The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, February 21, 1909, SECTION THREE, Image 31

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Newspaper Page Text' 7 TWO HANDSOME NEW PORTLAND RESIDENCES 11 - ff T v , JJ SALES KEEP UP TO GOOD AVERAGE Gffi ACRE Ilk Real Estate Market Indicates Continued Strength in All Portions of the City. .jet """" WILL BUILD AT SEVENTH illE 1 L Streetcar Company to Add Office Building or Nine Stories Adjoin Ing The Oregonlan Other Big Structures Near Completion. BY JOHN X HARRISON. Taking the past week as whole, It is found that realty busines was trans acted about on an average with several previous weeks. Few sales were reported In any considerable size, but the total for the week, as shown by the transfers recorded, furnishes plenty of evidence that deals continue to be handled in usual volume and that the business of brokers and agents Is In a flourishing condition. The average dally total of transfers approximated JBo.OiO. the largest single day being on the 19th. when valuations footed $13.S4S. hut the same criticism made in this department on several oc casions is to be repeated recorded values of realty transfers in the majority of Instances are nominal. Among the prin cipal purchases of the week were add! tional acreage trai ts in the outskirts of the East Side. Kpse City Park district Is being extended. Hartman & 1 hompson are arranging to "square up' the original 110 acres through placing on the mar ket two tiers of lots in tiie northwestern part of their tract. These lots are al ready platted and the street system of Holladay's addition and the Irvingtons Is to be carried on east through the dls trict. Good business is reported from agents handling townsites down the Pe ninsula, and manufacturing sites also are bMng taken over in the same part of the Kast Side. Buying Continues in Xorth End. During the week there was a brisk ' movement in warehouse sites along the Southern Pacific frontage. The Ladd Es tate Company disposed of several good sized pieces in the Southeast Side in Ste phen's addition, and there are indications that the movement Is to reach as far up stream as Peliwood. Uttie was done during" the week in the northwest end, but yet there were a few transfers at figures which indicated a strong tone In the market for holdings in that district. Investors continue to buy along the lines of the new carlines, especially so on the Salem Electric. Five to ten-acre tracts seem to be the most popular with buyers, and no particular section of outlying lands would appear to be more popular than others with buyers of these little garden places. Not much progress Is being made with the excavation for the Olds. v ortnian St King building on the Pennoyer block. the principal reason being wet weather during the wek. When the ground dries out somewhat work Is to be resumed. Big "Office Building Planned. It was announced yesterday that the Portland Railway, Light St Power Com pany has decided to erect a nine-story office building on the site at the north east corner of Seventh and Alder. With this improvement Seventh street will rank with other streets In the central dis trict In the way of big buildings. The Beck at Oak, the Oregon and new Im perial at Stark, together with the publlo library and Elks building, the Portland Hotel and T. W. C. A., fronting on that street, give It a metropolitan appearance that will be further Improved when this new big building Is completed. Another office structure Is under consideration for the southeast comer of Washington and Seventh on the McGinn property. While no definite time has been announced by Jennings & Son. the lessees of the ground, the buildings will be put up within two or three years at the outside, according to what was said when the corner and Woods buildings were leased. Finishing New Buildings. Building operations show no sign of going backward. Several of the larger buildings approaching completion are crowded with artisans busily engaged on Interior finishing. The walls of such, structures as the Meier & Frank, Wilcox, Henry and Lombard are going up rapidly, and those of the T. M. C. A. and Rosen blatt are completed. Good progress, con sidering wet days, was made during the week on warehouses ' going up In the northwest end. PIEDMONT GROWING APACE 6AXES MADE RECIvVTLY IX SCB TTRBAX DISTRICT. Eesidences Springing Tp In Penin sula Highlands at Remark able Rate. Many sales have been made in the beautiful Piedmont tract. Two sales of lots In block 22. Ainsworth and Garfield avenues, have Just been made. On this quarter block an eight-room stone resi dence costing SS00O will be erected. A. H. Faber is drawing the plans. E. D. Grlerson has purchased lot 2. In' block 13. Piedmont, and will start erection of a $3300 home this Spring. This lot