THE. SUNDAY: OREGOXIAX,- PORTLAND, DECEMBER 5, 1909.
DEALS BRING QN
MANY INVESTORS
HOME IN IRVINGTON IS THIRD BUILT BY OWNER.
Notwithstanding the Snow, We Sell Property
fit -
Cultivated and Unimproved
Tracts Cause Much Stir in
Realty Market.
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SHERIDAN FARM BOUGHT
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Fruit Lauds, Flatting Acreage, Old
Established Ranches and Small
Farms Alike Figure in
Active Trading.
Deals in form, timber, raw wwt im
proved lands have been one of the fea
tures of the trading for the lest week.
Many thousands of acres of fine lands
have been purchased all over the state.
Vand especially in. the "Willamette Valley.
("The prices paid range from practically
nothing for raw lands in the more arid
districts to $1000 an. acre and more for im
proved orchard lands, while a few close
1n elatting propositions have brought
vm higher figures.
One of the largest deals was the pur-
vhose of 1300 acres of land near Sheridan,
ihy the Yamhill Orchard Land Company.
The price paid for the tract is $35,000.
The land is all the richest land avail
able and in in the heart of one of the
richest fruit and walnut-raising sections
in Oregon. It is located in the Tamhill
country, near Sheridan.
The purchase of the land was made by
Jin organization which has Just formed
an incorporation under the narriH of the
Tamhill Orchard Land Company The
incorporators are C. F. Hendricksen.
president of the Scandinavian-American
iBank; Valdemar Liddell, Swedish Vice
consul; Waldcmar Seton, attorney; C. O.
Segglin, O. S. Anderson, Eric Helmer
wnd H. Christenscn. Mr. Hendricksen is
ih president of the company, Mr. Lld
ciell vice-president, Mr. Seton secretary
and C. O. Segglin treasurer. The di
rectors are Messrs. Anderson, Helmer and
Christen sen.
This tract of 1300 acres was purchased
from 30 different owners. Mr. Liddell
recured an option on the properties three
months ago. formed the company to
finance the deal and has already paid in
over half the amount necessary. The
31nal payment will be made this month.
The tract which adjoins the recent pur
chases by a number of the Oregon Ag
ricultural College faculty, will be platted
Into five and ten-acre tracts at once and
placed on the market in the early Spring
as walnut and fruit lands. .
Captain Paul Reimers, of the Crossley
Company, has purchased 540 acres of
Jitghly improved land located between
Frank and Rex stations? on the. South
ern Pacific line, about 19 miles southwest
of Portland and four miles, from New
erg. The property, which was bought
in four separate parcels, was purchased
at an aggregate cost of $61,000.
One tract of 100 acres purchased was
the Le Tourneau tract, which was se
cured for $10,000. The 120-acre tract ad
Joining this, belonging to Louis Pulisky,
was purchased for $16,000. From Fred
Meumm a trAct of 160 acres adjoining
was purchased for $16,000 and from Gus
uddat a tract of 160 acres was pur
chased for $30,000.
The great portion of these farms is in
a high state of cultivation and they are
Improved with good residences and Sub
stantial farm buildings. The entire tract
will be platted into five and ten-acre
tracts and these will be planted to apples,
small fruits and nuts. The land will be
placed on the market on January 1.
F. P. Drinker, cashier of the First Na
tional Bank of St. John, and Manning
Van Alstyne have purchased four quar
ter sections of timber land located in
"Wheeler County, Eastern Oregon,
through the agency of the Smith-Wagoner
Company at an approximate consid
eration of $10,000. The firm has made a
number of sales of acreage tracts in the
Slatted tract at Multnomah Acres, near
. lultnomah Station, on the Oregon Elec
Iric carline. Seven of these tracts, con
taining a total of 35 acres, were sold to
I wo purchasers for a total of $10,200. The
pame firm sold a 20-acre tract near Valley
Vista. "Washington County, to R. A. Kas
ier. from L. H. Smith, for $4750.
