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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1911)
1911. A BUILDINO Or FLATS CONTINUES, ALTHOUGH NEW APAETMENT-HOUSES ARE MORE NUMEROUS SOUTH EAST SIDE LEAPS FORWARD r eiriew Improvements of All Kinds Mark Once Backward Part of City. J- - 1 - ... Tre Cream ofihe. Famous tloocTRiver District ttt? crrvnAV ni?rr.OVTAV. rnnTLAXD. APRIL 16. J if iiiu o u a--. - - - . - -- n - A f, an ii LARGE AREAS PLATTED Location of Reed Iiwltme Glc Impclaa to pcnlug of Vacant Land. Srwrrlne. Ijlnit r Water Mains and llulldln. Th tuth Kast tln show excellent Mntrtu In street, lewtti and duiio- tn. The p-t year perhaps greater irirru wax mail tnan ror mr i..,.-. five jnn. Ixx-atlon of Ibe Keed Insti tute. nrenkln up and platting of the rrtal Srrln- farm, the StrowhrlJce tract of 3J ai-r- aouth of Woodstock, the Smith trart at Kra. (worth, aivt other larite unocruplrd trarta. which hid ar rested proar--. have t.ndul to devel op Improvements In the S"um cui n rniinu the moat powerful progrea- irtve Impulse baa come from the location of the Keed Inatltute on the 49 acres donated for the purpose. That section of the city has been considered alow, but It I. now well up In the procession. It la estimated that . people irt now llvln Inside the city south of Di vision atreet. and the territory la fill-In- up rapidly. The territory Is em braced practically within the Seventh Ward, although a considerable portion la .tin ouialrie the city boundaries. vi present the city boundary la at Gray Crossing on me atouni both im-. yond that point to Sycamore Station on the Uresharo electric line, settlement has extended rapidly. Lents la a consider able business center. For miles In all directions) from Inta the land haa been divided Into ruts and sold. Eastward there hi still a-Teae which commands g-ood prices. One must now travel elKht miles to the southeast to get out f the city and the suburbs. nig Improvements In rrue-ptft. rin have been drawn for new car shops for the Southern Pacific Railroad fnninanv to be erected on the around In the South K-st Side. According t the report of those who have seen the plans, the expenditure for the buildings will run up Into the million. But one bulldlnc. a 12-stall rounanouse, win u erected this year. This will be followed by the laying of double tracks from the shoos to Ka-t Hrt street, tor n the romtuuo recently bought the necee- sary land. The Fortland Hallway, usni Power fompany haa trulred two traces In the South Kasl Side on which It will erect shops In the course of time ten acres on the Powell road. Between vaat Twenty-second and East Twenty sixth streets, and another tract near llolgate atreet. The streets on the Pow ell road tract have been vacated, ao the company will be able to erect Ita bulk! Inga as a whole. Tlana for the buildings for this Plant are now being prepared. According to the lay of the land, cars may be run Into the upper portion of the buildings from K.it Twenty-ettth street on the Waverly-Woodstoc canine, erec tion of these plants means that employ ment will be given many men In the dis trict. Iarx-c Tract Build t"p. Several large trarta recently platted have built up rapldjjv. Westmoreland, which Is the part of the C.-ystaJ Springs farm between MUwaukle street and ths Southern Pacific car track, haa been practically all aold off In lota and many of the purchasers have erected homes. Foundations for other residences are be ing laid now. The contract has been let to pave the streets thl year. Kust more land, the eastern part of the Crystal Uprlnra farm, haa been Improved with graded streets and cement sidewalks and the atreeta will be paved. The atreets are laid out on curves. Eastmoreland Is south of the Reed Institute. In these two additions Improvements costing more than Jjoo.000 outside of the build ings have been made, many others are soon to be made. Including the construc tion of a concrete viaduct across the Southern Facinc main line on Bybee avenue, and the building of a branch electric railway from the Sellwood car lino to Kast more land. Benedictine Heights, a new addition formed out of the O.-W. R. ar N. land, between MUwaukle and Kast Eighth atreeta. all elevated ground, has been aold out except ,a few lots. All the streets have been graded and presently hard-surface pavements will be put down. It Is part of the fine residence district between MUwaukle street and the river. Sale of lots was started at SlfrOO each, but now the price has reached 1204 and 11. '75 each. New building, costing US.iXMt to 130.000. are being erected by the Sacred Heart pariah, which are to be finished by the end of the year. Great Sewer Dl.trht Projected. Plans ar being drawn In the office of the City Engineer for a great aewer district to serve the large territory on the south of tbs Brooklyn district, which will cost about SSOO.ovO. Ita main con duits, which must first be laid, will be aa large