Show city lots for sale I 1 am directed by lie city council ot otan city to inform ali public that a rot city biot in blat C city i uney are baill unsold and any to iun haae lie hiroe can do BO for the price and location of the sali llola call cordara cord tra city hall THOMAS esteves city lEnord cr nc cordera city aay etli in answer to the notice lie demand for abe lots became quite lively and alie result wag that when the competition readied such a pi tali that there wore a number of applicants for alio same property the prize was raised the closing figure at which lota sold and abia 1110 the previous prices vaa the bame to all applicants waa each for corner lots and each for inside lota the records will show who availed themselves of the privilege of buying property at these figures we think fully four catha of them belonged to the liberal party wo call to mind two prominent members combined purchases approximated fifty acres lucky as the investment may have since proved to them we do not imagine that they would have been willing to pay much more alian they did at the time of purchase the land purchased by air alio was at tho time city treasurer was a portion of he large tract reserved for reservoir and other possible water improvements when it was decided eliat all llila land could never bo used for theae purposes mr young offered to buy tho report on his petition was that a part of the lands asked for bo sold to liim at the lar price which was accepted afterwards when it was claimed that as a city officer lie could not legally public property in this way he refunded alio llio kotul amount which le had received for the land although runny attorneys held that the claudio of the law referred to biad la mind only eccli members of tho city as biad a vote in deciding upon the balo or fixing the price mr youngs honorable conduct in tho matter was warmly praised by all classes in tho community it ought to be fresh enough in the commercials mind to prevent any is to abo transaction and to dispel the illusion that BO tar as alm one sale was concerned lie city did not get the benefit of the rise in value the sales of city land were therefore oil right and the commercials argument proves to be only a shadow we have chown how the money derived from lands and from other nas expended item may be appropriately repeated the last council bought for the northwest quarter of union square from a standpoint no more fortunate move could liaro been made the owners of that corner could hav e sold to other parties fora much larger price we have heard that had alie city declined to buy an offer of from private parties was ready today to day it could bo readily sold at the city bought wisely every one considers and now that there ia BO much worry over lands bold at half price how is it that ve hear nothing about land bought at leas than half price why cannot the be consistent if we take its own estimate for the losses in lands sold too cheap which nevertheless were not losses as the rise had not occurred there is a present rain of more than enough in this one purchase to onset them all if the council bold COOCO worth of land tor it bought with two thirds of the property which would beell for more than the highest alleged value of all aliey sold in point of fact they came out largely ahead and made what every business man ia town will say is an extremely good deal the real estate editor of the cow matal will ace the point even though the political editor refuses to do so |