TT MORXIXG OREGOXIAX,. 3IOXDAT,. FEBRUARY 3. 190S
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DEMAND GROWING
FOR WAREHOUSES
Wholesale Firms Ready
Lease Larger Quarters
at Once.
to
CHANCE FOR INVESTMENT
ISuildings Klse In All Sections of
City, With Seasonably ' Priced
Dwellings the Most Numerous
and the Kast Side Trending.
Wholesale houses, that are now occupy
ing premises in which growing bufineM
requires more siwce, are in the market
tnr linrir hnildincs. A leading broker
aid Saturday that lie had three inquiries
on hla books for buildings on long-term
leases which would each occupy a block.
These concerns, he said, do not care to
withdraw from their working capital the
amount necessary to build suitable struc
tures, but seek sites on which owners
would erect warehouses for their re
quirements, which would be taken on
Ions terms. This realty broker Believes
IT investors would undertake to provide
such buildings they would have no delay
hi finding the very best class of tenants
and that the revenue would be of the
character requiring the least attention
and be Imre of realizing a good rate.
Now that money is easier and interest as
a consequence is petting lower, investors
look for the eftiploymont of their capital
at the best rates, and the broker is of
the opinion that the way suggested la one
of the opportunities not to be lightly con
sidered. So many housed have been built during
the Winter months In Portland that
mechanics employed in building trades
have found steady work without cessa
tion. Over one-half of the amount in
value of permits for new buildings in
the month Just closed were for dwellings
on the Kast Side, and these are well on
their way to completion. More building
of reasonably priced houses is going on
at the preseijt time than at any period
In the history of the city.
Bridge construction Is to be a feature
, in local operations during the year. After
considerable trouble with awarding con
tracts for the new bridge to span Sulli
van's ljulch at Union avenue, a Port
land concern finally secured it at $i4.KjO.
When the bonding matter is settled, the
bridge at Madison street will come up
for contracts and the Peninsula bridge- of
the North Bank road will also figure in
Hie year's building, work on the latter
now being under way.
' Builders ni e watching the devclon
tnentb in tho efforts of the commercial
bodies of the city to secure some of the
manufactories which every day or two
are referred to in the daily papers. Sev
eral Kastern concerns are reported to be
in correspondence with Portland ' bodies
on the subject of either moving their
factories to this city or establishing
branches here.
D. C. Lewis, the architect of the Ore
gon building to be erected at the Seattle
Exposition, has made a few minor
changes in the specifications to comply
with provisions in the law requiring that
all materials in the structure shall be
of Oregon manufacture, so - far as pos
sible. The commission expects work to
be started in a short time on the pro
posed building.
The sale of the corner at Park and Mor
rison, announced in The Oregonian yes
terday, will cause speculation as to what
sort of Improvement Is to take the place
of the frame building on that valuable
lot. for at the price paid for the lot,
ShV.CiO, a modern large building will un
doubtedly bo erected lo furnish a suffi
cient revenue on the investment.
Contracts have been awarded for the
removal of buildings from Tenth and
Alder to Tenth and Columbia, and for
moving the buildings hack on the latter
site to make room for those on the site
of the proposed hotel building to be
erected by Gus "Rosenblatt. It is now
expected to begin work on the floata
tions for the hotel in April.
Bids will be aisked for February 28
for the construc tion of the Y. W. C. A.
building and March 2 for the steel con
struction of the Y. M. C. A. Contracts
will bo let for the former building in its
entirety, but on the men's building they
will bo let from time to time as the work
progresses.
Plans have been made for a new tena-nient-house.
of four Oats, for Mrs. Love
riclge and others to be erected on the
northeast corner of Grand avenue and
Pacific street. The building will be of
frame construction and concrete founda
tion. Rach flat will contain tive roo'mfa.
Excavations for the foundation of the
Central Church building on Hist Twen
tieth and Salmon streets have leen com
pleted, it occupied a quarter block. The
foundation will be built at once and the
church, costing about $.13.'KiO, will be
buirt this Summer.
A local brick aseney estimate that
11.3ilf,0tl0 brick are now In Portland, avail
able! for Immediate vsv and that burning
of additional kilns will start March 1.
after wliioh h monthly supply of about
lO.OOO.OOH will be available.