Henry L. Col-vin, a Portland capitalist,
has bought the L. J. Goodnough tract of
E2.43 acres at Hood River for $19,000, or
nearly $900 an acre. The tract was
bought through the agency of Devlin &
Firebaugh. - The tract Is entirely under
cultivation and has five acres in bearing
orchard and a large portion of the re
mainder is planted with young trees. It
is located three and one-half miles from
Mood River and is equipped with a good
Bet of buildings and all modern improve
ments for an up-to-date fruit farm.
The same firm has sold 20 acres located
live miles from Hood River to B. E.
Duncan. This property was owned by
Frank C. Sherrieb and brought $11,000.
There are 15 acres of this tract set in
two-year-old orchard.
V. F. Schuller has purchased a tract
of 38 acres located in the Deardorff Val
ley, in the vicinity of Mount Scott, from
J. E. Smith, for $5600. Part of this land
is under cultivation and the tract is fair
ly well improved. It was bought as an
investment. The sale was made through
the agency of Henkle & Harrison.
A sale of no little interest is that of
10 acres located on the Base Line road.
r!0 yards directly east of the Russellville
Schoolhouse. The property, which was
owned by Abe Tichenor, was bought by
Sam Herman for $4200. This property is
one mile from the Montavilla carline and
It appears as an exceptionally good buy,
in the light of a sale of 18 acres adjoin
ing, in what is known as the Smith tract,
but two weeks ago, for $18,000, or $1000
en acre.
In thte same neighborhood G. J. .Burns
purchased, a tract of a trifle less than
30 acres from M. Quigley, Agricultural
Commissioner of the State of New Tork,
Jot $6600. This tract la well improved,
ibelrrg fenced and all under cultivation.
It is located about a quarter mile' north
if the RusssTlville schoolhouse. Mr. Burns
:1iought the land as an Investment. The
"wale was mad' through the agency of
"Clohessy & Smith.
&UG STORAGE PLANT PLANNED
. -Oregon Transfer Company to Ewect
Building Covering Half Block.
Plans have been prepared for a bulld
jing for the Oregon Transfer Company,
1 to be used for storage purposes and to
' 'be erected at once at a cost of about
$30,000. The site of the building will
toe the south half of block 158, Couch's
addition, with a frontage of 200 feet on
Kearney street, and of 100 feet on both
.Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets.
The building. 100 by "00 feet In sise.
, "will be a two-story structure -on the
south quarter-block and a single-story
on the other quarter-block. The plans
-were prepared by Architects Knighton
& Root.
Milk rests at least lO cents a quart In
Mexico and butter 50 cents a pound. The
(riemand for poultry is always greater than
the supply.
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HANDSOME! RESIDENCE "
THIRD HOME BUILT
H. P. Palmer Completes New
Residence in Irvington.
COST IS ABOUT $15,000
Realty Dealer Builds Three ;Tlmes
In Four Vcars and Now Has
Beautiful Dwelling of
Latest Design.
Three homes in. four years is the rec
ord made by H. P. Palmer of the H. P.
Palmer-Jones Company. Mr. Palmer
has built these homes all In Irvington
and has just completed one of the really
fine residences in the beautiful home
addition at a cost of $15,000. This is a
handsome colonial structure at the
northwest corner of East Nineteenth
and Thompson streets and was de
signed by Richard Martin Jr., archi
tect. There are three stories and a full
basement and in - connection a garage
built for two cars.
When Mr. Palmer first purchased a
lot in Irvington he hesitated about
building, owing to the $2500 building
restriction. Then he went ahead and
built a $4500 home, sold this and built
himself another, more pretentious home.
Still not satisfied, he had plans pre
pared for another still more beautiful
home and at its completion moved .into
the present handsome-residence and re
cently sold the former one.
New Dwelling Unique.
The new dwelling is unique in its
large number of porches. In the front
there are wide porches for each of the
three floors, supported by massive col
umns with pure Ionic capitals. In the
rear of the second floor there is a
large sleeping porch and In the rear of
the ktichen a smaller porch for deliv
ery, while at the side there is another
large porch to be used as a breakfast
room in Summer.
