The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, May 25, 1913, SECTION FOUR, Image 56

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Newspaper Page Text$2.000.000 SPENT IN PLANTS ON LINNTQN RQAD IN PAST YEAR LESS than 11 months ago there was not to be noted a scintilla of In dustrial activity alone the LJnnton Road between the city and the town of Llnnton. Today In the vicinity of Wlllbrldge. "two miles south of LJnn ton. there Is being expended nearly $2. 500.000 In Industrial plants, while there are under consideration other planti that will require the expenditure of an additional 11.000.000. So fcieal Is the location between the city limits and Llnnton' for factories that It seems reasonable to predict that scores of Industrial enterprises will be established In that district within the next five years. The narrow stretcn lies between the Willamette River on the one side, and the S. P. St S. and 1'nlled Railway lines and th LJnnton Road, on the other side. Reached by both rail and water and connected with the city with a fine ham-surfaced road, the district Is provided with adequate transportation facilities. As the dis trict develops. It is logical to believe t!iat extensive Improvements will be made in the hsrbor, while additional trackage for rail business will be In stalled. At present a large portion of the ground fronting on the river Is low and will require considerable develop ment work. However, the owners of property realise that their holdings are becoming too valuable to remain long In such a condition. A movement Is under consideration now for dredging the river channel and filling In the low-lying sections that are located a short distance below the old Lewis and Clark Exposition grounds. It will not be many months before the entire area extending from the city limits to I.lnnton will be improved and put in shape for shipping and manufacturing establishments. - Caa Plant fMt l,2rp.OOO. Chief among the enterprises, under way Is the new plant or the portiana Gas A Coke Company. The plant Is the largest, most thoroughly equipped and tr.e most modern on the Pacific Coast. The property consists of 40 acres. Io cs ted a short distance below the S P. A S. brlriro oer the Willamette River. Construction of the plant was rtarted In July of last yecr. but as a large part of the land fronting on the river had to be filled in. actual work on the buildings was not commenced until lnte last Fall. The buildings In gen eral are office buildings, machinery building, generator building, pump house. buiUitng for storage of oxide and shavings, briquet storage build ings and brlnuct-r.iaklng plant. The office structure is 50x140 feet In size and two stories high. It Is of re inforced concrete construction and fully fireproof, with fireproof shingles and metal window frames. The floors have terazzo finish. The chemical laboratory and station meters also are Installed In this building. The machinery buildind- Is 10x150 feet, with one-story and basement. It Is of the same construction as the of fice building. It contains compressors, electric generators, boilers, exhausters and other miscellaneous mach.nery. Work on this structure will he com pleted In a few days. The generator building Is 60x180 feet In size. It Is also of fireproof construction. The pump-house Is of concrete and pressed brick. It Is 15x45 feet in size and 55 feet In height. The bottom of this ' building is ten feet below the water In the river. The oxide and shavings storage building occupies a ground area of 100x100 feet and the briquet storage bulldirrg la 200x220 feet In size. Two gas holders one th a capacity of 500.000 and one of 600,000 cubic feet are being constructed. In addi tion to these units there are other fea tures. Including a large oil tank, gas purifier, gaa scrubbers, water tank and large dock. In the construction of this immense plant there were used 60.579 sacks of cement. 5611 yards of sand, 5S22 yards of gravel and 2064 yards of crushed rock. In constructing the forms for the various buildings. 1.825,(31 feet of lumber was used. " Huildlnas Are Fireproof. Three generators hav been In stalled, and with the completion of two additional generators, the plant will have a capacity of 7.500.000 cubic feet of gas a day. The plant Is designed, however, for an ultimate daily capacity of 15.000.000 cubic feet. Up to the first of the present month there had been expended In the con struction of the plant approximately 1750,000. It will require the expendi ture of $500,000 in addition to complete the plant, bringing the total cost of the project up'to $1, 250.000. It is ex pected to' have the plant entirely com pleted aad ready for operation by the latter part of August. Plans ' for the buildings and plant were designed by General Manager Papst. with the assistance of employes of the company. While no expense has been spared to make the plant the most complete and modern In the country, the company Intends to expend a large' amount of money In improving tne surroundings and beautifying the FACTORIES, ARE NEEDED PUX TO ATTRACT INDUSTRIES IS INDORSED. Realty Hoard Also Goes on Record In F'avor of Hmsner Franchise tnr nival Car Svstcm. Following up the efforts of the Port land Commercial Club and the Manufacture- Association to Interest capi