The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-02-19
BRIGHT CHANCES
F0R'RE|A!L. ESTATE
Promise of Open Weather En-
couraging to Sellers and
3g.. &, BUYERS. ls5 I'LL u Il

s tr-or fra past several weeks real estale =
agents have been patiently wa wa ths .l. ~.
4 earnestly hoping for that Rlhd OF opeu /.
weather that Will enable i 4nei ~ Z.
$,S,,sw I MANY deals that might have been
a$consu,1,matol long ago have been held
"A IL nf,pynnce because Of bad weather. rms
(. il 4 cs1,erinjly true OF auction sales MOST
s. ~ those OIL the string have been posi-
Ioned 10 wait for better weather me
following are announced, however, r 1 Ieol,
this week: !,
Wednesday afternoon at A clock, A..
541 z tadninson and Augustine Royal and
& Company, Of Manchester, will offer SIX
handsome building lots in Mason Park,
Mnflchest er. The sale will be on the
premises. = 4,
Es'8O on THURSDAY afternoon at A:S0 o'clock,
Messrs. Pollard and Bag'by VIII sen ~
auction the frame dwelling, NO, Sl5 Norm
l'wcnty-cighth Street. 4, 4 & d,
Tuesday at noon, e.. a. Catlitl Will sell
R tho property known as the Talbot Ma
H chine Works, on Cary Street between
31Siftecnth nnd Seventeenth Streets. ms
ID sale. which will be made, regardless or
ii aweath her, Is one that will interest all Rich
8 mond. 4Y
AS to OverfloWs. 533
H Concerning this property, which, Is 5ad-
1,,i1nloly located for manufacturing pur-
poses being right on the railway ! racks
and convenentto the steamboat ana snip
wharves, there has been some talk as
6stoE the danger from the periodica Z over
flows OF the James River. It IS inter- teer
aesting to state that the property mas
G suffered comparatively little from TINS
5. source Colonel C. r. u. I3urgwyr. civ
Il engineer, has In his office records OF all
1.-The James River rannpages since 1871.
From these it Is shown that the property
35in DUES ton has been submerged only nine
times since 1887, as follows: October !,
3 1h70-a1nount Of submergence, eight feet;
& Novem Der Is, 1s77-nine feet eight inches;
4 April 2, 1Ss6-iivc feet three inches; June
2E81ssa-six feet two inches ; August 2,
Jsstl-three feet five inches; February u.s.,
q 1S99--scven feet ten inches; May "a, IDOL
two feet ono inch; December 81, 1901
six feet one inch; March 9, 1902-two feet
Il three inches. 8 M tS IA HI 8 tx, 4
Colonel Burgwyn has carefully exam
i; incd the property, and declares that with
u an expenditure Of less than $4,000 for I'LL
Il ing in, the property can be made absor
f@utely safe from any possible high water
in the raging James.
Some Business Doing.
s Tie a. j. Chewing Company report
s. TINT although the bad weather has re-
tarded real estate business for all Of this
n year, they had made some interesting
# No.$1015 West Main Street, for $1,000, to
Il Miss Emma j y IJnser;} N o. Al West Clay
ii Street, for. So, 500, to Mr.. John.sT. Wilson:
a No 21S South Pine Street, for $500, to Mr.
Isaac Kaufnann;# MOI 1914 West Leigh
X Street: Nos Al9 and Al Webster Street,
Il for s1,150,s to Mr.. G. L. FauntleroS; Mo-.
4 Ed South Reservoir Street, for $500. to Mr.
~. H. Fletcher. No. 1907 North Thirty
second Street. for $i25. to Benjamin Win
AZ, a,,,l1 ntc sopd
SGolO, to Mi Julian w. Tyler: one lot
on West Avenue for s1,2SS,, to Mr.. Rich
ard r. Durham; two lots In Manchester
= for sG50, to Mrs. Howard
Real estate men are no prophets, but
" they have d we'll grounded hope that
the backbone OF winter is now pretty
well broken, and they now expect there
will be n great doing in the real estate
q market.
Property Transfers.
Richmond--G. T. Fauntlcroy to Lille
Il Smith, 1871 feet on west side Of Laurel
a. Street, 124 feet south of China Street,
sl,515,
5{|s. Il. c. Garrett and wife to G, T.. Fauntle-
roy, 2sis feet on south line Peasants
Street, ZIG fcct west Of Mosby Street,
Sl,500.
Thomas c. Gordon, special commission
or. to w. w. Haley, % feet on south line
Of Green Street, between Linden ana
Cherry Streets, s;33l25
Ed b.. Mary A. and Peter j, O. Conner
TO Il. A. Saunders, Jr. 20 feet on north
]ine of Main Street, northeast corner OF
! Twenty-hrst Street $4,000
Margaret Woodson. Robert Dudley
Graeme and wife, Margaret s.. NJ. r..
Isabella Il. and Alice Graeme and John
*. Greene and wife to John 4. Wilson,
90 feet on north line Of Clay Street q
feet cast or Henry Street. $500.
4, HcnrIco-J. N. Atlsissons trustee to L.
II s. Read, lots md H. in block u, section
Q on plan Of Highland Springs $40
& Clemens IT, Johenning and wife to
John C, Johennlne, 30 acres on the Chick
ahominy River. $3.50.
II. A. Hare and wife to r, A. Lincoln,
GO feet on north line OF Clay Street.
northeast corner Of Thirty-hfth Street,
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