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THE SUXDAT OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, MARCH 15, 1908.
feet and a. park atrip along the prin
cipal streets, the result ia that dwell
ings costing up to $15,000 are not un
common. About 40 buildings are at
present in course of erection. The
Irvington Investment Company Is the
present owner of the remaining lots.
C. K. Henry ha the agency for a part
nf Irvington with similar improve
ments to the original tract, and re
ports a good sale of the 120 lots in his
subdivision.
Vernon.
Vernon North of Irvington on the
- Alberta carllne, 180 acres were platted
In 190.1 by Selling & Simon into 120
lots, in what Is now known as Vernon.
About 1100 lota remained of the tract
when the Moore Investment Company
took over the ownership. Tt reports
that "00 houses have been blllH on the
tract and that 60 houses are bing
built. This tract hsj graded streets,
board sidewalks and water supply. The
company reports the sale of SO lots last
week. On the tract is situated the
Vernon School and there is a church
on the townsite. with two others on
adjoining property.
Lorrinton.
Lnrrlnton The Moore Realty Com
pany is selling lots in L,nrrlnton. at
the end of the Woodstock carline.
which was a tract of 30 acres, divided
into 110 lots in 1907. This tract has
graded streets and gaveled sidewalks.
About one-third of the original plat
has been sold. (
Belle CreVt.
rielle Crest On the Sandy Road, adjoin
ing Ruse City Park and the grounds of
the Country Club. Belle Crest ia situated.
Lots in this tract are being offered by
the Jacoha-Stine Company. It was platted
in March. 1907. and consisted of 100 acres,
containing about 600 lots, 450 of which
have bpen Bold. Two houses are now
being built and ten others are planned for
the immediate, future. Streets are graded
and rement sidewalks being put down.
Hull Run water is available. There Is a
building restriction of $1500 on the tract.
Berkeley and Dover.
Berkeley and Pover-The same firm
handles lots In the towneites of Berkeley
and Dover. adjoining Woodstock.
Berkeley is a plat containing 100 acres of
lo lots which the firm reports as all
sold, an arrangement being undertaken at
the time of its being placed on the
market, in 1907, which disposed of the
entire property. Dover was platted In
November, 1907, consisting of B0 acres of
bm lots. The firm reports sales of 2R0
lots In this tract. Quite a number of
bouses aro In process of erection.
Ladd's Addition.
lvidd's Addition Some years ago Ladd's
Addition was platted and street improve
ments made in the. tract between East
Twelfth and Kast Twentieth streets,
south of Hawthorne avenue. Only about
two years ago. the addition was put on
the market. The result has been that of
the 7.V) lota of the tract of 150 acres, 33
have been sold and 17 houses have been
erected, with otherrt - in contemplation.
The tract can hardly be considered sub
urban property, as it ia situated but 12
blocks from the river and five carlines
either Bklrt the plat or are within a block
or two. There is a building restriction
of J2. with houses set back 25 feet. In
addition to the park system along the
asphalt streets, there are Ave public
parks provided in the platting of the
tract. This tract ia unique in rhat alley
ways are included in the laying out of
the streets, and in these the various
wires are placed under ground, obviating
the tearing up of the main streets. Shade
trees are being set out along the streets
and In the parks. F. W. Torgler la agent
for the sale of lots in this addition.
Ttoso City Park.
Rosa1 City Park Lying east of Irvington
and north of Sunnyside la the tract
known as Rose City Park. It extends
eastward to the line of West avenue on
the western slope of Mount Tabor. "Three
estates, the Floischner, Prescott and
Klosterman, were the owners of the 1109
acres which three syndicates bought, and
which were afterward combined and
placed In the hands of Hartman &
Thompson aa selling agents. The result
of one ycar'a sales are as follows: One
hundred acres sold to a syndicate that
platted Belle Crest: 6 acres to the
Country Club and Live Stock Association;
on this last tract $100,000 Is being spent
In the laying out and Improvement of the
grounds, and $50,000 more will be spent
in the erection of the buildings. In Rose
City Park, 722 lots were sold In the year.
Between six and seven miles of streets
have been graded and about four miles
of cement sidewalk laid. About 50 houses
have been built or are contracted for.