tal In the establishment of Industrial enterprises, the Portland Realty Board went on record at Its weekly meeting on Friday indorsing the movement. The plan ' vogue at Dea Moines which undertakes to guarantee financial aid or banking credit to proposed enter prises that are approved after rigid Investigation was indorsed unanimous ly by the board. The question of the Heusner fran chise also was up for discussion. A resolution Indorsing the measure was adopted. The resolution la as fol lows: "Whereas. There Is a measure on the ballot at the coming election for a franchise for a competitive system of street railway in the Qjy of Portland, known as the Heusner franchise, and "Whereas, Competition in the street railway business Is desired, and fur ther that the expenditure at this time of millions of dollars Is also not only desired, but on account of the employe ment It will furnish Immediately for a small army of men. It Is quite es sewtlal from a commercial atandpont that our association lend hearty sup port toward the passage of this meas ure: therefore, be It unanimously t.esc'l vru. i nb hub association pledges each of its members to vote and work for the passage of the Heus ner franchise." Two Houm-s to Be Built. liobect J. Snow, a Portland contract or, has been given the contract to build a seven-room bungalow In Rose City Park for Dr. Kmmett Drake.' He also bas started the erection of a modern dwelling on ore of his own lots tn Laurelhurst. Mr. Snow has exchanged AT. - V er i - G V ' e ey '.,'-V -7. ".a;"TVv,. grounds. Lawns will be lata out and shrubbery and flowers will be planted. and every effortrwlll be made to make the plant as attractive as possmie. it will be the only gas plant on the Pa cific Coast that will have complete con trol of the smoke and cinder nuisance. It Is Manager Papst's high aim to make the plant a great asset to the district Staadard OH Plant nig. In planning the Standard Oil Com pany's plant at Wlllbridge, J. H. Mc Dermott, local manager of the company had an eye for the future, believing that Portland In time will become one of the great shipping and industrial a six-room house in Waverly Heights for a lS-acre tract at Knappa. Or., owned by A. J. Rellly. METZGER SHOWS ACTIVITY Delightful Suburban Place to Attract Excursionists. Considerable activity Is now noted at Metxger, about 30 minutes rmo . . . fmm . . - -itv on the Oregon Electric. . The suburb Is in the heart of the Tualatin Valley, where the eoil Is exceedingly productive. Metxger has a nne public school, with an enrollment of more than 50 children. The little town has a general mer chandise store, poston-ice and church. Many of the tracts that have been sold this year by Callan & Kaser. sales agents for the property, wUl be im proved with homes soon. .-. An excursion will be run to Metxger over the Oregon Electric, leaving Tenth and Stark streets at 9 o'clock this morning and Jefferson-street sta tion at 9:20 o'clock. At Metxger Is a delightful 11-acre park, equipped with swings, benches for children and grown-ups. Music and entertainment have been arranged. FIXE . FARM IS SUBDIVIDED Acreage Known as Laketon Will Be Sold In Small Tracts. The SO-acre farm of H. G. Lake, ly ing between Anderson station, on the Estacada electric line, and Gillls, on the Mount Hood Railway. Is being sub divided into two and three-acre tracts, which will be put on the market y T. B. Weller 4k Co, of Portland. W. M. Ober la doing the surveying. Several of the tracts already have been re ferred In advance of the marketing of the land. The new platting has taken the name of Laketon and Is really the connecting link between Gillls and An derson. The land Is well located and well watered. It is suitable for grow. Ing small fruits. . The Italian government. In a royal do- Me of February 5. IPl.'l. ordored tanrf tn restlRatton to he miMe by a commission worklnc under the ministry or agriculture. Industry and commerce to form the tasta for negotiations for new commercial treaties with lb other European countries. w t - n v ' .... mm ........ . ... . ....... ! t III, W! J-r- I rj ?-ytK 'jfVr: fiQ 7. -?U cities of the continent. This plant' Is the largest and most modern on the Pacific Coast and was built' at a cost of more than 1350.000. On the plat of eight acres there will be a battery of 40 oil tanks of various sizes, In addi tion to well-equipped office buildings, garage, wagon shed, pump house and boiler room. In connection with the plant, the company has a dock of 400 feet frontage on the river, located Just below the S. P. &. S. bridge. Here ocean-going steamers unload their oil cargoes Into big receivers. The oil is then pumped to the main plant", a mile on the north side of the bridge. Within a few weeks the plant will be entirely ALPIFJE'S GBOWIH RAPID TOWX TWO YEARS OLD TAKES OX CITY AIRS. School, Church and Lodge Buildings Are Built and Bank. Is Planned. Surrounding District Fertile. ALPIXE. Or., May 24. (Special.) With terms of an agreement for the extension of the Portland, Eugene & Eastern Railway Company lines Into the great timber to the west of Alpine having been reached between Chief Engineer Guppy and the owners of the new mill elng constructed here, with a new bank completing Its organiza tion, and with a photograph of the magnificently beautiful