9 TITE SUNDAY OREGOXf AX, TORTLAXD, JANUARY 29, 1911 realty MARKET HIT BY WEATHER Some Good-Sized Deals Made Despite Conditions, and Inquiry Is Active. 3!G TRANSFERS PENDING flirting Over Valuable Inside Prop erty Going On, hat Clotting of Transfers I Being Held Over From Week to Week. "Too much weather." was the verdict of a majority of real estate dealers last week, but despite the cold rains considerable activity prevailed and a number of sis-ible drals were made. Three corners In the West Side residence district were sold at prices ranging from $16,000 to I-0.00O. and there were some rood-sized deals on the East Side. Trad ing was principally In home property end acreage tracts, and the majority of the transfers were east of the Willam ette, lnqutry u active. There Is considerable flirting gnlng en between owners and would-be buy ers over some choice Inside property. A number of deals .of this kind hare been pending for werks, but In every case a disagreement as to price or a hitch at the last moment prevented the trans fer. Keasey. JIumason Jeffery. as agents fnr the Lewis Investment Company, on Friday sold to Samuel Rosenblatt the southeast comer of Twenty-second and Pettygrove streets for KO.OOO. The ouy er will move four modern houses to the ground. The property consists of lots It. 1 and IT. block IS?. Couch's Addi tion. It has 150 feet frontage on Twenty-second street and loo feet on Petty- grove, with trackage on the United Rati wars Line, which makes It future warehouse property. The most Important deal of the week was that consummated yesterday by Charles Rlngler tc Co, of JO" Lewis building. It Involved the transfer of the two-story brl. It building at 14 and Is Front street, owned by ' George t-tengrr. to the Kendall Heating Com pany, for $21,000. As soon as the leases expire, which will be In about one year, the purchaser will occupy the building with Its business. A report last week that the Port land r-oclal Turn Verein was about to sell Its property at the northeast cor ner of Fourth and Yamhill streets was denied by officers of the society. Tho report probably arone from the decision at a recent meeting of the society to obtain a sultab'e site and build a new gymnasium. The quarters at Fourth and Yamhill are crowded and the mem bership la growing. The property has feet frontage on Fourth street and 100 feet on Yamhill. The Turn Verein last year refused an offer of flOO.OOO for the lot. and the members believe that they can realize a fine profit for the organization by holding for a few years longer. The Turn Verein Is main tained by nominal dues on Its member ship which numbers about 300, and by the rents from Its building. Another apartment house on Kleventh street Is being planned and probably will be erected In the near future at the northeast corner of Mill. The cor ner, which la by 7 feet, was pur chased last week by Minnie M. I-ee for tlt.000 from I. K. Johnson, who bought It only the week before from Morris Msrks for 117.000. The deal was conducted by M. E. Lee, giving Mr. Johnson a profit of f 1000 In a week. The Improvement planned In to be a four-story brick apartment house, and the ground floor probably will be de voted to stores. Buslnes Is good throughout the East." ald 3. I. Vincent, of S. I. Vin cent 4 Co.. yesterday. "Things are actually lively, money Is freer and In terest rates lower than only a few months ago. and conditions everywhere show an improvement. Mr. Vincent returned last week from - a six weeks' trip, having spent most of his time In Chicago and Detroit. He spent the holidays with his par ents In Lapeer. Mich. "I am satisfied with the outlook." he continued, "and I am prepared to go ahead with some matters that I have had la mind, one of the objects of my trip was to find out how East ern moneyed men regard the situation, and 1 learned that all are optimistic. "There has been a widespread sus picion of the West among financial men. They have been watting for something to happen, as they were In clined to think some of our prosperity artificial. Since nothing happened they are generally ready to admit that we are. on a sound basis, although confi dence expressed In Portland does not extend to all Pacific Coast cities. I talked with bankers, business men and realty operators. "By comparison with Detroit. I am Inclined to believe realty prices In Port land are high. Detroit Is about twice as large as