The Sunday Oregonian., March 12, 1911, SECTION FOUR, Page 10, Image 58

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VIEWS SHOWING HOW WATER IS BEING USED TO TEAS DOWN STEEP HILL IN PORTLAND
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"We are making Westover Tv-rr-e
out of tJoldemlth JI111. and doing the
Initial work of chancing GicUd's Lake
from 4 slough to a parade ground." Is
the way E. U McAllister, ot.ie of the
engineers of the Lewis-Wiley Hydrau
lic Company, characterise the re
gradlng being done In the. northwest
ern part of the c'ty. In a district of
which the Forestry building and its
little park, monuments' of the Lewis
and Clark fair, are the center and the
pride.
The public has Inadequate conception
or the magnitude of this unique and
remarkable piece of work. The oper
ations have been progressing day and
night for several months and bid fair
to continue for two years more bcforij
the whole hill Is surfaced over so r.s
to be accessible, attractive "home"
property Instead of being a defiant In
vitation to the Maxamas to try their
skill.
Vast Scope of Work Outlined.
It Is difficult to give the average per
son a familiar and accurate measure of
the volume of earth to be moved, which
is about 2.SU0.0UO cubic yards. That Is.
roughly. Just about the amount of earth
moved In the famous Jackson-strect re
grade In Beattle. by tl)e same men and
with the same machinery that are em
ployed on this undertaking, and which
required about 33 months' steady wor?
for completion.
It may be said that the volume is
about equal to buildings like Olds,
Wortman & King building. wTtt a few
Meier Frank buildings and an Imperiul
Hotel building added to account for the
odd corners and extra knobs that appear
here and there. The material renioveu
would cover the ground to the height of
an ordinary two-story building from
Yamhill street to Washington and be
tween the river and Sixteenth street.
The neare.it point to the business dis
trict on the 65 acres of high gTound be
ing Improved is at the head of Melinda
avenue. Just north of SI- Vincent's Hos
pital. The tract stretches west beside
the Kings Heights Improvements to Mo
leay Park and la bounded on the north
and east by the Cornell road up to Its
Intersection with Twenty-ninth street.
No Abrupt Banks to Bo Lett.
The city la spread out before It like
a panorama, with Willamette Heights.
Kordham Heights and the Nob Hill
districts In the foreground, the lower
olty. the river and the East Fide Imme
diately beyond and Hood. Adama and
Ft. Helens in the majestic background.
King's Heights rises (00 feet above It
on the south.
There will be fewer than J00 build
ing sites In the terrace when com
pleted and when compared with dome
of the large additions like Laurelhurst.
Klng'a Heights or Kastmoreland, It la
a small addition.
No attempt la made to level off the
hill or to reduce It to a uniform alope
ending against a high, steep clay bank
at the edge of the property. The
depth of earth to be removed la In
places aa much as 140 feet. Toward
the edges of the tract, where it Joins
King's Heights on the south and Mac
leay Park on the west, the amount of
excavation Is gradually reduced so as
to leave no abrupt banka at all. The
whole tract when finished will be a
series of terraces tip which winds a
' broad boulevard on an easy grade of S
per cent, making it aa easily accessi
ble as the head of Washington street.
Karth MelM Like Snow.
The upper end of Lovejoy street, the
approach to the Cornell road, has a
grade of 10 per cent; so that If that
avenue of approach to the property la
used, the steepest part of the road Is
passed over between Twenty-firth and
Twenty-sixth streets really before the
new addition Is reached.
In the course of the work a volume
of earth equal t? a five-story building
covering a full block disappears In ev
ery month of actual operation, melting
like snow under the streams from the
giants, and hurrying down the bljf
flume on top of the trestle In a stream
that would float a good-slxed rowboat,
to settle finally In the lake below.
As soon aa the surplus earth Is re
moved from a part of the property, an
other giant aluices down from another
part of the hill some of the top soil
to form a proper surface for the vege
tation that is soon to follow. Here
was Goldsmith HIIU covered with heavy
timber and thick underbrush of vine
maple, alder and Oregon grape. Pres
to.' Change! Here Is Westover Ter
race with el-ctric-llghted winding au
tomobile drives and rows of younr
shade trees In parking strips, all
worked out In Park Kxpert Olmsted's
liapplest vein, without restrictions or
directions other than that bis plans
should make the property as attrac
tive and. incidentally, as valuable as
possible.
New Foundation 'Made.
The big trestle stretches half a mile,
from the pit where the gravel com
posing the hill la excavated, to the
lake ground where It is deposited to
be the foundation for future big build
ings or Architect Bennett's -greater
Portland" railway yards.
