I PILLED WITH
RUMORS OF DEALS
Wealthy Sheepowners Look
ing for Good Investments
in Portland Realty.
MONTANA MAN BUYS HOME
C. M. Balr nd Family, of Billing-",
fo- Into Itealdence In Irrlm
ton Elo of North Pacific
ifJIUlte Dented.
The air waa full of rumors of pend
1ns real estate deals last week and It
la expected that a number of transac
tions of Importance will be consum
mated In the next alx days.
Several wealthy shipowners who
attended the woolgrowera' conTentlon
la Portland remained orer to consider
opportunities for Investment, and some
of them are still here. Many are
wealthy men from other states who
have taken a fancy to Portland, and
some of them expect to transfer part
of their Interests to this city. Charles
M. Balr. of Billing. Mont Is one of
these. He bought the Irving-ton home
of Thomas D. Long, at the northwest
corner of East Sixteenth and Wasco
streets, for $15,000. Mr. Long was
formerly a State Senator of Montana,
and lived at Kallspeil. Mr. Balr and
his family moved Into the home yes
terday. It la understood thst Mr. Balr
contemplates making some business In
vestments. A rumor lsst week that the site of
the North Pacific Lumber Company
plant on the river In North Portland
bad been sold by the Hill railroad In
terests for $i.000.OO was positively
denied by Donald Mackay. president of
the lamber company, and by the rail
road people. Mr. Mackey said they
were not considering selling;. Another
report to the effect that the holdings
of the Inman-Poulsen Lumber Company
on the East Side had been sold, was
likewise denied.
Mrs. Louise E- Hamilton, owner of
the Calumet Hotel, said last week that
$ 175.00a had been offered her for her
lot on the west side of Seventh street.
. Just north of Morrison. The lot Is 5
br 100 feet In dimensions and adjoins
t corner, which was recently lessed
for a term of 50 years .on the basts
of a valuation of JJOO.SOH. Mrs. Ham
ilton said she was unable to consider
the oftr because of leases on her building-
which have some years to run.
The Portland Uralty Board ha an
active commttlre 1.1 the field campaign
In for thr election of William M.
Ktlling'worth. president of the Board,
as a member of the Board of Govern
ors of the Commercial club at the elec
tion January. 1. Mr. Killings worth
will be presented as an Independent
candidate.
The Portland Realty Board will at
tempt to establish a fixed rate for ob
taining loans for clients, bavin? been
successful In enforcing a regular rate
for making real estate deals. All msm
bers will be riven aa opportunity to
express an opinion as to what the rate
should be. At the meeting of the
Board last week a suggestion that
the rate be made I per rent, for loans
tip to $$.t40 and 1 per c-nt for larger
amounts, met sonw opposition, one
member offering as a substitute thst
the rate should be 1 per rent, for sums
up to $ro.ni)rf. and one-half per rent,
for larger amounts. The rste will be
decided by referendum.
William Reldt. a pioneer East Side
builder, will erect a three-story and
basement concrete and Iron building
4 by $0 feet In dimensions on Alblna
avenue. 140 feet south of Kllllngswonh.
Just opposite the new ttlnnott building.
The building will be constructed for
use by a laundry and will cost $.14,000.
Mr. Reldt Is also planning to build, aa
soon as the dispute over the construc
tion of the new Alblna sewer Is settled,
a two-story and basement concrete
building at Union and Millard avenues.
The ground floor will be occupied as
a garage and upstairs will be apart
menta or a publlo hall.
Gus C Moeer. Carl Friedman and Abe
Davidson, who recently took a Si-year
lease on the southwest corner of Fifth
aad Bumslde streets, last week refused
aa offer of $15,000 for one-fourth Inter
sex In their proposition. They are hav
ing prepared plans for a rein forced -concrete
building to be five or six stories
high and expert to start construction
operations Immo-'lately after July 1
aest when leae-4 of present tenants
will expire.
