SUNDAY OREGOyiAy, PORTLAND, AUGUST 2, 1908.
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Reclamation of Sloughs and
"Low Lands Gives Addi
tional Business Area.
Why People Should Buy Portland Real Estate, and
Why They Should Buy It From
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A Talk oi
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BUILDINGS FOLLOW WORK
Cliurohgoiiig People Provide Many
Sew Places of Worship for Kap
idly Increasing Population
of Big District.
That all property in central East Port
tend and suburbs feels the influence of
the hi? flllins projects, there can be no
question. Few people who have wltnessea
the slow but steady rrofrress of the great
work of scooping up sand and gravel
from the bottom of the Willamette river
and dumping tnem In the slough and low
grounds la East Portia-id realize what
efTect these great improvements have had.
As long s the low land between Vnion
venue and the Willamette River and the
sloughs in East Portland stood without
prospects of being filled, property was
slow sale as far back as East Twelfth
street, but when the Port of Portland
dredga besan pumping gravel to make
some experimental fills between East
Washington and Morrison streets, realty
b.-gan to appreciate and presently blocks
formerly held at SS.OuO and SJo.OOO went up
first to JT3.000 and then to 1100.000. Own
ers of property on East Washington, East
Morrison and East Stark end other
streets where fills were made at first
were uncertain as to the outcome, but
the results removed all doubt.
A single unimproved lot on East Mor
rison and Third streets sold last week
for 1.0O, which is at the rate of J12S.000
per block in that vicinity. East Wash
ington East Oak. East Stark, East Mor
rison streets'and Hawthorne avenue have
been filled and East Alder will soon be
completed to East Water street, at a
cost ofjnore than a quarter million dol
lars and the work is going forward.
The Influence of these improvements is
felt on every lot and block in Bast Port
land. It is seen In the cash price of J27.500
paid by J. C. Ainsworth for a quarter
block on Grand avenue and East Ankeny
street which before the fills were pro
jected could have been bought for less
than IIO.OOX W. L. Morgan, who erected
a. JiO.OOO brick on Grand avenue and East
6tark street, says he is more than satis
fled with his Investment in East Port
land These improvements brought the
Healy building, costing 175.000; the Mitch
ell Lewis & Siaver J125.O0O warehouse, on
East Morrison street; the Oliver Chilled
Plow Company's warehouse, costing
$30 000; the prospective four-story ware
house for Parlin & Orendorff, costing
$j0.ooo. and the brick building of Wallace
& Devlin, costing at least $25,000.
Lay Corner-Stone Today.
Today the Oddfellows will lay the cor-
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Sixth and Alder streets, a lot that was
bought for $3500 three years ago, and
which could have been sold for $7. The I
Pacific Bridge Company has completed its
tilling plant at a cost of over $150,000 and
Is now engaged in dredging the Willam
ette River, where material without limit
Is to be had without cost for filling up
streets and vacant blocks, and has started
on a work that will take between five and
seven years to complete.
Mainly Sell for Cash.
In speaking of Portland real estate
sales, W. H. Mall, who is considered
good authority, says the most significant
fact in connection with the main portion
of the transfers is that they are for cash,
or mostly so. He cites the sale of the
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quarter uiuta. 1,11 uiaim - -
Ankeny by John Brlgham to J. C. Ains
worth for J-T.oOO. He says that a sale of
that size in some other cities on the Coast
would mean that perhaps $5000 was paid
down, but the Portland deal was for
cash.
Portland sales." said Mr. Mall, are
generally on a cash basis, and in that re
spect Portland is far ahead of any of the
cities I recently visited on the Sound.
People here have the money and have
confidence in the place."
East Side Conditions Good.
As far as East Side property is con
cerned, conditions are very satisfactory.
The recently Important sales made in
Central East Portland and Alblna, and
the constant sales made In the so-called
resident districts Indicate a most healthy
state In realty. During the week W. C.
Williams bought lots 14 and 15. and the
north 94 feet of lots. IS and 17, In block 1.
Miller's addition to 9ellwood. for $0700.
practically a half block. This was the
most Important transfer made in Sellwood
property for some time. Another subur
ban sale was that of lot 1, block 17, with
house, in Center addition. North Mount
Tabor, to Augusta Markwardt for $4500.
