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Newspaper Page TextTHE SUXDAT OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND, JULY 21, 1912. 8 REALTY SITUATION IS SATISFACTORY Several Big Deals Under Way Despite Dullness of Mid Summer Period. FINE HOME PURCHASED Portland Will Get Effective AdTer Using From Elks' Reunion, Says Dealer--Building Operations Make Big Showing. The "between-season" period haa been having ita effect on realty trad Jng. Tbere haa been but little activity In downtown property all month, al though brokera report that there are several deals under way of consider' able Importance that may be closed by August 1. An uptown parcel has been taken over by a Portland investor for $75,000, but the principals will not an nounce details of the transaction until next week. The most Important deal of the week was closed yesterday when J. E. Wheeler, a Portland tlmberman, pur chased the northeast corner of Seven teenth and Washington streets from Mrs. Rose Guilliuame. It is understood that the consideration was approxi mately 180,000. The property Is Im proved with frame buildings, and re turns a good rate of interest on the valuation. The sale was made through the agency of R. F. Byran. Mr. Wheeler also purchased a 25xl00-foot lot on the west side of Eleventh street, between Washington and Stark streets, the con sideration being 130.000. The property was acquired by James Lee, who had held It for several years. The parcel is covered with an old frame residence. The sale was negotiated by R. F. Bryan. J. II. Creamer haa purchased from Mrs. Annie Wagner a lot at the south west corner of Sixteenth and Northup streets for $15,000. The lot Is improved with three small cottages. These will be removed soon and a modern build ing erected. In residence property the market has been unusually brisk the past ten days. 3ales are reported in all parts of the city. The most important transaction was the purchase by W. J. Furnish, formerly of Pendleton, of the Portland Heights dwelling of William Blttle Wells for $30,000. The property Is sit uated at Clifton and Lownsdale streets. The house contains 12 rooms, with brick and stucco exterior and hard wood interior finish. The home Is mod ern and one of the attractive places of the district. The sale was ne gotiated by Dorr E. Keasey & Co. This firm also sold a modern eight-room dwelling at East Nineteenth and Han cock streets for H. R. Albee to W. T. Jacobson for $10,000. There was a good demand for build ing sitea In nearly all the new addi tions. Activity has been notable in Laurelhurst. Ladd's Addition, East moreland, Beaumont, Alameda Park, Arlington Heights. Kings Heights and Westover Terraces. Dr. Gertrude L. Gates purchased two lots on Rutland Terrace. Arlington Heights, for $5000. W. S. Nash, an attorney, bought a lot on the same street for $3500 and will improve the site at once with a fine home. These sites were purchased through the agency of Dorr E. Keasey A Co. "The Elks' reunion will prove a great advertisement for Portland," said J. Fred Larson, of Umbdenstock & Lar son, yesterday. "It gave us an oppor tunity to show visitors what the city haa accomplished during the past few years. Those who had not visited Port land in recent years were astounded at the city's growth. Those who were In Portland for the first time were greatly impressed with the business Bectlon and the residence districts. A Philadelphia Elk aptly described the situation as follows: " "You have here advantages not equaled by any other city a great back country that must render tribute to your city, abundant water power for manufacturing, excellent transpor tation, an immense amount of ground suitable for residences. The air here is invigorating. You have an enthu siastic public spirit. I do not wonder, with all these advantages, that you are growing so rapidly, nor am I sur prised to find so many beautiful homes erected. 'I cannot see how anyone who buys Portland real estate can lose. No one can make a mistake in casting his lot with you. I intend to tell my Phila delphia friends about the big things that are taking place in Portland.' " During the past year Morgan, Flied ner Boyce have erected IS apartment-houses in Portland, aggregating a total investment of $$00,000. In this kind of construction, it is declared that there Is no firm on the Pacific Coast that has made such a showing. This company is operating on both the Weit Side and East Side. "Portland haa made great progress in apartment-house construction dur ing the past two years." said W. F. Fliedner yesterday. "All our build ings are well filled and return a satis factory rate of interest on the In vestment. The city is growing at a steady pace and the demand for space in apartment-houses is keeping up well. The construction of apartments is becoming a science. I believe that this kind of construction in Portland in future will be of a higher class than ever. In a few years Portland will be among the first cities in the coun try in apartment-house construction. ' Portland