The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, April 05, 1908, SECTION THREE, Image 33

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Newspaper Page TextTHE SUNDAY OREGONrVX. PORTLAND, API? II. 1003. EAST SIOE SITES GOOD DEMAND Warehouse District Attracting Attention From Whole sale Concerns. MANY DWELLINGS PLANNED Rapid I'rojrress Being Made In Building on riattrd Additions in Y.xery Quarter of the Big Dis trict Arrows tli Rlvrr. Purine the week several importtnt realty Fles wore mrte and a number ,f pretentious buildings were pro tected on the Eaet Side. The sale of a quarter Mock on the northwest corner of Et Ktrst and Pelmont streets to Fae fn for $15 000 is the bepln nin of activity In tliat section, whero property hail been dormant for several months. A tnree-story conrrrie wir honse will be erected on the site at a cost of about so.0on. The east half of hlork IS. facing Kast Water street, between Kse;t Morrison and Pelmont streets, was sold hy J- W. Adams to the Merchants Trust Company for $.15. Oiio. It Is partially covered with frame structures. W. H. Mall, who keeps in touch with waterfront property on the Kast Side, savs there is much inquiry for prop erty In this district. Plans are being drawn for a three-story brick on Vnlon avenue near Kast Burnslde street, for John B. Miller, of Seattle, formerly of Portland, to cost about 125.00ft. The upper stories will be arranged for of fices or flats as destred. Plans for the new Oddfellows' Temple on Kast Sixth and Alder street, for Orient Tiodge. I. O. O. F.. are being drawn, liobert Andrews, one of the trustees, savs that the intention Is to push con struction on this building as rapidly as plans are ready, as the lodge wants to get a home of Its own. The Pacific Bridge Company in completing a big Plant for handling gravel from the river on Kast Water street, at a cost of about li.VnoA. 1 On two blocks on Clackamas street, between Sixteenth and Eighteenth streets, 12 handsome homes are being hum and finished at a cost of $3500 to $7000 each. The IS dwellings will cost when completed not less than $50,000. These two blocks are a sample of what Is doing all over the Kast Side in the building line. C. N. Rankin has taken out a permit to build a modern flat on the corner of East Twelfth and Burn side streets to cost $500. Tn Overton A.' Heltkemper will build a two-story frame dwelling at a cost of $5000. To Erect Clubhouse. The Tortland Railway. Light A Power Company has purchased two and a half blocks additional ground at the golf links, near Sellwood, which will be used as part of the cite for the proposed carbarns and clubhouse. Plans ara being prepared for all these buildings and work is to be started at once. It ia estimated that the build ings to be erected here will cost $40, 000. Undoubtedly a center of impor tance will result from locating the car barns and clubhouee at this place. It will be convenient to carmen working on the Sellwood, Oregon City and Fstacada cars. A great many carmen live in Sellwood and Milwaukie. and the erection of the carbarns and club house will induce others to build homes near by. In Holladay Addition. R. B. Rice sold to Settle Hlhee lot IS. block 6. Ilulladay s Addition, for $51(0. An attractive house o-.vupies the lot. Many Alblna sales wera made: Ida F. Oorrlll sold to Michael F. Brady lots 14 and 15. block SI. for $.V. C. C. Toemans sold to Agnea LindlofT lot 12. block 1, Al blna Homestead, for $liV0. Henry Weober bousht a parcel of land in block 12. Mult nomah Addition, for $22i. In Williams avenue Addition J. W. Reed bought of the Oregon Spray Company lot block 1. for so. In East Portland, lot S. block K4. was sold to Charles O. Sigglin for fci-XO. William Keittle bought a quarter block in Sullivan Addition. In block 22, for $35. Ellis O. Hughes sold to R. B. Rice a half block in Mock 9. John Irvlng's Ad dition, for $5400. Also in this addition. K P. Hosford bought lot 7, block 12, for $:lti00, with house. The Hawthorne estate sold a quarter of Mock 253. Hawthorne Park, for $.. T. W. Kirby also bought a quarter block in Hawthorne Park for $5300. In John Irving'sAddition S. F. Owen bought a quarter in block 1 for $4000. John W. Treber sold to Taniel Miller lois 7 and S, block 9. in original Albina townslte, for $W60- S. B. Stewart bought a ouarter In block 1. John Irvlng's Firs. Addition, for $4000. Work on the new IIS.OOO hotel in Sell wood on Umatilla avenue will be started early this month. It will he three stories, contain S3 rooms and cover a space of 60 xlo feet. Rose City Park Grows. At the meeting of the Rose City Park t-engue Monday night. O. w. Taylor