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TWO HANDSOME NEW PORTLAND RESIDENCES
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SALES KEEP UP
TO GOOD AVERAGE
Gffi ACRE Ilk
Real Estate Market Indicates
Continued Strength in All
Portions of the City.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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building, is Just ready. Page 8x11 Inches,
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PHOENIX
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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.
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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.