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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 29, 1908)
X COLUMBIA TRUST CO. IMPORTANT SALES ON THE EAST SIDE i lmciy i ip Sites for New Buildings Se cured in New Wholesale Dis trict Along Rail Lines. MEW STREET WORK WANTED A Buildings Under Course of Con traction in Various Outlying Districts Indicate Continued Grouth of the City. Pale of two h.ilf-blorks In the ware house district, on for $ 1 6.500 and the -thr for J22.r0O. are considered foar- rrafn for that class of property, con- Iderlnir what was paid for half-blocks on EaM Morrison street a year ego, but the cost of filling up the half blocks secured must be considered in Connection with their valuation. Under date of November 21, the Western Klectrlo Company sold to th Oold Medal Shingl Company half of block 55 on Kant Yamhill for $I8,00. which Is Included In the warehouse dis trict. It lir- considered probable that the purchasers of theso half-blocks will erect bulldinsra on thm In the near future. Joseph Buchtel, who ne srotlated the snle of one of the half b loc k s. rema rk that Eas t Port la nd property Is held nt very reasonable flftures. especially In this section. which Is now in the center of the city, pv the end of the year 1909, this dis trict will probably be filled up to che basement level and the streets up to Ifrade. This vacant district Is practi cally In the center of the city, and when the filling; operations have been completed will. It Is believed, becomo one of the principal wholesale districts of the city. The four-atory brick buildin of Paxil n & Orendorff. is considered the beginning- of the development of th district. That all the property In the district Is appreciating; in value rapid Jv is evidently from the fact that the Gold Medal Shingle Company was of fered I31.00A for its half block, but re fused the offer. It is announced that .-Fisher, Thorsen & Co., will erect a three-story reinforced concrete build ing on their half block In this district costing JK5.000 In the near future. Tho fact that the West Side trains will be routed through the East Side within about a year, when the Southern Pa cific leaves Fourth street, has turned aUtentlon on these vacant blocks. Starts on Brick Building. Ground was broken Wednesday for a fine brick six-flat building on East Couch, between Grand avenue and East Fixth street, to cost J20.000, for Stokes c Zeller. It is the largest building of the sort that has been projected on the East Side for some time. While the structure has been under consideration for several months, actual construc tion was delayed until the result of the Presidential election . was announced. The building will be three full stor ies with a basement, and will be of brick up to the third story, from which point it will be rough-cast- It will have an attractive exterior, and each l!at will have five rooms, and will be C5x45. Mr. Zeller said that the very best material and workmanship will go Into the structure, for with the rapid growth of the East Side only first-class buildings will pay, as the land Is be coming too valuable for cheap houses. The contract for the basement of the handsome new home of H. McCormlck, on Ka.-u Salmon street, near East Twenty-eighth, has been let. George Mercer will do the grading and Harry Itingham will build the retaining walls. It will be a li-room residence and gar nKf of pressed brick with sandstone re lief. Three sides of the building will liave verandas. The cost will be $25, l'. Work has ben started on a $5000 flat for R F. Ilowland. East Sixteenth, between East Stark and East Washing ton streets. J. E. Lew ton has the con tra t. The contract for the East Side water office will be lot by lecember 1. It will be erected on the corner of East FvHtith and Alder streets, covering the entire lot. and will be two stories. 1'lans for this structure were drawn a year ago by Architect Jacobberger. Move Toward Mount Tabor. Letting the contract for paving Bel mont st reel, between Fortieth street to West avenue, to the Warren Con struction Company, the past week, for un ti for a bard-siirface Improvement is In line with the proreslve movement between Sumislde and Mount Tabor. Although the improveanent of Belmont street between East Water street and West avenue In -in sections, and has dragged. It Is now moving steadily -and probabl v the close of next year will bring the completed Improvement f Belmont to West avenue at least. Attractive homes already occupy nearly all space to Fortieth street, and house are springing up along the street to Mount Tabor. East Taylor street has been improved to East Forty-fifth street, and is built up an both sides with attractive dwellings. Between Hawthorne avenue and the Base Line road as far as pretty man avenue there In a rapid growth. Along West avenue, which is one of