as. If not larger, than thoae of the Brooklyn aewer district. The total ost of this new sewer system. Includ ing the laterals, will run up to I.OOO. ooo. Dependent on the building of this great sewer Is the paving of many streets. The district will Include Sell wood east from Kast fifteenth street. Westmoreland. Kast more land, the Reed Institute trart and the surrounding ter ritory extending Into Woodstock, and the sewers will probably drain Into the Willamette River at or about the mouth of Johnson Creek. Ita completion will bring iort!and to the llmita of Clacka mas County. Some territory In East moreland and the old Strowbrtdge tract, which haa been platted. Is still outside the city, but will probably be brought In before the contract la let. as the territory will be tributary to this aewer district.. Part of the Golf Link territory, south of Sellwood. has been platted between the Oregon City railroad and Milwaokle street. A new plan of platting waa adopted so that the atreeta are curved and that each home will occupy a lit tle less than an acre of land. The highest bulldlnc restriction In the city haa been placed on this tract. It will probably have a sewer system of Ita own that will empty directly Into the Willamette River. Water Main Are to Be Laid. Water mains are to be laid through out the South East Side. Already the Water Board has started laying a 1 Inch main on E.t Twenty-sixth street from Division street south to supple Kenllworth. Westmoreland and Sellwood and the Intervening district. Other mains are to be laid to supply Williams' Addition. Ivanhoe. Woodstock and that part of the Mount Scott district that lies along the Mount Scott line to Orara Crossing. Private water plants at Wood stock and In the Mount Seott territory will probably bo acuuirtd by purchase r Mbsrwlee. v as: T ?e3e e8. - ...w W" -1 W, r -"-j-'z a Trrz!. A ' '! ? r,- -jzz: I v. '..----r- TT" , .... . ' -.- . r.,--,,. v t J-xa: T-ry-T jr. serf. jz. cocscsf mm for soil IS NORMAL AT 40 Great Need of Man for Home and Means of Support Is Made Manifest. NATURAL LAWS AT WORK Principles of IlnslneK Can lie Ap plied to Farming With Assur ance of SiKTfM, Is View of Ileal K-late Man. The FYeneh aay that at 40, normal man turns to the aolL That the "back to the soil" movement Is the result of natural courses, and not a mere passing fad. la the opinion of T. H. Beverly, a Portland real eatate deal er, who handles acreage. "I seema to be one of the natural aws of the human race." Mr. Beverly said, "that everything motel In a circle and that history repeats Itself. Noth ing proceeds Indefinitely In a straight lne. but all progress is more or less circuitous. Human progress Is by cir cles and not straight ahead, speaking broadly, and sooner or later it seems as though man must turn backward In order to go forward. - "The very expression, back to the soil." signifies the return of man to what he once left, not In the aenae of retro gression, but rather that In going back the human race really la taking- a step-' forward. Home Is Greatest Xeed. There are three reaaons. Mr. Beverly says, which are responsible for the exo. dus ceuntryward. In the first place, he argues, the greatest sources of human action are man's necessities and envi ronments. Then, be reasons, the Influ ence of necessity sooner or later will outweigh that of environment. The last reason, he asserts, is that the greatest need of man Is a home and means of support. This Is the root of all man Inatlncts and ambitions. "In years past." Mr. Beverly said, residents of rural districts became Im bued with the idea that dwellers In vil lages, towns snd cities constituted a higher or superior order of human be ings than those In Isolated sections. This brought about a movement to the city, a human movement In a straight line. But natural causes now are at work and the straight line Is being curved. While city residences have been laughing: at the 'greenness or Jay' and 'Kube,' there has entered their ranks a competition and strife for existence ao atrenuoua that they are commends r to queatlon whether the pleasure and convenience of urban life la worth the coat. And once this ques tion la asked, the line of progress in the life of the Individual begins to swerve from a straight line into the line of a circle. 