Is on Vancouver avenue and near Jarrett street. Professor E. H. Whitney, prin cipal of the Peninsula School, has se cured a lot In Piedmont and will have a KOOO home erected. C. W. Stafford will erect a business building at Com mercial street and Killlngsworth avenue, which Is the only place In Piedmont where a business house la permitted. Conklin Bros, have commenced the erec tion of a two-story frame building, S6x6, at East Twelfth and Division streets, to cost $55X. It will be a modern struc ture and will contain four flats, with five rooms each. At Clinton and Fifteenth streets four residences are. being erected that will cost tlO.000. The Butterworth-Stephenson Company are preparing plans for a two-flat building to be erected on East Main, near East Twenty-third street, to cost $4000. These flats will contain five rooms each. Union Tangle at Pittsburg. WHEELING. W. Va.. Feb. 10. T. L Lewis, president of the Jflneworkers of America, returned here today from an In vestigation of the Pittsburg district. He said conditions were chaotic there owing to factional disputes and unless matters were straightened out soon, he would di rect the National Board to take charge. : .to. --iiCSTTiNnf if f- JI1ttI :- I '13 il- 4 TAtfm-iiTrTf j. 11 WORKS WILL BUILD PHOEXIX TO HAVE BIG PLAXT. OX EAST SIDE. Foundry and Machine Shop Project ed on East Third and Haw thorne Avenue. Plans are being drawn for the new buildings for the Phoenix Iron Works to be erected on block 44, Hawthorne avenue and Bast Third street, to cost $40,000. The company paid 125.000 for the block. The buildings to be erected are a foundry, 80x150 feet, a machine shop of the same dimensions, and a pattern shop 30x60 feet. Brick construction will probably be used, although that has not been de cided. Work will start May 1. A power traveling crane will be Installed In con nection with two wall derricks. This new plant is the most Important pro jected on the East Side this year. An average of 40 men are employed by the company, which will be doubled when the enlarged plant is completed. The Damascus Creamery Company has purchased the three-story building from God's Churoh, on Hawthorne avenue, be tween East Sixth and Seventh streets, for JS500, and the premises are now being overhauled to become headquarters of the company in Portland. The church has purchased a quarter on the north west corner of Falling street and Gar field avenue. Albina, and will erect two buildings, one to be the chapel, with a basement, and the other the home build lntr. and Elder Neal. superintendent, says that concrete blocks will be used. These buildings will probably cost CO.OOO when completed. tu - .wtn.-4A vrtHr for tha west wins' of the Homeopathic Hospital now being built In Holladay's Addition, Is completed, on iha rnnt in helnr nut on. This part Is 50x200 feet and Is only about one-third the main structure, which will cover the main portion of the block. The cost of the part now under construction wm o about $125,000. The Phoenix Stone Company has started work on a o00 residence in n.imnnt mnipr Ainsworth avenue and Mallory street. It will be a two and one-half-story house, and will contain 10 rooms. A. H. Faber is tne arcniteci. John M. Plttlnger has purchased three unimproved lots on Russell street and Gantenbein avenue for J7500. Flans are now being drawn for buildings. Kate Hadley sold three unimproved lota on Sellwood and Commercial streets to Robert Menefee for 17300. On one of these lots Mr. Menefee will erect a bungalow. J. Baumann bought three lots oh Com mercial and Knott streets, on one of which a modern home stands. From the Kate Hadley estate several lots were acquired the past week by an investment company. Plans are being drawn for a four-flat house and one two-apartment flat to be erected on this property. In Central Al bina the outlook for many new build ings this year Is favorable. EAST SIDE ACREAGE BOUGHT Surmise That Another Packing- Plant Is Probable. Real estate negotiations are in progress Involving the ownership of over 2500 acres of land between Rose City Park and the Columbia River, some of which have been consummated. A determined effort la being made to secure all the , ... -:-....; . wv.c':wy' . : . ... . .