the scenic streets of the East Side, a number of high-class homes has been erected- On. Haw thorne avenue the $:m.000 residence of PhlMp Hiichncr is being completed. j The $t-aire tract purchased two years aRrt by tleoree Brown and others rui the nurUi side of H:iwthorre avenue 1 between I'rettyman and West avenues. ha settled up rapidly. Most of the ' streets are graded and concrete side- j walks laid. Improvements costing i fultv $?ntV0'0 have been made in this Immediate neighborhood. on the west slope of Mount Tabor, where growth has been somewhat slow, there is now a good forward movement. It Is coniticred one of the finest resi- dence districts In the city, and this fact is now being recognized. Lights are being secured and fire protection Is promised. Net year a big school house, centrally located, will take the I lace of the two buildings there now tnat have outlived their usefulness. Grow th of Montavllla. At Montavllla. which was annexed 1 to I'ortland two years ago. substantial ; progress is being made. For the bene fit of young men and women t he Methodist Church is erecting a $J000 gymnasium on Hibbard street, pear the lias Line road. It will be com pleted in about two months. A busi ness center has been developed on the Base Line road in Montavllla,' where all the stores are occupied and there Is evry appearance of thrift. Effort is being made to secure fire protection ffr this suburb by erecting a fir engine lmne at some point on t ha 'Base Line r-ad high enough" up to command the w hole suburb. Kecent annexation of a strip half a mile wide by two unies iong cast of Montavllla j ( COMPARATIVELY. SPEAKING ) TO Ult CARE OF A WALNUT ORCHARD AFTER THE FIRST 'FOUR YEARS Th-i t Is one reason why we picked walnuts to plant at RIVERSIDE ORCHARDS. After tht ' first four years the walnut tree will take care of itself. There is no pruning and no sj raying, as the walnut in Oregon is not subject to pests of any kind, and all that is necessriry is to keep the weeds down from between the trees. We h we been telling you from time to time o the different qualities necessary to a successfi ol orchard, and in each case have conclusively shown that i L la Possesses abs olutely every quality to make it one of THE BEST INCOME PRODUC ING dualities in Oregon. The soil is a rich, dark, deep loam, well drained and running In places aboil i a depth of 62 feet. In fact, situated as RIVERSIDE ORCHARDS is at the junction a ? the Yamhill and "Willamette Rivers it becomes a veritable delta of tna NUe our expert on farm lands searched the surrounding country three months before he found a snot vJihich to his mind, was suitable to make absolutely the best orchard prop osition in Oie& m. He came to us and said that the BRALY PARM, which is no RIVERSIDE (ORCHARDS, would cost us from three to four times as much as other farms that he ha d in mind, but that it was worth it, as in the opinion of every one who had seen this plat -e or knew of it there was no better garden or orchard site in the world. From our standpoint of course there would not be the profit in this as there would bo in the cheaper I'auds, but we determined that whatever we took hold of in this lin would have to be the best, and that we would use this as a future advertisement for the firm, and that we vwould buy the best and most expensive, subdivide it and sell it at the same prices as wa f being charged for inferior and less-desirable orchard lands. This is what si e have done at RIVERSIDE ORCHARDS. There'nwer'lhain will be another opportunity to buy another RIVERSIDE OR CHARDS as low as we are selling five and ten-acre tracts at that place today. VALUES ARE STEADILY INCREASING ALL OVER OREGON and the Willamette Valley, and with the completion .of the new electric line to McMinnville, RIVERSIDE ORCHARDS WILL DOUBLE IN VALUE as it is right on the outskirts of the town. Each acre at RI VERSIDE ORCHARDS will be planted to SEVENTEEN WAL NUT TREES, SEVENTEEN PEACH OR CHERRY TREES and SEVENTEEN FIL BERT TREES. This selection guarantees you an immediate income which will grow larger and larger eacll year and at maturity will give a steady income of $2000 a year from a five-acre tract. ' . Think what an in ome of this amount means to you eight or ten years from now, think what it means to your children. Buy now and prepare for the future. It does not take ai iy great amount of cash at the present time to own a RIVER SIDE ORCHARD tract . Just a small payment down and easy monthly payments will put you in possession of an income for life. We invite you to come with us today and inspect RIVERSIDE ORCHARDS carefully. Take the eaij'y Southern Pacific, train leaving Stark and Fourth at 7:20 A. M. Our agent will f urni h you with free transportation. THE JACOBS-STINE COMPANY Largest Si ibdivisien Operators on the Pacific Coast 148 FIFTH STREl'T