The San Francisco call., 1896-11-16

Twenty-fourth and Elizabeth, has been IN
dangerous condition ever since last winter
The storm water from the grades came down
and washed away about three feet OF the road.
way and left an opening from two to fivs fees
deep.
Sol Getz & Bro. report the following sales:
Lot 251120, on west line of Ninth avenue, I'D
feet south of X street. for 5000; lot 5Ox1OO on
west corner of Edinburgh street and Russia
avenue, Excelsior Homestead, for $4Oo; lot
zo1lOO; on south line OF !! street, 32 70 ieet
east OF Forty eighth avenue, for $500; lot 26x
1ZO, on east line of Nineteenth avenue, lat
seet ne north OF California street, for $500; lot
Zo4lZO, on west line OF Nineteenth avenue,
between California and Lake streets, with inn
provements. for $3.50.
Charles E. Gregory, manager of the country
eepaf .nent OF Bovee, Toy & Sonntag, left on
saturday evening for an extended tour of the
southwestern States Boyee, Toy & Sonntag
nave LOT some time past been in communication
with mum Der of real estate agents through
out the northern part of the country with
view OF inaugurating some plan for the pur-
pose OF promoting immigra. ion to California,
and 1t is to further this purpose that Mr..
Gregory makes his present trip.
A number OF building operations in the
vicinity of Sntro Heights are now in progress.
Charley Sutro reports the recent sale of a nu M
Der of lots in the block bounded by Forty-hfth
and Forty-si1th avenues, Lake street and Point
building q two-story house on Forty-s1xth
avenue south of Point Lobos. On Forty-third
avenue, north of Point Lobos, Mrs. Kreiz Is
building an elegant nome. Another mansion
is shortly TO be constructed on the east line OF
Forty-sixth avenue, 100 feet south of Point
Lobos, by NJ. G. Fairchild.
Golden Gate Park, is being moved to the cor
ner of D street and Twenty-fourth avenue, and
will be fitted up as pleasure resort.
The residents of Eureka Valley are in favor OF
better streets. For nearly year the macadam
roadways have been gradually undergoing .
change into smooth payements. In the past
eight months about twenty blocks have been
bituminized in the district between Fifteenth
and Twentieth streets and from Church west
to Douglass street: Preparations are being
made TO replace the macadam roadway on
Diamond and Collingwood street, from
Eighteenth to Nineteenth, with bitumen.
Property-owners and residents along theline
OF the proposed extension of the Pacife-avenue
cable are anxiously awaiting the tulhllment
of the promise made by the Sutter-street Rail-
way more than year ago, to extend the
Pacific avenue branch of the system from ita
present terminus at Devisadero street TO Wal /.
nut street 1t was stated at the time by the
railway company that work would be COM
menced whenever the property-owners graded
Walnut street The street improvements have
long since been finished.
AT the meeting of the School Directors on
Saturday, for the purpose of considering the
desirability of various parcels OF land that had
been offered the board for Mission High
School site, 1T was quite evident the majority
of the mem bers favored the property at Twen-
tieth and Folsom streets. This, they argued,
is the center of the Mission population, and by
reason of streetcar facilities is accessible to
every point of that district The lot is 200x
245 feet, and the price is $39, 900, being the
cheapest parcel OF land that has yet been sub
mItted.
Polk-street property-owners are going in for
Improvements on an extensive scale. Only
short while ago they secured the establish
ment of number of arc lights along that
thoroughfare, and now they propose TO ex-
tend the street toward the bay as far as is de-
sirable. The ambition of the me rchants and
property-owners is to establish direct commu-
nication with the seawall, and the best means
of doing this it is said is to extend Polk street
to Bay street, which ID cut through clear to
the grainsheds.
Property owners of Sausalito, Tiburon,
Belvedere, Mill Valley. Larkspur, Ross Valley
and San Rafael organized some time ago for
the purpose of improving those portions of
Marin County under the name of the Marin
Development Association The object is to
enhance the desirability of the places named
as suburban residence districts. The work of
the association was somewhat interrupted by
the Presidential campaign, but has now been
renewed with energy.
A considerable number of heavy property
owners have already become members of the
association. Every station along the road is
represented, and the desire is to acquaint as
many as possible with the objects which the
new organization has in view. and to enlist
their mem mbership to forward those objects.