The property is owned by Frisk Phll
tppl. who Inherited It from his grand
mother, aad has a frontage of 74 feet
on Fifth and 10 feeet on Bumslds
treat. The isaaa provides for the pay
ment of 7ls a month from January 1
last until the lessees begin to build,
when the rent Is reduced to $J7i a
month for one year, which Is allowed
for completion of the building.
After the building Is completed a flat
rental of I IMS a month will prevail un
til the laaaa expiree. Hie chief value
ef the lease lies In tha song tsrm aad
the flat rata provided.
D. Parker Bryon Return.
XX Parker Byron returned last week
from a business trip to San Francisco
aad Loa Angeles much Impressed with
the Improvement In buslnees oondltlons
In California.
"Los Angeles Is Improving notice
ably.' he said yesterday, "and a re
markable building movement Is In
progress. The business center Is shift
ing rapidly to the southward, and the
class of Improvements Is magnificent.
"The buildings being erected are the
most wonderful I ever saw. The Van
Nuye estate Is building a million dol
lar office building at Seventh and
Spring atreets adjoining the Hotel
l.ankershlra. It occupies 120 by 155
feet of space and Is 11 stories high.
The ground floor and baseroeirf will be
occupied by the First National Bank
which will bare the finest and largest
banking quarters on ths Pacific Coast.
The bank win move from tfrcond and
Fprtng.
San Francisco Gain Inf.
"Conditions are Improving In Ban
Francisco and show much advancement
over a few months o. The whole
country Is banking on the 11 S fslr. which
la bound to benefit Use entire Coast. I
at as In San Francisco Tuesday snd 'at
tended the aviation meet.
"Los Angeles la snrea llng out over a
UUr territory and la flailing additions
farther out than we are doing In Port
land. This la made posstbla by the su
perior streetcar service. Portland's
rapid transit problem ran be solved only
by building1 tubes under the river.
"Portland's unassailable financial and
O'jsaneas poet t ion is admitted everywhere
la California. Wherever I went my sn-na-unoement
that I was from Portland
tart with such comments aa "There's the
town for you, "That's the place where
they have the money.' and so on. I
have traveled a great deal In the last
year and have not heard one knock
against Portland."
Warehouse About Completed.
The new warehouse of the Doembecher
Manufacturing Company at East Twenty
eight street and Bandy boulevard Is
about completed. It la of reinforced
concrete. 100 by SCO feet and Is two stories
high. Attached to It will be a chair fac
tory, also of reinforced concrete and two
stories high, which will be 85 by 400 feet.
Construction of the chair factory will be
commenced Immediately and when It is
completed the factory will be the Isrgest
on the Pacific Coast.
E. J. Daly, acting as agent for J. O.
Edwards, last week purchased from
Carra and Kate Klngaley a lot 60 by 100
feet on the east side of Union avenue,
between East Burnside and East An
keny streets, for 0,000. Mr. Edwards
recently purchased through E . J. Daly 60
by KO feet on the southeast corner of
In Ion avenue and East Burnside streets
for i5.on. also CO by 100 feet on the wast
side of Grand avenue, between East An
keny and East Burnside. for $13,000.
These lots all Join and are covered with
old frame buildings. Several years hence,
whea the leases expire. It la the intention
of Mr. E Awards to erect a suitable build
ing on tha property.
Building Permits Fall Off.
San Francisco's building permits both
for December snd for the year 1910
showed a marked falling off from the
business of 10. The statistics fol
low: December, 1908. number 867;
value. I2.23C.417. December. 110. num
ber. 3S4; value. 1958.76. Tear 1.01.
number. S77: value. $3R,184.0"i8. Year
1910. number. 6690; value. 120.608,666.
Chapin A Her low have platted" and
placed on the market a tract of 640
acres on the United Railways Una 19
miles northwest of Portland and two
miles east or North Plains, and have
named It Groveland Acres. A town
site has been established at the rail
way station and the tract has been sub
divided Into pieces ranging In size from
town lots to 10-acre tracts.
