TTK SUNDAY OKEGOXTAX. PORTLAND. JANUARY 14, 1913.
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) KREBS FARM SOLD
STEEL VIADUCT UNDER WAY IN EASTMORELANTJ.
The Opportunity:
ALT A ME A
Hop Tract of 400 Acres Taken
by London Firm.
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SI 30,000 IS PRICE PAID
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Trad In In Farm Land Tbroag-tioat
State I Active Mou Place In
Washington County Bring
18.00.
The moot Important deal In farm
lands reported last week was the sale
of the famous Krens hop farm, near In.
dependence. to Wlgan. Klchardson
Companr. of london. for I1JO.O0O.
Tbera are about 400 arras In the tract
and the consideration Involved Is on a
basis of SIX an acre. John CarmlchaeU
of Palem. Pacific Coast agent for the
London firm of hopbuyers. negotiated
the sal.
Tha farm In considered one of the
finest In tha Willamette Valley. It la
quipped with all modern buildings
necessary to tha handling of hops on a
large scale. Tha farm was offered to
the London firm several years ago and
a few manths ago tha place passed Into
the hands of Ladd at Bush. Salem
bankers.
Kreba Brothers own considerable
o.her hop land In Polk and Marion
counties and will continue In tha bop.
growing; business.
All re to tha needs of modem farm
Ins; methods, the School Board of
Klamath Falls will Inaugurate an ag
ricultural course In Its high school.
Tha Klamath County High School will
co-operate with tha city high echool In
tha work.
" Tha Oregon Agricultural College has
Keen asked to select a man to take
" charge of tha work and It la expected
that the name of the Instructor will
be announced soon. Tha county has
purchased a tract of (( acre, upon
which an experiment station will be
established. Tha hlh school atudenta
of tha city and county will be given
the benefit of tha Instruction and ex
pert men tal work.
J. E Thomas and A. C- Keeney. who
purchased recently tha Harding place
of 1J00 acres, near Creswell. have an
nounced that they will Improve and
subdivide the farm Into small tracts.
Much of the farm will be planted te
fruit trees. Within tha past fet yeara
several thousand acres around Creewe.ll
have been planted to fruit treea and
many Eastern people have been drawn
to that vicinity.
With the activity In railroad con
struction In Klamath County, there la
expected a big movement In lands be
tween Klamath Falls and Lkevlew thla
year. The district north of Klamath
Falls which will be tapped by tha Na-tron-Klamath
Falls cutoff. It Is ex
pected, will also attract many settlers
and Investors. It Is announced that a
new town will be opened this Spring
at a point between Crater and Corral
fprlngs.
William McKensle recantly paid
t00 for 40 acres of wheat land near
Weston. In t'matllla County. The price
paid was on a basis of 1150 an acre.
The land la In tha foothills of the Blue
Mountains and la well adapted to di
versified farming.
H. Hughes, of Portland, has purchased
a farm of 10 acres, near Bend, and
will remove there at once. Tha place
Is well Improved and a large part ot It
Is under Irrigation.
Jacob Mous has sold his 101-aere
farm one mile east ot Banks, on tha
lulled Hallways, to a syndicate of
Washington County men. Tha consid
eration was SIS.SOO. or I ITS an acre. It
Is the Intention of the purchasers to
plant tha entire tract to hops.
MH-mnsiox trading brisk
Many Building '" at Multnomah
Station Are Sold.
Ben Rlesland. of tha Western Securi
ties Company, reports a brisk trade at
Wlldwood. the townslta which la de
veloping at Multnomah station on tha
Oregon Electric. The company made
the following sales:
Mary F. Patton. lots ( and . block 7.
price 1360: lot . block 1. Home Addi
tion, to Q. F. McCue. 00: block .
Wlldwood, to Mary B. Hawley. $800.
