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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 5, 1909)
TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. TORTLAND, SEPTE3IBER 5, 190. FRONT-FOOT PRICE BIG SALES II SUMMER'S ENDIN CLOSE TO 9Uw Vi ... TV Half Lot at Southwest Corner Third and Alder Is. Sold for $110,000. Market Revives From Lethar gy of Preceding Week and Shows Strength. THE OXLY PAIJST MANUFACTURED O.X THE PACIFIC COAST COMPLYIXG WITH THE EASTERN PURE PAINT STATE LAWS. 'FORMULA OX EVERY PACKAGE. V'1'" .Ji PROPERTY 50 BY 50 FEET f TWO SALES OVER $100,000 i a i rripfn -in, -HI ' REGORD State Pat if Fall Season Will Begin In Real Ear nest This Week, With Xotable Activity BlR Deals Are Pending. Realty sales plckinl up all along the line last Nk. In marked contrast to the transactions or lack of thm of the wfk previous, which wa about the dull- of the Summer, the increased activity In the real estate market was quite a sur prise In a way. So many business mn are still off on their vacations that no pronounced revival of the market had been expected before the 13th of the month. The week was made notable bv the con unimition of two al. each for more than JK'O.O'W. another of frVi.tMO. and sev-e-al other of J25 or over, and by the becinninR of actual work on a number of large buildings, among them the Spald ing corner at Third and Washington. Tfw-ra are excellent profpects that the new season will heitin in good earnest hl week, and that the sales will eclipse those of the six-day period just passed. It can be sail with authority that a num i ber of large transactions are now in pro cess of negotiation, pome of them await ing onlv ti.e actual transfer of deeds. At leajit two of these are expected to be closed up before next Saturday. Ti-.rly In the week Joseph Healy com- ( 1 . J 3 1 11. . V .. Vmmtr Mnn'l r?hrlS- 4 piieU a UTTlil " " " - - - tten Association, which was agreed upon last November, by which he acquired the building at Fourth nnd Yamhill streets Just vacated by the Association, for J176. 0f. Mr. Healy secured the deeds on Monday, the narreement having been that the deal woald be concluded at that time. The r.eek previous he hod leased the tructur to Herbert U. Nelson for 15 years. By the terms of the lease Nelson wJI pav monthly for the first five veare. $1750 for the second five years, and iv) for the last five years, a total of 31S.0rt. The Queen Investment Company sold Tract 1 of Primrose Acres to James Ire land. Mr. Ireland Is now living on the property, and exects to build a residence there this Fall. Conyiderahia Improve ment haa been going on In the Primrose property. Primrose avenue has been graded, and all the street have been brushed and cleared. A board walk Is now betng built from Multnomah Station to Prim ro re avenue, a distance of about a quarter of a mile. The Queen Invest ment Company also sold lots 15 and 18 In block J, Havelock. to F. L. Williams, for J150 csh. Mr. Williams already has a basement started, and expect to build a fine large home on this property. The Queen Investment Company has sold lot t In block 7. Havelock, to Dr. F. J. Hiesland. Work will begin in real enmest on the big 12-story Spalding building on the quarter block at the northwest corner of Third and Washington streets this week. Since the old buildings were town away several months ago, the lot has remained vacant and no work has been done on It. Early this week, however, the present cement floor will be torn out and pita for ,j .i vttAM tn th rravp) bed. DUIIUUUII - ' .T 1 . IV ... " " " - CS- I Edwin Gilbert, superintendent of con- I -struction ror me rrm oi amna . 