13 TIIE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, SEPTE3IBER 16 1906. VALLEY TRACTION BUS New Railway Will Use Strip in South Portland for a Right of Way. CONSIDERATION IS LARGE Activity of Real Estate Market Re sumed With End of Summer. AYaverly Tract Is Re- ported Sold. After several weeks- of continuous ne gotiations, the most important transac tion in railroad property that has been made in Portland for several months was closed yesterday. The Willamette Valley Traction Company is the purchaser, and the property acquired includes nearly nine blocks of South Portland realty. A portion of the land will be used to give the company a private right of way into the city, in conjunction with the fran chise which has already been granted, and the remainder will be divided into lots and sold for warehouse purposes. The sale was made through the agency of C. K. Henry, who has been Instru mental in carrying through many of the lnrce purchases of railroad property in Portland. The land included in the purchase of the Willamette Valley Traction Company is designated on the city map as block 104, part of block I. and all of blocks i, K, L, M, N. O, and a portion of block P- in Caruthers' addition. They lie in a continuous line, east of Hood street and its continuation into Water street ana extending from Woods street on the smith to Sheridan street on the north. Blocks L and O and M and N are dou ble blocks extending from Hood street on the west to Macadam road on the east. The property was acquired from a num ber of owners, and the purchaser de clines to make the consideration public, as Is the case in nearly all railroad pur chases, although It is known that the total amount is very high. Block 104 was purchased from William Strahlman and Dr. W. K. Smith, and block I was owned by the Scheeland estate. Mrs. Emma Austin was the owner of blocs: J, Will lam Druck of block K. and C. W. Cottell of the portion of block P which was sold. The remainder of the property be longed to the Homeopathic Hospital As sociation. To lie Used for Right of Way. The Willamette Valley Traction Com pany contemplates using a part of the property as a private right of way for Its electric line coming in from Salem. This arrangement will eliminate the abrupt curve on Hood street, and will also afford an easy grade. If the Hood street route were followed throughout, it would be necessary to make a deep cut, -which will be obviated by using the1 private route which it has Just pur chased. The officials of the company are plan ning to make of the section an Important warehouse district which it will serve by Its own line. Many frame buiTdings of small value are on the property at pres ent and It Is expected that in time all of these will be removed to give sites for substantial warehouses and manufactur ing plants. It is understood that negoti ations have already commenced for sev eral of the sites through the agency of Mr. Henry. In selling the lots the com pany is agreeing to give switching privi leges to each purchaser. Although this is the largest single transaction of the past week, many sales have been made and a still further In crease in activity is promised during the coming months. At present not a sign Is left of the recent mid-Summer dullness anrl each week is witnessing augmenta tion of the volume of business. From the present situation the dealers are con fidently looking forward to a business which will surpass that of last Fall. Although official confirmation is lack ing. It was reported among the realty men yesterday that the Burkhard build ing, one 6f the most important business structures on the East Side, had been sold. The block is located on the north side of East Burnside street, between Union and Grand avenues. It is a three story brick and occupies half a block. The consideration is reported to be In the neighborhood of $130,000 and is re garded as a good investment. Joseph Burkhard, the owner, was for merly a resident of Portland, but Is now living In Los Angeles. He has been in the city for several ' weeks and It is known that negotiations for the sale of the building have been in progress. A price of J130.000 was made upon the build ing and the deal is generally regarded among the realty men as having been closed Waverly Tract Is Sold. Another even more important sale re ported on the East Side Is that, of the extensive- Waverly tract. The name of the purchaser Is not known, and the owner, Joseph Healy, declines to confirm the report of the saje, although admitting that negotiations are in progress. Mr. Healy yesterday