THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. PORTLAND, JUNE 13, 1909.
EVIDENCE FOUND
OF INTEREST TO HOMEBUIDLERS
ON EVERY HAND
Growth of Portland Matter of
Demonstration to Even
' Casual Observer.
y State
ANOTHXR MODERN BUSINESS STRUCTURE. Ii -
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OFFICE BUILDINGS RENT
No Vacant Houses, Pespite Remark
able Number Constantly Being
Made for Occupancy All
Over the City.
BT JOHN 3. HARRISON. - - ' -A
hammer Is a necessity in building a
house, but it Is a decidedly poor imple
ment in building a city. Fortunately,
there are only a few- faammerwielders in
Portland, but these few do much to keep
back publlo improvements. "Knockers"
may have a place In the world, but just
what good they accomplish is past find
ing out.
On every side there are evidences of
the city's growth, and while It may be
aid by non-proicressives that too much
is being cTalmed. the plain fact remains
that hundreds of new houses are being
erected and that dwellings are being oc
cupied as rapidly as they can be finished.
Another evidence that Portland has be
come a great city lies in the fact that
office buildings fill up so rapidly. One
of the recently finished buildings, the
Lumbermen's, at Fifth and Stark, is
barely ready for occupancy, but is 75 per
cent rented. The Henry at Fourth and
Oak and the Lewis, diagonally across the
street, have applicants enough to insure
tenantry on a paying basis.
How much good the past week's fes
tivities did the realty market is rather
difficult to determine. That many visi
tors came here with Intention to see for
themselves what we have to offer is un
questioned, and that the town looked
good In Its holiday attire is not to ba
gainsaid. While no deals of moment
have been reported, there is little doubt
but that in the next few weeks there will
be some closed as a result of the personal
inspection given.
Among the hundreds of visitors there
must have been numbers who came to
look over the Oregon situation. As to
the verdict we may rest assured. Prob
ably never before was there better
weather nor such a turnout of every
thing that exemplifies Oregon greatness.
Acreage in the vicinity of Portland
seems to be the most attractive realty
Just now to Investors. Several farms in
the neighborhood were taken over last
week by concerns that wlU cut up the
tracts Into five and ten-acre pieces.
Along the line of the United Railways
bet-ween the city and Llnnton and beyond
these small sites are selling at a good
rate. The last of the Fleischner tract of
600 acres has been platted by Hartman &
Thompson, there remaining 65 acres
northeast of Rose City Park. The orig
inal farm was subdivided into what are
on the market under the names Belle
Crest, f.orth Belle Crest, Crest View
illas, Hyde Park. Gregory Heights
Rose City Park and the Country Club '
Transfers for five days of the week
of mT "S. Vth recorded valuations
of J332.1S9 Dealers are somewhat sur
prised at the large volume of business in
dicated by these figures, for during the
last two weeks there was little surface
evidence that so many transactions had
!e",,nesottated- As a matter of fact.
sXs3VranSfCrS not all of -actual
re V,J " a Ci'rta,n PPion are of
titles SOme fr correction of
Good progress is being made on the
new big buildings scattered here and
there over the city. Stee! for the OWs
WPu 1 & Kln: whito enamel and
brickwork on the Y. M. C. A.; Arlington
of -fho Lewls. brlck and trimmings
on the New Imperial; are among som
of the more Important.
jt' C Caf8lav. the New York architect
who has been commissioned to prepare
n"w0rh SPal'li"S building af Thtrl
lnLMl"nf!:' 13 in Portland and an
nounced yesterday that the building is
and Vr.mo,nt0r'e,a' ' St6el rrane? floors
ana partitions of concrete. It has been
found by tests that foundations will
on gravel only six feet below the depth
of the present building. A firm of St
Paul contractors Is reported ajTthe ,f
cessfu, bidders on tn, netrTcture.
FOLDER EXPLOITS EAST SIDE
Business Mens Club Distributes
Booklet Among Visitors.
