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TTTE SUNDAY OREGONIAX. PO AND, AUGUST 25, 1912. FitVER TO DEVELOP WONDERFUL POWER Northwestern's Plant on the White Salmon River Monster Affair. STREAM'S FLOW REGULAR Melting Snow in Summer and Lake's Supply In Summer Insure Con stant Supply for Generators Xear Underwood. "An Ideal power stream." Is how en gineers refer to the White Salmon Rlv tr. the dashing mountain torrent that much of Its course the Deschutes flows through a desert country. Its flow varies very little In Summer or Win ter, due largely to the. lava formation of Its canyon. Valley Is Gardea Spot. The valley of the White Salmon Riv er is one of the most fertile and sus ceptible of development In Western Washington. For 20 miles up the stream the valley, which Is about five miles wide, contains fine orchard land. Beyond this, around Trout Lake and the base of Mt Adams, there is splen did agricultural land. A great por tion of this orchard and agricultural land la still In timber, but it Is only a question of power development and Ir..nnrt'itlln n,11IHk tn flTIPTI it tO settlement. Already there is talk of an electric line to tap the ncn xroui lh country. Broadway Lots Bring $12,000. H. J. Donnerberir has purchased two houses and two lots on Broadway, be tween Sast Seventeenth and East Nine inih trttiL from Autrust Dlpple.'the consideration being 112,000. The prop erty was purchased as an investment The sale was negotiated by .Barrett Bros. Portland-Los Angeles Run Made. A. L. Hungerford, a former salesman r,. ih. j w. T.eiLvitt Company. Over land distributer, has Just reached Los Angeles after a tour from Portland In his Overland "30." The touring sales- NEW BRIDGE IS AID SDan Across Upper .Sandy River Is Under Way. SHORTER ROUTE PROVIDED Mount Hood District to Be Opened to Settlement Association Is Or ganized to Promote Improve ments in Rich Territory. rnn t ruction of a bridge across Sandy River near the mouth of Zigzag River has been started. The bridge will connect the Mount Hood automo bile road on the south side of Sandy River with the north side road between the Welch Hotel and Rhododendron Tavern. At a meeting of the owners 01 the property near the confluence of the J NEW EAST SIDE CHURCH TO COST $100.000. - j .... ,s,. ...,. ... :.. .-. ::.. ,: . .... .:,,rr..,...;.,:i.,:,.,.; :, r.,- ; -. -.: .1 I E STRUCTURE USDER WAY AT EAST SEVEXTEEXTH A5TD HANCOCK STREETS. empties into the Columbia River at Underwood. Wash., about 72 miles from Portland on the North Bank Railroad. Fed by glaciers of Mount Adams in Summer and by Trout Lake, one of the crystal pools at the foot of the tower ing snow peak, in Winter. Its flow is almost uniform the year around. There are times, of course, following rainstorms, when a freshet will sweep down the river canyon, and In the rainy season Its flow will naturally be some what larger than in dry periods. Yet, so nearly constant is the flow of this stream in Summer and Winter that an engineer can sit in his office in October and figure out with astonishing accu racy lust how many second-feet of wa ter will run in the following August. Or, in August, he can calculate very closely the amount of water that will be running in January. The really re markable thing about this stream is the fact that In Summer or Winter its volume for any certain time will not vary more tl 1 a few second-feet, which means the number of cubic feet of water flowing past a given point in one second, from the normal for that date. There are no extremes to change the river from a boiling torrent, bank lul. in Winter, to a trickling brook in Summer, as Is the case in many moun tain streams. For instance, the present flow or the White Salmon engineers estimate to be between 800 and 1000 second-feet, or about 29.000,000 gallons an hour. This fs the normal flow. From beginning of Bummer to Its end this will not vary more than a few thousand gallons. Steady Flow la Its Value. It Is this quality of uniformity of flow, peculiar to glacial streams and those running through lava country, that makes the White Salmon espe cially valuable as a source of electrical power. Being able to count almost to a positive certainty on having a large Summer flow, engineers constructing an electrical plant on this river figure hat it can be run at capacity every month In the twelve. With a possible development future of 100.000 electrical horsepower, as es timated by United States engineers, if all the potential energy of the river could be harnessed at one time, the development of the White Salmon as a power stream has hardly begun. One small plant at Husum. Wash., furnishes power for a local territory, but the first real development of the