PORTLAND, OREGON brought In about 800 people and adds 40 pupils to the Montavllla school, or will when the final act of annexation Is completed next June. A number of streets are to be Improved the coming year. A new Catholic Church, costing 115.000 la being erected. On the whole Montavllla is one of the most prosper ous suburbs of the city. Bard-Surface District Formed. After a year of effort, the Piedmont Push Club has succeeded In forming a hard-surface Improvement district, bounded by Wil'lams. Klllingsworth, Alnsworth and Union avenues. The streets Inside this district will be Im proved separately and petitions have been signed up. Some streets outside the boundaries will also be Improved In the same way. It is expected that in the early part of the coming year work on some of the streets will be started. It is proposed to park the streets of this suburb. There will be 18 feet on each side for sidewalks and parkways, leaving 28 feet for the paved street, the object being to develop a beautiful residence district. Asphalt has been decided on as the material for paving the streets. According to the report of Chairman George P. Lent, submitted at the annual, meeting Wednesday night, the forming of the district has been brought about only by hard work. G. YV Ashford, who has circulated most of the petitions, reported that proper-tv-owners generally favor hard-surface pavements, and only two streets in the district will be left out tem porarily. He reported opposition came mainly' from the Piedmont Investment Company, and. strange to say. Ma. Ashford said, asphalt was adopted at Use suggestion of the company. The cost of the Improvements pro jected will probably run up to $150. 000 and will take about 18 months to complete. Some of the streets Improved with hard-surface material will be ex tended through Walnut Park, and there is a movement to Improve all the streets in this addition with hard-surface pavements. 1. 1- Povey nought of John Guetaf on lots 3 and 4. block Ml. Holladay Addltion, for I05UO. In McMillen Ad- dttloa Elvin J. Underwood bought propetrty of Albert Lawaon to the smouiit of 13500. At Portsmouth B. C Monn-h bought of Lincoln Logan proper ty costing 83500, Including house and loV- Brong-Steele Company sold to Lew la P. Love two blocks in El Tovar ti act for $7000. N. N. Rice bought In V" block, Sellwood. lot 8, with house.'Cor 83500. At Vernon Thaddeus L. Orav -a bought lot . block 51. and house. fkT 83200. R. L. Henry bought lot 17, n lock 13, Sunny-side, of W. A. I'd reman, for 82300. H. A. ;Heppner bought lot 2, block IS6, Holla day Addition, from Oak Park Land Company for 86500. It includes a house. H. H. Newhall bought of Joseph Enirkhard west 40 feet of lot L block l'i"-3. for 85850. At Cresosn. on the Mount Scott line, August Ft hrman bought lot 1, block 25. with laouse. for 8000. Charles E. McGlnnis t ought of W. H. "Walters lot 14. block 4 , for 85500. Finishing Oddfellows' Building. Contractor s will be out of the two story relnfocrced concrete building of Orient Lodgi I. O. O. b. East Sixth and Alder si treets, the coming week, when the uj per rooms will be fur nished. On tl le second floor, where the fraternal haCla are located. It can be seen that for- lodge purposes the apart ments are wejll fitted. Furniture in. keeping with the build ing has been ordered, and during De cember will jbe placed, so that the lodge can hold its first meeting in the hall early in Jl inuary. BUILD MILi:S OF PAVEMENT Charter Advisot T Committee Outlines Needs 4 n East Side. At the meeting of the East Side Char ter Advisory Co imlttee Tuesday night, the question of 1 lard-curfice pavements was considered a nd the announcement made that pavemj Jnts of this character costiwr 81.000,000 wt re either under way or projected on the t Side. On Hawthorne ax enue the street will be paved to Fifty-fifth street, at an estimated cost of 8200.000 outside of the cost of re laying the double car tracks, which wll cost as much more. On Belmont street an 8S0.000 contract has been let for hard eurfaoe pavement. Union avenue contract for Improvement between Holladay ave nue and Alberta street, nearly two miles, will cost 8160.000. In North Irvington the same class of Improvement is being made at a cost of 8200,000. Also In the Bace Tract Addition hard-surf so pavements costing another 8100,000 era being put down. On Grand avenue, north from Grand avenue bridge, the street will te paved to Hancock street at a cost of 840,000, part of the contract having been let. These improvements are projected and in some cases contracts have been let, so taking into consideration the hard-surface pavement already down,, the 81.000, 000 estimate Is not too large. It was the opinion of the committee that suoh im provements ought to be taken charge of by the city and maintained as encourage ment for that kind of work In