14 THE MORNING- OREGOXTAN, SATURDAY, APRH. 2, 1910. OFFICE BUILDING TO COST S250, Park Street Property Leased for Thirty Years to Trust Firm. VALUATION PLACED HIGH I-essees Plan to Erect Ten-Story Structure ATerage Rental for Entire Term Is $1250 Month- ljr Negotiations Closed. Leased tor a term of 30 years, the property at the southwest corner of Park and -Washington streets, owne by U. F. Durkheimer & Co.. consisting: of X. F. Durkheimer and Leo Friede, passed Into other hands yesterday. Flatt & Piatt take the lease over for the Fidelity Trust Company, of which they are the Incorporators. The lease Is made on the basis of 6 per cent on $250,000 ground valuation, the average rental being: $1250 per month. Under the terms of the lease the lessees will be requiredf to build a structure of not less than six stories and costing: not less than J50.000. This lease Koes Into effect on July 1, 1911, until that time being: under lease to the Royal Bakery Company and C Is. bckhardt. Ten-Story Office Building Due. Although the lease calls for the erec tion of a six-story building:, the site will be used for putting: up a 10-story office building:. This work will oe Rtarted as soon as the lease goes into effect. The building; to be erected will cost something: over $250,000. Messrs. Piatt k Piatt have as yet made no definite plans for the building, although they have already taken some esti mates on the work. Save that the new structure will be a modern office build ing. 10 stories high, a Class A and fireproof building, no definite plans have been reached. No architect has been commissioned to prepare the pla ns. The property consists of a two-story brick building, covering the entir 60x 100 feet negotiated in the lease. It has a frontage of BO feet on Wash ington street and 100 feet on Park, street- This location was purchased by the present owners 17 years ago for tl 6,500. At that time it brouKht in a rental of $10 a month. A short time later the rentals dropped to $100 a month and- continued at that figure for about three years, when the growth of the city westward began to be noticeable and rentals began to creep upward un til now, as evidenced by the lease, they have reached a point where the an nual rental is almost as large as the flat purchase price 16 years ago. Graduated Scale of Rental Planned. The terms of the new lease call for a graduated rental. This will start at $1000 a month and will continue at that point for a term of five years, when it will be increased to $1100 a month, and thus every five years an Increase of $100 per month until the final rental will be $1500 a month. The average rental for the entire term is $1250 per month. The terms of the lease were negotiated by -M. A. Newell. This is the second large lease which was negotiated on Pa'rk street this week, and in the light of the corre sponding locations affords an excep tionally ftood basis for a comparison of valuations of Washington and Morrison-street properties. This week M. W. Hunt negotiated a lease for his 50x100 feet at the northwest corner .of Park and Morrison streets, 50 feet on Morrison and 100 feet on Park, on a basts of valuation of $225,000 at 6 per cent for a term of 50 years. In view of the longer term the val uation for a lease on a 30-year term is figured at $200,000 and is a fairly true representation of the difference in values at present upon the two streets.' COUNTY IS MAKING MONEY Active Business Causes Boom In County Clerk '0 Receipts. County Clerk. Field's office did more business last month than during any other month since Portland was estab lished. The total receipts of the office climbed to $S20.4O, and more than half of this, or $4751, was taken in over the counter for the recording- of deeds and mortgages. The total number OX instruments re corded during: the month wu S881, and of marginal releases 527. In March, 1909. S310 instruments were recorded and 454 releases made. In spite of the large amount of work done, the amount paid out by Mr. Field in salaries was $2871.72, and the amount for supplies $499.05, or a total expense of $3370.77, while the amount paid in salaries in March, 1909, was $2609.64 and for supplies $1193.60, or $3803.24. while the receipts for that month were $7046.55. Other statistics of the County Clerk's office for last month, as compared with March. 1909. are as follows: Cases in Circuit Court. March, 1910. 43: March. 1908. 207; probate cases, 71. 66; Insane committed to asylum. 17, 18; non-support cases, 8, 5; physicians' certificates Issued, 0. 4; hunters' and anglers' li censes, combined, 228, 0; hunters'- li censes. J7, 38; anglers' licenses, 624, 0; opium licenses. IS, 16; stallion licenses. 0, 6; optometry licenses. 0, 2; medical licenses. 8. 9; liquor licenses, 0, 1; citlxens admitted. 6, 6; declarations of intention to become citizens, 71, 89; articles of incorporation, 65, 58; notary certificates, 105, 92; notary commis sions. 