Is making a big record in building operations. While there are not many large, structures under way In the downtown district, there is a general building activity that covers all sections of the city. There, ares however, some big buildings under con sideration that will be erected in the business district during the year. The total value of permits so far this month is $1,177,046. The total per mits for the corresponding month of last year reached a value of $1,375,315. As there are several plans for large buildings in the office of the Building Inspector to be checked over, It Is ex pected that the totals for the month will exceed the record of July, 1911, by a big margin. The important permit of the week was Issued yesterday which was for the new Central Library building. The structure will cost $450,000. The total permits of the week reached 147, with a valuation of JSS4.SS0. The week's summary Is as follows: Monday Tudar "Wednesday ............. Tho?day Friday Saturday .. 35 t IO.05 SI : :i !5 11 60.4S5 4 J. 850 S1.O05 13.4TS 453.995 Tetal J S6S4.830 MODERN APARTMENT PLANNED Four-Story Building to Be Erected on East Side. r ."Work was started last week on the foundation of a modern four-story brick apartment-house, at East Alder and East Eleventh streets, just west of the East Portland Branch Library. It will be 50x100 feet, with an annex In the rear, and will contain SO apart ments of three rooms each. The cost Is estimated at $50,000. Tapestry brick will be used for the outside facing, with light-colored atone trimmings and heavy galvanized iron cornices. All the rooms will have ample light and ven tilation. The interior finish will be in Oregon fir and hardwood, and some of Uie suites will be hand-rubbed ivory enameL J. . Wharton is owner of the prop erty. R. F. Wassell Is the architect and contractor. Mr. Wharton, who owns the corner lot and building, will cover that corner also with a similar struc ture. Excavationa have been started on the foundation. The location is con sldered ideal for a first-class apart ment building. Laorelhurst Home Planned. Plana are being drawn by Clausstn & Claussen for a Portland investor for a nine-room residence to be built tn Laurelhurst. The house will be of Ens llsh half-timber design, with the first story of brick construction. It will contain built-in buffets and all modern conveniences. The interior will be of selected fir and the floors will be hard wood. The house will cost about $8000. OREGON FARMS SOUGHT SALES CLOSED IX ALL SECTION'S OF STATE. Ranch of 1200 Acres at Cottage Grove to Bs Colonized Tract at Falls City Brings $24,000. ( Trading in farm lands the past 10 days has been satisfactory for this time of the year. According to reports re ceived from various parts of the state buying- haa been general. One of the largest transfers was made at Cottage Grove when J. E. Thomas, formerly of Creswell, purchased the Harding farm of 1200 acres. The land lies one mile east of Cottage Grove and Is considered exceedingly fertile. Mr. Thomas an nounced that he would complete plans Immediately for subdividing the place Into small farms and establish a num ber of families there during the next year. Tom Word, of Portland, has pur chased the James farm of 280 acres near Falls City for $24,000. Mr. Word will make extensive improvements on the place. About 120 acres have been planted to apple trees. The Dan Shaw place, one of the best known farms in Baker County, has been sold to Ross Williams and H. C. Nord heim. of Idaho, for $19,000. The place contains 520 acres and la well improved. The 30-acre orchard tract of J. S. Frank, near Hood River, has been sold to a syndicate of Japanese for $20,000. The entire tract is set to trees 2 and 4 years old. A. C. Brown has purchased the L E. Moorehead farm of 18 acres near Leb anon and will take possession at once. The place will be Improved by the new owner. The Guy Fisher farm near Banks has been bought by George Ederer, of the Western Lumber Company, of Portland. Mr. Ederer plans to Improve the farm and occupy it next year. FREIGHT DEPOT RUSHED O.-W. R. & N. MAKES EXTENSIVE EAST SIDE IMPROVEMENTS. When Completed, Facilities Will Be Provided for Handling Freight in Less Than Carload Lots. Contractor L A. Hicks Is pushing construction on the new freight depot on East Oak, between East First and East Second streets, for the O.