Where the work Is so laid out that
the water cannot be conveniently re
turned to the lake without damaging
property below, excavation will be done
-dry" by steam shovels. The first of
this dT work Is under way above Nob
Hill Terrace Addition at th- head of
lovejoy street. About 1DO0 cubic yards
will be moved by the shovel In this
corner, making a broad, winding con
tinuation of Melinda avenue above and
ubxtajrtiallr parallel to the Cornell
Koad. Another shovel will soon Join
the first, following along like two
giant plows, one behind the other.
Giant Power Plant 1'sed.
The water to accomplish the hydran-
lie portion of the work Is pumped from
;ulld's Lake, coming np two lS-lnch
lines of wire-wound wood stave pipes
made In Portland. The pipes are car
ried by the trestle, which also sustains
the flume for return of the spoil. The
pomp-house Is situated at Twenty
ninth and Nleolal streets, and the foun
dation was laid on the bottom of the
lake at low water before any filling
was done. The first earth brought
down was used to make a dike or em
bankment around the pump-house to
prevent the high water from flooding
the machinery, and the pump-bouse Is
now la a filled tract of many acres la
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flood In if.
Tht-re are four five-stage Worthlng
ton turbine pumps -Just as they were
used on the Seattle work, with an ad
ditional pump to give the greater pres
sure needed for this work. There are
three Westtnghouve motors driving the
five pumps, all of which are direct
connected: that is the pump shafts are
coupled directly to the motor shafts
without belts or gearing. When work
ing at full power they require Z2i)0
horse-power to drive them and deliver
oOO.OO'l gallons of water an hour to the
pipe lines at a pressure varying be
tween 200 and 300 pounds a square
Inch, according to the demand. ,
Wooden Pipe A-loumls F.iiRlneers.
Eastern engineers, who have seen the
work, express great astonishment that
Portland men are willing to trust to
wooden stave pipe for pressures so
great as 300 pounds per square Inch,
but It la said to be all a question of
materials and workmanship, both of
which a Portland wood pipe company
supplied In a most satisfactory way.
The pipe lines leave the trestle be
low Cornell Hond and go under the
road through a tunnel to the work
above, and the water la directed
aa-alnst the bank through hydraulic
giants In stresms varying from two
Inches to four and one-half Inches In
diameter. The force of the streams
undermlno the lower part of the bank
and the weight of the earth above
brings down the sand and gravel from
the working face, which Is at present
100 to 1J0 feet In helgth In front of
ths slant, after which the pipe men
direct the streams against the loose
piles of material until It Is all washed
Into the sluiceways and goes down the
flume to the lake. The water is used
over and over again, having plenty of
room In which to settle the grit be
fore it again returns to the pumps.
Sunday to Be Only Stop.
The power Is supplied by electric
power from the Portland Railway,
Light Power Company's plant at
what Is said to be as low a rate as has
ever been made for power In the city.
Probably this company Is the largest
single customer the power company
has outside of Its own street railway
operations.
The work Is prosecuted 20 hours
each day. and when the conditions will
permit the power to he continuously
supplied there will be no stop between
o'clock Sunday night and S o'clock
the following Saturday night. The
work alwaya ceases for 14 hours on
Sunday except for such Items of re
pairs aa have to be made to parts
which caanot safely be touched while
running, but Sunday work Is In every
way reduced to the minimum possible.
GOODSF.LL- ADDITIOX ACTIVE
Streets Being Graded Preparatory -to
I-avlng of Pavement.
Extensive Improvements are being
.j In ooodaell Addition on Sandy j
boulevard near East Thirtieth street,
i-i, i. addition ilea on both aides of the
boulevard and the street ax bain
graded preparatory to being paved.
The Doernbecher Masufacturing Com
pany has a steam shovel at work cut
ting away the bank at the ast end
of its present plant. The company
owns 10 acres In that vicinity and the
ground is being cleared for the founda
tion of the chair department soon to
be erected on the new place. Several
hundred cubic yards of earth are be
ina- moved and used to fill up the com
pany's ground northeast of the present
Dlant.
Eastward Sulllvan'a Gulch Is becom
ing a considerable business district.
The main line of the O.-W. It. & N.
passes through this section.
Eugene Man Buys Farms.
William Porter, of Eugene, has bought
the Duckworth furm of 306 acres, sit
uated one mile north of Hmlra. Lane
County, for ISOOO. Mr. Porter has re
cently bought, a number of fine farms
west of Eugene. He recently sold
large tract of timber land In Douglas
and Coos counties to fcaetern capital
ists and is putting hie money into farm
properties.
