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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1912)
tHE SUXDAY OREGOXIAy, PORTLAND. AUGUST 11, 1912. 10 LAND LUST LURES APBICOTS GO TO WASTE BECAUSE OF LACK OF LABOR BAIYC Y lipilliilllll -f. Fortland People Pleased With Powell Property. RAILROAD OPENS ACREAGE 3It. Hood Line Has Aided in Derel oping Rich Territory Near City Families Gain Independence on Small Tracts. No section adjacent to Portland ha had a more favorable and encouraging rrnirth during the past few months .than the Powell Valley. The mirchase of the Mount Hood ! Hallway by the Portland Railway. Light & Power Company, thaielTorta of ; the latter company to hurry the com pletlon of the Mount Hood, power plant land the evident intention of bringing i the Mount Hood trains into the heart : of Portland, have had a moit beneficial effect. The older settlorq In tho valley and i the inhabitants of the towne have been i looking forward for years for the time I when regular ana rait transportation would make the valley virtually part ! of Portland. Now that the dream i I to become a reality, all are taking ad- : vantage of the opportunity. Settler Locate on Firm New-comer, attracted by the poeel ;blllties ot tho valley, are coming In ! rapidly, the town are growing fast land the large ranches are being dl 'vlded ln'o five and ten-cere pieces, ! where intensified farming will be the r rule. Water has been turned into the Bull Run reservoir for the development of 1 electric power, poles have been dis- ! trlbuted along the Mount Hood Rail iway and within a short time wires will !be strung and electric rail service started. The crop conditions throughout the valley are excellent. The yield of all the standard farm products has been large, with high prices prevailing gen erally. Those who have gone into spe cialities, such as small fruits, berries, chickens, etc., have had a very success ful and profitable year. All together, the Inhabitants of Powell Valley are very well satisfied with the present and optimistic as to the future. All the land formerly held by the Jfonnt Hood Railway & Power Com pany and now the property of the Mount Hood Railway Development Company, is being sold by Umbdenstock A Larson. The land surrounds the constructed stations of the Mount Hcod Railway, including five townsites and acreage beyond. "The primary purpose of our com pany." said Mr. Larson yesterday, "is to build up Powell Valley, to attract not only farmers, gardeners and home owners, but also manufacturers, mer chants and mechanics. "Along this idea we have run weekly excursions to the townsites and farms. The success of our efforts illustrate the demand for good property close to Portland. Land Cat Into Small Tracts. "The land around Rockwood, divided into pieces 100x100. with a few two and one-half -acre tracts designed for chicken- ranches, is practically sold out. "At Gillls 160 acres was divided into one. two and five-acre tracts, with lots adjoining the station for busi ness purposes. Glllis is about half sold. Many acres have been planted to potatoes. Buildings and Improve ments have been started. "At Pleasant Home the activity has been greatest. Here 80 acres was di vided Into a townsite with one to five acre pieces adjoining. "At Pleasant Home most of the land and lots have been sold. A large gen eral store erected, a hardware store finished and other buildings in course of completion or planned for. Consid erable acreage has been planted to po tatoes and small fruit. Today we run a special excursion to Pleasant Home and believe all the unsold land will be taken up. "Nor have we overlooked those who wanted small tracts for homes and camping sites. At Maybery, overlook ing the Sandy, we have ISO acres of land which, for scenery. Is hard to ex cel in Oregon. It is an ideal location for the man who wants the woods and river. Then we have sold a number of tracts to be improved with Summer homes." LOXG LEASES ARE FAVORED Flan Is .Most Profitable to Owner as Well as Lessee. A. S. Taylor, a prominent real estate man of Cleveland, in an address before the recent meeting of tho National As sociation of Real Estate Exchanges, spoke most enthusiastically In favor of the long lease of property. "We should," he said, "grasp the tremendous possibilities of our business, keep pare with the times and develop every branch that will produce a re turn or revenue on the effort spent, and I contend that the negotiation of 99 year leasnolds is one of the most im portant parts of the general real es tate busienss. "It has proven most advantageous and remunerative to brokers handling the transactions as well as to the lessees who have operated under this plan. Its possibilities and benefits are so far reaching and within-the grasp of every active real estate broker who Is alive to his opportunities that I urge upon you a careful study of the possibilities presented through this line of work. "The history of grjund leases dates back to former centuries. They were first operative in England. In the city of London the largest percentage of land, both in the business and residen tial section. Is under long-term ground leases. In the older sections of the city lands are held by the old and wealthy families, who. with the income derived from this form of absolutely safe