- : : . :v farm lands In that district, extending to the Columbia River, by capitalists. Charles Holtgrlve has sold his farm of 200 acres for J200.000, and the abstract is now being made. Names of purchasers have not been announced. The Guerts farm is reported sold for H5.000, and an offer has been made for the Paddock farm. Offers of J1000 an acre are being made on land near Sandy road. A. H. Metcalf, who lives at Rose City Park, says there seems to be a movement to secure all the vacant land over toward the Columbia River, and he expresses the opinion that probably another packing company is trying to get a foothold in that district. As the farm land In that vicinity extends to the Columbia River, it would afford water transportation. Mr. Metcalf said that the Rose City Park electric railway will be extended on to Troutdale in the near future, as settle ments will extend rapidly beyond the present end ,of the line. Every acre of land along the Columbia Slough country has become valuable, and dairymen pay as high as $30 an acre rent for use of the land. Along Sandy and Columbia Slough roads were the pioneer farms, and their descendants and the men who now own the land And that It commands prices original settlers never dreamed of. PLAN EAST SIDE ADDITION WEST EXD OF ROSE CITY PARK PTjATTKD. Manufacturing Plants Projected for Suburban Towns Talk of Mount Hood Road Starting Up Again. The Portland Trust Comapny has pur chased 16 acres of O. W. Taylor, sear Rose City Park, and In connection with A. H. Metcalf, who put In several acres, have laid out a new tract of several hundred lots. Mr. Metcalf has bought a carload of galvanized three-Inch water main and will put It down through the streets of the new tract at once. The contract has been let by the Mll waukie Telephone Company for erection of a telephone plant in that place, and the work Is now under way. The con tract calls for completion of the plant within 40 days. Work has been started on the two-story building of ex-Mayor William Shlndler and Captain Kerr on Main street. The telephone exchange will occupy part of this building." Architect Legg Is preparing plans for the paint factory buildings for the Oregon Senna Paint Company, to be erected on the ground at Maegly Junction. Here the company has acquired three acres. A three-story mill building 50x100. with con crete basement, will be erected, work to start shortly after March 1. Later a dry-kiln will be erected. Assurances are given that work will be resumed on the Mount Hood Railway this Summer. It Is announced that the enter prise has the backing of R. C. Gillis, E. P. Clark and A. H. Flemming, of Cali fornia, aad that ample funds have been provided for pushing work to comple tion when once started. Practically all the route has been determined and much of the right of way secured. The College Endowment Association has purchased 50 lots of Ernest O. Spitzner in the Feurer tract, in Brooklyn, for $36, 000. which Is the largest sale made In this district for a number of years. Try Dr. Lorenz' Nerve Tonic -Tablets. Eyssell's 289 Morrison, 4th and 5th. t-.... JiiA 'fry,,, , y HT. TABOR FORGES AHEAD SOME COSTLY IMPROVEMENTS ARE PROJECTED. Streets to Be Hard-Surfaced and Carlines Extended to Heights. At the summit of Mount Tabor, where the carline ends, a number of streets are being improved. East Sixty-eighth and East Sixty-ninth streets have been graded . out and sidewalks laid. East Seventieth street will be Improved as soon as the weather will permit. East Morrison street is being bettered. Alto gether street improvements costing over $150,000 will be made at Mount Tabor. A two-story building, which will con tain five storerooms on the lower floo-. will be built this Spring at a cost of $10,000. Ground has been secured and the foundation will be laid vsoon. It is hoped to have Belmont street opened and im proved to the end of the car track during the year. The street Is to be paved to Francis avenue, which Is about 1500 feet from the summit. Location of the public park on the higher portion of Mount Tabor will hasten the opening of Bel mont street? Sales of residence property at Tabor Heights are being made con stantly and new homes are being built. Owing to the lack of streets, growth has been slow on the Heights, but this Is now being remedied. There Is probably no more attractive suburb in the city than Tabor Heights for homes. It is announced that there Is yet no opposition developed to the movement to form a hard-surface paving district on the west slope of Mount Tabor, but on the contrary the proposition appeals strongly to the people. Belmont wfil be the first hard-surface street, an Improve ment which will be carried up to Francis avenue. It will not be Included in the hard-surface district, as the pavement on It will be laid before work can be started on the other streets. Territory on both sides of Hawthorne avenue out to West avenue, is making remarkable progress. Building lots are selling rapidly and the building zone ex tends on both sides of the avenue. At flifty-second street the home of Philip Buenner, Mount Tabor, Is being com pleted. It will cost $25,000 and is the most pretentious residence erected on the East Side. The main building Js com pleted, facing west. It is two-story, with basement and attic Driveways are being built through the lnclosure and the grounds are being developed on