The San Francisco call., 1906-09-10
News of Cities and Towns in Four Of the Bay Counties
BUSY DAYS ALONG
OAKLAND FRONT.
Vast improvements Are
Being Made to the Harbor
Facilities on Other Side
ACTIVITY IN REALTY

OAKLAND, Sept. S.-While Alameda
County real estate dealers have been
busy supplying as far as possible the
demands of prospective investors, little
attention has been paid to the improve
ment of the western water front of the
city and few people in Oakland realize
that within a few weeks the construc-
ton of an extensive system of pier and
docks will actually have begun. The
Realty Syndicate has been busily en-
gagged in carrying out it's plan for the
reclaiming ofAthe water front In the
neighborhood Of the Key Route pier.
Already the piling which is to form
the retaining walls of the various piers
has been driven and within a very
short time dredgers will be put at work
pumping mud and sand from the chan
nels into the spaces behind these walls.
1t is proposed to construct sixteen
docks for the accommodation of coast
ers and other light-draught vessels,
while at the end of the Key Route pier
several docks for deep-sea ships are
to be constructed, which will be pro-
yided with railroad connections with
the transcontinental lines of the Santa
Fe railroad.
The necessity for increased dockage-
facilities is becoming greater with each
passing month. Since April Is the
number of vessels entered at the port
of Oakland has increased from an aver
age of three month to between seven
ty and eighty, and owing to the pres
ent lack of wharyes and docks, 1t is in
many cases impossible to discharge the
cargoes of these vessels for several
days after they reach port.
ADDITIONAL HELP SOUGHT.
Owing. to the great increase in the
number of entries at this port, Deputy
Collector of the Port Andrew Holly
wood has made application to have the
Oakland office changed to Glass B, and
has also requested that additional help
be provided that there may be no delay
in passing merchandise for local i'm
porters.
In communication recently forward
ed to Acting Collector of the Port Ham
ilton, Hollywood asks that an examiner
of merchandise, an assistant weigher.
an opener and packer. two inspectors
and two laborers be appointed to the
Oakland office. The matter has been
placed in charge of Deputy Collector
Farley. and his report will be sent to
the Treasury Department at Washing
ton within few days. 1t is believed
that the additional help asked for by
Deputy Collector Hollywood will be rec
commended by Farley.
In addition to the system of docks
now in course of construction on the
western water front of the city, other
improvements are being made along the
Oakland water front. The De Fremery
interests are planning an extensive sys-
tenn of wharves and docks to be con-
structed at the foot of Commerce street,
in East Oakland, and at many other
points docks are being constructed for
the accommodation of ships bringing
cargoes to the factories and other in
dustries which have of late located on
this side of the bay&
MANY REALTY SALES.
During the last week the number
of sales of Alameda County real estate
has averaged one, and In many cases
two important deals a day. Oakland
dealers have been kept busy supplying
the demand for property, and as rule
investors have not found fault with
prices of property III Oakland If they
could be suited as to space and loca-
ton. Dealers agree that never before
in the history of Alameda County has
1t been so easy to get good prices for
property as now, provided that the
prospective purchaser can secure what
he wants.
]. H Macdonald & Co. report a long
list of sales. aggregating nearly $780,
900, for the last week. the sales being
confined principally to residence prop
critics in all parts of the city: also a
considerable number of sales In Ala
media, Berkeley and other suburban
communities.
An example of the rapid advance in
the value of Oakland property is fur
nished by a lot at the northeast corner
of Twelfth and Alice streets, which has
been sold and resold four times within
the last six months. When first sold
the property brought $4,000. few
weeks later 1t was sold for $1,000, three
months later it was again sold for
III ant
owner Mrs Annie Kinds, received an
offer of $4,000 for the property, which
she promptly refused.
George w. Austin reports a busy
week, during which he has recorded the
following sales of Oakland property:
House and lot on Adsline street, near
Twenty-sixth, for ]. S. Myers to Mrs.
Minnie Grosslicht, on private terms.
House and lot on Thirty-nin street,
near West, for ]. A. Martin to H. lAoh-
House and lot on Second street, near
Alice, for Mrs. A. Seigneur to NJ Jonas,
House and lot on Seventh street, near
greist, on private terms.
Lot on Ninth avenue and East Twen-
ty-second street. for c. H. DAILY to Mrs.
House and lot on Forty-seventh
street, near Shattuck avenue, for A.
Nolta.
house anu lot OH ALICE btT6eL, near
Second. for Mrs. J, Rebstock to Lillian
r. Rearden, on private terms.
House and lot on Walsworth avenue
near Santa Clara, for Harry M. Hart
stone to Mrs. A. E. Songey, on private
terms.
Lot on the corner of First and Ma1i-
ison streets for William Ladd to Will
liam t. Harris. on private terms
House and lot on Center street, near
Ninth, for John Edwards.
House and lot on Ninth street, near
Kirkham, to Henry Balkey, on private
terms.
NEW FIRMS ORGANIZED.
Sternberg. Chisholm & Lindberg have
recently moved their Offices from zoos
Broadway, where they have been To-
Gated for several months past, to 1905
Broadway. Paul Sternberg, the senior
member of the firm, reports a very
active week, with several large deals
pending.
A new real estate firm has chosen
Berkeley as a field of operation, this
being the firm of Haden & Boone, who
for the last seven years have been To-
Gated near Fresno. The newcomers to
Alameda County have just opened