The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, May 24, 1908, SECTION THREE, Image 33

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Newspaper Page TextTHE, SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND. MAY 24, I9Q8. 9 enx ravine Cut Out That This Map Tells the Story of Location and How to Get There and Put the IS oney in the Ban . JP - .- DaooV 'joooooq a V y v 0.-MIN' -inooor1 'ooaou f.r NViFlO .nDor.VviPOD'r v . z C63 .ciODOiiPAoooog' . - ! OVM - oaQLfooooc T , ''Av .o'DQaoDOooaogf -H . A)J iHjr 'ooDOODroC'Pood . i'l.': ItiDOOODtOOQPl-'a ; Vui? ..jor'DDDGnoaooDOO, x Hi WkW&1siiis . v Si QaQagS3ac nor I s! r , 1 ' THE TRANSIENT FARE IS 10c, BUT THERE'S A REGULATION COMMUTER'S 5c FARE. FREE TICKETS AT OFFICE. COME SUNDAY. "F YOU QO to the store for every morsel for yonr table and give a large percentage of yonr hard-earned dol lars to a landlord besides, bow do 7011. expect to ever -' get ahead? How do yon figure you'll achieve that financial condition where you can at least cease to worry" about the future? If your income is an ordi-' nary' one, and even if it might be called large, as salaries, go, you must take mighty good- care of it to be much ahead in ten years by this system. Custom has established . this 'pay-rent-and-buy-everything" system till people have be come satisfied with it; but why be satisfied when you can do better? ' An acre at Madison Villa is the secret, and, having, bought, ' you will own something which will not only increase tre mendously in value, but produce all those little delicacies you are buying now..' You can keep your chickens, a cow, raise fruits and vegetables of every kind. The soil is amazingly ' f ertilef and is all clear, having been under cultivation for ' years, so all this work of stumping,, stoning, etc., which is necessary elsewhere, is done I ' The saving to you in rent and groceries will reach hundreds of dollars annually, and the real beauty of the proposition is that 15 minutes (commuter's fare 5 cents) on the Oregon' Electric completes the trip either way. In this way a man can continue his work in town and enjoy as quick means of transportation as he could have in any. district where lot prices compare at all with Madison Villa ground per acre. Madison . Villa acres are closer, measured' by minutes or miles, than Sunnyside Irvington or the Rose City Park dis trict, where the prices of lots equal, double and treble this ground per acre. But don't lose sight of the fact that these tracts are very limited, and that nearly two-thirds of the block is already sold. There were only 80 acres originally. These tracts have the same relation to the center of town today as hundreds of blocks sold at similar prices twenty . years ago, and which have since become the equivalent to as many fortunes. I have watched all this development, and there must be a repetition, unless Portland stops growing right where it is.' Just think of the millions of wealth this but recen wilderness has developed into, and realize that ninety per cent of the fortunes were started by the advanced value of some piece of ground. The remaining Madison Villa Acre Tracts are $550 up ---Easy Terms Madison Villa is the closest-in acreage proposition in the, city; so close is it that the vicinity is literally covered with platted residence tracts all of which are certain to return generous profits. You are under no moral obligation to buy. after going out to inspect; we just want. you to see and you will understand the possibilities. Free tickets at this office for trip; if you cannot come, write for maps and fuller information.,. Agent at tract. - " 7 ' ' - ' 1h B RES KB; 444 Sherlock Bldg. EAST SIDE WANTS IE CITY MO ME Estimated That $500,000 Needed to Provide Ade quate Water Mains. Is SERVICE FALLS BEHIND Growth of City Greater Than Au thorities Can Keep Pace With. Continued Building Opera- '-" tlons ia.AU Directions. J; The extraordinary building activity on. the Bast Side In all directions emplia sizes the need of rhore water mains. This demand for water comes from practically every suburb for a six-Inch to a 24 lnch main. It Is estimated that J500.000 would not purchase and put under ground the pipe that Is now being called for on the Bast Side. Only a portion of these demands are be ing met by the Water Board, and only such mains as are absolutely needed can be laid, while the other petitions are simply allowed to ptla up and be filed away. A 34-lnch main Is wanted to serve the territory between the Sectton-llne road and Sellwood. Including Waverly-Hlch-.mond, Kenilworth district and Sellwood. The latter district has started agitation for a pipeline. Owing to the growth, along and between the Milwaukie road and the Willamette River there is already a water shortage that is being seriously felt by the residents. The cost of this pipeline would be very great, end there is no money available. At Montavilla a pipe line was aBked for on Villa avenue, but had to be denied for want of money. Center addition and Montavilla both are growing rapidly and must have water. Center addition Is building northward to Rose City Park. In the Vernon tract, the Irvington addition, the old racetrack, and polnta on the Peninsula and "Woodlawn all are asking for water mains, but cannot get them for the same reason. If the four sections on the Mount Scott district are annexed, which now seems probable, -It means that the district