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I m. I IN FIVE PARTS. i Part II 12 Pages. REAL ESTATE REVIEW. SWttt: -t First "Liner" Sheet, i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 XXIID YEAR.

SUNDAY MORNING. JANUARY 25. 1903. PRICE 5 CENTS "HOUSE AND LOT' The Times' Weekly Review of Real Estate and Building 1 Pasadena, with handsome residence: tween Second and Third streets, un- POINTS AND POINTERS 7V practicable, the patch-work, crazy-qulit features, and unsightly Jogs, that now in too many cases mar the appearance of the city, will not be permitted to increase; and as Los Angeles grows, it will become more, and more a city of symmetrical arrangement and beautiful proportion. it may be regarded as a good Investment at the price quoted.

Now on Record. Among the deeds Dialed on tecord during the week was one conveying Jrom Eunice D. Kitchener to Mathew Slavin and Martha J. Slavin lots 1, 2 and 3, and part of lots and 7, R. Williams tract; consideration named, $40,000.

This sale was practically made a little over thirty days ago. It was noted in the Pasadena correspondence of The Times, at the time it was arranged for, and was referred to in this review of December 14, 1902, as follows: "The 'Williams block, northeast cor-ner Fair Oaks avenue and Colorado street, Pasadena, has been sold by Mrs. E. D. Kitchener to lor-al investors of fhat place; consideration named, ,40.000.

The lot fronts 80 feet on Fair Oaks avenue and extends to an alley on Colorado street. The building, which is a frame structure, was erected about twenty years It will be removed to give place to a Associauon reiurncu nm trip of inspection along the banks of the Colorado River, and is enthusiastic over the prospects of the ultimate success of this great work. Seventh and Alvarado. E. A.

Forrester Sons have sold to Mrs. Annie T. Borland, through Alt-house 95x172.85 feet on the northeast corner of Alvarado and Seventh street, with three frame business buildings well rented; consideration named. $30,000. This is outside the principal business district, but Seventh is undoubtedly becoming more and more a business thoroughfare, and the depth on Alvarado street Is.

perhaps, sufficient to permit the estimate per front foot being made on the Seventh-street frontage. Its position as a corner lot on as desirable a street as Alvarado Is, also, 'In its favor, so that, on the whole, the property Is. perhaps, a fairly good bargain at the figure quoted, Broadway, Below Tenth. C. 3.

Fox has purchased of B. TACT A1TD COMMCTT. IN the course of an Interview with a Times reporter, a local attorney recently called attention to the fact that the Interests of property owners are endangered by the bill that Assemblyman Stanton proposed to Introduce in the Legislature, amending the present law so that a written, contract will not be necessary between an owner of property and the agent whom he authorizes to sell It. The object of the bill Is said to be to provide an amendment to that section of the code governing contracts, the purpose being to give real estate agents a legal claim on those whom they serve, and making It possible for them to go into the courts, If necessary, to collect their commissions. The question Is so important that the following remarks of the attorney referred to George W.

Knox, here reproduced: "The object of the bill Is not fully set forth, but Its nature can be tnore easily understood when the reason for Its origin Is known. The Civil Code, ectlon 1624, subsection 5, as It now stands, provides that 'an agreement authorizing or employing an agent or broker to sell real estate for compensation or a commission is Invalid unless the same, or some note or memorandum thereof be In writing and subscribed by the party to be chargedt or by his) "This provision was added to the laws of the State in 1877, and was enacted because of the abuses practiced by rcfil estate agents-In San Francisco, in holding up owners of property on pretended verbal employment to sell or buy real property. All sorts of fake sales and fake pretenses were resorted to by unscrupulous agents, and owners, particularly women, were an easy prey to their devices. The abuse was so great that the legislature finally was induced to provide a remedy that has proved to be a good and beneficial law. No one wants it changed, but unscrupulous real estate agents who wish again to get property owners in their "It is not forgotten that, at the session of moo, Mr.

