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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 20, 1907)
THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 20, 1907. 11 The Big Addition Has Made Good Miles of Street Have Been Graded Miles of Cement Walk Have Been Laid Scores of Homes Have Been Built Water Throughout the Entire Tract Electric Light Service Established Telephone Connections Installed ' The Alameda Is Now Graded Street Cars Are Running Regularly Many Lots Sold Daily " Not a Purchase Contract Forfeited Population Steadily Increasing Push Club Now Being Organized New School Has Many Scholars Hammer and Saw Heard Everywhere Hundreds of Visitors Every Day New Homes Starting Every Week Rapid Transit to Center of City Splendid Community of Refined People Growing More Popular Every Day Will Be Thronged With People Today Rose City Park Car, Third and Yamhill Get Off at the Alameda, Top of Hill See Rose City Park at Its Best . There 's been no let-tip in Rose City Park activity. Scores oi men have been working all Summer. Wonders have been ac complished. The Alameda is becoming; the popular Sunday afternoon stroll; Rose City Park, the popular car ride. No cessation in the sale of lots. We are selling them every day. Prices still extremely low. People are snapping up choice . locations Irke lightning. New friends tell us every day that they intend to build thi3 Fall or in the Spring. Two, new homes started last week. Three more to be commenced this Wage3 More week. Prospects are brighter now than ever before, are steady and high. Salaried people are investing HARTMAN & THOMPSON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Vrnmpa hai-no- built and owned than ever before. The wealthy are looking for elegant home sites. Many of them are choov ingRose City Park. Portland is just entering an era of mar velous real estate prosperity. Suburban homes are becoming more popular every day. No less than a hundred people are preparing to make Rose City Park their homes this Fall. This number is known to us. Many others will buy soon. A trip to Rose City Park- any day will convince the most skeptical that there is to be found the most magnificent home place in Port land ; the most profitable opportunity for investment. Many of the most commanding building locations in the Northwest are in Rose City Park. "They are being selected every day. Splen did sites for villa homes. Places where the scenic environment is unsurpassed anywhere. Here elegant homes will harmonize beautifully with the, grandeur of the natural surroundings. See Rose City Park at once; see it today. Take advantage of the present low prices and liberal terms. Buy a lot now and share in the general prosperity. Build your home while lumber is low. No opportunity like Rose City Park has ever been offered in the history of Portland real estate. Do it now! than $100,000. and perhaps more. Sell wood Is built on a backbone, one por tion, west of East Fifteenth street, sloping toward the Wlllamete River and the eastern section toward John eon Creek on the east.- It will be an easy matter to provide sewers for that part betwen East Fifteenth street and the river, but not so easy to build sew ers for the eastern section. For the eastern portion a main conduit will probably have to be built southward to a connection with the Willamette River at Milwaukle, or through a tun nel under Sellwood to theT'ver. Either plan will be expensive. The plan to provide sewerage for the people east of Fifteenth street by the erection of a septic tank will hardly be tolerated, as it is a temporary expedient that must be replaced sooner or later with permanent sewers, that will take care of the sewerage .and. storm water. Realising that It takes time to build a big sewer system the Sellwood Board of Trade decided to ask the City Engi neer to prepare a comprehensive sewer system. It is estimated that It will lake at least three years to secure such a system, and by that time the popu lation of the suburb may be doubled. The rapid growth of the Catholic popu lation of Portland, and especially on the East Side.-, has made It necessary to. or ganize another parish in Upper Alblna in a district known as Highland. It will take off a. slice of St. Mary's parish. The boundaries of this parish will be Shaver street. Alnsworth avenue' .and Wlllisfais avenue, and the eastern, boundary la in definite. Archbishop Christie has donated a block for a church and schoolhouse. The school will have accommodations for SAO pupils. Also a manse will be erected. The block donated to the parish by Arch bishop Christie' lies on Alberta and be tween East Eighth and Ninth streets. Rev. Father Kennedy has been put In . charge 'of this, new parish. St. -Mary's parish of Alblna is the mother of several parishes. The Re deemer's parish, near - Piedmont, was erected out of the Alblna parish. The parish of the Holy Cross at University Park is another child of St. Mary's. Work on the church and schoolhouse in the Redemptorist parish has . been started, and plans have been adopted for a school for