Portlnnd Heights.
Portland Heights D. K. Keasey Is
known as the pioneer realty man of
Portland Heights. He has properties ex
tending from Willamette Heights around
the heights to Council Crest, Including
the Seventh-street terraces and Green
way Addition. In the two years since
the transportation line to the heights
was changed to electric service, Mr.
Kensey has disposed of over $2,000.0)
worth of lunds in that territory. He ac
quired two years ago 110 acres of what
was known as the Talbot farm, or
Council Crest. One half of this tract has
been sold and some of the highest class
residences In the city have been built
there. The Water Board purchased a
site for a reservoir in that district which
ill be completed this Summer. Another
tract back of the Portland Academy,
known as the Cardinell tract, Mr.
Keasey subdivided into 116 lots and re
ports an active sale. In fact he says
'there is the greatest activity all along
the heights. Since taking over heights
property, he has had about a dozen old
houses torn down and replaced with
modern residences. The city ordered the
old flrehouse at Nineteenth and Kim aban
doned and has built a new one in keeping
with the surroundings at Twentieth and
Spring streets. More bitullthlc streets
have been laid on the heights during the
past year than ever before.
Vaverlelsh.
Waverleigh In March. 1907. Waverlelgh
was laid out into 900 lots. The tract con
tained 11 acres .It is situated on the
Waverly-Woodstock and Waverly-Rich-mond
carlines. It is of 100 feet elevation
and from Its favored site a wide sweep of
territory is lit view. J. P. fharkey &
Co.. are the owners of the tract and re
port that over one-half of the lots have
been sold. Streets are graded and cement
walks and curbing laid. Preparations are
under way to put down gas mains and'
sewers. Twenty houses have been built
in the year and about 100 are to be put
up this Summer. They report a -more
active demand at present for these lots
ilian since It w;is platted, and that more
lots had been sold since November than
for the previous part of the year.
Cnpitol Hill.
Capitol Tl III This tract is inside cily
limits at South Portland and is on the
line of the Oregon Klectric Railway. It
was platted last year and is now attract
ing attention on account of additional
transportation facilities. Quite a large
number of lots have already been se
cured by prospective builders of homes.
Five-cent - fare and eight minutes' ride
bring the residents to the heart of the
city. Clohcssy & Smith are the selling
agents.
If Bahy Is ratting Teeth
F sure sad use that old well-trled remedy.
Mrs. window's Soothtag Syrup, tor chlidraD
t?th!ng. It aootht-s the child, Softens ths
cuius, allays pain, colic and dlarrnoM,
Free randy with children's shoes at
Rosenthal's. Seventh and Washington.
- Eye Glasses A.0 at jfeUger's, ,
ACTIVITY ON EAST
SIDE CONTINUES
After Temporary Lull, Sales
of Lots Now Reach Re-
markable Proportions.
ALL DISTRICTS FAVORED
Most of Sites Secured Are by : Those
Who Build Their Own Dwellings,
Causing Growth That
Means Permanency.
That opportunities for investment on
the East Side at the present time, both
in business and residence property,
were never better, la the judgment of
those conversant with conditions. This
optnion Is predicated from the remark
able movement now in progress in that
portion of Portland, a movement that
received a temporary check in the Fall
and Winter, but which has now as
sumed a greater volume than before
that period. There is no indication
that there had been a check in building
In any direction. There is plenty of
money for building and Improvements.
This is evidenced in present conditions.
A quarter block on ' the corner of
East Nineteenth and Washington
streets was hold the past week for
$5750. nearly $3000 a lot, which is
significant of values in Central Kast
Portland: Farm land In the vicinity
of Montavllla Is held at $500 an acre.
A man who does odd jobs around Mon
tavllla got hold of a 10-acre tract ad
joining Montavllla several years ago
and held it. He could get $500 an
acre for his land, but says it is not in
the market at present.
