THE SUXDAY OKEGOXIAy, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 3, 1909. 11 ,
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MANY BUY FARMS
Deals in Oregon Lands Dot the
Week's Transactions.
TRACTS TO BE PLATTED
AYillamette Valley and Ranches in
Eastern Part of Slate Brlns
Good Prices Trading Brisk
in Many localities.
One of the f?atures of the week's trad
ing was activity in lands located outside
of Portland. A number of big deals have
ben made, one for COO,000, another for
jso.oco. and others rangins up to 20.0X
In view of the general feeling of prosper
ity throughout the state at present, this
Is not at all remarkable. The crop sea
Bon has been good In almost every llns
and the fanners all have plenty of money.
In Eastern Oregon the situation is encour
aging, on account of the railroad activity
there.
The largest deal o the week in farm
lands wu the sale of 15.000 acres of -well-developed
land in Harney County to
Frank H. Clerf. his mother and business
associates of North Yakima, for taoo.ono.
It is a fine piece of land, which has been
rich In the production of hay end as a
stock ranch It gives promise of being an
other of the areat wheat fields such as
flourish in Northeastern Oregon and East
ern Washington. It Is covered with heavy
sagebrush and has available water, a con
dition which promises the best for any
land, as sagebrush land is especially pro
ductive where water is plentiful.
This ranch, known a the Alvord Ranch,
and formerly as the old John Devlne
ranch. Is one of the best-known pl-ice" In
Oregon. A macniticcnt herd of elk, the
only herd of Its kind In the state, browses
on the land, where the elk are fed hay
through the Winter and rendered as do
cile as cows. Kor the present Mr. Clerf
will conduct the rlace as a stock ranch,
but. with increased railroad facilities, the
entire 16.0m) acres will he converted into
a farm for the raising of crops for the
market.
The de.il Is an example of the Increase
In values In Eastern Oregon lands since
the announcement of the building of rail
roads to that section. J. O. Elrod. who
old the place, made a profit of more
than Jl'" in the sale, having purchased
It IS months ago for less than
from the Eugene Church Company, of
Tacoma.
Another drat In farm lands, although
not r.oirly no cxt-nslve. Is the purchase by
the Chclialen Valley Land Company of
21.1 acres of rich land located within three
miles of New-burg in the Willamette Val
ley. It is an improved farm being cut up
for platting purpose. It will be divided
Into ten-acre tract and sold to the small
former who desires a fruit farm. The
rompunv handling the property will set
tiie entire tract out with fruit trees, prin
cipally apples and prunes, with a few wal
nuts, end market the tracts when the
trees are a year old.
One feature of this enterprise Is that the
directors of the experimental station at
tiie Oregon Agricultural College have been
-!ld i.pon to supervise the setting out
of tiie ti-ees. that no mistakes may be
made In putting the trees too close to
gether. In putting in the wrong kind of
trees or In erring through Inexperience In
planting the young orchards. The price
of IT').1"") paid for the land represents an
expenditure of less than J25 an acre, while
the land In orchard should easily be worth
from 10 to 23 times that amount.
This cutting up of the larger farms in
the Willamette Valley follows out Ideas
of eminent agriculturists who were in
convention in Portland a little over a
month ago. The expert farm men of the
country held that the Willamette Valley
was too rich a country to be put In
wheat, oats, hay and like products, but
advised that the farmers attempt to care
for smaller farms and devote their ener
gies to raising fruits, garden truck and
similar products, which, they said, would
yield a far greater profit with less labor.
As on noted agriculturist said, "the
Willamette Valley can raise wheat and
oats, and good quantities of them, but It
Is like casting pearls before swine to util
ize such rich land for that purpose."
Frank E. Dooly and R. M. Dooly, Jr.,
have purchased 40 acres of farm land
within a mile and a half of Troutdale.
The property was purchased from Will
iam Fechheimcr for CO.OCOi The land is
a pretty tract of level ground,- covered
with a rich, deep soil, and situated fa
vorably. There are no improvements of
any kind on the lanu.