In the Buckman tract, J. W. Mcliollard
bought a quarter block for $3SO0. John
L. Davenport bought lot 6, and west 6.9
feet of lot 6, In First addition to Holla
day Park for $3000. In Hawthorne Park,
George D. Rushmore bought a quarter
block for $5000. Frank Robinson bought a
quarter in block 64. Vernon, for $10. G.
Glenz bought a honse and lot in Wood
stock for $1700. George Dllworth sold to
J. K. Fltzwater lot 3. block 6. Dunn's ad
dition, with house, for $4S00. James F.
Robinson bought lot 11. block 6, and house
In John Irving's addition for JooOO. w.
H. Seward sold the east half of lots 1
and 2, block X Murray Hill addition to
East Portland, with house for $4500.
Mount Tabor Wants Park.
W. E. Stevens, who handles Mount
Tabor property mainly, reports condi
tions most encajiragims. Recently he had
a, tract containing 40 tots on the Base
Une road at Mount Tabor, and these
have nearly all been sold at from $000
to $500. Sales at the Summit, or Tabor
.Heights, have been numerous, and sev
eral new homes are being built on th
heights.
The property -owners at Mount Tabor
ere looking forward with Interest to the
prospective Improvement of Belmont
street with hard-surface pavement to
West avenue, and also the extension of
the street to Tabor Heights, and finally
to the top of Mount Tabor, where a pub
lic park will probably be established If
the wishes of the people prevail.' It is
proposed to open a boulevard around the
east, south and west sides of Mount
Tabor and have it end at the summit,
where the park will be located if the
plans of the push clubs are carried out.
The Mount Tabor Improvement Associ
ation has appointed a strong committer
George K. Clark. P. P. Dabney and G.
L. Lindsay to handle this park proposi
tion. Also E. T. Peterson, president of
the South Mount Tabor Club, says he
will co-operate in establishing a park on
the top of Mount Tabor. There is al
ready a winding road along which an
electric car line can be built in future.
May Build Railway Spur.
F B. Holbrook is asking for a fran
chise to build a doulbe-track electric
railway from the Intersection of East
Charles SL fen
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It has been noted during; the past few weeks that Charles K. Henry & ; Son
some of the heaviest sales of real estate that have ever been made in the City of PorUaad,
the purchases being; made by well-known, far-seeing, capable business men, who now reaLe
the fact that Oregon is the greatest section of the United States about J?Z
railroad and other transportation facilities through the. advent of the HU1 d5.
rids, as well as the many lines of electric roads .being built throughout the state; he con
certed efforts being made to get open-river transportation; the A
tion land projects being put in the state, both by the United States SSi
tending to develop the entire State of .Oregon, and all -of which tends to the upbuilding of
Ltsmepitalists, investors and managers of estates throughout the United States
realize that there is no investment so safe and certain as good inside property in a grower
city such as Portland is proving herself to be. The man .with $10,000, as well as the man
with $100,000 or larger sums to invest, cannot make a mfctaks in rightfuUy buying proper
ties in the City of Portland. Any person who will pause,' consider and reflect upon the fact
that the Hill roads have built freight warehouses. and are, now building grain warehouses,
more than doubling the capacity of that theretofore suppliixl to, the city -every one must
see that this portends increased business in the City of Portland. The cities that receive aid
from the railroad companies grow very rapidly. We shouM cease ill-considered harping at
the transportation companies, but enlist their good aid audi offices in building vp our city
Any person who will take a map of the State of Oregon, showing our area of 96, 00C I square
miles, with abdut 20,000 miles of Washington and Idaho tributary to it, being about half the
total area of Germany, which supports a population of 65,000,000, while Oregon, with her
salubrious climate, her very much more fertile soil, having leas than 600,000, must certainly
gain great population, and the City of Portland grow with it. The State of Washington and
the cities therein, have grown very rapidly, because they have had the impetus given by th?
