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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, JUNE 29, 1913.
TITLE INSURANCE
SYSTEM EXPLAINED
Delinquencies of Old Methods
of Record Searches Are
Eliminated.
OWNER RELIEVED OF RISK
Demand of Modern Business for
Speedy and Economical System
of Evidencing Titles Is
Adequately Met.
BY J. F. DALY.
(Member of Portland Realty Board.)
The demand of modern business for
a speedy, safe, simple and economical
system of evidencing- title to real estate
is fully met in title insurance.
Experience has shown that this is
the only way to overcome the many de
linquencies of the old systems of record
searches, abstracts and re-examinations
and today, in practically every large
city in the United States, title Insur
ance Is the standard evidence of title
to real estate. So fully have the re
quirements of those dealing in land
been met by this application of the in
surance principle to the examination
and certification of titles that in New
York, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Fran
cisco and other large cities it is practi
cally impossible to sell or borrow money
on real estate without offering a guar,
antee of title or a policy of title insur
ance with the deed or mortgage.
Where, under the old system of ab
stracts and opinions thereon, the buyer
or the lender of money on real estate
was required to assume the risk after
receiving an opinion on the title, today
this risk is assumed by financially re
sponsible companies which make a
business of title Insurance.
System Gains In Favor.
From being a private business under
taking, title insurance companies have
come to be a factor for good to the
general public. Although comparative
ly young in years, title Insurance is
making rapid progress because it is
right in principle and it fills a public
want. Title insurance is a necessity,
not a luxury. Where institutions worth
millions of dollars regard it as neces
sary to insure title, the working man,
whose property is probably limited to
his little home, finds it even of more
importance because it protects all he
may own.
The man who buys property fully
realizes that some day he may wish to
sell it or borrow money on it. It is
most important, therefore, that title
matters be so adjusted that there be no
delay due to defects or supposed defects
having to be remedied. Title insurance
further protects the holder of the prop
erty from lawsuits and other difficul
ties into which he may fall should the
value of his title be assailed. The title
insurance company is obliged to assume
the expense of employing counsel to de
fend attacks upon the title.
The same sense of security which Are
Insurance affords the owner of a house
is given to the owner of real estate the
title of which is insured. Title insur
ance is as plain and specific as fire in
surance. It Is a contract which any
one, without the aid of a lawyer, can
understand and rely upon.
Protection la Keynote.
The guaranteeing or Insuring of ti
tles Is now one of the most highly de
veloped forms of Insurance. It has
come into general use in all progressive
communities. It makes land as easy to
sell or borrow money upon as good
stocks and bonds. The insurance cov
ers any visible defect, and also any
errors undiscoverable. It leaves noth
ing to be inferred. Title insurance is
the cheapest form of Insurance, as there
Is but one premium payable when the
Insurance is issued.
It is business-like, efficient and sim
ple. It reduces real estate buying and
selling and the loaning and borrowing
money upon real estate to the simplest
and safest form. It leaves nothing to
be taken for granted and affords pro
tection to everyone who is interested
either in the buying or selling of real
estate or in business deals in which
real estate is involved.
IONE DISTRICT PROSPEROUS
Bnniper Grain Crop la Prospect,
Declares J. T. Krappenberg.
"In the vicinity of Iono, in Morrow
County, there is an abundance of land
ready for cultivation and needing only
the settlers, which can be secured at
from $10 to $25 an acre," said J. T.
Knappenberg, president of the newly
organized lone Commercial Club, who
was in Portland last week to attend
the meeting of the Norwegian Immi
gration Aid Commission.
Mr. Knappenberg said that there
were many cases that had come to his
attention in which land had been pur
chased in that section and the returns
from the first year's crop had been
sufficient to pay for its purchase.
"We have quite a number of Nor
wegian and Swedish farmers in the
vicinity of lone," he said, "and all have
made good. Of all of the chattel mort
gages on Tecord in the county, not one
is against any of the Scandinavian set
tlers, although many of them started
under hard circumstances and in a
very hard way."