This land will also be platted. The new
owners will cut the land Into five and ten
acre tracts, clear the shrubbery and place
the small farms on the market. On ac
count of the proximity to Portland and
the splendid transportation facilities, the
tract is considered Ideal for platting.
F. E. Baker, of Gresham, Or., has pur
chased S- acres of land in Iake County,
near Lakeview, In Central Oregon, from
C. M. O'Neill for fciiuo. or $10 an acre.
An adjoining 320 acre was purchased by
J. M. Rickette, of Vancouver, for the
same figure, also from Mr. O'Neill. The
lands are practically unimproved. Mr.
Baker will hold his half section as an In
vestment, while Mr. Rlcketto will mova
on the tract at once and farm It. The
sales were both made through the office
of the Equity Investment Company.
There was considerable trading In the
last week in timber lands. The Oregon
Timber & Realty Company purchased sev
eral small tracts of timber recently. A
deal has just been closed whereby the
company received ;eo acres of fine yellow
i!r timber on the Little White Salmon
River from the Jones estate. Another
tract of i'40 acres of red and yellow fir.
located in township S. range 7 west, in
the Grand Ronde reservation, was pur
chased from Paul Fundcrman and Ira C.
Parber. Tho company now controls about
7'v i.'j.ee,) fect of tine timber In this local
ity, and Is buying more continually.
Timber dealers In general report that
business Is lively, and considerable activ
ity i. expected in the near future. Sev
eral big deals are being considered, and
a number of Eastern capitalists have
been investigating the situation quietly
for some time.
YKUNOX DISTRICT IS THRIVING
Many Houses Completed and Others
Are Now Building.
The growth In the Vernon district
eRst of I'nlon avenue U shown by the
fact that lots which sold for $250 and
SST.o three years ago have more than
doubled in value. Alberta has become
a business street almost to East Thir
tieth. New buildings have been and
are being erected all over the district.
The Highland Baptist Church, cost
ing J7000. East Seventh and Alberta,
has been compietod. E. M. Baker re
cently completed a $10,000 building on
East Seventeenth and has started con
struction on a building on East
Twenty-flrst to cost $Joo. J. E. Gold
stein Is erecting a building on Alberta
avenue at a cost of $3000 and a resi
dence on East Twelfth to cost $3500.
Captain J. J. Anderson, of the steamer
Hassalo. Is erecting a $3500 residence.
H. H. Holbrook has started excavating
for a business on Alberta street to
cost $5000. It will be 4Sx60 feet.
It Is proposed to Improve Alberta street
from Union avenue to East Thirtieth
street with hard-surface pavement. It
is believei by the property owners that
the business on the street will war
rant a high-class pavement.
Less than a year ago the Alberta
streetcar line was extended to East
Thirtieth street and then north along
this street about half a mile through
Irvington Park. Lots have been sold
in the tract on both sides of the car
line. A year ago there were no houses
east of East Thirtieth street and now
thev cannot easily be counted. A resi
dence that cost $5000 has just been
completed near the end of the carllne.
Eastern Concern Buys Lumber.
A tract of 3000 acres of timber land,
owned by John Stem-art A Son, and lying
along the line of the Tillamook in Wash
ington County, has been sold to an East
ern timber company. This land was
bought by the Stewarts several years ago,
and the selling price represents a profit
of several hundred per cent on the orig
inal price. Much of the land is reported
as valuable for farming when the timber
Is removed.
ROSE GUT PARK GROWS
STOCK SHOW GIVES PEOPLE
IDEA OF DISTRICT.
Building Is Feature Along Sandj
Road Addition Is Popular '
Home Location.
A revelation was made as to the growth
of Portland to the thousands of people
who visited the Country Club grounds
the past week in the buildings completed
and improvements made in the Rose City
Park district along the Sandy road. Only
two years ago this section was a wilder
ness. Now there are Improved streets,
cement sidewalks, electric lights, tele
phones and attractive homes.