M. G. Griffin, one of the most con
servative ' observers in the city, de
clared in his speech before the United
Kast Side Push Club Tuesday night
that ho expected to live to see Portland
have a population of 500,000. He said
that Secretary Wilson, of the Interior
Department, on his recent visit to Port
land, predicted that Portland would
have 1,000,000 people in 50 "years, but
Mr. Griffin said it would come in 25
years, estimating on the progress
Portland is now making In new build
ings, both Inside and in what are called
the suburbs. The suburbs of a year
ago have become inside property, and
owners "In those localities find their
holdings have nearly doubled in value.
Homes Owned by Majority.
In some of the suburbs on the "Kast
Side the proportion of owners of homes
to renters Is 90. Along the- Mount
Scott railway the percentage of home
owners is still higher, being estimated
at 95 per cent. Indeed, it would not
be easy to find any great number of
families living in rented houses in that
immense district. The same is true at
Woodstock, lvanhoe and all - through
the southeast district. Investigation
also will show the same thing in prac
tically all the suburbs, the percentage
.of owners in some localities being a
little higher than others, but the situa
tion in all the Kast Side suburbs dem
onstrates that the percentage of home
owners is very high and is being in
creased every day. It is asserted by
well-informed real estate men that the
percentage of home-owners among peo
ple of limited means is as high as in
any city in the United States of the
same population, and that the oppor
tunities for owning a piece of ground
and a dwelling are such that any man
who can pay $10 or $15 a month rent
can own his own house with a vege
table arid flower garden.
Practically every addition made sales of
lots the past week to home builders. At
Sellwood a number of lots were sold to
people who will build homes and the
building area Is extending eastward to
Johnson Creek, where a number of at
tractive homes have been erected. Sell
wood continues to grow in the district to
ward the Willamette River. On East
Thirteenth street and Umatilla avenue
half a dozen business houses are under
construction, and a hotel is projected for
Umatilla avenue. The sewer question is
still unsettled and promises to become
a source of contention for some time. It
is admitted that this fine suburb must
have sewers and that very, soon. The
City Council hus power to proceed with
tile establishment of sewer systems for
Sellwood whenever it deems It necessary.
Sellwood Is growing rapidly south from
Midway to the Golf Links and it is held
that now is the time to get sewers In
before the streets have been improved
generally. At the rate building lots are
being "sold and houses erected in Sell
wood it looks as If the City Council will
have to step in and settle the sewer ques
tion without much further delay.
Paving Material Wanted.
Perhaps the most important question
before property-owners on the East Side,
and which is being discussed in all the
civic clubs. Is paving material. It Is the
subject that comes up at all the meet
ings. ' Dr. C. H. Raffety, of the Water
Committee, is a persistent advocate of
river gravel, and declares that he knows
of streets in Portland which were im
proved with river gravel a) jrears ago,
which are in good condition today. He
calls attention to the extreme hardness
of this material as compared with the
ordinary crushed rock received here.
Between Killingsworth avenue and
Pippin street an effort will be made to
Improve all the streets and lay concrete
sidewalks. Also one street will be Im
proved with hard-surface pavement. The
people of Piedmont are considering the
matter of improving all the streets with
hard-surface material. In Multnomah Ad
dition ten miles of crushed rock pave
ments are being laid at a cost of over
$50,000. In Kenilworth miles of streets
are being graded and some are to be
paved wjth some kind of pavement. Pro
jected street Improvements on the Kast
Side will cost over $1,000,000.
There is considerable Interest as to what
route will be selected by the Portland
Railway. Light Power Ompany from
North Albina to the Swift Packing Com
pany's plant on the Peninsula. Surveys
are said to have been made and the routa
believed likely to be followed by this ex
tension is as follows: Mississippi avenue
to Pippin street: from Pippin street to the
center of the Graybrook tract, which
probably will be added to the Swift hold
ings: through the Graybrook tract to a
point near where Willis boulevard has
been laid out: thence along Delaware
avenue to the site of the packing plant.
Aside from the packing plant the con
struction of this extension is Important to
the northern portion of the Peninsula, as
the single line to ?t. John is always over
taxed and next Summer will not be able
to handle the tremendous traffic down the
Peninsula. The Peninsular Development
league, which is a federation of clubs on
the Peninsula. Is trying to prevail on the
railway company to run the Upper Albina
cars (o Peninsular station as a matter of
relief for the present congestion of travel.