Villa Tract In Kosc City Park Sold
G. C. Craig and A. B. Slauson have
bought from Hartman & Thompson the
Villa Tract In Rose City Park, con
sisting of 52 lots. The consideration
was 135.000. The property laces on
tho Alameda and extends from East
Forty-seventh street to Weymouth
Lane. It adjoins the O. W..Taylor piece.
Messrs. Craig and Slauson bought on
peculation.
A large Calif ornia Corporation is preparing:
to place upon the market 1300 acres of select
apple lanjl in a district that is destined to be
the Rogue River section of California.
The iand will be developed as a commer
cial, orchard and sold on the unit plan,
i The Corporation desires to secure the serv
ices of a practical apple orchardist one ex
perienced in planting-, caring: for and bringing
trees to the point of bearing: and in gathering
and marketing the crop.
The Company will give this man the entire
charge of the development and care of this
orchard. We will pay this man a salary com
mensurate with his services and reputation.
' He will be expected to invest at least $5000
in the enterprise.
The Company will furnish absolute evi
dence that the district has the climate, the
soil and the irrigation facilities specially
adapted to the growing of high-grade apples.
The directors and stockholders of the
Company are business men of high standing
in their community. The proposition calls for
a man of large experience who can furnish
high-grade references. Only those possessing
-these qualifications need apply. Address, for
full particulars Box 91, Bishop, California.
JEW TOWN SHOWS LIFE
XORTH PLAINS, 60 DAYS OLD, IS
PROGRESSIVE.
Has Lighting and Water Systems,
Graded Streets and Sidewalks.
Commercial Clnb Forming.
The town of North Plains, on the
United Railways, while only 60 days
old. has its own lighting and water
systems, graded streets, sidewalks,
water tower and depot. More than
20 buildings are occupied or in the
course of construction.
North Plains has been selected as the
metropolis of the Tualatin Valley, the
New Hill Empire, and the United Rail
ways now makes North Plains its ter
minal. Eventually this road will go
through to the sea.
The Cornelius Gap tunnel, 4000 feet
long, will soon be ready for use. It is
announced that cars will be running
through the tunnel within the next
three weeks. This will do away with
the old winding road over the . high
hills, giving a uniform grade and re
ducing the running time from Portland
to North Plains to 50 minutes.
Believing that it pays to advertise
the community, several of the enter
prising citizens of North Plains have
taken steps to organize a commercial
club and become Identified with .the
Oregon Development League. A week-
ly paper is to be established at North
Plains sometime the present month.
The engineering department of the
Ruth Trust Company, owners of North
Plains, has made a report on progress
at the new town and an interesting
item is that the street lights will be
burning Thursday night, tho date set
to perfect organization of the new
commercial club.
The Tualatin Valley has been culti
vated almost a century, but until the
United Railways extended the line
from Burlington to North Plains the
valley was without transportation. The
promoters of North Plains believe
there will be a town with a population
of 2500 there within two years.
Ex-Wife of a Takes Maiden Name.
VANCOUVER, Wash., March 11.
(Special.) After having been married
six times Mrs. John Brown has se
cured the permission of Judge Donald
McMaster. of the Superior Court, to be
known by her maiden name. Miss
Agnes Thihodeau.
IRVINGTON
Asphalt Pavement
Cement Sidewalks
Large Water Mains
MODERN SEWER SYSTEM
Gas Mains
All in and ready
for use
Excellent Car Service
Building Restrictions
Close to Irvington School
Beautiful View of Mount Hood
and Mount St. Helens
Improvement bonded and to be
assumed by the buyer
Lots 50x100, $1250 and Up
Terms
15 Per Cent Cash and 2 Per Cent Per Month.
A- R. DIAMOND & CO.
210 Railway Exchange Bldg.,
or '
Irvington Office, Corner East 13th and Knott Sts.
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NATIONAL ADDITION
If you are working in or near Kenton, you should have a home in this new
tract, because you can save your carfare each day, which mounts to the
interest on your lot. Just think this over.
This addition is in the center of Kenton and borders on the great manu
facturing district. There are several large factories in operation at present,
and three of the larger ones are within 200 feet of National Addition.
If you are an investor or. a homeseeker, you should see this beautiful tract
and select a location before all the choice lots are gone. A large number of
people are visiting National Addition every day.
Call at our office and get a folder showing the exact location and views
of the factories and business houses adjoining. Or fill in the coupon belo
and mail it to us today.
()ur salesmen and automobiles are at your disposal, ready to take you
out to the tract at a minute 's notice.
Co-Operative Realty Co.
520 Railway Exchange MarsbaD 2248-A 1274
COUPOX.
CO-OPERATIVE REALTY CO.,
520 Hallway .Exchange, Portland, Or.
Gentlemen:
Please mail me literature descriptive
of Kenton-Natlonal Addition.
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Address