Among those who have selected this
section for homes may be mentioned
Charles B. Merrick, secretary of the Port
land Ratail Association and editor of
the Retail Grocery Magasine, whose new
home is on Hast Fifty-seventh street, near
Alameda. The modified Colonial home of
M. S. Weeks, of the Northern Pacific Ter
minal Company, on East Flrty-slxth, near
Stanton street, costing $5000, is one of the
attractive houses of the district. The
Swiss -chalet, costing $4600. erected for
Frederick Lefneweher. of W. P. Fuller
& Co., near feisklyou street, has a beaaty
all Its own.
L, V. Rawlins, state manager of the
Kansas City Life Insurance Company,
has purchased the new $3500 home, nearlng
completion, of H. C. Morris, on East
Forty-fifth and Braxee streets, and ex
pects soon to have his family living there.
A. J. Ferguson, of the Tannhauser Hat
Company, has sold his home in Southeast
Portland, and purchased the new house
erected by H. C. Bean on East Forty
ninth, near the Bandy avenue. Andrew
W. Stevens has sold his homo on East
Twenty-fourth, near Kllllngsworth ave
nue, and is erecting a $3500 house on Bo
lena avenue, near Sandy avenue.
A two-story L-shaped grocery building
Is being erected by J. J. Blum on Bandy
avenue, near Rossmere. which will cost
about $7000. George Newham, a carpenter,
Is erecting a 10-room bungalow costing
$2.V. on Gregory Heights. C. Marks, his
brother-in-law, is also erecting a similar
home. The families of both are camping
out while the work Is being done. L.
Eberts. fit the International Harvest Ma
chinery Company, is erecting a $2250 home
In Rose City Park. John Snedaker. of
Pendleton business man, purchased a
$2000 bungalow In Rose City Park and has
occupied it.
These are a few of the many attractive
homes that have been built and are to be
built In this district. While this section
has reasonably good car service, com
paring well with that of other portions of
the city, yet the cars were overcrowded
when undertaking to handle the crowds
attending the livestock show, on account
of the sinIe track on 8andy avenue, and
complaints have been filed with the street
car company, which It Is hoped by resi
dents of the district will result In laying
of a double track before another show is
held at the Country Club ground.
Acreage on Oregon Electric Sold.
Henry and William Maggetti have
sold to Dr. R. C. Yenney the west half
of section S2, township 1 south, range
1 east, consisting of 80 acres of land
located abont one mile south of Mult
nomah station on the Oregon Electric
Railway. While the consideration has
not been made public. It is known that
the land is worth In the neighborhood
of $250 an acre. The sale was made
through the agency of R. L. Archibald
and G. W. Schmauch, associated with
E. J. Cowlishaw.
Kew York and Its Immediate suburbs have
4T.n 0O0 telephones.
BUSINESS
IS
BRISK
East Side Enjoys Lively Trad
ing Entire Week.
BUILDING DOESN'T LAG
Many Plans for Flats and Apartment
Houses Under Way K. Kissling
to Erect $30,000 Bakery.
Westmoreland Active.
Sales of East Side residence property
through the week continued brisk. Some
business locations were sold while plans
for several business houses are being
prepared ralnging in price up to $45,000.
Plans are to be drawn for several flats
and apartment-houses-.
In Holladay'sN Addition, Samuel T.
Lockwood sold to the Sempter Male In
vestment Company lot 7 and the north
half of lot 6, in block 239 for $7000. In
Irvington Addition, C. Gertrude French
bought the home of E. S. Edwards for
$7000. John H. Hardin, a wealthy resi
dent of Eugene, bought two lots on the
northwest corner of Siskiyou and East
Twenty-third streets for $2700 and will
erect a $6000 home.
In Central East Portland, John Green
Sold to Sol Rosenfield lot 8, block 74,
for $12,500. This lot Is on East Everett
street and Union avenue, and Is busi
ness properly. Inez Cable bought lot 2,
block 1, in Buckman's tract, for $5000.
Charles Fimpel sold to E. W. Mutch, lot
1. block 10. for $36,000. This Is on the
southeast corner of East Bumside street
and Union avenue and Is Improved with
several franie structures. John Schroder
bought part of lot 6 and all of lot T,
block 7. block 219, Holladay Addition,
for $6000.