68. 45; divorces, 43. 28. WOOD TO BE PRESERVED Forestry Service to Co-operate in Ietenulnlngr Best Methods. Arra n gem en ts were com pi e ted yester day whereby the Forest Service and the University of Vashington Forestry School will co-operate in the establishment of a wood preservation plant. This will be built on the campus of the University at Seattle, and a lax-gre number of experi ments are planned in connection with a course of study of the utilisation of wood products. Timber operators in the Northwest and the Forest Bervice have determined from prolonged investigation that; the principal wood destroying agencies. In order of their Importance, are: Decay, tire. Insects, worms and abrasion. It has been demonstrated that timber will last from three to five times as long after treatment as In the natural state. A system of open tanks will be con structed. The experiments will include the uses of coal tar creosote, zinc chlo ride and wood creosote, and will be par ticularly applied to studies of -effects on Iouglas fir. Western hemlock and West era larch, from which a large part of the material Is obtained for fence posts. j railroad ties, telephone poles, mining tim- V7S0, falling. OlIU ULUCt UBVB WllClO Ll-l (7 element of decay must be considered. t It is estimated that 10.000,000,000 feet of timbers are . renewed by users In the United States with each year because of decay, th,e original" cost of the timber for each renewal being $70,000,000. Preparations will be made for wide dissemination of the information obtained at the University experimental plant. RANGERS ARE ASSIGNED Preparation of Trails to Re First Work of Restored Men. Supervisor Sherrard issued an order yesterday by which 19 men will bfe re stored to active duty on the Oregon forests for the season of 1910. The men will be assigned to preparation of trails and roads in anticipation of reaching and combating forest fires usually occurring in the Summer and Fall. In the past few years the Forest Service has constructed 450 miles of trails and 208 miles of wagon roads, by which heretofore inaccessible re gions have been opened to investiga tion and the pleasure of hunting and tourist parties. VVith the Wrinter storms many of the trails and roads become blocked by falling timber and sliding earth and stones. The first work the men will have to do will be to clear out the debris. Several will be engaged in repairing drift fences which are maintained in the Interests of stockmen. The men appointed are: Marlon C. Burllngame, Orange S. Callison, Raymond N. Gribble, Fred erick Hackler, Carl C. Hill, John B. Senecal, Edward Sisclio, Hiram R. Wil cox. M- J. Gribble, George Ledford, W. Davidson, H. Vincent, Horace Berry, X B. Senecal, W. E. Graham. B. S. Patton, George Douglas, Carl Hill and H. Aschoff. All reside in the vicinity of the for est in Linn, Marion, Clackamas and Multnomah Counties, and were fur loughed at the close of the 1909 sea son. Within,, a few days two men are to be assigned to patroling and guard ing the Bull Run water shed, from which the Portland water Is obtained. The city government also will provide men for that purpose. REDUCED RATES ARE GIVEN Railroads Provide for Rush to Rose Festival From Fast. Official recognition has been made by the Central Passenger Association of the Portland Rose Festival, and this year reduced rates will be made for the Festival season by all the rail roads. The Festival management re ceived notice from Commissioner F. C. Donald of this fact this morning, j Round-trip tickets to Portland from all Missouri River points will be cut down to $50, which is a ' reduction of about one-third from the regular rate. It is also announced that passengers wishing to come or return by way of California may purchase tickets t6 San Francisco one way via Portland or Seattle and obtain stopover" privileges for either of the latter cities. Tickets will be issued good for-return to reach the original starting point three months from the date of sale, but not later than October si. A flood of inquiries from all over the East has been pouring in upon the Festival management and similar in quiries, particularly as to the privilege of going or coming via California, made of the Central Passenger Asso ciation, have resulted In the making of reduced round-trip rates. SPOKANE NEEDED MODE THAN DATES Wood Pipe Company Never Considered Inland City for Site. DENY NEWSPAPER CHARGE Assertion That Portland Factory Would Rave Gone to Spokane if Latter Had Terminal Rates Refuted by Manager. Answering the charge made by the Spokesman-Review of Spokane to the ef fect that the lack of- terminal freight rates for that city had caused the Port land Wood Pipe Company to come to this city from Spokane. F. M. Baum, general manager of the company, ex plained yesterday that his company was never located at Spokane, and would not have gone there had that