THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1908.
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BUILDINGS
FOR COMING YEAR
Estimate of $12,000,000 Is
Made for New Projects
in Portland.
ARCHITECTS MAKE PLANS
Several Large Structures Are Ap
proaching Completion, and Some
Will Be Occupied March 1
and Others During Month.
The office of the Building Inspector
estimates that this year there will be
112.000.000 rut Into building operations
In Portland. The estimate is based
cement will be made At home for local
use and export as well.
Among the firms that will furnish
carpets, furniture, draperies, ete.r for
the Commercial Club's new quarters
are the following: Olds, Wortman &
King, Meier A Frank Co., Tull &
Glbbs, J. G. Mack & Co., I. Qevurtz
Sons, Ira F. Powers, William Gadsby
& Sons, Jenning & Sons, Art Furni
ture Manufacturing Company, M. J.
Walsh & Co., and West Coast Engineer
ing Company.
Goodrich & Goodrich have made plans
for a building at University Park for
F. M. Filter. The first floor is designed
for stores and the second for office and
halls for lodges.
The Henry-Mallory building, at the
terminal of the Salem electric road, is
rapidly approaching completion at First
street between Columbia and Jefferson
streets.
Bcnnes, Hendricks & Tobey are pre
paring plans for a residence to be
erected at Lovejoy street, near Twenty-fifth,
for Walter A. Holt, of the
United States National Bank.
Bids will be received In about 30 days
for buildings of the Swift plant on the
peninsula, according to a statement
coming from the Union Meat Company
last week.
Plans have been prepared recently
for several dwellings by Hockenberry
& Co., and others are under way. One
GOOD
MARKET FOB
BUILDING SITES
Acreage In Vicinity of Portland
Is Being Taken for
Townsites.
ACTIVITY IN NORTH END
Realty Deals of More Than Usual
Importance Pending and Week
May Bring Unwonted Move
ment in Inside Properties.
Vanduyn & Walton last week reported
the sale of the old Perkins tract on
Washington street between Twenty-first
and Twenty-second to M. W. Hunt and
PORTLAND EAST SIDE RESIDENCE
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RESIDEXCE Jl'ST COMPI-ETKU FOR LEWIS MONTGOMERf, EAST SALMON AXD TWENTIETH STREETS,
COST $25,000. THERE IS A PERGOLA AND A GARAGE.
upon the record made the two first
months of the year, and upon known
plans for big buildings to be erected
during the year. Among these are the
annex to the Oregon Hotel, to cost ap
proximately $100,000; the Y. M. C. A.
Y. W. C. A., estimated at $500,000;
hotel at Fourth and Alder by the Hotel
Investment Company, between $200,000
and $300,000; Rosenblatt's Hotel at
Tenth and Alder, about $150,000; the
Swift packing plant; two and probably
three schoolhouses, and the projected
buildings on the Plttock and Pennoyer
blocks, which will run to about $1,
000,000, according to rather well-founded
rumors. There is some probability
that a permit may be taken out
toward the end of the year for the
McGinn building also, though the lessee
eaid the other day that it would prob
ably be next year before anything
would be done toward making the con
templated improvement. At the same
time, Mr. Jennings is putting in what
is known as a "building clause" in the
short-term leases he is making to ten
ants. Work on buildings Hearing comple
tion has been carried on all Winter,
with the result that several of the
more important structures, will be
ready for occupancy within a few
weeks. The Board of Trade building
at Oak and Fourth Is being plastered,
and this 11-story structure will be oc
cupied early In the coming Summer,
according to the expectations of the
owners, Healy and Lombard. The
Commercial Club building is practically
all rented, and offices on the first floor
are already occupied. The Portland,
Spokane & Seattle Railroad Company
has taken the third floor for its general
offices, the Board of Trade is to oc
cupy the corner room, and the club
will take the two .upper floors, which
are now being rapidly finished for its
use.