re ported that many new houses were to be built there during the year. Building lots have been sold In large numbers to men who will build as soon as arrange ments can be made to start operations. One important feature of the situation suggested by Mr. Taylor's remarks, was that most of those who had bought in that suburb some time ago. are complet ing their payments and taking out deeds, in some Instances a yean ahead of the timfs in which final payments were re quired, and expect to build at once. Mr. Taylor considers this desire to pay up a most encouraging feature of the situation, as It shows that money is becoming plentiful for building purposes. As near as can be estimated, nearly 50 new dwellings will be erected in this "ad dition this Spring. Progress la being made toward the opening of Tillamook and Hancock streets to this suburb and to the grounds of the Country Club. Their opening will be expedited o there will be open driveways to the Country nub's grounds. Architect Edgar M. T-azarus announces that plans for the auditorium for the Country Club and livestock Association have been completed. It will have a di mension of 2SJX1S1 feet, and ordinarily will seat ?" people, which can be In creased to tf"00. Also the drawings for the grandstand have been finished. This will Iw 23x70. exclusive of the approaches, and will seat people. The roof will be of steel. In cantilever form, and the stats will be so arranged that everyone will have an unobstructed view. This cantilever roof mill be the firat one of the kind In the Northwest. Visits Kast Side Property. The Portland Realty Board members ire getting Into personal touch with East Side suburbs and properties They have visited Multnomah addition, to Albina. and particularly the Overlook addition! This trart contains S3 acres, or Ssl lots ar.d several blocks. Of these. 15 have been sold, and 14 modexn homos hav 18 Nuts to the Yard ISMWA lnct : A N D ROYAL ANN STwo Bites to I I Cherry Inside of 4 years there will be greater interest, greater movement and more doing in Walnuts in Oregon than has ever been given to apples. When the great interest arrives in the course of 3 or 4 years, do you have any idea that you can then make a purchase at price even double what we're asking? Don't you thinkit. Outside of our Company, the plantings are being made in small tracts by the in dividual and for their personal use and profit. You cannot purchase their holdings now at only one or two years old for double our price; as interest increases, you cannot touch them with a 40-foot pole. We are the largest planters in Oregon. We are today offering a portion of our hold ings at ground-floor prices. ' Inside of a year values of proven walnut land will force us to ask about double our present prices. We have the capital, the management, the proper soils and location to deliver the goods. Don't get the idea that you can plant the Walnut in the same soil and condition that will grow the apple, cherry or prune. Conditions as to elevation, soil, exposure and drainage must be as we have them. There are thousands of acres that will grow other trees to one perfectly adapted to the Walnut. That's a fact. There are hundreds of farms in the Willamette Valley without one acre of Walnut land. Anyone who wishes 5 or 10 acres of Walnut land, must go to those who, like ourselves, have experted the conditions requisite and cut in small tracts. We sell 5 acres or more, now planted, on terms of $100 cash and $15 a month for each 5 acres. We take care of it for 4 years. We take a party every Sunday, but go with anyone any weekday, leaving at 7:40 A.M., returning at 5:40 P. M. It costs you $1.90 round trip. Every visitor to date is a purchaser. Eol a ililis w alnut Association (Inc.) CHURCHILL-MATTHEWS CO. GENERAL SELLING AGENTS HO SECOND STREET been built at a cost ranging from $2500 to $7500. The Btreet Improvement and sewers have cost nearly $50,000. In Multnomah addition, a reneral Im provement Is under way. All streets that have not been improved, are to be finished with crushed rock. It is estimated that 10 miles of streets are to be paved in this district alone, at a cost of $100,000. The intention is to Improve all streets and have all bear their share of the burden alike, instead of Improving one or two at a time. Many new dwellings are be ing built in Multnomah addition. Pre parations are being made by the Miss issippi Avenue Congregational Church to spend about $7000 in remodeling the present structure. There is probably no district on the East Side which shows a more vigorous growth than Multnomah, Over look and surroundings. Plans have been