.
Jacob Heyman reports the sale or lot at the
| corner of Jefferson and Kennebec streets for
| $500, q lot at the corner of Roscoe and Benton
Newman
The Union Iron Works is about to construct
| two buildings at the Potrero to cost 100000.
One will be an office building 15Ox5O feet,
! with an addition 116x32 feet. 1t will be two
story and basement building. The other will
be main shop 200x6O feet and go feet high,
sheetiron department 20x40 and Hanging
| department 1O0x60, all under one roof.
| Easton, Eldridge & Co. will hold an auction
| sale tomorrow noon OF miscellaneous proper
ties. The catalogue includes the following:
T,v0 nj Co
avenue, corner of Twenty-ffth street; a lot on
| the south line of McAli1ster street, west of
Elgin Park, north of Ridley street: lot on the
west line of Elgin Park, north of Ridley street;
| S24 Fifteenth street, west of Sanchez; the
southeast corner of Noe and Twenty-fourth
! streets; dwelling on the south line of Falcon
road, northwest of Copper alley; three lots on
| the north line of Twenty-ffth street west of
Noe; two lots on the south line of Twenty first
street, west OF Church, and two lots on the
| east line of Boyce street, north of Geary.
A. NJ. Speck & Co. will hold an auction sale
on May6 &, at which they viii offer some very
| properties. Included in the list is the three
! story apartment building at 129 Third street;
| sold on easy terms; also Mission, Ashbury and
Richmond properties. as well as several choice
| tenement investments.
| large transaction consummated last week
was the sale to Mrs. G. A. Berton by Mrs. Mary
Bailey of the property on Market street next
to the Donohue building.
|
lot is 52:15s feet from Golden Gate avenue
and has frontage on Market street of SO feet,
the average depth being rs feet. The i'm
| provements are but of little account and it is
| the intention of Mrs. Berton to erect a seven
story building on the property.
building to cost $35, 900 is about to be
erected by ]. Noonan on the southwest line of
| Mission street, between Sixth and Seventh.
| 1t will have frontage of 100 feet and will
| extend back 160 feet to Minna street. 1t will
be three stories with basement and will be
built of brick with terra-cotta trimmings.
A. R. Denke, real estate. architect and
| builder, 1903 Seventh street. Alameda, has
| just completed fine twelve-room house in
! Fruitvale for Charles Topper, which will be
known as the Fruityale Schuetzen Park.
The block bounded by Beacon, Thirtieth,
Diamond aud Castro streets was sold last
week by the Castro-street Land Company to
G. F. Gray for $500. A map was filed by this
company showing this block and the one ad-
| Joining, which is bounded by Castro. Diamond
Beacon and Thirty-tirst streets, which will be
| offered for sale in the near future in subdivi-
| sions.
| The Spring Valley Water Company has COM
| pleted the laying of the water mains from the
| Clarendon Heights reservoir along Diamond
! street to Thirtieth, and property in the neigh
borhood of Castro and Thirtieth streets will
now be available for home builders.
The Castro-street Land Company has sold
| rd &c Iafc +ha