-W. R. & N. Company. On the two-story part fronting on East Oak street the con crete work haa been completed, but the walls are still in the wood frame. The steel frame for the freight shed ad joining the concrete part on the north Is up and ready to be enclosed. Toward the north 'on the nil, which extends to East Burnside street, tracks are being laid from the main line on East First street. This open space north of the freight house will be reserved for the present for trackage and for team tracks. The tracks will be laid on both sides of the freight house. At present there are no facilities for hand ling freight on the East Side in less than carload lots. It is expected that the erection of this freight house will greatly facilitate and cheapen the hand ling of freight consigned to and from the East Side. The railway company has filled the ground on the east side of East First street, about 60 feet wide, to enlarge trackage space between the freight grounds south of East Burnside and the approach to the new railroad bridge. The shipping men of the warehouse dis trict are greatly Interested in this improvement, as It will mean the sav ing of many thousands of dollars in truckage to and from the West Side freight depot NEW HIGH SCHOOL IS SOUGHT Agricultural Department Is Plan ol Kenilvrorth Club. So rapid has the development and growth of the South East Side been the past three years that a general move ment has been Inaugurated to secure the erection of an agricultural high schoolhouse at some convenient point. The Kenilworth Improvement Associ ation initiated the movement, and the Holgate-East Forty-flrst-Street Im provement Association is supporting the plan. On behalf of the proposal for the high school building It Is urged that many schoolhouses have been built In the South East Side Clinton Kelly, Richmond. Creston. Woodstock, Arleta, Lents. Sellwood, Brooklyn. Llewellyn and Woodmere. Additions have been made to Clinton Kelly, making it a 20 room structure, and additions are be ing built to Richmond, Creston and Woodmere buildings, owing to growth in population. Another building will probably be built on Holgate and East 9000 school children are tributary to these grammar schools. It Is proposed to secure eight acres just south of Glsdstone avenue, be tween East Thirty-second- and East Thirtieth street, next year. About Forty-first streets, and Introduce ag ricultural departments. The movement will take definite form after vacation. It Is expected. Apartment Hoaie Planned. Mrs. Elizabeth Ferguson has pur chased a lot at the corner of East Eleventh and Hancock streets from Frank Motter tor $5000 and will erect an apartment house on the site at once. The sale was negotiated by C H. Zim merman. The plans for the building are being drawn by Roberta & Roberts, j FINE DRAWING OF PROPOSED DWELLING OF THOMA S BILYEU. Thomas Bilyeu, president of the Portland Concrete Pile & Equipment Company, is having plans pre pared for a 12-room dwelling, to be built on Falrview Boulevard, Arlington Heights. The house will have three stories on the lower end of the site and two stories on the upper part. The first floor will contain a. large reception room, dining room, living room, breakfast room and kitchen. There will be four rooms on the upper floor. The basement will be fitted up with a maid's room, laboratory, laundry and heating plant The exterior will be of stucco and the interior of hardwood and white enamel finish. The house will cost about $16,000 and will be among .the most attractive in the district. , The plans are being drawn by C. W. Henn. HIGHER PLANE IS Aim Realty Business Rapidly Be coming Profession. . HONEST METHODS URGED Land Trading When Conducted on Conscientious Lines Is Laudable Vocation, Says George T. Mortimer; of New York. The handling of real estate is gradu ally ceasing to be a business and is becoming a nrofessfon. according to G. T. Mortimer, a real estate expert, of New York. In a paper read at the re cent convention of the National Associa tion of Real Estate Exchanges held at Louisville, Mr. Mortimer said that the profession had grown with marked rapidity during the past 10 years. "The growing tendency of the public to' avoid Wall Street and its pitfalls a few years ago brought about a specula tion in real estate, which was almost of the 'wild-cat' variety," said Mr. Morti mer. "Virtually the entire United States was plotted and platted until farm land became so scarce that necessity. In rec tifying the evils which were brought about, has begun to turn some of the lots and subdivisions back again Into farms. This wild-cat' development Is tending to cast a stigma on the busi ness, or profession, which it is our duty to nrotect and elevate. "In the United States alone there are 3,500,000 square miles, and if our popu lation is Increasing at the rate of 10,- 000.000, or 15 per cent, every 10 years. our real estate Is also Increasing in value at the same ratio. Added to this, the continual production of gold and the natural increasing resources of the country are adding an unearned in crement as sure as the sun. Why, therefore. Is not real estate, selected with reasonable discrimination, the best Investment that can be made? The man who owns a piece of land has a sense of possession like unto a king. No other form of property ownership cre ates the same feeling of personal pride and Independence. When you buy a piece of real estate and have your deed In your strong box, you own something which cannot be manipulated by a board of directors, which cannot be thrown into the hands of receivers, and which neither fire, nor panic, nor Jiacii times can destroy. "You suburban developers, who are teaching the people how to live