Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-19
SALES OF DWELLINGS
IN CITY AND TOWNS
SHOW GRADUAL INCREASE IN
VOLUME
with Permanent Homes-Long
Beach Property Is Ex-
changed for Ranch

Sales of residences in the city and
neighboring towns appear to be in
creasing. Reports show that in nearly
all cases good prices are given, and
In many instances the new comers are
from the east, buying for permanent
homes.
At Long Beach Arthur I. Witte has
exchanged his fine residence and sew
eral lots at First and Kennebec streets
to John jain for farm near River
side. The values stated in the trans
action were close to $4,000.
At the Palms several changes IN
properties were recorded last week.
Among them the sale of the T. S.
Wadsworth residence on Seventh
street. This is fine home, and is now
owned by F. c. Summers of Los An
geles, who is moving into it. The re-
ported price of the property is $4,000.
F. j. Bohr has sold for z. p. Hegg-
strom seven and one-half acres on
Monroe street at Riverside to III. A.
Wood; a fve-room cottage for Mrs
Ella Murphy to William Elliott, also
a nice little home on Kansas avenue
for Ralph Files to Ray Ogborn.
Nellie S. Bird has sold to Martha
]. Braly an eight-room residence, with
lot 63x135 feet, at 61S Benton boulevard.
This place overlooks Sunset park and
is one of the fine homes in the south
west The purchase price was $4,000.
E. E. Wood has sold to I. ]. Miller
six-room bungalow at $50 West For
| ty-fifth street for $2400, and to A.
Weisholz five-room bungalow at 57S
West Forty-ffth street for $2150 Both
sales were made through the agency
of the Realty Exchange company.
Sales at Eagle Rock
A large number of purchases for
.l..-l r.rIn A01E
the past month, and this attractive
suburb appears to be in line for an
even finer boom, as there is prospect
of an electric road going through 1t
from Pasadena to Glendale, Tropico
and Hollywood. The Eagle Rock realty
is being we'll improved, one company
alone. expending $17,500 in laying ce-
ment walks and curbs, Colorado
ment walks and burbs. Colorado
street, now 120 feet wide, is to be oileo
and will become part of one of the
main highways from the mountains to
the sea.
Among sales by Randall Phillips re-
Gently were the following: Eight
acres south of Manchester avenue, ex-
tending from Main street to Moneta
avenue, to Knud Padersen for $4,000.
The land will be cut up into lots, and
put on the market. A six-room mouse
on West Twenty-second street De
tween Main street and Grand avenue.
with a 60-foot frontage. to ]. Cunning
ham, for $4550.
7. G. Morgan has sold to J. c. Lucas
a lot on Pecan street between Fourth
and Fifth streets for $3.50 and is prepar-
ing to build a house. Two lots near
this one on the west side OF Pecan
were sold by the Los Angeles ware
house company to Lucas at $too eaoA'
and will be improved with cottages.
A. e. Warrington reports numerous
sales in the Loretta tract, which lies
between Vernon and Budlong avenues
Among them were lot to Mrs. MARY
e. Kellogg of Portland, at $ooO, tne
buyer to build a home at once, loe
at $675 to Hilma Larson, on Clarltta
street. Same agent has sold for Thom-
as Armstrong to Mrs. May Cohn a i've
room bungalow and lot at 1919 EasC
Fifty-seventh street. for $500 cash.
To Improve with Flat
The Victor G. Kleinberger company
reports the sale for Wilfred Mills 10
Gladys Kleinberger of the seven-room,
story and a half cottage at 1851 VIM
field street. on lot 50x125 feet. Tor
consideration of $4,000. This property
is three houses from Westlake avenue
and the purchaser intends in the near
future to erect a modern fiat building.
e. e. Wood has sold to I. j. Miller
n lot and six-room bungalow at oOO
West Forty fifth street, for $24OO.
Wood has also sold to A. Weisholtz a
lot and five-room bungalow at 57S
West Forty-fifth street for $4,000, the
Realty Exchange company making
both deals.
Mrs. William Meek has bought from
r. Ryse a nine-room house ana large
lot at the southwest corner of twenty
third and Arlington avenue. in West
Adams Heights, at reported price or
$500. The Whitney Realty company
conducted negotiations.
At Coachella a two-story business
block is to be erected by A. j. Visel at
cost of about $4,000. A Presbyterian
church is also to be built, the plans
calling for cement block walls, the
structure to cost about $4,000. About
$4,000 of realty in and around Goa
chella changed hands during the last
thirty days
The Edwards & Winters company re-
ports the following sales of recent
date: For Alexander Keating to George
H. Rector, 800 acres four miles north
east of Beaumont, for $4,000 For
John B. Dawson to M. Riley, the sew
en-room house at No. 723 Rampant
street. on lot 50x145 feet, running
through from Rampant to Hoover
street. for a consideration of $1,000. For
H. C. Jensen to II. r. Magic, the ten
room modern house at No. All Park
avenue, about 250 feet south of Santa
Monica avenue, with lot 150X125 feet.
for a consideration of $1,000.