girls In the Holy Cross parish. The Patton Home, on Michigan avenue, is being enlarged by an addition on the north side reaching to the street. At present the home accommodates 46 peo ple, but the addition will Increase its fa cilities so It can house 60 people. The new addition will cost about ttO.OOO. Work on the building of Multnomah camp, Woodmen of the World, on East Sixth street. Is nearing the end. The camp is spending over $5000 in remodeling the ball. It will nave a banquet hall that will seat 500 people. In the main auditorium a stage has been built to pro vide facilities for theatricals. Done by Council Street Committee. The Council committee on streets yesterday accepted the proposition of Ellis O. Hughes, representing the own ers of 10 blocks of property in Irving ton. to pay for the advertising and surveying of tne improvement of the streets in that district between Thompson and Knott streets, and waived all rights to dictate to the property-owners the kind of paving that Is to be put down. The commit tee voted to recommend that an ordi nance be passed giving Mrs. Preston Smith a deed to a strip of land on Port land Heights which had been vacated to her husband in return for a roadway he gave to the city. - No action was .taken by the committee towards re aulrlng the installation of railroad gates at East Eleventh street and Grand avenue. Councilman Rushlight asking to have the matter deferred until he could examine the automatic derailing switches the railroad com pany desire to substitute for the ERECT MODERN BUILDINGS CENTRAL. EAST PORTLAX't) ADOPTS CONCRETE. Masonic Temple Well I'nder Way and Stores, Warehouses and Offices Go Up. The five modern buildings under way In Central East Portland will be com pleted by December, and perhaps one or more will be occupied by the middle of November. On East Burnside street the reinforced concrete four-story building on East Third ftreet, costing $60,000. is being finished. Tlje walls were finished some time ago. The Buckman building, on Lnion avenue, is being finished Inside, and will be completed about November 1. This building will be occupied by a well-known Portland firm. On East Eighth and Burnside the Ma sonic Temple, for the East Portland Ma sonic lodges. Is being finished. The white walls show to some extent how the ex terior will appear. This, building will be one of the most attractive on the East Side. It will cost $25,000. For more than a year work has gone Bteadlly forward on the four-story brick for Mitchell, Lewis & Staver. on East Morrison and Second streets. It covers a half block. Workmen are busy finishing the Interior and putting down a concrete floor in the basement. Its cost will be above $100,000. W. L. Morgan's four-story brick on East Stark street and Grand avenue will be occupied within a few weeks. It was designed as a three-etory building, but It was to add another story. Its cost will be above $40,000. Among the new projects is the two-story concrete building to be erected on the comer of East Aph street and Grand avenue for the Elllott-Reasan Company. The building will cover 90x100 and the cost will be $12,000. W. Mason has secured the contract for the erection of this build ing. It will be' occupied by the Modern Machinery Company. Contractor Mason has started excavating for the founda tion. - , Wilson & Flynn have secured the con tract for the erection of a two-story brick 50x100 on Holladay avenue and - East Twenty-fifth street for Blake-McFall. It will be occupied as a warehouse. It is announced that two other warehouses similar to this one will be erected at this point in the Spring. Wilson & Flynn will put up a reinforced concrete building- on Hawthorne avenue and East Second street for J. Martini. Lewis & Lewis are now preparing plans. These two structures will cost upwards of $50,000. The foundation for the two-story brick, 100x100, for Olds, Wortman & King, on East Ninth and Glian streets, is com pleted and work has been started on the walls. It will be used as a stable. The cost will be $25,000. RECENT SALES AND BUILDINGS Some of More Notable Transfers Show Trend of Operations. A partial list of recent transactions made by one of the leading real estate firms shows the following sales. The list Is printed to indicate the trend of building operations and is by no means complete: S. C. Haynes to Dammeier Investment Co., northwest corner Fourth and Everett, $46,209; adjoining quarter also to be im proved. Old Honeyman foundry, quarter block, southwegt corner First and Columbia, $25,000. Heltkemper half-lot on West Park, be tween Stark and Burnside, at $16,000. It is less than three years ago that the corner where the University Club now stands, nearly two full lots, sold for about the same figure. Northwest corner of Second and Everett where the " Opera-House Laundry is located, has Just sold for '$19,000. The- lot is 50x34. Less than a year ago the entire quarter block on the northeast corner ol the same streets sold for $23,000. Northwest corner of Fourth and Alder, belonging to the Burke estate, has been leased for a term