The San Francisco call., 1905-03-26
BUSINESS HOLDINGS WIN
FAVOR OF PURCHASERS
Profitable Leases Are Feature Indicative
of Sound Condition of Realty
MERCHANTS MAKE NUMEROUS CONTRACTS FOR STORES

realty market. Business properties
that have income earning capacity as
sured or are promising for speculative
holding. naturally have strong lead
in the favor of investors. The con-
tinued building of costly structures in
the business centers and the success
that is met in renting them promptly
form an argument of great strength
for judicious buying. There is no lack
of purchasers for home sites and for
residences that are we'll situated. A
long string of leases has just been eff
fected. They prove the firmness of the
general conviction concerning the
solidity of the present situation.
Mrs. Minnie P. Shotwell has sold to
Gustav Harshall the Auditorium prop
erty. adjoining the Tivoli on the west
and on the south line Of Eddy street,
the lot being 55x137:6 feet, for
100000.
Rothermel & Co. have sold for
Charles Schlessinger to Louis Fried
lander and j. K. Houston and also to
the Methodist Book Concern the Cole
man property on the north line of
Market street, 327:11, IL feet west of
Jones street. rs feet on Market street.
with 200 feet deep to City Hall avenue.
On the avenue the frontage is rs feet.
Friedman and Houston bought the
Market-street frontage of % feet and
depth of 100 feet. The Methodist
Book Concern took the City Hall-ave-
nue. frontage. The price for the en-
tire holding was $132,500. The book
concern paid $1,000, the private buy
ers pay the remainder. On its newly ac-
quired site the book concern will erect
fourstory building for its own use.
Boardman Bros. & Co. have sold the
southeast corner of Hayes and Octavia
streets, 32:6x120 feet, running TO Lin
den avenue. with stores and flats, for
Lisette Reinie to client for $4,000;
also for Alice Spencer 25xS5 feet and
three-story building on the south line
of Mission street, los feet east of
Seventh, with three-story brick and
frame building, to George de Urioste
for $50, 900.
Hawks & Shelton have sold to Will
liam Grant for the Goewey estate
27:Sx120 feet, to Cedar street, on the
east line of Front, 80 feet north of
Clay, with two-story brick building.
The same brokers have also sold o5x
III feet and house on the north line
of Jackson street, west of Buchanan,
for j. d. Ruggles to William q. Mu-
gan for $4,000; two lots on the south
line of Broadway. east of Devisadero
street, for George w. Dutton ana John
Baptista for $4,000.
ON PACIFIC HEIGHTS.
Thomas Magee Jr. has bought the
northeast corner of Pacific avenue and
Pierce street from Miss Nichols, Mrs.
Towne, Mrs. Southworth and Mrs. Will
kins. 37:6x127:SN feet, with house, for
$4,000. Mr.. Magee will use the prop
erty personally.
Baldwin & Howell have sold to Mrs.
Mary Creighton 60x90 feet on the north
line of C street, ninety feet east of
Forty-eighth avenue, for $4,000, and 80
xl20 feet on the east line of Forty
eighth avenue, 240 feet south of c
street, to NJ. Sheehan; also other lots
in the same locality.
Sol. GetZ & Son report the following
sales: Lot 25x100 on the northwest line
of Naples street, 200 feet northeast of
Persia avenue, to Henry l.. Dunning;
25x120 on the west line of ty-fifth
avenue, $50 feet north of l street, to
Harry Mcfarland; 25x100 on the north
line of street. 1915 feet west of Forty
fifth avenue, to James A. Brailwood;
25X100 on the north line of California
street, 1915 feet east of Twenty-third
avenue, to Annie B. Mills; 32:6x100 on
the northwest corner of Forty fifth
avenue and street, to John Peterson;
32:6x100 on the southeast corner OF
Thirty avenue and | street, to
Herman Mayer, and 50x120 feet on the
feet north of l street, to F. w. Full
more
Otto H. Greenwald has sold to Gus
tav Harshall, 77:6x77:6 feet on the
west line of Leavenworth street. sixty
three feet north of Ellis, with four
three-story frame buildings, for $780,
Bovee Toy & Co. have sold for
George K. Fitch the warehouse prop
erty on the southwest corner of Bat
terry and Filbert streets, 137:6x137:6 feet,
for $50, 900.
Minor sales of Rothermel & Co. in
clude three lots at Ingleside, lots near
Lakeview, lots in the Mission-street
Land Company Tract, the southeast
corner of Potrero avenue and Mariposa
street house and lot on the corner of
Otis and Russell streets in Berkeley.
and also in Berkeley, house on Addi-
son street, near Grant; also four lots
at Fruitvale: also the following coun-
try properties:
section Of pine land in Siskiyou
County from M. D. kellogg to c. A.
Weihe, terms private; ive-acre farm
near San Jose from ]. d. Howe to
Mrs Shina Libby, s4250; forty y-acre
farm near Los Gatos from w. A. Riss-
land to Maria c. Sisson, $500; 160
acres in Mendocino County from I.
Tucker to A. Dowell, $1,000; $50 acres
near Cazadero for M. d. kellogg,
$4,000; 160 acres in the Chiles Valley,
Napa County. from C. x. Welch to D.
Mortenson, $500; $40 acres near Low
Gap, Mendocino County, to A. Weihe,
$1,000; 1850 acres of timber land in
Mendocino County for $4,000; fruit
farm of twenty-one acres near Vaca-
vile from F. e. Harris to J. A. An
derson. s3500: $50 acres near Ukiah
from j. w. Flaherty to C. o. Simp-
son, $4,000, and timber land claim of
$50 acres for ]. 3. Johnson. $500:
to Charles Schlessinger for Charles
Schirmer, a fruit ranch and farm of
2S2 acres near Watsonville; for M. E.
Harris to J. H Prince 184 acres of
tule vegetable land near Antioch for
$12,80O.
Speck & Co. have sold for Mrs. Ade-
line Collins to F. j. Castlehun 50x191
feet on the northeast line of Eleventh
street, 225 feet northwest of Harri-
son, for $4,000.
A five-story and basement brick
building will be erected by n. Lar
sen on the southwest corner of Bran
nan and Fourth streets to cost $780,
SUr-NTEvr,ANT LEASES