THE 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
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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.
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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."
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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.