concluded the sale of a building on the east side of First street, between Stark and Washington. It was owned by J. El Blazier and was purchased by P. Cordano for 115,000. A two-story frame is on the property, which Is only a half lot. The largest sale of the week, with the exception of the Chamber of Commerce deal, which was begun the preceding week. In the West Side business district is that of a half block on Seventh street, already reported In The Oregonian. The property Is located between Burnside and Couch streets, and was purchased by H. Wemme for $100,000. The present im provements on the property are of small value, but it Is probable that Mr. Wemme will hold it for sale rather than erect a building upon Jt. as this has been his policy in extensive realty operations in this city. As the balf block was offered for $65,000 a short time ago, the s-fle shows a considerable rise in that dis trict. The sale of the Chamber of Commerce building has now been concluded, and the Seattle Dock Company, headed by W. D. Hofius, is now in possession of the title. The mortgage of $449,000. held upon this building ty the New York Life Insur ance, is due for payment next March. It is said the Seattle capitalists will pay off the mortgage, but even before doing so will rebuild the eighth story of the structure, which was destroyed by fire. E. J. Daly reports the sale of 33 1-3 by 100 on the south side of Couch, between Fifth and Sixth; consideration, $12,400. The property was owned by Jaeger Bros., who purchased it five weeks ago through Mr. Daly for $10,500. The pur chaser's name is not yet public. Mrs. Annie Campion has bought two lots on Hoyt street, between Twenty-second and Twenty-third, from W. D. Ladd for $6200. She will erect a fine residence upon them. The same dealer has sold for Ladd & Strong to Charles Baren ftecher. a lot on Lucretia street, be tween Washington and Everett, for $3500, and has concluded the sale made last r. ..'. ... j rr v n p - . x 1 i " 1 y --'Zzl3?fk iff- - rr llh 1 :: tfr TiHi -r i -Ml - RESIDENCE UNDER COXSTRUCTIOJT FOlt E. 1.. I,OWELl OX DECKER week of a little more than one lot at the southeast corner of Fifth and Main streets for H. P. McGuire to F. W. Baltes. The consideration for the latter Bale was $36,000. William Sherlock Company has sold to a syndicate of local investors a lot at the northeast corner of Blackstone and York streets for $12,000. The property is intended for a warehouse site. The sale was made by E. S. Jackson & Co. Many other large sales are now under way, and it is expected that next week will be one of the busiest of the season RKSIDENCE OF C. C. BOBBINS. 67 so far. Smaller sales have continued un. abated, and activity has been noticeable in all parts of the residence district. Although the week has been a rainy one, it has not retarded the numerous building projects to any great extent. On some of the new residences which were not under cover, however, work has been Interrupted. Transfers for Week. September 10 65.018 September 11 41,916 September 12.. 34.274 September 13 61.630 September 14 49,514 September 15 31,983 Total 284.332 Permits for Week. September 11 10 835 September 12 22,408 HEMOE.NCB OF DR. A, r , ' - " , - " ------, ' '"ft 1 t I . ' ...... I t2 A , WlWMmypnAUVi PWWUMUlJWJlljjUijI -Ty-J h.i,i..i 11.1,111,1 nM ., .1 1,1 L. . 1 u K, . , , j;. .l . l. mi I jnflpf W r 4 : ".-.fii ; II' 111 iMHrl HVr' , V ffTT'r J ! J i I ill P;-'i Lw,,--v. M i, j J L , ) iJS. , V. ' I ' h . - . .- iil '' " ' . ftwa.".-- , : . ; E , " .. 'fr L , TiT ' '' ' ' ' 'gOTTywy v..-.. a -..wcw-- Y :. . , . , ROAD, MOUNT TABOR September 13 '. 34,225 September 14 21,775 September 15..... , 45,676 Total 134,911 Real Estate Transfers. W. L. Payne and wife to Henry Raz. lot 16, block 12. MaBelle -Park 1 Mattie Heath and husband to Dora Martin lot 10, block 8, Woodlawn Heights j 2S5 L. C. Norton and wife to Net Nor- ' en, lot 18, block 5. Severance Addl- .... ... v, .. EAST TWENTIETH STREET NORTH. tion to St. Johns 300 Arleta Land Company to K. S. Er vin, lot 16. block 12. Arleta No. 2.. 100 Ben M. Watson and wife to H. I. Winters, lot 15, block 1, Gillam's First Addition S50 Newton Gilliam and wife to B. -M. Watson same as above 150 Title Guarantee and Trust Company to T. A. Shoemaker, lot 2, block 17, South St. Johns 250 S. M. Leonard to T. A. Shoemaker, lot 2 block 4, Grime's Addition to St. Johns 200 W. R. Ellis and wife to Charlotte B. Vierhus, lots 4. 5 and 6. block 7. Highland 1 Sarah E. Marshal and husband to George Wintermantle. south 60 feet of lot 3 and north 10 feet of lot 4, block 213, Holladay's Addi tion 3,400 Charlotte Vierhus and husband to John A. Lofqulst, lots 4 5 6 block .'