The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-14
Inquiry Developing More GEN
orally ard Trading Becoming
More Positive.
The Usual Midwinter Dizziness Bids
Fair TO B. Less Marked
This Year.

positive character Circumstances are almost
daily multiplying that help IN fostering prop
erty matters and give additional interest TO
everything associated with land operations
The midwinter dizziness in real estate, which
is usually first felt as the holidays approach,
bids fair to be less marked this season. Much
of the credit for this encouraging condition of
affairs must be accorded to the real estate
brokers, who are keeping up their usual quota
of advertising which in degree of power is
the first among stimulating agencies 10 the
market. There is no more reliable or practical
index TO the financial condition of any COM
munity than the real estate advertising col
umns of its daily newspapers.
On the temper, energy and wisdom of the
real estate brokers is dependent in q great
measure the prosperity of San Francisco.
While her real estate men have always been
pushing and energetic they have never gone to
the extreme of wild speculation or attempted,
by creating prices not based on actual value,
to inaugurate boom which would prove more
disastrous in the end than total state of
inertia. These are the men VINO have repre-
scented the City abroad and attracted popula-
ton 10 extend the boundaries of the City
settlement They are the men who have not
worked alone, but have bent their energies to
the upbuilding OF San Francisco. In one re-
spect their success is pronounced. In the per-
centage OF people who own their own homes
San Franc SEQ leads most OF the large cities of
the Union.
The prosperity of the community lies in the
prosperity of the common Teople; and their
prosperity is best indicated, not by high wages
and good living necessarily, but by their own
ing homes. That person is truly prosperous
who owns his house and has sufficien mt income
for a comfortable living. When person has
q steady occupation that brings him fair
wages so that he is enab ed to rent COM
Portable tenement, he soon discovers that
home of his own would be far preferable and
cost no more: for nowadays any one can pur-
chase house on such easy installments thst
renting is really the more onerous. That this
realization has been felt by many is evineed
by the great increase okthe purchase of homes
and the CORES ponding increa Se OF vacant tene-
ments.
The tendency toward BODYBUILDING has
stimulating effect on the real estate market;
it causes outside and other improved property
to be subdlvided and sold for homes, and the
owners of tenements have to improve their
properties to hold their tenants or sell to
those wanting homes Modern methods of
rapid transit have had much tn do with max
ing this prosperity possible. for it brings
large territory within easy reach OF the busi-
ness part of the City. During few years past
there has been a depression in the demand for
homes, but that is now happily past. and
homes are being built on every hand. Meas
ured by home building the real estate market
OF San Francisco has decidedly prosperous
outlook, and brokers look forward to an ac-
tive, steady market.
REVIEW OF THE RECORDS.
There were eighty-three mortgages record
during the week aaggregating $222,OOO.
BY Joseph Schwartz 10 Hiberna Bank S22,-
600 for one year at 81 per cent on property at
the northwest corner of buchanan street and
Golden Gate avenue, 137:6x137 IS feet; by
Thomas D. and Rosa A. RiordRn 10 Fidelity
Building ana Loan Association, $4,000 for
ten years att per cent per annum, on prop
erty on south side OF Pacific avenue, lis feet
east of Buchanan street. 79x128 :814 feet, also
southwest corner of Webster and Greenwich
streets, 1877 :6xi20 feet; by George and Eliza
beth Mearnes to the German Bank, $500 for
ID cent DrODerty
on east line of Octavia street, ITO
feet south OF Post, 27:6x110 feet;
by Jacob Dusenbery to Antonio B. Gonzalez,
$4,000 for three years at Ga per cent on
property on the north line of O'Farreil street,
1875 east of Cough, east 55 by north 100; by
the Hibernia Be nix TO Auguste Holland, $4,000
for one year at 615 per cent on property on the
south corner of Broadway and the southwest
corner Of Montgomery avenue. west 9:S12,
south 80, esst %, north 65:3. northwest
1929; by the same TO Jennie S. and F. D.