'Foundation for a J:00 chapel for the
Second I'nitcd Brethren Church, Rist
Twenty-eighth and Alberta streets, has
'e' finished, and construction on the
";n. :ng will toe. pushed forward.
ft cm has been , delivered for the new
residence being erected on F.ast Sixteenth
sirrt for Mrs. C. J. Colburn at an
estimated cost of JiO.OU).
. f'.ie East Side bureau of The Oregonian
v. pi'.-ts that in the matter of new build
Incf the predictions of Secretary Otto
lc-rnann, of the Architect Association,
; new work would be starting up.
w,i fully verified during the week,
j; 'Ming permits for each day were
r, ':-,ir y up to what they were in point of
numbers in the busiest time of W". On !
Wednesday of the past week, 30 permits
were issued for cottages, ranging up to
$7V0, the uverago for cottages being $1300.
Mrs. M. J. Graham has started on three
cottages costing $1800 each on East Floyt
and Thirty-fifth streets, or a total of
J54O0. James A. Gray has "Started two
dwellings on Belmont and Kast Thirty
eighth streets to cost M000. F. T. Corlcss
has started a residence on Killingsworth
and Missouri avenues to celst $3000. Mrs.
P. J, Colburn has started work on a
J10.000 dwelling on East Sixteenth, near
Halsey street. It will be two-stories.
On Friday, January 24. the building per
mits totaled ISO. IB, the cottages being
widely scattered. On Tuesdny, January
2S, the total amount of building permits
was 131,205. Mrfet of the nouses were
cottages costing 11000 and 11300. George
M. Hyland started a dwelling on Halsey
and East Sixteenth street to cost 13500. K.
G. Lundstrum started one on East Nine
teenth near Tillamook street to cost 14000.
Also P. J. McDonald has started a two
istory frame dwelling on Wasco, near
East Thirty-second street, to cost 14750.
. M. Hamilton has started a dwelling
on East Sixteenth near Tillamook to cost
:;500. M. E. Thompson has started the
erection of a two-story building on
Shaver street and Rodney avenue to cost
$10,000. Perhaps the most important
building projected during the week (s that
of J. M. Eggleston on East Ninth and
Ankeny street, where he proposes to
cover a quarter block with a flat. This
is in Central East Portland.
Over $200,000 is represented in the per
mits for class A, B and C structures
Issued In January. Several others are
contemplated for the coming month and
early in the year a number will be started
which will bring the total up to the big
records of last year at this .time.
The paist week was unusual in one
particular at least not a single thea
trical building being mentioned as a cer
tainty. Press agents must be getting
weary of building theaters on paper.
Poyle Patterson have prepared plans
for a dwelling to be erected on Lovejoy
street for E. L. Harmon estimated to
cost $15,000.
. Vancouver, Wash., Methodistts are con
sidering the erection of a new church
building at that place to cost $2500.
REQUESTS ORGANIC UNION
United brethren Church Passes Res
olution Vrging the Merger.
At the quarterly conference of the First
United Brethren Church Saturday night,
a resolution was adopted asking the pre
siding elder for the state. Rev. S. W,.
Jones, to present the question of organic
union with the Methodist, Protestant and
Evangelical denominations to all United
Brethren churches in Oregon for indorse
ment. The churches will be asked to pass
resolutions approving the union. Dr. Jones
is now In the city and occupied the pulpit
of the First United Brethren Church
yesterday.
Tomorrow night the Men's League of
this church will take steps to inaugurate
the movement for organic union, among
all the United Brethren churches in the
United States. There are about 1500
ministers, all of. whom will be communi
cated with by letter and asked to take up
the question with their churches.
The Oregon conference of the United
Brethren Church will meet in Portland
jn June, and delegates will be invited to
attend -from the Methodist Protestant
and Evangelical branches. Dr. Ward, of
Seattle, pastor of the Methodist Protes
tant Church, at that city, will be a dele
gate. The evangelical conferences will
appoint delegates later. The Evangelical
Ministerial Association of Portland, which
meets Monday. February 17. will take up
the question of organic union.
NOT IN HARRIMAN EMPLOY
George S. Shepherd Answers Inquiry
Made by Thomas McCusker.
PORTLAND. Feb. 2. (To the Eedltor.
