Show UNUSUAL ACTIVITY IN REAL ESTATE Several Important Deals Have Been Made During Week With Others Pending The activIty of the real estate market during the holiday season has been a source of surprIse and comment among the realty men of the city W G Tuttle president of Tuttle Brothers company stated yesterday that In all his experIence experience ence In the real estate business in the city he had never seen such lively inter interest Interest est among investors for this time ot of the year There Is every IndIcation he states that busIness will continue good and that the spring will see many big deals con consummated consummated summated Deals were closed during the week In Involving the expenditure ot of over Other deals In the maRing would bring the amount close to the mark Papers will soon be sIgned by which a valuable piece of at property in the of the Newhouse hotel will change hands It Is said that the consIderation is ap approximately proximately TUttle Brothers company com company pany Is negotiating the deal but for the present definite information Is withheld The firm also reports that payments have been made on property on the west westside westside side of State street near Seventh South street The Tho purchase price Is about 1000 A deal Is about to be consummated by which the firm sells feet of frontage on State street directly across from Hew Hewlett Hewlett lett Brothers factory for or at atthe atthe the rate rata of lJ Q per front foot ThIs property Is just a little south ot of Seventh South street and the price Is the high highest highest est paid yet for property that far south on State street At Seventh South and State streets property Is selling at from to per front foot Max Daniels proprietor of the Bunga Bungalow Bungalow low theatre buildIng has added to his State street holdings by the purchase through Tuttle Brothers company of a alot alot lot having 63 53 feet frontage on State street treet dIrectly across from the cIty and county buildIng for A house No State street occupies the ground at the present time Mr Daniels Is a strong be believer hover liever In State street property and Intends to Improve the newly purchased property in the spring In addition to the sales mentioned ne negotiations negotiations are being carried on for tor the sale ot of feet frontage at the corner of Seventh South and State streets Two buyers one from Goldfield and one mm from Evanston Wyo are In the city and both are after the property It is thought th this property will be sold within the next day Or two The firm also reports that a banker from the Atlantic seaboard Is conducting negotiations through this company for the purchase of an entire block ot of frontage on I South State street |