A beautiful grove of fir trees has
been dedicated as a park for the town
site. A number of houses have been
built and will be disposed of with
acreage tracts, the purpose being to en
courage settlement by homeseekers.
The lsnd Is nearly level although
slightly rolling, and most of It Is under
cultivation. Uroveland station Is two
miles beyond the west portal of the
Cornelius Gap tunnel and there Is a
train each way twice a day.
8. D. Vincent at Company report
Lawndale more than three-quarters
sold. The tract consists of 16 acres
which has been subdivided Into 147 Iota.
It adjoins the Country Club on tha
south and extends to ths Barr road.
NEW DISTRICT FAVORED
PAVING OP CENTRAL EAST SIDE
STREETS ADVANCED.
Hard-Surface Improvement East of
Willamette General in Resi
dence District.
On the East 9IUe It Is considered re
markable that most of the hard-surface
Improvements which have been made
and which are projected for the ensuing
year are In the residence districts, and
not in the business sections. la Central
Kast Portland only Grand avenue, part
of Union avenue. East Burnside. East
Morrison and Hawthorns svenues have
been paved, but all the other streets
have gravel or macadam Improvement.
The hard -aurt ace district begins at East
Twelfth street and continues through
Laurelburst, In Sunnyslde. Holladay
Addition and Irvlngton.
The greater Improvement districts pro
jected are all In the residence districts
In Waverly-Richraond. Westmoreland.
Mount Tabor and South Sunnyslde addi
tions. Few hard -surf are pavements are
projected for the down-town sectlona of
East Portland and Alblna. Belmont will
be paved between East Ninth street and
tha liver. East Water will be paved be
tween Hawthorne avenue and East Oak
streets, and East Wsahlngton will be
Improved between East Wstcr street
and Grand avenue. Eaat Ankeny street
will be paved between Union avenue
and Curt Thirtieth street. Improvement
of East Couch, projected for the same
district, has been defeated by remon
strance of 90 per cent of the property
owners. Russell street in Alblna Is now
being Improved.
A prominent real estate man said that
this situation ought to be changed, and
that all the streets In Central East Port
land as far at least as Boat Twentieth
street should be Improved with herd
surface pavementa this year. Apartment
bouses and flata are being built all
through thla district, taking the place
of the residences, which are being
crowded to the eastward.
"A hard-surface district he said,
"should be formed between Hawthorne
avenue and Sulltvan'a Gulch and aa far
eastward aa possible and every street
Improved with hard-surface improve
ment." MAIL SERVICE IS POOR
Twice Week Not Often Enough,
Aseert Pine Valley Resident.
BAKER. Or, Jan. 14. (Special.) Tha
residents of Pine Valley are up In arms
ss a result of ths reoent change In mall
service. C T. Kellogg, who had tha
contract for carrying tha malls between
Baker -and Cornucopia has failed to
carry t his agreement with the Postal
Department, asserting that the amount
contracted for was Insufficient to en
able him to make tha dally trip.
Tha responsibility now rests with hi
bondsmen, tha National Surety - Com
pany, but tbay do not appear to be able
to sublet ths contract- Until the first
at January tha O.-W. R. N. operated
a dally train service between Bnker
and Homestead, which relieved the sit--vilon.
the malls having been sent over
the Snake River route, but the railroad
company has reduced service to twice
it week, which means thst the residents
of the Panhandle district receive their
mail only twice a week. The stage
route has been in operation for over JO
years and an effort la being made to
have It re-eetabltshed. Petitions have
been forwarded to the Postmaster-Oen-eral
at Washington asking for consid
eration. Centralla Gete Shoe FncCory.
CENTRA LIA. Wash.. Jan. 14. (Spe
cial.) Finding a hesvy demand for shoes
suitable for mill and logging camp work
In this vicinity. M. Kulten. an old-time
resident who has been engaged In boot
manufacturing In a small way. Is a boat
to start a factory In conjunction with
the local glove factory, operated by
James Churchill.
sewer Complaint Made.