The proposed, extension, from vort
Albina will also afford some relief to the
overcrowding of cars on the St. John line.
Pleased Over Bridge Contract.
People residing north of Sullivan's
Gulch at and near Kast Twenty-eighth
street, are gratified that the contract for
a reinforced concrete bridge has been
let. The Northwest Bridge Company,
which secured the contract, announces
through its agent, J. R. Bowles, that it
will start work at once, provided the
City Engineer will permit the use of
cement found in the market. ' However,
the City Engineer is considering the mat
ter -of making a thorough test of cement
before he allows 'construction to start. If
this test is made, it will mean that the
bridge cannot be completed inside of 10
months. As this is the first reinforced
concrete structure of the sort to be
erected in Portland, it is desired that It
shall contain no flaws. It has not yet
been settled that the streetcar company
will use the bridge. The City Attorney
says that the company, willing or un
willing, will have to pay for its portion
of the bridge, as it has a franchise on
East Twenty-eighth street. The dis
trict north of Sullivan's Gulch and to
the eastward, will largely benefit by this
bridge.
Recent sales of Kast Side residences
show that there is continued activity in
that class of property. R, W. Fisher
bought the northwest comer of Kast
Twelfth' and . Kast Pine streets, occu
pied by a frame house, for $4500.. Oceanna
Baker was the former owner. B. Bab
buge bought a quarter block on the cor
ner of East Washington aajd Kast Nine
teenth streets for $5750.
G. W. Priest bought six lots in Strat
ford addition for $3600. C. P. jordan sold
lot. 14,-block 17, Overlook, in Multnomah
addition, with house, for $3500. Mr. Jor
dan also bought lot 1, block 6, Williams
avenue addition, for $2750. In Multno
mail addition, Daniel T. Thomas bought
lot i, block 8. lor $3200. .
Henry W. H. Prettyman has sold to
Jacob A. Haak land in block 3, Mount
Tabor Central Park, for $4500.
Sales Keep Up Record.
In lvanhoe, A. S. Jacobs sold " to
Robert L. Darrow lots 10 and 11, block
8. for $2000. At Arleta Park, on the Mount
Scott railway. J. E. Dugan sold to
Bertha L. Carter lots 7 and 12 for $2400.
In Piedmont, Kdwin R. Conniff sold to
Stephen T. Caslow lot IS, ock 11, for
$2800.
On East Portland Heights. John Lau-
rance Pedro sold to Richard H. Mason
several fractions of lots for $2(00. In
Oatman's Little Homes, Hans Therkel
sen sold to Margaret H. Denholm lot 6,
block 2, for 250. In Sunnyside addition.
George Anderson bought lot 8, block 4,
for $1850.
J. Adrian Epplng sold a half olock In
Kenilworth to K. T. Folts for MOOO. This
is the largest single sale made in that
district for some time. The Title Guar
antee & Trust Company has conveyed
to K. C. Goddard and J. F. Kelly lots 1
and 2, in block 204, Bast Portland, the
price not being announced, but the value
is above $6000. James K. Locke sold to
J. Kpping Adrian lot 8, in block 21, in
Lincoln Park Annex for $2500. Theresa
H. Johnson sold to Rachel Hilts the east
half of lots 1 and 2, block 34, in Central
Albina, for $3500, with the house.
In Woodstock. C. L. Rotermund sold to
George Pope lot 2, block 88. for $1850. The
lot Is occupied with a modern house.
In Sellwood the Church of the Nazarene
has purchased lot 14, block 69, from J.
W. Campbell, for $450.
Great Demand for Acreage.
Beyond the junction at Mount Scott
near what is called" Gilbert Crossing, on
the Gresham railway, is a district in
which there has been a remarkable
change. Less than five years ago this
section of probably 300 acres was cov
ered with half-burned logs and stumps,
together with masses of underbrush. It
had a most hopeless appearance, but the
district has undergone a wonderful trans
formation. The land was -placed on the
market in 5-acre tracts and on easy pay
ments. Owing to the appearance of the
territory, it went slowly at the start,
but a few bought and erected homes.
Others bought in the tract until now
practically the whole tract has been
bought up, then cleared and cultivated
There is no suburb around Portland that
is more attractive. Handsome, comfort
able dwellings have been built all through
the district, and all have good ground
space.