Portland and property there Is all-out the same price as here. The best retail realty In Detroit can be had for tSOOO a front foot, and while no sales have been made In Portland at that figure. I am Inclined to be Jleve It would take that much to buy our best property. Judging from the esteem In which owner hold It. Resi dence lots are about the same as here, only at Detroit they go much farther from the center of the city to build. "I heard a great deal of talk about Portland and Oregon, and personally met three men who were preparing to move to this city with their families In a few weeks." James Edison, recently from K.IIn burg. Scotland, has purchased a hand some new residence on East Fifteenth street, near Praiee. from M. J. Dola hunt. Irvlngton builder, for 1 10.000. Mr. Edison Is Interested heavily In live stock In Willamette Valley. He will bring his wife to Portland the coming Spring and they will make their home In tbe residence has bought In Irv lngton. The first moving picture theater to be constructed according to the pro visions of the new building code Is that which will be constructed by Dr. M. F. Fenton on Grand avenue, between Haw thorne avenue and East Clay street. The lot Is 24 by $7 feet and was leased by Dr. Fenton for 10 years from J. 8. Fosa and associates. Tbe building Is to be of reinforced concrete with ample txtta In front and rear. It will seat 250. J. H. Mlddleton last week sold to O. W. Bodges a lot It by 100 feet on Market street, between Chapman and . Nineteenth, for IJ00. The sale was made through tbe agency or M. K. Le. Architect D. L. Williams has pre pared plans for a fine two-story eight room bouse to be built by Gue Kuhn th up and Overton for a residence. iNt.nalnna will ha ,T Kw 94 f t The and the house will have full cement base pressed-brick fireplace and the usual modern conveniences, ine cosi win the contract and has commenced con struction. A. V. Folkman Is having Pl-ns drawn for a three-story brick building, 60 by 0 feet, to be erected on the east side of Grand avenue, between East Yamhill and East Taylor streets. Archi tect John U. Wilson Is working on the plana The structure will have a full basement, and th first floor will con tain two large business rooms. Th two upper stories will contain IS rooms each for hotel purposes. The cost of the structure I estimated at I2S.00O. All room will be steam heated and will have outside lights. A quick-turn profit of $1000 In SO days was consummated last week for C. If. Cable by R. A. Anchutx. who re cently took charge of the realty de partment of C. F. Pfluger A Co. The property Involved embraced the two family flats at 424 and 424H Hall street, formerly owned by H. C. Ste vena The flats were sold by Mr. Ste vens to Mr. Cable for $7000 and In less than three weeks Mr. Cable disposed of them to T. F. Bearlnger for 18000. Dr. R. L. House, ex-pastor of the First Congregational Church In Port land and now a resident of Spokane, sold five lots In Rose City Park last week through Hartman Thompson to Cornelius I e Young for 13000. Dr. House bought the lots when Rom City Park was opened' In 1307 for about $li00 and more . than doubled his money. Hartman 4 Thompson have disposed of a tract of 4.15 acre at East Thirty fifth street and Powell Valley road for George Stahl to H. N. Bain for I IS. 500, It Is the intention of the purchaser to plat the property and place it on the market, reserving a fine building site on which he will erect a home. It will make about 30 lots. The soil is of good character and until now has been used for raising berries. Purse Co. last week sold to W. H. Jones 10 acres of Chehalem Mountain orchard land at Frank, a station on the Yamhill division of the Southern Pa cific. Th land is planted to apple trees one year old and the price was $4io an acre. L If. Smith haa retired from the Smith-Wagoner Company and will move to a 40-aere ranch adjoining Valley Vista on the Oregon Electric Railway. He retained eight five-acre tracts In Sheltered Nook, which he Intends clear ing and planting to orchard. The com pany reorganized with the following new directors: Hon. N. L. Butler, Harry K. wagoner ana (jiarenc R. Wagoner. The first unit of the company' sub division. Sheltered Nook, which was placed on the market two years ago. amounted to IZO.Ol'O. The subdivision Valley Vista, which was composed of over 100 acres, has been sold except a few email tracts. VIEW