The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-12-16
OFFICE OF THE HERALD,
Los Angeles, Dec. Is, 1897.

OFFICE OF THE HERALD.
Los Angeles, Dec. Is. 1897.
Real estate transfers for the first four
teen days OF the month numbered 57S and
Aggregated 1894. 137. as against 1858 trans
. fsrs amounting to 1881. 1888 for the corre-
spending period Of November. In the
same period Of December there were
Aied 80 mortgages. aggresating $2s3, 4s9,
and 10 releases, amounting to $202. 473,
~ against 32o mortgages for $274,9ss and
1pl releases amounting to 1927. 1908 for the
corresponding period Of November.
The market IN we'll sustained although
!. 20 transactions Of more than average
Importance have been reported.
The perennial proposition to erect a
public library and museum building Of
character that will be an ornament
and . credit to the city IL again being
revived. Once more the site of the Spring
street school IL suggested for the pur-
pose. The suggestion was always a good
enc ana IL Just a. good today as 1t ever
was.
The building notes for the week indi-
cate that there has been a slackening in
the amount Of new work now being un-
dertaken. which Is perhaps to the benefit
Of business generally, having in view the
extent to which building has been stead
lily prosecuted for 30 long a time past.
For the next few weeks no great activity
In new work need be expected but soon
after the opening OF the new year there
will undoubtedly be a great revival Of
interest in building circles which viii
give IN added impetus to business Of all
kinds.
The fact that bill has passed the
senate apprcprfating $z5O.OOo for i'm
prcvemsnts ON the Los Angeles fed
eral building. including the postofice,
and that there 10 every indication that
the bill win be approved by the house is
news that comes none to soon to give
satisfaetion. The money is to be used
for building wing and adding one or
two stories to the present building and
for the purchase Of forty-foot strip Of
land adjoining the lot. 1t is the rule of
che department not to erect a govern
naent building within less than forty feet
Of other property, and the purchase Of
. strip il necessary to the observance OF
hA - kho LOT
inally was a Job. and the location was
not even then large enough for the pur-
poses intended. The building has since
been enlarged and the improvements
pow contemplated. while they will re-
ueve the present pressure upon the ex-
listing space will not give the city the
handsome building to which It is entitled
1T the hands Of the government.
The improvements noted by the Build
or and Contractor include, among 9TH
err. the following:
A two-story residence to be built for
Mrs. Meyers on Alvarado street between
Eleventh and Twelfth streets, to cost
about $4,000.
A two-story residence to be built on
Nenlo avenue near Twenty-eighth
street. Also a two-story residence for
Mrs.. Isabella King. to be erected on
South Grand avenue near Thirty-second
street.
Mrs. A. Wilcut contemplates building
on the east side Of San Pedro street near
Tenth street.
r. L. Doxier contemplates building a
residence on West Twelfth street near
Georgia street.
Thomas J. Coulter has under consid-
Grafton the erection Of a dwelling on
west side Of Aubrey near Hoover street
Geo. p. Barnard will build on his prop
erty on Eighteenth street near Grand
avenue a two-story frame residence.
Plans are being prepared for F. c.
Howes Of q three-story brick building
70 be erected on West First street near
Broadway.
Geo. W. Stimson has had plans pre-
pared Of . two-story residence that he
will build for Mrs. Huddleston on the
corner Of Tenth and Buckley streets.
to cost $500.
The general contract for the erection
a the g. H. Frost six-story building on
the corner Of Second street and Broad
way has been let to George Low. the
plumbing and steam heating to Thomas
HAvcrty. The electric work. marble and
filing, elevators and enclosures are yet
10 Be let.
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WilliaM Z. Bishop. jr., Of the Bishop
Company. has purchased lot on the
corner Of West Adams street and ver-
mont avenue for $z40o. where he will
erect . dwelling to cost not less than
5000. Godfrey Holterhoff. treasurer Of
the California Southern Railway. is hav-
ing a residence constructed on adjoin-
ing property, 75x160 feet in size. The
home Of o. J. Barker Of Barker Bros. is
to be located on q lot 7Sx15o In size In this
vieihity.
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g Hunter & CamAeld report the sale Of
Q twenty-five acre walnut grove for
George Weifenbach to Mrs. Rose John
son for $S240. This ranch is located on
the road from this city to Burbank, and
about one and . half miles this side OF
that place. The yield this year from
(ight-year- old trees was 10000 pounds of