Last year's crop, was a bumper one
in the vicinity of lone, and Mr. Knap
penberg predicts another croD this
year which will probably surpass that
oi 1MIZ.
The lone Commercial Club, of which
Mr. Knappenberg is president, is one
of the youngest clubs In the state and
one of the latest to become allied with
the Oregon Development League. A
general movement is on foot in that
community to improve roads and high
ways and to improve conditions gen
erally as rapiaiy as possible.
INTERESTING ADDRESS GIVEN
Realty Board Members Hear Harry
Gaze on "Business Psychology."
One of the best addresses before the
Portland Realty Board this year was
given at the Friday meeting by Harry
Gaze, editor of Life Culture, of Los An
geles. He spoke on "Business Psychol
ogy."
"Put your souls into your business,'
no aamonisnea. business is not as
Bordld as It appears. Business is a tre
mendous opportunity for the advance
ment or the world. Because people
Bureau ineir rears tney cause panics. By
combining scientific Idealism with
business, they become successful
"New Thought tenches us to, make
the best of circumstances. It is organ
ized scientific optimism. It broadens
ana develops men in all ways. It
brings more abundant life."
BUILDING ACTIVITY IS BRISK
Changes in La Grande's Business
District Are Noted.
LA GRANDE, Or., June 28. (Spe
clal.) In spite of the bad weather
building activities still continue in La
Grande. Plans are now completed for
the enlargement of the Stewart block
on Adams avenue. The two rooms now
occupied by the People's Store and the
Sno-dgrass grocery store will be ex
tended back to the alley and raised to
two- stories. In the new part of the
basement a furnace will be Installed.
The plans of the Y. M. C. A. building
have been approved by the Carnegie
people ana witnin a rortnight the
money, $12,500, will be received and
the building started.
The West building at the corner of
Elm street and, Adams avenue is now
well under way, the timbers being up
for the first floor. The Odd Fellows'
building is nearly completed. It is a
three-story structure and one of the
best-finished buildings in the city. The
Odd Fellows' Lodge wlU occupy the
two upper floors, the lower now being
occupied by the Hub Clothing Com
pany. The new grade school building
on North Second, street is well under
way.
COMMISSION MEN ARE SOUGHT
East Side CInb Plans to Extend
Wholesale District.
The East Side Business Men's Club
has taken up the matter of bringing
to the East Side many of the Front
street commission houses and locating
them on Union avenue. It was reported
at the last meeting of the club that the
West Side business district along Front
street would undergo big changes and
that soon the commission men there
would have to seek new locations.
It is pointed out that Union avenue
could be made ideal for the commission
men for several reasons. The street is
above the reach of high water between
Hawthorne avenue and East Burnside
street. There are no street-car tracks
on Union avenue In that district to in
terfere with traffic.
The club's special committee will set
before the commission men the ad
vantages of the East 61de and especial
ly Union avenue. A luncheon will be
held. In the near future, when the sub
ject will be considered and commission
men will be invited to attend, and. ex
press themselves.
BETTERMENT CICB IS ACTIVE
Lawns and Yards on East Sixtieth
Street Made Attractive.
The Sixtieth -Street Betterment Club,
in the Rose City Park district, July 20,
will demonstrate what may be done in
making beautiful a single street by
concerted effort on the part of the
owners of the homes on the street.
Blinton B. Smith, secretary-treasurer.
says that about 20 pennants are being
made for awards to those who have
kept their yards in the best of condi
tion during the season. There has been
a most enthusiastic response In this
movement to beautify that street.
The front lawns are finely kept and
the general appearance of the street
has been greatly Improved. The exam
ple of the home owners on East Six
tieth street has been followed bv oth
ers on other streets in the same neigh -
UUl ilUUU.
BIG WHEAT FARM SOLD
TRACT IN KLICKITAT COUNTY
BRINGS $54,4M.
Small Farms in Willamette Valley
Are Purchased by Newcomers.
