THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 20, 1907.
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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
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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.
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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. ADAIR, President and Manager, 84 SIXTH STREET, PORTLAND, OREGON.
'. Room 310 Teuton Building. Phone Home A 4215. -
rates.
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