Stanton was sent to Sacramento to lobby for the passage of a bill to repeal the section of the code referred to, but he failed In his purpose. Now that he has been elected to the Assembly, the first bill that he announces he will Introduce is one to nullify this provision of the law that keeps In check the unscrupulous real estate agpnr. "This 13 a matter that Interests property owners, and It is due to thpm that they should know the danger that will result If the bill Is passed. A public, meeting of land owners should be held, voice the wishes of those most Interested." It Is difficult to see why there should be any objection to the necessity of making written contracts for the sale of real estate, as for any other business transaction. If a man refuses to give an agent a written contract for the sale of his then the agent should decline to handle it.

To depend on a mere oral agreement Is unbusinesslike, aha Is Very likely to lead to unpleasant complications. Henry, through" Mines Farlsh, a lot A MODEST MODERN COTTAGE. 53x116 feet on the east side of Broadway, 684 feet south of Tenth street, and extending through the block to. Main street, with a frame dwelling on Broadway and two on Main street; consideration named. This- is at the rate about $518 per front foot, and Is evidently based upon the expectation that Broadway will in time be a continuous business thoroughfare from 8eventh to Eleventh streets, as It now is above Seventh street.

Near Whittier. O. M. Souden of Whittier, and associates, three Los Angeles investors, have purchased of the Stearns Ranho Company 1040 acres of fertile land located In the neighborhood of the Leffingwell ranch, near Whittier, together with 100 Inches of water, from the ditch belng constructed through that section; "consideration named, $90,000. Land has formerly been planted in barley.

new cleetrlo road will pass through it, and. BunstanuRi nncK Dusiness diock. Other deeds recently placed on rec- ord, which are confirmatory of sales previously noted, are: Farmers' and Merchants' Bank of Los Angeles to Huntington Land and Improvement Company, part section 2, 1 12, Shorb Ranch; consideration named, San Marino Land Company to same Winston Ranch, near San Gabriel; consideration named, The first. vora prises 504 acres of the highly improved old home ranch of J. de Barth Shorty deceased, located about a mile north of the Paclfij Electric Railway Company's Alhnmbra line, two miles east of Alhnmbra and three miles from San Gabriel.

The second, 160 acres adjoining. Purchases are well located for division into convenient sized home sites. Buys Home at Pasadena. Lawrence Newman of Toledo, buys of E. R.

Hull for a southern California home, through the agency of Daggett -Daggett, theiot363 feet on Waverly Drive by 219 feet on Gordon Terrace, CHAMBER 9 11 BATfl CHAMBER UBRAKT consiaerauon named, about $1,000. Dalton Orange Grove Tract. One of the tracts recently placed on the market Is that known as the Dalton Orange Grove tract. It extends from Twentieth to Twenty-third street, and. rrom Compton avenue on the east to the George Dalton, tract on the west; contains 175 lots averaging 40x141 feet, is entirely covered with a variety of bearing fruit trees, and Is to have graded streets with cement curbs and sidewalks put In by F.

P. Dalton. the owner of the tract. Moderate building restrictions will Insure the erection of desirable homes, and the Long Beach line of the Pacific Electric Railway Company, or the Central-avenue line of the Los Angeles (street) Railway Company, will carry passengers to within a convenient distance of the tract. It was placed upon the market the 13lh of the present month, and since th time twenty-three lots have been Bold at an aggregate of about $10,000.

Suburban Home W. H. O'Bryan has purchased of Jacob Miller, through H. Townsend two and a half acres, set with tropical trees, on the southeast corner of Prospect and Miller avenues, Hollywood; consideration named. $2500.

Pur. chaser will improve with handfiome residence of mission style of architecture. The same firm has sold for M. Rogers to John Scales two and onj-quarter acres, unimproved, on the northwest corner of Prospect avenue and Vista street, Hollywood; consideration named, $3500, and the purchaser will build home on place this fall. It also reports other sales In the same locality aggregating over $35,000.

At Pltya del Rey. A contrnct has been let for the "grading of the blocks and streets of the greater portion of the townslte of Playa del Hey, lying between Daya street oi the north and Rodiands avenue on the south, to P. A. Howard. The contract covers 260,000 yards, and calls for a minimum of fiO.000 yards per month.

Work began Thursday with a force of eighty teams. The short line between this city and Playa del Rey will lie put in operation today, with hourly cars from 6:40 a.m. to 8:40 p.m., und an p.m., or after-theater car. Thu Beach Land 'Company reports an in creasing demand tor unimproved lots at Playa del Rey, and the following among the recent sales of that class of property: To W. 1).