The East Side Business Men's Club
Issued a neatly printed fold" which
Presented to the Chicago busi
ness men Thursday on their arrival "y
a committee of 15. The folder "ay.-
lou are now entering the new and
growing business district of the Fa" t
Mde. a district that has made phe
nomenal advancement In the past three
;r"kra,nheWhlCh.iVlH wUh,n "
and reil h,?m ,he wholesale
Vhli- . business section of the cltv.
alreadv ,hiV'Vam'y of its growth.
,IS J , East Stde 1,as far outdis
tanced the older portion of the city as
a residence district, and in the ma"
ter of population. The annual dumber
?ee,PUt ?ll'nnET 3a00.OUOO.OO0r
ieet. 1.000.000 barrels of flour are
ma""factured there: annual volume ot
machinery and vehicle business done
ronnn5"" ''de amou"t to nearly
on the Fa.?" M1 SaKh and d0r Ba
i Uin amor.t to 1650,000-
JtV J-B Pack,inST Plant on 'ih. Pa.
t 18 being erected o the
East t-lde by the Swift Paoklna fnm
Pany at a cost of J4.00O 0 0
The folder also contains building sta
tistics showing the growth of SortI
VM"al thousand copies were
d.f0r-, Seneral d'stribution. It is
ofor:e TC-H?lRClW- '"'''. Md
weorge T. Atchley. secretary, of the
East Side Business Men's Club.
DIVIDES $2,000,000 ESTATE
Spanish Lady Leaves Heirs in Cali
fornia, Mexico and Spain.
SAN FRANCISCO. June 13. The will
of the late Miss Maria c. DeLaveaga.
cescendant of a family prominent In
California when the slate was subject
to Spanish domination, was filed in the
Superior t ourt for probate today Mi-s
DeLaveaga. who died in Madrid Spain
on lebruary 4. 1009. left an estate val-'
ued at more than 12.000,000, which is
divided among relatives In California,
. Mexioo and. Spain,
TO SELL SCHOOL SHE
CITY'S PROPERTY Olf WILLIAMS
AVENUE ON MARKET.
Preliminary Steps for Broadway
Bridge Already Planned To
Start Fire Station.
When the old Williams-Avenue school
house is abandoned for the new building
now being built on Knott street and
Rodney avenue, the Williams-avenue
block will be sold if the district receives
an offer considered adequate. The block
Is regarded as valuable for general busi
ness purposes, especially the frontage on
Williams avenue and Russell street. Its
value has been estimated at about $60,000.
and it is understood that the Board of
Education has been offered that amount
for It. The old building is probably of
little value, as part was built 22 years
ago. The intersection of Williams avenue
and Russell street is an Important busi
ness center, and all property near there
has a good business value.
Williams avenue has been paved be
tween Alberta street and Killingsworth
j avenue with hard-surface pavement, and
i. ia iJiiuiiiea lq pave me sireet Detween
Alberta and Stanton streets, making it a
continuous hard-surface street from Hol
laday to Killingsworth avenue. It is rap
idly becoming a business street. Many
business buildings have been erected on
It.
It is the determination of the North
East Side Improvement Association,
which fathered the Broadway bridge
project, that there shall be no delay in
getting in motion the preliminaries for
the erection of the bridge. There Is con
siderable preparatory work to be done
before the real work is undertaken, and
the club will at its next meeting take
such steps as are considered necessary
to see that the proceedings are kept mov
ing. Full plans for the bridge must be
drawn. It is thought the ferry at the
foot of Alblna avenue will not be neces
sary when the Broadway bridge is com
pleted, and it may be dispensed with.
Erection of the Broadway bridge, the
widest and highest in the city, will make
Broadway street the most important
thoroughfare in the North East Side. A
steel viaduct is to be erected across the
ravine between Vancouver avenue and
the street west. A fill is being made be
tween Union avenue and East Second
street.
Architect Jacobbenger is preparing
plans for the new East Side fire station,
to be erected on Russell street, near Wil
liams avenue, Albtna, to cost $30,000. It
will be a modern Are station, and one of
the most important In that portion of the
city. The old engine-house on Russell
street is an aged structure, wholly inade
quate for that district.