will demand Bull Run water, as the local company cannot supply the present de mand and Is not Inclined to spend money in enlarging its plant with the prospects of annexation In the near future. In Cen tral Bast Portland and Albina the va cant lots are being built over rapidly, and more water will be used In consequence. It Is the general Impression that the sec ond pipeline cannot be built too soon, and that some provision will have to bo made to meet the demands for these line. East Sid Property In Demand. East Side property continues to be in demand, and the transfers of the past week have kept up to the average in spite of the approaching election, which is absorbing public attention. Two blocks, 45 and 48, in Sullivan's addition, on. the Sandy road, were sold for $16,000 to I. C. Sanford. This was the largest sale made on the East Side the past week. In Bast Portland, Frederick Hoffman bought the west 33 feet of lots S and 6, in block 238, for 4K. La. Swett sold to A. D. Cleveland a, parcel of land on the Base-line road on the corner of the N. D. Oilman donation land claim for K000. Another acreage sale was that of four acres by O. C. Yocum to James P. Andrews for $600. The tract is in the EX B. Davidson dona tion land claim. A considerable number of acreage transfers were made the past week for parcels east of Mount Tabor. This class of property has become very attractive to Portland Investors. In Central Albina E. L, Cooper bought lot 7 in block . for $3500. Frank Clark bought a quarter block in Walnut Park for JS500. John F. Kerrigan bought" lot 4, block 153, In Central Bast Portland for J. J. Fltigerald purchased the north half of lots 15 and 16. block 17. In John Irvlng's second addition, for $6500. The sale Includes a modern house. At Mount Tabor, one and one-half acres were sold to El H Farlngton for $3)00. In Piedmont. El E. Meyers bought lota ' 4 and 5. In block 4. for $3000. Sales have been made in Vernon, "Wal nut Park. North Albina. and all points down the Peninsula every day. Founda tions of new dwellings between Killlngs worth avenue and Columbia boulevard are going in all through the territory. W. C. Peddlcord, in his talk before the Penin sula Rose Festival Association Tuesday night, declared that the Peninsula was destined to hold a great population and also be a great manufacturing center. Mr. Peddlcord urged the advantage of in viting visitors who come to Portland dur ing the Rose Festival to visit that portion of the city. In Walnut Bark and Piedmont, where there la a building restriction, the visit ors will see some of the finest homes on the East Side. If they extend their trip to the Vernon tract they will also find a section rapidly building "up with at tractive homes. Movement In Apartment-Houses. There is quite a movement in the erec tion of apartment-houses on the East Side. A number of this class of build ings are being put up and others are projected. Fred Page is having plans drawn for a modern one on the corner of East Burnside and Eighth streets, to occupy the quarter block. It will be a building of pretentious size. P. Gevurts has signed a lease for this building for 10 years. It is to be completed by Dei cember 1. Plans are 4elng drown for a four-flat building for T. J. McNamee, of six rooms each, o cost $8000, to be built on Grand avenue and Oregon stroet Judge Otto J. Kraemer is having plans for a four-flat frame building on Oregon and Grand avenue. : Otto Kleeman has prepared the plans for a two-Btroy flat tor Peter Zimmerman, to be erected on Bast Twelfth and Burnside streets, to cost $6000. J. J. Horsky has let the contract for a two-story fiat on Union avenue and Schuyler street, to . cost $6600. Mrs. Barnes has commissioned Architects Goodrich & Goodrich to pre pare plans for an apartment-house to be built on Benton street, in McMillen's Addition. It will be -built of concrete blocks and contain 20 rooms In all. Architect Morgan has completed plans for a building for G. F. Cummins, to be built on Union and Ains worth avenues, to cost $5000. It will be two stories. The : lower rooms will be for business pur poses and the upper portion for flats. Mrs. J. B. Comstock Is having? plans drawn for a four-flat frame building of five rooms each, to be built on the northeast corner of East Sixth and Weldler streets. i C P. Barrett is having a $7000 two story frame building built on the cor ner of East Burnside and Twenty eighth streets. The lower, portion is for business rooms and the upper for dwelling apartments. Break Ground for Tenement. Walter Thomas Mills announces that ground will be broken for the com munity tenement buildings on the ground secured south of the Powell Valley road, at Kenilworth, come time In June. Mr. Mills has the general plan of these buildings already pre pared. He has several acres, which take In the ravine between the Powell Valley road and Kenilworth. Part of the ravine will be used for a lake. The general .plan is for a series of buildings that will house about 100 families, who will have the advantage of purchasing all articles of household use at wholesale prices, and who will be able to live at a minimum cost When the ground for the first struc ture Is broken Mr. Mills expects to have the Mayor and other prominent men present to launch the enterprise with appropriate ceremony. The Danish Aid Society will erect a home on the Bouthwest corner of East Nineteenth and Stark streets, where