Guy Delano has sold to J. L. Shaffer
two acres and a fourth for $12000. Also
Samuel Kwing has sold to Randolph
Money two acres for $2500.
A number of acreage sales are pending
in the section between the Base Line road
and the O. R. & N. railroad. There is
great activity in this district in the way
of clearing. Martin Lennarts has pur
chased 160 acres of farm land of J. W.
Hendricks, mostly unimproved, half a
mile west of Cherryvilla. He will have
the land cleared preparatory to setting
out fruit trees.
J. C. Hall has sold 19 acres of land to
William and John Hanning for $4000.
PIONEER HOUSE DISAPPEARS
PASSIXO OF PRKTTTMAX MOTJXI
TABOR HOMESTEAD.
Modern Residence to Rise on Site of
Historic Farmhouse Known
to Early Settlers.
The home of Dr. P. Prettyman,
erected on Hawthorne avenue near
West avenue. Mount Tabor. 50 years
ago. will soon give way to a pre
tentious home to be erected by Philip
Buehner, owner of the pioneer building
and its surroundings. It is the last of
the historical buildings erected at
Mount Tabor, but none has more in
teresting memories clustering around it
that hallow and make sacred this
venerable structure that has stood for
50 seasons.
At the east end of Hawthorne avenue
stands the old home of Dr. Prettyman.
No one can pass this quaint structure
without being attracted by the build
ing. Dr. Prettyman, who owned many
hundreds of acres around Mount Tabor,
conceived the idea of erecting a big
house. He was his own architect. He
owned a section, including Paradise
Springs. He came to Oregon in 1S47
and took up all of section 6. and at the
spot where he erected his home he
pitehed his tent in an unbroken forest
of tall trees, pierced only by the rar
row trails that threaded the dense
undergrowth in the direction of Port
land, Oregon City and the Columbia
River. After he commenced to clear
the land he decided to build his home.
It cost $8000. The foundation was of
stone and the structure itself was of
logs, nearly all of which were cedar.
It was two stories high and 70 feet
long. The house became a center for
the whole territory surrounding It. In
the upper portion a big room became
the meeting-place for the pioneer farm
ers when they wanted to discuss ques
tions in which they were interested.
There the young people gathered and
danced to the music of the "fiddle."
Some of the few remaining old settlers
recall those times, when the Pretty
man home was the open house of the
neighborhood. It was the meeting
place of all the surrounding country.
No traveler, threading his way through
the forest, ever tame that way without
stopping at the Prettyman home and
receiving a welcome, a seat by the wide
fireplace and a God-speed on his way.
The woods were tilled with game,
and Henry Prettyman, a son now living
at Mount Tabor, says he has shot many
h.JeODv-tlieJ-itepaouUie-)l4-lionje.
w.
The house now gives way to a modern
residence.
Installed in Xew Quarters.
The firm of MacKae & Angus, agents
for the sale of Hood River fruit lands,
have moved into their new office in
the Chamber of Commerce building.
Mr. Angus will have charge of the
Hood River end of the business, meet
ing prospective buyers at the trains
with a motor car to show them about
the district, and Mrs. MacRae will at
tend to the detail of the Portland of
fice. This firm deals exclusively In
Hood River fruit lands. r
Hassato Lodge Open Meeting.
Hassalo Lodge, No. 15, I. O. O. F.,
held an open meeting in. the lodge
room, at First and Alder streets, Fri
day night, about 450 members and
visitors being present, a large number
of whom were women. The following
nrocramme was rendered: Introduc-
Xjlott. remarks, P. G. Stewart; piano
The History of the South Side,
Chicago; West Seneca, Buf
falo, Etc., Is Going to Be Re
peated on the Peninsula
All the American Hotbeds of Industry Have
Been Started by Just Such Developments as
Are Now Assured for this Suburb of Portland
, Portland has just begun to
realize what she has in -the
Peninsula, and it behooves
those who would give their
surplus dollars' wise employ
ment, to see McKenna Junc
tion Townsite, which is in the
certain path of the very earli
est development.
