LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1910.
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FIGURES RELATING TO LAURELHURST.WHEN
WORK IS COMPLETED.
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OFFICE AT THIRTY-NINTH STREET STATION.
The writer has been for more than 20 years steadily engaged in the :.
Eelling of real estate In the City of Portland, and la met from day to day ;
by different people who exclaim: . '
"Oh! I wish I had taken your advice and bought property two or '
three yean ago, etc." - - -
Few of our oldest citizens have realized or yet realize what a great .
city Portland Is destined to be. They overlook the fact that Portland has
been kept in the background for many years; that four Immense counties of
the state were not touched by railroad transportation; that is to say. that
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miles, Kiamatn county wnn osaz square mues ana lako county wun isuo
square miles, or a total of 29,834 square miles, have a population or but
24,500 people; while the States of Connecticut, Delaware,, Massachusetts,
New Hampshire and Rhode Island combined, having 25,910 square miles,
Lave a population of 4,738,645. . , , '
The climatic conditions and the fertility of the soil in Central Oregon
ore certainly as good, If not better, than In those states. Given transporta-
tlon. which is now heading that way, by both the Hill and Marrlman
roads, the result will be a great development in the state. . Think of all of
Oretron. havlntr 86.000 sanare miles of territory with only . 875,000 people.
while Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia. Jiassachusetts,
Maryland, New Hampshire, Bhode Island, Jfew Jersey, Vermont and
Maine combined, baring so square miles less tnnn tne state or Oregon,
have a population of 12,090,430. ; ; ; ...... " Vy-
l'ortland has been unfortunate In the past in not having 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 Messrs.
T. B. Wilcox, the Honeymans and other fine homes are now being en
croached upon by apartment houses; the Nob Hill district on Twenty-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 the 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 high-class
thoroughly planned by Olmstead Bros., the celebrated landscape engineers of
been planned by Olmsead Bros.; the celebrated landscape engineers of
Boston, with winding streets,, and retaining the elevated points with the
contours of the land. r- '' v 1 ,
There win be twentrsix miles of asphalt pavement, flftv.two miles
of concrete sidewalks and curbs and twentv-six miles each of water, sewer
ana gas pipes, all of which are now being put in with connections to thT
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The best evidence of the growing- popularity of the East Side as a f
residence district is the fact that during the past four months 1072 resi- tt&w-
mlts for the West Side. CHARLES K. . HENRY. '
Asphalt Pavement . . . . ; . . -. . ; . . . . . . .'. .. . . . 26 Miles
Concrete Sidewalks and Curbs . . .... ... ... . 52 Miles
Water Pipe, .......... .-26 Miles
; Sewer Pipe . .... .... ... . . . . . . . . . 26 Miles
Oas Pipe 26'MUes
GLANCE AT THESE FIQUEES. :
Crook County -; ....................... 7.956 Square Miles
Harney Couniy ........................... 8,190 Bquan Milei "
KUmach County , 5,832 Square Miles
Lake County .................... 7.856 Square Miles
Total County . 29,834 Square Miles
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Strtfis cf Connecticut .
State cf Delaware r
State of Massachusetts Total 25,910 Square Miles
State of New Hampshire ; -
State of Rhode Island
TOTAL POPULATION, 4,733,615. ;.
Consider what Portland will be as4 population Increases to above figures.
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SHOWING SHADE TREES AND LAYING OF CONCRETE SIDEWALKS?
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