by building sanitary homes; you builders of Ideal tenements in the congested districts of the cities; you builders of modern office buildings and other hives of industry, which are constructed so as to give their occupants the best possible living and working conditions, are engaged in tne most ennooung work it Is possible to conceive, the cost of the average modern office building is well into the millions, so you can readily appreciate this man's increas ing importance. mtormation is your siock in iraae, confidence the keynote of your success, the degree of which will be measured by your own personality and salesman ship. True, there are setbacks, but these very disappointments are the fires which temper the steel. "Concentration, system, energy, hon esty to yourself and your client are bound to bring results. f ......... VIEW SHOWING- IMPROVEMENTS ON EAST SIDE BY O.-W. R. & N. J "1"'fl ' '' """""j r' ' " " ' " ' IWMWJ """"" w.'fjW ' n ' -vrwxmwmi!-1 "ii mii . j .jm. LM ' I C-.-a oti, -r!.----...?,.,.,.. .,,,. ,,.-. tml. tn m I FIREPROOF FREIGHT DEPOT- UNDER WAY ON EAST OAK STREET. ........ i HOME TO EISE ON ARLINGTON "The nation is full of people with real estate and-with money. Most of them don't know how to handle their own property or how to invest their money. For every man with the price, there are a hundred shapers. The ranks are crowded with brokers of the ordi nary class, but there is an unlimited demand for the conscientious, special ized broker, "who can give sound recog nized advice on. his specialty, just as the banker does "on financial securities, and who merits a similar respect and standing in the community. "There is no other business which of fers the same rewards to the compe tent, energetic worker; there is no other investment which is safe and staple, as well selected reafl estate. You cannot succeed, however, without Intel ligent, honest, persistent, day after day, effort, 'Energy is the mother of good luck." "Years ago they told me In New York that we had reached the top notch in prices, but since then values have gone up by leaps and bounds, until we have reached the maximum at the rate of 1700 Der (quare foot, and still we are not up to the top prices of either Lon don or Paris. The net increase of land values in the City of New York for a period of 10 years, from 1900 to 1910, was more than the combined gross out put of all gold and silver mines of the United States by $170,000,000, and greater by $287,000,000 than all the divi dends paid during this time by all the railroads of the United States. And during this time this land was paying satisfactory dividends on Its Invest ment. This Is the land, which In 1626 was bought from the Indians for $4, or approximately 9 cents for each 100 acres. ' "True, there are occasional reces sions, but these are mostly of a local nature, due to trade changes, and these very changes in localities are fruit for the broker, for whether his client is moving into or out of a dis trict, he needs the broker." BORING DISTRICT RICH BIG AREA SOUTHEAST OF CITY MAKES RAPID GROWTH. Large Holdings Being Cleared and Subdivided Into Tracts Suitable for Diversified Farming. Boring, located on the Oregon Water Power line, 17 miles from Portland, is the distributing center for a dis trict seven by nine miles in extent. The district is very fertile and well watered by branches from Deep and Johnson Creeks. More freight is handled at this station than any1 other on this railway outside of Portland, and being at the end of the Sandy stage line It has a considerable pas senger traffic. The Sandy road starting from Boring runs two miles east, where it connects with the Mount Hood automobile road and thence to Sandy, a distance of seven miles. Land la being cleared and farms subdivided. The construction of the Mount Hood railway caused the price to advance in the locality of Bandy and Boring, and still the price of land is low when one takes into consideration the quality of soli and its proximity to Portland and lines of transportation. Many people living in this district own their own automobiles and can reach Portland In a short time. This section produces fruits, vegeta bles and nearly all kinds of products. One crop of potatoes will more than pay for the clearing of the land. Many owners clear the land In Winter and put In a crop of potatoes in the Spring and get 200 bushels to the acre. HEIGHTS. EASTSHOWSGROWTH Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Warehouse Planned. COST WILL BE $150,000 First Structure of Kind to Be Con structed on High Ground in Cen tral East Portland Other Buildings Are Planned. Plans are being prepared by Archl- tects Bennes & Hendricks for a new warehouse for Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Company, to be built on the block bounded by East Gllsan, East Flanders, East Eighth and East Ninth streets. It will be a six-story building, of brick construction, with basement and sub- basement, and will occupy a space 93x 220 feet. The interior will be slow-burning construction and will be used for the storage of agricultural implements. It will be steam heated, and will be equipped with two large freight ele vators for transferring of freight to the upper floors. Office and display rooms will be on the first floor. It Is estl mated that the building will cost about $150,000. It will be started as soon as the contracts can be let. Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Company own a live-story brick building on East Morrison and East Second streets, covering a half- block, which was built five years ago, but more room is required. This will ba the first structure of the sort to be built on the high ground in Central East Portland. Lipman-Wolfe Company, which recently acquired i quarter block in Central East Port land plan to erect a brick building on the site at a cost of $25,000. Contract for the erection of a live story brick building 100x100 feet has been let to Bingham & McClellan, for the Portland Seed Company, at the cor ner of East First and East Alder streets, and will be exclusive for warehouse purposes. It will be a plain brick building, with concrete basement and Interior mill constructions. Tho foundation will rest on plies ow ing to the nature of the ground The building will be provided wnn a large elevator, hydraulic sidewalK lilt, elec- trie wiring and will be provided with an automatic sprinkling system for fire protection. The cost will be $45,000. Work will start at once. Johansen & Viller, who were awarded the contract for erection of the North Albina Branch Library building on Kll lingsworth avenue between Congress and Commercial streets, has taken out a permit showing cost of the building to be $40,000. It will be two-story, of brick and stone construction. The 11 brary will be on the first floor and the auditorium In the second story, wnicn will have a capacity for seating 250 per sons. The building will be completed early this Fall. The Albina Branch Library on Knott street, near Union avenue, is being com pleted, and probably will be ready by September 1, lor the opening, it will cost $40,000. This building Is differ ent from the other branch libraries in construction in that tiling was used in the walls, It-being the first building of the sort to be ouut nere witn tnat material. The auditorium will be lo cated in the basement, and will seat 400 people. COLLEGE LDGATIQN DISTRICT Estimates Say $2,000,000 Has Been Expended in Vicin ity of New School. SELLWOOD IS PROGRESSIVE System of Hard-Surfaced Street Will Reach From Grand Avenue to Points Along South East Sido of Willamette. More than $2,000,000 has been ex pended in developments in the terrl tory adjacent and tributary to the Reed College in the past two years, Including construction of sewers and streets and erection of homes, exclusive of college buildings, which are now under construction. It is predicted that this teritory will move forward faster next year than ever before and will rival the North East side, wnicn js SDreadtng toward the Columbia River. Hard-surface pavements, sewers and attractive homes are among tne lm provements noticeable In this district. President Foster in his lectures made mention of the beauty of the. territory Reed College selected and declared that It would become one of the most at tractive and prosperous sections of Portland, aided by the influence of the great educational institution estab llshed there. In the Sellwood district substantial progress is being made, especially in the matter of permanent street lm provements. After several years' agl tatlon a number of the Important streets are to be paved. Umatilla ave nue, which extends through the center of this suburb, is to be paved between East Nineteenth, or the Milwaukle road, and Grand avenue at the Wil lamette River. The street committee recommended that the contract for paving Umatilla avenue be awarded to Kibbe-Welton Company at $2488, and that company will probably be awarded the contract. The same com pany will probably get the job of pav Ing Maiden avenue from East Thir teenth to Milwaukle street, and Harney street, between East Ninth and East Fifteenth . streets. These improve ments will cost about $25,000. Pave ment of Spokane avenue between East Nineteenth street and Grand avenue will likely be let at the next meeting of the City Council, at a probable cost of about $25,000. Spokane avenue ex tends to the Sellwood ferry. These Im provements' will aggregate approxi mately $80,000. The Kibbe-Welton Company Is paving the northern por tion of City View Park at a cost of about $50,000, and altogether the show ing Sellwood is making in paved streets Is excellent. At the south side of Sellwood an ex tensive contract of street paving and sewerage Is under way in the Waverly Club grounds, between the Oregon City track and Milwaukle road. A consider able portion of this vacant tract has been platted into residence sites. The Warren Construction Company is grading and paving the streets and the Montague-O'Reilly Company is lay ing a sewerage system covering the entire