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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 7, 1909)
WRITE FOR FREE MAP OF CENTRAL OREGON You owe it to yourself to inform yourself on the op portunities here. Send us ycur name and receive large folding map (wall size), so you can study the situation. FIRST COME FIRST SERVED This is the first public announcement. Applications for property will pour in, as scores of alert investors Have been easterly awaitim? the platting of Opal City. Get your name high on the list. MAKE RESERVATIONS NOW. Future Metropolis of Central Oregon HILL, HARRIMAN, TROLLEY AND WAGON ROADS FIND THEIR ONE AVAILABLE CENTER AT OPAL CITY Right at the Great Rolling Wheat Plains and Fertile Irrigated Valleys of Dawning Empire lllri iffl Oftfon Trunk It TT'lB if I JL Vmmm s"A " sT' JtV . Willi' ' R'ttL, Z? t llirHAitRiMAN i-gkNf yy&y'?M n ' Hum -y&i&ik&t - railroad jicy' ? -n ; N r Lff ? 1 ELECTRIC I 5k ( H v lYZTT railroad Ay ' ! itpiiE opal city .., U-yPtiis. LOTS 1 i L.XW'IIF- emarket - 'il "A"' AMERICAN TRUST CO , 1 A M0NTAV1LLA IS NAWING their way up the abysmal Des Chutes canyon, with Opal City and the coun try behind it as their. goal, the railroad build ers are linking the rich interior of Oregon with its market. Intense development activity will be under way all during the next decade, and it will center largely around the city that is to be the metropolis of Central Oregon. " OPAL CITY IS "THE" SPOT The lay of the land, as well as the plans of railroad, electric and irrigation en gineers all operate to make Opal City the metropolis. You owe it to yourself to investigate. FORTUNES WILL BE REAPED by shrewd investors who grasp oppor tunity quickly and buy property in the favored city site. BIG MONEY WILL BE MADE by the far-seeing few who acquire holdings in the right spot. GET YOUR SHARE OF OREGON'S HERITAGE, the vast agricultural re gion now being tapped by transportation. The country around Opal City is as pretty as a picture now in wheat and oats. PRINTED INFORMATION DETAILS. Facts are what you want. Ask for our maps and folder. . mericao Tr 200-204 Chamber of Commerce Building ACREAGE IN D E I! Farm Lands Are -Traded In Heavily on All Sides. TRACTS BOUGHT TO PLAT Deals Involving Thousands or Acres Are Consummated by Portland Traders With Many Investors Who Are Seeking to Buy. Dealing in farm lands in the vicinity of Portland and in the Pacific Northwest through Portland ofrioe naa been ex ceptionally active duri"S the lart week. A tanre number of tracts were purchased iar platting purposes and for farming purposes. One of the largest buys was made by J. O. Klrod. a local real estate operator, who purchased 143 acre's of land located t Jrnn nation, on th O. V. P.. from G. B. Middleton. for S7.3W. This land Is all highly Improved, is all m culttvatloa nd is further Improved with a high grade set of farm buildings. It Is located n the Powell Valley road, six miles from the city limits. Mr. Blrod will plat the entire 143 acres and will put the land on the market In th form of acre tracts for suburban home property and for small truck gaTdena and small fruit tracts. Im. K. Moor, another local real estate broker, has purchased a large tract, con taining 1T&4 acres, located in the Horse ijleaven country. Southeastern Washing ton, from Dr. C. W. Bice, of Rltxvllle. The consideration named Is W3.300. The property includes sections 7. 9 and 17. In township 7 north, range 34 east. Wil lamette meridian. The farm lire under the proposed irrigation canal of the Klickitat Irrigation & Power Company. It is at present used for wheatraising. but as soon as the canal is completed it will be adapted to ttw culture of all char acter of fruits, alfalfa and grains. t J. Barber and O. I.