TUY, SUNDAY OREGONIAN. PORTLAND. JUNE 15, 1913.
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SUBURBS ON EAST
SIDE ABE GROWING
Districts Far From Carliner.
Thickly Dotted by Small,
Comfortable Homes.
GARDENS ARE NUMEROUS
-ents. Gilberts, Ventura, Monta villa
and' Other Communities Showing
Marked Activity Russellvllle
May Be Annexed.
Growth ot the East Side suburbs is
moot marked, as may be leen by per
sonal inspection. There are wrell-
iwimiiiLterl districts which are not
served by any streetcar, and yet new
homes are being built. Annexation
of the Lnts territory will bring In
about 8000 people, but does not In
clude all the well-settled districts in
the vicinity of Lents. Settlement has
extended eastward from Lenta to the
Svramore station, on the Gresham
r.lctrirr railway.
rr the cltv lines had been extender!
inore than k rrille further eastward It
would have brous-ht It 5000 or 6000
more DeoDle. The Foster road ex
tends through this entire settlement.
.Iiiki hevond the new city limits and
the junction of the Mount Scott and
Oresron Water Power Company's lines
Is Gilbert's schoolhouse and district.
residents of which want to Join the
titv district.
There Is a fair schoolhouse there
and the building is modern, but the
neoDle want the advantage of Port
land high school facilities.
District la Prosperous.
This Is a prosperous district. Nearly
all the residents own their homes and
have gardens. When this territory
was platted It was sold as acreage
tracts. At that time the territory was
covered with logs and stumps and pre
Hented, a formidable appearance, but
the land has been cleared and many
attractive homes have been built.
There is a station at Gilberts, on the
Greaham Railway, which provides the
people with facilities for going to and
from Portland. The county main
tains fine macadamized roads through
this suburb. A new finely paved
crossroad lies through Gilberts north
ward, intersecting the Powell Valley,
Section and Base Line roads and con
nectlng with Columbia boulevard. This
road is seven miles from the Wil
lamette River and yet it extends
through a district which Is filling up
with homes. The small growth of firs
has not all been cleared, but inside the
jtroves may be seen homes built by
lovers of suburban life. MoFt of these
homes have from one to three acres.
Railway Facilities Needed.
Tho Mount. Hood Railway affords
streetcar facilities for a part of this
territory, hut will pive better service
as soon as steam is replaced by elec
trie power. If the railway which is
now being built to East Seventy-second
street and Twenty-ninth avenue were
extended to Kelly Butto it would tap
ii great and growing district. North
of Lents and near the Powell Valley
road there Is a square mile of terri
tory filling up with homes. The same
I a true along both sides of the Powell
Valley road beyond Kelly Butte. Homes
aro springing up nearly as far as
Oresham along this road on the acreage
tracts fine, attractive little homes, all
with gardens and evidence of thrift.
Just when Portland will extend its
boundary lines to include all the terri
tory to tho Twelve-Mile road can only
be conjectured, but home building rap
idly Is moving out that direction.
Ventura Addition, on the Base Line,
is a step In that direction. This addi
tion has many beautiful homes. Along
the Base Line road may be seen new
homes as far as Ttoekwood.
tluch Land Platted.
.Much of the land on either side was
platted and sold In acreage tracts. The
.Mount Hood Railway has helped ma
f rtsUy in the development of this ter.
rltory. MonUivllla has spread beyond
the city limits, which was extended
nearly to Kusellvlllo eevernl years ago,
nnd has overrun the city limits. At Park
Rose, on Columbia boulevard, $500,000
has been spent in improvement and is
one of tho most progressive bettle
ments outside of the city limits.
The next general annexation on the
l-.ast Side probably will go to the
seven-mile line and will add 25,000
more to the population of the city.
However It Is not prohuble that any
scneral annexation will be projected In
the suburbs until the entire county Is
taken in and the city and county are
united in one city government. The
most pronounced growth in the sub
urbs is at Lents.
firmvtb at Lents Ills.