'It Is in response to such conditions that I And tbe city residents In great numbers dreaming, longing and plan ning to desert the 'white-shirt brigade with Its "paper-bag and tin can" com missary and get bark to Biddy and fresh eggs, to Old Brlndle and fresh home-made butter, to the rooting pig and streaked hoino-cured meat and Ted gravy,' back to a life leas srtli nclal and more natural and freer. Necessity Is beginning to rule over mere environment." Fear of Failure Ieler Many. The only thing that deters a lot of others who stay In the cities. - Mr. Beverly believes. Is a lack of faith in their Individual ability to make farm ing profitable. He finds many In mer cantile pursuits who are successful, but who are afraid they can't make a living on a farm. The same principles of the busness world, he says, can bo applied to farming. It Is the business farmer, he argues, who will succeed. Anyone with average intelligence who will use his head can make farming remuner ative. Farming In the last few years has been made a great deal easier. Gov ernment bulletins are free for the ask- ng. as are those of state agricultural schools. And the bulletins are author itative and dependable. In Mr. Beverly s opinion there is but one way to answer tne dbck o m soil question: that Is by going back. Every day he says men are men are be ginning to ask the question. "Is the ar tificial life worth the cost?" And they are answering it. be says, by joining the vast multitudes who are marching bat lo tits iaad, a 'WYE" O-. l i , " i gr m-xmm-m n wan in ii t . i .. f h PMU '.fiTPFft'H 13 ?: : I a-i'-' ' ' '' -'." " . . dgstw jsJmw. '. . nets -jH. m ' I-1. ' ---taTrt. Yh-fr -it - - ..-. .A. n1 . 1Tr. . ,.,,, f OTiiigasTsfli.i'rsf ifn i a-s5 " FUTS ARE PROFITABLE IXVESTMTXTS IlKTCRX FKOM 8 TO 12 PEK CENT. Need fur Lower Itents I Iet by Buildings on Less Expensive Sites Farther Out. Flats as a form of Investment have proved attractive 'n Portland, If the number that have been built and con tracted for within the past 18 months, chiefly on tlte East Side, may be taken aa a criterion. According to builders and owners of flats. this form of In vestment yields In Portland from 8 to 1 per cent net Portland apartment-houses as a rule have been constructed on higher-priced and closor-ln property than have the flats, and the higher rents thus made necessary for apartments have been the real foundation on which the flats have been constructed. Flats are fill ing the need for lower rents, coupled with modern Improvements. Within the past year, it Is estimated, fully ISO flat buildings have been con structed or arranged for In the city. The central portion of the East Side is rapidly becoming the flat area of the city, for there ground values are not excessive, modern Improvements are available, smaller financial out lay Is necessary for both grounds and buildings and rents can be made suf ficiently low to attract tenants and still return good interest on Invest ments. Many have been built In the district surrounding Kast Sixteenth and Kast Taylor streets. P1E0M SALES MANY BEAITI Fi t, HOMES ARE UE1XG IllILT IX SlDl'RII. Large . X umber of Dwellings lU'ltig Completed and More Are Started or Projected. Theodore B. Wilcox has just sold, through1 the agency of the Investment Company, four lots on the north side of Ainsworth avenue. In Piedmont, for a consideration of 14600. to a gentle man from Vancouver. B C who will at once proceed with erection of a handsome dwelling on the alte. The frontage is east on Rodney avenue and Is considered one of the choicest In the Piedmont district. Mrs. K. Dungon has purchased from W. Q. Register two lots at the south west corner of Holman and Halght avenues. Piedmont, for a consideration of $2200. This 100x100 site will be Im proved at once with a dwelling to cost about J500. Dr. 8.1. Hamby s home on Garfield avenuo near Jessup in Piedmont. Is al most ready for occupancy. It Is of the one and ne-tialX slory dormer window type and contains seven rooms. Con tract price is $3500. M. C. White has nearly completed a bungalow at the corner of Cleveland avenue and Jesup street which Is en tirely different from any heretofore constructed In this city. The eleva tion west is hardly above the first story of the average dwelling, while the structure covers 28S6 square feet of ground. Cobblestone piers support porch roofs, the great chimney of the old-faahloned fireplace being of similar construction. Natural snaae trees or nament the grounds. Mrs. Nellie McGee's two-story dwell ing at aiallory and Jarrett streets la about ready, as Is R. F. Mosnett's fine new home on the same block fronting west on Rodney avenue near Ains worth. M. O. Clancy's elaborate new eight room house on Cleveland at Highland street Is receiving final Interior touches. This is one of the most pretentious-dwellings on the north side of Piedmont. JONESMORE PLAN WINS CO.MP.VXY EXPECTS TO DUPLI CATE FIRST SUCCESS. Plat on North Mount Tabor M ill Bo Laid Out as Residence and Manu facturing Suburb. The Umbdenstock & Larson Company has announced a plan for establishing families In moderate circumstances In homes of their own. The project Is be ing worked out In connection with the marketing of North Jonesmore, which was recently placed on the market and provides for selling a 50 by 100 foot lot and" modern bungalow on rental pay ments and the buyer can move In Im mediately. The company has engaged an archi tect to prepare plans, and the bunga lows will all be designed along modern lines. About S5 homes are now being started In Jonesmore. and It Is the In tention of the company to commence construction of one a week hereafter. This will be Increased to two a week luter In the Summer. The house and lot will sell for $2000. The Umdbenstock & Larson Company achieved the remarkable record of sell ing out the 230 lots In the original Jonesmore plat In less than 90 days during a supposedly dull season. The North Jonesmore plat, which has been placed on the market. Includes 420 lots, and comprises the tract of 70 acres originally platted as Glenhaven. It is divided by the O.