4 Co., of New York, which haa the con tract for the structure, has arrived In the city to take personal charge of the work. 8. Bilverfield la having plans prepared for a four-story brick apartment-house to cost between .CW and J70.000. work on the eonstruevtion of which will short ly be started on a quarter block on Lu cretla street, near Washington. The building will ha a full cement hai-ement and will contain 36 suites of three, four and five rooms. Selected Versteeg brick with blue Tenlno sandstone win dow sills and coping will be used in con struction. The building will be equipped with a large electric passenger elevator and ' will be steam-heated throughout. Living and dining-rooms will be flnished with selected grain flr and each suite will have bookcases, tireless cookers, dis appearing beds and other modern con veniences. The lease on the Beverly Hotel, at Park and Yamhill streets, changed hands early last week, when Mrs. S. V. Hill, owner, sold out to Miss Pauline Young and mother. The purchasers at once took charge of the hotel and are operating it without the dining-room. The considera tion for the sale of the lease, which has some time yet to run. Is announced as I50OQ. Mrs. Hill was formerly head of the Hill House, at Washington and Lu cretla streets. The big steel frame building for Olds. Wortman & King, which Is being erected on Morrison. Alder. West "Park and Ter.th streets, la progressing so rapidly that the flooring for the whole first floor will be in place early this week. The Central Door & Lumber Company, of Portland, has teen awarded the con tract for furnishing the glass for the structure, while the terra cotta work, of which an Immense quantity will be used, will be furnished by the Gladdlrg-Mc-Beam Company, of San Francisco. Work on the facing, which will be of cream white glazd tile, like that used on the Meier & Frank building, will begin by the middle of the month. A five-year les.se at a rental of t a year on the two upper stories of the building just erected on North Sixth street by the Depot Investment Company haa been closed by the Dletz-Mueller Company. These floors contain 140 rooms, the lease also including on office on the ground floor facing Sixth street. The whole block on which the building Is located, bounded by Sixth. Fifth. Gllsan and Hoyt streets, has bee-n leased for 30 years by the Depot Investment Company, of which J. D. Hart Is president, from John Klernan. A two-story brick build ing will shortly be built on the Fifth street side. State Senator M. A. Miller, of Lebanon. was In Portland Friday to arrange for the building of the new high school to be erected in that city. The contract was finally awarded to A. J. F. Bowman. The building win cost C.500 and will be completed by February 1. 1910. Plans have been drawn up by Architect P. Chappell Browne, of this city, the de sign showing a building modern In every respect, with pressed brick exterior. It will be one of the handsomest high school buildings In the state. Architect Ernst Kroner has completed the handsome 2,000 residence, of C. 4 V fn iff. mmiJXSdL - 4 , H4I.P i,OT ROxSO FEET AT SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THIRD AND ALDER STREETS SOLD BY ' M. DEKl'M FOR 9110,000 LAST WEEK. Aerne. Jr.. at the head of Lovejoy street, and Mr. Aerne will move into the house within a few weeks. Mr. Kroner Is also ready to turn over the residence he has built for S. E. Tomllnson, at East Seven teenth and Wasco streets, In Irvington. Mr. Tomlinson's house la an eight-room structure and cost IWOO. For JM40 J. M. Waggoner has sold for Bartlett Cole, to Mrs. Ella Webber, an lmnroved ranch of 11 acres rear Silverton. 1 In Marion County. The price includes stock and farm Implements. Mr. Wag goner has also sold for John Klink a 100 by 135-foot tract on Rodney avenue, near Dekum street. The property is im proved with a modern five-room resi dence, which was purchased by Thomas Pollana for J3500. Attorney R. R. Duniway haa bought a three, and one-third-acre tract at Wayne, Just south of Alameda Addition and east of Irvington. He will plat it for the market. R. W. Shepherd will build an eight room two-story Swiss chalet on Talbot road. Portland Heights, at a cost of 5m0. Work has already begun on the structure. j. W. Taggart. a local timber dealer, last week sold 14S0 acres of timber on the middle fork of the Coquille River to an Eastern syndicate for F: M. Shook for $40,000. The timber will cruise about 42,000.009 feet. Mrs. A. E. Nicholson Is having Archi tect Charles Henn draw up plans for a rustic mountain bungalow for her ranch northeast of White Salmon. In Klickitat County, Washington. The