The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 13, 1952, Page 7

By Susan McAvoy | Part of his hhuge-holdings con- Real Bditor sist of the as yet unrecorded pur- Overshadowing all other owners | chase of giant properties formerly on the Lower Keys is R. E. Crane/neld by the Key Farm Land com- i aay ayes Keys, as well as the 3,935 acres| ticle we have. placed the unrecord- on the Keys closer to Key West |ed purchases made by Crane, also such as Sugarloaf, His total hold-|called the Rimersburg Coal com- ings on the Keys are estimated at|pany, under the single name of some 24,000 acres, Crane. Key West Floor Covering Co. ANNOUNCES | A Complete Stock of Armstrong Vinofloor Linoleum Also Kentile and Armstrong Asphalt, Rubber and Cork Tile Formica and Plastic Wall Tile INSTALL IT YOURSELF or Expert Guaranteed Installation DIAL 22512 For Free Estimate 132 DUVAL STREET Key West Floor Covering Co. res VENETIAN BLINDS ~ . EXCLUSIVELY WITH New Beauty ROLLACHEAD CUSTOM-MADE VENETIAN BLINDS k PHONE US FOR FREE ESTIMATE The Maxwell Company 999 Ploming $t. DIAL 2.6031 5 Sep Starting at Cudjoe Key here are |entirely by Berlin Sawyer, is now the owners of substantial acreage: | divided, 5.50 acres to Mrs, Rachel R. E, Crane 1,688 acres. C. Rhodes, and three acres to as Sawyer who sold to Rhodes. fan Ppt «apes Semrtiogs o8 Crane owns all of Wahoo Key J. G. Tingle, 155 acres. Lhrsadan cts Carl Deden, 93 acres. Crane also owns %3 acres on Sam Goldsmith, 182 acres. Summerland Key, chiefly on the J. M. Phipps estate, 56 acres. Gulf side of the Key. This has Ross Sawyer, Jr., 123 acres. been purchased from the Key Neil Knowles, 114 acres. Farm Land company. m Marguerite Sycks, 54 acres. Hudgins and Alfonso, of which R. E. Crane also owns Logger- | Henry Hudgins is partner own head Key which is an island of | 150 acres which include Summer- 87 acres in the Atlantic, south | land Estate, Summerland Beach west of Cudjoe. and Summerland Yacht Harbor. Knock ’Em Down Keys has the | This land has been subdivided and following big owners: is being sold off in lots to big and R. E. Crane, 403 acres. little buyers alike. Jonathan Jackson et al, 43| New Found Har'l Ss are acres; Hastings Piodela, 824 White | owned by five peer ie street, 80 acres and Charles Percy Cook, owner of the 25 Ewing, 6 acres. acre Cook’s Island. Pyes Harbor Key of 2275 acres Janus! Andiepod’ wail 0.75 5 eee Ye acres -of ‘the show place of the Henry Hudgins owns Money Key x ip | Lower Keys, Anderson’s Island. pas Ceae Bay Dee ae ee Clara May Downey, owner of Zi tance of 84.6 feet; thence north for , Elmer Wilson owns 8 acres on Big Torch, Joseph McClure of Jacksonville owns 103 acres. College Park Improvement company of Coral Gables owns 106.50 acres. Water Key is owned by James Holton and William Turner of Homestead with 105.25 acres. The State of Florida owns 58.50 acres. Eagle. Key is owned entirely by the United States, with its 16 acres. # Big Raccoon Key is owned mostly: by C. A. Nicholas corpo ration with 153.50 acres. Florida holds 24.75 acres, R. G. Crane owns most of Howe Key in the Gulf; his share of 464 acres. F. EY and D. R. Smith of Opalotka own 205.75 acres on Howe Key. The United States owns all of Contents Key for 59.50 acres owned by Florida. The.U. S. holdings amount to 280.25 acres. Cash House, Duval| And Eaton To Be Replaced Soon The old Cash house, corner of Eaton and Duval, will soon make way fer two chain stores, Me- Crory’s general store and The Diane shop, according to a lease filed in the ‘ourthouse last week. The Diana shop has leased a storereom for thirty years which will be built by owners Mr. and This "s oi Summerland Beach, o ‘i the Casa Islamorada and: famed! Howell's Key, Originally owned for her Olney, Md. Inn, owns an island of 11.25 acres. NZ Ruth Ellison owns 996.75 acres 7, in the