Here the Oddfellows have a fine two
story building under construction.
which will cost $10,000 when finished
this Fall. A garage costing $5000 has
just been complete at Lents and the
Grange Hall has been enlarged. O. E.
Lents has completed a concrete build
ing at Kast Eighty-second street and
Grays Crossing, at a coat of $10,000.
which is one of the best buildings in
thia section.
Lents people have started a move
ment to secure a $10,000 Carnegie li
brary. There is hardly a doubt but
this building will be obtained If the
citizens will provide a suitable site.
which is promised.
The Lents Commercial Club is an
ctive organization and will start a
number of important Improvements In
that neighborhood. More than iOO
homes have been built In the territory
nortn ot Lents, near Eighty-second
street. They are mostly Bmall houses
and practically all have gardens. Here
and there may be seen pretentious
homes, but for the most part the homes
nere are tne homes of families of mod
erate means.
Multnomah Cemetery, which a few
years ugo was considered a long ways
from the illamctte Klver. now is sur
rounded by numerous homes. Part of
these belong to the Lents district and
will be made part of Portland with the
balance of the district fuly 1, but the
most or tne territory will still be out
side the city limits.
Russellvllle May Be Annexed.
Russellvllle School District, located
on the Base Line road, is considering
annexation to Portland School District.
This district Is Just outside Portland.
The last extension of Portland ab
sorbed a considerable slice from the
district and greatly reduced the at
tendance at this school. The Russell
vllle schoolhouse Is a large structure,
but only part of If Is in use. owing to
the Teduced attendance. However the
development of Ventura Park ' and
other additions near the Base Line road
has In a measure Increased the attend
ance somewhat, but It is small com
pared to what it was a few years ago.
The leasing of much of the land at
Russellvllle by Japanese also has re
duced the attendance, but the land they
occupy soon will become available for
homes.
The extension of the Mount Tabor
railway, while It serves A 1 tame ad and
the Immediate surroundings, does not
serve tho Russellvllle district, where
there Is a growing settlement, and will
soon be extended to Ventura Park. In
the near future the growth of the sub
urbs on the East Side will require ex
tension of the Hawthorne-avenue line
to Kelly Butte, the Mount Hood Rail
way to South Mount Tabor and Into
Portland over the Hawthorne-avenue
line, and also the extension of the Rose
City carllne, which ends at Park Rose,
to Falrvlew and the construction of an
electric railway eastward along the
Barr road to the Twelve Mile road
through the territory between the Base
Line and Sandy roads.
VIEW OF NEW COLUMBIA THEATER BUILDING
FIXE DWiELIiIN-GS CMIER WAY
score of Homes In Laurelhurst to
Total S 100.0 if 0 in Cost.
B!g strides are being made in Laurel
hurst this year. In addition to a large
number of newly-built homes there are
under course of construction nearly 20
modern residences involving a total cost
of more than $100,000. It is announced
that negotiations are in progress with
a number of Portland people for tho
construction of expensive homes in this
sub-division and it is expected that sev
eral dwelling costing more than $25,000
each will be built in Laurelhurst before
the close of the year.
E. W. Reeder is building a fine home
on East Thirty-third street near Sandy
boulevard and Carolyn E. Spear and
A. G. Dunlgan are building modern
dwellings on Sandy boulevard near East
Thirty -seventh street. Other builders
are: C. B. Htirtt on East Burnslde near
Laurelhurst avenue; M. G. Hall on East
Burnslde near Laurelhurst avenue: A.
M. McKenzie on East Couch street near
Laurelhurst avenue; W. J. Makcline on
Kast Everett near Laddlngton Court:
Pearl and Ida Goulet on East Gllsan
near East Forty-second street; Lescher
& Tozler on East Everett near East
Forty-first; Commonwealth Realty
Company on Laurelhurst avenue near
Imperial avenue; Oregon Home Build
ers on Sandy boulevard near East Thir
ty-third street; M. S. Brubaker on Flo
ral avenue near Hassalo; Larsen & Raz
on Laddington Court near East Thirty
ninth; W. A. Carpenter on East Thirty
ninth. The Lauelhurst Clubhouse will be
built just east of Ladd Park and will
occupy half of a block. Work will be
started on the structure soon. The club
house will cost about $25,000.
