The San Francisco call., 1896-08-03
Totals for the irst seven months OF eaci
year for ten years are as follows:

q
1891 I................- 956.....-.-..' - 20 &c
1o9z 0Z1-.--...s...' 3o0S0' o0S
1922 ...-....-..'...... oe1 .-.' '''-'-' - S0SS x
1894 .................... 564 SOz0,oie
1888 --.........-.. ZIG .....-... 39S 3990'1a q.
1896 ................ -. 624. ooSo'4o7
Advance sheets of Magee's Real Estate Cir
cular for July contain the following IN regard
to- the money market:
The demand for money was not strong las'
month. The banks prefer small TO large loans.
Some of them, with the object OF keeping
large surplus on hand, Will not now glana g
large loans. Indeed, some OF them are not now
lending at all. There was a time not long
since when, as we then stared, there was nope
that our savings banks would resume loans IN
the country There is not now the slightest
hope of that and borrowers there must pay
the country bank rates OF y 10 IL per Cent
The rates here are 613 to per cent, the say.
ings banks paying the mortgage tax. Inc
total number of City real estate mortgages re-
corded last month was 369. of the total value
of S933, ,I20, while there were 199 releases OF
mortgages of the value OF $469.4 1876. Ot the
total mortgages last month 132 were given to
private Individuals; they had value OF
1926, ,105.
REVIEW OF THE RECORDS.
Last week was a light one all around in the
matter of transactions recorded. There were
ninety-one transfers filed.
The number ofmortgages recorded was sixty.
three aggregating SIG, ,995. The principal
ones, together with the security given. were:
By the Hibernia Savings and Loan Society,
erty at the southeast corner OF Mission and
Fourteenth streets, east 16O by south 17O; and
by the same, for one year at 612 per cent,
$4,000, on property at the southwest corner
of Eighteenth and Harrison streets, north 1877,
west 134:3, north 33, west 53, north 164,
east 1S7 :3.
There were only nineteen releases recorded
last week, aggregating $93, ,225. The only
By Amanda c. Harris to Elizabeth + Ryer
$50, 100 on property on the south line OF Mar
ket street, 100 feet west OF Third, west 20 by
south 100; and by Laura Hirshfeld to Gustav
Harshall, $3.50 on property on the north
west line of Howard street, 275 feet northeast
of Sixth, northeast 81 3 by northwest 80; also
property at the southeastcorner OF Market and
Fourteenth streets, northeast 131, southeast
100, southwest IA :O5s, west 53:10775, and prop
erty at the east corner OF Sherwood place ano
Third street, southeast 20 by northeast 80.
Eight building contracts calling for an out
lay of $50, 500 were filed last week. The par
ticulars were, as usual, published in THE CALI
at the time of filing.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
O'Farrell & Co. are preparing catalogue oi
miscellaneous properties which they Will ohel
at auction August 20.
A. NJ. Speck & Co. report the sale OF lot
25x11O, and three flats on Waller street, near
Steiner, for $500; OF q house and lot on
Haight street, near Webster. for $500; OF the
lot, % :6xS2 :6. and house at 1926 O'Farreli
street, for $4,000, and of a house and lot, 2Ox
rs, on Tehama street, near Eighth, tor 5000.
The same firm has rented the Dullolng on the
southeast corner of Van Ness avenue and
Grove street to Mrs. f. n. Cook as an apart
ment house al $500 month.
Charles J. Campbell, who has for several
wears been employed by VIII E. Fisher & Co.,
has opened general real-estate office at 224
Montgomery street, next to the Mills building,
under the firm name OF Charles J. Campbell
& Co.
Easton, Eldrldge & Co. will hold an auction
sale the 18th of this month, at which miscel-
laneous list OF properties viii be offered. They
Will elso on the 22d hold an auction sale on
the Murphy ranch, in Santa Clara County, at
which about $50 acres of this very desirable
land will be offered. A special excursion
train will be run from here on the day OF the
sale and there will no doubt be large crowd
taken down. There were over 1900 people in
attendance at the last sale and the lands SOLD
for good prices The portion to be sold will be
offered in parcels Of ten acres and upward.
]. Il. Kinney recently purchased the entire
real-estate holdings in this City of what was
once known as the Distilling and Cattle Feed
ing Company, better known as the whisky
trust" The following is list OF the proper.
ties and the prices they were disposed of: A
lot 126x275, on the northwest corner of Scott
and Lom bard streets, sold Tor $4,000 Six 30
vara lots in block 4l5 of the western Addition
brought $21 900. For two pieces on Eigh-
teenth avenue south and H street south, 75x
200 and 200x400, respectively, $41OO was
realized. A lot on Eighteenth street south and
G sold for $500. Lot, 138X174, on Nine teenth
avenue south, near 81 street, went for $3.50,
making In all $33, 500.
Sol Getz & Bro. have made the following
sales recently: Lot and improvements 25x100
on north line of Fell street, 25 feet west OF
Scott for $1,000; q lot 50x120 on east line of
Twelfth avenue, 255 feet south of California
street for $500; lot 25x100 on south line OF
California street, 80 :6 east OF Fifth avenue for
5000; lot 75xl20 on west line of Nineteenth
avenue, 225 feet north OF Point Lobos avenue
for $500; lot 50x120 on west line of Forty
second avenue and street for 5000; q lot
81 :6x100 on northeast corner of Thirty-eighth
avenue and street for $500; a lot 50x100 on
north line of A street, 81 70 feet east of Nine
teenth avenue for $500.
Edwin K. Alsip & Co. sold and exchanged last
week house and lot at Belmont, owned by Mr..
Osborne, to C. E. Dugan for $4,000 lots OF w. A.
Brown to same, $7100: A. Lepk Jose, % acres
OF land in Napa County, to A. Z. Potter, $500
lots in San Jose, $1,000
The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
and the Board of Trade have Just issued
8 very handsome illustrated pamphlet descrip-
tive of the interesting features OF this City In
particular and of the State in general. 1t is in
tended for free distribution among visitors to
this City, and is for the purpose of calling to
the attention OF strangers the various points
and places of interes in and around San Fran
cisco, as well as to guide them in spending
their time to the best advantage when sight
seeing here.
statistical information concerning California.
Following are three pages of statistical matter
in regard to thisCity, following which is several
pages of reading matter descriptive of the
points of interest about the City. Scattered
through the book are about thirty half-tone
engraviugs of the scenic beauties of San Fran
cisco. The cover is handsomely designed, and
on the front page, worked in the design, is
THE City and Port of San Francisco, Califor.
MIA" The work is an excellent specimen oi
the printers art, while the matter it contains
is OF incalculabie benefit to strangers.
There is no advertising of any description in
the book. 1t is intended to distrib butte the
book free through the rooms of the State
Board OF Trade as well as other suitable chan
nels.
The credit of compiling and experimenting
the printing of the work belongs to a com.
mittee consisting of Colonel Will L. Fisher,
the well-known real estate man, chairman,
and Hugo D. Keil and A. G. Towne. If vel
distributed 1t should prove instrumental in
adding to the City's population.