city had terminal rates. Mr. Baum explained that his company came to Portland because this .city is the best distributing point to pe found for their produots, and for the further iason that it is the best place to get the neceesary clear fir for the manufac ture of pipe. Allegations made by the Spokane paper were the outgrowth of a contract given the local company by the Poet Falls Land Company for $50,000 worth of wood pipe, and the paper charged that had it not been for the lack of terminal rates for Spokane, the money for the contract would have been retained in that city. Thus the railroads are blamed for Port land's success in getting so valuable a manufacturing plant as the company mentioned. This is not the first time Spokane has used the wood pipe industry as an argu ment for terminal rates, for when the city had a bearing before the Interstate Commerce Commission in regard to ter minal rates, it was argued that the Pa cific Coast Pipe Company had removed its plant from that city to the vicinity of Seattle on account of having to pay additional rates of freight. It has been explained by a former member of that company that the real reason tjie plant was withdrawn from Spokane and com bined with the plant the company owned near -Seattle was to be found in the supply - of the necessary material to be found at the latter place.' Press Quarrel? Over Rates. In a letter received by Mr. Baum from the Inland Herald, a newspaper In Spo kane rivaling the Review, it is explained J:hat two factions in that city -aire worked up over a controversy as to whether the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound and North Coast railways should be given franchises there unless they agree to give in return terminal rates. The Herald accuses the Review with heading the faction which demands terminal rates as a reward for the franchise, wnich the companies refuse to grant on the ground that they are not permitted by the Interstate Commerce .Commission to make this concession. The Herald has asked Mr. Baum to say whether his company ever was "In Spokane, and if so if it was forced to leave there on -account of the lack of securing terminal SEASIDE NOW HAS DOG THAT CAN "COON" TREES Lords Henrich's Pet Will Also Climb Ladder Against House and Retrieve , Articles Thrown on Itoof Whenever Ordered. t ; i 1 f ' - t 1 I t 1 , - $ r I ' I?- 1 ! i t P - i v ! 1 i 4 I t ffeM vviuu-:l 2 i i jfr fwisii-MiTrinMiirminn crf-T " iimrm -L- Jt'wThiT f t LOVIS HEX RICH AND BUSTER, HIS TREE-CLIMBIXG DOG. I Winner of Every Glidden' Tour COYEY MOTOR CAR CO. S.vvntH and Couch Sta. PIERCE CADILLAC E1ASIDB, Or.. April 1. (SpeclaL To train his dog. Buster, to climb ' trees ha been the ambition of Louis Henrich. citizen ot Seaside, and now his ambition has been satisfied. Buster will climb any narrow girth tree to the height of 30 feet or more when or dered to do so, and with the greatest of pleasure, should some unhappy feline be perched In the upper branches. Using his fore feet precisely as a small boy uecs. them to swarm a tree. Buster sticks his hind feet and claws Into the bark and boosts himself up. Another of Buster's somewhat rare ac complishments is climbing a ladder placed against the side of a house, by means of which he will retrieve any art icle thrown on to the roof. The trained canine will "return by the same route. Eivlng into the Kecanicum and recover ing stones thrown into-, the middle of tho river is another of the dog's abilities. According to his master, who Is shown with him In the picture. Buster will point for game and retrieve it. -He will watch out for ducks when told to do so and will wim with them to Mr. Henrich1 s launch. In addition he will fight any dog his - size and over. "What breed is he?" Mr. Henrich was asked recently. - - Mr. Henrich pondered. "Well. I don't know." was the thoughtful response, "but I think he's Just dog.' Buster appears to have a strong pre ponderance of Aberdeen terrier Inhlm. rates. Mr. Baum said yesterday that to both of these Questions he must "reply in th negative. "My company has no relation whatever to the Pacific Coast Company, which withdrew from Spokane," said Mr. Baum yesterday. "Our company was incorpor ated about a year ago under the laws of Oregon, and It has never operated In any other place. Spokane was never thought of as a site for our plant, and railroad rates in no way would have induced us to put our plant there. Portland Site Pleases. "That we made a wise selection for our site has been proved by results. We have already taken several very large orders for work, one of which was that given to us by the Spokane firm." The vital part of the complaint made by the Review is contained In the follow ing paragraph, published Thursday on the editorial page of that paper: By this action the railroads have not only taken from Spokane a JSO.OOC contract which was rightfully hers, but have deprived the