THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, ATRIL 26, 1D0S.
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PORTLAND) .The MM CITY
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Where
the beauty
of lawns,
parks and
driveways
will never
be marred
by the
unsightly
of
buildings
upon its
broad .
avenue
prospects.
Stop Off at Eossmere, The Beautiful, and See
STREET IMPROVEMENTS ARE IN
Take Eossmere Car, Third and Yamhill Streets.
hn W. Cook George K. Clark
Manager General Agent
336 CHAMBEE OF COMMERCE MAIN 5407 A 3252.
AGENT ON THE GROUND AFTERNOONS
EAST SIDE HAS
NEW
RECORD
r
More New Buildings Under
Construction Than
Ever Before.
STREET WORK LAGS BEHIND
liurchrs. Schools and IIok-Is ltcing
Supplied to Meet Pr-mand f thti
Kapldly Increasing Popula
tion in the llig District.
Every section of the Bast S dc is build
inn up. April finds more dwellings under
construction nnd enlnrprlsos under way
than durinfr Htiy of tke 12 months pant.
If the City Engineer could handle all
Hi street improvements wanted, there
would be more than double the, present
amount of pavements under way.
Orouml was broken this week "for the
"hrlsttan Hrothers' bustnoss college, in
Jlolladay Addition, to cost 35.tW. A hotel
to cost KO.OUfl. Is projected at Sellwood.
Motley Is bein? subscribed for a fcS.OOO
t'onsreaationsl Church at Sunnyslde. Also
Rround was broken for a t""athollc school
and chapel at Highland tho tirst of the
week, to cost Jio.mo. On the Peninsula It
Is proposed to open and Improve a wide
tlinrouKhfuro connectinir Killinssworth
avenni with St. John. This plan Is hems
worked out by the movement for opening
connecting streets. Piedmont proposes to
xpend 12S.0U0 for hard-surface pavements
duritiK the year. In a portion of the
auburb of Montavilla, in the preceinct 60,
there Is a movement on foot to improve
all streets. Thera Is not a section of the
Fast Side where there Is not a progress
ive movement of some sort. Property
owners have the utmost contldence In the
city and are willing and anxious to make
lennanent Improvements. Whole ad
ditions' are bolmr paved with crushed rock.
"While large sales have not been the rule
ren-ently. real estate men report residence
property In constant domaiy.
Hotel for Sellwood.
Plans are being drawn by George H.
Klkerton, contracting architect, lor a
three-story frame botel building St)x90,
with full concrete basement, on Umatilla
aveaue and East Thirteenth street, in the
auburb of Sellwood. The cost is esti
mated at tW.OtU. The hotel building will
rontain S3 rooma, single andon suite,
and ela-ht baths. There will ha an
ample dining-room and also a grill. It
la desired to complete the building this
year. This Is the most pretentious
buildiiiaT to be erected in this growing
auburb this year.
It ia understood that the plans are
belna; drawn for the new car barn and
camion's clubhouse at tho Golf jutnks.
and that work will start on these
buildlnas within the next few weeks.
The movement for the proposed sewer
system for West Sellwood is progress
ing, and bids fair to be carried for
ward. Real estate dealers announce
a constant demand for residence prop
erty In thia suburb. The street im
provement movement started in Sell
wood some time ago Includes all unim
proved streets, and ia working- its way
along.
There was a rumor afloat tho past
week that the Portland Hallway, Light
Power Company may build a new
line south from the Brooklyn branch
on East Twenty-third street through
the I -add farm to a connection with the
Sellwood line on East Thirteenth street,
but it could not be verified. Such a
line has been talked of for some time,
but It never assumed a definite form.
It WOUld Open lip the La.til farm nrt
the great district south of the Southern
Pacific carshops. and at least has some
attractive possibilities. However, the
wish may be father to the rumor.
Ground Broken for College.
Orouml was broken the first of the
week for the building for the Christian
Profilers- College on Grand avenue and
Clackamas street. The building will be
three stories, besides a cement base
ment. It will have a frontage of 110 feet
on Grand avenue and 60 feet to Clacka
mas street. Plans have been drawn so
that an additional w!ng may be built
oxS0. when needed. J. Betlly & Co. are
contractors for the grading. Ten-year
Ito'.d bonds amounting to tSO.'nX) have been
placed on the market by the college cor
poration. With the means secured from
those bonds and also the bequests to the
building fund, the necessary funds will
bo raised to put up the building. It
will be an up-to-date business college.