What Is probably the most beautiful
room in the house is the dining room,
which is handsomely finished in solid
San Domingo mahogany with heavy
mahogany beamed . ceiling and inlaid
oak floor. The electric fixtures are of
solid silver, of highly artistic design,
while an art glass window, in a neatly
contrived niche, add to the effect of the
room. The built-in china closet is
heavily mirrored and the room is beau
tified with solid mahogany furnishings
and soft blue draperies which harmo
nize with the general effect.
The living room -is spacious, the
feature being Imported tapestry and
soft hangings to harmonize with' the
tone of the room. There is a wide
tiled fireplace with a heavy timber
work mantel. Built-in bookcases, an
archway to the reception, hall and a
French window leading to the break
fast porch, complete the unique fea
tures of the room.
Heal Built-in House Here.
Truly this house might be called the
"built-in" house. The dining room,
living room, bath rooms, pantry, kitch
ens, all bedrooms, dressing rooms and
other rooms all have built-in conve
niences, such as bookcases, china clos
ets, cupboards,- window seats and a
multitude of little fixtures which add
to the conveniences of the home.
The reception hall is finished iii oak,
with a wide colonial staircase leading
to the second floor. In the basement
there is a large billiard room, with a
brick fireplace and handsome Japanese
hanging electric lamps. In the base
ment there is also a hot water heating
plant, fuelroom, laundry, frultroom, etc.
On the second floor there are three
bedrooms, with a large tiled fireplace
in the main bedroom, a well-appointed
dressing-room, tiled baths, etc. All
the large closets are equipped with
built-in chests of drawers, while the
same is true of the large linen closet.
The color schemes throughout the vari
ous rooms is made to harmonize pret
tily with the hangings and furnishings.
On the third floor there is a large
children's playroom, servants' quarters
and a sleeping porch. . There is also a
garage equipped for two cars, with a
workbench, a large gasoline tank im
bedded in the ground under the house,
and all modern fixtures. The garage is
of concrete construction and is 18 by
20 feet in size.
ROSE CITY PARK IS ACTIVE
One-Fifth of City's New Homes
Claimed lor District.
Building activity along the Rose City
Park Drive, formerly the Sandy Road,
is on the increase, and is now greater
than ever, according to recent figures.
During the last several weeks one-fifth of
all the new house permits costing $2000
and over, of Portland, were issued for
this district and along this drive. This
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OF H. P. PALMER AT EAST NINETEENTH AND TILLAMOOK.
is considered a remarkable record for
one" district.
Nature did much for the Rose Ctiy
Park district, and man is doing more to
make it a desirable residence section.
Among those who have recently moved
into this district and into new homes
are the following: T. T. Geer, ex-Governor
of Oregon, and wife, who have
a new and cozy home on East Fifty
third and Thompson streets; L. R. Grif
fith, Pacific Coast agent for FarrelVs
Syrup Company, of Omaha, Neb., who
recently purchased the Swiss chalet of
C. W. Leadbetter, on East Forty-fifth
and Siskiyou streets; L. L. Rawlins,
state agent for the Kansas City Life
Insurance Company, who puichased the
Queen Anne cottage erected by II. C.
Morris on East Forty-fifth and Brazee
streets; Charles B. Merrick, secretary
of the Portland Retail Grocer Associa
tion, who erected a home on East Fifty
seventh street, near Alameda avenue;
George E. Whitman, of Olds, Wortman
& King, whose bungalow, 65 by 45, was
built at a cost of $6500 on East Fifty
fourth ' and Thompson streets..
Contracts have been let for the grad
ing of : all. the streets In Laurelhurst,
and the work Is now In active progress.
The four grading crews are now at
work on as many streets, and the work
is to be pushed as rapidly as possible.
J. B. Melkle, of the Laurelhurst Com
pany, says they expect to have all the
streets graded within the next four or
five weeks. The graders will be fol
lowed immediately by the sidewalk
contractors and six-foot sidewalks are
to be laid on all the streets.
A number of new residences are pro
jected in the new residence addition.
Several of these will be started this
month. Among these will be the homes
of Charles K. Henry, Dr. Homer I.
Keeney. C. V. Cooper, Charles S. Rus
sell and P. S. Easterday.