in vestment, are living in ease snd luxury. There the fee of property is seldom sold, the operations being on the leasehold rights of the lessee. "In the settlement of America the early English settlers first populating the states of Maryland and Pennsyl vania, were of the wealthier class, and introduced the custom of long-term leases into this country, their earliest history being in the City of Baltimore asd In Philadelphia as early as 1817." Chclinlls Mayor Sued. CHEHAL1S. Aug. 10. (Special.) Dr. J. T. Coleman. Mayor of Chehalls, and C. C. Aspinwall, superintendent of the State Training School in this city, have been made defendants in a J3000 dam age suit. The complafning witness .is Frank K. Thorne, who, through his puardle.n ad litem, Samuel A. Thome, c-arpes that Thorne, Jr., was orderei to cut a door panel on a dado head saw, July 22. and in the process in jured the third finger of his left hand. The complaint further alleges that at the Instance of C. C. Aspinwall, Dr. Coleman was called to dress the in jured member, but that on account of negligence and improper treatment, it is now necessary for the finger to be amputated, for which the sum of 3000 SPECIMEN SHOWING HOW GOODXOE HILLS TREES ARE LOADED. Tons of anrlcots have gone to waste In the Goodnoe Hills,. Klicki tat County, Wash., because of the inability of the growers to secure labor, according to H. B. Dabney, a Portland real estate man, who has interests In that section. - The accompanying picture is of a branch broken at random off an apricot tree on the Baldwin ranch, a few miles from Harbin, a station on the North Bank road. Apricots were selling In the Portland retail market last week at $1.20 a crate. "This Is a fruit district of which very little has been heard through the newspapers," said Mr. Dabney. "There are over 1000 acres set out to apricots and other kinds of fruits and almonds In the district. A great deal of additional acreage is being developed." NEW ADDITION ATTRACTS FIXE HOMES ARE COMPLETED AT TABOR WEIGHTS. Three Residences Costing $10,000 Ench Under Way Mount Tabor Park Being Improved. At Mount Tabor Heights many fine homes have been built. Three resi dences will be erected at once which will cost $10,000 each. . The Tabor Heights Realty Company sold acreage property on Scott avenue to A. Tasker for $100,000, who will put up one of the 10,000 homes to be built at Mount Tabor. Mr. Tasker has spent 14000 in the erection of a stone retaining-wall along Scott avenue and in improving the lot before the construction of his new home. C. D. Strow, of the Mount Tabor Heights Realty Company, said that lipunt Tabor generally is making ex cellent progress. "We have sold considerable property some Canadian men recently," said Mr. Strow, "and they will all erect attractive homes. There are constant sales of residence property to men who will build homes of excellent class. ranging from $4000 to $5000. Improve ments are In progress In Mount Tabor Park. The Park Board Is having work done In Mount Tabor Park in contin uing the driveways, by which it will soon be possible to run to the summit of this beautiful tract on an easy grade. The natural wild growth will be retained in the park, which Is one of its chief advantages. "The city has started the erection ot concrete reservoir to take the place of the wooden structure, which lias served this section for several years. A street Is being graded along the east and north side of the heights north from East Stark street. It will event ually swing clear around the connect with the Base Line road. This street will be in the nature of a 'sky-line' and will open a considerable section on the slope east of East Stark street, whero already a considerable number of homes have been built." Palmyra and Rldgemont are two ad ditions on the north side of Mount Ta bor, near the Baseline road, where re markable progress has been made the past year. , In Palmyra September, 1911, the land was covered with berry vines and without streets or Improvements of any kind. In January 1912 all the lots were cleared for building, streets were graded, cement sidewalks were laid, and six modern residences had been erected, costing an average ot $3500 each. These two additions are elevated' ground and command a fine view. East Side Gets New Apartments. Plans and specifications have been prepared for a three-story apartment house, 100x100, to be built on East Seventh and East Yamhill streets, for Messrs Holbrook & Lampson. The structure will contain E4 apartments, of two and three rooms each, and there will be wide halls and private baths. It will have a pressed brick front with terra cotta trimmings, a heavy cornice, and theinterior will be of slow-burning mill construction. - Apartment-House Planned. Architects Goodrich & Goodrich are preparing plans for a three-story apartment-house to be built near the east approach to the new Broadway bridge. The nam of the Investor will be an nounced later. The building will be 66x81 feet in size and will have full basement. It will contain 18 apart ments. The exterior will be of brick construction. IS IT ANY WONDER Why the Harriman sys tem" spent nearly $5, 000,000 in building from Portland to Tillamook Bay? Why the United Rail ways bought extensive terminals . and water frontage, at Bay City? Why other transconti