Other Sales Are Closed'.
Among the important land sale a nr.
ing the week was the transfer of the
W. H. Wilson wheat farm in Klickitat
County, Wash., to F. L. Kellev. of
Portland, for xr4 nnn Tk .
highly improved. The sale was ne
gotiated by L. K. Moore and L. A. Dun
can, of Portland.
Unlce S. BaniBter, of Portland, re
cently of Canada, has purchased the
30-acre farm of W. B. Ogilvle, near
Forest Grove. Mr. Banister has re
moved to his farm. It is adapted to
diversified farming.
K. B. Goelder, recently of Oklahoma,
has purchased An fift-nr, 4om cs
M. Henrv. near Pnrltnti vr ti--
of Yamhill, has purchased the 38-acre
farm of J. T. Wilson, near Carlton.
C. C. Milne, of Klma wh .
acquired title to a farm of 40 acres
from W. F Rartletr Wine. thraa
east of Yamhill.
Among recent sales closed in
Umatilla County is the transfer of the
H. A. Dowd farm of 63 acres, near
Athena, to H. A. Street for $20,000.
in ta inusiiy ooiiom land and
is very productive.
The John Kostur place of 160 acres,
lying two miles east of Timber, was
sold last week to Dr. J. C. Robb, of
Hillsboro. The place is nartlv cleared.
It contains about 3.000.000 f
timber. The place was purchased as
an investment.
High 'School Building to Rise.
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' . v.u .iu J.utlY Will
have a fine new High School building
is now assured, since the citizens at a
special election held this week, decided
by a vote of 111 to 7 to issue theneces-
oaij wiiua i me purpose. An elec
tion to bond the district for the pur
pose Of rtlivlrtcr thn npii.c.Qrv vAna
i.i ..vuueuu. B.WUlXUa
was held some time ago and carried by
a large majority, since which time the
uac ueeu laiten up Dy me state,
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the title to the property is now vested
11 me uwinui, ine new Duiiaing has
been needed for a long time, as the
present one never was fitted for the
purpose.
New Summer Hotel Opens.
HOOD RIVER, Or., June 28. (Spe
cial.) A new Summer hotel has been
opened here. The hostelry is in the
huge log bungalow built three years
ago by Mr. and Mrs.. W. B. Allen as a
private home. It is located in the Oak
trove district, about seven miles from
the city, amid the beautiful oaks of
tnat community, and is already attract
ing guests from Portland. This or
chard home, known as Enderly, and
named for the country home of Mrs.
Alien s family in Indiana near Indi
anapolis, is but a short distance from
the Hood River, and the fisherman by
wanting a lew hundred yards may an
gle to his heart's content.
Wilkes District to Build.
FAIRVIEW, Or., June 24. (Special.)
It was decided at the annual school
meeting of Wilkes district. No. 7, west
oi tnis place, to erect a modern school
house to cost about $3500. It will be
oungaiow style with a full . basement
Modern improvements will be installed.
The grounds will be Inclosed with a
wile fence. Thomas Rowen was re
elected Clerk. The Fairview district
re-elected D. W. McKay as director
ana Jtt. w. Wilcox as Clerk. The Di
rectors were authorized to give the
scnooinouse a complete overhauling.
City Property Sold.
William Wesenberg last week pur
chased from Rudolph Franzel a parcel
100x170 feet, at East Eightieth street
ana nawtnorne avenue, for $3550. Mr.
Wesenberg also bought a lot in York
addition for $1000. John M. Winter
purchased from Inez A. Stevens a frac
tional lot in block 227. city of Portland
for $11,000. Anna Loeffelmann bought
trom vvuiiam Wesenberg a hiehlv im
proved tract of 19 acres at Stafford for
$6000. The sales were negotiated by
Florian Fuchs, a member of the Port
land, Realty Board.
