Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-15
DEAL ON FOR COAD CORNER
Negotiations Pending for Property atssvsn-
teenth and HaInsy Streets.
OPTION SECURED BY GEORGE q co,
More sales In Farm Land West
of the city Are Made
at Substantial
Prices.

Negotiations are under way for the sale
Of the Coad property at the northeast cor
ner Of Seventeenth and Harvey streets. and
options on the property are in the hands
of George & Co. 1t is not certain yet the
property will be disposed of, as the real
estate company's client has advanced no
money, though he is considering the pur-
CHASE seriously enough that the company
Is willing 90 risk it's own money by taking
an option. One option expired January
and another was secured by George & Co.
G. c. George says the Independent Tele-
phone company Is not contemplating the
purchase Of the corner.
More sales of farm property west Of the
city were announced Monday by Harrison
a Morton. This firm has sold a part Of
the Woolworth estate, one portion to oscar
Pickard and one to Henry Rohlff, at sl25
an acre. The combined purchase OF the
two amounts to thirty-eight acres and the
property is FIVE and one-haif miles west of
Omaha and one and one-hah miles south
of the Dodge street road.
Another real estate firm has sold sixty
acres of the Woolworth estate at S125 an
acre. The buyer is thought to be Leonard
Everett Of Council Bluffs. who acquired the
Conner farm of 400 acres a few days ago.
All these deals on the woolworth property
have been closed in the last few days.
Many Sales at High Prices.
Many sales of farm land In the same
neighborhood have been made at high fig
ures in the last year. The highest price
was reached a few days ago. when ten
acres of the Wear farm, on the south eide
of Dodge street. Ave miles out, was sold
to c. Christensen at S362.6O an acre. Mr..
Christensen expects to build a large resi-
dence on the land in the spring.
The largest transaction was the purchase
OF the Conner farm last week by Leonard
Everett for about $4,000, which is SIPS an
! acre Last summer s. H. Thomas sold his
! 16o-acre farm fve and one-half miles west
! of Sixteenth street and a half mile south
of Dodge to A. p. Wood. The price was
! s125 per acre. About a year ago the
Logan Enyart farm of 100 acres, just north
of the Conner farm, was sold to David
Stull at $40 per acre.
A few weeks ago a syndicate headed by
George g. Co. bought from David Reed
and Hugh Mccartney eighty acres on the
Dodge street road four miles west of the
! Ipostofice, paying $4,000. Thls will be
parked and sold in acreage tracts for coun-
! try homes.
Another part OF the Reed farm was sold
year ago in small tracts to Omaha people
for homes. On this George H. Payne hai
completed a residence, Mrs. c. e. Bates
has one partially completed and John w
Robbins will erect a brick residence In th'
| spring. On the next farm Mrs. T. c. Shell
ley has broken ground for country home
In the same neighborhood L. o. Perley
C. s. Hayward. T. J. Nolan and E. M
Gibson have bought small tracts and arr
planning residences.
Dana Jones Place Sells.
The Dana Jones farm. southeast of thu
Conner farm, is said to have changed
hands recently at s125 an acre, but tn
name of the buyer is kept secret over
lures have been made to w. A. Paxton TO
his big farm west of Benson. Whether o
not Leonard Everett is seeking to acquir
these properties is topic of general dis
cussion among real estate men. 1t is ad
mitted that Mr. Everett holds options Of
farms in the neighborhood other thai
those he has secured.
Mr.. Everett now owns $50 acres within
a few miles of Omaha, part of II nea
South Omaha and a part near Benson
When he recently invested $4,000 he wa
debating whether to buy near Omaha o
Kansas City, but after trip to the latte
city he decided prospects were better a
Omaha.
Preparatory to placing on the market
tract OF Dundee property which they hav
been grading for a year. George & CO
have engaged the services Of George T
Kessler, the landscape expert. who vii
plat the tract. Mr. Kessler was landscap
engineer for the Worlds fair at 81. Loui
and is now In charge of the park an
boulevard systems of both Kansas Cit
and st. Louis.
Two farms near Irvington belonging {
the HARDWOOD estate of Massachusetts hav
been sold through r. C. Peters & Co. On
farm OF 1885 acres went to A. c. Diem o
Pierce. Neb. at $S5 an acre, and 100 acre
went to L. II. Anderson of Irvington a
the same figure.