bungalow will be 30x10 feet In dimension and will con tain six rooms. The living-room will be 16x30 feet In size and a large lava rock fireplace will extend to the ceiling. A wide porch with columns of native fir on two sides of the building will be a feature. From the new bungalow there will be a magnificent viev of the moun tains and Columbia River. The old G. W. Bates building, on tho east side of Fourth street, between Wash ington and Stark, has been leased by the Columbia Hardware Company for five years. Workmen are now busily tearing out the brick piers and excavating a basement. The brick will be replaced with steel pillars and plate glass win dows. The building was formerly oc cupied by the Oregon Creamery Company and a movlng-plcture show. The cream ery has moved to Second street, near Al der. The Columbia Hardware Company's present location on Second, near Morri son, has been leased to Harry Woods, who will open a number of market stalls there. litfMHmiHiuuwiiiiiT 3 ! ,, ; J ' PLAITS DRAWN TOE NEW FIRE DEPARTMENT STRUCTURE.' ' J I ' . j ETfGIXE HOI SB AT RlSSELl. STREET AD WILLIAMS AVEXl'E AS IT WILL APPEAR COMPLETED. Full plans have been drawn up by Architect Joseph Jacobberger for the new brick fire-engine house at Russell street and Williams avenue, In Albina. for which the Council some time ago appropriated $14,000. The contract for the building will be let about September 9. and every effort will be made to have It com- ... , .,. fire rionartment bv January I. 1910. This structure will be the handsomest and most modern engine-house in the . ci j. i... jnn.pi.p. the ripnjirtment Engine 6 Truck 4 and a hose and chemical, and room Is provided in the plans for the installation of addi tional apparatus If It Is ever required. The building will be constructed of brick, with pressed-brlck front of light buff color. The first floor, mir.t.4 hrlok work In colored mortar. For the horses tnera will De eight Bruin loft, a watch room and manure room will also be on this floor. tory for 1 men, a reception room, two captains ii..r.Tf.flm wirb tfi inrkers. a linen-room and will contain a hose tower, and there ) J S f'-o. t - j - ' - i - -' -I FOR LOTS Mrs. P. M. Dekum Buys Washington-Street Corner. TWO-THIRD GAIN, 3 YEARS Property Is Situated at Corner of Twentieth and Is Improved With Three-Story Apartments'. Through E. J. Daly and Humason A JefTery, Mrs. E. M. Dekum has bought the corner quarter block on the northeast corner of Twentieth and Washington streets for J6O.O0O. This property is im proved with a three-story frame apart ment bouse bringing In a good income, and Mrs. Dekura will hold It as an invest ment. A little more than three years ago this quarter block was purchased by Louis Gerlinger from Gertrude Russell for $36, 009. Mr. Gerlinger sold It in four months to John McCraken for $43,000. and two years ago Mr. McCraken sold It to J. R. Whitney. Mr. Whitney, who was former ly State- Printer, was the person from whom Mrs. Dekum acquired the ttltle. The present sale price Is a clear advance of 66 per cent. Property in this vicinity generally has increased In value almost In this same ratio within the past three years, and In the same length of time in the future It Is expected to show a corresponding rise In price. The price paid. $60,000, is con sidered a very good buy. MANY EAST SIDEKS BCILDIXG Contracts Awarded Last Week on- Five Large Structures. Several Important building contracts have Just been awarded on the East Side. For the addition tp the Patton Home, which is part of the. main struc ture on Michigan avenue, a contract has been let to Plppy & Dlsbrow for $12,000. city A battalion chief will be stationed It will be known as Engine where the apparatus will oe nousea, win On 60 rooms, a lavatory with two shower Dams ana tuo onina, a sitting-room. The building will be heated by steam. will be three sliding poles from the 1 , - tit . 