The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-12
Some Dig Trades und swaps.

Market.
Some Dig Trades und swaps.
There was something doing down
town also. e. J.. n II. l.. Denoon closed
up some right heavy business that has
oecn on the string for several weeks,
and may have been limited at before.
They engineered one of these biz
trading deals. First John Il. Wilson
bought through this firm from DR.. II.
V. Desportes, 62h East Main street. In
turn. Dr.. Desportes bought from MIR.
Wilson the beautiful flats adjoining
Gresham Court.
The exact figures are no, given, but
the aggregate figures of the double
barrcled transaction foot up $4,000. 1t
down the ancient residence now OF
the Main street property and erect
In it's place II handsome u~p-to-datc
business house.
The Demons pulled through another
doublc-barreled deal about like this:
Through them r. Garnett Tabb bought
from w. j. Gilman and w. i. West
the professional Building, on Fifth
and In turn sold Gilman & West four
stores on Eighth Street. The money
Involved in the two deals mount To
$4,000. All the parties bought. or
traded, as the ease may be, for invest
mcnt. and no changes in the bulldinC
VIII be made for the present. This
firm sold other properties. some ut
auction, amounting to sis, 900 or more.
Other Sales In aud Ont of Town.
w. r.. Purcell, Jr., Co, had fairly
good business. their total sales
amounting to n little over s2n.0 900.
Among these sales were several Nonu-
ground on West Main Street, west OF
the Boulevard, for which they got S35
per front foot.
II. Seldom Taylor & Co. sold for Mrs.
Street, near Henry Street, FOR $4,000.
w. T. Smith was the purchaser, and
II is understood he will erect stores
on the ground.
Many other agents made sales last
week of more or less size, but In the
main they are very reticent, inc no
details are o~btainablc.
The agents who made n specially Of
farm lands arc doing II sure enough
land Office business, but it is hard
to get any information from them.
Rufus Gray & Co. sold three farms last
week, TWO in hanover county and one
in Louisa. These sales to
$4,000.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Company.
whose Offices are at 1o4 North Eighth
street, sold five nice small farms
within easy reaching distance of Rich
mond, and all. 1t is understood, were
bought by newcomers to the state.
All of the agents. or nearly all OF
them. are optimistic. not only so far
as the farcoming days are concerned.
but right now. Indeed. II they. can he
favored with good weather they ex-
pect big things this week.
o. Auction Sales This week..
9 j. Thompson Brown q CO., in con-
junction with Golsan & Nash, an
nounce an unusually large and nttrac-
tive auction sale for this week. tho
property to go under the hammer
being some OF the most desirable
Boulevard, Monument Avenue and
Grace street ground in the far west
that Is left in that section. There are
at least twenty-nine lots of the shep-
pard tract that these firms will sell
at auction. The sales Will take place
Tuesday. November u. beginning at
o'clock in the afternoon. At or near
his point the Battle Abbey will be
erected, If 1T ever is erected. and
guess. If the good Daughters of the
Confederacy cspond to IA clamor that
they get behind the abbey business,
ground will be broken at an early
date.