a large scale. It takes the place of Dr. P. Pret tyman's home, built 62 years ago on the spot Several months more will be re quired to finish the residence and im prove the grounds. At East Fifty-first street, a two-story frame business build ing has Just been completed, and south ward to the Section Line road there Is a remarkable building movement. With hard-surface pavement laid on Haw thorne avenue, as proposed, the tribu tary district will be one of the most pro gressive In the city. American Passport Stolen. WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-State De partment advices from Russia are that the man arrested two weeks ago in Moscow carrying an American pass port bearing the name of S. T. Stevens, was a Russian revolutionist, who pre sumably had stolen Stevens' papers. Mr. Stevens, to whom the passport was Issued, was a native or ban ranclsco and the papers had been sent to him la New Tork. 2 3 The Eden of Portland's Suburbs AN OPPORTUNITY TO BUY SINGLE ACRES FOR LESS PRICE THAN CHARGED FOR SINGLE LOTS NOT AS CLOSE TO TOWN Only 29 minutes' ride from Front and Jefferson streets on the Salem Electric line. Xo other acreage so close to the city is now on the market. ... 1 No other acreage is offered at such a remarkably low price, placing this land within the reach of all wage-earners. . it- No other acreage offers such advantages, as the land is susceptible to the highest cultiva tion and will produce all kinds of vegetables, fruits, berries and walnuts. Y,ou can get cleared and partly cleared land; also beautiful park tracts with trees and nat ural shrubbery. . $ 200 PER ACRE AND UP TEEMS 10 per cent cash and 3 per cent of the purchase price per month, INTEREST 6 per cent per annum on deferred payments. ON CASH PAYMENTS a discount will be allowed. On the Salem Electric line. Get off at Metzger Station and our agents will take pleasure in showing you around. For particulars and descriptive plat, call at our Portland office, 226-223 Front street, or at Metzger Station. All cars stop at Metzger 's. Herman Office Phones, Main SUBURB TAKING RANTC WITH OIDER PARTS. Business Buildings Erected in Resi dence Sections in East Side District of City. Growth' of Montavilla and surround ings is remarkable. No suburb on the East Side makes a better showing In the way of attractive homes.. Looking eastward from Mount Tabor some Idea may be had of the expansion of the city in that direction. From North Mount Tabor eastward to Clarnie, on the O. R. & N. main line new homes are being built. This march of improve ment is along Villa avenue, extended into the acreage tracts that have been sold to people who want plenty of room. A large number of homes have been built on these tracts. North from Villa avenue, Montavilla has extended to the O. R. & N. main line, covering a district where a few years ago there were no houses. Indeed, no Inconsider able portion of this suburb Is now north of this Villa avenue. On the Base Line road In South Montavilla there is a considerable busi ness center. The several new business houses on this road are all occupied with stores of all kinds, while the up per rooms are occupied by families. The Presbyterian Church has lust bought a lot on the corner of Olney and Misner streets, and will start erec ting a new church at once, to cost $4000. Rev. 8. White is the pastor. The Methodist Church at Montavilla is completing a modern gymnasium at a cost of $2000. It is a two-story struc ture, arranged for athletic classes. As cension Catholio Church is finishing an attractive chapel and schoolhouse to gether, that will cost $10,000. It will be ready for dedication in about two months. Just east of the present boundary line, in Terrance Place, a large number of lots have been sold and many buildings are being erected. On the Base Line road out to the Russellvllle schoolhouse the building zone has extended. Near the schoolhouse Russellvllle Grange has purchased a quarter block and will erect a hall costing $5000 this year. Twelve thousand feet of water main has been ordered to be laid In the Elm hurst tract This pipe line will connect with the six-inch main on the Barr road and will afford a supply of Bull Run water for this addition. In this addition F. J. Campbell has started the erection of an eight-room two-story frame resi dence to cost $3000. F. E. Hilton wiU put up a similar residence In the same block. A number of homes are to be erected In Elmhurst this 6prlng, for which plans have been drawn. GOOD SALES" 3IADE AT IEJiTS Building Improvements Keep Pace With Inside Sites. At Lents sales of lots are made dally. In the Mandy Lane tract Mrs. L. J. BUNGALOW. CRAFT. The newest and best book on Bungalow building, is Just ready. Page 8x11 Inches, richly illustrated, large clear plans with descriptions and estimates. Houses from $350 to $3000. Bungalow doors, windows, fixtures, etc., mantels, buffets, fireplaces. The most complete and practical book on the subject: Indispensable to every home builder. Price $1 post paid. H. A. ETMANV. 