ereat Northern Pacific Railroad Company, that being now withdrawn, or at least lessened, as
the company has about sold all its land. The State of Oregon and consequently Portland,
now about to receive the aid and impetus now about to follow from the advent of these
railroads, will move forward very rapidly, and Portland properties will increase in value ac
cordingly. As long as these United States continue to grow, and gcow they will, Portland city
properties will prove a sure and profitable, investment. ,
Charles K. Henry & Son, who deal exclusively in inside properties, have been m the
business for twenty years in the City of Portland, dealing solely i inside properties, not run
ning a department store, not doing an abstract business' nor an insurance business, BUT 'WE
DO SELL BEAL ESTATE, AND SELL THE VERY BEST OF REAL ESTATE-PORTLAND
REAL ESTATE and sell only on the commission basis, whereby the owner of property
knows that he is not being" speculated upon, and the buyer of the property knows that the price
quoted is the price of the owner, thereby insuring absolute fair dealing, are fully qualified
to give investors the very best aid and assistance in selecting bargains in Portland city prop
erty They have sold many of the most prominent and largest properties in the city, and
respectfully refer the investing public to any bank or business house in the City of Portland,
and to their numerous clients. " j
Bankers, investors, executors of estates, living out of Portland, wanting Portland real
estate, are cordially invited to write to or call upon - '
Charles K. Henry 81 Son
250 Stark Street, Portland, Oregon
Thirteenth and Alberta streets in i tha
North East Side district, along Thir
teenth northward to and across Ains
worth avenue. This is a short electric
spur connecting with the Alberta line and
run into a district not now provided with
car service and which is rapidly building
up with homes. It win probably be ex
tended to East "Woodlawn.
At Woodlawn an excellent growth Is
shown in all directions, but particularly
In the gradual disappearance of the grav
el pits, which have held back that section
for many years. The large pit alongside
the Woodlawn car line is being filled up.
and will soon be covered. This pit occu
pied nearly four blocks. Other excava
tions are being filled, mainly through the
Improvement of streets, material being
taken from the streets as they are graded
and dumped into the pits.
A considerable number of streets ara
being paved, and new homes are being
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Vnents is that the value of the real estate
Is holding its own and siowiy aavancing
all through that section.
Steel and Concrete Bridges.
The steel bridge across Sullivan's Gulch,
on Union avenue, will be completed and
thrown open to the public by October 1,
when traffic will once more resume the
former route across Burnside bridge,
which has been diverted over the Steel
bridge. Cost of this bridge will be 75,
000. Also work on the reinforced concrete
bridge across Sullivan's Gulch on East
Twenty-eighth street is progressing rap
idly. The forms are in position and tha
concrete mixer is running full capacity.
The Portland Railway, Light & Power
Company will have double tracks over
this bridge, as the company must have
an outlet to the growing district north and
east of this point. Another modern
bridge ls'called for at East Twelfth street
to replace the worn-out structure at
that point, to connect with the publio
park on the north side of Sullivan's
Gulch. Owing to the growth of Central
East Portland, bridges across Sullivan's
Gulch doubtless will be erected at alter
nate streets in the course of time.
Scheme for Mission Villa.'
j. J. Patton has been appointed archi
tect to prepare plans for buildings for
the Unit Sharing Associates. . Walter
Thomas Mills, secretary of the organi
zation, says that Mr. Patton has been
engaged to prepare the final plans for
the group of buildings to be erected
on a site of seven blocks, which -were
secured some time ago on East
Thirty-seventh and Powell streets. The
architect lives in Berkeley, Cal. He
is expected to arrive in Portland in a
short time, and start work on the plans.
Mr. Patton has had 12 years' experience.
The general plans contemplate a group
of 12 apartment houses, each building
to have a capacity for housing 12 fami
lies. There will be a central plant to
supply heat, light, laundry and a
vacuum system for house cleaning.
Building Many New Churches.