nental lines are, seeking . franchises at Bay City? Why the Whitney Lum ber Company, the lar gest in the Pacific Northwest, is . building a $1,000,000 sawmill - plant just outside the corporate limits of Bay City? Why whole blocks of lots are selling at Bay City to investment seekers who are flock ing there ? LOTS $85 to $1500 Easy Payments TIMBER DEEP CHANNEL PANAMA CANAL RAILROADS DAIRYING FISHERIES Bay City -Land Co: Send new booklet about Bay City. Name v Address ....... O-8-ll-li A PAYROLL OF $3,000,000 YEARLY FOR 100 YEARS for w a g e s alone to reduce the logsto lumber Avill not exhaust the thirty-five billion feet of timber tributary to Tillamook Bay. IS IT ANY WONDER why Congress voted the appropriation for a jetty at the entrance of Tillamook Bay, and for a deep channel to Bay City the only possible large townsite on Tillamook Bay, where, according to the Govern ment engineers, the big sawmills must be established? NOW IS THE TIME The secret of successful investment is to know where people want to go and to get there first. Any observant investor with onlv one eve can see OPPORTUNITY stalking up promi nently at Bay City.' Millions of dollars will be invested in sawmills and other woodworking plants at Bay City. Real estate values will advance rapidly at Bav City. The time to buy at Bay. City is before the activ ity begins. Investors who wait for developments Avill have to pay double present prices. BAY CITY LAND CO. 701-2-3 Spalding BIdg. a 3 m m Solid Foundation for Oregon's Coming Second Metropolis jJS GOLF LUND TO BE SOLD X. CLARK IS AGENT FOR 40 ACRES XEAR WAVER L Y. Property Formerly Held by Local Syndicate to Market Fine Improvements. Club. It. As agent for a strong: local syndi cate: P N. Clark has added another hle-h-clsma residence district to his list by undertaking; the selling agency of Unit Park. This Is a 40-acre tract ly ing directly west of the'part of the irnlf llnk nearest to the present home of the Waverlv Golf Club. It has been a part of the links for many years and was sold with the Idea of securing suf ficient funds to provide for the erec tion of the new club building at the south end of the grounds. The members of the purchasing syn dicate are H. L. Corbett, the Lewis estate, the Falling estate, the Macleay estate. Rodney L. Glisan, J. C. Ains worth. Captain Gordon Voorhles, Wal ter F. Burrell. Drake C. O'Reilly, F. W. Lcadbetter and E. C. Shevelin. All are members of the golf club and In or ganizing last May, the Idea uppermost In mind was to keep control of the property in the club membership as long as possible, in order to have con trol over the character of improve ments that are now being Installed, as well as the restrictions which will be written Into the selling contracts. The membership of the Waverly Golf Pi,.k exnressed itself strongly as being desirous of maintaining an en- ALBINA BRANCH LIBRARY WILL BE READY LATE IN SEPTEMBER. BUILDING IKDER WAY OS KNOTT STREET, SEAR DilOX AVENUE. The Alblna Branch Library, on Knott street, "between Union and Rodney avenues I. !i"fncf i8,1": terlor finishing work is now in progress. The exterior has been completed except the clearing and g grading of the. grounds, which soon will be finished. The building probably will bo opened late in September The walls were built of hollow tiling, and the outside is covered with rough-cast concrete with a colored tile roof. Main entrance is from Knott street On the main floor will be the book departments In the basement is located the auditorium, which is a long rom extend ng th nJ of th. Mbrarr trances to the auditorium are from the street through the side of the building i",",, m L , , it Jrom There is connection between the auditorium and the book department above. The auditorium will seat from 300 te BOO people. The auditoriums of the branch libraries are for lectures and club meetings. vironment that will conform in as many ways as possible with the spirit of the game and the exclusiveness of the grounds. The 40 acres was really surplus ground as soon as the tract just south of It and nearer the site of the new club house was made ready for play. Golf Park is unique in the method of platting. There is no surrounding street. Inside the boundaries, a dis tance equivalent to. the depth of a lot, the main thoroughfare forms a rec tangle upon which all of the outside lots front. This Is true save on the south side, where the homes will face the links. All other houses will face inside the tract. The idea sought was exclusiveness and this plan secured it. The scenic outlook is unusually pleasing. The property overlooks the river and the many elegant homes across the stream. The goif links are always kept In the pink of condition, giving a park effect to the neighbor hood that is certain to be appreciated. standard imnrovements are being in stalled and all will be completed by September 5. The sites average 20,000 snuare feet each, being about 100x200 in the pnuivnlent of four city lots. Electric cluster lights will be placed in front of each site, of which there are only 68. Sale of the property will v. otartori until after all of the imnrovement work is completed. This is the third high-class residence section in Portland of which F. N. Clark has exclusive sale. Eastmore mnrt on the East Side and Westover Terraces on the West