PAGE THREE ... ALI' V I I II- I f :. ." :. ; " --, - I i ll - 1 I ll I 1 ' ' 1 , Cl' - f It I I , V-n 111, y LL . JA XLLA iXll : LLl & ii A 3 LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1910. A . 11 I 1 1 i ; f I ' i i 7' a . ill Y T VT3 ir-i ri77 MR) iP fl I -. 'P M : -A H LI I I I J . 9 S 1 4 ' t K 1. VA V J -ry F" i ' .,. .. ... .... , i .J ... -..x... n rto't'wictojii,iiiiW:.TiJti.wl. r: V v iVi'ii '; OFFICE AT THIRTY-NIirrH STREET STATION. i, A i ' r -. i The 'writer has been for more than 20 years steadily engaged in the selling of real estate in the City of Portland, and is met from da to day j. ; Ly different people who exclaim: . , ' - r , I ; r "Oh!. I ' wish I had takea your advice and bought property two or v'. three years ago, etc." ' , Few of our oldest citizens have realized or yet realize what a Kreat city Portland is destined to be. They overlook the fact that Portland has I been kept in the background for many years; that four immense counties of j r - the state were not touched by railroad transportation; that is to say, that ii; j Crook County, with '7956 square miles, Harney County with 8190 square miles, Klamath County with 6832 square miles and Lake County with 785C fy-fyy.- square mues, or a total or zy,8i$4 square mues, nave a uouuiation or out y-- FIGURES RELATING TO LAURELHURST WHEN WORK IS COMPLETED. . Asphalt Pavement ; ; . . . . ........ . . . 26 Miles .' Concrete Sidewalks and Curbs . . ..... . . . . . . 52 Miles Waier Pipe 26 Miles .Sewer Pipe 26 Miles Gas' Pipe , . 26 Miles GLANCE AT THESE FIGURES. Took Count 7.956 Square Miles Karney Counly i 8,190 Square Miles KUma'.li Count 5,832 SqMaia Miles Lake County . 7,856 Square Milea :.. : ..' y: . ; Jv. ' ?,;oL ;.. w '': ..v.....: ; :.- L r., - i otai county ..-.:....".......:.! r. r 7. . 29,834 square"Nlies TOTAL POPULATION, 24,500. i - . 1 ' . . . ... v . i r . . ' &t''tfs cl Connecticut : , ' ' , ' State of Delaware '. '' " --' ' ' v . , ' State of Ji$-sachu3ctt3 Total .....s JS.910 Square Miles'' -.State ot New. Hampshire . .. .. " Stae of .Rhode Islanl 't , . , " , TOTAL POPULATiON4,738,645. Consider what Portland will be aa population increases to above flgures. ' ' 0 if 24,500 people; while the States of Connecticut, Delaware,.-Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhone Island combined, having 25,910 square mlle3, lave a population of 4.738,645, . . - ., , . : The climatic conditions and the fertility of the soil in Central Oregon' are certainly as good, if not better, than in those states. Given transporta tion, which is now heading that way, by both the Hill and Marriman . roads, the result will be a great development in the state. Think of all of Oresron, limine: 96,000 square miles of territory with only (7',000 people, while Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, 'Massachusetts. Maryland, w liampslilre, Ithodv Island, ew Jersey, Vermont and Maine combined, having 30 square, miles less than the State of Oregon, have a population of 12,090,430. ' l'orltand has been nnfortuniite in the jwst In not hniinpr a restricted, high-class residence district. There have been small plats in . different parts of the city, but -so small that they did not suffice to carry proper restriction with them. King's Hill, where the beautiful homes of Messra. T. B. Wilcox,, the Honeymans and other fln homes are now beins; en croached upon by apartment house-;. Xob II 111 ulttikl cn Tv:i:t; -third street, now being encroached upon by stores, public garages and apart ment houses; Holladay's addition, where homes like Mr. W. P. Olds and others are, now being enclosed and surrounded by hospitals, engine houses and public garages, with tho- result that "LAURELHURST," for merly Ladd's Hazel Fern Farm, comprising 444 acres, has been purchased by well-known and responsible gentlemen, and platted into a h!gh-cl.m.3 thoroughly planned by Olmstead Bros., the celebrated landscape engineers cf been planned by Olmsead 'Bros., the, celebrated landscape engineers cf Boston, with winding streets, and retaining the elevated points with the contours of the land. , There will be twenty-six miles of nspunlt pmenieut, fifty-two miles of concrete sidewalks and curbs and twcntr-slx miles each of water, seer and gas pipes all of which are how being put In with connections to (he curbs for each lot. The best evidence of the growing popularity of the East Side as a residence district is the fact that during the past four months 1072 resi dence building permits were granted to the East Side as against 63 per- CHARLES K. HENRY, .VKHMt'W-'-t s V v. f 9 i y . re.-- : TA.iU '.'V'"". - ' Tir"r ft , - mi 4 . - "1 1 ' .4 . yf5 55 r Si- , - .--..y mits for the West Side. sa .TirTATn cittatm tt5ttic! a fcir fVi n iiti , vvn , '- . . 7 - " -r. , Tr srr, ?T 5tf PW - V ' T 7? I' V:. 4- . b--. H JDEWAT.KS, ,0 i 8 1 1