The Medical building at Park and
Alder streets is rapidly approaching
completion, and wllh he thrown open
for its tenants In a short time, ffhe
Beck building, at Seventh and Oak, is
having doors and windows put in, and
will be ready for tenants In about six
weeks or two montljs. The last story
of the Gerllnger building, at Second
and Alder, has been laid and work
started on the roof. The Burkhart lot
adjoining is still unoccupied except by
debris from the old buildings which
were torn down some months ago un
der orders from the Building Inspector.
Suit brought by the former Chinese
occupants for damages is in court, and
nothing will be done by the owners
until that suit is settled, at which time
they expect to begin building, accord
ing to W. A. Cadwell, who represents
the owners.
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The demand for cement, which is
growing enormously on account of the
vast amount of construction work in
this country, has . caused prospectors
to explore for deposits. Several de
posits of rock have been experimented
with from Oregon hills, and proper
sand hna already been found, so that
In the course of a few months It would
be no surprising thing to learn that
is for a residence for Mrs. C. D. Brunn,
of 10 rooms on Willamette Heights.
Another is a six-room house for Dr.
J. B. Keefer,: at the Junction of Wil
liams avenue and East Seventh street.
Planking for the first floor of the
Dammeier building, on Fourth street,
is in place and work on the brick outer
walls is progressing favorably.'
ZOiiE 15 BEI1 EXTENDED
NEW BUILDINGS AL-L OVER THE
EAST SIDE.
Iarge Number of New Structures
. Rise Throughout Residence Dis
tricts Across the River.
That the building zone on the East
Hide is not confined to any particular
locality may be seen from the permits
Issued, and from a visit to the suburbs.
Work has been started on the founda
tion of the home of. Rev. J. F. Ghormly,
near East Twentieth and Salmon streets.
It will cost $3500. On the east side of
the residence will stand the $33,000 edifice
to be -erected by the Central Christian
Church, of which Rev. Mr. Ghormly is
pastor. The excavations for the 'founda
tion of this building have been finished.
It will occupy a quarter block.
Dr. W. A. Roberts will . erect a two
story dwelling costing $3000. on East
Thirty-seventh and East Washington
streets. Mrs. R. C. Stowe will erect a
dwelling at Woodlawn on East Thirteenth
street at a cost of $2700. C. A. Bade will
erect a one-tory dwelling at the corner
of East Fourteenth and Hancock streets,
at a cost of $.ri000. John Harrington will
erect three $4000 dwellings on East Fif
teenth and East Oak streets. W. R.
Stokes & Co., contractors, will. put. up
the buildings. The total contract is for
$12,000. W. H. Beaueaith will erect a
two-story frame dwelling on East Yam
hill and East Twelfth streets for $5000.
P. A. Gilmore has let the contract for a
home in Irvlngton to cost $4000.
Architect Jacobberger has finished the
sketch of a two-story brick building 60x100
to cover the lot at the corner of East
Seventh and East Alder streets, to be
occupied by the East Portland office of
the City Water Works. At the next
meeting of the Water Committee the
erection of this building may be
authorized. The first story will be ueed
as an office and the second as a shop for
repairs and extensions in that portion
of the city. The city bought this lot for
$4600
Work on the foundation ot the laundry
for the Yale Laundry Company, on the
corner of Bast Tenth and Alder streets,
is progressing. The building will be of
brick construction and will occupy the
two lote on the east side of East Tenth
street. The-permit calls for a building
costing $W,000.
F. I Shull for $50,000. It is reported to
be the intention of the new owners to
extend King street through the tract and
subdivide the piece into ten lots. Some
of the lots have already been disposed of
at good round figures.
Monroe Goldstein bought last week S6x
100 feet on Lovejoy street, 100 feet west of
Twenty-third, from J. J. Hawes. The
lots are unimproved. Mr. Goldstein Bays
he contemplates the erection of six five-to-six
room flats on the property of two
and perhaps three stories In height. The
ground will permit of spacious yards. The
new owner reports that he has been of
fered an advance on the purchase price,
which for the present is withheld.