Mr. Thomas McCusker, in a communcation
published in The Sunday Oregonian, direct
an extended inquiry as to whether In the
event of being elected to Congress I would
perve the people of OreRon or the Harriman
Interests. Doubtless Mr. McOusker would
not have considered It necessary to present
this question had he been aware of the sit
uation I am not in Mr. Harrlman's em
ploy, as Mr. McOusker states. I was also
'flred" before announcing my candidacy for
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MITrHKl.L, I.KWIS STATER COMPANY'S NEW BUILDING. EAST SECOND
CoTinresn. and Mr. SJoCuskerj attitude ia
answer as to whether this process oT termin
ating an employment warms one's xeal in the
Interests of his former employer.
The employment Mr. McCusker refers to
consisted of the examination of a number
of abstracts of title and the trial of some
condemnation suits In the State of "Wash
hiRton. My work was flnlehed. and likewise
the undersigned. Besides, my chief aim
and end Is to be able to accomplish some
aood for the people of Oregon In the line
o,' river improvement, and other pressing
needs, and should I be the choice of the
people for the place sought. I will never usa
my office for any private ends or Interest.
GEOIIGE . SHEVHURO.
HEALTHY TOE IN
REALTY MARKET
Transfers Indicate a Brisk
Movement at Advanc
ing Prices.
INSIDE LOTS ATTRACTIVE
Lots for Residence Building Hcing
Taken Kapldly, Especially,!". East
Side Xewly-Plattcd Townsltes
and Suburban Section.
It is doubtless a good idoa for real
estate brokers to entertain, or at least
announce, confidence In prevailing real
estate conditions. The history of business
in all branches is that if persons engaged
in any particular line continually talK
"good times," .that is the sort of times
they will experience. There is, however,
no reason to stretch a point in reporting
a healthy condition of the market now.
for all who know anything about the busi
ness realize that sales are being made at
a great rate and that values are increas
ing, but in a safe manner.
By far the larger number of sales are
of lots in suburban districts, which are
being taken by homebuilders. The rapid
settling up of the borders reflect on val
ues in the older parts of the city, for it
is a trite saying tnat the more homes the
more business is to be done. and. in the
natural course of events, in order to en
gage in trade, facilities must be provided.
Even now there are people who predict
that the city of the future will extend to
the Columbia across the peninsula, and
that the vacant lands out across the
sloughs to the eastward are bound to
come into the market before many years;
A brisk movement In lots to the north
and west is attracting attention and val
ues are rising accordingly. As an In
stance, two lots between Twenty-sixth
and Twenty-seventh streets, facing Thur
man. sold last -week for $7300. Lots in
the Exposition vicinity are also being
taken, and building lots in King and Gold
smith additions are showing a steady ad
vance. Few sites in the factory and
warehouse districts remain along streets
having railroad facilities, and the result
will be that contiguous streets must fur
nish sites for those purposes in the fu
ture. No sale of recent days has been as im
portant In convincing the trade of the
desirability of paying good stiff prices for
inside lots, if they are to be secured at
all, than the Park and Morrison-street
sale referred to in The Oregonian. yes
terday. The figure is not considered ex
cessive, even by conservative dealers, and
the vicinity is certainly to receive more
attention from buyers than before. In
the last year or two that section of the
city has seen a marked change in ap
pearance from Taylor to Washington
streets, and along the intersecting streets.
Bench lands are coming into the market
for apple-raising in the Hood River Val
ley. Last week Mrs. Marion Mac Rae
closed a deal with F. B. Leighton. of
Portland: for 20 acres formerly belong
ing to Frank Chandler, at tl25 an acre.
The land lies on the ridge between Hood
River and Mosier.
The daily list of transfers clearly proves
the activity in the market and an exam
ination of the records will bring out the
fact that lots anywhere in the city, in
any direction, are -considered good invest
ments by people with money, whether lit
tle or much.
William Gedamke has just sold his farm
of -53 acres, located on the right of way
of the Mount Hood Railway Company,
for $10,624. to Dr. J. M. Short. The land is
improved and is in a' high state of cult!- ,
vation. ' . i i
Amonr the sales of last week there are
reported to this column:
By the Dunn-Lawrence Company the
following sales: Smith & Coveil to W. M.