- Reid ha- pur chased from William hazier a 34-acre tract, located five blocks south of Glad stone avenue, on East Twenty-eighth street. The consideration named Is t. T'nla tract was sold through the agency of V. V. Jones, of the. Jacobs Stin? Company. The entire tract has bcn surveed by Thomas Compton ard will be platted and placed on the market In the form of residence lots. JfiOOO. The . tract Is a high-class garnen propertv. and will be utilized for this purpose' by. the purchasers. The sale was. made through the agency of Chapin & Herlow. Through the agency of Chapin & Her low. a tract Of 25 acres six miles from Vancouver was sold to A. Rose from John Keaton- for 4v. The land is all im proved, and will bo subdivided Into five acre tracts and sold. E. C. Goddard. of the Goddard-Kelly Shoe Company, has bought lfiO acres of land in Columbia County. Oregon, and ISO acres In Skamania County. Washing ton, for m Both pieces are unimproved raw land, and will be : held- as an invest ment. The sale was, made through the agency of Goddard & Wledrick. . EACH PCPIL-TOHATE XOCKER Jefferson High School Will Be Well Equipped and Ready on -Time. Bids for the electrior -light fixtures for the electric light fixtures for the Jefferson High School' and ''for - steel lockers for the pupils' will be received In a few days by .Whitehouse, Lazarus & Fouilhoux. architects, and the con tracts will then be awarded. The new high s-hool will be the. first to be fitted-wMh individual steel lockers for the pupils. The work of finishing the building is going on rapidly. The in terior finish- is now being put in. the floors are being laid and the walls be ing tinted. The contract calls for completion of the building ready for occupancy by January 25 and the architects say there Is no doubt that this will be done and the building, ready for the opening of the second school semester. The draw ings are now being made for the fitting of the chemical laboratory and other scientific rooms and these will be as complete as in any of the universities of the Pacific Northwest and will be by far the finest in any . of the high schools. " There is much, interest in the movement tn snend 410.000 on th Mount Hood road between Sandv and Rhododendron Tav ern next year. Meetings are being held frequently In the Mount Hood district and the matter is being discussed. FLATS ARE PLANNED Joseph Shemanski Will Build $55,000 Structure: TO COVER QUARTER BLOCK Orrrate Apartment House Will Be Erected at Thirteenth and Clay, ' and Will Be Completed . by May 1. Plans have been prepared by Archi tects Goodrich. King & Goodrich for a handsome four-story apartment house to be erected at the northwest corner of Thirteenth and Clay streets for Joseph Shemanski. manager of the Eastern Outfitting Company. The build ing will cover a quarter block. 100 by 100 feet in size, will be of brick and stone -construction, and will be erected at a cost of jr.5,000. This structure will be built along the French Renaissance lines of architec ture of red pressed brick, with stone trimmings, and will be of highly orna mental design. ' Ornate exterior balco ni win he nlaced on the second and third floors. A feature of the building will be a large court, 25 by 63 feet, . .rnnr.rl to make every room In the building an outside room, including the baths and kitchen. This court will contain a fountain, an Italian pergola and a garden. TV,- huHinfi- will contain 140 rooms, arranged in apartments of three and rnnm each, with 10 such apart ments on each floor. In the basement ui ha steam heating plant and the SCHOOL, IS CROWDED AND MUST I BE ENLARGED. I elevator machinery. On the first floor will be a handsome entrance lobby fin ished with tiled floor and ornamental marble scagliola. The structure will be equipped with an automatic high speed electric elevator. The suites will contain the latest patent disappearing beds, cabinet kitchens, and all modern conveniences. The staircase will be marbled, and I . the staircase and elevator shaft will 1 both be fireproofed. Every apartment streets Will Be Improved and Beau In the building will have a private en- , trance hall, while a general lobby will ; tilled and Park May Be be placed on every floor. As soon as I c.,rfl the working plans have been completed ecureu. the contracts for the structure will be . let, and the building will be finished i " and ready for occupancy on May 1. j In Montavilla excellent progress Is being made in all directions. New VAr.TTP.s OR.TECTEn TO homes are now being erected ! through this suburb. The school 1 