power possibilities is the construction of the big concrete dam and plant for the Northwestern Electric Company at Camerons, three miles above Under wood. ' This large plant, which has been un der way for several months and is now being rushed to completion by a force of 600 men working in day and night shifts, will generate 20.000 horsepower when it Is finished. January 1, 1S13. and will be the first unit in one of the most extensive power projects in West ern Washington. Power Dam Is Immense. The concrete dam that the North western engineers are building across the White Salmon River, after having shunted the river current out of its regular bed by means of a flume 1000 leet long, carried through four rock tunnels, will be 400 feet long and 125 leet high. 100 feet thick at the base and 15 feet at the top. It will store an immense volume of water. The Northwestern Electric Company has extensive plans for th power de Telopment of the entire White Salmon Valley, from Underwood to Mt. Adams, and of the towns along the North bank of the Columbia between Under- i DArtiflnd Tn Portland the T. nuu " - company is preparing to enter into . ..... i. n-tln active competition wim mo tvfi ..nv. Railway. Light & Power Company. The engineers are already working on plans for a mammoth 40,000 horse power plant on the Klickitat River, construction of which Is to begin im- i ; . t aftw th nrp.ctent White Sal- anon plant is completed. Other plants on the Lewis River, of 50.000 horse cower, and higher up on the White Sal alen Tirn1rted. In the 30 miles of Its course from the glaciers of Mt Adams, the White Plv.r haa n fall of 2000 feet. The upper river has two branches, the main one having its source in me si rlers, and the other draining Trout Lake. The glaciers insure a large Summer flow, and when they are frozen in Winter, the lake keeps the supply of water steady. The White Salmon River also has the added ad vantage In a power stream of flow 4nn. thi.nii.h a lava eountrv. The lava catching superfluous water in its many caves and holes, is a big factor in equalizing the flow. In this respect the White Salmon and Deschutes Rivers are almost alike. Though for man reports roads fairly good to his destination, but much dust He fol lowed the Pacific Highway all the way down the coast, and had no trouble keeping to the road, thanks to the many sign posts. He arrived in Los Angeles with Oregon air In his tires, negotiating the entire distance without a punctura. ghurcOdTfTcY rises ATTRACTIVE STRUCTURE BE GIXS TO TAKE FORM. Xevi- House of Worship of Westmin ster Church to Be Ready Be fore Close of Tear. Progress Is being made on the walls of the new stone edifice of the West minster Presbyterian Church, on East Seventeenth and Hancock streets. The cornerstone of this fine building was laid two months ago. While the structure at present looks like a great pile of stone, the building Is assuming form, and some idea of the magnitude of the edifice may be gath ered from the part which has been built Every part gives the impression of beauty and massiveness. The foun dation itself is sufficient to sustain a ten-story structure, and the" walls are rising in great symmetry and beauty. Rev. Henry Marcotte, the pastor, con ceived the idea of this great church edifice, and Inspired the membership with his own enthusiasm In carrying forward the erection of this edifice which will be in keeping with the sur roundings. Dr. Marcotte was fortunate In being surrounded by a united church and a building committee of successful business men to direct and finance the enterprise. It Is expected that the new chdrch will be . completed . about the first of the year. The first unit will cost about $100,000, and will. con tain the main auditorium and Sunday school for the present, but the general plans call for a Sunday school depart ment separate from the present unit PERMITS REACH BIG FIGURE Authorized Construction for Month Readies $932,493. So far this month there have been Is sued 470 permits.-with a total valuation of $932,493. During the past week the number of permits granted was 143, with a total valuation of J213.315. The summary of the week's record' Is as follows: Number. Amount. Monday 5 I3K.413 Tuesday ......... -4 27,i35 Wednesday ,.. 