prepared for another apartment-house for I. R. Falrchild. to be built at 1W-1S7 Kast Fifteenth street. It will be 4Sx5S, of frame construction; will contain four and five-room apart ments and the cost will be $9500. Also plans have been completed for a 11-room, two-story frame dwelling for Miss Nettie "Weare, to hr built in Jonesmore. Monta vllla. to cos! $4500. This Is the most pre tentious dwelling to be built in Monta vllla for several yeara. w Church Projected. The Sunnyside Congregational Church has purchased a quarter block on the southeast corner of East Taylor and Bast Thirty-second streets, for a new and modern church edifice. Plana hava not yet been drawn for the new building, but it is announced that the new church is to be creditable to Sunnyside. In pre paring plans, department work will be, considered. Contracts have been let to the Concrete Construction Company for paving streets in the old raoetravk tract, aggregating over $101, M7. all this to be hard surface pave ment. The Barber Asphalt Paving Com pany secured the contract on Kast Mor rison street, between T'nlon avenue to East Seventh street, for $5152. and for paving Williams avenue between Al berta street to Killingsworth avenue, for $MS. The Star Sand Company secured the contract on Skidmore street for $17. S77. the street to be paved with Crushed rock. With the coming of good weather hundreds of blocks of atreets on the East Side will be improved. The only limit will be In the paring material avail able for street work. Through the efforts of the Kenllworth Push Club that district is being changed. Streets are being opened and others Im proved. Gladstone avenue. 80 feet wide, is being improved between Twenty-sixth street and lvanhoe. a distance of over a mile. The importance of this improve ment alone to that section connot be es timated. It is the only direct outlet from lvanhoe. Woodstock and a big seotion of settled country. It is expected that the carllne will lay a double track on Glad stone avenoe after the street work Is completed. Other streets of Kenllworth ara to be Improved. ST. JOHN READY TO ELECT INVKST BOISE CAPITAL HERE East Side Site Secured for $43,500 by Two Idaho Buyers. Sale was effected Friday by John F. Sharkey, of a quarter-block, at Grand avenue and East Alder streets, to Cook & 'Wilcox, of Boise. Idaho, the consider ation being $4!.500. This figure is not much in advance of the price paid for the property a few months ago by Mr. Shar key, but at the same time Indicates, a profit of something like $3500. The piece was bought as an investment by the Idaho peopie. The site at First and Belmont, bought last week ffom J. P. Sharkey and W. L. Boise by Page & Son for $15,000, Is to be improved with a two-story warehouse for use of the purchasers. Lot 3 of block 190. city, next the north east comer of Sixth and Montgomery streets, was sold last week by H. F. Reese to Miss L. S. Frake for j 15,009. Han an shoe fit the feet. Rosenthal' a, WIlJj TOTE TOMORROW FOR CITY OFFICIALS. Two Complete Tickets Are In the Field and Both Sides Are Claiming Victory. St. John's municipal election will be held tomorrow and both factions are already claiming the victory. There Is very little difference in the published platforms of the contestants and the men who have the largest personal following are expected to win. no mat ter on which ticket their names appear. The taxpayers' ticket, which was first placed in the field, is composed of the following candidates: Mayor, J. F. Hendricks, hardware dealer; Recorder, A. M. Esson, attorney; Treasurer, C. P. Thompson, capitalist: Attorney, G. J. Perkins, secretary of the Commercial Club; Councilmen-at-large, S. L. noble, real estate dealer and present Councilman; A. W. Davis, cashier O. R. & X. freight office: C. Xj. Johnson, foreman at the drydock; First "Ward, A. R. Jobea. present Councilman; George Im E-pps. electrician; Second Ward, H. W. Bonham, groceryman, and H. C. Hunter, secretary of Portland Manufacturing Company. The platform on which -these candi dates stand la simply a pledge of strict law enforcement. The People's ticket, which la Identical with the taxpayers'. In all except the office of Treasurer, for which J. C. Tanch is named, has no platform and la unpledged tn any way. The Good Government Ieague ticket ia headed by H. W. Brlee, a bridge car penter and ex-Councilman. A. M. Esson is on this ticket to succeed him self as Recorder, and Henry Collier, who came to St. John from Pendleton last Summer, ia named for City At torney. W. Li. Churchill, a newspaper agent, wants to handle the city's funds as Treasurer. For Councllmen-at-large: Perry