At Vnlvcrslty Park Black & Kerr have
started work on a two-story flat and
frame structure for K. ii. Filter, on
Iiawson and Fisk streets. The cost will
be J5000. A. C. Ruby Is having a JSrtOO
barn erected on the Sandy road, noar
Kast Seventeenth street. Architect
Pchacht has drawn plans for a S10,0"0
frame building for Charles O. Slgblin on
Kast Sixteenth and Alder streets.
Work has been started on a two-story
frame school and chapel for St. Andrew's
parish, on East Ninth, between Alberta
and Wygant street, to cost $10,000. W.
Cameron will have a $50Crt two-story
dwelling erected on Hancock street, near
East Twenty-third, to cost SaOfO.
The old race track in Upper Albina Is
disappearing. Buildings are being torn
down. A contracting firm has a camp
on the grounds and Is grading out the
principal streets. Hard-surface pave
ments ure to be laid in this tract. It Is
to -be thrown open for residence pur
poses. Before this is done, however,
many thousands of dollars will be spent
in improving streets, laying water mains
and sewers. The city has built up on
three sides of this tract of land and now
it gives way to tlie march of Improve
ment. Spend Nearly Half-Million.
T. J. Jones, school architect, has much
work on hand. Foundations for the
eight-room school house orr- Habersham
street, near Section Line road, and the
Peninsula school are both well along.
Also the addition to the Sellwood school
has been started. A new school build
ing will be erected on block 10, Central
Albina, recently acquired, to relieve the
Highland and Thompson school houses,
both of which are overcrowded. At
Woodlawn will be started soon on an ad
dition to replace tho old part which has
been condemned.
For the new high school for the North
East Side, costing $2."0.uk, the Board of
Education Is asking for competitive plans.
It had been reported that the location for
this high school house might be changed,
but It is announced that the site pur
chased in the Patton tarct will be retained
and the high school house put on It.
Effort is being put forth to vacate some
streets adjacent to the site so as to in
crease its dimensions. Mr. Jones is re
ceiving bids for providing the East Port
land High School with tire escapes, also
for constructing stone and concrete wall
and steps on the grounds of this build
ing. v
What will he done with the Tents school
house remains to be seen: it is over
crowded, and space In the assembly hall
on the third floor Is being used for reci
tations. It- will be a problem to solve
when It comes to enlnrge this building.
Some people think it will have to be con
demned and replaced with an entirely
new structure. School facilities in the
vicinity of Woodmere, which is midway
between Lents and Arleta school houses,
will be asked for. There Is a growing
section here -too far from either of these
buildings. Homes are springing up ail
through this section. The Board of Edu
cation will be asked to secure at least a
block foo the site of a school house.
llig Movement on Fenlnaula.
Between North Albina and Killings-
Betweei
rortliavi
of residence and factory property. The
Kenton tract recently platted, form
ing a townslte, is proving attractive
property. In addition to the Gray
brook tract, between 300 and. 400 acres
were recently acquired in the Mary E.
Knott tract. Six blocks have been
platted, which will constitute the busi
ness section, with building restrictions.
Owners of this tract are looking to the
future, when business locations will be
reuutred. ' George F. Heuser. who Is
looking after thia property, says that
details for Improvements of streets
have not yet been worked out, but will
be ready in about two weeks. Lots are
being sold even before the street
grades have been set.
In the Lovelelgh tract, of the Brong
Steele Company, behiff part of the Love
farm on Columbia Slough, B0 lots were
sold last week for $:io.O0O. which is
considered a remarkable showing.
It is predicted that 20.000 people will
live In proximity to the Switt packing
plant on the Peninsula and the kin
dred manufacturing industries that
are to be established in that neighbor
hood. In order to prepare for this addi
tional population in the immediate vicin
ity of the manufacturing plants already
projected, besides tho population all over
the Peninsula, the Peninsula Develop
ment league, representing nine push
clubs, has secured a 10-mimtte schedule
on the St. John car line during rush
hours. It is considered probable that
flic company will soon make schedules
for the entire day. It can be seen from
the car line that already a great move
ment is going forward on the Peninsula.