-W. R. & N. Railway and the Mount Hood electric line, which has been given a right of way through the tract. The piece Is bounded by Kast Seventy-second, East Eighty-second. Halsey and Tillamook streets. The land is level, yet sightly. The Mount Hood Railway is expected to operate two limited trains each way night and morning, stopping near North Jonesmore. which- will give virtually a 10-mlnute service to and from tne cen ter of the city. This will bring Jones more much nearer the business center than many additions that are geograph ically clor. Here are some of tjie reasons why a Morier View orchard offers an ideal investment to the salaried man: They are sold on the easy-payment plan a small cash payment and the remainder in monthly sums easily met. No other investment on the market today offered for the same priee, will yield so large a profit,. The crop from one of these orchards, when it comes into full bearing, will pay the original cost every year. . The element of uncertainty is eliminated, as a failure of the fruit crop in the Hood River-Mosier district is unknown. They are located in what has been demonstrated as the finest apple-growing belt in the world. They are cared for until .they come into bearing at no cost to the purchaser. These are a few of the reasons why Mosier View Orchards appeal especially to the moderate salaried man who is loofing for the best and safest place to invest his savings. A five-acre tract in Mosier View Orchards is the best savings bank in the world. Money deposited in a savings bank will double in 20 years, while the value of one of these orchards will double in five years, and when the orchard conies into full bearing the annual crop will pay a handsome profit on five times the original cost. Do you know of any other investment that will equal this? HOOD RIVER ORCHARD LAND COMPANY Owner DEVLIN & FIREBAUGH, Sales Agent Offices 906, 907, 908, 909 Yeort Building Phones, Main 1450 -A 6598 " PORTLAND'S MOST SCENIC ACREAGE ADDITIONS" WI LI A.L AT IN AND MARINE. VIEW (The Twin Additions on I the West Side $400 AND UP PER ACRE 10 Down and 2 Per Month These beautiful additions lie just north of the city, on an elevation that gives a com manding view of the mountains, valley and rivers. It is intersected by a macadamized road that offers the most scenic drive out of the city. To those wishing a place for a country homQ, Nature here offers her best. The trustees of St. Helen's Hall, after spending considerable time in searching for a suitable location for a new home for their school, finally selected a 23-acre tract in Willalatin Park, on which they Vill erect a beautiful home for this well-known girls seminary. This, with a $2500 building re striction throughout these additions, assures not only the best of homes, but homes of the best. With the comparative nearness to the city, elevation, desirability of surroundings and price, these twin additions appeal strongly to the investor as well as the home seeker. "We will gladly give you further in formation if you call at our office. If un able to call, write us. SHEPARD, MILLS & ROGERS Main 6659 2 14-2 15 Board of Trade BIdg., 4th and Oak Sts. A 4710 ROAD OPENS FINE LAND ROGUE RIVER VALLEY SOIL IS ADAPTED TO APPLES. Pears, Alfalfa and Grains Also May Be Profitably Grown I'pon Choice Tracts. Building of the Grants Pass & Rogue River Valley Railway southerly through Applegate and Williams Val leys, a distance of 30 miles, a worlff which Is now being undertaken by a railroad company of the same name, with headquarters at 408 Spalding butlding. will open up a tract of 70.000 acres of choice lands hitherto unavail able because of lack of transporta tion. It is anticipated that this road will attract settlement in tne airec tlon of the Rosrue River Valley. A. D. Bowen, president and general manager of the road, has also under his control a tract of 7500 acres of choice and well-selected land which ne Is colonizing with Eastern people, j.e and his associates have been quite suc cessful In inducing many of the better class of farmers of the East ana auaaie West to move to Oregon and place these lands under intensive cultivation. In addition to high-grade apples and pears, for which the Rogue, River Val ley Is already famous, the settlers of the Applegate and Williams Valleys ha found their land well suited -o dairying. Alfala produces abundant crops. Because of tne lacK oi trans portation