23 8.".4SO Thursday 2ll 67.875 Friday 20 S6.U80 Saturday 9 6.S30 Total 143 f313.S15 Home to Be Remodeled. Plans for the remodeling of Fred A. Jacobs' home at the southeast cor ner of King and Salmon streets are being prepared by Architect- E. F. Lawrence. The house will be almost entirely rebuilt. The cost of the Im provements will be about 320,000. Cottage Grove Autolsts Report. COTTAGE GROVE, Or., Aug. 24. (Special.) Word reached here today that the W. B. Cooper and W. G. Houser families, of this city, who are travel ing across the country in Mr. Cooper's auto, have reached Kallspell, Mont.,- on their way to Glacier National Park. Mount Tabor Home Rises. M. B. Wells is building a modern dwelling at Mount Tabor, near the B. S. Josselyn residence. The house will contain eight rooms and will be of English tpye of architecture. It will cost about $8000. The plans were drawn by Architect E. F. Lawrence. Fair Gets Excursion Rates. CENTRALIA. Wash.. Aug. 24. (Spe cial.) George Walker, secretary of the Southwest Washington Fair Associa tion, is In receipt of a letter from the head offices of the Northern Pacific stating that excursion rates will be established for the Southwest Fair to be held at the local fair grounds Sep tember 30 to October 6, O .. n .7 7tma. rtvAfS A f(!W daVS ago, the Western Mount Hood Im provement Association was organizeu. Dr. William DeVeny, of Portland, pre- i ,i a ..w.a tfiot c 1 1 f. i nrcfiTl iza- DIUCU &11U U 1 I. U vuu. uuv(, o tion be effected. Its object is to con struct' the new bridge across the contf ar,A imnrnvA the north Sandy road to the home of E. C. Truman. Officers of the new ciud are: r-nPian. ravl TOnfthol op(rptarv. J. S. Malumson: treasurer and engineer In charge of bridge construction, E. C n .. HM1 1 1.. rr ruVflnv T AtrhpRDn and W. E. Welch were appointed to solicit funds for the construction of the bridge. Immediately following the meeting construction of the bridge was started and work is progressing on the struc ture. The cribs have been built on i i. I A -tu t,oaw Intra Thfl snfin UU 111 niuca l 11 ii. " j '-.--.- will be 80 feet long and 12 feet above high-water mart, ana wnen compieieu i,i i . , tn r- ii thn Will UD Oil U 11 ft ouuue1 tv J heaviest automobile built The plan 18 xo repair iiic ui msc m.' voo uic,-- River and then use the old road after v. i ,BnDl,a WHon thA nPtt' hririe is finished and the bridge across Zig zag River is repairea an auiuinuune ... .Via nni41i oMa nf tllA miy civDo . j fct.w uv. ... Sandy River and run to Truman's on an easy grade. .ere a line view ui Mount Hood on the north side is ob tained. The Sandy bridge will be fin ished in about three weeks. There is a promising section north OI IIIC oauuj w i v. u j ... and other Portland men, which will be opened to settlement by tne erection m .hi. KriHarA Twn veirs aero the bridge across Sandy River near where. the new one is being duui was ramiu away by high water, and the county a tn mniipa It. In erecting the new bridge Engineer Truman has placed it high enougn to oe compieieiy ..nr. of the reach of the highest water in the Sandy River. POULTRY FOLK ELECTS YAMHILL VALLEY BREEDERS FORM ASSOCIATION. Yearly -Exhibit to Be Conducted on - Elaborate. Plans and Will Be Held in January. M'MINNVILLE, Or., Aug. 24. (Spe cial.) The Yamhill . Valley Poultry As sociation, with headquarters at Mc Minnville, was organized here Thurs day, August 22, and is composed of about 40 prominent poultry fanciers of McMinnvllle and vicinity. The object of the new organization Is the promo tion of the raising and breeding of thoroughbred chickens and other poul try. . A poultry show will be staged once every year by this association and the first show will be held in January, 1913, the date not being set. The meet ing was held at the City Hall and was well attended. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Bayard H. Moul; vice-president, W. G. Stewart; secretary. Judge Vine W. Pearce; treas urer, W. H. Logan; superintendent of shows, Ira G. Nelson. An executive committee was also elected, composed of the president, sec retary, treasurer, superintendent of shows and Lyle Small, Mrs. Vine W. Pearce and Roy Harrington. Several of them have made thoroughbred poul try a specialty and poultry-raising is becoming one of Yamhill County's im portant Industries. The yearly exhibit to be managed by th newly organized poultry association is Intended, as Bayard H. Moul, the president, expressed It, "a silver cup" poultry show. Elaborate prizes will be offered at the annual shows. The Yamhill Valley Poultry Associa tion will also lend assistance to the committee for the poultry exhibit held In conjunction with the Annual School Fair held In September. Boosters on Special Train. ROSEBURG, Or., Aug. 24. (Special.) A special train transporting 250 Pan ama Exposition boosters passed through Roseburg northbound late this afternoon. The excursionists hail from California and will visit Portland and Seattle. They should reach Port land at midnight During the delay of the train in Roseburg the party was entertained by members of the Com mercial Club. Luck Is along Shot With the Odds All Against