The Hill estate Is pushing construction
on the three-story building started some
time ago, facing Russell street. It will
cost $35,000. The three-story building for
Zeiler-Byrnes Company, on Williams ave
nue. Is also being rushed. It will cost
about $15,000. The company will use the
loer portion as its undertaking parlors.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Theodora Eernhelm, trustee, and wife
to Leonora Klosberman, lot 3, block
6, Council Crest Park 1 8B0
Charles M. Scott and wife to William
T. Krebs. trustee, lots 2, S, 4, Irving-ton
Acreage Tracts 10
G. AV Webb to William T. Krebs,
trute-a. 16.65 acres commencing
at a point 20.14 chains north of sec
tion corner between sections 24, 25,
township 1 north, range 1 east and
sections 19. 30, township 1 north,
range 2 east loo
Moore Investment Company to M. O.
Coiwell. lot 1-'. block W. Vernon. . BOO
Investment Company to William P.
Hardest-, lot 3. block 23. Piedmont 1.O&0
James Sargent to Carrie" C Dunton,
lts 30, 35, block 6, Greenoa
1-s.MKhta 40
Irvington Investment Company to r.
G. Scobey, lot IS. block 7. Irvlng
n 1.850
Moore Investment Company to Ola
Erecksen, lot 4, block 76. Vernon.. 400
Hattle Salomon and husband to John
Lakson. lots 14. 15. 16. block x.
Iremont Park T50
William Bolton to Jennie McKenile.
Jili 7 rods in section 1, township
1 north, range 3 oast g
,.S' -lor-e to Amelia A. Stone, lot
13. block 2. subdivision of lota 1.
. 2-, 7-s- 10- N"rth. St- Johns 1
A. 3. Store to Amelia A. Stone, lota
1. 2. block 9. subdivision of St.
Johns Heights j
A- s-. Stone to Amelia A. Stone, lot
6. block 15. South. st JnHn,
- -c ALaon xo--William X,
BLAKE, M'FAtl, BTJILDIIVG TO BE ERECTED AT FOURTH AJfD AlfKEST. liJ
Krebs. trustee, land beginning at
14 section corner between sections
19, 20, township 1 north, range 1
eat 7,000
B. B. Wright and wife to William T.
Krebs. trustee, lot 1, Irvlngton
Acreage Tracts 10
S. S. Keeley and wife to Ellen M.
Woodward, lot 8, block 12, Haw
thorne's First Addition 1000
Frank L. Baker and wife to K E
Young, lot 6, block 16. Xorth Irv
ington 1,200
Catherine Kadderly and husband to
A. H. Hickman, lot 9, block 1.
Midway 1
Henry E. Jones to Mary H. Jones,
undivided 14 of lot 7. block 183.
Couch Addition 10
John G. Ray et al to Overlook Land
Company, block "B." Overlook; lot
1, block "C," Overlook 1
Thora K. Roberts and husband to
Overlook Land Company, block
"B;" lot 1. block "C," Overlook 1
J. N. Atterbury and wife to W. E.
Atterbury et al. lots 7. 8, 9, 10,
block 7. Saratoga Park 1 500
Miles C. Mooro to R. L. Durham, lots
1. 2, 8. 4. 6. 6. 7, 8, block 6. Rover-
daI 10
L. J. Loder and wife to H. A.' Speer.
lots 11. 12. block 1. Elsmere 2.150
Thomas Roberts et al to Edith F.
Schwackhammer. a strip of land 33
feet wide extending easterly and
westerly trough Tract 4, Bryn
Mawr Park 1
Thomas Roberts et al to Edith' "f.
Swackhammer, tract 4. Bryn
Mawr Park, excepting SS-foot strip
for right of way of Bull Run water
Pipes 10
T. M. Huriburt and wife to Francis
E. Huriburt. 50x117 feet commenc
ing at point 130 feet north and 90
feet west of intrsectlon of center
line of Tabor avenue with center
line of Francis avenue 1
Wellesley Land Company to Percy E.