4 J MRS. P. At Kenton, on the Peninsula, the Ken ton Building Company has let the con tract for the erection of a three-story reinforced concrete hotel, 90x100, for $20, 000. Work will start at once. At Sellwood the Sellwood Laundry-Company hasy let the contract for the erection of a two story frame building on East Thirteenth street, between Tacoma and Spokane avenues, for $8000. Rev. James D. Corby, pastor of the First Un-versallst Church, has let the contract for the erection of a home on Broadway, between East Twenty-fourth and East Twenty-fifth, to E. M. Rasmussen, for $3500. Mall & VonBorstel have sold for the Ladd estate to S. D. Wright, of Wood burn. Or., 100x100 on the northwest cor ner of East Twelfth and East Flanders streets for $5000. Mr. Wright will erect a home on the quarter. The stone work on the $60,000 church building for the Central Christian Church. East Twentieth and East Sal mon streets. Is nearing completion, and will be finished by October 1. The build ing covers an entire quarter biqek and already has an imposing appearance. Inman, Poulsen ft Company are erect ing an office building at Grand avenue and Jackson street that will cost $5000. Activity In Southeast District. The Southeast district of the East Side is experiencing a wonderful period of growth and development. All through the sections of Woodstock and Ketillworth houses are springing up In great numbers. Last week Ben Ries land purchased from A. L. Clark lots 1 and 4 in block 58 and lots i, S, 4. 5 and 6 In block 147 in Woodstock. These lots are 100 feet square, making 14 lots, 60 by 100 feet. Mr. Riesland acquirpu who ifiwoi tj iv. t i -Of building a nice class of homes. The ..... I . ui-h o n H cHe-htlv nnd has a I good view of the entire city. He also purchased lots 3 and 4 In block 90. This is a half block 100 by 200. Physician . Makes Big Buy. , Dr. Arthur W. Chance purchased a six acre tract on the east side Of West ave nue, between Belmont street and Haw thorne avenue, last week for a consld ration said to be a little more than $25, 000. The property is situated near one of the proposed entrances to the Mount Tabor Park, and is In a sightly location adjoining the park on the west. It Is Dr. Chance's intention to cut it up into build ing sites, not as regular-siaed lots, but rather in conformity with the shape of the ground, and put it on the market H. C. Leonard was the former owner o the property. there and tne nouse win oe me House. In it will be stationed nave a wmni nuu. stalls and one box stall. A the second floor will be a dormi- It second to the first floor. Purchaser Will Erect Modern Sky scraper When Present Leases Ex- plre Two Years Hence Sel ler Makes $43,000. At the rate of $SiO0 a front foot, which Is said to be the second lushest price ever paid for Portland business property, another big sale of downtown realty was made last Monday, when the half-lot on the southwest corner or Third and Alder streets was sold for $110,000. Although the sale wap completed Mon day afternoon, it did not come to light until yesterday. It was transacted by Humason & Jeffery. acting for Mrs. P. M. Dekum, the forirvr owner. X'1e name of the purchaser has not as yet ben given out, but It Is said to b? a local capitalist, who is already molting plana to Improve tho corner with an up-to-date skyscraper as soon as the present lease on the property runs out. This corner fronts 50 feet on the west side of Third street and 50 feet on the south side of Alder. The official descrip tion of the property is the east one-half of lot 1, block 49. At present the half lot Is covered by a two-tory frame build ing decupled by a cfgnf store. The cigar store has1 a lease on this building which has about two more years to run, ac cording to Mr. Humason. At the end of that time, tho definite announcement has been made by Humason and Jeffery that a modern building will be erected on the site. Mrs. Dekum bought this property which she sold for $110,000 last Monday, for $65, 000 in 1SS4. That was Just when the finan cial depression of the early '90s was at its worst, and che was warned by her friends that she would be throwing her money away. Mrs. Dekum's confidence in the future of the city, however, was so great that she made the investment ir. spite of the dolorous prophecies. Not only has she made a clear profit of $15,000 but durirg the intervening years the property has brought In a good In-con-e. , In figuring the price per- front foot. It is customary to estimate on tne basis of full lots 50 feet wide by 100 feet deep. Real estate men say that the remaining 50 by 50 feet of this lot, fronting on Alder street, is worth at least $70,000, on the ratio of 3-5 to 2-5 in the difference of value between the corner half and the inside half. This makes the price per front foot '.