addition. The cost of Improve' ments In this tract will probably be above $80,000. It will be one of the finest residence sections of the South east Side. Good progress is being made on the Improvements. The ad' dltlon is just across the city and coun ty line in Clackamas County. The Portland Railway, Light & Power Company will shortly construct a double track in connection with the Estacada line, between East Thirteenth street, where the power-house and car barns are located, and the Milwaukle road, which will provide direct car service for the new addition. Westmoreland Improvements Costly. All the sewers in Westmoreland have been laid at a cost of about $60,000 and work has been started paving the north side streets with asphalt. It Is understood that all the streets of Westmoreland will be paved at a cost of more than $150,000. The district extends from the Milwaukie road to the Southern Pacific Railway, covering about one-half of the Crystal Springs farm. Many attractive homes have just been completed in Westmoreland, Perhaps the most important street im provement under way in this territory is that of Milwaukie Btreet, between Holgate street and Nehalem avenue, along the west side of Westmoreland. The Portland Railway, Light & Power Company is relaying its double tracks on Milwaukie street to Bybee avenue and has nearly finished the job. The distance is about three-quarters of a mile for these double tracks, but the pavement will be continued to Nehalem avenue at Sellwood. The pavement and double tracks will make the cost of this improvement above $200,000. Besides this extensive Improvement most of the streets between Milwau kle street and the Willamette River are being Improved by grading and cement sidewalks. For tne present these streets will not be paved, but that will come later. The frontage on the Willamette River is of special value for residence purposes. It overlooks the river and the city. In Eastmoreland a great Improve ment contract is under way, including all streets reaching from the Reed Col lege grounds on the north to Wills- burg on the south and Irom the Boutn ern Pacific track to Berkley on the east. The sewers have been laid and the street paving is going on now. A big paving machine for mixing cement and gravel stands on tne ground turning out the material which is rapidly covering miles of streets with hard-surface pavements. Few sections of Portland equal Eastmore land In point of location, and in plat ting the tract this beauty has been preserved by contouring and curving the principal streets, -mere is a grad ual slope In the land, rising to the eastward from .the Southern Pacific track, and the long lines of paved streets are visible. With the com- Dletlon of the pavements in Eastmore land and Westmoreland and on Mil waukle street. It will be possible to travel all through the Southeast Side on hard-surfaced streets, reaching Reed College grounds from the south. There is a movement for improvements In the district bordering Reed College on the north, where the land has been used for garden purposes. Here many sales have been made the past year just south of Holgate street. It is proposed to Improve Holgate street eastward from Milwaukle street and also East Twenty-sixth street north to Division. This will be an entering wedge for other improvements. The district north of the Reed College grounds will soon be accessible through paved streets. The Holgate East Forty-flrst-Street Improvement Association has inaugurated a move ment for electric lights, water mains, paved streets and erection of a school house. College's Influence Felt. The influence of Reed College has spread all through the Southeast Side, stimulating a better class of improve ments and adding value to all the property. But so far property is low priced in this territory compared with prices paid in other localities of tha East Side. President Foster, of Reed College, pointed out in his lectures the great beauty of the Southeast side surround ing the college grounds and predicted that the- college will quickly become the center of high-class homes owned by people to whom the great educa tional institution would prove an at traction. Practically all the perma nent improvements have been started in that district since the college was located there. -Toward the south and east is the great territory of Errol Helg-nta, which was carved out of the Strowbridge farm two years ago. Al ready it has become a suburb of much promise. Hundreds of lots on Its slop ing plain have been sold to prospective home builders. It would not be easy to find a more attractive territory, and the platting of the tract opens up a district suitable for homes. The Ore gon Water Power line skirts the tract on the south side, and it is planned to extend the Woodstock or Eastmore land car line into this section from the north and east sides. RESIDENCE SALES CLOSED Fine Home in Irvlngton Bought by J. E. Dolan for $10,000. A beautiful Irvlngton residence lo-. cated at 544 East Fifteenth street. North, was sold