attention in the past has been directed chiefly to the growing of grains and alfalfa, but as practically the whole region Is under Irrigation It Is expected that fruit-farming will sup plant these industries to a great ex tent. The City of Grants Pass is showing the stimulating effects of the building of the new road in great industrial ac tivity. The road will reach at Its southern end the famous Oregon Caves, of which a great deal has been written and said but of which little is really known. It Is freely predicted that the Rogue River Valley will within 10 years, because of the advent of this transportation system, triple ita popu lation. SMALL ACREAGE WANTED Property Near Portland Especially In Demand, Says Mr. Atchison. N. M. Atchison, who recently pur chased the partnership Interest in the real estate firm operating as Hall & Atchison, reports a heavy demand for farms and small acreage within a ra dius of 25 miles of Portland. Mr. Atchison has made a specialty of Wil lamette Valley acreage, and since the first of the year has aold a large num ber of good valley farms to new set tlers coming from the Middle West. Amops recent sales reported are the following: Five-acre orchard tract In 2-year-old trees to Dr. Tu. W. Hyde, of Portland; ten acres of orchard land at Bonlta Station to H. V. Villiger, of Portland: five-acre orchard" tract, 8 years old, at Bonita Station to W. B. McCreery, of Portland; four and two-thirds-acre tract of garden land at Bonita Station to Mrs. L. J. Uingel, of Portland, for country home; J20-acre farm at Scio, Or., to S. C. Alvord, a recent arrival from Nevada. This place is well improved and was purchased, in cluding all stock and personal prop erty, for $7800, and Mr. Alvord left this week to take Immediate posses sion. He expects to spend several thou sand dollars In setting out fruit and walnut trees and making this one of the best farms in that section. All of the above described small acre age lies only a few minutes' walk from the station on the Salem Electric line. Mr. Atchison has several more intend ing purchasers now on the way from the Middle West who expect to live in Oregon. These are well-to-do farmers who can pay for what they want and will prove most desirable as new set tlers in Willamette Valley. LATONIA "ACRES POPULAR City Folk Seek Homes in Thi9 Grow ing Subdivision. The tendency on the part of city dwellers to seek homes In the outskirts was taken advantage of by the Span ton Company in placing Latonia acres, an area of 25 acres subdivided into 84 tracts, on the market a short time ago. The property is located between East Lincoln, East Division, East Eighty Eighth and East Ninety-second streets. It was formerly used by Japanese gardeners for truck farming. The subdivisions are one-quarter and one-half acres in extent. A well-improved county road leading toward Ore gon City runs by the property. This connects with the East Section road, leading to the center of the city. DUFUR GROWING TOWN COMMUNITY ASPIRES TO RIVAL HOOD RIVER SOON. Land Said to Be Well Adapted Fo IVtiit Culture! Railroad Aid to Increasing Business. Over in Wasco County, which adjoins Hood River County, the district in which the world's best apples are produced, on the east is a little city of more than 600 inhabitants called Dufur. Its peopla declare- that some of these days it will be universally known as the rival ot Hood River as a fruit-shipping center. They assert, and the facts obtainable seem to bear them out. that Hood River soli is no better adapted to the produc tion of fruit than is theirs, and declare that the only reason this is not already true Is that Hood River had transporta tion facilities long before steam engines started putting into their district Now they have a railroad and the fruit-raising business has started with a Jump. Ranches which before were devoted to grain and hay-raising and grazing are now considered far too valu able for that purpose and are being split up into live and 10-acre tracts. One of the largest companies operating in the district is the Dufur Lund & Development-Company, which is now marketing 1500 acres of apple land through the Hart Land Company, Chamber of Commerce building. There are already 60 acres of 5-year-old trees on the company's prop erty. These are being used as an object-lesson to show to what extent fruit trees develop in the Dufur terri tory. More than 100 acres will be planted this Spring and by one year hence, according to present plans, this area will have been increased to be tween 400 and 500 acres. 'arrish, Watkins & Co. (ESTABLISHED 1867) REAL ESTATE Rentals, Loans and Fire Insurance Agents Improved and Unimproved City Real Estate for sale. Houses rented, rents collected and properties handled in all details for residents and non-residents. Money to loan on city property in sums to suit. Agents for New York Underwriters' Agency Fire Insurance Company. 2SO Alder Street Portland, Or. A