Hill, lot 26. block 8. Argyle 150
W. T. Branch and wife to Mrs E
C Murphy, lot 9, block 299. Couch
Addition jo
Ida M. Welty to G. M. Welty,"west
83 1-3 feet of lots IS. 16. block 18
Multnomah Addition 1
Charles Sandstone et al to Charles
G. Sandstone, east 60 feet of lot 1
and east 60 feet of north 14 of lot
2. block 146, Caruthers" Addition.. 10
Columbia Trust Company to F A.
Morley. lot 4, block 6, Wlberg
Heights g50
Melissa I. Horn and husband to Jen
nie T. Stennick. west 4 of lots 7
8. block 8, Nicholson's Addition.. 10
Adolph Wilman et al to August
Olson, lot 14, block 4. Stewart
Park -. gQQ
W. R. Kuykendall to Joseph" H."
Nash, lot 4 and south 14 of lot 3
block 3. Alblna Heights Addition... 9)
Wellesley Land Company to Perry E.
Hill, lot 25, block S, Argyle 160
Title Guarantee & Trust Company to
Rose Walllngford. lot 28, block 29.
- Gerikeley
H. B. Wolff and wife to "Andrew
Holm, lots 23, 24. block 16. Ta
borsldie 20
J. E. Scott and wife to Andrew' Hoirn".
lots 13. 14. 15, 16. 17, 18. 19 20
21. 22. block IS, Taborslde 1
Merchants Loan & Trust Company to
Mae Shaver, lot 9, block 2, Townslte
of Willamette jq
Total - $20,815
LAWYERS' ABSTRACT A TRUST CO.
Room 8. Board of Trade bids.
Abstracts a specialty.
Have your abstracts made by the Title
Trust Co., 7 Chamber of Commerce.
DATES FOR FAIR ARE SET
Uncoln County Prepares for Three
Day Event In September.
TOLEDO, Or., June 12. (Special.) Dates
for the Lincoln County Fair have been
set for September 8, 9 and 10. The exe
cutive committee of the Fair Association
has distributed membership in the com
mittees to all parts of the county, and is
planning to arrange a special excursion
from neighboring counties.
September 8 has been designated as
Lincoln County School day, and Super
intendent Goin and three school teachers
have been selected to have change of
the features for that day.
September 9 will be Pioneer day, and
September 10 Benton County day. The
executive committee of the Fair Asso
ciation consists of Wallis Nash, presi
dent: Carl Davis, A. D. Perkins, B. F.
Grant, A. L. McDonald, R. A. Bensell and
J. H. Gllrves. C. B. Crosno 1st acting
secretary. S0NE IS COREANS' RULER
Japanese Viscount Will Replace Ito
in Protectorate.
TOKIO, June 12. The appointment of
Viscount Arasuke Sone to be resident
general of Corea for Japan will be an
nounced Monday. Simultaneously Prince
Ito will be named president of the privy
council and honored by an imperial re
script of appreciation of his great serv
ice to Corea as director of the affairs
of that country since the beginning of
the protectorate. Prince Ito will retain
his tutorship of the Corean crown prince.
Field Marshal Yamagata, who is to be
succeeded by Ito in the privy council,
hereafter wld r ontv in hia military
capacity.
. . Mac Nan rhton. Tt a-n-movi A . To a - u I I pB V" a,-1 "tT
PACKERS WILL B I ULD I - - -isSli"" " 1 1 OTra m
CTJDAHY COMPANY BUYS SITE
ON EAST SIDE.
Many Small Tracts Are Transferred
in Various Sections of Busi
ness District,
Lots 1 and 2, block 2, Frushesr Addition,
on the northeast corner of East Second
and East Oak streets, were purchased
this week by the Cudahy Packing Com
pany, of Chicago. On this corner the
packing company will erect a three-story
building, with full basement, to.be used
as Its Portland headquarters. Plans are
being prepared for this structure, which
will cost about $25,000, the matter now
being in the hands of an architect and
will be designed with special reference
for the business. Lot 1 was bought from
W. E. Splcer and lot 2 from the Oregon
& California Railroad Company, the price
paid being $15,000. The sale and prospec
tive improvement are of great importance
to the wholesale district of the Bast Side.