R. Kissling, proprietor of the New York
Bakery, who recently purchased a quarter
block on the southeast corner of East
Seventh and Belmont streets, for $13,500
from the Ladd estate, expects to erect
a modern building for a bakery on the
property in the near future. Plans for
the structure will be drawn after Mr.
Kissling has made a trip East and in
spects several bakeries there. The
building will cover the entire 100x100.
One part will be for delivery wagons and
horses, while the remainder of the build
ing, which will be three stories, will be
used for the bakery. Plans will be
drawn about January 1. and the building
will be built in the Spring. The cost will
bo about $30,000.
A large force of horses and men is em
ployed in the Westmoreland Addition,
where all the streets are being improved.
The tract extends from Midway south to
the Smith Addition and between the Mil
waukte road and the Southern Pacific
Railroad. Nearly 75 horses are used In
the grading operations in progress all
over this tract. There will be many
miles of Improved streets.
It is said that nearly all the lots In this
big addition have been sold and building
operations have begun on many of them.
The rapidity with which the lots in this
addition were sold Is most remarkable,
and the total sales run above $200,000.
Building Is In progress at Midway, and
between the Milwaukie road and the
Willamette river. Most of the acreage
there has been sold off In building lota
to people who will build homes.
R. B. Rice sold two -choice homes In
Holladay Addition during the past week.
One of the properties. 60x100, on Twenty
first and Clackamas streets, was pur
chased by P. Brono for $10,000. and the
other, 40x100, adjoining, was purchased
for JS500. The lot purchased by Mr.
Brono has a nine-room residence, nearly
new. and modern throughout. On Mr.
Falk's lot there is a seven-room resi
dence. It was purchased for a home.
Dr. C..G. French, a recent arrival from
The Kalles, has purchased the fine two
story, seven-room residence occupied by
Captain E. S. Edwards, -ai t,.c corner of
East Nineteenth and Schuyler streets. In
Irvington Addition, for $7000. Dr. French
will move into the house at once. The
sale was made through the agency of
Heilman & Lnthrop. The dwelling is one
of the attractive homes of this part of
the city.
The Oregon Construction Company has
just finished four residences In the Ladd
Addition, at a cost of $5500 each, and nine
houses in Hancock-Street Addition, In one
month's time. This company has seven
more i dwellings under construction in
Irvington, near Enst Twenty-first and
Brazee streets, each of which will cost
$5500. These contracts aggregate more
than $100,000. .
F. E. Bowman & Co. have six dwellings
under construction in the City Land
Company's Addition, Irvington, the prices
of the houses running from $3000 to $5000.
Two will be occupied by the owners as
soon as completed. The purchasers are
T. T. Frund, state agent of the Indiana
Nothing succeeds like success, and the success of SWIN
TON has been phenomenal. The last few remaining Swinton
lots are being gobbled up by the wise ones. The inaugura
tion of a 7l2 minute streetcar schedule directly through the
tract divorces Swinton from the slightest suggestion of specu
lation. Present buyers buy a sure thing.
Home builders will be given special inducements. Your
SWINTON investment was a good one six months ago it's
better today. Talk to your friends about it. Streets nearly
all graded and water mains laid over nearly the entire tract.
Board of Trade Building
State Life Insurance Company, and A.
C. Tully, of the Ross Hardward Company.
The City Land Company, has 55 lots . in
this district and plans to -erect dwellings
on all.
S. O. Wright, a Woodburn farmer, is
having built a two-story residence and
two cottages on East Twelfth and East
Flanders streets at a cost of $6500.
The Dun-Lawrence Company has sold
the south half of block 97, Woodstock, to
Mrs. Thompson, from the Klaetsch es
tate, for $3600. The half block is occu
pied with a two-story, eight-room house.
In the yard there are a number oi fruit
trees. The property Is considered choice
property.
HOTEL NEARLY FINISHED
BUILDING 200X100 FEET IX SIZE
XOYV READY.
Three-Story Structure Near Depot
Has 12 Stores, Some of Which
Are Already Occupied.