CENTRALIA. Wash, Jan. 14. (Spe
cial.) Residents of northwest Cen
tralla are up In arms at what they
consider a form of municipal neglect.
The sewer system has been made de
fective by an excavation of a gravel
pit and so far has not been repaired.
Heninss form the greatest harvest f
the eceau More berrtnf are tales than
aay other fish.
TIIE SUXDAT OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, JANUARY 15, 1911.
TWO APARTMENT-HOUSES COMPLETED
IN THE CLOSE-IN WEST SIDE DISTRICT
Eed Institute Building at Thirteenth and Jefferson, aad F. M. Warren Structure at Tenth and Salmon, Will
Soon Be Ready for Occupants.
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TWO more largo spartment houses
have been completed In the close
in district on the Wast aids, and
are about ready to be occupied. At tha
southeast corner of Thirteenth and Jeffer
son streets Is the Reed Institute apart
ment building, erected by the trustees of
Reed Institute as an Income Investment.
There are 26 four and five-room apart
ments on the five floors, and the Interior
arrangement and housekeeping acces
sories are the most modern to be found.
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I.OC IIOMM AT NORTHWEST CORKR OK EAST SIXTIETH AND WASCO STREETS, JfST PCR
CHAlIt Br CHARLES' . B AIR. LATELY FROM BILLI.MUH, MOST.
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The bedrooms are large, doing away with
the necessity for disappearing beds.
Among the up-to-date features of the
building are the automatic electrio ele
vator and the dumb waiters, which are
also of the automatic electric type. The
basement contains maids', rooms and
laundry and electric drior. The building
occupleo fipac of M feet on Thirteenth
and 10 feet on Jefferson, and the cost
was 1100.000. Lewis I. Thompson Is the
architect .who designed the structure.
The manager for the owners Is A. H.
IEVINQTON RESIDENCE SOLD TO MONTANA SHEEPMAN TOR $15,000.
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MoOowan. Tho building will be opened
about March 1.
A striking feature of the district sur
rounding the new Arlington Club Is the
F. M. Warren apartment house at the
northeast corner of Tenth and Salmon
elreets. It Is a five-story pressed brick
structure, occuplop a lot B0 hv 100 feet,
coeit JT5.000. and was designed by Mac
Naughton & Raymond, architects. It
contains 21 three' and four-room and six
two-room apartmonts. The floors through
out are of oak, except In the bathrooms.
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where cork floors are provided tor
sound-deadening:. The rooms are un
usually large, the average size being 14
by 16 feet, and all are outside rooms.
Each suite has three closets..
The owner Is F. M. Warren, a CoiumDia
River salmon packer. He also owns the
lot adjoining on the east, and is arrang
ing to begin work next month on a new
fivA.tnrv annrtment houee. which will
rbe the duplicate of the one just built in
exterior appearance, it wui contain oniy
two-room apartments. The buildings will
be connected and operated as one. and
the entrance will bo through a l-toot
court dividing the two wings.
Factory Planned for Coin Machines.
, i .1 T.n.-I, ha. nronornit nlftns for
the building; for the Coin Machine Man
nf.Atupino' Cum nan v to be erected at
the corner of Grand avenue and East
Hoyt street, 99 Dy l&u teet, recently
leased througn tno agency oi c. r. aia.ii
m l.iia u Thn ntructure will be 45
by 75 feet and will be of reinforced con
crete. It will be set back 25 feet from
the street on two sides, leaving space
for flowers and a lawn. The building,
which will be one-story, will be the
laboratory, win contain me macuiuo
room, two drafting rooms, assembling
j . . .nt n .1 a nHvfltA fnnchanlcaf
room. All the Interior will be finished
In white enamel, ana aust win oe en
tirely eliminated. Electricity will be
power used for all machinery. The
Investment in tne rortiano pianj. in ina
erection of the building and installing
.hi nw., anil ttniilnmont. vlll Ha
Ul luaLiiiiiot j v., .....
