The San Francisco call., 1897-03-08
All Surroundings and Indi-
cations Favor Approach.
ing Activity.
Some Important Transactions in
Realty Consummated Dur.
ing the Week.
Many Large Acreage Tracts Have Been
Subiivided Recently Through.
out the State.


extra session of Congress within fortnight
and the promise of a new tariff at an early
day, which shall provide adequate revenue
and protection, have done much to stimulate
a better feeling in trade circles and increase
confidence in the near approach of an improve
ment in business.
The wet weather which prevailed during the
past week was not favorable for the transac-
tion OF business in any line, especially in that
of real estate. But rain is a good thing for all
State aud local interests and helps TO
strengthen confidence in realty we'll in
everything else. Sunshine has now returned.
and existing conditions are such as TO cause
opera tors and dealers in property matters to
feel notably cheerful in regard to the future,
activity being generally expected in season.
able time.
The reaI-estate horizon is bright. Sunshine
is seen in every direction, causing cheerful
ness among holders of property and giving
hope not only that better times are at hand
generally but also that a season OF marked
activity in realty transactions is approaching.
All surroundings and indications favor such
impressions. At the same time there is no
boom feeling apparent. In TACT, there seems
TO be a unanimous opinion that any attempt
at imitation OF values would be wrong as well
as failure, because there is nothing 10 justify
such movement. OF course during the past
two or three years there have been some
bargain sales, owing TO unsettled conditions,
and buyers of such properties will be the
richer as matters become more settled and
business moves along in more normal fashion.
The majority OF the prominent real estate
brokers' in the City have expressed themselves
as not favoring the remedy proposed by the
Board OF Trade to do away with the fraudulent
immigration schemes which have done
much damage to the name OF California. The
brokers claim that the appointment OF q COM
mission TO pass upon colonlzlng projects and
list them according 10 their merits would be
difficult matter.
Their objections 20 this proposed commission
are numerous aud convincing. They say such
q body would add to the patronage and might
become, through its direct bearing upon the
welfare OF great LANDED interests, ready in
strument unscrupulous hands OF levying
campaign blackmai. They also assert that
such h commission might be induced to recon-
mend projects that ought to have no standing.
'Give q body of practical politicians on one
side empowered TO Kill q business or make it
boom,' said a representative realty broker,
''and rich corporation on the other, the
safety OF whose investments would depend on
such a boom, and what might not come 10
pass?"
There are men in California who live on
what they can make from greenhorns and
this OF course, is 10 be regretted. Bad as the
disease is, however, the re medy suggested by
the Board OF Trade seems TO be worse
During the past week some important trans
actions have been effected in local realty. One
of these was the sale of the ffty-vara lot on
the southeast corner of Sacramento and Hyde
streets on which are eight two-story dwellings
and cottage. John Hinkle was the seller,
but the purchasers name has not yet been
made known. The price paid, however as re-
norted by Baldwin Il Howell, the agents, is
$4,000.
Another important transfer was the sale OF
sc feet, lot on the north line OF Sutter street,
120 feet east of Van Ness avenue running
through 10 Fern avenue, for O,000. DR.. Nc
Mutt is the purchaser and Colonel Crocker the
seller. ShainwaId & Buckbee, the agents in
the transaction, report that the doctor in
tends to move his California-street house to
his new purchase and to make several i'm
provementS in addition that Will add greatly
the of the place.
REVIEW OF THE RECORDS.
There were 142 deeds recorded during the
past week.