J. N. Robinson, an attorney, purchased
a lot 100x50, on Vancouver avenue and
Russell street for $3500. The lot is occu
pied by a six-room residence. Mrs. W. S.
Ott was the former owner. J. C. Robin
son, of the Multnomah Mining Company,
has sold lot 9, Arleta Vista, for $1550. on
which the new owner will erect a home.
R. L. Edmonston will erect two modern
residences on two lots which he recently
purchased in Sunnyside Addition. Fred
Watrln, who sold the property to Mr.
Edmonston, doubled his money on the
original inveetment.
H- Kaser has purchased the west
half of lots 7 and 8, block 295, Hawthorne
Park Addition, with a modern residence
of six rooms, from A. B. Brown for $5000.
Mr. Kaser will occupy the house.
Architect Otto Kleeman has awarded the
general contract to Goodhart & Coombs
for the erection of a six-room frame bun
galow for W. B. Porter on East Thirty
fourth and Gladstone streeta, Kenilworth.
for $3000.
Mrs. JX Balche Is building three five
room cottages on block 34. In Kenton, the
Swift townsite on the Peninsula.
Plan9 have been prepared for a modern
residence on East Yamhill and East Sixty
eighth streets. Mount Tabor, to cost $6000
for D. B..McBride. It wlU be S7x42 feet.
The site will be on a lot adjoining the
Mount Tabor Park tract.
G. W. Priest has started on the erection
of seven houses on East Clinton and East
Thirty -eighth streets to cost about $20
000. The location is In the Waverly
Richmond district-
Claussen St Claussen will erect a two
flat building 32x40 feet on East Thirteenth
street near Hawthorne avenue, which
will cost $5000. It will be of frame con
struction and be modern.
Architect W. C. Knighton has prepared
plans for a home for Professor D. A.
Grout to be built at Mount Tabor and to
cost $11,000.
Ira M. Palmer Is preparing plans for a
two-story nine-room home. 32x36, which
will be built In Irvington to cost $5000. It
will be colonial In design. Mr. Palmer
also Is preparing plans for a residence
for E. A. Clark in the Westmoreland Ad
dition, on Milwaukie road.
W. B. Russell is having a bungalow
erected on East Fortieth and East Yam
hill streets, which will contain six rooms
on the first floor. A large billiard room
will be placed on the upper floor, and the
entire cost will be $3500.
j . . , ,
F. P. Lohman. recently from Chicago,
has purchased lots 1 and 2. block 3.
Strube's Addition, East Thirty-eighth and
Lincoln streets, with the house, for $2500,
being a cash sale.
In the new Murraymead Addition, on
East Twenty-third and Division streets,
a number of lots have been sold and
homes will be built on them.
J. W. Brost bought a. 12-acra tract near
Lents for $4200, and C C Crowstone
i i i fcsw- uit:?t bus vJ imwff -w i t iawjci' .v
KELSO SERVICE IMPROVED
Telephone System Extended Over
County and to Skamokawa,
KELSO. Wash.. : June 15
The Granger Telephone Company, a local
corporation; using the Home Telephone
eystem, has completed placing 75 new
phones in the viclnitv of irin
mechanism for the central office la also
in place. A complete power plant con
sisting of an electric motor and machine
for charging the batteries with electricity
from the local Electric Company's wires
has been set up under the supervision of
Paul Graf, of the Stromberg Carlsen
Electric Company, Rochester, N. Y. The
central switch-board, pronounced to be
the most up-to-date between Portland and
Tacoma, is ready, and in a short time
an automatic 40-volt dial will be placed
on the switchboard to enable Kelso parties
to call Portland parties without having to
call the Portland central office.
Lines are now completed and ready for
operation from Kelso to Stella, to Oak
Point, copper cables with lead sheath
being used. A new line from Oak Point
to Skamokawa is under construction to
be completed within a few weeks. The
company has a lead of poles through
Kelso, this place being the center of
operation. Local capital is principally in
terested, the principal stockholders
residing at Kelso, Stella and Oak Point.