Kennedy and Emmet O. Bainter. each
an acre tract in Oovell, J1330: Nettie Hess,
a small tract. $430, and James J. Hess,
one at J.100; L. B. Hendricks to Samuel
Homes, place on Ross street, $3400; Marsh
Brothers to J. Losli, house and lot on
Corbett street, $20: John Mann, house
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. The Mitchell, Lewis & Staver
Building Was Heated by
Direct Steam, In
stalled by
The
W. G. McPHERSON
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Heating and Ventilating Engineers
32S GLISAN STREET
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CONTRACTOR
AND BUILDER
SHOP AND RESIDENCE EAST THIRTY-SEVENTH AND YAMHILL
Phone East 5042
PACIFIC IRON WORKS
O. E. Heintz, Manager. Pbone East 57, Home B 1157.
Castings, Steel Buildings and Bridges
ALL ARCHITECTURAL 'IRON
Full Line of Beams, Angles and Channels in Stock ,
East End Burnside-Street Bridge, , Portland, Oregon.
DAVIS 6
Phone E. 591
Gas and Electric Fixtures
We are located at 406-403 E. 'Burnside, Bet. Grand Avenue and E. Sixth,
with a new and modern line of Colonial and Mission Fixtures, suitable
for the most up-to-date residences. Being in the low-rent, district, we
can save the builder from 10 to 20 per cent on all kinds of lighting fixtures.
and lot on East Alder street to W. M.
Malnes.
New Depot at Trontdale.
Carpenters have begun work on the
new O. R. & N-. depot at Troutdale. to
replace the building destroyed by fire
last Summer. It will stand on the same
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AMI EAST MORRISON STREETS,
site and will be 20x60 feet in sifee. A
new residence will be built for the use
of the local agent.
To Core m Cold in One Daj
Take LAXATIVS BROMO Qulnlna Tablet.
Drugeitfl refund money If It fa-114 to cure,
ii. v. UROVE'S Big-nature la on each box. &o.
GIVK SCENIC PHOTO VALENTl NE3.
Clever, novel, rich. Kiser, 2-IS Aider at.
Spain is the greatest lead-producing coun
try and Germany second.
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Phone B 2151
SPEAKS TO YDUNE PEOPLE
REV. WIL-SOX URGES RIGHT USE
OF POWERS.
Declares Tiiat Youth Has Fiver
Hecu MroiiR Factor in I lie
World's Progress.-
At Centenary Methodist Church. Bast
Pine and Ninth streets. Rev. Clarence
True Wilson delivered a special sermon
to young men last nlnht on the topic.
"The Forces That Move the World." The
services were under the auspices of the
Tenth Legion, which had sent Invitations
broadcast through the city, with the re
sult that there was a large number of
young men present. Music was by the
orchestra, male quartet and choir. TTie
text of the sermon was I Timothy iv:!2.
"Let no man .despise thy youth." The
sermon was a strong and eloquent plea
to young men to appreciate their powers
ana possibilities.
At the opening Dr. Wilson told of the
different forces of matter and forces of
mind. These forces were here, he said,
before man. but they were of little use
until the human mind grasped their limi
tations and use, and the force that con
trols the . powers of nature and utilizes
them is not matter, birt mind. Taking
up the subjoot. as directly applied to
young men. Dr. Wilson said:
The world and the church need the bai
lat of age and the force of youth, .rightly
combined and properly adjusted to give
the steadiness of the one and the speed
of the other. .The wise men of the, Chris
tian centuries have recognised this fact,
and definitely expressed it.
First then: The glory of young men is
their strength. Bodily vigor gives enthusi
asm and enersry to outv.-ard activity, and
makes youth the mightiest potentiality be
neath the face of heaven. The deeds which
Inspire the world from the cages of his
tory were largely wrought out by the young.
This is a young man's world; and youth is
the force that moves it. What young men
lark in experience, they make ud in en
thusiasm. Their youth gives them the essen
tial qualities that win; the daring vigor, the
bounding confidence and the untrammeled de
termination. We do not claim that youth
is free from faults: it is full of fallings.
But better make some mistakes,' while doing
something, than never bring anything to
pass for fear of them. The method of
young men. -of planning and acting without
considering all dilf Icultie-., in the way. 'has
some advantages over the more cautious
method of summoning the past to give its
experiences of obstacles In the way. Age
and experience have to do with the past;
youth and enthusiasm look forward..
When this fresh and unfaced force is jul
developed into lis full activity, it ihnmH
-'WAVERLEIGH
Lots $225 and Up. $25 Down and
$10 per Month. Graded Streets
and Cement Walks.
JNO. P. SHARKEY CO.