Several new churches are under con
struction and projected on the East
Side. Among these are the following:
St. Francis. East Eleventh and Oak
street. $75,000; Central Christian, East
Salmon and Twentieth, $50,000; Sunny
side Congregational. $2. 000; Mississippi-avenue
Congregational. $10,000;
Uassalo-street Congregational, addition,
$7000; Westminster Presbyterian, addi
tion, $2000; Clinton Kelly Memorial
Methodist, Powell Valley Road, $5000;
Millard-avenue Presbyterian, Mount
Scott district, about $3500; North Al
blna United Evangelical, $3500; Jesuits,
Catholic, school and church, $15,000,
and home, $10,000; church and school,
Catholic Highland, $15,000; Forbes Pres
byterian, Sellwood street and Gantenbeln
avenue, $15,000; chapel in Piedmont. $1800;
University Park Methodist Church,
manse, $2500; Mount Tabor Presbyterian,
Belmont street, $10,000; Southern Metho
dist, Union avenue and Multnomah street,
$73,000. These buildings represent an ex
penditure of $337,500, and about $50,000
for furniture. For most of the build
ings that are under way or being- com
pleted the money has been raised from
the membership.
The contract for the foundation 6f
the Central Christian Church, East Sal
mon and East Twentieth streets, was
let the past week for $5000. The total
cost of the church Is estimated at $30,
000. C. C. Robbins has completed the
plans for the structure.
South Suburbs Grow.
As far south on the Oregon City Elec
tric Railway as Jennings Lodge Is evi
dence of expansion. At Milwaukie 20
houses are being erected, besides the
new schoolhouse, which will cost $10,
000, and work on the new city hall is
being carried forward. On Milwaukie
Heights a number of attractive Summer
homes hava been built. Here also is
the- $10,000 dwelling of J. W. Grasley,
a Milwaukie fruit raiser. Oak Grove
has several new buildings, including a
two-atory frame near the waiting sta
tion. The people at Oak Grove will soon
be connected with Portend and the
surroundings with a telephone service,
a local company having been formed
for that purpose. On to Jennings Lodge
new Summer homes have been built.
At Jennings Lodge the Evangelical
Camp-Meeting Association bought eight
acres from the Shaw-Fear Company at
$200 an acre several years ago, and a
few months ago sold off three acres
fronting the river for $800 an acre,
more than the whola tract cost. The
three acres front on the Willamette.
River. Tha Shaw-Fear Land Company
bought the three acres, and is holding
It for Summer homes. -There Is a de
mand for sites for these on the Wll
lametta River, and all the land front
ing on the river is advancing in value.
BETTER STREETS IN PROSPECT
Fifteen Miles Already Contracted or
Petitioned For.
Undoubtedly the average man on the.
street would, if asked how many miles
of paved streets would be laid in Port
land this year, say: "Oh, three or four
miles, perhaps."
So rapid has been the spread of the
better streets movement In Portland
that over four miles of hard-surfaced
pavements are already contracted for by
the city, while 11.8 miles of specifications
are being prepared by the City Engi
neer or are awaiting bids. This makes
the surprising total of over 15 miles
thus far in 1908.
The presidential year will be remem
bered by the citizens of Portland as the
red-letter year for better streets." The
repeated demands of the more progres
sive property-owners upon their hesi
tating aneighbors are being answered this
year apparently more readily than ever
before, and there is much less of the old
spirit of objecting to an expenditure for
a needed improvement.
Contracts have been let thus far for
$1,529,295- worth of street improvements.
This total covers all varieties of im
provement, also including a strip of
stone block paving, laid In a place of
especially wearing traffic.
It has ' been pointed out that no
stronger evidence of the complete re
covery o the business of Portland from
the general depression of last Novem
ber can be found than In this total of
the street Improvements for the first
seven months. It is a concrete argument
for the commercial activity of the city
which is h ard to surpass, and as such
is already . being used widely.
In discussing ' the subject of good
streets the other day. Mayor Lane de
clared than the Portland property-owners
have apparently decided that the
standard, well-known types of hard
surface paiXimcnt are the most satis
factory and that, judging from their pe
titions for numerous Improvements, they
do not favor" experimenting.
The men prominent in the movement
for better streets, alive to any possible
reduction in .their assessments, are tak
ing up the proposed amendment of the
state bonding law by which the con
tractors will . be paid for their work
when the parement Is completed end
accepted by he City Engineer. At
present, long delays in payment seem
Inevitable, andi the contract companies
freely assert that if they received the
money due the.n promptly it would be
possible to reduce the cost of paving.