LOIS SELL FAST ONLY TWKVTY ARK CXSOLD IX SIORXIXGSIDE ADDITION. Tract Virtually Closed Oat Month After Heine on. Market Syn dicate boys 8 Lots. That Tortlander are beginning to take notice of "view" lots for resi dence sttc 1 Indicated by the rapidity with which th Mornlngslde tract of Hartman t Thompson Is being closed out. The tract consists of about 120 lota and all have been disposed of but about 20, although the property ha been on the market only a month. Mornlngslde lies on th northeast slope of Mount Tabor and Is Just below the city s park property, which Is soon to be Improved. The sightly location commands a view of th beautiful val ley of Eastern Multnomah County and tbe snow peaks beyond. Tbe property Is divided by two winding drive and the ground la already planted with trees, lawns and flowers. It I bound ed on the south by the Base Line road, the principal artery from Portland to the eastern part of the county, and the on generally used by automo biles. The tract originally embraced 24 H acres and was bought by Hartman Thompson from the Crystal Springs Sanitarium Company. B. 8 Josselyn purchased four and one-half acres In one piece and Is building a beautiful home there. Eight lots were purchased In on piece last week by a syndicate. Th eight lots lie together and have a frontage of 387.7 feet on Matteson avenue and 2t1.0f feet on Thoburn avenue. The piece ha a depth of 148.13 feet. There 1 a grove of fir on the land, and the Idea of the pur chaser Is to hold It until It can be sold to somebody for a building tract. The site Is one of the best In the en tire addition. SALES ACTIVE OX IXTERCKBAX Many Acreage Transfers Along Ore gon Electric JLine Reported. Sales continue active In acreage tracts along the Oregon Electric Railway. C. E. Culbertson has purchased a half acre at 8t Lout station rrom Arthur Coffin for $3X0. It 1 Improved with a substantial one-story frame store building and a barn. Mr. Culbertson will take possession and will operate a store. The sale was made by Gruaal A Zadow. who have traded a 43-acre tract at Whit Salmon, Wash., owned by R. Cameron, to A. Kuehn for 10 acrea at Bhattuck station. The Shat tuck tract is an extra fin piece and Is Improved with a new 10-room house that cost tax), and fair outbuildings. All the land Is under cultivation and It was taken In an even exchange for the White Salmon acreage. Clodfelter Bros, sold right and one half acres at Durham stat'on to Samuel ESpton of Mount Svott for $3Stiu. This place has fair Improvements and I nearly all under cultivation. It was bought for a borne. Clodfelter Bros, also sold four acres, unimproved, at Court ney station, owned by L C. Clodfelter, to Dr. J. Cavanaugh for $4000. It was bought as an investment. An adjoin ing tract containing one and one-half acre wa sold to R G. Conkllng for t-TO). and another tract In th same locality of on and one-half acres wa bought by W. Murray, for $"500. Both tracts were purchased for speculation. Steamers Boycotted by Turk. 8ALONICA. Turkey. Jan. 2S.-Tbe Sal onlca boycott commute today declared boycott against the steamers of tbe Mall-Packet-Archlpelago Line, and th boat men and lightermen attempted to pre vent the loading of th company's steam er Olympia. The authorities acted promptly and placed Kertm Ax ha, the dictator of th organization, under arrest. The trouble started In a mix-up be tween the crew of the steamer New Jer sey and a detachment of Turkish soldier which th vessel was carrying from Bel rot. Syria, to Merslna, Asia Minor. on Twentv-alxth street between Nor WORK STARTS SOON Wilcox Building to Be Under Way in March. OLD SHACKS ARE DOOMED Contract for Raxing Frame Build ings JVT111 Bo Let This Week, and Tenants Prepare to Move. Baildlng Costs $075,000. Contract will be let this week by th Stone Webster Engineering Corpora tion for razing the old shacks at the southeast comer of Sixth and Washing ton streets, where th Theodore B. Wil cox building 1 to be erected, and work of tearing down will begin March 1. It Is believed they can be entirely removed In one week, and excavation for th foundation footings and basement for th building will follow Immediately. Stone A Webster, who have th contract for building th structure, expect that It will be finished by the end of this year. Tenants or the tram building on th ground are already making prep arations to move. out. but are having difficulty In finding