J. Miller, retired; Edward C. Hurlbert, real estate dealer, and A. W. Davis, cashier; First Ward, Joseph J. Tryon, teamster, and W. W. Wlndle, dairyman; Second Ward, L. H. Smith, real estate agent, and John H. Crook, contractor. These candidates advocate cutting down expenses by reducing the salaries of the Councilmen. Mayor and City At torney. They also stand for the Hos ing of all billiard and poolrooms, skat ing rinks, bowline alleys and saloons on Sunday. They stand for strict en forcement of the ordinances and are usually spoken of as the dry ticket. The platform states that they are In favor of voting bonds to establish a city dock and to buy a ferryboat to be operated by the county. Seven Citizens Adopted. Seven new American citisens were form ally evolved yesterday afternoon, by pro cess of law. Seven different countries furnished the newly-made voters, who were admitted to citizenship In the State Circuit Court. All passed the required examination without difficulty. The new Americans are, Bruno Lauro, late of Italy; Frank Scheiber, formerly of Aus tria; John Kurz, native of Germany; John Hauser, former subject of the Czar; Johan Stoize. native of Sweden; Patrick Keaney, from Ireland; Walter Reld, na tive of.Scotland. ' Steel Cures Carnegie's Daughter. NSW TORK, March 28. After wearing a steel brace on her right leg ever since she sprained her ankle last Summer. little Margaret Carnegie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, has had "it re moved and the leg la now as strong as it ever was. This removes a great dread from her parents' minds as they feared she would he a cripple for life." Acre El ?6P1rC ii 1 C; V Ho On the Salem Electric Line. A Thirty Minute Ride From Heart of the City An ideal location for suburban homos. Beautiful surroundings and invigor ating air. The upland is especially adapted and excels for raising all kinds of fruits, vegetables and berries, and it is also the finest land for apples, pears, plums, cherries, strawberries, raspberries and blackberries. The lowlands are especially adapted for the raising of vegetables, such as onions, potatoes, cabbage, cauli flower, turnips, etc. Similar property elsewhere will cost you from 50 to 100 per cent more than we ask. It will pay you to look into this. Take the cars today, enjoy a pleasant ride, and look at our tract. The ground sells itself; persuasion is unnecessary. Secure one of these acres it will prove a profitable investment. An acre in this tract is insurance against want hereafter. Price'$200.00 per acre and up, according to location. Terms 10 per cent cash, and 3 per cent of the purchase price per month. Interest, 6 per cent per annum on deferred payments.' Discounts on cash purchases. For particulars, call at our Portland office, 226-228 Front street, or at Metzcer Station. Tel. A 1374 and Main 474. ' HERMAN METZGER, Owner McKEMA JUNCTION Before you buy real es tate, look the situation over, satisfy your mind as to where the most rapid, stable and extensive development is going to be, then buy. McKENNA JUNCTION Is where the most experi enced investors are now putting their money. Because it is the logical center of the most immediate action. Because right next door Swifts are building their $1,000,000 plant. Because it is at the approach to the projected Dana-street tunnel under university Park. Because here ia the intersecting point of the O. R. & N. and Harrinian's Pugot Sound line. "'V Because this is the point where the reserve for railroad yards has been made, and because' the Whole McKenna Junction townsite situa tion will be hemmed ia by a chain of industrial activity. Because Portland has just begun to realize what she has in the Penin sula. All real estate valnes are based on one condition: Where civilized people congregate land values increase in proportion. Just remember that Manhattan Isl and once sold for about twenty-four dollars; now it is worth more by many millions of dollars than the whole country was then. Real estate investments, then, for profit, resolve themselves into this one principle: Buy where a steady growth of population is assured. In twelve months from now you will witness a scene of activity in this district which will mark a new era for the Pacific Slope. This is no rash assumption ad vantages that prove attrac tive to Swift & Co. interests are going to draw others. Tracks are now being laid to the Swift & Co. site. Till May 1 prices will.be $285 AND UP 10 Per Cent Cash 10 Per Cent Quarterly For Plats and Information Call Upon or Address W. II: Grindstaff Offices, Goddard Station, on the St. John Line, and 510 Commercial bldg.' Phone Main 6009.