The San Francisco call., 1899-08-12

east line of Howard street. 221 feet south
of Seventeenth; lot 24x122:6. ,-,,
liam B, Hepworth the property on the
south line of Pine street, 1868 feet west
of Fillmore; lot 25x127:6 feet, with house
Hannah Foley has bought the property
on the southeast line of Market street,
26S feet southwest of Sanchez; lot ZGoA
10 feet, on private terms.
William Helbing ard wife have sold 10
Ephraim E. Kimball the property on lie
east line of Parker avenue, $50 feet north
$500. ''i'' -1O'O7 ' e'''e'
John Dougherty has sold to Charles A
Van Ness avenue, "a feet south of Vallejo
street; lot 27:6x120 feet, on private terms
Baldwin & Howell have Eeen commis- I'M e.5
stoned by Albert Meyer to sell block BOO
bounded by II and / streets ana Eight
eenth and Nineteenth avenues, 240x60O rect
| in size, which has been prepared for me a.,
for building The block has been put on a
grade with the streets and the streets
themselves are all on the official grace
and macadamized, with sideWalKs Iaia 10
| around the entire block. The block Is
right opposite Strawberry Hill and IS at
the Nineteenth avenue entrance 70 Goloen
Gate Park. Nineteenth avenue Is now
boulevard and the work OF opening anu
grading the avenue from H street TO the
Ocean House road was begun TINS s., "eeh veil
lay their mains up to the property In
short time.
The Prescott House property, to be sold
by ShainWald Buckbee d Co. at pubnc
auction on Tuesday, August 2, without
limit or reserve, is receiving great atten-
ton from investors on account OF me me
large income yielded by this valuable
property, fronting on kearny and racine
streets and Montgomery avenue. For the
year 1898 the gross receipts for rents were
$11 $50; the amount paid for taxes was
S915 "a; the insurance amounted to S4fZ 90,
and the repairs to $257 20, leaving a net
income of $l0,209 II.
Twenty-Five building contracts were re-
corded during the week, representing an
aggregate outlay of S1S7 ,SS1. The largest
contracts were those of Edward Nc Nc
thy and the Vulcan Iron Works TO erect
a six-story brick and iron building on
Mission street, between New Montgomery
and Third, for $51 800, 1t is estimated that
the total cost of this building will be
SIS, 900. The next largest contract was that
of John D. Spreckels with Neish Brothers
for stone and brick work for his residence
on the northwest corner of Pacific avenue
and Laguna street for $24, $50.
The next largest contract was that
of Christian F'roelich with James ]. Will
son to build four-story brick structure,
with basement on the west corner of
Second and Minna streets, for g1S, ,592. Rob
ert Hampton contracted with Henry Jacks
to erect a five-story building on the north
west corner of O'Farrell and Mason
streets, to cost S13, 800 Louis Sloss Jr.
! contracted with Cotton Bros. for work in
| building warehouse on the south cor
ner of Mission and Fremont streets, for
S13, ,S95. The Colusa Stone Company con-
tracted to furnish stone and briclwork
for $13,S01 2S for the new music stand in
Golden Gate Park donated by Claus
Spreckels. w. ]. Bryan contracted with
V. L. and o. V. Fortin for the erection
of a three-story building! with basement,
on the southeast line of Mission street,
3S7:6 feet northeast of Fifth, for SIC, 10.
Local savings banks, building associa-
tions and private capitalists loaned a to-
tai of $163. .265 upon city real estate during
the week ending August 5. against $255,140
for the previous week. The loans Of the
savings banks aggregated s1O1, AIS. and
were as follows: Hibernia, 64,765: Ger
man, $13. 800: San Francisco Savings Union
s13, ,000 Savings and Loan $3.50: Humboldt
$4,000; Security, $500; Mutual. $500. and
Union Trust Company $500 The building
associations loaned a total of s4100, and
private capitalists and others loaned s57,-
750 All the loans of the Hibernia and Mu-
tual savings banks are now at per cent.
The Hibernia Bank last week made re-
lease of $4,000 to Alvinza Hayward and
wife, The city savings banks of Santa
Cruz loaned the F. A. Him Company $24.-
900 for sixty days at per cent on property
on the northeast corner of Kearny and
Bush streets. Releases for the week were
s275, $50, against $780, 400 for the previous
week.