a lot was purchased for a site several months ago. The home will occupy 65x60 feet, and will be two and a half stories. Plans have been prepared by Wilson Travis for the special needs of the society. The building wlllcon taln meeting halls, ante-rooms, cloak and lounging rooms, together with an auditorium and banquet room. The Danish Aid Society is an old Portland fraternal organization, and Includes In its membership many.' of the pioneer citizens of Portland. The stone work of the Methodist Church South on Union avenue and Mult nomah street is progressing and will soon be completed. At present the tower, a massive affair, is being finished. Very soon the woodwork on this structure will be started. The church is being built of cut stone, and will be one of the most expensive edifices erected on the East Side, and will probably be completed this Fall. Work on this structure has been in progress for more than a year. The cost will run above $60,000. At Vernon the Second United Brthren Church is being completed at a cost of $3000. It will be ocupied in a few weeks, but the formal dedication of the church will be held during the sessions of an nual conference at the First United Brethren Church. At that time dedicatory ceremonies will be conducted by the pre siding bishop. . Will Build Carshopa. It is announced that the Portland Bail way, llght & Power Company will shortly proceed with the erection of its car shops in Sellwood. near the Golf Links, and is perfecting title to the land between Linn and Ochoco avenues, en East Thirteenth street, by which it will have control of all the land to the Willamette Jtiver. A third rail will be laid to the new shops so that cars 'on the north division, which j have a narrower gauge, than those of the O. W. P. line, can be taken to- the new shops for repairs. It Is considered prob able that repairs of cars or the Cazadero and Oregon City lines will be made at these shops, which will necessitate the employment of a large torce of men. Res idents and property-ownecs in Sellwood are pleased over the prospects of hav ing this large plant located there, which will mean much for that portion of the city! At Sellwood there is a substantial pro gressive movement in all lines of build ing and In street improvements. When the addition to the schoolhouse is finished the building will contain 18 rooms, which Principal Strong says will be occupied by the end of September of the next school year. The building of the proposed sewer system for that s :burb, between East, Ffteenth street and the Willamette River, will give it additional conveniences. Property values In Sellwood are advanc ing in proportion to the progress of the suburb. Along East Thirteenth street and Spokane and Umatilla avenues business buildings are being erected and a $20,000 hotel will be starter on Umatilla avenue this month. Hlgh-Grade Houses Built. On June 1 work wilt be started on the new, residence of M. F. Donahoe, on the southwest corner of Sumner street and Garfield a'cnue, .n Walnut Park. It will cost $10,000 and will be one of the most pretentious structures erected on the East Side for some months. Archi tect Faber has prepared plans, and the foundation will be built to support a five story building. For the present it will be two and one-half stofles. It will be built of cement blocks. At one corner will stand a three-cornered tower. Architect Faber is preparing plans for .a concrete residence, to be built on East Ffteenth and Multnomah streets, to cost $9000, for Donahue & Hardin. Mr. Faber also is preparing plans for a home for himself' on Garfield and Alns worth avenues, to cost $5600. It will be 40x66 and contain nine rooms. All the heating and lighting whl be by electricity, which will -tfe supplied by a storage bat tery. Energy to run the dynamo will come from a Holland Dutch windmill, to be erected In the rear of the house on a massy stone tower. Its sails will have a sweep of 32 feet and the mill will de velop from eight to ten-horse power. Whenever there is a breeze, electricity will be generated and stored for future use In the house." This will be the first dwelling of this kind built in Portland, and will be in every way original. An electrician Is preparing plans for the electrical system. AS IT LOOKS TO FRIES PRESIDENT OF REALTY BOARD VISITS CALIFORNIA. Says Resources of State and Coast Are Practically Limitless, With Oregon In the Lead. H. W. Fries, president of the Port land Realty Board, has returned from a two weeks' trip in California. He was in San Francisco when the battleship fleet arrived and is enthusiastic over the spectacle presented by the warships when they entered tlje harbor and swung to their anchorages. Mr. Fries was enter taine;' at the Bohemian Club and by other organizations of the Bay City, and was taken on an automobile trip through part of the Santa Clara and San Joaquin Valleys. He returns to Oregon convinced that this state has many advantages unea.ualed anywhere on the Coast, ?ut at the same lime believes that the whole Pacific Coast Is the garden part of the world. He said yesterday: "I found conditions in California much the same as we have here in Oregon. We need more population and more money to develop our resources, which to my mind are practically limitless. "I went on a tour of the San Joaquin Valley out to the neighborhood of Fres no, where I found the irrigation of the lands bringing the most satisfactory re sults. They have there their immense raistn industry built up under irrigation; we have here our apples and prunes to offset that product. I was convinced without a remaining doubt in my mind of the importance of irrigation, for thou sands of acres of land brought Into pro ductiveness were there to bear evidence. Value of these lands has been doubled and trebled In the last few years.