Unless West Side residents bestir
themselves the people living in what
were once the sparsely settled districts
of the East Side will be far ahead of
them so far as good streets are con
cerned. The Irvington-Holladay Addi
tion people want an entire district paved
and seem In' a flair way of accomplish
ing their plans. ,
IOWA SOCIETY PICNIC
Annual Outing af, Uarge Association
at Hood River.
HOOD RIVER, Or.. Aug. 1. Six hun
dred members of the Hood River Iowa
State Association arid their friends ate
barbecued ox and listened to speechmak
ing at Grange Park, near here Friday.
The occasion was thai annual meeting of
the association for thu purpose of elect
ing officers and renewing old associations
of their former home in the Middle- West.
Of the several . assoidatlons at Hood
River of this character, the one repre
senting Iowa enjoys thii largest member
ship and their mid-Summer annual meet
ing is always looked uion as one of the
big social events of the year. The pro
gramme included an oration by J. ., Van
Niece Bandy, pastor qf the Unitarian
Church, addresses by A. A. Jayne and
M. P. Isenberg. and a vhlln solo by Miss
Lelia Radford. Mrs. George Wlckham
recited "Where Rolls the. Oregon," and
a recitation enUtled "ThaOld Hawkeye
IFsi
This is where every view is different
This is where every lot has a view
This is where everyone wants to live
This is it. The ne plus ultra of Port
land residence sections
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BU-LL
UN WATER
Will be plowing through this property
before 90 days; graded streets; cement
walks; electric lights; higher civili
zation at Council Crest
Lots 3SOO and up. lO per cent down
310.00 per month
JmOo IP SI
larkey Go,
122V3 Sixth Street, Cor. Washington (Upstairs)
A 2537-PHONES-Main 550
State," was also given by Miss Adah
Rose.
The officers elected for the ensuing year
were W. F. Lara way, president; M. M.
Hill, vice-president, and J. H. Orsborne,
secretary and treasurer. Mr. Laraway
was elected president of the association
for the fifth time.
Suspected of Big Robbery.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1. John
Dever, charged with a daring holdup
but suspected of being one of the men
who robbed Lundy's Jewelry store
some months ago, is being held by the
police. He was captured by two de
tectives on the waterfont last night,
after a desperate struggle. The police
refused to say just what evidence they
have to connect him with the Lundy
robbery, when nearly $100,000 worth of
diamonds were stolen. Dever has been
arrested before, but no evidence to
hold him could ever be secured.
Chinese Come for Study.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1. The steam
er Siberia, from the Orient, today brought
here a commission appointed by the Chi
nese government to come to the United
States to study commercial conditions.
The commission is composed of Wang
Ching Chia, senior secretary of the de
partment of agricultural works and
commerce; Pan Ssu-Chih. second as- I
sistant secretary of the same board, .
and Li Ching Lien. Collector of j
the Port Stratton was apprised of
the coming of the membera of
the commission by Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury Beekman Winthrop, and
they were met upon their arrival on the
dock by a representative of the collector
and the Chinese Consul here. They will
remain in San Francisco for some days.
Oklahoma, althoDKh th younmaat tats
has 93 cathollo churcnea, in th. car. of
7 prieate.
Fortune Knocks Once
"m fir
at Every Man s uoor
Has it knocked at yours yet? If not, perhaps this is the warning. More money
is made from the advance in the value of property than from all other efforts
combined. I am now offering beautiful, sightly, productive
ACRE TRACTS
at one-half their value. These tempting prices produce results and our
tracts sell rapidly. There is no better or safer investment, . or surer way of
quadrupling your money in a few years. Fortune is knocking at your door; will
vou let it pass? 'We have improved and unimproved land and some with a
heavy growth of fine timber. The timber alone, on some of these acres, is worth
more than what we are asking for them. :
Price $200 and Upward
All choice 'and capable of producing profitable crops of fruit, vegetables, ber
ries or walnuts. Running water and crystal springs on all parts of the ground.
On the Salem Electric Line, only 30 minutes' ride from the heart of the city.
For particulars and beautiful descriptive plat call at -our Portland office,
26-28 Front street, or at Metzger Station. 'All cars stop at Metzger s.
" HERMAN- METZGER, OWNER
Office Phones, Main 474 A 1374. Agents and Phone at Station Pacific 2019.