The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-12
REAL ESTATE NOTES
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS


The market as whole has continued
dull and rather unsatisfactory throughout
the week Occasionally there has been
a spot where owing to the really healthy
some degree of activity. This has been
principally IN the lines of residences and
properties of the cheaper sort in which
business il certainly better than year
ago. As the always dull months OF July
and August viii soon be here no i'm
pr0vement can wen be looked for until
We'll into the fall, and brokers are gen.
orally complaining. That the market has
been more than ordinarily dull during the
first five months Of the year Is shown
concIuSivety by the record of the trans
fers filed in the registers office during
that period. The demand for houses az
all kinds has been good. That cannot be
denied, but the cold weather continued
so late into the spring, and so much un-
favorable weather has prevailed since that
there has really been but very short
season In which to do business and the
early season will soon be coming to q
close. 1t can only be hoped that the fall
season sea VII. De such as to make up for
Many dealers have. of course, been great
ly discouraged, but they are nevertheless
displaying buoyancy of spirit. believing
In the future OF st. Paul. and attributing
the slackneSS of the real estate business
to unfortunate conditions which are en-
tTely temporary and not at all to- the
business and financial state OF the city.
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The real estate transfers recorded dur
Ing the week were more nearly normal as
to number and conSidera tionS than for
the previous week but still failed to
show any great activity In that line Some
large transfers were recorded large
enough to bring the total Of dollars and
cents nearer the average. The princi-
pal transfers were: The Cumberland
company to James F. Maloney, buildings
and lots at the corner Of Eighth and
ea1lur
1000; mortgage on the same prop
eFty was given for $4,000, to run for
six years from June 1, 1904. interest at 5
per cent; Henry ]. Metcalfe to Orpha c.
Lemna, property in Quimby Park, for
$4,000; Alexander j. ID. Haupt ct ux. to St.
James English Evangelical Lutheran
church property in Smith and Lofts out
lots. consideration So 800; and Nellie Nc
Dowen to Heinrich Won Grooming. property
IN Holcombe's addition. consideration, $4,-
The largest mortgage to be recorded in
st. Paul for many day was placed on
file June 9, bringing the total for the week
up to 1920, ,66A as against Sill $50 for the
previous week Even without this large
mortgage the week would have shown
ferred to was that of the Wisconsin, Min
nesota & Pacific Railway company, which
IS a part of the Chicago Great Western
system. to the Mercantile Trust company,
stock to secure an issue Of stock, as ae-
counted In T h Globe at the time
The amount was for $685. 207
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Building permits issued during the week
were hardly up to the standard in either
number or amount. Nearly all of them
were for dwelling houses. and none was
for more than $4,000 for any one building
The only Ones large enough to mention were
10 +. II. Kelly estate for five two-story
frame dwellings which he is to erect on
Maria avenue, at Ravine and Conway
streets, to cost S. 500 each, or a total OF
S17,500; Mrs. C. W. Heymel, for two
story frame dwelling to be built on Forbes.
between Leech and Wilkfn streets. to
cost $4,000: Theodore Bunker, for two
two-stOry frame dwellings on Ashland
avenue, between Dunlap and Lexington.
A. II. Ranlsey's addition to cost s.. O00
each; T. G. Kopplin. two-story frame
dwelling on Dayton avenue. between OK
ford and Lexington, to cost So 900. John
Saam, two-story frame dwelling on East
Sixth. near Arcade, Dayton's Bluff Sc. 900:
W. f. StOrk. two-stOry frame dwelling
On Cleveland avenue. between Jefferson
and Palace. $4,000. and to ID. w. ConneIl
for additions and repairs to his building
ON South Exchange, near Sherman, So 600.