city of the benefits of an Industry which is now doing a business ot 1 .500.000 a year and employing from 4O0 to 60O men. In this one industry, lost to Spokane, as many men are employed as the railroads claim they will employ in their shops. COLONIST TRAVEL IS HEAVY Three Cars Pull Arrive From Cities in East. One hundred colonists from the East arrived in Portland last night by way of the O. R. & N. One special car, con taining 30 people, came from Denver, another car from Omana, and a third from Chicago. These three were tourist cars, but a number of colonists came In the standard sleepers, also. The colonist travel this year Is break ing records, but the exact figures will not be available until after the special rates have ceased to be effective. BLACK TO ADDRESS MEN m i Xoted Scotch Educator Will Tell of Personal Experiences. Professor Hugh Black, the noted Scotch educator and lecturer, will ad dress the men's meeting tomorrow after- 0U. OUGHT TO BUI Right away do not put it off. This is a case of 4 'lie who hesitates loses. ' ' This land is being sold below its real worth. There is money to be made in this acreage. COLUMBIA COUNTY ACREAGE Has no peer as an acreage investment. It has the necessary qualifications to product fruit, berries and vegetables of quality as well as quantity. It is close to Portland, with unexcelled shipping facilities, rail or water. $20 TO $40 PER ACRE The above prices cannot be beaten in land of equal richness as close to Portland. "What's more, these prices will be advanced before long. We can arrange easy terms. Make it a point to see us as soon as possible. COLUMBIA COUNTY INVESTMENT CO. 214-215 Board of Trade Building;, Portland, Or. Please send me further information in regard to your Columbia County acreage. Name Street State Columbia County Investment Company 214-215 Board of Trade building, Portland, Or. BRANCH AT GOBLE, "OREGON. IN CHARGE OF ANTHONY HARDY noon at 3 o'clock in the auditorium of the Young: Men's Christian Association. He has not yet announced his subject, but it is probable that he will give some of his personal experiences in his long work for young men. Professor Black Is said to keep in con tact with a larger number of college men than ajiy other person In the world. Bach year he spends some time at the leading English universities and then comes to America where he visits the various schools. Tie always spends a week at Yale, a week at Harvard and considerable time at other institutions. He recently cancelled several engage ments in the Bast In order to make his present trip to the Pacific Coast. There will be no speaker at the boys meeting, which is to be held at 3:30. In stead,, moving pictures will be shown and there will be a musical programme. The splendid work of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets is daily coming to light. No such grand remedy for liver and bowel troubles was ever known before. Thousands bless them for curing constipation, sick headache, biliousness, jaundice and Indigestion. Sold by all dealers. Io you shape your head to fit your hat, or do you buy one-sixteenth sizes In the matchless Gordon? Orange SfaefUe A piquant finale for Sunday's dinner or evening luncheon. Ours is especially sharp and tasty, the pure juice of tree-ripened Cali fornia oranges being its principal ingredient. Same price as plain bulk ice cream. Cherry Glace Ice Cream Brick. Cherry confections in the rich, creamy "Vanilla ice cream, only 10c extra. White Clover Cresum Ico Guaranteed to contain no gelatin, starch or other artificial com pound just rich cream and pure flavors. t DELIVERED TO YOUR HOME, ANYWHERE INSIDE CITY DE LIVERY LIMITS. PRICES: Brick, any combination of vanilla, chocolate, 7Tt strawberry, etc., one quart. .'. .'. I OC Two quarts. J81.20t each additional quart 40. Bulk All the, standard flavors in Ice creams and sher bets, one quart t .... Two quarts. $!.OOf each additional quart 30 Telephone Orders Up to 1 P. M. Sunday 60c T. SJownsend Creamery Co. M I .V -407T Manufacturer, of Whit. Ctoror Bntt.r. 18-20 FRONT STREET. ' HOME A 4M Cheapness vs. Quality Sherman Morrison Street at Sixth ay&Co. Opposite Postoffice The world's greatest musical - instrument u Come in and lhear it STORE OPEN TONIGHT In the matter of food you cant afford to sacrifice Quality for Cheapness. Economy 4 is right and good put xnicnor rooa proaucrs are dear at any price. wr(p BAKING Is economical not Cheap. Try ft. The best at any price or your money oack. "e" e f JAQUES MFG ' S; J W "Nlrt u. MCB I rrimr., I vicuna. M Par rod Lm-wm NOTICE HI Hl.y f' i iih.iiiw in. ,m.i. i.' , Ul 1 1 ii wirwi.t.w.jr. ... iniiii.ii t,, M1, ', ir .j g ' .f.i-miiLn ! li ' ' ' '4 Lots will NOl raise in price dur ing our MONTGLAIR sale, but mark this well THEY WON!T LAST LONG AT PRESENT PRICES. Trie Jacobs-Stine Company Largest Realty Operator on the Pacific Coast 146 Fifth Street Phone Main 6869 A-6267