In twelve months from now,
you will witness a scene of in
dustrial activity in this dis
trict which will mark a new
era for the Pacific Slope. This
is no rash assumption advan
tages that prove attractive to
the Swift and Armour inter
ests are going to draw others,
hence the wisdom of placing a
few dollars around McKenna
Junction now, while pioneer
prices prevail.
Remember St. J ohn lots
you might have had there for
$100 are now unpurchasable
at $10,000.- McKenna Junction
is closer in and the railroad
facilities these tremendous
packing plants will command
will prove a greater drawing
card to other manufacturers.
McKenna Junction is on the
Columbia boulevard, at the
point where the O. R. & N.
crosses Harriman's trunk line
to Puget Sound, at the ap
proach to the tunnel which is
to be driven under University
Park. A big tract of land has
been purchased here, to be
used for railroad yards. Tracks
to the Swift site are already
being laid.
Prices Are $275 and Up
1096' Cash and 10 Quarterly Are the Terms
These Prices Will Be
OFFICES GODDARD STATION, ST. JOHN CARLINE
AND 510 COMMERCIAL BLDG. PHQNE MAIN 6009
solo. Miss Eva Inister; recitation, "How
Tt Hapened," Miss Eva Scott: solo, C.
H. Gloss; recitation, "Hello." Miss Anna
William."?; folo, K. S. Ross; recitation,
"The Rio Grande," Mr. Queenley; solo,
"The Whip Poor Will." Miss Lillie
Morgan; duet, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson:
solo, "Anchored," Kred P. Holmes. At
the conclusion of this programme, the
guests and visitors repaired to the
banquet hall.
Kussia Considering Navy.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 1 The
committee for national defense yesterday
began final discussion of the naval esti
mates. The drafting committee made a
report recommending abandonment of the
plan for the construction of new battle
ships in 190S and asked for an increase of
appropriations for torpedo-boat destroy
ers, submarines and hospital ships and
the acceleration of their construction.
The report also insistently demands
that the Black Sea fleet be Jtept cruising
ten months each year and continuously
on a. war footing- The proposal to-sus
The history of the industrial
centers adjoining . Chicago,
Pittsburg 'and other great
American cities, is going to be
repeated on the Peninsula. The
stretching out of Chicago did
not require much time to fill
the vast expanse which once
laid between the city and the
packing-house district. Nor
did the growth cease there, nor
at Inglewood, and men have
stopped trying to estimate
where it will cease.
"Had I only bought 'here or
there,' at 'such and such' a
time, I would have made 'so
and so,' " is the story we have
become tired of hearing. Pro
crastination, the thief of time,
goes a little farther s0metiD3.es
and puts his hand into the
pockets of these "waiting"
ones. Don't wait, if you want
to share in the prosperity of
the Peninsula," for time is as
necessary for the betterment
of a real estate investment as
in maturing an orchard the
sooner you plant, the sooner
you'll pick your harvest from
the tree.
McKenna Junction promises
the greatest and quickest re
turns of any proposition I have
ever. been identified with, and
I've been in the business in
this city for eighteen years.
Take a trip to McKenna Junp
tion Townsite today, or as soon
as you can; get off the St. John
car at Goddard Station. Don't
delay, as being early means
something in choosing.
Advanced April First
pend battleship construction was warmly
opposed by several of the committeemen.
The tiny storm petrel Is a bird of Im
mense wing power; it belongs to every sea
and. although so seemingly frail, it easily
AFF
breasts furious storms. Petrels have Men'
observed 2000 miles from nearest land..
Recent measurements of the vibrations of
the -wings of A dragon fly in the Stuttgart'
University showed that they ranged from
10.000 to 12,000 a second. The common house
fly makes Aoo strokes of its wings, a second
wnn flying at Its highest spd.
PORTLAND BUILDERS WILL FIND AT
The M. J. Walsh Co.'s
the largest and most up-to-date stock in light
ing fixtures and supplies. They also carry a
complete line of andirons, grates, floor and
wall tiling. Would suggest to bring your
building plans along. They will be of great
assistance to you and ourselves in making a
good selection.
El J. WALSH COMPANY,
311 Stark Street, Between Fifth and Silth,
Both Phones.