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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1910)
6 X-IIE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND. 3IARCII 13, 1910. SUBURBAN GROWTH SURPRISES MANY Visitors to Aviation Meet See Progress of Rose City Park District. MANY BIG PROJECTS UP East Twenty-ninth Street Will Be Opened to Site of Reed Institute in l.nst moreland and Also Northward. While no large sales were made on the East Side the past week, the aver age of transfers was maintained In all the new additions. The great crowd which visited Rose City Park district to attend the aviation meet early in the "week saw vast improvements under way In that district and in Laurel hurst, and as It was the first visit there for many of them, the trip was a revelation. TT no t "n n mnat rr r rtn n t rrnlpct developed is the movement to make East Thirty-ninth street a highway to the Reed Institute in Eastmoreland, and also to extend it northward through the Rose City Park district. This street has been opened, but the desire- Is to make it 80 feet wide. Another important project is to pave a. chain of "streets with hard surface Improvement from the east end of the proposed Broadway bridge through North Albino, and the Peninsula to the North Bank railroad cut. Contracts for paving part of these streets have ' been let, and proceedings' are under way for the remainder. The streets for this highway are Lombard, Patton avenue and Mississippi avenue. Jn the "Waverletgh Addition contracts tor 8 miles of hard-surface pavements will be let this Spring. This work will be let in two contracts. There is no mistaking the remark able effect of the location of the Reed Institute In the South Kast Side. Of course the platting of the Crystal Spring farm Into Westmoreland and Eastmoreland was the beginning of a . progressive movement, as this big farm had long stood in the way of develop ment. There has been a stimulation ; all through the South East Side since the Reed Institute was located In East moreland. Milwaukie avenue has at last been made a street to tha south boundaries of the city, and is now subject to the control of the city for its entire length. ijerore, it was both a street ana a coun ty road, with the result that It was " never in good condition. It will now be possible to ha-e lt paved to the end. A contraot to pave It between .Division and Holgate streets with Has eam has been let. and the work will be done this Spring. Owing to the rapid settlement in "Westmoreland and East moreland and Sellwood, a well-paved street to the south has become a neces sity. Extensive Improvements are undor way in Laurel hurst. Water mains are scattered through the north side of the tract ready to be laid. Orading also Is in progress for streets which are to be improved with hard-surface pavements. Basements of a number of new resi- dences are being excavated all over the tract. Development of this addl ; tion means much for Central East Port- land and especially to the district tri t butary to the Burnslde bridge. Perhaps 200 new houses, of high class will be erected In Laurelhurst this year. In order to handle the increased travel over the East Ankeny car line the Portland Railway. Light & Power Company will lay a track down the . Sandy road from East Twenty-eight street to East Davis street and thence to East Tenth and East Rurnsids Eiictta. j. ins nvw iuuiq will e in in: ri shorter than the one on East Ankeny, which is now being used by the Rose City, East Ankeny and Montavilla cars. It is expected that the traffic from the Laurelhurst and Rose City district will be doubled during the year. Eight new residences will be erected at once on East Glisan and East Eighty sixth street, Montavilla. by E. Laurson, nt a cost of $:3000 each. It is the largest ."building contract for residences yet . let in that suburb. Work will be started at once. The two-story frame building at East Sixtieth street and the ; Base Line road, costing $15,000, is be ing completed. On the second floor there Is a fine public hall. The Sellwood Townslte Company has sold a lot, 50 by 100, on . East