$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
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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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. .
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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
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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
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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.