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GRADE SEPARATION
BENEFITS VIEWED
Elimination of Crossings on
0.-W. R. & N. Main Line
to Mark Advance.
FACTORY MOVEMENT AIDED
Ka.-t Side Men Say Advantages Will
Accrue to Rose City Park and
Tabor In Particular
City as a Whole.
Xorth Mt.
and to
MOTION PICTl'HE HOl'SE BUILT AT COST Of 9100.000.
ASHLAND IS ACTIVE
Southern Oregon Town Makes
Substantial Growth.
NEW INDUSTRIES NOTED
Fine Country Home Built.
HOOD RIVKR. Or.. June 14. (Spe
cial.) J. W. Simmons, state deputy of
the Modern Woodmen of America,
whose headquarters are in Portland,
has Just completed a handsome log
bungalow In the Upper Hood River
Valley, where last year he purchased
a tract of 75 acres of orchard land. Mr.
Simmons' family is now residing in the
new apple district. The country home
is on the banks of ono of the numerous
upper valley creeks and water from
the stream is brought down to supply
tho place.
Old-Fahtioned Celebration le Plan.
RIDGEFIELD, Wash.. June 14.
(Special.) Ridgefleld is preparing to
celebrate the Fourth of July in the old
fashioned way. The Ridgefleld brass
band is busy preparing the programme
for the celebration.
Large Sums Expended in Buildings
and Public Improvements Sur
rounding District to Develop
Intensive farming Idea.
ASHLAND, Or.. June 14. (Special.)
Ashland is making substantial prog
ress along general lines. No phenom
enal growth has been witnessed, but
Improvements have been on a conserv
ative basis. Without disparaging fruit
raising, which still remains the prime
factor, persistent effort is being made
to develop more diversified Industries.
For example, dry-farming methods
are coming into vogue, and these af
ford a wide field for the development
of Jackson County's abundant re
sources, the locality immediately sur
rounding. Ashland being favored terri
tory, which has demonstrated actual
results Instead of merely seeking to
illustrate a theory. In "the language
of a prominent magazine writer who
has recently been investigating condi
tions from personal observation in
Southern Oregon, "How to get more
people to Oregon is the problem upon
which many keen and intelligent men
are working; how to get more men
on the farms of Oregon is an even
greater problem and one vital to out
well-being."
Alonjr building lines the past year
has been comparatively quiet, but it
has witnessed the completion and occu
pancy of a number of public edifices,
HANDSOME IRVING-TON HOME PURCHASED BY JOHN F. LOGAN
The new high echool building waa
erected at & cost of $75,000. This in
stitution Is located, on ample grounds
of over eight acres, and in design and
equipment ranks among the very best
on the Pacific Coast.
The Ashland FYee Library occupies
a commanding site. In addition to pri-
vttiB auu&nuns xnis norary nas me
benefit of a small tax levy Included in
the annual municipal budget. The Ash
land Normal and business college sup
plements other educational facilities.
Pine Dwelllnse Built.
The Ashland. Fruit & Produce Asso
ciation occupies new and commodious
quarters. The building is of reinforced
concrete, ample in proportions, and
most con veniently located on Southern
Pacific trackage. Added to these public
and corporate structures, quiet a num
ber of fine dwellings are being built.
The new Armory, which is to be
headquarters of First Company, Coast
Artillery Corps Reserves, O. N. G-, is
being built under state, county and
municipal auspices, a,nd will cost $36,
000. Auditorium and Opera-House priv
ileges will be afforded by this model
structure.
Dry farming pursuits have given
manufactures an impetus, as is wit
nessed by the establishment of a broom
factory, which will utilize the broom
corn raised on the several dry farm
ing tracts. Sugar beets are also be
ing experimented with and cultivators
are sanguine that a beet sugar factory
may ultimately be established.
It iff planned to make Ashland known
as a home and resort town and educa
tional center t;o dwell upon its health
fulness, scenic beauties and other at
tractions in fact, to advertise tho
natural advantages to the utmost.
