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Show ITS OX THE RISE. A PROMINENT REAL ESTATE MAN ON THE PRESENT VALUE OF DIRT. AVigcroufl Content Itetween Main Street and State Itoad Freeholder, fur the 1'rojerred Opera Hotue Sume Itemark on .Honey. Colonel S. F. Spencer was in a colloquial collo-quial mood when the chronicler met him this morning and asked for a horoscope horo-scope on the real estate market. Said he, clipping the end of a havauna: "W hile the realty market can hardly be said to show an upward tendency, still the activity iu the past few days has been marked. Especially has the demand been brisk lor residence sites within six or eight blocks of the center, mostly east and south. I have made three sales in the past ten days of 2 J by 10 rod pieces on Sixth South between Fifth and Sixth East to parties who have already let contracts to build comfortable homes. Addition bus adjacent ad-jacent to car lines are also meeting with sale. 'The ticht money market and unseasonable time for startingtiew enterprises does not seem to have much intluenco in checking a building boom which may be said to still be on. An advance in prices at the present lime in the lace of the money stringency nnd the fact that the surplus money is going into buildings could hardly tie expected, but. with the holiday balances onceover with and easier money in the eastern market the most conservative ones look for an advance all along the lino. Local money is now plenty but at higher rates. The location of tho new opera house will stiffen prices in the neighborhood neigh-borhood to some extent. It. is believed now the enterprise will go through and that some sharp bidding between Stato road and Alain street holders is going on in the way of who will put up the largest bonus to secure the site." Tteal Rotate Notes. The Alorgau hotel, like the Temple-ton, Temple-ton, will have the dining room on tho third floor. Shiley, Grosholl & Co. will expend $5l)t)0 iu grading the streets of Muscatine Mus-catine place. George Yeadon, by his attorney, E, W. Senior, has entered complaint against the issuing of a patent to John li. Cecil for a tract of Hit) acres of laud near Garden City. |