suitable locations at anything near th rate of rent they feci able to pay. Work to Bo Done Carefully. No attempt will be made to break a record In making the excavation. Ce ment retaining walls will be built down around th four sides of the lot before th earth in the center Is removed. The object of this Is to prevent the possi bility of cavlng-ln of foundations of sur rounding building or of the street. Borings have been made under the site of the building, gravel being en countered at a depth of 22.5 feet. It is surmised from this that suitable founda tion will be found at a depth of from 22 to 24 feet. The basement will have a depth of 12 feet from floor to floor. Plans of the architects. Whldden & Lewis, show that the building Is to ba a highly ornamental structure. It Is to be 12 stories high, strictly first class throughout. The construction will bo steel frame, with facing of gray pressed brick, and the trimming and cornice will be in cream terra cotta. Th basement will be occupied by the heating plant and utilities of the build ing, and provision will be made for a barber shop. There will be five stores on the first floor, all fronting on Wash Ington street. M. A. Gunst & Co., to bacco dealers, will occupy the corner. two full store have been leased for th Frledlander Jewelry store, and the re maining stores will be taken by the Re gal Shoe Company and C airman candy establishment. Stores Provided on Second Floors, Th second floor will be divided Into five stores, which will be reached from th elevator and stairs. The remaining floors from the third to 12th Inclusive, will be occupied by offices, 15 to the floor. The main entrance will be- on Sixth street, at the south side of th build ing. Three fast passenger elevators are to be Installed, and it Is Intended to IMPOSING OFFICE BUILDING -. if wrft -2 'JSffbi tifi tun ;rBPS?' . - ii iillllll-ll f-IIllK a? NATIONAL ADDITION NOW IS YOUR CHANCE -ii ----sssssisassssssssssssMssl The grades for street improvements are t now being established so that you can get an idea as to how your lot will lay, "after the streets are completed. Call on us and we will show you where the best locations are where your money will turn the quickest. A number of people have taken our advice and have already made money by buying in NATIONAL ADDITION. We are advising-you NOW-a month from now.it will be too late. v Every day brings new developments. Read the daily papers and be convinced of the new institu tions locating at KENTON. If substantial- corporations are willing to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in locating their, institutions in KENTON, you certainly can afford to invest a $100. " v- Fill in the coupon below and mail it to us today and we will mail you literature descriptive of KENTON-NATIONAL ADDITION. .. OPERATIVE 520 MARSHALL 2248 make a feature of the elevator service. Th Interior finish will be expensive and of the highest class. The floors of the corridors will be marble tile and the corridors will have high marble wainscot. The floors in the offices will be cement. Th doors, window casings and frames and wood trim throughout will be of oak. The estimated cost of the building is $276,000. SETTLERS BUY APPLE LAND Many Easterners Make Homes on Tracts In Benton County. The Oregon Apple Orchards Company, which established the townslte of Alpine on Its orchard acreage in Benton County, Is doing an Important work In bring ing settlers to Oregon. The company has a large number of men at work preparing for the planting of 350 acres, and tho Eastern representative, who is located at Minneapolis, Minn., will bring; a carload of prospective purchasers' to Oregon February 7. Following is a list of sales of de veloped orchards this month: John R. Stemm, LaFayette, Ind., 9 acres; J. B. SOON. TO BE UNDER WAY AT SIXTH AND WASHINGTON STREETS 13-STORY STRUCTITRJC TO BE ERECTED BY THEODORE B. -WILCOX. REALTY CO i Railway Exchange Wallace, Carbondale, 111., 5 acres; Louis Stein, Jr:, Jollet, 111., 5 acres; John Cheesman, Jollet, 111., 10 acres; Frank P. Kinson, Jr., Jollet. 111., 10 acres; C. F. Smith, Bloomlngton. Ill 5 acres; John R. Gee, Bloomlngton, 111., 5 acres; J. B. Champlaln, Tacoma, Wash., 6 acres; John Cheevers, Carbondale, 111., 5 acres: George Hineline, Bloomlngton. 