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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (April 25, 1909)
THE StTXDAT OREGOXIAJf, FORTLASD, APRIL 25, 1909. SPEID,EBANV .' HOMES. . CLUE -TRACT v WHERE IS IT? Fronts on Powell Valley TVEacada Y T umwi W miZed Road and extends one-half mile south; is ten minutes walk from Gilberts Station on the Cazadero and Gresham electric carline; 10-cent fare; 35 minutes from Morrison Street over finest electric road out of Portland, in large, comfortable passenger coaches and no "strap hanging." Take any car over Morrison Bridge and transfer to the Cazadero Line at East Water St. WHAT IS IT? A community of homebuilders and . r. owners. Acre tracts all cleared ready for improvement, with an abundant water supply piped under pressure for bpth domestic use and irrigation. Electric light and telephone service. S?ll the finest for fruit both berries and orchard, in Western Oregon. No mud. Location and view, all that could be desired. PRICE? W $500 per acre for a short time only, as we cannot afford to sell much of the tract at, this price. Easy terms. The title is absolutely perfect rFf We do. Come and see us and let us show you the ' finest suburban property adjacent to Portland".' OWNS GR EEN-wHinr 245 V2 Washington Street COM B COMPANY, ( Inc.) Rooms 6 and 7, Waldo Block 1 1 : i - ... i . SPEND URGE SUMS Hard-Surface Pavements Are Favored on East Side. ABOUT $300,000 WANTED Principal Streets to Be Improved With First-Class Street Work, . Ther Being Little Protest From Property-owners. If all the contracts are let on the bard surface pavement projected on the Bast Side, that portion of the city will be well supplied with first-class pavements. East Burnside street will be paved be tween East Tenth and 'East Thirtieth streets at a cost of J57.78S. This Is a distance of 18 blocks, through a fine resi dence section. It is proposed to pave East Ankeny street with hard-aurface im provement between Union avenue and Kast Thirtieth streets at a cost of $60. 378. East Ankeny parallels East Burn side street and has double tracks. Further north several Btreets are to be paved with hard-surface. East Twenty-second between Knott and Sis kiyou, $15,405; Bast Fourteenth, between Knott and Siskiyou, $12,218; East Fif teenth, between Knott and Siskiyou $16, 405; Bast Twenty-first, between Knott and Siskiyou. $13,028; East Twenty-third, be tween Knott and Siskiyou, $12,702- Ha salo, between Grand avenue and East Eleventh. $14,922; East Eighth, between Holladay avenue and Halsey street. $12. 048; East Fifteenth, between Multnomah and Thompson, $27,500; Wasco, between P,rand vnue and Fifteenth, $23- 5-3: East Seventh, between Holladay avenue and Clackamas street, $9220. ' These projected hard-sufrace lmprove- imni -m kUP $284'm f thls amount $118 It will be spent on East Ankeny and East Burnside streets in Central East Portland, and the other amount, $166 564 goes on streets north of Sullivan's Gulch and partly In Holladay Addition and partly In Irving-ton. These, are for new streets, and do not Include other streets Work preparatory to the improvement of Union ayenue between Holladay ave nue and Alberta street at Highland is LKr888- Hari-surface will be used, and .the cost will be $170,000. The electric ra way compar.y is laying heavy steel rails on concrete foundation. Stone blocks are being used between the rails. Ii ,,.mProvemnt will make Union ave nue the longest and finest thoroughfare ing a business street. All the other streets of Alblna. HoHaday Addition and Inington connect with Union avenue. . Alberta street will be widened between -tree?' JT! F"rteenth i Hi t d a nard-surface pavement hald between East Fourteenth and list Lh'.et 8t?e When the first ft . w "treet hae been widened it will also be laid with hard-surface pavement. Glan? venue ls nw being paved with asphalt between Sullivan's Gulch and Hancock street. Part of the work has been completed. Double tracks are be ing laid between Sullivan's Gulch and Holladay avenue, to be followed bv the pavement. Cost of this work is estimated tjt $70,000. .. As soon