The mortgages for the same time numbered
Amo them were the following:
By the Security Bank to G. B. Holmberg,
$4,000, for two years, at per cent per annum,
on property on the southeast line of Howard
street 253 feet southwest of Fifth, 22xS0; by
A. R. and F. A. Baldwin to Harriet Bradford,
$3.50, for five years at per cent. on property
on north line OF Union street, 104 :6 feet west
of Scott 45x137 IS; by the German Bank to
Jacob Schleicher, $11 900, for one year al
per cent, on property on the north line OF
OFRrrell street, 1905 west OF Franklin, west
3d. by north 120; by the City Savings Bank
OF Santa Cruz to Alice L. Eastland, $40, 900, at
z per cent, on properly on the sou utheast corner
of Jackson and Jones. south 275, east 1883,
north 1875, east SO, north 1876, west
1876; by the Union Trust Company to
Timothy Hopkins, $250,000 for three years a
81 per cent, on property on the east corner of
Market and Tenth, northeast $50 by southeast
l6O; by Jennie A. Brickell 10 Daniel T. Cal
laghan, $12 500, tor one year at per cent, on
an undivided interest in the following prop
erty: On the northwes corner of Golden Gate
and Devisadero, north 80 bv west 125; on the
northeast line of Fourth. 35 feet southeast of
Bryant, southeast 125 by northeast 80; In
triangular lot near Woodward's Gardens,
bounded by Mission and West Mission streets;
on the west line OF Dupont, l26 3 north or
Clay, south 27:6 by west 50 %; on the west
line OF Dupont, 151 south of Washing
ton. west 55 by south inches; on the
west line OF Dupont, 81 north of Clay, north
40 by west 65, and on lots ID and l5 block
1SS South San Francisco Homestead and
Railroad Association; by the Enterprise Mu-
cual Building and Loan Association to Mary
2 per cent, on property on the south line of
O'Farrel, 175 E of Laguna, east IS by south
120; by the Hlbernia Bank 10 J. H. and Mary
J. Hatch, $500, for one year at 81 per cent,
on property in Western Addition book 94 on
the north line OF Broadway, Al :6 Of Frank
lin. east Oil by north 1876; by the same to
Hepburn wilkins $4,000, for one year al 61a
per cent, on properly on the northwest line OF
Folsom street. 50 southwest of Seventh
southwest so by northwest 80; by the
Hibernia Bank TO James K. and Isabella
Frazer, $4,000 for one year at 615 per cent on
property on the south line of Frederick street,
1916 west of Stenyan, west 25 feet by south
100, and on the west line of Shraoer 80 feet
south of Waller, south 65 feet by west LOG %
BY the same 10 George Z. and Charles Z. Ehr-
mann, $4,000 for one year at 615 per cent on
property on the east corner OF Mission and
100 feet; by James L. Crittenden TO Elizabeth
w. Sackman, $7718 for thirty days at per
cent on property on the northwest corner of
Taylor and Sutter streets west 137 :6 by north
1876; by the Hibernla Bank 10 Z. H. Jr and
W. c. Hammer, William H. and Mary A. Dick
$4,000 for one year at 81 per cent on property
on the northwest line of Tehama street 355
feet southwest of Fourth, southwest AS feet by
northwest 20 feet and on the northeast line
of Buena Vista avenue 207 :S5s southeast of
Waller street, northeast 130:415 southeast
26:1, west 116:734 northwest 30:51S; by the
London and san Francisco Bank to
John Abrams, 1851 to January 10, 1898,
at per cent on property the
west of First, southeast go feet by southwest
SO %, and on the south line of Fifteenth l25
feet west Of Sharon, west % feet by south 100
1eet, on the south line of Fifteenth $50 feet
west of Sharon, west % feet by south 100 feet:
by the same 10 John aud Elizabeth Keinhans
$6450 Tor one day at per cent per annum on
property on the southeast corner of Kearny
and Lombard streets, south rs feet bv east
1875, on the south line OF Beach, 1877 :6 west
of Hyde, west $50 By south 1877 :6 on the
north line of Duncan. 100 west of Sanch. y
west 25 feet bv north la feet, aud in outside
lands block us, on the northeast corner OF
Eighth avenue and L street, north 1872 east
155 feet, south $50 feet west 146 feet
The releases were eighty-seyen in number
and aggregated 1888, ,132. The following were
among the primes pGl ones: From the Hibernia
Bank 10 Richard L. Fletcher $75OO on prop
erty on the souIh line OF Thirteenth street SO
feet east ot Valencia, 40x160; by Nathan
Joseph 10 Ly Quong, $1,000 ON property on the
north line of Washington street, 60 feet east
of Stockton 72 2:9xl15; from the German Bank
to Henrietta l. Selby, $32 900 property OH
the northwest line OF Market street., 141:7
southwest OF Franklin. southwest 25:1os1
west 1:7L north 120, east 81 30 souln
104:101z; from the Enterprise Building anc