last week by Mrs. W. H. Kllpple to J. E. Dolan, for $10,000. The house Is nearly new. Another Irv lngton home at 621 East Twentieth street. North, was sold by Edward Mlse ner to A. B. Vanderwlelen for $5000. A house and lot in Irvlngton was sold ts Mrs. Dora Myers Brown by R. B. Bent for $5000. A new residence In Alamada, in Beaumont Addition, on East Forty seventh street, near Alameda avenue, was sold by -W. J. Dunlop, Jr., to Maud P. Newton for $4600. In Walnut Park W. E. Love sold his house and lot to Evelyn W. Peel for $4700. The house Is nearly new. Grace E. Sears sold her home and two lots in Brazee-street Addition for $9500. W. J. Summers sold his house and lot In Laurelhurst to Herbert D. Witherell for $6000. BRIDGEPROBLEM LOOMS QUESTION OF USING NEW SPA'S NOT YET 6ETTLED. If Streetcars Are Routed Over Burn, side Bridge Further Traffic Congestion Is Feared. The probability that all traffic now using the old Steel bridge will be thrown on Burnside bridge after Au gust 8 is causing much concern on the East Side, especially among residents on East Burnside street and toward the northward. If the streetcars which cross the old Steel bridge could be op erated on the new railroad bridge, even If the other traffic cannot, it would tend to prevent the overloading of Burnside bridge, which Is already carrying double the traffic it was de signed to carry. It would relieve tha situation, but the streetcar company has no entrance to the new railway road bridge and must send all its Al bina cars over the Burnside or Morri son bridges. The City Council has not given th streetcar company a permit to connect its tracks with the new railroad bridge and the time when the Steel bridge will be opened is rapidly ap proaching. "If the people of the East Side real ized what this situation means to them," said a resident, "they would certainly be doing something to pre vent an Intolerable situation. The streetcar company will, of course. Bend Its Albina cars over the Burnside bridge, as it pays a lump sum rental, and not over the Morrison bridge, where it pays according to the num ber of cars, and hence Burnside bridge will be further overloaded. "This situation may continue until the Broadway bridge is completed, which will be at least a year hence. Repairs on Burnside bridge have been delayed, pending the opening of the railroad bridge. The East Side ap proach needs repairing and also the tracks for the draw should be replaced as soon as possible, but these repairs cannot be made. I think that the people of the North East Side should wake up and do something at once to prevent such a situation. They should remember that they will be compelled to use ferries in crossing the river north of Burnside bridge, for the manager of the O.-W. R, & N. has given notice that the Steel bridge will close to traffic after Au gust S." . LTLE SOIL MOST PRODUCTIVE While Fruit Trees Are Bearing Ber ries Grow in Abundance. LYLE. WASH.. July-JO. (Special.) That land on which young fruit trees are growing can be made profitable la shown by the experience or many rancnera around Lyle. Gooseberries, currants and garden truck of all description are being grown, while tne trees are com ing to a bearing age. Mr. Morglnson this season has picked five tons of gooseberries and a larg nroD of currants, which sold at profit able prices and Is virtually clear profit. Mr. Read, of Happy Hollow, has 2 1-3 acres of currants, which raised 400 crates, from which he realized over S700. and received $450 from an acre and a half of gooseberries, mking in all over $1100. From four acres upon whinh vonnor htidIb trees are growing. The cultivation of these berries is a benefit rather than a detriment io xoo orchards. KENILWORTH MAKES PROGRESS Movement Under Way to Pave All Streets in District. In Kenilworth plans are being formed tr nave the entire district witn nara- surface material. Sewers have been laid, all the streets graded and cement sidwalks laid, and conditions are now ready for hard suriace. The Portland itanway, ubiu oc x-ow-. ho inM rinuhl tracks on Gladstone avenue on the Woodstock branch. Recently me cny cumpieieo. a i ...,.. hntiaa nn Frnnpin nvAntiA mouerii ci.bi.iw .. and East Thirty-third street, but with out -paved streets apparatus will be al most useless. The engme-nouse cosi $16,000 and-is one of the best built In . , A nhAmlpql rnmhlnntlnti fli me Ultjr. .......... - - engine will be Installed this Fall. Im provements are uewis inau. m uis Kenilworth Park, where a reinforced concrete comfort building is to be built. Gearhart Is Active. There has been considerable activity at Gearhart the past week. Mrs. Rob ert A. Farrell purchased a lot im proved with cottage recently completed. Among the purchasers of lots were J. E. Werlein, Ivan Humason, Mark W. Gill, A. H. McGowan, J. P. Bronaugh, J. P. Jaeger, Dr. Calvin S. White, T. H. Ed wards. All these buyers are planning to erect Summer homes this year. The Gearhart Company has built four cot tages on the ocean front and plans t erect other cottages this Fail. .