Vill Build $25,0OO Church.
Rev. J. J.- Staub, pastor of the Sunny
side Congregational Church, said recent
ly that the canvass for funds for the
now edifice has gone forward sattsfac
torily. A committee of 20 prominent
Is granted by all experienced travelers to be the most magnificently
located city in the world. Its scenic environment is surpassed nowhere.
Artists cannot do the work justice and it is with extreme difficulty we
have finally secured a naturally colored painting of this panorama.
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This beautiful water color painting, by one of Port
land's best landscape artists, reproduced in a half
tone of very large size, is the only correct and com
plete vieAv of the city that has ever been shown to the
people of Portland. Landmarks and the principal
points of interest are brought out vividly and almost
any section of the city, with which you are familiar,
may be located instantly. This big picture is un
mounted and may be tastily framed and placed any
where, in the home or office. It is more convenient
than a map for locating the different parts of tho
city. It should be in every home and every offica
and may be secured from us without cost, either by
calling in person or mailing the attached coupon, By
calling, you may have the picture without folding or
rolling. '
TJfOF,I7TVFHP A twiU d0 ?ou a lot good to ride out on the East Ankeny
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This Coupon will bring; it to you. '
THE JAC0BS-STINE COMPANY
148 Fifth Street,
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148 FIFTH STREET PORTLAND, OREGON
members was appointed two weeks ago,
and they have secuocd subscriptions of
nearly ISOOO. The dimensions and style
of architecture of the new church will
depend on the amount of money avail
able. Besides the money raised, the
church owns two lots, and the old
building on Bast Thirty-fourth and Tay
lor streets, which property is worth over
j000. Mr. Staub said not a shovelful of
dirt will be turned on the site of the
new church until the money has been
secured, so It can be completed and dedi
cated free of debt. The new church will
cost about 26,000, and will be modern
In every respect, and provide apartments
for the clubs and young people.
The Bassam Paving Company, re
cently organized, with a capital stock
of $25,000, has been given permission
to lay its pavement on Hancock street,
between Kast Twenty-fourth and
Twenty-seventh streets, as a practical
demonstration of its work. It lays a
hard surface pavement of crushed rock
and conorete.
While not ready for announcement of
location, AV. H. Mall sold a business
location for $15,000, and altogether for
the week sold 130,000 in business and
residence property. For building and
for investment, residence property is
the attraction at present.
Other Sales Reported.
In Albina, Ivoulse TVelnhard sold to
Cecilia, Clayson lot 11, block S2, for
ISOOO. Also in Albina, Cecilia Clayson
bought lot 12. block 32, for J3000. H.
C Bruening bought lot , block 8, Al
bina, lor $2900. One-half of lot 1.
block 52, Albina, was sold to B. E.
Cogswell for $1100.
At Glencoe Park, Lucena E. Melby
bought part of lot $, block 2, for $2000.
John N. Klein sold lot 1. block 25.
, Creston. for $8003, with house. Thomas
js. Wallace bought two lots in block 8,
East Irvington, and lot 10. block 1,
Wild Rose addition, for $3000.
In 8unnyside, C. Arthur Ward bought
lot "O" for $1000. Ole Nelson Horsfeldt
bought part of block 15. In Albina, for
$3,500. Robert Sylvester Hull bought
a half block In Vernon for $2500.
In Albina Homestead, Gertrude Drinker
bought of J. H. Baylor lots 6 and , Nock
28, for $2300. Joseph Conway bought three
lots In block 1. Arleta. with house, for
i$il01.
Architect Otto Kleemann has drawn
plans for a new flat building for Dr.
Louisa Anderson. Mr. Kleeman also is
preparing the plans for a tenement build
ing for Mrs. S. C. Holt, to be erected on
Nartilla and Salmon streets. The cost
will be about $7400.
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Strictly as an investment, eliminating the growing and marketing of crops,
you cannot equal the security and profit offered in the purchase of one of our
tracts.