WAREHOUSE IS MODERN
MORRIS & CO. TAKE TEN YEARS'
LEASE.
Property at Fifteenth and Marshall
Is Improved With Well-Ap-
pointed Structure.
The new warehouse district, which
is growing in prominence in the north,
western part of the city, has been en
hanced by another modern structure
just completed for Morris & Co., a
wholesale packing firm.
The building is owned by Dr. Henry
E. Jones and has been leased for a term
of 10 years to Morris & Co. It was de
signed by Emil Schacht & Son, architects,
and was erected at a cost of $20,000.
The building is a two-story brick
warehouse, 50x100 feet in size, and is of
mill or slow-burning construction.
There is a basement of concrete under
the entire building. In the basement
is a cold-storage plant, a heating plant
and a pickling room. On the first floor
of the building is the main wareroom,
the offices, a freezing room, a shipping
room with a driveway into it for the
delivery wagons, and in the rear the
stables.
On the second floor is a large cooling
room and the general storage rooms.
There are also two smokehouses on this
floor as well as on the first floor and in
the basement. On this floor, in the
rear over the stables, is located the feed
storage room. The building has just
been completed and is now occupied.
MODERN STRUCTURE IN BUSY DISTRICT IS COMPLETED.
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MANY ARE FOR FRANCHISE
Business Men Would Permit Putting
Tracks on East Third If Common
User Clause Is Inserted Plan '
Elevation of Car Tracks.
. East' Side property owners are lessening
their opposition to the granting of a fran
chise to the railroad company along East
Third street, and at the last meeting of
the East Side Business Men's Club, men
who had been opposing the granting of
the franchise all along spoke in its favor.
The common user clause was satisfactory
to all and the only question of difference
was whether a freight depot requirement
should be appended to the franchise.
Thomas McCusker and Fred Dunham
held that such a provision would not
hasten the depot and might defeat the
franchise. It was pointed out by them
that the depot would come anyway when
business required it and that the common
user clause would bring the depot faster
than any other provision, for the reason
that it paved the way for competition.
The statement was made by Councilman
Kubli that several large concerns were
coming into the district . If this Third
street railway were laid. He said that
he was- not at liberty to say what these
concerns were, yet he had seen plans
of some of the buildings and was certain
they were coming. Regarding the freight
depot Mr. Kubli said it will come just
as soon as . there is a demand for it,
and perhaps inside of a year.
C. . A. Blgelow, president of the club,
however, contended that the company
will not build this depot for years to
come and he wanted the requirement
placed in the franchise. However, he was
overruled.
Work Vm Fill Progresses.
The Pacific Bridge Company, which has
the contract for filling ' up East Third
street, between Hawthorne avenue and
East Oak street, has the work well ad
vanced, about two-thirds having been
finished. If the franchise is passed in
the near future, which now seems prob
able, the track can be laid at once. It is
announced that plans for the John Deere
Plow Company are being prepared for its
big building to be erected on the block
on East !Morrlson, between Second and
Third streets, next year. This is one of
the large structures considered certain to
be built in this district. There are rumors
of several other structures to be erected
as wholesale and commission-houses, be
tween East Second and Third afreets.
Work was started on the foundation of
the building for Page & Co., to be built
on Belmont and East First streets. It is
believed that the increased business in
this district will naturally compel the
Harriman lines to provide a freight
depot. Within a year, at the latest,
West Side trains will be coming into Port-
FOB MORRIS A CO. AT FIFTEENTH AND
GROWING
Call at our office arid see what -we hare to ma3;e you a profit
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property as soon as you have a favorable opportunity.
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land ever the bridge now being erected at
Oswego by way of Milwaukie, and with
all these wholesale-houses in the East
Side distri a distributing depot will be
a necessity. C A. Bigelow insists that a
distributing depot is needed now, and is
not a future affair at all.
With the rapidly increasing railway
business in Central East Portland and
with every street between Union avenue
and the Willamette River occupied with
a railway, the matter of erecting elevated
roadways above all these tracks on East
Morrison street and Hawthorne avenue i3
presenting itself for solution. These two
streets lead to the Morrison-street bridge
and to the bridge under construction at
the foot of Hawthorne avenue. Presently
the West Side trains will be running into
Portland through the East Side, vastly
increasing tHe danger.