Clark, 30x90 feet, north side Griffith avenue, between the Esplanade and Vista del Mar, $1000. This la business property, and purchaser is to Improve. To same grantee five lots averaging 40x110 feet, east side. Vista del Rey, between Itedlands and Elliott avenues, $5000. Will build residences.

To George 'A. Cook of Red-lands, four lots averaging 60x145 feet, on the east side of Vista del Mar, between Clark and Freeman avenues, $6000. Will improve. To J. V.

AVachtell, 60x90 feet, south slde'Montgomery avenue between Vista del Mar and Fowler avenue. tlOOO To M. J. Nolan, George E. Hart and George E.

Smith, five lota, averaging 3muv jeet, on the north side of rner avenue between Vista del Mar and the Esplanade, $75U0. Plans are now being prepared for a brick business block for erection on this property. A. A. Baird has sold to Thomas Hav erty, a lot 26x100 feet, unimproved, on the northwest corner of Messnier avenue and Baird street; consideration named, $1250.

Mr. Baird bought tho lot from the Beach Land Company last July; consideration then named, $700. Various other sales by private parties, at an advance, and by the company, to prospective builders, are indicative of growing activity in this locality. Near Tropico. Shattuck Williams have secured of Harrington Brown et eighty acres lying Just north of Tropico between Central and San Fernando avenues of that place, and will divide the same Into fifty-six acreage lots, averaging from one to five acres.

The land covered with a heavy growth of pepper and eucalyptus trees, and it adjoins the Tropico strawberry gardens, which have yielded such handsome profits to their owners. The soil is alluvial, free from alkali, and Is said to be very productive. Two and a 'half shares of stock in the Verdugo Cafion Water Company will pass with each acre of the land. The present owners will grade and oil Columbus avenue, Pacific avenue, Riverdale Drive and other streets of the tract, and put them'- In good condition for country roads. The consideration named Is about $32,000, and the improvements planned will involve an expenditure of several thousand dollars more.

The tract will be known as Shattuck Williams's resub-dlvislon of the Riverdale tract, and with Its location and surroundings should be desirable for suburban homes. In the Turner Tract. Sweatt Sylvester have sold to C. F. Hale, through Merrill Huntsberger, an unimproved lot of the Turner tract, 60x135 feet, north side Twenty-third between Leotl and Normandie avenue; consideration named, $1200; to same grantee, 50x135 feet, on the opposite side of the street; consideration named, Purchaser will build two substantial dwellings as an Investment.

To Miss Cora L. Tatum, 60x135 feet, unimproved, same tract, north side of Twenty-fourth street, between same cross streets; consideration named, $1050. Purchaser will improve with dwelling. Building Sites in Southwest Sales of unimproved lots in the Kin ney Heights tract continue brisk. B.

F. sells to A. B. Hedderly, through the agency of Percy H. Clark, 75x100 feet, on the south side of Twenty-fourth, between Cimarron and Arlington streets; consideration named.

$1500. M. Jandine buys of T. H. Dudley, through same agency, as an Investment, and for future improvement, 100x150 feet on the north side of Twenty-third street forty-three feet east of Arlington street; consideration named.

$1600; and A. B. Hedderly purchases of George B. Ennever 75x150 feet, on the south side of Twenty-fourth, between Cimarron and Arlington streets; consideration named, $1500. Other recent sales in this locality by same agent aggregate about $15,000.

Spring an! Ninth. Harry Gray has purchased of Edwin T. Earl, through W. M. Garland 63.24x165 feet on the northwest corner of 8prlng and Ninth streets, unimproved; consideration named.

$65,000. Property was bought a little over a year ago; consideration then named, about $50,000. Spring street is evidently getting its share of the general Increase in values. Los Angeles Street, Below'Second. Bishop George Montgomery has sold to the Pacific Clay Manufacturing Company and to the California Sewer Pipe Company each an undivided one-half Interest In a lot, 6S'ixl? feet on the west side of Los Angeles street, be improved; iconslderatlon named, Property will be improved with business building.