beautiful New Found Har- =9 lf-Cl i S| Richard Hota of Silver Spring, ‘al jen ver Ss e caning S Md. owns six acres in these Keys. A Sawyer’s Key is owned in total by Mrs. Joshua Manwaring of Bos- ton. This large Key has 90.75 1 / acres. It is in the Gulf beyond NTA AR Summerland Key. Sumerland Key also has these big owners: Reywas Inc. (Sawyer spelled} Se re} U SE backwards) of Miami, owns 57.75) acres. Brooks Bateman of Marathov Al owns 86.50 acres on Summerland) | Key. | “Af | Johnston's Keys in the Gulf off] \ Y, the long Keys is owned as fol- : | lows: S so; Z Crane owns 297.75 acres. = ays ite ==) Richard Robbins, 113 acres. N J. L. Holmberg, 71.75 acres. Top Tree Hammock Key is | acres. Ivar Axelson, a big land- | holder on the mainiand, ewns KEEPS THAT “NEWLY PAINTED” | 76.75 acres. | Big owners on Ramrod Key, LOOK YEAR AFTER YEAR! | next to Summerland are: Mrs. C. B. Harvey 139 acres. RICH IN TITANIUM and | se Crane, 123.50 acres on PURE WHITE REFINED =| Ramrod. John Payne, 55 acres. UNSEED ON! James Payne, 55 acres. James and 8. C, Anderson, 14 acres. Neil Knowles, 127.75 acres. | Sarah Henderson, 74.25 acres on) Ramrod. j Hilario Ramos, 30.50 acres. Little Torch Key has four big) owners, Neil Knowles © with 58) acres; Leonard Brothers of Mia- mi, 125.25 acres and Wakulla Edgewater Co., Mississippi, 101) acres. Grace W. Hilsabeck owns) 9 acres. | DIAL 2.592 Corner Fleming & Elizabeth Sts. -VA eds dete /I3¢ Crane is again the big owner | on Big Torch Key with 900 | ecres. | Frank Sutton owns 80 acres on Big Torch. Margaret Lacedonia Mitchell owns S45) acres Beulah Boyer owns 74 acres and Sam Simonhoff of Miami owns 41.25 acres. D. L. Emerson of Miami owns #182 acres on Big Torch. SOUTH BEACH HOUSE AND PROPERTY BOUGHT BY AQUILINO LOPEZ, SRS. JOE PEARLMAN BUYS TWELVE LOTS NEAR REST BEACH FOR SUBDIVIDING; PORTER-WAGOR-RUSSELL MAKES SALES * TO ERNEST RAMSEY, P. R. ROBERTS m the Cayo Hueso. It has on it a two story frame house, and ad- joins the city beach. other .considerations the following bay bottom to Claude Gandolfo, County Tax Assessor: This is the corrected deed No, 19855 filed De- ‘ cember 10: along U. S. No. 1 on Roosevelt boulevard, thence at right angles point; and thence north for a dis- a distance of 103.37 feet to 2 point; north and east for a distance 86.6 feet to the point of beginning of the parcel of land hereinafter described; from said point of be- ginning meander the shoreline of the Bay of Florida in a northeast- erly, northwesterly and southeast- erly direction for a distance of 1,- 499.18 feet more or less, to a point where said shoreline intersects the northerly right of way line of U. S. 1; from said intersection run in a westerly direction along said northerly right of way line of U. S. No. 1 for a distance of 1340 feet to the point of beginning, containing 3.3 acres more or less and lying and being in Sections 27 and 34 Township 64 South, Range 35 East, Monroe county, Florida. Ernest. Ramsey, his wife, and other have Sold for “one dollar and love and affection” to Lorena Saunders, 920 Eaton street, land at Eaton and Margaret to Mr. and Mrs. 2017 Seidenberg Edward Wells ane A, Forrestal Johnsonville. Inez Collins has Mrs. Tom Watkins for ryn Cates a lot and house on Vare- }la and Virginia streets. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Swift have | sold to Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Swift for $4,500, Tract 13 and east 22 feet, six inches of Tract 14 of Hilton Mere lot 18 of Rock Harbor Man- ors. The Kamien corporation sold for $9,000 to Joe Pearlman and his wile 12 lots near Rest Beach which Pearlman plans to subdivide. He has a block adjoini this new have sold for $16,000 to Mr. and porch ase. cnee Thomas Charles Hurst 111 lots on Laird street with a house. 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