Vnrk.H Are Beautified.
Incident to the foregoing specific
improvemen ts, thousands of dollars
have been expended on the extension
and betterment of munif Ipal utilities,
notably water, lignt and sewer. Parks
continue to be beautified, r and other
phases of the city's adornment are not
overlooked. Never before have the
streets of Ashland been so well light
ed as under the present municipal
ownership system. At the recent mu
nicipal election it was voted to supple
ment the fire deaprtmeut equipment
with a $6000 auto truck.
By virtue of its position as a division
terminal, railway improvements have
been in order to a considerable extent
throughout the Ashland yards during
the past year. The Western Union re
peating station here has also been
overhauled and equipped with all the
latest devices known to telegraphy.
In territory contiguous to Ashland
various enterprises are either actually
under way or are being projected. The
Government is constructing a highway
which will even tuaJly reach the sum
mit of Mount Ashland. An initial ap
propriation of $6000 wat available for
this purpose some time since, and a
portion of thin road is a 1 ready com
pleted. Steps are a Iready hei ng taken
to enlist the aid of county and pre-
einct authorities In behalf of better
roads from territory adjacent to Asn
land to points in Klamath County.
Various irrigation projects on an ex
tensive scale are also being projected,
the benefits of which will apply par
ticularly to large tracts across Bear
Creek.
Auditorium Ik Planned.
The Government supports an ento
mological station at Ashland, con
nected with which a chief and three
assistants are investigating the rav
ages of insect pests In the forests.
This work supplements fruit inspection
at . the hands of the county, and by,
these dual methods not only are or
chards but the standing timber within
a radius of many miles from t,he city
limits is receiving due a ttention. A
Federal building is also contemplated,
and a bill providing for the erection
of such a structure in this city is pend
ing before Congress.
Notable improvements are planned on
the Chautauqua grounds, chief among
which is to be a new auditorium, a
structure greatly needed In order to
meet the demands of the rapidly in
creasing assembly patronage.
More manufactories are wanted and
the community will welcome and ma
terially assist those who will institute
ARCADE IS FEATURE
Pittock Block to Be Unique in
Design.
Kliminatlon of erade crossings on
the main line of the O.-W. R. & N. Co.
at Sandy boulevard and other streets
to the city limits is considered an im
portant Improvement for the Rose City
Park and the North Mount Tabor dis
tricts, and is expected to assist the
movement started to install factories
in the railway zone.
City Attorney Grant Is preparing an
ordinance which will enable the u.-
W. R A N. Co. to lower Its track- at
once. It Is estimated that it will cost
$300,000 to lower the track a distance
of nearly two miles tn order to get
through the district. At present be
ginning at Sandy boulevard and end
ing at the city limits there are many
important grade crossings bf city
streets and county roads where there is
constant danger of accident. Many of
the streets In Center Addition have
been extended across the track, all of
which are danger points.
At present the greatest menace is at
Sandy boulevard, where thousands cross
the main DM of the U.-v. ji. at . oy
streetcar and automobile and other
wise. The proposed streetcar line on
Halsey street and the Barr road will
be made possible, as it crosses the
O.-W. EL A N., and could not be built
on grade level. It is believed that the
lowering of. the track will result in the
general development of this district.
Gradr -r irratlon Important.
"I regard the plan to lower the track
of the O.-W. R. & N. through to the
city limits and cutting out all the
grade crossings," declared B. E. Melvln,
secretary Bast Halsey-Street Improve
ment Association, "as one of the great
est progressive steps taken in that por
tion of Portland for many years. The
track with its constant menace to life
has tended to hold back development
and thwart extension of streets, im
provement? of all sorts and the con
struction of the proposed railway on
Halsey street and the Barr road. Our
street railway could not have been
built on grade crossings because of the
danger at these points, nor can any one
blame the street railway company for
declining to build on grade crossings.
I suppose now that the O.-W. R. & N.
will lower Us tracks there will be
viaducts on Sandy boulevard crossing.