Both Mrs. Patton and Mr. McCue have
started to build on their property, and
Mrs. Hawley has leased her block for a
i limber yard. bulldlnics for which are
now being erected. Block t. In Wild
wood, was sold for $540 to H. 3. Will
iamson. He has five carloads of lum
ber on tha ground, and thla new lumber
shed Is nearly completed. It Is the In
tention of Mr. Williamson to conduct
a general lumber business.
Lot . block 5. was purchased by Paul
C. Oark for $00. Lot 7. block 4. was
sold to-Nelson Thomas for 100. Mr.
Thomas plans to erect a house upon his
property Immediately. Henry C. Web
ster purchased lot . block . Wlldwood.
tor isoo.
The Western Security Company sold
lot 10. block . Irvlngwood. to Alber
tina Snow for l00; and also lot I.
block a. to Annie Coleman for $800.
Both purchasere Intend to build homes
on their property. Oertrude K. Nichol
son purchased lot . block 8, Irving
wood, for $72$. Adolph Pfelfer pur
chased lot . block (. Institute Place,
for $50. Subdivision business has been
particularly good for this time of tha
yesr, Mr. Kiesland report He pre
dicts a bright future for tha real estate
business thla Spring.
MVXV 1IOVSCS ARE rXDFJt WAY
Nine Dwellings Being Built by
Smith-Wagoner Company.
The Smith-Wagoner Company has
umltT course of construction nine
dwellings in different sections of the
Kast Side. Five houses of tha bunga
low type are being built In Irvlngton
Park, on Junior street, between East
Twenty-seventh and East Twenty
ninth streets.
This companr la erecting two bunga
loms In Hose City Park on Kast Fifty
fifth street. The seven buildings con
tain five rooms each an! modem
throughout. In Laurelhurst a six
room bungalow Is under way and two
more houses of the same type will be
started soor In addition to these
buildings tha company la remodeling a
larxe house on Kast I'avis, between
East Tenth and East Eleventh atreets
Into modern flats. It Is announced that
several of the houses have been sold
under contract.
Brown's Building I'nder Waj.
Walls for the reinforced concrete
building for S. I Brown on East First
and East Main streets, are Bearing
completion, and tha structure will be
enclosed soon. Thla building eovera a
e. naxter block, and. with the basement.
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ITRICTIRE WILL
will be four stories. It will cost
$40,000.
Plans have been prepared for a
home an East Seventy-third and Fre
mont streets. In Gregory Heights, for
N. C Gregory, of the Gregory Invest
ment Company. This house will be
14 by 14 feet, with full basement, and
tha coat will bs 1:000. P. Roblson has
been awarded tha contract. F. L.
Dolesal has had plana drawn for a
four-room bungalow to ba erected on
East Eighteen and Fremont street. In
tha same addition. Mr. Dolexal also
has had plans drawn for a seven-room
house on Esst Forty-sixth street snd
Hawthorne avenue. In Falling Addition,
as an Investment.
Port Case Will Not Be Appealed.
MARSHFIELD, Or Jan. 1$. (Spe-
claL) Another of tha legal actions
.init the Port of Cooi Bay nrevent-
tng action on tna part of tha commis
sioners In floating the $$00,000 bond
issue has been removed. C K. Peck.
attorney for the port, has received
PRIZE ESSAY CONTEST MARKED SUCCESS
Homebuilders Relate. Interesting Experience, in EcacMn Goal
WITH tha publication of tha prlsa
winnlng essays today tha con
test conducted under tha au
spices of tbs Portland Realty Board
cornea to a close. That the contest was
tha most auccessful ever held In Port
land tbera la no question. During the
eight weeks that tha contest was held
there were received hundreds of letters
from homebuilders living in all sec
tions of the city and In tha auburbs.
tailing of tha bardahlpa endured and
many experiences suffered before tha
final goal was reached.
