H ST. Johns review should Patronize fBJ?hmea abater !itv u yu work ,th THE ST. JOHNS REVIEW Advertise fn The Review 111 rttrul.itloii is genu inc nml it covers the field. Its better than a dully in the field. IT WILL REPAY YOU Devoted to the Interests of the Peninsula, the Manufacturing Center of the Northwest VOL. a ST. JOHNS, ORF.GON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1906. NO. 9 1 -.1 1 k 1 1 ft, PATRONIZE US AND BE HAPPY Acme Lumber Company SASH GLAZING DOORS WE CARRY "ODD" SASH IN STOCK Columns Spindles Brackets Lime and Cement Paints Oils Glass Redwood Gutter ST. JOHNS SASH AND DOOR CO. N10NE SCOTT 406, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL JERSEY STREET EDMONDSON CO., Hardware, Tinware, Plumbing Scott 406S Tin Roefs, Owtters, etc. st. ma, R. WILCOX, Dray and Baa gaa Line Phone Scott 1308. Piano Moving a Specialty. Leave orders at Blackburn's Purniturc store and they will receive prompt attention. "For Rent" and "For Sale" cards for sale at this office. i Nearly Two Hundred Residence and Anny Business Blocks ,5 I f Ul I ItHlt. fi A 1 1 nave nupuu, wuii street improve- nicnts, to Make ST. JOHNS A COMMERCIAL CENTER Within tiic past twelve months I have been taken by the citv to seek the city of St. Johns has been sub- redress. This is merely a sample jecttd to more beneficial changes of what St. Johns will get when than any little city of the northwest both roads are here unless some and the probabilities are tliat the severe steps be promptly taken by current year will see an equally j the city regarding the steal, large growth. ' So great has been the growth of Kvci the customary pessimist the city thut the telephone line has which Is in every community is been forced to refuse new customers forc.nl to admit that there promises until such a time as it could get to be no cessation In the line of ad- new cables installed. 4 4 4. 4 4 .' 4 l r St. Johns Land Co, PHONE UNION 3104 vanceuicnt in and about this city. The pust year has seep the des tritetiou of two good sawmills but there promises to spring from those ashis another mill which wilt be In capacity cqti.il to those destroyed. I Ins localitv bus indeed been fortu nate in that no fire losc) have been 1 felt and the more fortunate be come of the frail construction of the greater part of the buildings. ! New buildings nave Veil many on tin average more than three new homes a week having been constructed. The two large blocks pf Cochran llrothcrs have, been completed. The large frame business block of M. I,. Holbrook occupies a xirtion of the tract in the center of the city which was a forest last April. De side it has been erected the fine two-story brick Just now in the finishing stages. Nearby is being built the two-story pressed brick for the St. Johns Hotel Company which will probably be ready for some of its occupants early in Feb ruary. Heside Couch's store have Ik'cii built two others while the Wilson building 011 Tacoma street has put its name on the roster of two-story buildings. The large French block the largest in the city has been built and is occupied. This is another two-story brick while beside it W. I,. Hullis has erected a brick build ing to match it In heigth. Dlackburn & Wicker have added to their storeroom on Jersey street. Just below them and across the street is being built n two-story brick for two Chinese: while a couple hundred feet below them is The electric compauv has been forced to tint In mnv cviIiIpm nml iln a large amount of construction ! S work here and to build a sub station at this point, where are to Ik; located two transformers each of 375 kilowatt capacity. The water company has been forced to secure new pumps and arrange for the erection of two huge elevated tanks in addition to the large reservoir it built for a fire protection reserve. The street car company has found it necessary to double-track its right-of-way from Portland to St. Johns and within ninety days this work will be finished. This will be highly beneficial to patrons of the road and will have a tendency to (ittickcu the .service. '1 he capacity of the large school house been hns nearly doubled yet the building is now so crowded that it is necessary to use the annex. A new building is needed. Property values in nearly all parts of the community have in creased from 35 to too er cent. The demand has been very great for all classes of realty and there seems to be no cessation in the number of sales. The area of land 011 the penin sula is so limited that it must, jer force, increase as time rolls 011. True, there are some acreage tracts now held at figures which will re quire a halfdozcti years to see any increase but it is mostly n good buy where one is not in nerd of immediate returns. Lots in and about the city's cen tre aie in good demand and the sales of late have been many. the excavation being done for the ' Many have been bought in order to McChesney brick block. build homes while some have The public dock was built during bought to hold 011 seciilatioii. lie i 1 lie.se 4 4 v 4 4t IS i 4.1 41 4V $ 4 4 1! 