You Success Is, as a Rule, The Result of Good Judgment The man who is determined to be successful in any pursuit will be successful. He carries a positive atmosphere with him that attracts the object of his ambition. The man or woman who is determined to make successful investment will m mne cases out oi ten be SUCCESSFUL There is a large number of SUCCESSFUL INVESTORS m Oregon and many of them have displayed SOUND JUDGMENT by investing m . ..... The Deep Water Seaport and Railroad Terminus on Tillamook Bay Does any sane man imagine that Uncle Sam would spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in the Tilla mook Bay improvements if the resources back of Tilla mook Bay did not warrant such appropriation f Does any sane man imagine that the railroads would spend millions of dollars in building from Portland to Tillamook Bay if the empire-builders were not sure of getting big returns from the investment? Does any sane man imagine that the forty billion feet of standing timber tributary to Tillamook Bay is not alone worth the efforts of Uncle Sam and private interests to market this vast resource to the outside world f Does any sane man imagine that, when the deep chan nel to BAY CITY and the Panama Canal are completed, that BAY CITY will not become one of the big commer cial and industrial seaports of the Pacific Coast 1 Does an sane man wonder why BAY CITY, on Tilla mook Bay, is the objective point of numerous transcon tinental railroads, understanding that BAY CITY is 160 miles by water nearer San Francisco and the Pan ama Canal than is Portland T BAY CITY being at the head of deep water provided by Congress and local interests, does any sane man ques tion the verdict of the Government engineers when these practical men state that the immense sawmills to cut the vast timber must be established on Tillamook Bay and not on the rivers or sloughs T And finally, does any sane man any longer wonder why BAY CITY will be the metropolis of the Tillamook country, since it is the only possible large townsite on ,the bay? It's High Time for the Investor to Get Busy Lots at BAY CITY are as yet low in price, $65 to $1500, on easy terms and it behooves investors and homeseeSrs to be up and doing. The Ilarriman trains out of Portland r BAY CITY are well patron Tzed every day. Wise invesjors are securing BAY CITY lots, and business men and manufacturers are not overlooking Oregon's coming second metropolis. Why should YOU, reader, be indifferent? CaU or write for valuable information about BAY CITY. A beautifully illustrated booklet, just fresh from the press, will be sent to any address on request. See coupon. BAY CITY IA!Vrj CO.. 701-2-3 Spalding Bide, Portland. Send now booklet about Bay City. Name. Address. O-S-25-12 BAY CITY LAND CO. 701-2-3 SPALDING BUILDING, PORTLAND fossa REALTY MEN PLAY FAIR CHAIRMAN OP MCEXSE COMMIT TEE EXPLAINS PliAX. Object of City Ordinance Is Not to Work Hardship but to Estab lish Responsibility. "The Portland Heal Estate Board's Interest ln-the real estate men's license ordinance, which was passed by the po rvmncli thn parlv nart of the pres ent year and has been put Into effect. seems to be materially misconstrued by many of the dealers who have not, up to the present date, taken out their license," said E. F. Cannon, chairman of the license committee of the Heal Estate Board, .yesterday. "We wish to ni ii. th. atmnsnhprA relative to our position regarding these licenses that the Real Eistate uoara s aiiicuuti may not be misconstrued. -Th, nftPMRitv nf a law of this na ture is due In the main to the fact that it was recognized tnat mere naa oeeu many real estate deals closed in Port nt ini.ii Khnriv nature that a great number of Portland's Investing public began to question seriuuaiy mc honesty and Integrity of not only a . .,m- nf r.n i nutate dealers. but many of the daily transactions. From this state or cnaos anu una uu. surrounding the vocation, the Real -it-.a-. nnar fminri It necessarv to father the present license ordinance as passed by me Jiiy touuui mi um .. pie purpose of making all real estate dealers accountable to some arm of the law that the goats might be sepa rated from tne sneep. "Now the law was not drafted to i inironlnnca nr Tiftrsecuta any dealers desiring to carry on a clean. legitimate ana praisewormy rem en.c business, but was specifically drafted ,Bi,a 1ntn amnnnt and Heal with un- scrupulous operators. While the offi ce rsoftneKeaoJ5iaie say that there are not any of this character in Portland, they wish to an nounce that they intend to assist the representatives of the law to the full est extent within their power, not to persecute some individual, but to as sist in prosecuting ' those