The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-03
JANUARY SALES WERE SLOW.
But Few Bidders Turned Out TO In
spect the Auctioneers' Offering.

sDect the Auctioneers' OherinG.
The sale of properly before the Court
House yesterday did not serve TO bring out
any extravagant bids. On the contrary, as
might have been expected, the bids were
slow. and but served to emphasize the fact
that January is poor month in which 70
offer properly for sale
The auctioneers are thoroughly aware of
this fact and conscious that on the first
Tuesday of January the weather is quite
as likely 10 be bad as on any other day
OF this disagreeable month. For this rea-
son they are loath to advertise much
property for sale and for this reason but
little property was advertised for sale on
yesterday. Because of the nipping cold
but few were in attendance to bid on the
property offered asd much OF 1t was ac-
cordingly Withdrawn.
Auc ;ioneer !. d. LaRoche sold the
northern portion of the lot on the corner
of Price street and York lane, win the
improvements, formerly used as store
by J. II. LANCE, for the benefit of whose
estate the property was sold. The lot sold
fonts forty-five feet on Price street ana
sixty feet on the lane and contains the
property on which LANCE made the com
for'able fortune that was his at the time
of his self-accomplished death. The prop
cnt tenant ard relative of the dead man,
for the sum of 5000.
Auctoneer {. II. Dorset sold the prop
erty numbered 205 Park avenue, east, for
S3,710. The property sold at the last sales
day for $500 more than was bid on yester-
day, and IL was sold then Tor the account
of the first purchaser. The purchaser at
the last named sale was l.. l.. BuTpee
and it was the universal concensus OF
opinion that the property did not bring
within half thousand dollars OF what II
was worth. The price paid by the pur-
chaser was not regarded as excessive, ana
he is thought 10 have been exceedingly
lucky 20 have obtained the property at the
free for which il was sold.
Auctoneer John L. Archer sold to Hen
ry Giles lot on Hartri1ge street contain
ing fifty-one feet front and ninety feet
depth, and suited. as the auctiOneer SAID
for the erection of small houses The lot
of land SOLD for $500 which was consider
ed a fairly good price. This piece of prop
erty was old as part of the estate of +.
A. Glenn. a second ard no valJable
piece of property on Duffy street was
withdrawn, because Auctloneer Archer
could not obtain a price at which he
thought himself justified in turning TIE lot
loose The price offered by the bidders
present was 81 $50, and this offer, Mr.. Ar
cher said, he could not entertain.
Two or three other piec of property
were withdrawn from the bidding, as 1t
did not serve to encourage those who were
Offering the property for sale. The fact
of the matter was that the bidders and
spectators were possessed with the same
feeling as had control of the aucuoneerS,
and while the latter would offer but Mite
property for sac the former would not
push themselves forward in order to bid
it in. Hence the poor sales that were re
ported. The weather was so cod and DIS
agreeable that the actual bidding was
done in the Court House corridor, the auc-
tioneers going outside the door OF the
building to offer the final bid and complete
their sales.