Thir " teenth street, between Teuino and Ta coma streets, to A. Robertson. Mr. Robertson bought with the intention of erecting a building for a mercantile es tablishment. W. M. Odekirk is erect ing one of the largest residences in Sellwood on Milwaukie road. It will contain 15 rooms and is 30 by 40 feet. W. H. Gordon is having three two story dwellings constructed in Sell wood, which will cost 15600. Louis Kneer is erecting a seven-room resi dence on East Thirteenth and Freder ick streets. A lot, 50 by 100, at., tho southwest corner of McMillan and Crosby streets, near the approach to tho steel bridge has been purchased from A. L. Howard by A. Wildman for $12,000. The prop erty is improved with two modern cot tages and a four-room - flat. Mr. Wild man bought the property as an invest ment. He is not daunted by the pro posed removal of ,the railroad bridge to Oregon street. William Tegart, a farmer near Cle one. bought the quarter block at the northwest corner of East Fourteenth and East Davis streets from Isaiah Buckman for $6000. Mr. Tegart has, been making other Investments in Port land property. - At the corner of East Twenty-fourth street and the Sandy road -a lot was sold to C H. Fox for $2400. For the two-story warehouse of Page & Son, which is being erected at East First and Belmont streets, the walls have reached the second story. This building will cost $25,000 and will cover a quarter block. Brubaker & Benedict sold a lot on Glenn avenue, near Hawthorne Avenue, to A. J. Walters for $1100. Also a lot PARK STREET BUSY Recent Sales Call Attention to Active Locality. VALUES ARE INCREASING Many Deals Made for PToirties That Are to Be Improved With Fine Bnildings Street Here- ' tofore Has. Been Inactive. The real estate activity which continues to exist all over Portland has been es pecially noticeable all along Park and West Park streets, the sales there being on the investment. This sale was made by Frederick Strong. At Main and West Park streets a quarter block changed bands recently when Mrs.-Hedwlg Smith, C. J. Schnabel and Walter Smith bought the 100x100 feet from H. II. Prouty and A. II. .Maegly, acting for the College Endow ment Association. The total price was $41,000, the quarter having been bought in two parcels. D. Parker Bryon & jCo. made this sale, the pur chasers having announced an inten tion to erect a family hotel on the site. This may, however, be set aside on account of an offer made last week for the property at such a large fig ure that the owners are now contem plating selling. Another of these lots was transferred last week for $11,000. This Is a single Inside lot. 50x100 feet, on West Park, near Hall street. In the section north of Washington street the most notice able Park-street sale which has been consummated recently was for the F. Breske block, 50x60 feet, on the west side of Park, between Stark and Oak. This is Improved with a four-story brick building occupied by Bushong & Co. and by the Pacific Monthly Com pany. The price was $100,000. Business Lot Brings $ 14,000. HOOD RIVER, Or., March . 12 (Spe- K3NT0N GETS FINE CONCRETE HOTEL, TO COST $35,000 WHEN FINISHED. :-vJ', VVNy" J I , " . s -! w " iw, . tr x- l"""'"iu' v " . aossSso.-XiXiSjiii&r.. .r. ...v ; ...A . v r",r a- - MSETY-KOOM HOSTELRY WHICH IS SOW JfEARING C031PLETIO N IN PEJVINSITLA DISTRICT. The three-story reinforced concrete hotel building at Kenton, the manufacturing suburb on the Peninsula, Is nearing completion. Tt is being built by the Kenton Building Company for Porter & Johnson, and the cost of the structure completed will be $35,000. It contains 90 rooms, besides the rooms for business on the first-floor for stores, the office, lobby and dining-room. It is a structure that would do credit eyen to an older district than Kenton on East Thirtieth and East Grant streets to Mr. Walters for $500. W. H. Bohr bought two acres on the Powell Valley road and East Thirty-ninth street for $2500. HALF BLOCK 'IS- SITE THOMPSON" ESTATE BUILDS NOHTH PORmUfB." IN Brick Work la Finished on Three Story Structure at Second,' Third and Davis. One of the largest buildings which has been