111., 5 acres;- R. F. Sulflow, Breckenrldge. Minn., 10 acres. Klamath Falls Sewers Improved. KLAMATH FALLS, Or.. Jan. 28. (Special.) Mayor Sanderson and City Engineer Zumwalt are preparing for the commencement of work , early In the Spring on Klamath Falls third sewer unit. In addition to the con struction of a third unit several ad ditions are to be made on the first and second units. The third unit is to ex tend into the eastern part of the city, to what is known as the Hot Springs addition. ' Here is a new argument against woman suffrage. Said an Australian Judge, hearing an election petition case: "if a man really wanted to vote he could have don so 7 wit ness. "At great discomfort. The long hat pins of the ladles made things very danger ous.' . 1 Name A 1274 Address . EAST SIDE TO PAVE Twelve Miles to Be Improved at Cost of $1,000,000. TERRITORY IS VALUABLE District Embraces Area Between Hawthorne Avenue, East Burn side, Grand Avenue and East' Twentieth Streets. A movement has been started to form a hard-surface improvement district on the East Side between Hawthorne ave nue and East Burnslde street. Grand avenue and East Twentieth streets, and have the improvement made as soon as possible. The cost of the pavement of the streets in this district is estimated from $1,000,000 to 1. 600,000. In the district there are 225 full blocks, and there will be close to 15 miles of streets to pave, but there must be deducted streets that have been paved and others that are under con tract to be paved this year, which re duces the real mileage to about 12 miles. The streets under contract are East Ankeny between Union avenue and East Twenty-eighth; East Washington from East Water to Grand avenue, and from East Eighth to East Twelfth; East Sixth street between Division and East Burnslde; and several other short con tracts. East Morrison has been paved be tween East Twentieth street and Grand avenue, and Belmont has been paved from East Ninth street, and petitions have been signed for a pavement to East Water street- Valne of Property High. The question is raised as to whether the property in the district will stand tbe cost of the pavements, which may average $200 and $800 a lot, including sidewalks. There are no lots in the district that can be bought for less than I $2000. Probably the cheapest desirable I lots in the district are not under $3000, and the average is from $3000 to $20,000 on Grand avenue. Virtually all the streets in the dis trict were Improved several years ago with gravel or macadam, but as a rule, the property in the district is not bur dened with liens for street improve ments. The chief question that will be raised Is whether the property will stand to be taxed from $1,000,000 to $1,500,000 for pavements, and whether the benefits will compensate for the cost. It has been felt for the past two years that this district ought to be improved with hard-surface pavements, and that the property can easily stand the cost, when Innumerable suburban and purely residence districts are being formed for hard-surface. The territory embraced is rapidly be coming business property. Flats and apartment-houses have been built all through It and others are projected, and yet the streets are generally in bad con dition being muddy in Winter and dusty in Summer. It Is now felt that Central East Port land ought to pave all these streets as a whole. Holladay Addition and Irv lngton district comprise a mile square of hard-surface pavements, which serve as an illustration that this is one of the most valuable residence sites in the city. The Ladd Addition, on Hawthorne avenue, is also pointed out as an ex ample of tho advantages of hard-surface pavements. . All around Central East Portland hard-surface pavements are being laid, but the business district property has got along so far with cheap, gravel and macadam. There are some who think that the territory ought to have extended from Hawthorne ave nue to Sullivan's Gulch, but the larger territory was not included. Business Men's Club to Assist. Business men generally approve of the extensive paving f the streets in the district, and the East Side Business Men's Club will co-operate with the movement. Warner Dorres, president of the club, said: "We need hard-surface pavements in Central East Portland out to East Twentieth street, and between East Burnslde street and Hawthorne aventie above anything else. After one gets off Grand avenue eastward, he finds . E 1 .COUPON- CO-OPERATIVE REAITT CO, . ( 520 Railway Exchange. Gentlemen