-otal -$3200. . The highest price per front foot ever recorded in iris city was that paid by T. P.. Wilcox last Spring for the 100 by 50 feet at the southeast corner of Sixth and Washington streets, for which $250, 000 was paid. Real estate men estimate that the remaining 60 by 100 feet behind this corner is worth $150,000, making the price $4000 per , front foot. The purchase of the Third and Alder street property is regarded as a very good investment. Considering the central location of the corner, $110,000 la thought to be a cheap buy. KENTON GETS BUILDING $20,000 CONCRETE STRUCTURE TO BE ERECTED. Xational Wood Pipe Company Makes Plans for Big Plant on Its. New Site. The Kenton Building & Contracting Company Is erecting a three-story concrete-block store building on Derby and McClellan streets, to cost $20,000. It is 90x100 feet in dimension. The first floor will be used for stores, the second for offices and the third will be fitted up for a lodge room. Excavation for the foundation of the building has been started and work will begin at once on the superstructure, i It will be completed In 80 days. The building for the new bank, to be opened In Kenton, Is nearing comple tion. Fixtures have arrived and will be installed In a few days. A drugstore will also occupy a room in this building. Nu merous other buildings are under way at Kenton. Plans ' have been prepared for several of the buildings for the .National Wood Pipe Company, to be erected on the com pany's site- on the Peninsula near Ken ton. The main building will be 500 feet long.. It will be of frame construction covered with corrugated steel. Tho building for the Pacific Tank Factory will be 100x200 feet and 18 feet high, of heavy frame construction with exterior and roof of corrugated steel. Two con crete dry kilns, 20x140 feet, will be built, and used by both plants. Building for-boiler-rooms, power plant and machine shops will also be put up. For offices for both concerns a building, 40x40, will be erected. - . With the purchase of the additional six acres recently made by the Pipe Company, the concern now has 30 acres and the - land extends from Columbia boulevard to Columbia Slough, over 1300 feet. There will be 830 feet of trackage on Columbia boulevard and aspur will be laid the full length of the tract, which will be run through the center of the land, between the buildings of the two companies to the slough. Ample water facilities are assured and room for loi booms. A sawmill will be built. Illuminating Gas Poisons Plants. CHICAGO, Sept 4. That thousands of dollars' worth of plants In green houses are being ruined each month from gas leaking underground is the conclusion of Professor William Crock er, of the University of Chicago, and Professor Lee I. Knight, of Clem enson College, South Carolina, af ter years of experimenting. It long has been believed, according to Professor Crocker, that Illuminating gas has a poisonous effect upon flow ers, but he and Professor Knight are the first to demonstrate the fact scien tifically. As yet they have been un able to secure an antidote for the de structive work. ESTACADA Is a delightful, place to spend a week. Best of hotel accommo dations at reasonable rates. Walt for "Imperials." See the "Irri persals'"' first act i Honeyman Hardware Co. HEADQUARTERS FOR EVERYTHING IN PAINT ACIF1C 0. E. Heintz, Manager. Portland, Or. , CASTINGS and STRUCTURAL Carry complete stock of Steel BIG BHiCK TO Wyoming Sheep King to Erect - Structure 137x100 Feet. HEIGHT TO BE 4 STORIES Building on Trinity Place OH TJppcr Washington to Be Put Vp by Timothy Kinney Will Cost $45,000. Timothy Kinney, a sheepralser and banker of Rock Springs, Wyo., ha completed the. purchase from Mrs. Woodward of a lot 57 by 100 