. . .:. -:'7s: E. MACKEY, TWENTY-FOURTH AND - tl"'illlllMimilMill1" i II J,.- J STREET NEAR BASE LINE 7, Highland Louisa A. Fedcombe and husband to Stephen A. Morgan, lot 10 block 7. Doscher's Second Addition Plympton Kelly and wife to James G. Kelly, remaining parcel of Plympton Kelly D. C. L. in sec tions J. 9. township 1 south, range 2 east, W. M . Joseph Pettit and wife to A. H. Pettit. lot 16 and east half lot 15, block 54. Sunnyside Albert Muessig to C. C. Wiley, lot 13, block 13, Arleta No. 2 Joseph Pettit and wife to A. H. Pettit. lot 14, west half lot 15, Sunnyside Pacific Realty and Investment Com pany to L. E. Thompson, lots 8, 15, block 5. Stewart Park R. Anton Neilson and wife to Sara F. and Mabclle L. Roberts, lot 3. block 11. John Irving's First Ad dition . George Brown to James Brvant. lot 13, block 10, Laurelwood Park Sheriff to H. Hartzell part of lot 1. block 9, Latourell Falls Adelbert Todd to Frank Todd, lot 19. block 23. Tremont Place George Meyer and wife to Frank Todd, lot 20. block 23, Tremont Place Lenore Sollender to A. S. Johnson, lots 1. 2. 3. 4. 3. 6. 7. 8, block 287, Coffin's Addition Ethel M. Stone and husband to N. Gregorians. lot 5. block 45. Penin sula Addition No 4 J. B. Wilson to Idella McBrlde. lot 2. block 6. Glencoe Park Addition. Pacific Realtv and Investment Com- Sany to H. E. Rosseter, lot 14, lock 5. Stewart Park Arleta Land Companv to Mary Jones, lots 25, 26, block 4, Arleta No. 2 O. D. Wolfe and wife to Nellie P. Kendall, lot 5. block 5 Tremont Place John Dounerberg and wife to Jo seph Urbanck. subdivision E, lot 1, block 5. Portland Homestead... A. C. Troon; and wife to Tyrane Cook, lots 1. 2. block 6, John Irv- ing's First Addition University Land Companv to L T. Seholt. lots 6. 7, block 56, Univer sity Park Sell wood Realty and Investment Company to Charles H. Myers, lots 5. 6. 7, 8. 9. 10, 11 and part lots 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17, 18, block 112, Sellwood George W. Gordon and wife to Le nora Kurtz, lots 5 6, block 7 Lin coln Park .' Robert C. Wright, trustee to J. D. Burns, lots 1, 2, 8, 4. block 153, University Park 1,000 2,400 3.400 100 800 200 4,000 100 876 100 100 10 75 1.500 100 200 1 250 8,000 500 1 2,500 1 Total ; $31,780 Newark Gets Veteran Scribes. NEWARK. N. J., Sept. 15. James Mar tin, for several years managing editor of the New York Tribune, who has been elected presiclent of the Newark Dally Advertiser Publishing Company, will as sume the duties of editor-in-chief and publisher on Monday next. Frederick A. Austin, also of the Tribune, will be the general manager of the Advertiser, and Edward w. Drew will resume his old po. sition of managing editor, which' he re linquished a year ago to become a mem ber of the editorial staff of tHe New York Commercial. MARSHALL STREETS. GLORIES OF CREST G. H. Himes Describes Vista From Scenic Summit. FEW FINER IN THE WORLD Two Thousand Trips Have Failed to ExJiaust for Writer Beauties and Historic Interest of Old . Council Ground. PORTLAND, Sept. 14. (To the Edi tor.) At last Council Crest, the finest scenic point of view in the vicinity of Portland, has been made easy of access to all classes and conditions of people. It is with unapeakuble pleasure tnat this fact can be announced. My lirst visit to this lofty eminence was on September 6, 1866. In my diary of that date the hope is expressed that some time in the not too distant future there might be some means of easy and cheap transportation to this wonderful van tage ground of observation, from which one can see into or across 21 counties in Oregon and Washington. Two-score years have made a phe nomenal change in the surroundings of this city changes which can scarcely be realized even by those who have been oye-witnesses. In 1866 all the hills in the rear of the city were heav ily timbered, as well as all the region to the east, west, north and south, ly ing within a distance of ten miles in every direction, and the only evidences of civilization to be seen were occa sional columns of smoke arising through the somber forest at irregular distances, sometimes miles apart. In the 40 years Intervening since first going to the spot now called Coun cil Crest which, by the way, I caused to be thus named on July 11, 1898 I have made over 2000 trips thither, on foot, on horseback and in convey ances of some k'ind, and invariably had one or more companions kindred spir its whose love of the beautiful in na ture Impelled them to accompany