Among the buildings nearlng comple
tion In Portland is the new Ranter ho
tel building, whicr. has been erected
on the east side of Sixth street, between
Gllsan and Hoyt streets, at a cost of
$100,000. The building Is owned by the
Depot Realty Company and was de
signed by Architects Goodrich, King &
Goodrich. The hotel company has taken
a 10-year lease on the property.
The structure is 100x200 feet In size.
Is three stories In height and contains
142 rooms. The walls were built heavy
enough for two additional stories and
a shaft has been installed In the build
ing for an elevator later. There are
three light courts and with the building
facing on three streets, the rooms are
so arranged that practically every room
In the building has outside light. The
structure is finished with pressed brick
on three sides.
The first floor of the butldljig will
be used for store purposes, rooms hav
ing been installed for 12 stores. Some
of theBe are now being occupied and
the entire building will be ready for
occupancy within a week or so.- The
arrangement of the hotel on the upper
floors is modern throughout. There are
six baths to each floor with modern
plumbing and tiled floors. "What is
known as slow-burning mill construc
tion was used.
Huxley's vaults at the Eastgat. Chester,
England, which were the subject of magis
terial comment recently on account of their
duety condition, have Just ben cleaned.
Cobweb, to the weight of a hundredweight
were removed by a vacuum dust-removing
engine In three dny. '
70pportunity mocks
z m
We have 3000 acres of land in Columbia County that is within one hour's ride of Portland
that we are offering .at prices and terms that should appeal to investors as well as to home
seekers. The tract consists of beaverdam and low and rolling foothills, ideal for apple cul
ture. The soil is very rich and capable of producing fruit, berries and vegetables in
abundance. Transportation facilities are to be had by rail and water, which competition
creates a low freight rate and makes the market easily accessible.
$20 to $40 Per Acre ?eIms
The above prices will not last long. Property in this vicinity has been advancing steadily
in the past few years. "With the rapidity in which this country is being settled and the
development which is sure to follow, it will not be long, for thost who buy now, till this
property will double in value. Get in ahead of the developments and you will be the one
to reap the largest gain.
DO NOT DELAY INVESTIGATE IMMEDIATELY
COLUMBIA CO. INVESTMENT CO.
1018 Board of Trade Bldg.,
Portland, Or.
Please send me further information in
regard to your Columbia County acreage.
Name
Street
State
Columbia County
Investment Co.
1018 Board of Trade Bldg. Portland, Oregon
Branch Office at Goble, Oregon, in Charge of
Anthony Hardy
when looking for SUBURBAN PROPERTY that METZGER ACRE TRACTS
are not the size of CITY LOTS. We are selling ACRE LOTS, only 30-minute
ride from Front and Jefferson streets. Take car at Oregon Electric Railway
Co. 's Depot (Salem line).
These acres are at METZGER STATION, on the Oregon Electric Rail
way, containing the best soil obtainable for the raising of all kinds of FRUITS,
BERRIES and VEGETABLES that can be grown in Oregon.
You have a very large tract to choose from. You can have either cleared,
partly cleared or timbered park-like tracts, with creeks running through them,
making them IDEAL HOME SITES.
ere is no otherTract like this one
There are no gulches, no gravel, no hills; in fact, nothing objectionable
whatever. We want you to visit our Tract. Our Agents are always there to
show the property, which we sell cheaper than any other land SO NEAR PORT
LAND. Just think of it ! You can buy an acre of ground within 30 minutes ' ride
from the heart of the city at $250 and up per acre, on easy terms. 10 per cent
down and 3 per cent of the purchase price per month. You have to pay more
for a lot farther out, in other directions, than we ask for an ACRE.
For plats and further information, call at our office, 226 and 228 Front St.',
Portland, Or., or at our office at Metzger Station, on Oregon Electric Railway.
City phones, Main 474 and A 1274.'
Metzger Station phone, Main 6409. HERMAN METZGER, Owner.
Th
The water terminus of the
United Railways, a town with
all the necessary features for a
live, busy, active industrial
center. BURLINGTON will be
an industrial city and today
offers the most tempting op
portunities of any place in the
Northwest for the investor and
commercial venture.
aiy, Owner
Room 3 Chamber of Commerce Bldg.