responsible for any shady, illegal, erroneous and felonious acts that may be brought to their notice. "Now . that a reasonable time has been given all the real estate dealers to make application and receive licenses, we do not think that they can reasonably expect, nor will they receive, any special ponsideration at the hands of the Reat Estate Board or the city officers having the enforce ment of these laws In their hands, should they be found conducting any shady transactions. "The Real Estate Board is rendering every assistance possible in bringing forward the 'blue sky' act, which will act as an auxiliary to the city ordi nance, not only in dealing with un scrupulous operators In Portland, but will serve to bring forth a cleaner and better atmosphere throughout the state in generaU" IMMEDIATE ACTION URGED County W. O. T. V. Asked to Prepare for National Convention. "Women of the W. C. T. U., let me say that the time will soon be here when you will hardly have time to sleep, eat or drink with the approach of the National convention to be held in October," said Mrs. Ada Wallace Unruh, state president, Friday aft ernoon, in her address to the County Institute held in Sellwood Park. Mrs. Unruh's theme was the "Coming Na tional Convention," and she spoke with emphasis on the fact that every chair man of every committee and every member should get busy and keep busy from now until convention time. "It will be much easier to do now what must be done," said Mrs. Unruh, "than later. It Is a great undertaking to take care of and entertain 600 dele gates to the National convention. It 5UITT0 QUIET, TITLE Blip I A 4 i K k.V V WILL SUFFER no . a Tn-v-olvic. Peculiar a ir . Transactiof fkrought r n An aUeed. effojJTto aecure half the property of Rufus Baker, who settled on j the quarter section. Just south of Okla homa City, Is disclosed In an action to Quiet title filed Saturday in the district court by Baker ajalnst H. p. Harmon and ten others. The land Involved is said to be worth 175.000. , Mfl On April 10. 19". prosper that deed- were being mad. to JWu : . tots and he filed a notice. - purchase--, with th. register f ?t 1, claimed 1 Baker , petl that or. to skip from April $ to April tt as not to Include mis "-""" ,,,,. noZ T developments may follow the flung of the suit For' your negligence, if you show carelessness in regard to title matters by failing to se cure a flawless title to your property. The guaranteed Cer tificate of Title gives the exact condition of title in the simplest possible form, and avoids all fu ture complications, in vestigate. Call tor A booklet. Title & Trust Comp'y, 4th & Oak. Mill Name Address . . -O Title TrnMt Company, J Portland. Send yonr free booklet. is the duty of the committee on decora tion and banners to adopt a plan for decorating the White Temple at once. Definite action is wanted on plan." Mrs. Mallett, chairman of the enter tainment committee, announced that the members are meeting the second and fourth Mondays of each month, but will meet oftener later on. Mrs. Eva Wheeler spoke about the work among young people. Walter E. Crltchlow told about the plans of the Women's Industrial Corporation. Mrs. Ward Swope told of the literature of the W. C. T. U. It was a representative gathering from all of the unions of the county. 8 j Raising the Thanksgiving and Christmas Turkeys Just an Incident of Homelife at PARKROSE Picture yourself in your own home on a whole acre at Parkrose. A few minutes more on the car mornings and evenings is all it takes. Think of all you could do on a Parkrose acre or half acre I There's real home life at Parkrose. Just for example, instead of buying a cold-storage turkey at Thanksgiving at a high price, how much nicer it would be to have your own home-raised bird. But that's just one little incident. Parkrose is full of them. ' They all help to make life happier and more pleasant, and they do Solve the High Cost of Living Investigate Parkrose today. You can start buying an acre now. The terms are easy. A real home of your own is yours, if you 11 simply make the move. Slauson-Craig Company Successors tr, Real Estate Department Hartman & Thompson 304 Oak Streel, Opposite Commercial Club At Hood River, Oregon An Ideal Country Home For Sale. This is one of the prettiest homes in the valley, with all modern conveniences, water, elec tricity and sewerage system. Everything you would have in a city home. This is high-class income-paying property, with no incumbrance; about 40 acres in trees. Would consider first-class Portland prop erty in part payment. If you would like an ideal country home with unsurpassed view, this is an ex ceptional opportunity. For interview Address A M 224, Oregonian -1