More than usual activity Is reported in
lots in Holladay's addition, reaching on
over Into the Irvlngton sections. More
building is projected In that part of the
great East Side than ever before. Prices
for building lots in that district hold up
well and if the demand keeps growing the
lota are pretty certain to advance in val
uation before the year is ended, according
to the agencies handling the sales.
Thero continues to b an active move
ment in acreage in the vicinity of Port
land. Every day's records of transfers
of real estate contain the description of
one or more of these transactions, from
a few' acres for gardening purposes to
large tracts for new townsites. South of
the Mount Tabor district several sites are
either now platted and Jots offered or are
about -to be cut up into suitable tracts.
Members of the excursion to Salem last
week on the occasion of the celebration
of the opening of the new electric line,
say that in various places along the line
evidences of new townsites are seen. Al
ready some of the sites have placards
announcing lots for sale and at other
places signboards announce that property
is offered for the same purpose.
Lands in the vicinity of the new stock
yards and packing plant are being looked
upon with much favor by investors. The
recently platted tract south and east of
Piedmont and adjoining Woodlawn, han
dled by Brong and Steele, is attracting
attention, and the older plots farther
south are again being favorably consid
ered by prospective buyers.
Thompson & Swan, Vancouver, Wash.,
report the following sales made in Clark
County last week: Forty acres owned by
S. W. Thompson to Ida Levin, for $1600;
11 acres from J. J. Drast to James T.
Brown, $1100; 11 acres from James T.
Brown to A. L. Wllklns, $1250; 6 acres
from A. Phllbrick to J. Wanke, $1100.
The most 'important transfer recorded
last week related to the sale of the Dr.
R. C. Coffey' sanitarium on Twentieth
street between Glisan and Hoyt to George
F. Thompson, trustee, representing Arch
bishop Christie. 'me consideration as
recorded is $60,000.
The preent week is likely to see the
transfer of some valuable downtown busi
ness sites, several brokers reporting deals
about closed and that buyers and sellers
are coming together much nearer than for
sometime past in their ideas of values.
Quite an active movement was on last
week for upper Washington street lota In
XTURES
WIRING
HIGH-CLASS
FI
AND
The Fixtures and Wiring in the Lewis
Montgomery Residence were Installed by
Morrison Electric Go.
Electrical Contractors
S. G. JAGGAR J. E. MAXON
291 East Morrison St. Phones B 1625, East 3128
UR steam-heating plants are installed right.
"We don't leave out valv.es where they should
be put in. We don't use a small pipe where
there should.be one of sufficient capacity. We don't
install a job and let the owner kick after we've got
our money.
It pays to employ a firm whose reputation for fair
dealing is well known. When we figure on a job, we
figure on a GOOD JOB not a cheap one.
THE W. G.
Heating Engineers.
ERSON CO.
328 Glisan Street.
You Can Not Afford to Buy Gas
or Electric
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Until You Have Called at
BARRETT'S
'Most Complete Line in Portland..
. You can mar the beauty of the most expensive and handsome
home by not having the fixtures in harmony with the surround
ings. Everything in fixtures at Barrett's.
408-410-412 MORRISON ST.
Phones: Main 122, A 4154.
THE J. McCRAKEN COMPANY
Jobber of
UTAH LAND PLASTER
Lime, Cement, Plaster, Fire Bricks, Fire Clays, Hardwall Plasters,
Plastering Hair and Fiber.
231-235 Pine Street. Phone Main 270. Portland, Or.
Mr
uilder
You will save money, time and worry
by having the
M.I.WALSHCO.
install your Electric Light Wiring, Tile
Flooring, Gas and Electric Chandeliers
They also carry a complete line of mantels, grates
andirons, fenders and sparK ftuards, and do all kinds
of fireplace tiling and repairing.
311 STARK STREET, Between Sth and 6th
Both Phones
Phone E. 691 J)AVIS 6 DRENNEN Phne B
2151
Gas and Electric Fixtures
We Are Located at 406-408 E. Burnside, Bet. Grand Ave. and E. Sixth
with a new and modern lHe 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.