- The lands I passed over on this trip are about the same as our own Willamette Valley as to fertility, and in comparison are about equal, except we have the advantage in climatic conditions. "I find that In realty circles there is a great movement in lands over on the Oakland. Berkeley, Richmond and Ala meda sides of the bay. There are thou sands of acres in the foothills country yet to be Improved, and dealers said to me that acreage In these sections is in good demand at Increasing prices. "As for the City of San Francisco, I observed many things which Impressed me most favorably. In the first place, the burned-over district is being built up ' In a perfectly marvelous manner. There are, of course, many blocks on which little if any effort has been made to rebuild ;substantlal structures, but at the same time the number of class A buildings completed or under process of construction is so great as to simply amaze one. ' Values for property in the old . down-town section . keep up, but realty dealers report less movement In that character of Investment than in out lying lands.. "The fact that leases were made for business sites along Van Ness avenue and on out to Fllmore street for several year terms has retarded the filling up of the old business district, but business is bound to return to the burned dis trict very shortly, especially in whole sale and retail merchandising. Probably Van Ness avenue is destined to remain a retail business street, but it will be come what Polk and Filmore streets were before the . fire. "One matter that Is engaging the at tention of realty men just now is an effort to have the Legislature amend the laws of the state, which, now permit leases to be made for only 50 years. It Is urged that the term allowed be in creased to 99 years which, ' it Is held, will attract building on a larger scale than Investors now care to undertake. There is a large amount of property of fered for lease in the burned section of the city, and already many merchants are looking for sites in that district. "There i a state realty federation, with ' headquarters in Los Angeles, and with members In nearly every Important city and town In the state, the object of which is stated to be to insure square dealing and prompt attention to seekers after information. The San Francisco member is the Real Etate Board, which has nearly eveTy prominent real estate firm in the city enrolled on its member ship, and it Is doing much for the up building of the city and its surround Death on Congo River Steamer. BRUSSELS, May 23. Dispatches re ceived here from the West Coast of Africa announce that the steamer Vllle de Bruges has been sunk by a tornado on the Upper Congo. Six Europeans and 43 blacks were drowned. The Star Brewery's famous Hop Gold beer is unexcelled in all respects and is highly recommended for its strength and health-giving qualities. Orders for bottled beer receive prompt attention. Phone East 46. Home phone B1146. 1ETZGE ACRE TRACT The greatest bargains ever offered to the people of Portland. Thirty minutes Srom the heart of the city on the Salem electric line. They are worth twice what we ask for them. Eide out and see for yourself. Just think of it, only $200 Per Acre and Up The best land in Oregon on which to raise vegetables, fruit, berries or walnuts. A trout stream, springs and good car service. Don't delay; secure one of these tracts before the price advances. Be sure you are on Metzger tract. , PRICE Sj2M and up per acre, according to location. TERMS 10 per cent cash and 3 per cent of the pur chase price per month. INTEREST 6 per cent per annum on deferred pay ments. ON CASH PAYMENTS a discount will be allowed. For 'particulars and beautifully descriptive plat call at our Portland offce, 226 228 Front street, or at Metzger Station. All cars and trains stop at Metzger's; ; HERMAN METZGER - OWNER i: ; .; vV v Office Phones, Main 474 A 1374. Agents and Phone at Station, Pacific 2019.' "THE TWIN FALLS COUNTRY" (1,000 ACRES CAREY ACT LANDS OPEN FOR ENTRY UNDER THE TWIN FALLS SALMON RIVER PROJECT AT TWIN FALLS, IDAHO JUNE 1ST, 1908 Registration Books Open May 25, 1908 Registration Books Close May 31, 1908 Drawing Takes Place June First, 1908 For booklet giving full information write R. M. McCOLLTJM, Secretary Twin Falls Investment Co., Ltd. TWIN FALLS, IDAHO, Sole agents for sale of land and water rights. Carey Act, Lands can be located by power of attor ney. Blanks Furnished on Application. All deposits for drawing1 must be by certified cheek. Beaverton-Reedville Acreade ' Ml THE PASADENA of OREGON Ourlarge body of Tiighiy improved landed ten miles west of Portland, station in midst, are with out parallel for beauty of location, richness of soil, freedom from gravel, poor or cold soil.; An ideal locality for Home or investment. Over half of bur purchasers have bouhf additional' lands since.An inspection of properties will substantiate our every . . claim. Call or' write for further information to The Sfiaw-Fear Company 245 y2 Stark Street.