Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-12
VISITORS SHOWN
HOW We GROW
SHRINERS IMPRESSED WITH
BUILDING ACTIVITY
Fiesta Crowd Sure to Bring Capital
and Homeseekers to Los Angeles.
Sale Of the Putney Home-
stead Acreage

1--WE haven't been doing a thing this
week but showing the members OF the
realty fraternity in the Shriner bunch
what we've got in Los Angeles" said q
member Of leading realty firm Satur-
day. "It has been most strenuous
week for me-" said the speaker. Il have
been on the go constantly. and while 1t
may have appeared altogether labor Of
hot air 7 believe the work of myself and
others in extending courtesies Of the
fraternity to New York, Boston, Phila-
delphia, Pittsburg, Chicago, st. Louis,
ST. Paul, Minneapolis, Denver, Kansas
City, Butte, Salt Lake, San Francisco
and Nevada visitors will not fail to bear
fruit in the near future. To man the
Shriners expressed themselves as simply
amazed at the rapid and substantial
growth of Los Angeles. One chap said:
why, 1 can almost see the Angel city
grow even now. One thing is sure,
you've got bunch of $4,000 strangers in
the city now making a stir, and they
are not only leaving gobs of money with
you, but many of them or their friends
will come to grand old Los Angeles to
reside in the land of sunshine and
flowers
mo, we haven't attempted to close
any of our big propositions this week.
The crowd and the show were so pig
that 1t seemed that everybody who may
have had the trade or buy germ IN MS
system concluded by common consent to
suspend negotiations until after the
Shriners got away. Now we are again
ready for business and expect to make
up for lost time with an increased num-.
ber of interested parties to deal with III
both business and residence property.
Leading Deals in Realty
Early In the week Isaacs Bros. COM
pany purchased of L. Breedlove a lot
located on the south side of Seventh
street, between Olive and Grand avenue.
size 40x111 feet, containing a one-story
brick building with cottage in rear, be-
ing 516-5161s-518 West Seventh street.
Price, $4,000. This property was pur-
chased less than sixty days ago by l..
Breedlove for $4,000. Both sales were
made through the agency of r. A.
Rowan e. Co.
Henry Freeman has sold to Mrs. L.
S. Guirado, through the agency of f.
M. Phelps & Co., the southwest corner
of Hope and Court streets for a re-
ported consideration of $4,000. The lot
is 96x165 feet in size, Mrs. Guidalo has
transferred to Mr.. Freeman 40-acre
walnut grove at Los Nietos for $2S,00O.
Phelps & Co. also report the sale for
C. S. Swaine to H. w. Lewis of a
vacant lot on the west side of Maple
avenue, between Fourteenth and Fif-
teenth Streets for S6O00 The~lot is so
x15O feet in si5e and extends back to a
24-foot alley.
E. w. Pease has bought, through
Cribb & Sinclair, an eight-room house
on the east side of Arlington avenue, in
the Angelus tract, for $4,000. The lot is
50x171 feet in size.
Robert Hale has bought from D. T..
Hill an undivided half interest In the
property at 630-32 Maple avenue at the
rate of s27, 900 for the whole piece. The
lot has frontage of fifty feet and ex-
tends back $50 feet. 1t Is improved with
a two-story rooming house. This prop
erty was bought less than two and a
half years ago for $4,000.
Putney Homestead Sold
The property of the late A. E. Putney,
embracing thirty acres near Florencita
Park and Graham Station, has been sold
for $45,000. The tract surrounds the
principal thoroughfares, Manchester
Long Beach, Clarinda and Compton ave-
nues. and in regard to location, soil and
favorable car service and the prospect
of good homes with building restric-
tions 1t is equal to any placed of late
In the market and in line of the west
ward march of improvements. This
tract is already subdivided in 1863 lots
and will be placed in the market with
first class improvements. The tract has
been named after the late owner and is
called the Putney Place. Abraham
Jacobyof the Byrne building has been
selected as sole agent for the tract.
This important deal means much to the
wealth of the city of Los Angeles.