The San Francisco call., 1906-12-31

stores and Offices are busy and all cry
ing for more room, which is the very
best evidence of progress and pros
perity to be had
Among the sales OF the week was
a fine piece of income property in
Alameda to an Oakland capitalist.
s. S. Austin at 1101 Twenty-third
avenue has placed the Boulevard Park
tract on the market. This property is
ward which is we'll described as the
scenic foothill drive. The tract is be-
tween Redwood road and High street
and is superbly located. 1t is on sloping
ground, affording a magnificent pros
pect on all sides. To the north and
east are the beautiful hill vistas, while
to the south and the west the eye is
delighted with the splendid bay and
Golden Gate, Tamalpais and the Santa
Cruz Mountains. The terms of sale
are easy and such restrictions are
placed in the deeds as will protect the
homeseeker from all undesirable ele-
ments. Prices range from S12 to $50
a foot, with an initial payment of
500 and s25 monthly installments, bal
ances unpaid carrying 8 per cent in
terest. Austin says he will close out
the tract inside of ninety days, SO heavy
is the demand for lots
BERKELEY PROSPEROUS
BERKELEY. Dec. 3o.-When real
estate men in the college town look
back over the year now almost ended
their first impulse is to rub their eyes
and then to pinch themselves to be as
sureG that all they see now in the
way of a real estate market and a
prosperous town is an actuality. No
other year has ever wrought for
Por no ha ir1an
ments, the growth which is credited
to the year 1906. There has been a
steady uplift of prices and a steady
demand for good buys in Berkeley up
to 1906, but what was before a placid
stream of trade and real estate busi-
ness has become a bank-full stream
on which now float fifty big firms of
realty operators
One purchase made last week by the
Mason -McDufTie Company is fairly in
dicative of what 1906 has brought
about here. The firm paid 81 900 to
w. r. Pond, a local druggist, for a
corner lot, 100x100. at Dwight way and
Fulton street. Pond paid $4,000 for the
property two and a half years ago.
Money has poured into Berkeley to
make such increases in value possible,
the while thousands of clever men are
dipping into the gold and getting
their share of the gain.
The holiday season has been respon
sible for natural lull in business, and
retrospection has been in order all
along the line There are preparations
making now for the new year. and
when the new year comes the great
game of business will again be re-
sumed. There will be no let-up, ap-
parently. In the pace that has been set
during the last six months
Lyman Allen has retired from the
realty business after a long and honor
able career new firm. made UP OF
Town Assessor Wharf,, r. S. Edgar and
others, will succeed to Aliens business
on Center street
The Shilling Company. a very pros
porous concern but of recent origin, Is
| to move into its spacious new offices
| in the Havens building next week
I Coryell Hackley & Young are in
stalled in their new quarters in the
same block. and decorators are now
putting on the finishing touches to their
offices.
The effect that changes In street rail-
way movements have upon a business
section is illustrated in the order re-
Gently given by the traction company
to have the Telegraph-avenue cars run