East Fifty-third. East For ty-se vent n.
East Sixtieth, East Sixty-fifth, at the
Jonesmore schoolhouse and other
streets as may be required. We shall
be able to qrowd forward the proposed
street railway from East Thirty-sev
enth street and the Barr road.
result of the election, making it pos-
ible to lower the railway, and the
proposed action of the City Council-
Mr. Campbell continued the agitation fop
cutting out these grade crossings for
nearly two years against opposition
apparently at Rossmere. However, tha
vote on the amendment carried in the
Rossmere precinct, where the opposi
tion to the measure was thought to mm
the frtiougest.
"I am sure that the O.-W. I .v N .
Company is very glad to be able to low
er its tracks and thus end the danger at
Sandy boulevard and other crossings. I
understand that the railroad company
is ready to proceed with, the lowering
at once.
Factory Committee Active.
W. H. McMonles. Frank Motter. Floyd
J. Campbell, A. N. Humphrey, R. A. De
lano, B. K. Melvin. I .. M. Lepper and J.
Fred Larson are a committee from the
district working to develop factories
unu especially to locate an automobile
factory Several meetings have been
held and conferences have been had
with owners of the property wanted.
There will be another meeting Monday
night, when full reports will be sub
mitted on progress ma tie.
hi, M. Ieppep said yesterday that
while the main object at present is to
secure a site for en automobile factory,
two or three other concerns are also
Fc-king locations.
"Two or three sites are under con
sideraticn " said Mr. Lepper. "and we
hope to get something definite in a
short time. Location of these factories
will be a big thing for that district.
The 4owerin g of the railway will
greatly help that district. Tha rail
way company can also help thia
factory movement. These factories
would be as great a thing for the com
pany as for the community. They would
add vastly to the value of the property
in the vicinity. I think we shall get
some tangible results from this agitation."
CENTRAL SCHOOL IS AIM
GRESHAM SEEKS IOCATIOX OP
COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL.
Special Committee Will Recommend
Adoption of Plan at Meeting; to
Be Held Tomorrow Night.
COST WILL BE $750,000
Building to Bo of Fireproof Con-c-truction.
With Cream-Colored
Brick and Terra Ootta Ex
terior Contracts Let.
With placing of steel for the 15
story building for the Northwestern
National Bank under way, and con
struc.tion to oe started immediately on
the Pittock block for the Northwest
ern Electric Company, Portland will
have two more big business structures
in readiness for occupancy before the
first of next year.
The Pittock block will be 200 feet
square, one-half of which fronting on
Washington street to be eight stories
high and the Stark street side to be
three stories in heighu
One of the features of the building
will be an arcade arrangement on the
first floor. This plan calls for an ar
cade 18 feet wide, running through the
center of the building from West Park
to Tenth street and another arcade
extending from the middle of the
Washington-street side to the center
of the building. At the point of in
tersection there will be a battery ot
seven elevators arranged in a semi
circle so that each elevator can be seen
from any angle.
With the arcades, all stores will have
inside fronts, as well as street fronts.
By reason of long periods of wet
weather, it is believed that the ar
csde feature will make the building one
of the most popular in the city.
The most important proposition
which will come up before the tax
payers of the Gresham district tomor
row night is the establishment of a
county high school in Gresham- A
special committee appointed a year
ago for the purpose has made an ex
haustive Investigation of conditions,
and possible sites, and will submit
a report at this meeting. The propo
sition is considered of more than or
dinary importance and will probably
call out a full attendance of the voters
of the district.
Advocates of the county high school
declare that its installation would re
sult in making Greshum an educational
center. The district has no debts, and
present school facilities are reported
to be taxed to their capacity. More
room must be provided in any event and
will be needed before the additional
room can be provided.