me. These trips have been made on almost every day in the year, and in almost every hour of the day and night. The view of the mountains, the cloud ef fects, the sunsets, the continual changing of the magnificent and far reachinfr panorama no other city oji the globe having anything like it cannot be exhausted by those who have eyes to see and the capacity to appre ciate the grand and beautiful. Changes In the Panorama. The evolution of the country sur rounding this fair "Rose City" can be seen from Council Crest to better ad vantage than from any other point. A little more than a generation ago Portland was -scarcely more than an Isolated hamlet in a vast and almost untrodden wilderness. Now it is sur rounded by a patchwork of fertile farms, thrifty cities, towns ana vil lages, and within its own limits and a. radius of 50 miles in all directions there is hard on to a population of .a third of a million souls. And it is my settled conviction that the next ten years will see a greater growth in all the region roundabout this city and throughout the state than has been witnessed in the yearg since that man from Maine. Francis W. Pettygrove, built the first little log store at the cor ner of Front and Washington streets. In the year 1845, who three years later sold the entire original townsite of Portland, embracing 640 acres, in what is now the very heart of the city, for a beggarly $5000, payable in leather yet to be tanned, saving and excepting a few lots which he had bargained off for a mere bagatelle in trade. It has been a privilege to take many persons to Council Crest during the generation past who have been great travelers and have seen the best that the earth affords. Among these I might mention Rev. Henry M. Field, D. D.. of New York; Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston; Thomas Nast, the master cartoonist and caricaturist of the United States, even today; Charles Warren Stoddard, who at the time he was in this city was professor of Eng lish literature in the great Notre Dame University, Indianapolis, Ind.; Arthur Brown, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, Eng land, a great water-color artist whose work was most favorably commented on by Queen Victoria; Joaquin Miller, our own Pacific Coast singer, who de clared on June 16, 1896, that, "having traveled over many parts of the earth in my own and foreign lands, it is in deed most gratifying that I now come back to my own Oregon and have had the scenic drive of my life." In ad dition to the few persons mentioned there have been scores of others, ar tists, poets, descriptive writers, etc and the universal testimony of ail is to the effect that nowhere else can point be found so easily accessible from a city where the view of mount ain scenery, great rivers, fertile val leys and prosperous communities is so extensive and so abounds in all the elements of beauty and grandeur. Possibilities as a Park. Emory S. Smith, a man having a Na tional reputation as an authority on parks, and one who was well acquaint ed with all the best park systems of the world, said: "This ride to Coun cil Crest, with that point as the cli max, surpasses by a great deal any thing in the same line I ever found in any country. Portland has the best opportunity to secure the most mag nificent natural park at the least ex pense of any city on the globe. This drive, and this magnificent and en chanting outlook, would be the for tune of anj- other city. Your people are asleep." And this was after a drive on a November day. The writer once knew a' man who had a desire to make money enough to buy several hundred acres along the crest of the hills to the west and southwest of this city, retain it in all its wild forest beauty, and at length deed it to the city in perpetuity,- with the one condition that under no cir cumstances should the native growth of forest, shrub and flower be de stroyed. But fortune was denied him, and- the project he had secretly cher ished for a score of years had to be given up. Now that a trolley line has been es tablished to Council Crest, the writer hopes that it will become a part of the religion of every man, woman and child living, in this city to make the trip thither, study the lights and shad ows of that point. In storm and calm and never allow an acquaintance from any quarter to come to Portland with out suggesting to him or her the im portance of taking that trip. ' Reminders of History. Aside from the magnificent scenery which is revealed to vision of one stand ing on "Council Crest," the historic sur roundings are of