Alpine hills to be printed In the colors of the' Spring season for distribution by a large East ern calendar house, the 300 residents of this little city are today celebrating the second birthday of the town. The terminal of the Alpine branch of the Portland, Eugene & Eastern Railway Is now about six miles from Alpine, but through the new arrange ment with timber owners the road will be extended about 10 miles further Into the heart of the great fir belts along Green Peak, Mary's . Peak and Prairie Mountain in the Coast Range; A new saw mill with. 500,000 feet daily ca pacity. Is already under construction here. Besides supplying this mill the new Portland, Eugene St Eastern ex tension will carry logs for the Cor vallla and Monroe mills. The road will operate by electrlctly -as far as Alpine, and by steam on the mountain grade. - O. M. Good and H. C. Palmer, of Forest Grove, will probably be at the head of the new bank. So great is the faith' of the farmers of the sur rounding country In the success . of Alpine that they have offered to sub scribe every share of (he bank stock which Messrs. Good and Palmer are willing to sell. Alpine was founded two years ago by ' D. L. Webster, a traveling sales man from New York. Today It has a handsome Methodist Church. Odd Fel lows' building, grade and high schools, ?. xt: t -. completed. This company now employs regularly 150 persons. ' Adjoining the Standard Oil property on the north Is the new- plant of the ITnlon Oil Company. ' Here a tract of fouracres has been developed into a complete plant designed especially to handle Immense quantities of all kinds of oil. The buildings are of fireproof construction. . The company also has a dock of. 400 . feet frontage adjoining the Standard Oil Company's dock prop erty below the S. P. & S. bridge. The distance between . the dock and the plant, at which oil will be pumped, is approximately 7000 .feet.- Captain T. 11. Crank, local manager of the com- numerous stores and buildings " and streets are lighted by a large acetylene gas plant. During the last two years the iron stained hills, of the surrounding dis trict have been, denuded of their scat tered timber and 3000 acres of them replanted In apple and pear orchards, while about 400 acres have been planted ' to loganberries , and small fruits. - Most of the bottom lands paral lelling the creeks are the much sought "beaver dam," large' quantities of which are being cleared by the new settlers in the district, and where they will produce vegetables to carry them through the Winter. . . w Sixteen new bungalows are In course of erection on the tracts sold in this vicinity, while 'other homeseekers are en route from Kentucky,- Pennsylvania and New York, from which states most of the settlers have come. Six families were .located in the district last week, while a group of 18 employes of one New York, firm have purchased orchard tracts and will soon remove to. the West. . - RESIDEXCE SALES ARE CLOSED Lots on Willamette Boulevard Total Cost of $15,500. Several fairly Important sales were made on the East Side the past week. J. B. Yeon. bought three lots from Rev. Alexander CosteUI In block 26, Wil lamette Addition, for $7500. This property lies on tne Willamette boule vard and is very desirable property for any purpose. Mr. Yeon also bought three lots of William T. Willis in Wil lamette Addition fronting on the Wil lamette boulevard, for 8000. In Hol iday's Addition Charlotte Orr sold a house and lot for $6000. This prop erty Is at East Tenth-street and Broad way. In Irvington E. A. McGrath sold two pieces of property for a total of $12,000. One was purchased by Ivy Grace Starr for $1500 and the other waa sold to Louis M. Starr for $10,500. In Irving ton O. P.' McGee sold a house and lot to C. II. Maginnis for $8000. . The Umbdenstock & Larson Home builders' Investment Company sold a home to James A. Robertson in Jones more for $2570. There are two lots In the property. The same company sold & home in Jonesmore to Jack L. Will iams, containing two lots, for $2750. -13 : , : r.iiN'-IL i r v . f' v ' "'vTiK$ir'' ' i 1 f. til' "'-1,1 M x . r . pany, expects to have the plant com - pleted early next month. - The project involves a total expenditure of J300, 000. Above these two plants Is the new station of the Monarch Oil Company. The property consists of two acres, large warehouses and storage tanks. The warehouse has a capacity of 200, 000 gallons and 10,000 cases of oil.The tanks have a capacity of 20.000 barrels. In addition to the oil handling facilities the company operates a large asphal- BIG CANDY PLANT RISES FOUR-STORY STRUCTURE COST $75,000. TO Biiildins to Occupy Site at East Eleventh and Flanders Work on Fire Station Under Way. The Investors' Building & Trust Company has filed plans with the Building Inspector for a five-story building to be built at the corner of East Eleventh and East Flanders streets. The building will be of mill construction and will cost approxi mately $75,000. It will be occupied by the factory and general storeroom of the Modern Confectionery company. Root & Hoose are the architects, and G. Zanello' & Son are the contractors. The excavation for the basement has been completed. Work has been started on the new fire station on East Seventh- street in Stephens's