of years and a steel frame structure, to cost $175,000, will shortly replace the old frame building there, according to reports. , Gerlinger building. Second and Alder, $80,000.' Salem Electric line depot. Front and Columbia. $30,000. ' Star Brewery building. First and Mad ison, $25,000. Apartments in Irving street, for H. O. Hickox, $40,000. Apartments on Twenty-first and Fland ers, Dr. Bucks, $16,000. Lot 25x100, Madison, near First. $14,000. Lot Park street, near Harrison, Mrs. Bchrlver. $12,000. Storage warehouse. C. O. . Pick. $10,000. The same firm prepared a list showing what Is to be expected on the East Side irt the way of important building oper ations, but as these have been included in the East Side report, printed in an other column, they are omitted here. Es timates made of important railroad and municipal work place the figures for the Portland City Railway carshops at $500, 000: new steel bridge (Harriman), $500,000, and repalrB on the Burnside bridge, $30,000, M'GINN CORNER IS SECURED Syndicate, of Capitalists Figuring on Seventh-Street Quarter-Block. ' Reports have been current for some days that negotiations are .under Way for a long-time lease of the southeast corner of Washington and Seventh streets. The property is known as the McGinn block, and is in the hands of Jennings & Co. as agents. On account of the desirability of the site there is every reason to believe that if the is -' i S s i fee- i l :tm "" i ' rf.wi'rj;-'" 'T ' ' , ' nt L H. DAY APARTMENTS, KLADEK5 STREET, BETWEEN TWEM1KT H AND TWENTY-FIKST STREETS. deal goes through a big modern struc ture will be erected.- Building opera tions, however, cannot be undertaken for some months, as a number of the preRent tenants have- leases running into next Vear. The intentions of the syndicate interested in securing the quarter-block have not been made public. FARMERS SHARE PROSPERITY Improved Valley Acreage Property Held by Satisfied Owners. Portland is not alone in feeling the effects of Increased population and the growth of business resulting ' there from. F. O. Northrup returned yester day from a trip up the Willamette Valley, the purpose of which was to secure an option on a farm for an Eastern correspondent. Mr. Northrup explained that his business was more particularly devoted to city and subur ban deals and for that reason he seldom had occasion to keep in touch with acreage properties. He was as a con sequence, he said, most agreeably sur prised to find evidences of such sat isfaction and contentment among the farmers in the localities he visited that he had difficulty In finding a suitable tract that would be sold. Land that two years ago brought $50 to $60 an acre is now worth $"5, with well-improved places not In the mar ket at all. ' Inquiries . from Eastern farmers coming to Portland dealers are asa rule from men who had vis ited the state and ask for information concerning farm lands within a radius of 70 miles Of this city. There are un improved iands along the Valley that may be picked up at moderate prices, according to location, and even these are rapidly being taken up by new set tlers. It would seen, said Mr. North-, rup, that the fame of our state' as a productive and healthy place in which to make a home is resulting In settling It up with the class of farmers who have found It to be entirely suited to their views of what a home ought to be. "Every locality I visited." he said, "showed evidences of prosperous times, and with cultivation of prunes, hops and dairy farming the Valley is rapid ly becoming one of the richest farm ing sections of the country." PHOTO POST CARDS SCENERY. . Kiser Co. LobDy Imperial Hotei. Byes fitted to glasses, $1. at Metger. BUY LOTS IN Sixty-five Years Ago New York Began Its Change Into a Large City Up to that time its harbor had been-called a gangway to Albany. The first railroad in the United States had recently been built and a road was planned to go- down the Hudson. The Albany papers ridiculed it as a foolish project, and wound np by declaring that New York could never be more than a gangway to Albany. . How does that sound today t . Yet some people have thought that the mouth of the Columbia River was merely created as a gangway to Portland. It is a well-known fact that James J. Hill has pur chased the Astoria & Columbia River Railroad from Goble to Astoria, thus completing the last link in a transcontinental railroad to the mouth of the Columbia River. And now the annual meeting of the stock holders of the Union Pacific, held at Salt Lake City oh October 8, 1907, makes known the significant fact that the Harriman system has made a large purchase of 4000 feet of waterfront and about 1000 acres of terminal grounds is front of HARRIMAN, near Warrenton and Astoria. Like conditions produce like effects. The thinking investor will stop and reflect. ' 1 ' r . Buy Lots In f-f .A. . Waterfront Acre AT THE MOUTH OP .THE COLUMBIA RIVER ALSO BLOCKS AND LOTS IN ; HA.RRIM AN . . . Adjoining Warrenton, for sale by the WARRENTON LAND COMPANY S. D. 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