great Interest. F.a and northward may be seen the "lordly Columbia River," discovered by Captain KODert way on jaay n, itsz, the first American navigator to circumnavigate the globe; on the north bank of the riv er, eight miles distant, the city of Van couver may be seen, where Dr. John McLoughlln, the head of the Hudson's tains, held sway from 1824-5 until 1846. as the representative of British power; here the first grain was grown, the first garden planted, the first dairy estab lished, the first seedling fruit grown, the first school taught, and the first sermon preached. Six miles east of Vancouver the first sawmill was erected in 1828. and nearby the first gristmill put in op eration. Southeast, Milwaukie may be pointed out. There the first grafted fruit on this Coast was grown, and that was the Initial point of the great fruit industry of the Pacific Coast of today. A little farther south Oregon City comes into view. The first house here was built in 1829 for Dr. McLoughlin; this was the first capital of the original "Oregon Coun try" when It was bounded by the Pacific Ocean on the west, the 42d parallel on the south, the summit of the Rocky Mountains on the east, and 54.40 on the north. At this place the first Protestant Church west of the Rocky Mountains was erected In the year 1844. and the first newspaper in Oregon, the Oregon Specta tor, was issued here on February 5. 1846. antedating the first paper in California by the space of six months and ten days. A little way north of Oregon City Is the town of Oswego, where the first pigiron in Oregon was made on August 16, 1867, and where the first stovej were cast at a later date. View of Rugged Chehalem. A few miles southwest the rugged out line of Chehalem Mountain may be seen, at the foot of which nestles a most beau tiful valley of the same name, where Ewlng Young, the first white settler west of the Willamette River, established his home In November, 1834. Mr. Young died on February 15. 1841, leaving a consid erable estate. To take care of this it be came necessarwy to create a probate court, and in so doing the first act In connection with an organized American civil government west of the Rocky Moun tains, was performed. The death pt Ewlng Young, a native of Tennessee, caused the birth of the government of Oregon. To the right of Chehalem Mountain, and through a low gap In the foothills of the Coast Range, may be seen Mary's Peak, suggesting a lion couchant. from which Mary's River flows eastward and emptiies into the Willamette near Cor vallls. The river was named after Mary Lloyd, an immigrant of 1845. what was the first .American woman to cross it. The Indian name of this mountain, which is the highest peak in the Coast Range, is Chin-tim-i-ni, after an Indian madden of the Yaquina tribe, who, according to a legend, stood upon the top of that mountain once upon a time, and by di recting her people saved them from de struction by their enemies. Vista Beyond Beaverton. Immediately westward of Council Crest can be seen the town of Beaverton. so named because it Is In the heart of a very fertile and extensive tract of beav erdam land. Beyond are Reedville, Hillsboro, Cornelius and Forest Grove. Just west of Forest Grove are the Gale's Creek Mountains, so named after Joseph Goff Gale, the first settler on the stream now known as Gale's Creek. In 1841 Mr. Gale built the first sailing craft on the Willamette River, the Star of Oregon, which was launched from the east side of Swan Island on May 19, 1841, and sailed to California in August of the next year. Mr. Gale was a member of the first executive committee of the provi sional government of Oregon In 1843. Thus In brief outline are given a few references to some of the historical sur roundings of Council Crest. Many more might be given, but these will suffice for the present. GEORGE H. HIMES. Death In Tenement Trap. NEW YORK. Sept. 15. Ida Peterson, 26 years old, and her three children,- liv ing on the top floor of a tenement in the rear of 80 York street, Jersey City, were overcome - by smoke and severely burned early today in a fire which start ed from an overturned lamp. Frank Pet erson, S years of age, died in an ambu lance on. the way to the hospital.- Mrs. Peterson and her infant child are ex pected to die. C. R. I. & P. Pays 2 Per Cent. NEW YORK, Sept. 15. was -announced in this city today that the Chi cago, Rock Island & Pacific Railwap Company has declared a dividend of 2 per cent on its stock. Milwaukie Country Club. Eastern and California races. 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