The effect of theaa letters will be
wholesome and will, no doubt, be the
means of causing many persons to es
the exactions of landlords
and to acquire their own homes. It is
agreed that tha opportunmea are ju.i
as good today for pereons of small
means to get homes as they were three
and five yeara ago. Tha gist of all
these, lettera Is that any person can
own his own home ny practicing
economy, thrift, determination ana sen-
denial. . ,
Many essays that oia noi receive
highest marks had Interesting and
helpful features. These articles will be
-..t.n.t...i from tlm to time In The
Oregonlan and by reading thera many
persons. It Is expected, will find a way
to home ownership and Independence.
Tha priie-wlnnera tor me wc
of the contest are as follows:
Walter Keene. East Eighty-eighth
and Market streets, winner ot nrsi
prise of $35.
xi r E Monroe. Woodstock, win
ner of second prise of 110.
Mrs. J. L. Reed. K. r . u- no. i.
winner of third prize ot 15.
Tent Life on Small Plot Is
Relief to Renters
Vr.ry ef Asrtsse-Hona Atmaa
phrre, Pertlaaa Cswala lssaravtee
Hssii la swbartNS a.d lartdeatally
Helves -High Coat af Living."
By Walter Keene. East Eighty-eighth
and Market Streets, winner of .first
prise.
SOMETHING over year
found that tha time had
when wa could arrange oui
nrlse.)
AircTtiivri over a Tear aao
arrivea
our affairs
so aa to purchase a tract In Shirley
rnnri east of Mt. Tabor a few blocks.
and which comprised nearly half an
aCVe had long searched for a place that
our means could handle and still would
be blessed with the essentials, namely:
transportation facilities. Bull Bun
water, good soil and paved roads to the
city. All these we found and felt we
were fortunate In being able to buy on
easy terms. We paid our monthly In
stallments for several months and early
last Spring went out and put In a small
garden. The Arst Sunday we went out
to cultivate the garden we worked hard
for several hours. Both my wife and
myself, while we said nothing at the
time, thought that a half-acre la cer
tainly a large-elied piece of ground.
However, wa kept at It faithfully until
the day we picked the first mess of
ptMM. We got a 0-pound sackful off
one row about 100 feet long. Then, we
sat down and had a talk that resulted
In our disposing of one-half of our
tract to a friend. For. wo had mora
than wa could do justice to with the
time we had to devote to It.
gaveral good-sized messes of berries
were procured from plants set out a
year ago and last Fall we added mora
berries, set out 10 trees together with
loganberries, currants, gooseberries and
red raspberries. .
In August we went to the beach for
two weeks and found tent life so enjoy
able that ImmeJlately on returning to
Portland we arranged to put up a tent-
if... nn our Dlace. True, we
could have built a cheap house, but with
our means would not pin wru tv
put In plumbing. decided we would
sacrifice outward appearances to Inward
comforts. Besides, wa hated to think
PROVIDE DIRECT CAR SERVICE TO
word from J. M- Oeartn, tha attorney
In the case of Hala against tha' port,
case was In the Federal Court. There
la now only one action preventing the
Port Commissioners from floating the
bond Issue, and that Is tha quo war
ranto case in the Supreme Court, and
It la hoped the Commissioners may soon
go ahead with tha Improvements con
templated by tha expenditure of tha
$300,000.
LEBANON CLUB IS ACTIVE
Business Men Will Start Work on
Good Roads Proposition.
LEBANON. Or, Jan. IS. (Special.)
The Lebanon Commercial Club complet
ed Its charter list of membership at
the meeting held last night and now
has nearly 100 members. Including
business and professional men and most
of the clerka of tha city and many
of a very long spell of tha "dollar-down-and-dollar-tlll-you-dle"
stunt,
I got a good carpenter to help ma and
we built a good floor 12x21 feet, ar
ranging It so that later wa can use
thla In a permanent dwelling. The sides
are boarded up five feet, plenty of win
dows and two glass doors give light and
ventilation. The ridge pole and posts
along the sides, for guying tha tent to.
ara put up especially strong to stand
the wind.