$40,000. Contract has been let for the
grading ana erection oi tne ouuaing.
Church Will Be Memorial.
Architect W. F. Tobey has prepared
plans and specifications for the Atkin
son Memorial Congregational Church, to
be erected on East Everett and East
Twenty-ninth streets, to cost $7000. It
will be 40 by 70 feet, with full basement,
main auditorium and gallery extending
around three sides of the building. The
building will be brick veneered. This
church is to be erected In memory of a
well known pioneer Congregational min
ister of Portland, Rev. George H. Atkin
son, who died several years ago.
Contractor to Build Eight Houses.
G. W. Priest has taken out permits for
the erection of eight dwellings' on East
Sixty-first and East Forty-first streets.
Rose City Park district, to cost COOO
each. Mr. Priest has built 30 residences
in this district within a year.
DESPISKD OURBTO.E REALTY
BROKER IS DEFENDED
W. M. KilUngsworth, President of
Realty Board, Says He Is Bless
ing to Profession.
The curbstone broker, that nightmare
of the average "legitimate" real estate
dealer, has a warm defender in William
M. Rllll'ngsworth, president of the
Portland Realtv Board. Writh the Ob
ject of putting the curbstoners out of
business it was recently proposed by
tha Realty Board that an annual ucene
of $1000 should be imposed by the city
on all dealers In real estate. inis
measure was vigorously pushed by
some of the members, but was finally
sat upon at the January meeting, held
last week, when none appearea to ae
fend the proposal.
President KilUngsworth led tne on
slaught on the license plan by reading
some of his own letters to real estate
brokers In other cities, In which he dis
cussed the curbstoners and declared
against license. To J. W. Granger, Mil
waukee. Wis., he wrote in part as fol
lows: From mv standpoint, the curbstoner hears
about the same a-iatlon to the regular busi
ness as the Halvatlnn Army bears toward
the churches doing more rood than other
wise by stlrrlnc life into a clas nf people
not reached through ths reaular channels.
Idany persons who would not ko Into a real
estate office because of a' lsek of coin or
because of personal appearance, are reached
this way. ,. t
Tho curlier. It he gets a living, Is all tha
time talking shop, thereby advertising tha
realty business. He never obtains more
than a scanty, hsnd-to-mouth living. In
Portland the c-urbntoners are permitted to
make a living and all the coin they can
honestly secure. Now and then some are
furnished with bosrd snd clothing. Includ
ing a home In the penitentiary. Possibly
others should be housed who have not been
caught with ths aoorts on as yet.
However, the curb operator fills his place
In the busy world of endeavor by starting
Into life useful and essential thought germs
In persons ths regular profession would
never see causing them to realize the im
portance "and necessity of owning one spot
of ground they can call- their very own a
home. Hence the curbstoner is thrice wel
come to all the customers I may lose, for
I will surely get some of his later on.
A portion of Mr. Klllingnworth's let
ter to Seth B. Bradley, president of the
Denver Real Estate Exchange, follows:
I firmly believe that growth, development
and general prosperity throughout the
t'nlted states have been largely caused by
the persistent. Intelligent efforts of the real
estate dealer and promoter, for he is ever
at work enlisting capital In profitable In
vestment. Hence, the more real estate
brokers and promoters, the better for gen
eral prosperity and our'business.
We can send truthful letters or publish
beautiful display advertisements, hut noth
ing beats or can take the place of the
spoken word In sale of Mother Earth.
Friends selling In friends, making a fsw
dollars on the side, are no small factor In
stirring life In the realty business.
