Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-02
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December .......... 461 .164 SfS,957
Totals I1.81f450 q.425.8 15

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N. p. Dodge, ir., has opened an office in
Sioux City to sell eighty acres OF land ad-
joining Morningside. c-e Of the best r5s.-
Gence districts Of Sioux CITY. and the beau
tifui home Of Morningside college, Of which
Bishop W. S. Lewis Is the president. The
entire eighty acres win be cut into city
lots and sold on easy payments. X. NJ.
Dot. a Sioux City attorney. will repre-
sent Mr.. Dodge when It is impossible for
Mr.. Dodge to be at Sioux city.
Farm loans are so easy to secure and
the farmers are handling borrowed money
to such good advantage that there is
scarcely a limit to the amount of eastern
money which will come to Nebraska, says
Thomas Brennan, financial agent for a
number OF eastern insurance companies.
President DeBord Of the National Of Yer
mont was in Omaha this week looking over
the city and some of the country about it.
He expressed himself as much pleased with
the prosperous conditions in Nebraska and
before he left for his Vermont home we
closed up $500, 900 in Nebraska farm loans
just to be doing something"
The O'Keefe Real Estate company is
pushing the Hillcrest addition and this
week brought ]. Schnuettgen to Omaha
from a western Iowa farm and sold him
the corner belonging to DR.. E r. Porter
and c. II. walrath at Thirty-eighth avenue
and Cass street for $1,000. Mr.. Schnuettgen
will erect a fine brick residence on the
site. Deals are pending for several other
lots in the same addition, including those
adjoining DR.. Porter's residence at Thirty
eighth and Cass streets.
The Payne Investment company starts
its excursions to Scott's Bluffs county
Tuesday. The company has contracted to
sell 80. 900 acres of irrigated lands in west
ern Nebraska within the next year and
will run an excursion every Tuesday. The
first party will consist of land agents as
well as land buyers. To boost the western
part of the state the company has pub
lished a handsome and attractive booklet
called Americas Valley Of the Nile" The
photographs used were taken for the COM
pany by Louis Bostwick and were taken
last fall and summer, showing the North
Platte valley as it actually is.
Within a few month the last Of the clay
banks In the Field club district will be
cut down. Many of them have disappeared
this spring and real estate owners and
agents are making every effort to eliminate
them, as they have been unsightly, while
beautiful residences have been erected all
about them. Harrison & Morton are among
the leaders to cut down the banks.
The McCague Investment company will
begin this week the laying of cement side
walks and putting in permanent improve
ments on the lots graded at Thirty-second
and Parker streets. opposite Prospect Hill
cemetery. The banks have been cut down
between Thirtieth and Thirty-second on
Parker and the fill made between the same
streets on Decatur to Franklin street.
The work has been in progress several
weeks and gives the company almost four
blocks Of desirable building lots on car lines.
The Dundee Realty company has had a
busy week, the increased street car service
and more automobiles influencing the
buyers to invest in property a good ways
from the business section of Omaha. The
following sales were recorded by the COM
pany during the week, George & Co. max
Ing the deals in each instance:
Dundee Realty company to Bert d.. Sher-
bondy, four lots on Capitol avenue, be-
tween Fifty-first and Fifty-second streets,
Consideration, $1,000.
Dundee Realty COMPANY to Arthur ]
P1ttelkow, two lots on California, between
F1fty-first and Fffty-second streets. Con-
sideration, $1,000.
Dundee Realty company to V. Warren
Boyles, two corner lots on Fifty-second and
Webster streets. Consideration, 81, 800.
Dundee Realty company to w. r. Nc
Farland, two lots on Capitol avenue, be-
tween Fifty-first and Fifty-second streets.
Consideration, $3.50.
Some of the deals made by George & Co.
during the week are as follows:
Mark 7. Martin to Emma Morand. lot on
underwood avenue, between Fifty-first and
Ftfty-second streets. Consideration, 500.
Redick estate to Eva Giveen, lot in Oak
Chatham addition, between Sprague and
sahler streets, Consideration, 500.
Harriet Wilcox to Mr.. r. b. Weller.
house and lot on Binney street in Kountze
place, between Nineteenth and Twentieth
streets. Bough by Mr.. Weller for a home
Robert II: Landeryou to Charles A,
Blomberg, six-room modern house and lot
Willard Chambers to Emma Meyer. new
two-story, SeVen-room, modern house at
Twenty-fifth and Maple. Consideration,
$1,000.
The coad Real Estate company to Patrick
J. Murphy, lot on California street, be-
tween Twenty-eighth and Thirtieth street,
Consideration, about s., $50.
South front lot on Evans street, in Clark
Redick's addition, to ]. b. Good. Consid-
GRAFTON, 1915.
North front lot on Evans street, in Clark
Redick's addition, between Twenty-fifth
and Twenty-seventh streets, to party whose
name is withheld for the present. Con-
sideration, $3.50.
Twenty-fifth and Twenty-seventh streets,
to a Mr.. Trixel. Consideration, $3.50.
Plenty of Time.