Now comes the part we think la mora
necessary to our contentment than hav
ing something for the neighbors to look
at and this is the bathroom, which Is
complete in every way. Also there Is a
good sink In the kitchen. The arrange
ment Is aa close to the usual "two-room
apartment" as It can be. My wife takes
care of the tent-house with vry little
trouble and enjoys It better than some
of the larger fiats wa have had sines
coming to Portland, eight years sgo.
A good fly over all and projecting
over the sides three feet and the same
distance at the ends gives ample pro
tection from the rains and winds, be
sides making It warmer In Winter and
cooler in Summer. We have been very
comfortable so far, and as today is cold
(New Tear's day) we feel sure we will
be plenty warm enough. In the city,
as we still refer to living on the West
Side, It cost us from $95 to $110 pes
month; now. however, wa ara living on
$35 and while we still owe a small sum
on tha land In Shirley wa feel that tha
home la won.
Two Young Women Acquire
Home, Unassisted
Dream af Their Owilii Own Doml
rlle Cosaes True After Months of
Hard Work and Sielf-Denlal Sis
ters' Saeeeaa Shared la by Their
Mother.
(By Miss M. E. Monroe. Woodstock, Or,
Winner of Second Pme.)
HE THAT succeeds Is the one that
has the will to win. Any tramp
can wish for a thing, but It takes
real character to get it. Evea-y one
gTRCCTTRB
On. of the most sirhtlT and at
v.. retired business man Tha building will rise on a lot about 00 reet soutn or me rro-.u-
MorFVH&hmnAwm so.ituated that a broad and unobstructed view of the entire city
can be hid The building U to be of fireproof construction, fully modern In appointmente and will have
'Th7r.dwmSbeTx"partmernt. on each floor, four of them containing larg. dining-rooms, large kitch
ens. w" rrooml pHvat n" 1? Snil bathroom's. The other two apartment, on each floor will be similar
Tnrrlnerement. but will have but one bedroom. This plan eliminates the use of disappearing beds and
g"v e; ipartm.nr a nome-like atmosphere. The cost of the building will approximate $80,000. The
plans are being drawn by Bridges tc. - Weber.
LARGE DISTRICT.
farmers and fruitgrowers In this vicin
ity. H. R. McHaffle, manager of the
Lebanon Paper Mills, Is the president
and O. W. Cruson Is secretary of the
new organisation. Good roads and Im
proved and paved streets Is to be one
of the first efforts of the club. Today
the club took up the matter of a rock
crusher for this vicinity to ba Jointly
owned and operated by the city and
county.
There is a fine rock Quarry a mils
from this city now owned by the county
and It Is the purpose of the club in con
nection with the City Council and the
County Court to keep a crusher busy
there crushing rock for the streets of
Lebanon and the roads leading to tha
city. The next object of the club Is to
take proper steps to advertise tTie re
sources and advantages of the east end
of Linn County and particularly the
Santiam country.
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Chebalis Woman Die.
CHEHALI8. Wash., Jan. 11. (Spe
cial) Mrs. W. F. Madden died here
Wednesday night, after a long Illness.
of Ambition-Contest Conducted by Realty Board Comes to Close.
says of us. "How lucky you are." little
realizing that their own failure Is due
to a torpid ambition.
If you have lived most of your life
In one room of a boarding-house, where
you can hear everything that goes on
In the next room, and your only
glimpses of Nature are a people living
artificial lives or a man-made park,
while all the time your heart is yearn
ing for God's flowers, trees, birds,
fresh air and real mother earth, then
you happen to come to Portland, where
all these things are attainable. If -you
are a red-corpuscled man you will hava
them.
I was a girl of 12 years and my
sister a few years older when w
reached Portland with $100 between, us.
The first thing my sister said aa wa
rode uptown was: "Edith, here is where
our dreams come tru." But I was
doubting Thomas and answered, "Port
land is all right, but it takes mora
of a bank account than ours to make a
home seem anything like a possibility."