1 4) Choice Business lots on Jersej 25x100, $1000.00 and upward. lots will double in value in one year, street, These On a:ul after January 15, 1906, prices of all lots in St. Johns Park and Court Place will be advanced 10 percent tne with in lots i6-feet St. Johns Park, 50x106, alleys $250.00 and up wards $5.00 down and $5.00 per mouth. the year while nearby is th Marine Holler Works with a build ing more than 100 feet square, built within the last three months. have sold best where the streets are in fairly good shape and the lots nut up 11 good front. . Another electric Hue is to run The sawmill plant of the St. through the city, placing St. Johns Johns L,umler Company is hanging on a direct line between Vancouver J. fire at present yet the Company is 1 and the countries west of tne Wllla- 2 doing business at the old stand in ; incite. This road, as mentioned . the way of handling lumber. A. I last week, will cross both the Willa- $ S. Douglass is pushing along the incite and the Columbia upon construction of his planiug-uiill and , Northern Pacific bridges and is, wooden-ware plant 011 Pittsburg 1 without question, funded by that street and hopes to soon have the road. same in operation. ' As a whole, St. Johns has 110 The approaches for the St. Johns need to be ushained of her record Ferry are being put in shape and the past year. More than two will be finished within thirty days. ' miles of sidewalk have Ijccii laid, At the same time the ferry is doing and more than half that length of business every da in the way of streets have leen graded and iin passenger service only, Captain . proved. As much more is under way Drink, however, occasionally pulls ' and work will soon commence over a barge-loud of lumber or fire- iupon about a mile of sewer, wood for his patrons, j The fire district will prevent the Two roads are making frantic erection of any more fi ret raps in the struggles to get to St. Johns. The , business part of the city which 0. H. & N. has taken liberties should have a tendency to lessen with the city's property which no the rates of insurance that are private citizen could do and hold now fearfully high. Aside from his job. Without as much as "by j this high rate there is no drawback your leave" it has stolen nearly one and the high rate applies only to street whereon it hud a partial the buildings in the crowded dis-right-of-way and no legul steps ' tricts. St. Johns Land Co St. Johns lllone Unio" 3l0t Oregon Branch Office and Agency on the (irotiiid. , 4 1 4 . 4 1 t iiViiiir.V THE CITY COUNCIL SHOULD STOP IT In the permit given the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company by the city of St. Johns it was stated that only a portion of Drad ford street was given that road for the purpose of trackage with a spur somewhere along in block eight. A few months ago a representa tive of the railway came before the city council and announced that in a short time he would file an ap plication for a permit to change a portion of the track. Since then it is said the road has appropriated much of the street and left the balance in such shape that It might as well have been wholly stolen. The city council should not stand for such trickery and nerve as this. It should order an investigation I and if these assertions arc correct it I should order the track back to its original location, The city of St. Johns is under no obligations to the O, K. & N. and the citizens will uphold the council for putting a ciieck upon such work. If one railway shall be jer mitted to act upon its own sweet will other roads and enterprises ( will take that as a precedent and declare they, too, will act as they see fit - and "the people be dam- filed." I Tint Uuviilw believes now is the proper time to act and that much future trouble may be avoided if the laws and ordinances arc lived up to. Something should be done and it cannot be done too hard) Remember we carry a nice line of Shoes, Underwear and Hosiery with our complete line of Staple and Fancy GROCERIES COUCH & CO. 206-208 Philadelphia Street Phone Union 4066 1 I Do you know that we have filled 1846 Prescriptions in the last six months ami every person has got well ??? Don't you think that Pure Drill's and Prescriptions t Carefully Compounded have something to do with it? I: ELLIOTT'S PHARMACY j Help Advertise St. Johns by Subscribing for The Review sup BY PORTLAND and SUBURBAN EXPRESS CO. Reasonable Rates Quick Service PHONE MAIN 358 E.0.MAG00N, Agent at St. Johns