Now. If a license were required, it cer
tainly would have a tendency to do away
with the most valuable advertiser to the
general real estate business, known as the
"curbstone broker." This embraces a class
of man and women belonging to the great
arm of clerks, wagesrners. etc.. ho are
busily engaged le talking values Upward,
not downward. helr incentive is to gain
s few dollars for themselves, a fixed princi
ple, as certain as the law of gravitation.
Real estate will never move aotlvely until
the general public sets the pace of confl
uence. The curbstoner and his allies sow
necessary valuable seed In the minds of the
-reat masses of people who must be reached
before confidence and redhot enthusiasm are
secured, with a desire to own the earth, or
a fraction thereof. '
- Therefore. I am for the open shop: the
more live promoters and real estats dealers,
the better. t
DANCEHALL PATRONS HIT
Dean of Women at Vniverslty of
Washington Would Snub Them.
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. Se
attle. Wash., Jan. 14. (Special.) In
order to ascertain what University of
Washington students are attending the
public dance halls of Seattle, Miss
Isabella Austin, dean of women at the
University of Washington, is fostering
an action among the women students to
boycott those young men who attend
public dances.
'Men who will associate with the
dance-hall of the city as It is largely
carried on here are unfit to mingle with
the college women and should be thor
oughly boycotted by the 'co-eds' of any
university or college." said Miss Austin
today. "I took action similar to this
last year and I find its effects are for
a time at least of much benefit."
Canyon City Pioneer Dies.
CANYON CITY, Jan. 14. (Special.)
James Dunlap, 73 years old, a resident
of Grant County since 1S82, was burled
in the Canyon City Cemetery today.
Death wag . due to old age. He was
born In Tennessee. He leaves a widow
and six children W. M. Dunlap, or Fox;
J. H. Dunlap, Mrs. Lizzie Harper, Mrs.
Annie McGirr. Mrs. Tenle Williams, of
Mount Vernon, and Mrs. Sarah Stormer,
of Estacada, Oregon.
PAHiAH m CHAMPION
1910 REPORT FILED
Building Statistics Compiled
by Inspector Plummer.
GREAT ADVANCE IS SHOWN
East Side Builds 23 Dwellings lot
Every One on West Side Port
land's Showing as Whole In
Class With Larger Cities.
Interesting figures relating to Port
land's building operations in 1910 were
furnished by the annual report of Hor
ace B. Plummer, City Building Inspec
tor, to the Mayor and City Council
which was completed last week. The
largest volume of building was in the
classes of structures denominated "B"
and "C' which include the brick and
so-called slow-burning styles of con
struction. Permits for "10 buildings of
these classes of a total value of $7,421,
600, were issued. Permits were granted
for 18 structures of class A. the highest
type of fireproof construction, valued
at $2,853,047.
East Side Makes Big Showing.
Most remarkable was tho showing of
the East Side in the construction of new
dwellings, as compared with the West
Side. East of the Willamette 3009 new
dwellings of a total cost of $.546,840
were authorized, while on the West Side
there were permits for 132 dwelling?,
costing JS69.090. In short, for every
house built on the West Side, a frac
tion less than -'3 were erected on the
East Side. The average cost of dwellings
was: Kast Side, $2175; West Side. $5145.
The figures on the construction of new
dwellings show more clearly than any
thing else how much faster population
Is growing on the East Side than in the
older, more thickly settled portion of
the city.
Sheds and barns to the number of 1047
and value of $289,415 were authorized
last year. There were 1918 repair job,
costing $1,402,310. These figures Include
alterations and enlargements to build
ings. Permits were issued for 189 frame
business buildings costing $1,704,000.
Increase In Building Immense.
Iri his computation of totals, Building
Inspector Plummer found that 6523 per
mits were issued for buildings of all
kinds, of which the total cost was $20.
886,202. The Increase In number of per
mits over 1909 was 1784 and the increase
in valuation. $7,404,822.
The percentage of increase in the
number of permits issued during 1910
over those issued in 1909 was 38. while
the increase in valuation was 65. No
city In the country with a population
of less than 300.000 can equal Portland's
record. Portland ranked fifth among
the cities oi the country for building op
erations in 1910, while in 1909 the rank
was 12th.