as the proceedings axe com pleted contract for paving Grand avenue between Belmont and East Clay streets will be let. It will be paved with Hassam. Cost of tht improvement has not been estimated. Ex. J. R. Wetherby in his talk before the East Side Business Men's Club declared that he expected to live to see many more business build ings erected along Grand and Union ave- preaiciea mat these streets would be among the Important thorough fares of the city. Elwood Wiles has the contract for grad ing Bast Thirty-sixth street In Waver leigh Heights, and also has the contract lor grading Bix blocks on Brooklyn street. The cuts are very heavy on these streets and the dirt will be used to ail up depressions. A large force of men is at work. Many new buildings have been started all through this addition. Awards Church Contract. Contract for excavating for the founda tion of the new Catholic Church to be erected on East Pine between East 7T' 1 -i uiin streets has been awarded to Contractor Riley, who has started -work. According to the plans the church will be in the form of a. cru he maln entrane will be on East Twelfth street and an entrance on East Eleventh to the assembly hall in the basement, which will be 60x90 feet The h.XTn6"1 TV16 01 cn-e: the main building wm be of frame construction. T1 , melil lath and a sranlte stucco ex! terior. The auditorium will be the full size of the building, 96x184, excepting the Fi n?le1 hJ the tOW6r aty . W 8 estImated at $70,000., There Noises! tW t0Wei m 'eet hih with BUYING IRVINGTON LOTS HIGH-CLASS RESIDENCES TO BE , ERECTED. Much Building Activity Reported in Swell Subarban District of East Side. In Prospect Park In Irvington H T. Mumfprd. the agent. MaottnceVS'atitfc cost of $4000 each. In this addlUon toreo SdSflhanrfrSUrfaC Paveent hive bSS !' .flvs mile of cement sidewalks and over ten miles of sewers have beenlaldt a cost of over $100,000. besides gaTand water mains at a cost of another oOStt .f"8 ast few days 25 lots were sold" in the Irvington district by the Irvington Company, for which over $30 olio was paid. Hard-surface - pavemlntseT tainly pay well as an inducement ton vestors. In this district, which is mL paratlvely new. over $100.ioo 7 been pa?d" nst ofr6 Street lmP"vlmePn buUdlng slU adC! f Bale oi In Holladay Addition a number of resi dences are being built that will cost $10000 each East of Fifteenth street, betweeS Clackamas and H611aday, there is an ex traordinary building activity. Within the space of three blocks a dozen resfdencs may be counted that cost nearly $loaooo no T t0x St Twenty-'th .LtaTd E rd many bIocks handsome homes are being erected. It is safe to esUmate that buildings that will cost $250 -dAddiUn proJected ln H"a- Councilman Menefeehas undertaken to get action toward the erection of the bridge across Sullivan's Gulch on East Twelfth street. -He favors a steel bridge , S Slnt over reinfroed concrete. Mr. Menefee says that the money is ready for this bridge to connect Holladay Addi tion with the south side of Sullivan's Gulch. The bridge at Sullivan's Gulch a a... om Birucrure ana nearly worn out. Mrs. M. DeGrandpre sold a lot 60x100 with a modern residence on the north east corner of East Sixteenth and Broad- way ior yiwo to M. Carpenter, formerly a banker at Fossil. Or. Mr. Carpenter will occupy the building with his family. the Portland Homeopathic Hospital on East Second and Wasco streets is com pleted, and the skeleton of the structure reaches upward five stories. Floors of terra cotta are being built. This hospltnl is being built closely to scientific lines The wing is 60x300 feet, and the cost will be above $100,000. 3 m. 23 ""wm-. i t. . n a its rw r- 1 m w m 4- v Notwithstanding the fact that sale of the Ladd Tract has increased yalues in PARK Chamber of Commerce. ' , AT LEAST 2596 ONE-FOURTH The price of lots for the present will remain the same. How long will these low prices continue? BUY YOUR LOT NOW LOTS $450 UP ?Set Pements, cement sidewalks, graded how Rose City. Park IS AIMADY fflff ' the RSe City Park ad se AN & THOMPSON Branch Office Rose City Park. - . - -