thern Pacific train this morninr near Riddle. The body was brought to this city and lies at the local depot awaiting the arrival of the coroner. The cause of death is yet unknown. Mrs. Wliitt aker's relatives will be notified as soon as they can be located. She was on her way to Oakland from Seattle. FALSE all North Alblna Club Wants Prices Recorded. . i again crowded to Kea i although It was o Its utmost capacity. although It was enlarged a year ago. It has more than 600 pupils, and others oa .sirrno- in Tv th first Of the Var A resolution was adopted luesaar ,,, ....., v, nnaMershle night by the North .Albina Improvement I lncre j ... Association condemning the practice q,f I increase In numbers. An addition will recording deeds for a nominal sum, in- have to be erected next year. , stead of for the real amount involved People south of the Base Line road in the transfer. It was the sense of the ! also are asking that provisions be made that this method of recording i ior a scnooinuus mcic. i n. section IS Duuaing up rapiuiy w.m new homes, but it may have to wait for at least a. year before the Board of Education can get around to provide a building. rlilb deeds Is Iniurlous to Portland, and ought to be stopped. J. H. Nolta was made chairman of a committee to as certain if there is not some way to re quire recording the full amount of all transfers made. t At this meeting It was moved and carried that only hard surface pave ments should be laid In the district bounded by Prescott street, Patton, Alnsworth and Union avenues. It was voted to change the name of Alblna avenue to Golden avenue between the Willamette River and Columbia boule vard. The reason Is that a great deal of gold would pass over the street now that great Industries are being estab lished on the north side of the Penin sula. J. H. Nolta reported that plans for the North Alblna sewer system are now being prepared in the office of the City Engineer, and would be ready by next March. Mr. Nolta announced that this sewer system would be the first to be installed on the Peninsula. The cost of this sewer system is estimated at about 1260,000. - HANDSOME APARTMENT-HOUSE WILL BE BUILT IN GROWING DISTRICT J. Robey. of this city, has purchased Hit acres of improved land located in Co lumbia County from W. J. Envn, the consideration named . being : $10,000. The property is well improved and will be held for Investment purposes. The sale was made through the ag-ncy of the Wallace Investment Company. The Ames Mercantile Agency and J. H. Shields have purchased 4S0 acres of partly improved land, located three miles south of Beaverton. from Ward & Short, an Eastern Oregon firm, for $.0. or $125 an acre. The sale was made through the agency of the Ross-English Invest ment Company and F. A. Jackson. This land has about 100 acres under cultivation. . with some farm buildings on It. and the remainder of the tract Is raw land; The property was bought as an Investment. O. Anato has bought from I M. Felps 1 SS acres 1V miles south of Choppunish , station, on the Oregon Electric line, for . ... ' 'Goodrich. King & Goodrich, Architects, j I JOSEPH SHEMAXSKI FLATS TO BE ERECTED AT THIRTEENTH AJ.D CLAY. i - - 11TTI I - . ...... Montavilla now has a passenger de pot on the O. R. & N. main line. All trains passing can be stopped Dy ouihb flagged. This is considered -a great gain for Montavilla. It means that any one can take any of the trains passing through North Alblna. This is considered some return for the 1500 foot strip donated to the railroad com pany. several years ago by the citizens of Montavilla. Under the impetus of the Montavilla Road Association, the Home Training Circle and the Board of Trade, a move ment has been started to beautify the streets of Montavilla. Hibbard and Broad streets are the first on which the plan will be tried. Uniform shade trees are to be planted 25 feet .apart on these streets. It has been recom mended that horse-chestnut trees be planted, as they are considered best for shade trees. A nurseryman has offered io furnish these trees at a rea sonable figure, and plant and . look after them until they are started. Cost of these