Sale made through the agencies of R. A. Rowan and Nolan Smith. In the Wholesale District. The Hoffman Hardware Company has purchased of Bishop George Montgomery, through the agencies of Nolan Smith, and R.

A. Rowan, 40x196 feet on the west side of Los Angeles street, between Second and Third streets, unimproved; consideration named, $20,000. Purchaser will Improve with a business block. Los Angeles, Below Sixth. Robert Marsh Co.

report the sale of a lot 76x105 feet (average depth.) on the east side of Los Angeles Btreet, between Sixth and Seventh streets, Without valuable improvements; from David M. Meyers to M. J. Nugent of Arizona; consideration named, $19,000. Purchaser is said- to Intend improving with a business block.

Hill and Pico. J. D. Hooker has purchased of Mrs. Fred Wood a lot, 95x120 feet, on the southwest corner of Hill and Pica streets, unimproved; consideration named, $16,000.

South Woodlawn Tract. The cement walks and curbs are now 'laid on Woodlawn avenue. Wall and Trinity streets. foY the extension of the 'Maple-avenue car Hue through the'property are practically completed, and the line will probably be finished to Vernon avenue by April 1. Sales of unimproved lots reported by Alex Culver, are: 50x140.

on east side of Main street, between Fortieth and Forty-second, to Mrs. Belle J. Aborta, $750 50x140, on the east side of Main, between Fortieth and Forty-second, to Mrs. M. A.

Slevert, $750; 50x140, on east side of Main, between Fortieth and Forty-second, to Mrs. C. H. Ferris. $750: 60x135, at southwest corner of woodlawn avenue and Forty-second, to A.

A. Blakesly. J650: 50x140 on east side of Main street. between Fortieth and Forty-second, to Miss A. Geier, $750; 60x140, on east side of Main, about 250 feet south of Fortieth street, to A.

Wesner, $750, Several of the purchases are to bo improved at an early date. West End Heights Tract. The West End Heights tract extends from Sixteenth to Washington street, lies Just west of the Angelus Vista tract, and mrneriiig on the Nevin tract, contains forty-elg'nt lots, averaging 50x150 feet, and Is owned by William R. Burke, Strong Dickinson and Robert Marsh Co. The tract has been on the market less than thirty days, and the grading and cement work Is not finished, yet fully half the lots have already been sold.

H. Schneider buys three lots on the northwest corner of Washington street and Van Ness- avenue: confederation named, $2500. and will probably Improve. Lawrence Nordhoff. Mitt Fhillpa and several other purchasers of choke lots, are Bald to intend Improving.

0INGS OF BUILDERS AND ARCHITECTS. STEADY PROGRESS IN ALL BRANCHES OF BUILDING. Houses Begun and Completed in Various Parts of the City Cottages With Conveniences That Palaces Formerly Failed fA Pnnqpaa The number of building's completed during the week was as follows: First Ward 12 Second Ward 3 nird ara A Fourth Ward i 9 Fifth Ward Sixth Ward 15 Seventh Ward 4 Ninth Ward 4 Of these fifty-three were dwellings and eight business buildings. The number of buildings begun was ninety-four, twelve of them being buslness buildings, and the remainder dwellings, distributed as follows: First Ward 13 Second Ward 4 Third Ward 4 Fourth Ward 16 Fifth Ward 17' Sixth Ward 24' Seventh Ward 9 Ninth ard 5 No signs of diminution of activity In the building line are perceptible. The number of permits Issued last week by Julius W.

Krause, City Super- lntendentof Buildings, was 115. The ton- nrnv-pments authorised nmnnntpH tn I I189.3S0, and were divided as follows: No. Valua- Ward DermitS tlnn -c- First -0 Second 6 3.940 Third iitfl Fourth ..19 37,320 Fifth ..19 32oo inn -f 3M00 Seventh .11 7,223 Eighth 1 KM VinVh linn min MOO The number of permits Issued so far this month is 418, and the Improvements authorized aggregate Jl.838.570. A Modest Modern Cottage. It is always an Indication of healthy development when the number of homes erected Is large In proportion to the population, and hen the number of small and medium-priced dwellings Is large in proportion tu the number of costly mansions.