But I was wrong. She had the right
hunch, as the boys say. The very next
day she spent visiting different sub
urbs and when night came she had
bought a 100 by 100-foot lot five miles
out on a five-cent carline, with a little
three-room shack on it and paid $7J
down. It was a desperate thing to do,
for wej had taken a room In a boarding-house
at $50 a month, but she. said
we must fix things so we had to make
good.
The next day we started the weary
search for advertising clients. Had we
failed at this we would hava clerked
or found something l?e to do, but we
did not falL When business men found
we had a purpose more vital than
clothes and were eager to work at all
hours, they considered It their bargain
and In a few weeks we had plenty of
clients.
It was Springtime and after a long
day at the offlce many, many nights
we would go out to our "very own"
lots and plant flowers, onions, radishes
and a lot of things that we could not
tell from weeds when they came up,
but tasted, oh. ao good, later on. Then
we had a man plow and we put in a
EOxSO-foot plat In potatoes.
The next month wa were doing so
well we paid the landlady, bought a
few necessities and moved in our
"home." Here we were very happy but
FIREPROOF APARTMENT-HOUSE TO RISE IN PORTLAND HEIGHTS,
TO BE BCILT TOR M. M. MATO at COST OP S80MO.
- tractive apartment-houses of Portland will be erected
Homes you will ba proud of N0"W as well as 10 years from now. v
Why not buy the best when you are buying especially when the price is right?
At your home in Altamead your wife will not have to rest her eyes on wood piles and
earbatre cans in front of your home, because you will have all such unsightly things
where they belong in the alley. This is good for33 1-3 per cent in the selling value
of your lot.
Instead of gazing on wood piles'and garbage cans in front of your house you can look
npon the majestic Mt. Hood and Mt. St. Helens or the beautiful Powell Valley ; or you can
look the other way and watch your children going to Portland's greatest Natural Park
Mt. Tabor to play.
Altamead is the ideal home place, added to which is the cold fact that you can resell
at a large profit.
Because it is being' highly improved, curbing, cement sidewalks, additional streetcar
service, and .what not; and is being sought after by the substantial families people you
are proud to have for neighbors.
These lots are going to be advanced from $50 to $100 per lot February 1.
"We have good business reasons for doing this. Take the hint.
Lots now $425 and up;
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write, icicpuuiro vi
tavilla car, get off at Base
GERMAN
264 STARK STREET
Mr. Madden died a few weeks ago. The
case was a most pathetic one. For years
the husband had struggled against ad
verse circumstances in his effort to
care for his invalid wife. Finally he
became affected with a cancer, which
caused his death.
not long satisfied. Our ambition now
was for an open fireplace, hot and cold
water and a bathtub; also two more
rooms, so mother could come live with
us.
Everything had to come through
the Installment plan and It took two
years' hard work of brain and muscle
and we had the usual runs of sickness
and extra expenses to contend with,
but we won. If you could see mother on
a bright Summer's day out talking to
her flowers and chickens, or could join
us about the cozy open fire on a cool
Winter evening and join us in the corn
popping and storytelling you would not
ask me If It paid to work hard to make
your dreams come true. It does, In
Portland, anyway.
living Problem Is Solved
by Aged Couple
In Pace ef Adversity, Elderly Man
and Wife Buy Lot, Build Own
Home, and Find Happiness After
Paying; V30S0 in Hent la Seven
Years.
(By Mrs. J. L. Reed. R. F. D. No. 1, Box
181. Winner of third prize.)
w
i HEN we came to Portland In 1903
wa had only a few dollars. . We
houirht tha furniture of an eight-
room house and commenced to take in
roomers. My .husband worked almost
all the time and yet we could not get
ahead; In fact, we were losing money.
I at last prevailed upon my husband
to buy a lot We agreed to pay $10
down and $10 a month. We finally
paid for two lots and received title.