Traffic on Increase.
Streetcar and general traffic on East
Morrison street is now great and increas
ing. Completion of the new Madison-street
bridge will take some of the travel there,,
but the constant danger, delay and in
terruption of streetcar and vehicle traffic
on .East Morrison street and Hawthorne
avenue, it is believed, will compel the
erection of elevated roadways on both
streets at no distant time.
On the other streets leading to the
river elevated roadways will probably not
be required, but it is now conceded by
East Side business men that on East Mor
rison street and Hawthorne avenue these
elevated roadways are now needed and
that provision must be made for them
as soon as It can be done. These elevated
roadways would extend from Grand ave
nue to the two bridges and carry the
streetcars and vehicle travel crossing the
bridges either way. Now that solid fills
have been made on both East Morrison
street and Hawthorne avenue the matter
la - simplified.
HOSPITAL- TO GO VP SOOS
Killingsworlli Will Build Sanitari-
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um at Kenton.
As a site for a hospital to serve the
Peninsula, William M. Killingsworth
has purchased an entire block in Ken
ton, 270x290 feet in size, from the Ken
wood Land Company for J12.000. The
property secured is block 13, Kenton,
and is located at the northwest corner
of Patton avenue and Pippin street. On
this location Mr. Killingsworth will
erect a hospital, which will be conduct
ed by Dr. W. M. Killingsworth Jr., re
cently appointed physician and surgeon
in chief for a number of the large in
dustries recently located on the Penin
sula. The hospital to be erected will occupy
about a third of the property purchased
and will be two stories high and of
either stone or reinforced concrete con
struction. The building will be fire
proof and modern, and will be con-
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present cost or construction win oe
about $35,000. The plans will be pre
pared by J. H. Speis, architect for the
Kenwood Land Company. For the pres
ent tbat part of the property not im
proved will be parked and planted with
shrubbery and trees.
The hospital is intended to serve the
many people on the Peninsula.
MARSHALL STREETS.
ThaJXdditioiuwith Character
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RECORD PRICE PAID
New Mark for Cost of Realty
Set for Entire Country.
NEW YORK SUM PASSED
Mrs. Georgo Ainsworth. Compelled to
Pay $1500 a Square Foot for
Small Fraction at Twelfth,
and Stark Streets.
All existing records for the sale
price of real estate are wiped out by
a deal now being consummated in Port
land whereby a fraction of land at the
southwest corner of Twelfth and Stark
streets, consisting of .49 of a square
foot, is transferred at $750. or at more
than $1500 a square foot. The former
high record for realty in the United
Stales, it is stated, was $960 a square
foot paid for a fractional tract of
ground necessary for the erection of
the Flatiron building in New Tork.
The property concerned is a small
fraction owned for a number of years
by W. C. Walker, of Los Angeles, but
formerly of Portland. It is a trian
gular piece of land, cut by the south
line of the Couch claim, which was
overlooked in platting the addition and
which was later acquired by Mr.
Walker, The lot on which the site cor
ners was at one time owned by Mrs.
George Ainsworth.
Big Price Demanded.
A few weeks ago Mrsi Ainsworth,
through the agency of C K. Henry, sold
the lot. SOxlOO feet, to the Otis Ele
vator Company for $51,250. In clearing
title it was found that a small tri
angular strip, measuring 1.79 feet on
the north, 56 feet on the west and 1.S8
feet on the south, belonged to W. C.
Walker. Walker was asked to name
a price but demurred. It was discov
ered that he, or his agents, had vol
untarily had the assessment on the
property raised from $250 to $1250. or
on a basis of $2500 a square foot. This
was done without the court realizing
the small extent of the tract. Last
week C. K. Henry presented the facts
to the court and had the assessment
cut to $15.
Mr. Walker finally agreed to a price
of $750 for the tiny tract, and the claim
will now probably be settled on this
basis by Mrs. Ainsworth. C. K. Henry,
agent for both Mrs. Ainsworth and the
Otis Elevator Company, brands the
transaction as a holdup. He says the
deal has been engineered by a local
realty man who has had other motives
than. the regular 6 per cent commission.