trees will be so small that no property owners are expected to! refuse to purchase them. It Is desired that the trees be of uniform growth, and placed at uniform-distance from the curb. It is planned to make Montavilla a beautiful suburb. - ' Effort .is being made to secure a park tract,-- or . playground,- for Morsta villa. One plan Is to enlarge the schoolhorjse site by the addition of a block on the ; north side through the .vacation of a (Street.; This would provide a conven ient place for the playground. A two acre, tract is available east- of the Methodist Church on. Hibbard street. There Is no growth on this, tract, but it might be made beautiful, and would be ample for a park for Montavilla. H. B. Dickinson a prominent resident, says that a park is needed in view of the prospects of Montavilla becoming a. residence center of importance. Set tlement is going . forward eastward along the Base Line road, and It has already reached the RusseU'vUle school house. ' .There is again agitation for the ex tension of either the Mount Tabor or Montavilla electric railway into the growing district south ot the Base Line road. A push club has been organized, which will work for this extension. -t Beautiful Country Homes . WITHIN 11 MILES OF PORTLAND READY FOR IMMEDIATE tH'C" I'PAXCV. 2S ACRES all cleared and in high state of cultivation. im,4 miles west of Portland, on good public road, only 4 mile from station; 2 good wells; family orchard; good 9-rooni house, all hard finish; 2 large barns, f:ood chicken-house, hogpens, workshop, smokehouse and other outbulld ngs; nice lawn, flowers and shrubbery. This is an elegant country house, convenient to church and school. Price $12,000. including 3 horses, 2 colts, 1 buggy, 1 set harness, .9 milch cows and o cans, 1 harrow, 1 plow 7 doz. chickens. 15 tons hay and other supplies. 12Vi ACRES. 10 miles from Portland, all cleared and In high state i of cultivation, 'A mile from station; good family orchard: 2 good wells; place well fenced; new 8-room house; large barn that cost $S00, good - granarv, 3 good chicken-houses, hogpens and other outbuildings; beauti ful lawn, ornamental and shade trees, flowers and shrubbery. Price, including furniture in house, hay In barn, potatoes and vegetables for Winter, only $7500. Easy terms. 1114 AIRES. 10 miles from Portland, mile from station; all In high state of cultivation: all fenced: small family orchard; good well with engine and good tank: nice o-room house with bath, hot and cold water and modern conveniences; rfew barn, chicken-house and other out. , buildings. Price only $5000: cash, balance 67c, or will take city resi dence for 'half. 9 ACRES, 11 miles west of Portland. mile from station; all cleared and in high state of cultivation: good family orchard: on good nubile road: all fenced; 2 good wells: large barn that cott $1000: 5-room house; good granary and chicken-house, other outbuildings. Price $S.-00; terms. . 2 1-3 ACRES. 1 blo.-k from station, on good sidewalk; nil cleared and in high state of cultivation; all set in fruit and berries: well fenced; good well; new 6-room house, hard finish. Price 12800, one-half cash. V, acre. 1, 5 and 10-acre tracts, 10 miles southwest of this GlU, cm Fourth-street railway, 40 minutes' ride from Fourth and fetark streets. Prices range from $100 to $300 per acre. Easy payments. THE SHAW-FEAR COMPANY 243V4 STARK ST. Woman Dies on Train. GLENDALE, Or., Nov. 6. Mrs. Jen nie Whittaker. of 44 East Nineteenth street, Oakland, CaL, died on the Sou- Spolcane of the North -IN- Thc Inland Empire ot Canada New Towiisit8 on Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. Geographical Center of British Columbia and of the largest un developed area of good land on continent. At junction of Great Rivers' Headquarters for Steamers, plying' thousands of miles North, South, East, West. Half way betwecfn Edmonton and Prince Rupert, gateway to great . Nechaco, : Bulkley, Fraser, Peace River, Skeena and other valleys. Initial offering of inside lots on easy terms. Title guaranteed and insured by the Province of British Columbia. ' .'. '. - . . 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