The San Francisco call., 1896-09-21
An Improved Demand Reported
for Property for Invest
ment.
THE TAX RATE UNDECIDED
Another Portion of the Murphy Ranch
Is to Be Offered at Public
Auction.

this feature of the market, but as noted last
week would-be purchasers are very exacting
in most instances and their offers in many
cases are so low that il is quite out OF the ques-
ton to make sales, except where owners are
compelled 10 sell.
The Board of Supervisors resumes Its ses-
sions to-day, and it is to be hoped that they
will soon settle the tax question SO that the
uncertainty on this subjecI that has prevailed
for so many weeks will be settled. Real estate
brokers seem to be of the opinion that the
rate both City and County, will not exceed
81 rs, but the record of the present Board OF
Supervisors is such that it is not safe to ven-
ture any predictions as to what they will de-
eide upon regarding the amount OF money TO
be expended the ensuing year.
REVIEW OF THE RECORDS.
There were ninety-fve transfers recorded
last week, the properties conveyed being
mainly small ones
The number of mortgages recorded was sew
enty-seven, aggregating 1925, ,723. The larger
ones, together with the security given, were
as follows:
Bv the German Bank, half for six months
and half for one year, $12, 900 at per cent on
property on the south side of Jackson street,
100 - east OF Dupont, east 40 by south 1894;
by the Hibernia Bank, for one year at 61a per
cent, $4,000 on property at the northwest
corner OF Bush and Dupont streets, west 6S %
by north 81 6 and property at the southeast
corner of Dupont and Jackson Streets south
20, east 80, north 20, west 20, south 4S, west
40, north 4S, west 80; and by the London and
San Francisco Bank, for two months at per
line of Mission street, rs southwest of First
southeast so by southwest 96:3; also property
on the south line of Fifteenth, 125 west of
Sharon, west so by south 100
The releases numbered forty-three, aggre-
eating $119 090. The largest one was given
BY the German bank to Charles L. Hinkel for
SIS, 500 on property on The west side of Cas-
tro street, 50 feet north OF TWent ty-first, north
$50 by west 125.
There were seventeen building contracts
filed pledging an outlay of $50, ,126.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.
Thomas R. Edwards has commenced the
erection cf some very pretty flats on the north
side Of Grove street, between Baker and Lyon.
They will cost $4,000.
Siias Cole has been awarded the con tract for
the carpenter work on the new Affiliated Col
leges building.
Laguna street, near Vallejo has been sold by
T. de Kay and Caroline S. Townsend to John
Henry Miller for 1000.
The ground floor of the new Spring Valley
Water Company's building at the corner of
Geary and Stockton streets, has been leased by
the City OF Paris and will be occupied by that
house as soon as competed. 1t viii give them
one OF the finest dTy-goods s torres west of Chi
cago. Work on the building is progressing
rapidly and it is expected that the structure
will be finished and occupied within another
year.
Good progress is noted on all the various
business blocks now N course of construction
al various points about the City. The Hobart
building, on Post street, is all up and rooted
over and the contract for the plastering has
Just been let 1t viii be occupied January
by the tenant, who has leased the entire
structure.
The gas company's new building on Post
street, between Powell and Mason, is pretty
well up, as well as the American Exchange
building, on Sansome and Halleck streets.
The fronts of both these structures are of
stone and will present very substen tial and
ornamental appearance when completed
Among other buildings the work upon which
chado ri
at Battery and Bush streets; the Royal Eagle
Distilleries building, at Powell and Ellis; the
Kosenstirn, at The corner OF hyde and Sutter;
the old BiJou Theater building, on Market,
near Third, and the new Center Market build
ing, on Powell, between O'Farren and Geary
The latter will be ready for occupancy bv the
new tenants October /. Work on The CALL
building has been retarded on account of a
delay in securing the steel beams and columns
for the lower stories. They have all been
finished now, however, and are being rapidly
put in position. Much of the stone for the
building is cut and ready to be laid, and as
soon as the steel work is far enough advanced
TO allow work on the wills to begin the struc-
ture will go up rapidly.
Easton, Eldridge & Co. have just completed
arran peInents whereby they will offar OF 60
ton Saturday, October 3, another section of
the famous Murphy ranch in the Santa Clara
Valley. The amount of land to be offered COM
prises several hundred acres, and it will as in
the case of the two previous sales, be offered
in parcels OF ten acres and upward. The char
acter OF the soil OF this tract is fully equal to
that OF the other two tracts sold, and there
will undoubtedly be large attendance and
brisk bidding at the sale. A special excur-
sion train will be run from this City to the
land on The day of the sale
This firm Will holo an auction sale of miscel-
laneous properties on Tuesday the 29th inst
A list OF choice offerings has been prepared
for the sale.
Bovee, Toy & sonntag have leased the store
et 80 Montgomery street. directly opposita
tober L.
Easton Eldridge & Co report the following
m O in
Lot 25x132:6 on the north side of Page street
near Devisadero, with improvements consist
house, price $500; lot 3OxlO6 g, on south
east corner of Page and Cole streets, and mod
ern house OF nine rooms and bath, $9500; lot
25x114, on north line of Valley street near
Sanchez, 5000; lot 23x60, on north line of
Glover street, with Improvements consisting
OF two flats OF four rooms each, $1,000; lot
25xl22, on the west line of Folsom street
near Fourteenth, $1,000; lot 25xSO, on
the northwest line OF Clementina street.
two-story tenement building. $27O0; lot 32:II
xI25, on the east line of Valencia, near
Twenty-sixth, $4,000; lot 25x9O. on east
$1,000; lot 25xS0 on the east line OF Morse
south of Howard, old buildings, $4,000; lot 23
xSO, on the north line of Clara east of
Fourth, with three old tenements, $245O; lot
22:6x6O. on the west line of LIE Roy place
south OF Sacramento with two fats of four
rooms each. $500; lot 2I $3.50, the west
line OF Castro, south of Twenty-third, with
house OF eight rooms and bath. $500; lot 81 q
x125, with % by 75 on the northwest cor
rer of Fell and Lott, with eleven-room house
$4,000: lot 23x64, on the south line OF
California. near second avenue, and six
room house, $3.50; lot 35x70:6, on the
west line OF California. avenue, south
of Lizzie, 5000; iot 50x120 on the east
line of Twenty-first avenue, near California,
$1l00; lot 52x6x107:6, on the northwest
line of Brannan, south of Second, $4,000; lot
30x52:4, on the west line OF Jones, south of
Pacific, with eleven-room house. $4,000: lot 80
x160A on the north line of Sutter east of
Devisadero, $4lO0; lot 25x1O6, on the west
line OF Baker. south of Washington, $3.50;
and lot 25x95, on the southeast line of Fol-
som, west of Ninth. $3325. They also sold at
ing property:
In township % south, range 25 east, Tulare
County, 494.46 acres Tor $3615; in township
10 south, range 2l east, Tulare County so
acres with improvements, $1250; and in town
ship 10 south, range 81 east, In Fresno County.
so acres for $1,000. '''
Center d Spader have leased the Office IL
Montgomery street. formerly occupied bv the
late firm of OFarrell & Co., and will remove
their business there October l. This is one of
the most desirable Offices in the City and Cen
ter & Spader are to be congratulated upon Sc