Of the numerous homes new being built in this city, perhaps the greater number will run between $2000 and J5000 in cost, with the maximum of building located near houses costing the first-named figure. And wlien one considers the excellent results that can be had from an Investment of this sum In modern cottages, the reason for the erection of the great number of dwellings of this class becomes apparent. Such cottages can be. and are. built In this city, at sums not far from that first named, that are supplied with conveniences which palaces formerly failed to possess.

A sketch and floor plan is sCiown elsewhere on this page of a six-room cottage, located on the west side of Custer avenue, between Sunset boulevard and Temple street, that may well be taken as a type of the class of dwellings referred to. It was put up by Contractor E. Henck. for Louis Ij. Carpenter, between sixty and ninety days ago, and Is now occupied by the tCONTINUED ON TWELFTH PAGE.

I I 1 VIEW TRACT. NUMEROU3 IMPROVEMENTS. "Improvement" is the watchword in the Ocean View tract. In one day last week there were four contracts for buildings let. The Bank of Hollywood, a two-story pressed-brlck block, and the Lohman Block, are about ready for occupancy, with tenants ready to move in as soon as Judge Clark is building a $6500 home on.

the corner of Magnolia and Franklin avenues. Luke Wood of the Union Bank of Savings, let the contract for a home costing about $41)00 on Franklin, near Hill street, last week. Ripley S. Lyon, Mrs. B.

G. Wbrtley, O. Classen and William Fruhllng are all bulld- ing artistic homes on Highland of Franklin. R. L.

Buzzard has finished the additions to his Mission home on Prospect boulevard and is laying out his grounds. Brick is being put, on the lot north of the Lohman BloJk on Highland avenue, where another two-story brick block is contemplated. Evidence of confidence Is" the purchase by H. J. Whitley, president and largest owner in the company, of about thirty acres of the hills in this tract, known as the "Whitley Hills." He Is spending thousands of dollars in Improving them.

Contracts are let for one Mission pavilion, and one rustic Swiss chalet, on the crown of these hills, and Mr. Whitley has a large force of men and teams at work making easy grades and planting expensive tropical and other shrubbery, giving a park effect to these hills. This Is en improvement that is unusual, and will add value to all property in the tract, as well as prove an attraction to visitors on account of the view. G. H.

Coffin has recently, sold his home In Pasadena for a large sum, and has purchased about twenty acres ad-Joining the Whitley Hill tract -No. where he will move at once, and Improve with an elegant home. With his well-known artistic ability, Mr. Coffin will no doubt make this onefif the show placet of Southern California. The contract was let last week for the erection of the pumping plant to force water to the reservoir on the high hill In this tract.

The reservoir Is about finished, and machinery Is purchased, which Insures, an ample water supply for building sites in the Grand View Heights tract, a subdivision of about thirty lots on the Whitley Hills, recently purchased and subdivided by a Pasadena syndicate, G. H. Coffin, manager. A large force of men is at work on improvements In this tract, and the owners hope to have some of the choicest property In Southern California. AMONG REAL ESTATE 0WNEES AND DEALERS.

OUTLOOK IN THIS FIELD SEEMS ALTOGETHER SATISFACTORY. A Fair Share of Sales of Business and Prospective Business Properties is Being Made, and Purchases in Outlying Districts are Numerous. Neither the enthusiasts, who sometimes permit their zeal to get the better of thelr judgment, nor the ultra-conservative, who see danger of collapse in all activity that is not closely followed by additional development and additional building, can have any great occasion to complain. Sales ar certainly sufficiently active, and the proportion of properties, both business and residence, that are bought for improvement, and which the new owners begin improving almost as soon as the deeds are recorded. Is remarkable.

The stiffening of prices tends to check undue activity In transfers of business and prospective business properties, but there is considerable speculating in properties on the outskirts of the business district, and In the new tracts. It would be desirable, perhaps, to have rii-jf the latter go direct Into the nanus of homeseekers, but such things, It seems, cannot be. all growing cities there Is always more or less speculating In real estate. The mar-, ket seems healthy and the prospects of steady, continuous growth seem good. National Irrigation.