erected for a number of years in the business district of North Port land is now under construction for the R. B Thompson estate on the north side of Davis street, between Second and Tliird The building is a three-story structure covering an en tire half block and is built for hotel and mercantile purposes. The plans were prepared by Bennes, Hendricks & Thompson, architects, and the work is now progressing rapidly, practically all the brick work being placed. The total cost is to be about $90,000. The structure is of a buff-colored pressed brick of mill construction. The first floor has been set aside for five stores and a saloon on the Third street frontage and the same on the Second street frontage. Off Davis street will be one store, a restaurant and a large lobby for the hotel on the upper floor. There is also a space set aside for a baggage " room for the hotel on the first floor and a kitchen for the restau rant. Work has now progressed to such an extent that It is believed the building will be finished by next month. On the two upper floors there are four light courts. There are 95 rooms on each floor. 36" on each floor front ing on the street. All are equipped with hot and cold water. The baths and toilets In the building are all tiled, the plumbing being far better than is ordinarily placed In rooming houses. Examining Surgeon Is Named. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, March 12. Dr. F. II. Vlnctl, of Roseburg, has been appointed pension examining surgeon at Roseburg. a factor in the trading. These two nar row streets have until but recently been regarded as of little Importance in the business field of Portland, but with build ings going up on every other cross street, and with the low valuations placed upon Park Street properties, the attention of investors has been called to these two streets. Especially is this true concern ing the upper portion of the park blocks, or above Salmon, where the tier of blocks between the two streets has been re served for parking purposes. Among the recent sales was one closed a week ago through the agency of Van iuyn & Walton. This was for a corner 100x100 at the northeast corner of Park and Salmon streets. The property was purchased by- M. W. Hunt of the Port land Flouring Mills Company from E. 3. Merrill for $65,000. It is " practically un improved and Mr. Hunt is now negotiat ing a lease on the property, having had an offer to lease it at 6 per cent net on $50,000 ground valuation If he puts up an eight-story building for a family hotel. Ho has not as-yet decided to build for the prospective tenants. Company Pays $85,000. Another sale, which was closed last week, was for the transfer of ' an L shaped property fronting on the east side of Park street and on the north side of Tanihlll street. This property was bought in two parcels by the Park Street Com pany, a local syndicate, headed by Fred Jacobs of the Jacobs-Stine Company. The total consideration was $S6,000. The Park 60x100 feet was bought from Mr. Jacobs for $50,000 and the Yamhill &0xS0 feet adjoining and completing the L for $35, 000. An evidence of the increase in values along the street is shown by the fact that Mr. Jacobs recently purchased the property from the Park Investment Com pany for $37,500. Tills sale was handled through the agency of the Jacobs-Stine Company. At the norheast corner of Park and Jackson streets M. M. Crissell pur chased a quarter block a week agp from Mrs. Sara Pope for $22,500. This was bought as an investment through the agency of Vanduyn A; "Walton. Through the same agency Mr. Crissell sold 50x100 feet at the southwest cor ner of West Park and Jackson streets to W. F. . Thacher for $12,500. This property is fairly well improved and lias been transferred a number of times in the last two months. Another recent sale on West Park street was a purchase by E. B. Mac Naughton, of the firm of MacNaughton & Raymond, of a 50xl00-foot lot on the west side of West Park, between Salmon- and Main streets, for $22,000. This was the old Strong residence and It now returns a good rate of interest z i i i I HALF BLOCK IN NORTH PORTLAND