12213 Sixth Street
HOLLADAY'S ADDITION
The oue BEST place in Portland to buy. ' GEOGRAPH
ICAL CENTER and MOST DESIRABLE
residence property of the city.
THE OREGON REAL ESTATE COMPANY
. 88V2 Third Street.
THE ADAMANT COMPANY
Manufacturers of
HARD WALL PLASTERS
Oar Celebrated "Crown" Brand Hair Inhered Cement Plaster Used Through
out in Plastering the Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Building.
FACTORY! Foot Fifteenth St.! Tnelfle Phone. M 310.
OFFICES 433 Worcester BI)Ik.. Pacific Phone Main 718. Home A 1218.
The Ernest Miller Co., Inc.
Wallpaper Store and Office, 201 Second St., corner Taylor. Interior
decorating and tinting our specialty. Our facilities in all the different
branches are unsurpassed. Only skilled mechanics employed.
The Portland Tile
OFFICE 217Marquam Building'.
Ceramic, Mosaic, Enameled and Encaustic Tjle lUdKetHU.
JAMES K. BARKER, Prop.
Warehouse--355 Burnslde. near Park Ktrec-t. Branch Office and Salesroom,
451 Empire Building, Seattle, Wash.
The Roofing, Metal Window Frames' and Sashes and Tinning the Fire
proof Doors on. the Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Building Supplied by
J. C. BAYER
Cornices, Roofing, Skylights, Metal Shingles, Ventilators. Etc.
Phone Main 467. 2.63-267 Second St.
THE GLASS
On the Mitchell, Lewis and Staver Building was Furnished by the
CENTRAL DOOR& LUMBER CO.
Thirteenth and Glisan Streets
Jos. Hornung, Res. Hione E. 1359. E. Fischer, Res. Phone E. 4o87.
CITY IRON WORKS
Structural, and sheet iron workers, blacksmiths, tioilermakers; fire-escapes,
sidewalk, doors and hose casings a specialty. .
Tel. Main 7155. 303 Front St., Corner Columbia, Pdrtland, Oregon.
Repair Work Given Prompt Attention Founders. Machinists and Boiler
makers. Building- and Structural Work.
PHOENIX IRON WORKS
KXG1XEEHS.
Office and Wortu,
Hawthorne Avrnne and Kant Phone Knit 20.
Third Street. ' PORTLAND, OREGON.
be consecrated to Christ and .his cause.
Then its glory is radiant. A lower use of
it dims its lustor. Degradation to purposes
of sin turns Its splendor into shame. Only
a life nobly lived is worth the living. Young
man, "thy God hath commanded thy
strength."
What Is true of workers is true of think
ers. Young men have not only rushed
farthrr into' the thick of battle, hut Jiaye
progressed deeper into the realms 'of
thought. The Intellectual feat Nof brain
athletics have tjeen performed in the vigor
of youth. Tim possession of knowledge, of
mental grasp, of reasoning faculty, of busi
ness shrewdness, of imaginative power ar.d
strength of will, are given to young men.
Cliin'ose Character Entertainment.
A .Chinese character entertainment
will be given in the Taylor-street
Methodist Church. Tuesday, "FVbruary
For Coughs
Never hesitate to ask your doctor about
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. It is a regular medi
cine, a strong medicine, a doctor's medicine.
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral
REVISED FORMULA
It would be very interesting to know how many
years' your family physician . has prescribed Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral for coughs, colds, and all forms
of lung troubles. Ask him the next time you see
him. We know physicians who have used it for
over half a century.
We have no secrets t We publish
the formulas of all our medicines.
J. C. AYER CO., Manufacturing Chemists, Lowell, Mass.
A 2537 Phones Main 550
& Mantel Company
P1IOXK MAIN -5S73.
Phones : Main 479o, A 1793.
4. at 8 o'clock. A programme consist
ing of solos, duets, quartets and reci
tations will be presented. The partici
pants will be dreseed in costumes rep
resenting 16 different nations. The pro
ceeds of the entertainment are for tho
benefit of the Methodist Chinese mis
sion. Will Open Revival Tonlglit.
Spci-iai services will begin tonight in
the Third Presbyterian Church and con
tinue during the week, closing Friday.
Andrew J. Montgomery, the pastor, .will
preach. "
If Ban? Is Catting Teeth
Be mum and use that old well-tried remedy.
Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup, for chtldrac
teething. It eoothea the child, soften tns
cums. allays pain, colic and diarrhoea.
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