Please mail me' copy of your new booklet, descriptive of Ken-ton-Xatlonal Addition. nothing but mud and streets cut t pieces, which would be a disgrace to village, let alone a city the size of For' land. It would be the making of th district. I have Just been elected pre.' ident of the East Side Business Men Club, but I am certain that the organl zation will co-operate with the pavln movement, and it will be brought up a our meeting on February 2. "Wherever hard-surface pavement i laid it enhances the value of propert and In some cases it has doubled tli value. Holladay Addition, Irvingto and the Ladd Addition are illustration of what first-class pavements will d for any district where all the street are improved that way. Money spen in those districts has returned man times. "The district proposed includes most ly business property, almost too val liable for residences, and It is now be ing occupied with flats and apartment houses. To get rid of muddy street is a movement in the right directioi and ought to receive the support an co-operation of every property-owne: Hard-surface pavements will do fr Central East Portland what the M fills are doing for the warehouse dis trict between Union avenue and th river. It ought to be done as a wholi so we shall have the entire dlstrir paved and not have a few streets her and there." "I understand that the Hawthorne ep tate will fill up the ravine in the Haw thorne Park tract, and then pave a: tho streets, and there will be no oppo sitlon from that source." Others Favor Pavements. Henry Meyer, who owns property orj East Twelfth street, said: J "I am in favor of paving an tf streets, but I am not in favor of tylrl j up a lot of streets with contractors ar) then permitting the paving companifcj to hold up the work for several yeaf J tr, come. We intend to have Eael Washington street paved between Eas Eighth and East Tweirtn streets, won't oppose the pavement movement i th neniile want It." T. J. Gelsler said: "The distric ought to include the territory betwee Division street and Sullivan's Gulch an East Twenty-eighth street. It will pe the property owners to have the stree i paved." The movement that has been startr for pavements in the district is und .-"will., (i-iti thA C.lt-v Council, an the contracts are to be divided betwee i the paving companies, uutsiae or tni big district are a number of smalle nes in which hard-surface pavement are to be laid. At the east end of th' railroad bridge the streets are to b' paved at a cost of $39,500. A.riistrict has been formed betwee: fimnfi and Union avenue, south fron East Clay street, which will cost $35, 000. Mount Tabor has two improve ment districts in which hard-surfac pavements are to be- laid at a cost o about $100,000. South of Division stree two distr'cts have been formed fo hard-surface which will cost upward of $100,000. On the Peninsula a number of street: nr to ha naved. Sandy boulevard is t. be paved to the city limits this year East Water, East Morrison and isas Washington streets are to be paved. LOT SOLD FOR $15,000 NORTH TWENTY-THIRD-STREElf CORNER DISPOSED OF. Ground Suitable for Apartment SlteJ but Purchaser's Name Withheld. Other Deals Reported. J T. Brumfield last week soldi through the agency .of Wakefield, Frie: & Co., a lot at the northwest cornei of Twenty-third and Overton streets fort $15,000. The name of the purchaser i. withheld for the present. The property has a frontage of 100 feet on Overton and 92.3 feet on Twenty-third. It i. well suited for an apartment house site although the purchaser has not indiJ cated his intention with regard to th property. f Wakefield. Fries & Co. also made the following sales recently: Seven-room cottage and lot 25 by 10 feet on the east side of Twenty-first street, between Savler and Tburman from L. P. Beno and others to GeorgtJ Besaw. Consideration, $3500. Irregular-shaped lot on the west Bide of Twenty-fifth street, between Thur man and Upshur, containing virtually 51 by 100 feet, from M. B. Wakeman to Bertha Ballls. Consideration, $3000. Lot on the south side of Upshur street between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth 50 by 100 feet, with small cottage, from M. B. Wakeman to .Robert Kowe. Con sideration, $3000. Lot on East Eleventh. street near East Pine, 33 by 100 feet, sold by William Ballls and others to M. B. Fish for $3500. The purchaser will build a resl' dence on the property