PACIFIC IRON WORKS
O. E. Heintz, Manager. Phone East 57, Home B 1157.
CASTINGS OF ALL KINDS,
STEEL BUILDINGS AND BRIDGES
IN STOCK 3 to 24-Inch Beams. 4 to 15-Inch Channels.
112x112 to 8x8-Inch Angles
East End Burnside-Street Bridge, Portland, Oregon.
WAVERLESGH
Is the place where the houses are
being built. Get in early and make
money. Lots $450 and up; $25.00
down, $10.00 per month.
Jno. P. Sharkey Company
122, SIXTH STREET
PHONE A 2537 MAIN S50
THE ADAMANT COMPANY
Manufacturers of
HARD WALL PLASTERS
The Celebrated "Crown" Brand Hair Fibered Cement Plaster.
FACTORY! Foot Flft'renth St.( Pacific Phone. M 210.
OFFICE!: 433 Worceatcr Ulilc; Pnclllc Phone Main TIM. Home A 1218.
J. c.
CORNICES, ROOFING, SKYLIGHTS, METAL
SHINGLES, VENTILATORS, ETC.
Phone Main 467. 263-267 Second St.
Jos. Hornung, Res. Phone E. 1359. E. Fischer, Res. Phone E. 4587.
CITY IRON WORKS
Structural and, sheetiron workers, blacksmiths, boilermakers ; fire-escapes,
sidewalk, doors and hose casings a specialty.
Tel. Main 7155. 303 Front St., Corner Columbia, Portland, Oregon.
Repair Work Given Prompt Attention Founders, Machinists and Boiler
makers. Building: and Structural Work.
PHOENIX IRON WORKS
Office and Work,
Hawthorne Avcnne and East
Third Street.
ENGINEERS,
Phone Knot 2D,
PORTLAND, OREGOX.
the district to the north of that thorough-.
fare.
"W. F. Sargent, of San Francisco, who
recently bought a lot on Alameda ave
nue, in 'Rose City Park, will begin the
erection of a $3000 residence. Mr. Sargent
will have his home finished .by July, when
he will move his family from San Fran
cisco to Portland.
The contract for the erection of the
four-flat tenement to be erected on the
northwest corner of Pacific street and
Grand avenue, for Mrs. Loveridge and
associates, has been awarded. It will
cost $6500.
The proposed rail line on Fifteenth
street will cause' quite a scramble for de
sirable factory and warehouse sites along
the north end of that street. ,
Nearly $400,000 was represented in the
amounts recorded in realty transfers last
week. In the majority of Instances the
purchase price being nominally stated.
Mrs. Needham will erect a J5O0O bunga
low in Rose City Park. Goodrich &
Goodrich are preparing plans for this
building.
Porter Bros., contractors, concluded the
purchase of 300 feet of St. John water
front last week adjoining a strip on which
the city has an option for a free dock.
Many Attend Special Service.
Both services . in Central Baptist
Church were crowded yesterday to hear
Rev. John M. Dean, of Seattle, who is
conducting special services in that
church. He will speak at the services to
night on "Asleep in a Barber's Chair."
Music will be furnished by an orchestra
from the BmmanUel Baptist Church and
an augmented choir. Large delegations
will be present from other churches.
TIMBER LOCATOR'S VIEWS
THINKS LAJVD-GRANT SETTLERS
MAY WIN.
Will Iose Only Their Filing Fees in
Event Courts Decide in Fa
vor of Railroad.
George W. Douglass, a timber I07
cator of this city, believes that per
sons filing on lands embraced in the
Oregon & California (Southern Pacific)
land grant will have a prior right to
their selections, should the . proposed
suit to compel the railroad corpora
tion to comply with the terms of the
grant be decided in favor of the Gov
ernment. Mr. Douglass contends that
applicants for these lands are acting
clearly under the terms of the grant,
which have been violated by the rail
road, and he argues that at best all
these Intending settlers can lose, even
should the suit be decided against the
Government, would be their filing fee.