Between Bullshead Cafion and Tuma the renral government has a force of about 150 men at work -n preliminary surveys, and experiments for a' great system of Irrigation to be supplied from the waters of the Colorado River. Probably a million acres of land will be brought under the ditch, in that locality, when the work is completd. C. B. Boothe, chairman of the Advisory Committee of the National Irrigation MOXETRAVED FIXE HOUSES BTTT.T TO ORDER.

Latftst Desism. Fin Vorfcrnapfhlo. Elcraat Hnms at Coi, mvirn et tug fr Uifl. -room nwrn cougar ftr 7-r iom. morWn ootur for 7-rnom.

2-strrv rifi-n for ty. S-ronm. f-nturv tor tll nd plans ani ha-v them ehtned 10 imit vnur MONKY TO LOAX FOR BriXTHNCi. lowest rates op interest. j.

vt. chat.mfr It Is admtttcHv rtfslniMe to onm own lundMrn. nI If this cntImM rwnt which bwufJirtnElv twrt with vrr nvnth can 1a iw anplil bv ourlvs In th; purhnn of it home, wnulff not proposlttun of this Htrvi appeal ta one? Few would, we qupfltlon the utility an-i praotlcul cnmtfto itense of this aiiXKePtton. if It ran le ne attk favorable to oneself and to atl lartUs cen eprnM. The corporation who lnr-t we rn-rcani In thia matter court thP fMt nrvt aparvhlna; Investigation ini nil rina an-i method.

It la an fvery-'iay currnr with un ma kin uh loan, and many houses ar now in coume of construction under iutt arrangement. If. after rnadlnc the fw rmarka. yon contemplate buildinf. we would Kladlv fumUk jufit such plans and apenliVafion aa you may require, free of charB; and attend to all con-atrur'tlon, from start t- rtnlirt.

V'J have trouble; bo anxiety; or if you rrcler 3''M'r contractor, that your bu'ineirs. ill yon call upon TVI, Main 7HV fRItTHTuM SMITH PERRY. 20 Oirrir RMa THESE WORTH VOI IXVESTtilATTOM IX AVEPTAt'RKP OSK OF TH I'HOICTtT OK rtE.SFTlENi'E DWTRWTS. Thrr tnatil lots i-n AV. bptwrtl Xl.tl n1 Normandy, each TxlM, Heant Norman-lle ornr, MmlM mi A WHOLE SITBOtVISIO.V.

THE NKW OH-HiVr TRACT. Five arr. eonnlftmg Hi lot, on th. ii1 4li salivas a r.nlv. Th' a ffn opnnitmiltv.

Thr a. Ihtb mara-ini oulck Drifit to th one ho buy, at present price. SEE MR AT OXCK. F. V.

Ft.tVT. FOI.E fl. BROADWAY. new srKnrvisioN'. TWENTT-FIQHT LOTS.

COR. CKN'TRAL AVE. AND FORTIETH Bt 115 DOWN, tW V'ER MONTH. WITHOUT INTEREST. CEMENT SIDEWALKS.

130 FEET FUOM CENTRAL-AVE. CAR LIN A. JOHNSON. SOLE AGENT. tfK) LOTS FOR J450 TAKE A Ptnrc TODAT A.

NO FES CENTRAL. ARLINGTON HEIGHTS. THE BEST SUPniVMloN ON THE MARKET PRICES FROM -tiM TO FRON'TINO ON PICO. ARI.INOTON AVrXCB AND SECOND AVLNL'E. TAKE V-r CARS TO END AND WALT WEST FEET.

OR TAKE fAXTA MINI'" IHTH-t-T. CAR AND GET OFF AT ARLI.VO- TUN AVE. OFFICE ON THE TRACT. RE- memiikr. these tricks are jt ft 7 onk-h tracts: nevin.

anoelcs vista, kin- heights w. adams-pt. heiohts. stroxo kickinshn. 5 s.

jfoadwav. IKf?" FOR 8ALE xwo sacrifices mcT rJiTsoLD. a w-foot lot on mTH east of Ver- W0NT' m. cnt day' second .,,.1 rado st. near sixth, for if than other lot In vkinity; aut For particulars Room ii.

