Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-01
Dollars in Value and Indicate Healthy In
terest on the Part of Investors in Omaha
Property Of All Kinds

ground in 1888, when the site in question /
vas not valued at more than $4,000. The |
ground was appraised FIVE years ago by
Melvin and others, subject to the Bushman
lease, at slS5.OOO including the building.
Making a Quick Turn.
The quest by the Young Mems Christian !
association after selling its old building for
a site for a new home developed new points !
OF frmncss Of centrally located real estate. |
4 corner was first chosen at Sixteenth and
Howard streets, the lot 1872 feet square hav-
ing been purchased three years before Of
Charles Turner for $4,000 by a speculative
syndicate composed Of John X. Webster, J.
A. Sunderland. Clara Brown Wyman and
Charles c. George. The sale to the young
Mems Christian association was consum-
mated in June, 1904. for s115,Ooo. BY the
spring of 1906 the association concluded that
it would erect it's building exclusively for
its own use and that therefore, less ex-
penslve site would suffice, and an arrange
ment was made whereby the property was
taken back by John r. Webster and ]. A
Sunderland at Sl25.OO0 while the associa
ton in turn purchased of Smith Bros. lot
132xl55 feet at the southwest corner OF
Seventeenth and Harvey for s55cOO leaving
II free to put the remainder of its assets
| into the building
Another sale in this vicinity was made to
the Young women's Christian association
| in a site for its new building at the juno
| ture of Seventeenth, Eighteenth. jackson
and st. Mary's avenue, acquired from the
Elizabeth Kountze Real Estate company for
l. $4,000
The property formerly occupied by the
Kount2e Memorial church at the northeast
corner of Sixteenth and Howard changed
| in Of maid
BY James Neville, who at once utilized 1t
for the erection OF business block.
Another piece of property on Sixteenth
near Jones was sold early in 1905 by George
A. Joslyn trustee to G. E. Shukert. the
price being $4,000 for forty-four feet.
In the Wholesale District.
Standing out first IN Importance of a
great many real estate transfers in the
wholesale district is the purchase of two
tracts separated by an alley. constituting
a half block from Douglas to Farnam
on the west side of Ninth street, for the
erection by the estate of the late E. w.
Nash, of a factory and warehouse for the
NJ d. Smith Dry Goods company. Con-
sideration for this property, bought from
several owners, aggregates upwards of $50
Co.,
Among other notable transfers of whole
sale property is that of three lots making
132xl9S feet at the northwest corner OF
!, Ninth and Howard, bought first by Guy
c. Barton from separate owners for
1880, and subsequently sold for $3O.0Ot
to John A. Creighton the site for an
eight-story warehouse for the Bryne.
Hammer Dry Goods company.
Still another big deal was the purchase
! in 1904 of the six-story brick building and
| lot adi he Z In mn m
company by the Allen Brothers company
wholesale grocers, at the southeast corner
; OF Tenth and Farnam. The sum paid wa:
= Sl15,000. and to make room for the new
edition erected at cost of $4,000, another
lot adjacent was bought last year fo
$4,000.
A transfer involving a whole half squar,
{ carried the title of the ground on the nortl
side OF Dodge street. between Eighth ant
Ninth, to the Beebe & Runyan Furnitur
company. the land being bought Februar!
! 8, 1901 from Joseph Barker and other
n for $4,000.
. The southwest corner of Twelfth an,
. Howard streets was also sold for tn
Omaha station OF the projected Omaha 4
: Beatrice electric railway for the sum o
. $4,000. and another tract costing s25 90
!, for freight transfer yards for the sam
= project in five lots lying north Of tn
= Great Western freight terminals.
q Sunderland Brothers have acquired tw
\ lots at Twentieth street and the Unto
II Pacific right-of-way. paying G. c. Edgerl
RI $4,000 for them with a view to using tn
m ground for coal yards and storag
"a buildings.
,e The site CT the new American Radiato
4 company structure at Tenth and Howar
ell was purchased by ]. B. Pierce from ]. 4
i'd Wilbur for a consideration OF 5000.
es Other investments in trackage propert
s. are those OF the Orchard & Wilhelm Carp'
70. company at Thirteenth and Nicholas street
he for $4,000 and OF the McCord-B Brady Who'll,
As sale Grocery company of lot adjoining Il
n building at Twelfth and Leavenwort
h. streets for 81. $50
s, The Ribbed Paper and Woodenware con
IT, pany has bought the four-story building G
Douglas, between Tenth and Eleventh, V;
al Gated by the Crane company, paying $500
de The Paxton & Sharp company, for Il
al transfer line which 1t operates. has a
st quired the lot at the northwest corner
to Fifteenth and Jackson streets from Able
as Heller for 5000 location for its tran
Sc fer barns and stables.
re The Wright & Wilhelmy company. findii
1t necessary to enlarge its quarters, s
Ir- cured title in the name OF F. B. Hochste
by tier to the northwest corner OF Tenth a.
on Jackson. paying sl7.5Oo to Charles Metz al
OF his associates as consideration.
w. Another piece of warehouse property
ais Jackson street between Thirteenth al
oy Fourteenth changed hands from Martha
ice Ish to Samuel Katz for $4,000.
'or The Cudehy Packing company bought
L. full sized lot at Fourteenth and Jones {
.e n the erection of an Omaha depot, paying
W. together sli. 80 for the property.
%. In the development OF the wholesale d
% trict. too. ]. N. Brown OF Providence, r.
IN recently bought on Tenth street. betwe
- Harvey Snd Howard, for the erection of
W. warehouse. The purchase was made fro
ms Charles Beindorf and cost $4,000
On Tho Nebraska Telephone company
'ns cured from Elizabeth Dufrene the lot
the northwest corner OF Eighth and Fl
ecu nam, paying $4,000 and will use II as a 5
,s On for a large warehouse and repair shop.
The Omaha Electric Light and Pow
" company paid John Power and wife 81.
W. for lot at Fourth and Jones streets. ur
vi which to build its new central power s
ton.
To get ground for the erection of new
barns at Twenty-fourth and Vinton sire
Alu the street railway company bought a tr