Harvester Firm Is Trust.
TOPEKA, Kan., June 12. State Senator
H. B. Gaus, who was apponited by
me supreme court as special commis
sioner to hear evidence in the case of
the state to oust the International Har
vester Company from the state. In his
report filed today, calls the harvester
company a trust, the effect of which has
been to regulate and control prices In
Kansas.
lOO in
To the Pupils of Any School, Public or Private, in
the State of Oregon, Herman Metzger
Makes this Splendid Offer:
TO THE PUPIL submitting the largest list of names (either common or botanical) of the FOR
EST TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS and WILD FLOWERS growing in METZGER'S NATURAL
PARK at METZGER STATION on the Oregon Electric Railway (Salem Line) will be given $50.00 in
cash. To the pupil submitting the second largest list, $25.00 in cash; to the pupil submitting the
third largest list, $15.00 in cash; to the pupil submitting the fourth largest list, $10.00 in cash.
Prizes to be awarded September 1 by Judges of recognised authority on this subject. 1
Pupils, brush up on your botany and come out to this wonderful Park.
Those wishing to enter this contest must register their names and school at the Metzger Acre
Tracts office at Metzger Station, at which time a coupon will be delivered to them. This coupon to
be mailed with their list of classification to HERMAN METZGER, 226-228 Front street, Portland,
Or. This Park is part of the beautiful property known as
etzsei A.cre
Only a 29-minnte ride from the Jefferson-Street Station. Price, $250 and up per acre. Easy terms.
Take the Oregon Electric car at Jefferson-street Station and get off at Metzger Station. Agents
on the ground all day. Call at our city office for plats and farther information.
Herman Metzger, Owner
PHONES Main 474. A 1874.
SPECIAL EXCURSION EVERY WEDNESDAY S'Sl;"-
the oiftiT PAnrr manufactured
ON THE PACIFIC COAST COMPLYISO
WITH THE EASTERN PURE PAINT
STATE LAWS.
FORMULA ON EVERY PACKAGE.
Honeyman Hardware Co.
HEADQUARTERS FOR EVERYTHING
IN PAINT
PACIFIC IRON WORKS
0. E. Heintz, Manager.
Portland, Or.
CASTINGS and STRUCTURAL WORK
Carry complete stock of Steel Beams, Angles and Channels.
I -taWlgil ' wSM.ajiigUBi
PABNT
SOLD ON MERIT
You take no chances,
for you get satisfaction.
Full measure every
gallon covers 350-400
sq. ft. two coats.
1
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Ii Nuid-PAIHT JJ
II RASMT7SSE7T A CO. ifilil
I IV. E. Cor. M and II 111 II
I Taylor Staw, Portland I
Cash Prizes $100
226-228 FRONT STREET.
i IllliMmlM I.I 111 . Ml.f .Wl
i&S&ft" RULING
ORNAMENTAL WWE.IRON.BRASS ft (IK
MOKZEslOftKa,
GRUiwrartiniBTon Bo.tcb-i
ELMATOR CA3S.STAI RWrBAlCQNjU
RAILINGS. Flftt ESCAPES ETC.
- pRTIAKD,0rcori
DAVIS & DRENNEN
GAS AND ELECTRIC
FIXTURES
406 AND 408 EAST BURNSIDE
We carry a complete line of gas,
electric and combination fixtures in
stock; also make special designs
and estimates. Call at our sales
room or phone B 2151, or East 116,
and we 'will call on you. Store open
evenings by appointment.
B. K. DAVIS.
H. I. DRENTJEX
PHOENIX
IRON WORKS
Engineers, Founders,
Machinists and Boilermakers,
' Building: and Structural Work.
WE MAKE ,
Fire Hydrants, Log Banls, Cast
Gears, Hydraulic Gtants, Water
Gates, Lumber Tracks, eta.
HAWTHORNE AVE. AND EAST THIRD
PORTLAND, OR.
Tracts
Station Phone, Main 6409