Action Called Holdup.
The 8000 feet in the property sold
to the Otis Elevator Company was
transferred at $51,250, or on a basis of
$6.50 a square foot. The highest price
ever paid in Portland for real estate
was by T. B. Wilcox, who bought a
lot of 50x100 at the sorner of Sixth
and Washington streets for $250,000, or
$50 a square foot.
"Here," said Mr. Henry, "we have a
reputable and big outside manufactur
ing enterprise looking for a location
here. We secured them, after a hard
competition with Seattle, and now,
through this very action of a holdup,
we may lose the business of this com
pany, and it may go to Seattle. Finally
we succeeded in obtaining a figure, and
it now appears that we will Be able to
settle on this basis, although not with
ojit a strong protest.-
"The property is absolutely valueless
to the owner In any way, shape or
form. It could possibly be used for
advertising purposes, but that could be
eliminated by invoking the ordinance
relative to billboard nuisances, as any
sign put up there could only be as
a matter of spitework. If It were not
for a certain amount of pride in bring
ing the Otis Company here instead of
Seattle, I would wash my hands of the
entire matter and advjse letting the
property on the corner alone and make
Walker whistle for his money."
IRVINGTON IS OX ADVANCE
Fine Residence Addition Is Site of
lany Homes.
Gates & Young have started on the
foundation of an $S000 residence to be
erected in Irvington, at East Twenty
seventh and Thompson streets. It is
the first of the five houses to be erected
by this firm on this block. It win be
a two-story home containing seven
rooms, and will be 30x40 feet in size.
The concrete work will be decorated
to Imitate stone.
It will be one of the finest dwellings
erected in Irvington. Gates & young
own six lots at East Twenty-seventh
and Thompson streets, on which they '
will erect dwellings costing from
$8000 to $10,000.
J. L. Kernopp, a real estate man, is
erecting a dwelling on East Twenty
third and Knott streets, to cost $3500.
Mr. Kernopp expects to build 11 houses
in the Waverly Addition, on which work
will be started soon.
F. E. Bowman Co. sold a lot on
East Twelfth street, near Brazee, for
$1500 to F. J. McPherson. Emil Schacht
Son, architects, have drawn the plans
for a residence to be erected on this
lot. x. C. Horn, who recently purchased
a lot in this neighborhood, has let the
contract for a residence to F. E. Bow
man & Co.
W. C. Page, of Wadhams & Co., is
having a $4000 bungalow built in Irv
ington. S. M. Miles, of the Security
Savings & Trust Company, has com
pleted a $4000 home. W. W. Humback.
of the Columbia Trust Company, is
building a $4500 home, and J. H. Beck
ley is completing a $5600 home in the
same district.
John D. Tresham has purchased a lot;
at the corner of liast Twenty-eighth and
Tillamook streets. In Irvington, from
Richard Martin for $1100, as a site for a
new residence. The sale was made
through the agency of Parrish, Watkins
& Co. Through the same agency, Anna
R. Sell and Lydia H. Shepard bought a
lot located on East Twenty-ninth street,
near the Sandy road, for $1SX. This was
bought from John D. Tresham. and is im
proved with a five-room cottage.
BOSTON INVESTEB BUYS HER K
Secures Corner at Union Avenue and
Fast Clay for $16,000.
F. O. Ellis, a former resident of Boston
and a capitalist who has located in Port
land, has purchased a quarter block,
100x100 feet in size, located at the south
east corner of Union avenue and East
Clay streets, from Dr. J. K. Locke and
associates for $16,000. The sale was made
through the agency of Clohessy & Smith.
This property is now Improved with a
frame building known as the Delmonico
hotel. The old two-story structure now
brings In a rental of $75 a month. Mr.
Hllis will improve the property.
In the journal of the African Soriety thf
opinion Is expressed fry' Mr. gellous that,
contrary to the general belief, giraffes and
elephants are in no danger of being; exter
minated in Afrira.
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