future. The committee aleo favored a provision enabling the city to own a plant so It could not only repair streets, but lay them as well, and will endeavor to have such provision Inserted in the new city charter. Work on Two Grange Halls. J. J. Johnson, master, announced that work Is being pushed on the addition to the building of Evening Star Hall on Seo tion Line road. The foundation has been completed and work on the frame Is well along. It is expected to meet In the en larged hall the first Saturday in Decem ber. At Lents work on the second story of the reinforced concrete hall for Lents Grange is progressing. Walls for tha first story were finished some time ago. Cost of this building, when finished, will be about 85000. Misconduct Costs His Job. VALDEZ, Alaska, Xov. 28 United States Commissioner Silverman, at Ka dlak. is to be removed by Judge Eeid tor misconduct. c o L u M B I A T R U S T C O V C o L U M B I A T R U S T C O This Is Worth Reading, so Take a Little Time and Read Every Word of It You read the newspapers; therefore', you already know of the coming of Swift & Company to the Peninsula of Portland. You probably do not realize what it really means. We will tell you. It means the building of a city . of from 15,000 to 25,000 people on'and around their town site, known' as Kenton. Fifteen to twenty-five thousand people means big prices for real estate in that locality. SWINTON is located right in the heart of.it. You should be able to figure from the above what lots will be worthjjn SWINTON in a' couple of years from now. If you are wise you will buy just as many lots in SWINTON as you can carry. There are several reasons for not delaying, the best of which is that in a couple more weeks there will be no lots left to buy. Then you will be sore at yourself because you didn't take this tip. The first plat of SWINTON contained a little over 600 lots, and was put on the market about eight weeks ago. It was sold out in six weeks. About two week ago we opened a second tract of SWINTON containing 400 lots, and less than half of them now remain unsold. See how they are going? The reason is that some of the best in vestors in Portland have visited SWINTON and readily see what a golden opportunity it is, and, in many cases, have bought whole blocks. The prices in SWINTON are lower than any other property in that locality, taking everything into considera tion. We have cleaned all the brush off the lots, the streets are being graded, Bull Run water is being piped to each lot, and all being paid for by this company. You have none of it to pay for. Last, but not least, Swiatoi Is the Only Restricted Tract in That Whole Locality It having a $1500 building restriction, therefore will con tain the cream of the population of this new town being created by Swift. There will be no shacks in SWINTON, which means a big increase in values. SPECIAL DISCOUNT For a short time we are offering a 10 per cent discount off the purchase price of lots in SWINTON, owing to the fact that we have not been able to improve it as fast as we are selling it. An extra 5 per cent discount will be given if you wish to pay cash. Terms, 10 per cent down and 2 per cent a month if you rather, which gives you a chance to speculate with our money. Do you ever expect to get a better opportunity to make easy money? TO OUT-OF-TOWN PEOPLE If you are not fortunate enough to be able to see this property immediately, advise us and we will send you a map for you to choose from. Every lot in SWINTON is a good one, no holes or gullies. It is a natural park and has a gentle slope to the north. The scenery is grand. The new carline will be built through SWINTON. SWINTON is but a few blocks from a public school, and just a little way from the swell section of Piedmont, where lots have doubled and tripled in value the last few years. IF YOU SEE IT YOTJ WILL BUY THAT'S SURE. We are not going to beg you to buy a lot in SWINTON, because we don't have to. There are too many anxious to buy. Nor can we send our salesmen after you, because it keeps them busy handling the many buyers that come to our offices. If you don't buy in SWINTON it's your loss, not ours. However, we will be more than pleased to show you SWINTON. Our automobiles are always ready to take you out, if you will call at our offices and make the request. You are under no obligations to buy if it does not suit you. The main thing for you to do is to go and seo SWINTON NOW. Next week may be too late. Our offices will be open all day Sunday and our autos will keep the road hot between hrere and SWINTON, so you might as well join the crowd and get in on the best investment ever offered to the people of the City of Portland. Columbia Trust Co. 7th floor Couch Bldg., 109 Fourth St., near Washington. ?:!! COLUMBIA TRUST CO. c o L U M B I A T R U S T C o .6 c o L u A T R U S T C O M