Gresham is the center of Powell Val
ley and the entire country eastward
from Portland. There are many school
districts, but pupils promoted from the
eighth grade cannot secure high school
(training In their immediate neighbor
hood unless they come to Portland,
where they must pay tuition and their
board, which few can afford to do. A
central hiarh school at Gresham would
Another Important feature of this (bring direct to these local districts
high school facilities at a small rosr.
and pupils could mainly be at their
homes while attending, it is pointed
out. County high achools have ben
installed in dtfferent portions of the
state, and one at Gresham, It Is de
clared, would mean a manual training
and domestic science department.
matter Is the movement made to get
factories In this district. A strong com
mittee is at work now in the matter
of securing a large automobile factory,
and I have hopes that we shall not
only get that concern but others of a
similar nature. I regret to say that
there is disposition on the part of the
owners of the tracts available for fac
tories to boost the price beyond all
reason. Now I hope that that will not
result tn defeating the installation of
factories. Some of the owners seem to
think that the factories will come, no
matter what the price of land may be,
but they will not. They will go where
they can get land for a reasonable
price. Here Is a fine district for such
concerns as the proposed automobile
concern, which will need a five-acre
site. It will give employment to a
large force of skilled men. If the com
pany does not locate in this district
it will go elsewhere and We shall lose
the prestige of this splendid industry.
So let us be reasonable and let us pull
together."
Improvements Made Possible.
J. F. Roark, president of the Center
Addition Improvement Club, declared
yesterday that the lowering of the
main line of the O.-W. R. & N. Company
cutting out the grade crossings, will be
the making of the territory adjacent.
"We have been held back by these
grade crossings for years, ever since
this section was built up," said Mr.
Roark, "and had despaired, of getting
them eliminated, after repeated efforts.
We shtli be able to extend our streets
ncrthw.aid over the track and be above
all danger."
Floyd J. Campbell, chairman of the
committee from Rose City Park, which
has been urging the elimination of the
grade crossing at Sandy boulevard and
other points, and who probably did as
much If not more than, any other man.
evpressed himself as pleased with the
MANY ORCHARD TRACTS SOLD
Activity in Mosler and Sunydalo
Districts Is Declared Brisk.
Devlin & Kirebaugh. selling agents
for the Hood River Orchard Land Com
pany, owners of Mosler View Orchards
and Sunnydale Orchards, report in
creased activity in their business, espe
cially in outside districts, during the
month of May. The following recent
sales were made by this company:
Kight acres to Charles C. Spencer, of
Portland: six acres to W. M. Margason,
of Eugene: five acres to Mis M. A.
O'Brlan: five acres to Joseph A. Miok
esh; five acres to C M. Brower; five
acres to Miss Percis J. Brower; five
acres to A. K, Bellman, nnd six and one
half acres to B. F. Gumm, all of the
Grays Harbor country in Washington.
The Hood River Orchard Land Com
pany has planted nearly 1000 acres to
commercial varieties of apples at Mo
sier View Orchards. The new town of
Ortley is showing a healthy growth. Be
sides a modern beautifully furnished
hotel, it has a large general store, post
office, public school, blacksmith shop,
garage, livery barn, lumber yard and
numerous modern residences and bun
galows. The town is supplied with
electric lights and a city water system.
A new English centrifugal pump Is iall
to handle perfectly unscreened sewage of a
consistency that would choke any other type
of pump.
SCENE IN ASHLAND PARK
I'RUPKBTV IS ON THOMPSON NEAR EAST SEVENTEENTH STREET.
John K. Logan, a prominent Portland attorney, purchased last week the fine home or Mrs. Mabel F.
Krumbeln. on thp north side of Thompson, near East Seventeenth street North, in Irvlngjtou. lor a caaii
consideration of $10,000. The house contains nine rooms and is handsome In deaic-n and finish. The rooms
on Ihi- first floor ar finished in oak and the upstairs rooms are in white enamel. The feature of the house
is a larire livinn-room which connects with a slass-cncased sunroom. The sale was negotiated by the H. P.
Palmer-.Tones Company.
New Church to Be Built.
AEKRDEEX, Wash.. June 14. (Spe
cial.) Work on the new Episcopal
Church which will cost several thou
sand dollars will start within ten days.
The structure will be entirely paid for
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ONE OF INVITINti SPOTS NEAR SOUTHERN OltEtiON CITY.
I by the. time It is completed.