Side have proven decided successes under nis nananns- CLARK HOST TO WOODMEN Head Consul Boak Will Make Ad dress at Fair September 10. VANCOUVER. Wash., Aug. 10. (Spe cial.) I. i; Boak, head consul of the Woodmen of the World, .will be here September 10 to dedicate the log cabin and rest room built at the Clark Coun ty fair grounds by the Woodmen of the local lodsc. An elaborate programme is being ar-rone-eri bv the members of the local ... "w,irr,n in addition to a musical selection Mr. Boak will de liver an address, particularly interest ing to- Woodmen, but Instructive to all, at the dedication. Then there will be a picnic dinner and In the afternoon there will be sports. Cordial invitations have been sent to camps of Woodmen in the Northwest, particularly In the three counties, Clark . Skamania ana lltz, while Multnoman ana ... nn fewtrnttpn. Liberal prizes will be offered for the best drill teams ana mere that have the reputation of being equal uniformed arm team EMPRESS STILL RISES NEW THEATER TAKING FORM CEMEXT WORK PROGRESSES. to any and rnast. having won mcui prizes In drill competitions. The Woodmen of Vancouver Camp, No 83, Woodmen of the World, will provide entertainment for all Woodmen who come, and It Is expected that 2000 to 3000 will attend the Fair, September 10. Josephine Fair to Be Big Event. GRANTS PASS, Or., Aug. 10. (Spe cial.) The second annual Josephine County Grange Fair will be held in this city September 18, 1, 20 and 21. The fairs held by the granges have been exceedingly successful, owing to the strength of the organization. Crops are unusually good this year and when the harvest time comes the amount of big fruit and grain that will be ex hibited will surpass the sanguine ex pectations of all. M-uch blooded stock has been imported into the country during the last two years, which will be exhibited. The poultry industry has also received a great deal of attention and the exhibits In this line will be well patronized. Reports from all over the county from different granges in riir.ta that Interest is directed toward community competitive exhibits. Hun dreds of dollars will be aistriDuiea in premiums. Fifteen Shipments Bring Material to Portland Sprinkling System Is Installed. Work Is progressing rapidly on the new Empress Theater, at Seventh and Yamhill streets, and by next Weiinesday the cement flooring on the first floor will be complete. Steel for two stories is in place and the concrete men are keeping pace with the erectors in the construction work, this being made possible by the fact that the concrete is hoisted by derricks and dumped in stead of following the old system re quiring the use of elevators and bar rows. In all the J275.000 showhouse will contain 540 tons of steel, which has taken 15 shipments to transport to Portland. Seven shipments already have arrived and it Is expected that the remaining material will be received In time to prevent delay in construc tion. The mala, girder of the support for the balcony weighs 64 tons. A sprinkling systom for the stage and dressing rooms Is to be Installed and a feature of the new playhouse will be the cooling and heating plant built along lines originated by Lee Decamp, contractor and supervising architect far Sullivan & Considlne. L'nder Mr. Decamp's ventilating plan the air in the theater will be changed every two minutes and In Summer the air will pass through ice-cold water. Mr. Decamp says the temperature in the theater may be kept down to 75 de grees in the hottest day by the system he has devised. The ventilating sys tem will be governed principally by fanii. , While the new Empress In Portland Is rl-sing Sullivan & Considlne also are building new theaters In Vancouver. B. C, Sacramento, Cal., and in Chicago." All four structures are In charge of Mr. Decamp, who goes from one to the other to supervise the work. Track Laid to Junction City. JUNCTION CITV, Or.. Aug. 10. (Spe cial.) Steel rails of the Oregon Elec tric were laid through the streets here today. The "Pioneer" track-laying ma chine Is making a record in rushing the road to Eugene. Today they laid three miles of track and have laid as hlph as four miles In a ten-hour day. At the present rate of laying the track the rails should be laid to Eugene In less tlmn ten days. REDUCING THE HIGH COST OF LIVING AT When Winter comes, Parkrose housekeepers won't have to worry over what to have for dinner. And they won't have to resort to high-priced canned goods either. Rig:ht now their ga:dens are overflowing with good things to eat beans, peas, greens, beets, onions all kinds' of vegetables. Fruit is plentiful and preserves, jellies and jams are being made daily. When Winter comes, the family will enjoy an abundance of fresh fruit and vegetables, so much better than canned or store goods. And don't forget that instead of paying 20 or 2.5 cents for a tin can of store goods, they are enjoying more healthful home products costing just a mere fraction. It cuts the cost of living squarely in two. It's one, just one of ihe advantages of living in Park rose on a broad acre all your own. There's room for you at Parkrose and a chance for you to get ahead. Investigate today. Come and see us at once. Of course, the terms are made to suit you. SL AUS0N - CRAIG COMPANY 304 Oak Street, Opposite Commercial Club Building