Addition. According to the plans prepared by Batallion - Chief" L. G. Holden it will be two-stories, high, of brick construction and $4 feet long by 25 feet wide. It will 'be set dsck 15 feet from the streets so that the apparatus may be. washed without us ing the sidewalk. It Is planned to use light colored brick for the front of the station. The Park Board has decided to erect a bandstand in Peninsula Park. It will cost about $3000. Plans and specifica tions have been prepared and bids will be received at the Tiext meeting of the board. The board has . awarded the contract for grading Cascade Drive in the Mount Tabor Park to Harry Howard for $9505. . The Board of Education has awarded the contract for erecting the Hoffman Schoolhouso on Powell Valley road and East Sixty-fourth streets for $52, 450 to A. W. Kutsche. Concrete Garage Under Way. ' A contract has been let by William Reldt to Benjamin & McClellan for the construction of a concrete garage on the quarter block on Kearney street, between Twenty-first and Twenty-sec ' -. .wr- ' wf -w" tum plant. This plant. when com pleted, will require an expenditure or about 1135,000. T. O. Daly, local man ager of the company, said yesterday that work of completing the plant will be pushed as rapidly as possible. Mr. Daly was the first to select that dis trict as an oil distributing center. In complying with the city ordinance compelling the oil companies to re move their plants outside of the city limits, one of the problems that con fronted them was that of shifting the ond streets. The building will cost $10,000. This will be the fifth garage built by Mr. Reidt within the past 18 months. Work was started on the building last week. SCHOOL GYMXASIUM IS AIM Plans Under Way fo Provide Build ing at Sniinyslde. Construction of a permanent gymna sium on the grounds of the Sunnyslde School is the aim of those who have been Instrumental In maintaining the boys' brigade building across the street from the schoolhouse for a number of years. W. O. Nisley, J. P.-Newell and others have assisted In keeping up the brigade hall for the use of the boys and girls of Sunnyslde with excellent results.' A number of boys were given a start at this hall, have graduated and become useful citizens, declares Mr. Nisley, who feels that he has been re paid for his expense and trouble. The owners of the ground propose to sell the property, and turn over $600 toward the erection of a well-equipped gymnasium. Much encouragement has been given by the Board of Education to this movement. J. P. Newell -said yesterday that the movement Is gain ing in favor. Besides the $600 the sum of $200 has been subscribed, but It Is expected to raise at least $1500 or more next Fall and ask the Board of Educa tion to put up the gymnasium. The gymnasium will cost about $3000 and will be equipped for boys and girls. E. D. Curtis, principal of the Sunnyslde School, is anxious that the gymnasium be built as soon as possible owing to the fact that the playgrounds at the Sunnyslde schoolhouse are limited and the ohildren must use the paved streets. "We certainly shall not stop until we get this gymnasium for Sunnyslde," said Mr. Newell. . BOX FACTORIES MAKE , l READY Large Lumber . Stocks in Klamath 51111s to Be Worked Soon. ' KLAMATH FALLS. Or.. May 24. (Special.) The Pelican Bay Lumber Company on the Upper Lake has about 7,000,000 feet of. lumber in its yards; the Shippington mill has about 5,000. 000 and the Algoma mill a large stock. The box factories are getting ready for the season's work- on this lumber and will operate with full crews as . - ll eS 1 "liia efcf-','-j'-sii it big tanks to the new locations. Clay S. Morse received a contract to move one of the large tanks for the Standard Oil Company. Contingent upon his aoillty to transfer the immense holder Satisfactorily, he was to go ahead with the work of removing all the tanks from the East Side to the new in dustrial district. A short time ago he removed the 27th tank, 17 holders from the Standard Oil Company's plant at East Water and East Madison streets and 10 tanks from the Union Oil Company's old plant at Ports mouth. The largest tank removed measures 34 feet in diameter and 3(5 feet in height and weighs 46 tons. the orders already received Indicate a good season's business. The local yards of the Big Basin Lumber Company, Savidge Brothers and Ackley Brothers all have good storks of lumber, and the Meadow Lake Company has begun to haul by trsction engine from their mill. There are at least 500 men employed by these companies and the number will be increased with the resumption of work In the box factories. Big Prune Crop Predicted. VANCOUVER, Wash.. May 21. (Spe cial.) High hopes are entertained for a bumper prune crop this year with good prices. Though there has been considerable rain recently, the prunes have not been injured, says A. A. Quarnberg. District Horticulture In spector. - ' . STUDIO Main 587 Construction 413 Stark. Photographs Buildings, , Work. Three Operators. iStark-Davis Company Plnmblag - Supplier, Wholesale and Retail, t ont rhctloa: and Jobbing S4S Salmon Street. Bet. 2d and M Pipe A Kitting". .Phone, Main 797 Let me give you an estimate on Painting, Tinting, Papering ana . . Floor Finishing. L. C. McCLINTOCK ISO Fourth fit. Phone Main 01S3 Mentloa this Ad.