After more than two years' trial we
sold the furniture In the rooming-house
for a small amount down, the remain
der to be paid In monthly Installments.
Up to that time we had paid out $3680
In rent, covering a period of seven
years. Those rent receipts now wouldn't
buy us a meal.
My husband wanted to rent again,
but I objected. We found a shack near
our lota which we rented for a month for
$3. We then bought enough furniture
for two rooms and moved In, Intending
soon by M. M.
the Ford-street
$l down and $10 per month.
Will
fit AIIT nffipe where autos are at
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Line road, walk 3 blocks to Altamead.
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REALTY TRUST CO.
- TLEEPHONES Marshall 3832, A 5615
to get along that way until we were
able to build. We found a four-room
house on the right-of-way of the Mount
Hood Railway & Power Company which
we bought for $100. We had It moved
to our land, costing us $35. The house
had to be re-plastered and painted, as
It looked like a cyclone had hit it. My
husband plastered the kitchen and we
moved In and we occupied the one room
until the other rooms were repaired
gradually. After some time we man
aged to have the house painted and the
ground plowed.
My husband works about hair the
time, but this is better than to be em
ployed steadily and to pay rent. The
rest of the time he works at home. In
thla way he was able to dig the base
ment and a well and to raise all the
chickens and vegetables we need. We
have enough peas and potatoes to last
until Spring. These were raised on a
60xl00-foot lot We now have an ele
vated lawn, honeysuckle vines, rose
bushes, concrete walk and steps to our
veranda and our garden fenced. We
also have a nice chicken farm on the
adjoining lot We today have every
thing we could wish for.
All work of carpentering, plastering,
painting, fencing, etc, was done by my
husband, who Is now nearly 60 years
old. It is Just 14 months since we
started to work for . ourselves instead
of for the landlord. Any one can do
what we have done, as we were old and
the best part of our lives was spent In
gathering- rent receipts that were of no
value. And now in our declining years,
we are as happy as any family and the
"winds of adversity" are no longer a
terror to us.
Attractive Theater Planned.
Plans have been completed by Bennes
& Hendricks for a moving-picture
show theater for the Grand Amusement
Company, to be located on Sixth street,
between Washington and Stark streets.
The theater will be 60x100 feet in size
and will have a seating capacity for
500 people. The Interior will be dec
orated elaborately and the front will
be attractive. Tha improvements will
cost about $10,000.
New Home In Holladv Addition.
Architect George L. Thomas has pre
pared plans and specifications for a
beautiful residence, which is to be
erected on East Sixteenth between
Multnomah and Wasco streets for H.
J. Fisher, of Flsher-Thorsen Company.
The dwelling will be 2 stories high,
and will contain 12 rooms, with front
10 per cent down and a small payment per month secures
you a 5 or 10-acre tracts set to orchard, at
" West Stay ton
Marion County, Oregon
Small tracts, ideal for
POULTRY
BERRIES or
DAIRYING
on easy termsr Call at Sy2 Chamber of Commerce Bldg. No
trouble to tell you all about it. ' You should investigate this
before deciding. '
Willamette Valley Irrigated Land Co.
IIARTJIAN & THOMPSON, JOHN H. HAETOG,
Managers. Managing Director.
help you build.
your service
Or take JIou-
and rear porches. It will cost $9000.
It will have a shingled exterior with
wide eaves and heavy ornamental
rafters. Provision Is made for a play
room, a bllllard-room, bathroom and
servants' quarters in the attic.
The Snowls Gone
and now is the time to 'think
about Lighting Fixtures for
the new home. . It is essen
tial that you see our superb
showing of Lighting Fix
tures.. Secure our estimates
and have us submit draw
ings, before you decide to
purchase elsewhere.
M. J, Walsh Co.
311 Stark Street
Electric Wiring, Lighting .
Fixtures, Tiling and
Fireplace Supplies
I rum m7.ol