He says:
The terms of the Southern Pacific Rail
road grant, by act of Congress, explicitly
provide that the lands must be "sold tr
actual settlers In quarter sections only to
one person and at a price not exceeding
$2.50 per acre." Many citizens have applied
tor this land under the trms of the grant,
but the railroad, realizing the enormous
value of their holdings, refuses at this time
to comely with the law.
Now if these applicants do apply in rood
faith to purchase a quarter-sect Ion of this
land and the railroad In bad faith refuses
to let them have it, is It not reasonable to
suppose that, after the Government com
pels the railroad to live up to the terms
of the grant those who have aDDlled and
offered to purchase will surely be upheld
In their rights and eventually be accorded
the land? The applicant at this time does
comply with the-law. notwithstanding the
fact that the railroad violates it. At the
time the applicant applies he makes a ten
der as an actual settlor, offering the legal
ized rata of $2.60 an acre.
I read in today's Oregonlan that Postal
Inspector O. C. Rlchea claims that tho.se
filing now will have no prior right to this
land and that in his estimation the land
will go back Into the public domain. 1
would Hke to know by what authority he
makes this statement, as his official position
will g-ive It weight with the public.
I am filing and locating citizens on this
land and have kept myself posted as to all
the published proceed! nRs of the Govern
ment. The Fulton resolution, passed by the
United States Senate recently, was to the
effect that tho railroad be compelled to
comply with the grant which, it Is reason
able to suppose, it will eventually do. Now
if It does, is It not reasonable to conclude
that applicants whose filings are properly
recorded and who have' tendered the re
quired $400 In accordance with the terms
of the grant and who have in the presence
of witnesses made affidavit to that effect,
will be entitled to their portion of the
land?
There is a diversiy of opinion on this
subject and as a great number of citizens
are deeply concerned the regularity of
these filings should be passed on so that
the question might be finally settled. Postal
Inspector Riches Is no doubt honest In his
convictions regarding the matter, but there
are others Just as honest who feel that the
courts will recognize priority claims to these
lands and eve nfi ally will require the rail
road to sell each particular quarter-section
to the first applicant.
However, viewing the situation in its
present condition, those filing do so in a
spirit of speculation. If they secure the
land. It means a small fortune to them, but
should the suit by the Government be de
cided adversely, applicants would only for
feit thtir filing fee. which is Insignificant
when compared to the great value of the
land applied for.
BLUE LAWS ARE FAVORED
Good Government Iague of St.
John Adopts Platform.-
The Good Government League of St.
John has adopted the following platform:
"We favor the strict enforcement of all
city ordinances In letter and spirit, without
fear. or favor.
Wo favor Sunday closing of all bowling
alleys, pool roms, skating rinks, dance
halls and saloons.
We favor retrenchment In expenses and
a reduction of salaries, and believe they
should be a follows: Mayor. $50 a year:
Councllmcn. .n a year: city Recorder. jlOdil
a year; City Attorney. fooO a year, his pres
ent salary being flooo.
We favor voting bonds for the purpose of
buying waterfront and electing a dock.
We favor petitioning the Legislature to
permit the county to operate a free ferry
at St. John.
We favor a light Ktreet grade for tho
outlying' districts to conform to the con
tour of the. land, in order to keep the cos:
of street improvements within the legal
limits.
The platform is signed by F. L. Young.
S. C. Cook and El C. Hurlburt, commit
tee, who drafted it.
March 3 J. I. Fletcher, president of the
league, will address the people of St.
John on "Good Government." and is ex
pected to outline what will be the policy
and objects qt the Good Government
League.
Confers With Mulai Hafid.
FARIS. Feb. 23. A special dispatch
from Tangier to the Petite Republique
Fays that Hcrr Nier, the German Con
sular Agent at Morocco City, has visited
Mulai Hafid's camp in Moorish terri
tory and had several Ions consultations
with the pretender.