BEING IMPROVED WITH BUILDING COSTING $90,000. - . , " ' r it -j- i - i 1 . -: . . fc U:-.r s i... , J - , . V'jfc . ... .f .... . . J K. . niOJBPSOM ESTATE BLOCK, AT SBCOTTO, THIRD AD DAVIS STREETS. ' clal.) The top price for Hood River real estate in the business section was reached today when Seneca Fouts, a Portland at torney, disposed of a lot 6S feet deep with 100 feet frontage on second street for $14,000. The sale was negotiated through W. J. Baker & Co. and the pur chaser is J. L. Morrison, a Hood River business man. The property is at present occupied by several frame buildings. It Is understood Mr. Morrison will later erect a brick building. Medical Association Sleets. . ALB ANT, Or., March 12. (Special.) The Central Willamette Medical Associa tion, which is composed of the physicians of Linn, Benton and Lincoln Counties, held its quarterly meeting in Albany Thursday evening. There were 15 physi cians here from the various cities of Linn and Benton counties. Papers were read by Dr. B. A. Cathey, of Corvallis, and Dr. M. H. Eilis of Albany. The next meeting will be held at Lebanon in June. A Splendid Feature About Neah-kah-nie Mountain You May Spend the Coming Summer There, in Comfort Provisions are now being made at the Neah-kah-nie ranch house to accommodate a great many people and fam-. ilies during the coming Summer. This accommodation is unique. It includes tent living, ranch food, from the garden, dairy and field of this wonderful 1000-acre seashore property. Without such modern improvements as- light, water, streets and sidewalks, Neah-kah-nie is far ahead of any im proved beach resort on the Oregon coast. Even at that, Neah-kah-nie has the purest water, the most beautiful, shady trails through the woods, and all the sublime grandeur of such sunsets as have made the Pacific Coast a source of admiration for the whole world. Environed by the mountain of Neah-kah-nie, the great Pacific, the deep green forests of Tillamook County, the placid surface of Nehalem Bay and overspread by the azure Oregon sky, a Summer's rest at Neah-kah-nie is equivalent to a year at Palm Beach, Coronado, Atlantic City or any other celebrated resting place in America. Contradiction of Neah-kah-nie 's claims to preference is impossible. Its superiority is acknowledged. Its beauty is incomparable. Its comforts, natural manifestations, advan tages are too wonderful to permit of satisfactory description. Yet, prices at Neah-kah-nie, for bungalow, cottage or Summer home locations are ONE-HALF THOSE PREVAIL ING AT ANY OTHER IMPROVED BEACH. Call at the office and secure a copy of the $2000 portfolio containing story and picture of the most romantic section of the Pacific Coast. This book is not mailed upon request, ex cept to out-of-town inquirers. J. W. Ferguson, Jr. 209-210-211 Board of Trade TOTynW'niliirominmiiHHmim! 3tiiiiiim:i.u:,!illirt.!;iiiliiii:i!i!lili miiiimiiBiniimwniutiiii tinHfiiWDiiJimmiH m iii.inniin'ifniniuiiiiirrrmni lfTfntiMHnniiHiii'uim iiii:Jiilill!lli.iiliiilililllilllillllililUlllMljl iMliMiwiiBii;ii.Mi!piu.mnMiiiiniiMii 'iiiip;ipmnnrinmmnH"l'''""',"'?;ffFF" lijlliU!IIIIUlllUlllUIIIIU!millltHlMllUtIHillilUUMlkillUIIU iiiiiuilidUiiiuiiLUililiiliiiliiiiluliiiiliufiifi'jc Every man and woman in Portland today knows what Eastmoreland isr We want more of you to know WHERE it is. Every person over 15 years of age has heard of, and knows that Reed Institute is a huge university movement that is centering in Eastmoreland and that is beginning to throw out its influence in every direction. T3 umbia I r ust We want more of you to see the site upon which Reed Institute will be placed. Go out today and spend the day around that pretty Crystal Springs Lake. Let nature inspire you with the gorgeousness of her beauties her East moreland beauties. Take the Sellwood car and get off at Tolman avenue. Use one of our automobiles if you want to. Comoanv' Board of Trade Building i(!iiiii!pi(I("Rpmtjimi(twnn!!''!linil!infnn'I,''1I'?Tir 'ittoi-iiliiiihiiiliiiliiilhllluiuiyfcMitllliuiilliiUiilMiiii; imnintmumnnmTmniinwinmmm'THnniHTn'ii'm! !W tm HI'Utinim'imiiiiinrTrmmrmiiTmHnTmHwiiTminnt!!