A city or suburban lot, for advancement in speculative value, depends on
many combinations of development and growth. Everything must come your
way, to your location, to the particular selection you have made from the many
locations offered. You are advised to locate this way, that way and the other
way. Each one is presented as the only one, the real one, the sure thing.
The purchase of a 5 or 10:acre tract of planted "Walnuts or Royal Ann
Cherries giyes you an actual value, something to depend on, something to fall
back on; development and growth within itself, production within itself, income
within itself, profit within itselr.
A planted 5-acre tract on terms of $100 cash and $15 per month secures you
a property that within the next few years, as a speculation, will bring you two
or three for one. Mind you, you cannot purchase a 2-year-old planting today
for double the price we now ask. Our price includes four years' care. Ere that
time passes Walnuts will rank with Apples in interest; the demand cannot be
met only by you and others who now invest. , . .
Being the largest owners and planters in Oregon, your location with us at
tracts the limelight, places you first for consideration. Our expert care will
meet the investigation. Our present price insures your profit.
Our properties are in Yamhill County, "the "Walnut County." We visit
them any day with you, leaving 7:40 A. M.f returning 5:40 P. M.. Sundays
included.
CHURCHILL-MATTHEWS CO.
General Selling Agents.
110 SECOND STREET.
Sells Hood River Farm.
Captain H. C. Coe. of this city,
through the agency of Devlin ft Flre
baugh, has sold his Hood River prop
erty, known as "Jerlco Farm," to C.
B. Nesblt, also of Portland. Mr. Nes
blt Tias spent considerable time looking
Into the fmlt situation In the North
west, and he thinks the opportunities
In pursuit of horticulture are best
served in the Hood River district.
Valuable Masonic Heirlooms.
MONTESANO, Wash., April 25. (Spe
cial.) When J. E. Caldar. the real estate
dealer of rthls city was made a Master
Mason last week by Wynooche Lodge,
No. . A. F. and A M. of this city, he
became the possessor of several valu
able Masonic heirlooms which have been
in the Calder family for many years.
One Is an apron which was made by
Mr. Cftlder's grandfather over 75 years
aga. he having prepared tho lambskin
himself. It was given to his son Josepli
I, in 1870. and now to the present pos
sessor. Another memento is the certifi
cate issued to the first J. E. Calder, at
testing his membership in the .Royal
Arch Masons, bearing date of tfvTacua.
N. Y., September 26. 1S, it having been
given to Mr. Calder six years after he
came from England. The most unique
bequest, however, is a Royal Arch
Mason's apron, made of fine white silk,
with the emblems and secret letters of
both the Chafter and blue lodge painted
upon It in symbolic colors of the ancient
institution.
Mettger. Jeweler, optician. M2 Wash.
PUBLIC LAND OPENING
245.000 acres of irrigated Government Land in Bip Horn
Basin, Wyoming, will be thrown open for settlement May 12,
under the Carey Act, affording opportunity to secure an irri
fCHted farm at low cost on easy payments. Only :J0 days' resi
dence required. Report containing official notice of the draw
ing, maps, plats, and full information sent free on request.
IRRIGATION DEPARTMENT
ROOM 406, 205 LASALLE STREET, CHICAGO.
ACRE TRACTS
These
ON THE SALEM ELECTRIC LINE
As an Investment or for a Home
Tracts Are Unequalled.
Only 30 Minutes From the Heart of the City
The Oregonian Thursday, April 23, in an article on
the first page, states positively that the Oregon Electric
Railroad will gridiron the Willamette Valley with 301
miles of new lines. A" rapid rise in prices of all Willam
ette Valley property will be the result.
All kinds of fruit and vegetables can be raised to
perfection on this land.
Pure, sparkling water, living springs and shady
nooks.
This is soil, not gravel.
Take the cars today at Jefferson and Front streets,
ride to Metzger Station. Stroll around the tract and see
for yourself that we are offering the greatest bargains
now on the market.
PRICE $200 and up per acre, according to location.
TEEMS 10 per cent cash and 3 per cent of the purchase price per month.
INTEREST 6 per cent per annum on deferred payment.
ON CASH PAYMENTS a discount will be allowed.
For particulars and beautifully descriptive plat call a our Portland office, 226-228 Front
street, or at Metzger Station.
HERMAN METZGER, Owner