Inspector Plummer comments on the)
activity in construction of apartment
houses and says that, although five years
ago. there were practically none in tha
city, during the year 1910 there wero
119 constructed at a cost of $3,316,800.
He continues:
Mew Building- Code Is Improvement.
The year 19to is notable because of the
completion and adoption of the best-arranged,
most complete and modern building
code that the city has had. The beneficial
results of this new building code will soon
be apparent and some of the especially good
features might be mentioned: The creation
of a hoard of appeal : tho creation of an in
ner district In the Are limits In which fire
proof buildings only can be erected; the ex
tension of the fire limits out to the harbor
line; the requirement that school buildings
shall be fireproof if over one story high;
higher grade of construction for apartment
houses: the requirement that all theaters
be made fireproof; modern regulations gov
erning reinforced concrete construction:
more evenly distributed fees for permits and
the installation of a department of electri
cal wiring Inspection.
In the past year the office has been reor
ganized to handle the business in a more
businesslike way; the' methods of keeping
the office records have been changed so that
It Is possible to get any desired information
more quickly; the records themselves are
more complete and Information regarding
tests of materials, construction, soli, etc..
have been made a part of the office records.
The efficiency of outside inspection has
been increased, as the average number of
Inspections made per day by each Inspector
has nearly doubled since January. 1909. and
It Is also indicated by the fact that more
people are discovered building without a
permit-
A complete record of the work done by
each inspector is now kept in such a way
that the work done by Inspectors can be
readily compared and a loss in efficiency
noted.
Better Protection Given Horses.
The department has done some special
work during the year with reference to sta
bles and at the present time the frame sta.
bles. with" one or two exceptions, comply
with the ordinances as to proper aisles and
exits. Some sperlsl work has alro been
done along the waterrront snd a number
of wooden wharves have been strengthened.
The only proper solution of the condi
tions nf the waterfront will require the
erertion of concrete docks.
During the year the number of outside in
spectors was increased from three to five
and this increase allowed more attention
to be given to apartment-houses which
needed careful Inspection, aad allowed the
special werk of stable inspection to be un
dertaken. As there will be an Increase in the
amount of work to be done by tha depart
ment because the new building code is more
complete than the old, and also beoause of
the natural Increase In the number of build
ings constructed, there will be sn Increase
during the year 101 1 In the number of em
ployes in the department, but as the method
of fixing the fees for permits has beea
changed, tho to crease will be larger and the
additional emplcyes wUl not be a burden
to the taxpayers.
The business done by the department has
groan so rapidly that larger quarters will
be- necessary
MEAT PRICES ARE HIGHER
Contract for Supplying Clicmawa
Let at $8.50 Hundred Pounds.
CHEMAWA. Or., Jan. 14. (Special.)
Award of the contract for the meat
supply for the Chemawa Indian School
for the next six months shows that
the cost is higher at present than at
any time In the history of the Insti
tution. The contract has been let to
the Union Meat Company, of Portland,
and calls for a payment of $8.50 a
hundred pounds. The total delivery in
the six-month period will be 75.490
pounds.
This figure of $8.50 stands in sharp
contrast to the $6.95, which was the
contract price for the last six months.
In 1909-1910 the price was $6.17, ami
tho year before $6.24. this being the
figure also of the Union Meat Com
pany. In other years Salem butchers
have supplied the meat at the echool.
The previous high price was in 1905
1906, when it was $8.20 a hundred.
Comparison with the contract for
the meat supply at the state Institu
tions shows the Government has been
given decidedly the best of the bar
gain. The Union Meat Company Is
also the contractor for the meat at
the asylum, penitentiary, etc., and the
figures for the forthcoming year are
$9.39 a hundred. The contracts are on
virtually the same specifications for
Government and State, Institutions.