Atherton, $500 for one year at 81. per
cent on property on the southeast cor er of
California and Buchanan streets, east "a IS
by south 20; by the Security Bank TO
Isidore and Henrietta Breslauer, $500 for
one year from January 8. at per cent. on
property on the northwest line OF Howard
street, IT'S feet northeast of Ninth, northeast
so by northwest 80; by the Hibernia Bank 10
Henry William Heath, $4,000 for one year at
81 per cent, on property on the south line
Of O'Farren street, 1O5 east of Mason, east
80 e bv south S7:6 by the So me 10 Katharine
NJ. VOTERS, $1,000 Tor one year at 81 per cent.
on property on the east corner oil FOLSOM and
Ritch Streets northeast 80 by southeast 70;
by the same to George H. Sanders $14 900 for
one year at 81 per cent, on property on the
northeast corner of Suffer and Stockton
the Humboldt Rank to Hyman and
Katie rschDraum, $4,000 to January
on the north line of Hayes street, 75:5 west of
Webster, west 20 by north 100; by the Security
Bank to Mary A. and Peter Crichton. $15 900
for one year al per cent, on property on the
n mr.
streets, north So by west 100; by the trustees
OF Annie A. and Hazel g. Montgomery to r.
and Mary A. Herman, $4,000, payable in in
stallments al per cent, on property on the
northwest corner of Baker and jefferson
streets, north 275, west to the line of the
Government reserve, south to the north line
OF Jefferson street, east TO the beginning, and
on the northwest corner OF Tonqun and
Baker streets, north 275, west TO the line OF
the Government reserve, south to the north
line of Tonquin street east to- the beginning:
by the Hibernia Bank to Martin A. and Caroline
Moldenhauer, $22 600 for one year at 81 per
cent, on property on the east line OF Asnpury
street, 100 feet north of Fell. north % bv east
103 %, in Western Addition block GIL, on the
northeast corner of Fell and Clayton streets
east 81 % by north 100, and ON the south line
of Page street, 100 eeL west of Broderiek, west
81 IS by south 70; by the Union Trust Com
pRny to Adolph Mack and Leon Guggenhime
$4,000 for four years at So per cent, on prop
ertv on the northeast line OF Fremont street
1876 southeast oil Market, southeast As 10 by
northeast 1876; by the Security Bank 10
George G. Adams, pOUOO Tor three Years at
ner cent, on property on the east line of
Devisadero street. 105 north OF Vallejo, north
SO by east 1912, and by Laura A. Hoeler to
the same on the same property, $500 for two
years at z per cent.
The releases numbered fity-nine and were
for total OF $3.50, 900, among them being the
following:
From La Societe Franchise TO Margaret NJ
Savage, on property at southwest corner of
Oak and Lyon streets, 70:1x100 feet; from the
Hibernia Bank TO Margreta Hartmann, 5000,
and to Frederick NJ. E. and F. W. Arms trong
g44O0 on pro perty on the southwest corner of
Lombard and Mason streets, south 60 IS, west
10 Montgomery avenue, northwest to Lom bard
street east to Mason; from the Hum Daldt
Bank to Benjamin Mayors. $4,000, on prop
ertv on the west line of Scott street, 1876
south of Pine. south 80 by west 1876; ;
from the German Bank 10 Henry Wollers,
$4,000 on property on the south line of Clay
street 81 g east of Scott, east 25 by south 100;
from Albert MILFORD TO Inez NJ. and Joseph
Cousins. 1880 and $4,000 CnsrginaD on prop
ertv on the northeast corner Of Walnut and
CLAY streets east 81 IS by north 127:S1z: from
the German Bank to Antonio Is. Gonzales,
So6 600 on property on the north line OF
65Jsstrell street, 1877 Is east of Cough east So
bv north 40; from the Hibernia Bank to
J1lIa Green, $4,000 on property on the north
east corner Of Fulton street and First avenue.
cast 81 q. north 100. west TO First avenue,
south 1OO37, and on the east line OF Mission