No. 2it S. Broadway. rr A winner, invent cllver-8 "olth woodlawn" MthTtoSmthPstsR' THE CAR LINE WILTj Kl NMN'J BV APRIL 1. lot )n XHe cirY.

all street wv.rk i-ne by owner, first lots at a SACRIFICE. LL LOTH id FEET WIO. AI Tj ij, Tu 1M jtfet deep low I'RICES SIM, EASY TERMS A '4 cash balance l. and years, in- TKRRFT ONLY 5 PER CENT. REASON- BUILDING RESTRICTION'S.

ALEX. Cfl.VER. 1 BROADWAY. tvf: keep open nhay and satitn Tay rveninus. TRACT office.

th AN1D-MA1X: for sale lot on- apams ft, lizU uw bis a Ow Cliiuis mansion; L-f fit rrontaga with Unth of tetl. Five lots. EAxU nn Uh on block wast of Vermont E'uht lot. ya14 on lt. trn M-' ft or Vermont, JiflO; atreet work In ai.d f-aii tor.

D. R. BREARLEY. 1,5 S. Bra4ay.

ADAMS-STREET HEIGHTS ADAMS-STREET HEIGHTS IF YOU WANT WEST ADAMS-STREM PROPERTY. SEE PERCY H. CLARK. BYRNE Bi.rXi. 'Phona Main 471 TOUR RANCHES OIIANCE WAIAI T.

AT F4LFA CITHERS THAT HAVE MERIT. TRICK MI ST HE RIGHT OR WE WILT. NOT HANDLE THEM OUR SALES FOR THIS MONTH AGGREGATE tyi.oeo' R. E. IBBETrN' CO 13 TRUST HLOa FOR SALE- tl Firm rM-n- on ST.

tw.n Fiuro nl H-wr; It nvmi; MUM-: a corner lot. .7171 Put of th loraMU In tu rltv. prowrtv la offered a ric Ix-wW ita alu. THCM VS S. W.raro:T' Tl.

M. la-IN lAMMia KiiM. A A Queer Law. There are some queer laws on the statute books of California, relating to resl estate. For Instance, an eastern capitalist, who owns ten acres of land In the southwestern part of the city rented It to a tenant, who failed to pay any rent, but meantime built himself a house on the property, without the knowledge of the proprietor.

He failed to pay for the lumber, whereupon the owner of the property was made co-defendant in a suit to recover $800, the cost of the building material. On Investigating, he found that the California law makes the owner of a piece of land responsible in this way for anything a tenant may do, unless he puts np a sign on the land, warning people that It is leased, and has a witness to prove that he put up such a sign. Under such a law, owners of property should exercise particular care in making leases. It certainly seems as if tome of the California laws were designed for the purpose of discouraging rather than stimulating investments In real estate. Houses for Sale.

There is great complaint about the nre plenty of houses for sale. In The Times of Sunday last were no less than twenty-one columns of classified advertisements under this heading. The condition, In thlsespect, is much like that which prevailed during the boom of fifteen years ago, when many people wer forced to buy houses In order to get a roof over their heads. Doubtless, before long, some of the owners of the numerous houses-for sale will be glad to rent them, regardless of the old adage that "fools build houses and wiBe men live In them." Commendable Vigilance. Some of the new tracts that are being prepared for addition to the city are so situated that it Is impossible to have the streets absolutely conform to the established streets, and there are others in which the topographical configuration of the ground suggests the idea of bending curves and boule-varded driveways.

In such cases some latitude must necessarily be allowed, but in the majority of cases there Is no good reason why the streets of the new tracts should not be made to conform to the streets already established, so as to form with them- continuous thoroughfares. Reference has previously been made to this matter, but Its importance Justifies repeated references. It Is gratifying, however, to be able to note the fact that the City Engineer's office, whioh has made a. very satisfactory1 showing of work accomplished In other respects. Is giving some attention to this 'matter, and that plats of new additions submitted to are not so readily approved as was formerly the case.

In one case the streets had a width frf only forty feet. This, with other manifestations of that disregard of surrounding conditions, that was for- merly the rule, rather than the exception, was ordered corrected by the City Engineer's office before the acceptance of the streets of the tract would be recommended to the Council. The owner acted on the intimation without raising any Th defects in the streets were corrected, and. In consequence a tract is to be added to the city which will in time becor-e a harmonious portion of the municipality. If this rule is enforced, all cases where its application is jji 7 toilet.

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