403 Chamber of Commerce. Los Anseles. Cai. PHOENIX IRON WORKS Engineers, Founders Machinists and Boilermakers, Building and Structural Work. WE MARE Ft re Hydrants, Log Hauls, Caat Gears, Hydraulic Giants, Water Gates, Lumber Tracks, etc. Hawthorne Ave. and East Third PORTLAND, OK. Metzger, 474, A 1374. Agents and Phone at Dame purchased two lots for $800 end will build a bungalow this Spring. J. W. Bowerman purchased two lots and Alex ander Matthew purchased one lot in the same block. Both will build homes. A. W. Cowerthwalte and W. W. Christen sen have a five-acre tract north of the carline, which they will plat. At Lents the Additon brick building, the first to be built In this suburb, has been completed and occupied. Work on the two-story Grange building, near the schoolhouse. Is progressing. The walls are of reinforced concrete. The trustees have been fortunate in leasing the lower floor for five years to a con cern which will occupy It as a general store. This lease will enable the trus tees to push the completion of the build ing. The Lents Grange and other frater nal organizations will occupy the upper lodgeroom. Several fraternal organiza tions that formerly met at Lents moved elsewhere for the reason that there was no suitable hall, and these will probably return. The fraternal hall in the build ing wfll be a model of the sort. Cost of the building when completed and fur nished Is estimated at $7000. Wider Streets Are Desired. A general movement for the widening of streets on the Peninsula has been Beaverton-Reedville Acreage "THE PASADENA OF OREGON" Comprising 3500 acres of the most fertile prairie soil in the vicin ity of Portland, And platted into tracts of from one-half acre to twenty acres each. These tracts have a completed road extending along one or more sides, not roads shown on paper only, but actually cleared of every obstruction, graded and traveled. This extensive system of completed roads, representing the expen diture of a vast amount of time and money on the part of this firm, is one of the special features of our property. Such roads in acreage, like improved streets in the city, add to the appearance of the prop erty and the convenience of the purchaser, and guarantee rapid devel opment of the entire community. The soil is especially adapted to the cultivation of fruit, nuts and vegetables, and a good market is at your door. This property is located nine miles southwest of the Courthouse on the Fourth-Street Railway, five trains each way per day, 40 minutes' ride from center of city. It is selling in tracts of such size as you desire, at from $100 to $300 per acre, small cash payment and balance to suit the purchaser. This is an opportunity that will never come again, and is one that you cannot afffc to miss. Call on ns at 2452 Stark street, and arrange to inspect our property. The Shaw-Fear Co. Scientific M. T. WALSH CO. SALESROOMS Electric Cooking At One-Half Price WESTERN Phones Main 1696, A 1696. No. o Station. M 6409 started by the University Park Board of Trade. Eight streets, now 60 feet wide, are to be widened to SO feet. Francis I. McKenna, who originated the boulevard system on the Peninsula, Is urging this movement for wide streets in that section while It can be done, in anticipation of the great development along manufacturing lines already begun. Dawson and Pippin streets are to ba called Lombard street and will extend from St. John to Woodlawn. Union avenue, which at present ends at Dekum avenue, will be opened SO feet wide to the Columbia boulevard and Delaware avenue will be extended from the Willamette to Columbia boulevard. It will be made 80 feet wide and will be one of the best streets cutting through the Peninsula. On the Peninsula the importance of these wide streets is considered para mount. The next step will be to get hard-surface improvements down. Dowager Queen Very 111. LISBON? Feb. 20. It was announced to day that the condition of the Dowager Queen, Maria Pia, is alarming. The mother of the late King Carlos has been ill for several weeks with an intestinal disorder. Lighting Beauty and fitness in the matter of interior illumination has become an exact science. Our experts are skillful and artistic placing only guaranteed workmanship at your service. Well-placed lights put new life into old buildincs and add a ner- manent selling value to any prop- I III erty. Call at our salesrooms and hIIJ see the beauty as well as practical value of scientific lighting. 211 STARK STREET Devices Guaranteed Electric Curling Irons $3.75 ELECTRIC WORKS 61 Sixth Street, Portland, Oregon.