feet on the west side of Trinity place, between Washington and Everett streets, for $10,300. The sale .was made by E. J. Daly, who also sold Mr. Kinney the lot directly adjoining this on Wash ington street, 80 by 100 feet in size, for $27,500. This makes a total of $37,800 for the two lots. On this property Mr. Kinney will have erected a four-story brick build ing to cover both lots and to cost in the neighborhood of $45,000. He has alreadv signed a 10-year lease on the structure. The work of excavation will begin tomorrow. txr t in,..in thA architect, has ore- pared plans for' the finest building on Washington street wem m r-m n. structure will have four stories on the ground floor, and a high-class room ing house In the upper stories. A high-speed passenger elevator will be used, as well as a separate freight elevator. There is strong demand for a first-class rooming house on upper Washington street, and It Is not con sidered unlikely that others will Bpeedilv follow this one. On Trinity Place a Class A apart ment house, also four Htories In height, will be built. It will be fitted out with every modern convenience. Includ ing two automatic elevators. Mr. Kinney, who 1 a millionaire. Is already interested to a large extent In Portland buRlness property. Curried 000 Tons of Barnacles. WASHINGTON. Sept 4.-BIX hundred tons of barnacles have been taken from the bottom of the armored cruiser South Dakota at the Mare Island Navy-Yard, making the vessel's hull rise four and a half Inches from the water. The barna cles fastened themselves to the ship's bottom during a recent trip to the South This property was' selected became of Its SUBURBAN 51 ing. It has. all been cleared, ready to plow, and tho water ayttem lnttalled ready for use. The pipes are laid and FREE WATER Is stven the nret year. Each owner shares ownerhlp In the water company. Exceptionally fertile soil HOIVlllilb and wonderfully productive. The jano. is cioae in on mo Oregon Water Power Company's line, on two county roads, hu electric lights and telephone. Only 35 mlnutee from down town and transfer prlvldeges to all parts j. of the city. Land on all sides. (JJjUxJ without water, la selling In large pieces ror aimoet mm much as this property Is selling In' acre tracts. Ideal for suburban living, and all the conveniences of city living at hand. Good schools and churches. Electric trans it . SiT Portatlon Places this prop jPJQ j erty as near to downtown as most oi tne recently platted city additions. It would pay any man who Seeks a quiet and elegant place to live, to investigate SUBURBAN HO.MJilj CXUB TRACT LOW JUICES EASY TERMS GREEN WHITCOMB CO. 245 Washington St. PHOENIX IRON WORKS Engineers, Founders, -Machinists and Boilermakers, Building; and Structural Work. WE MAKE Fire Hydrants, Log Hauls, Csmt Gears, Hydrnnlle Giants, Water Gates, Lumber Tracks, etc HAWTHORNE AVE. AND EAST THIRD PORTLAND. OR. RISE WORKS Beams, Angles and Channels. Soa Islands. Naval authorities were as tonished on learning of the IminciL-i weight of the Incumbrance which Impeded the ship's spe?d. LIGHTING FIXTURES The magnificent light ing fixtures for the new Hyland residence in Holladay Park were furnished by the M. J. Walsh Co. The design is of the Sheffield line, costing about $800. This design was selected in preference to all others submitted. We can be of service to you in suggesting and designing the prop er lighting fixtures for your residence. M. J.WALSH CO. Salesroom 311 Stark Bet 5th and 64. Both Phones SNAPS M0S1ER APPLE ORCHARDS 17 acres, 3 miles out on good rounty road; ten acres in Newtowns and Spitz, com ing 2 -years old; $3500, terms. 12 acres, 1 mile out on Mo-s-ier Creek; 0V2 acres in bear ing orchard; pood house. A rare buy at $3000; $2500 will handie this. 80 acres, four miles out; 11 acres in orchard, 4 acres bearing" next year, balance 1 to 3 years old; good honse and outbuildings; orchard alone worth more than price, $6000; $2500-111 handle this. We have other splendid buys. It pays to see us for orchards or fruit land. McGregor & Bothfur Mosier, Oregon. 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. E. DAVIS. II. T. UREXKKN. 4 f