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W. G.
eonins, assistant manager
Th?efeau3re,EaAt1"iV,ent,3;7flfth 'S ""i ln or ISMO.' Thi
l?tUTf? ,'the, dwelling are the large living-room finished in ivory,
iiis-iuyiu iiiiisiieu in sona manogany. imported wall decorations were
early in the week.
The house was
DWELLINGS III DEMI
WEEK'S TRADEVG IN" HOMES UX.
t; SUA LEY BRISK.
Several Sales in Sunny side Prop
erty Are Closed Otber East Side
Districts Show Activity.
A number of residence sales were
made on the East Side the past week.
In Sunnyside three sales aggregated
$15,000. R. C. Snugg sold parts of two
lots and a home in Sunnyside to Fred
W. Flemming for $5000. E. B. Wood
sold to the Davenport Orchard Com
pany several lots in' Sunnyside for
$5000. Kate D. Morgan sold to A. L.
Watson In South Sunnyside property
to the amount of $3000. Several other
minor sales were made in Sunnyside
the past week.
Oeorge T. Poteet sold to Joseph M.
Hanslmair a lot in Commercial Addi
tion and some property adjoining for
12.000. In Hancock's Addition C. C.
Murton sold to E. J. Cowlishaw a home
for $3750. In Mount Tabor Villa Fred
Waespe sold several lots to Victor
Brunnell for $3000. In the York Addi
tion Anna Loeffelmann sold to William
Wesenberg property to the amount of
$3500. A. C. Walters sold to Lucia J.
Dey property in Willamette for $6500.
G. W. Powell sold to Dennison D. El
lis two lots and a house in Point View
Addition in St. Johns for $4000. In
Irvington T. M. Word transferred to
the Equitable Savings & Loan Asso
ciation -property to the amount of
$5654.
Y. M. O. A. BtJSX WITH PLrAXS
Building Fund of $40,000 Probably
Will Be Collected Easily.
LA GRANDE, Or.. June 28. (Spe
cial.) With the site of the La Grand
foundry, at the corner of Elm street
and Washington avenue selected as
the building site for the Y. M. C. A
building, the building committee is
working night and, day on plans for
the erection of La Grande's $40,000 Y.
M. C. A. building. The committee has
Inspected and. contemplates inspecting
many more Y. M. C. A. buildings in this
portion of the country.
The general secretary has finished
issuing notices of the first installment
due July 1, which is needed for the
payment on the lot, architectural plans,
etc. Little trouble Is anticipated in
collecting all of the money which was
pieageo,
AGGREGATE SALES OF $59,100
Active Trading Last Week: Reported
By Dorr E. Keasey & Co.
Dorr E. Keasey. of the Dorr E. Kea
sey & Co.. expressed hfmRAlf vp.tor.
day as thoroughly satisfied with the
cunamun oi me realty market.
"We have contended," aii Mr. Kea
sey, "from early Spring when the de
mand for property began to be larger,
that we were headed toward better
FINE
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3VEW HOME OF- MELVIS D. LEWIS OX EAST FORTY-SECOND STREET.
Melvln D. Lewis, a Portland capitalist, has purchased the seven-room residence of George A. Byrne on East
Forty-second street, near Knott street. In Beaumont, for a cash consideration of $4500. The house contains
two stories and is modern and attractive. Mr. Lewis and family will occupy the dwelling at once
HANDSOME HOME IN IRVINGTON IS
iv. g. collixs on east twenty-fifth
of the James D. Lacey Company, last
built and sold by Denier & Denier Company.
things. Any optimism with which we
have been credited in viewing the
realthy situation is certainly pardon
able when backed up by sales. Our
sales for the past week in all classes of
property, both large and small, have
amounted to $59,100 "
This company sold William Hurssell
lot 6, block 2, Rossdale addition, a six
room nungalow for $3300; E. E. Spel
cher bought residence No. 31 East
Sixty-first street, in the Mount Tabor
district, for $5000; W. S. Brown bought
10 acres one and one-half miles from
Roseburg, improved and stocked, for
$5000; Alice Thompson, of Butte, Mont.,
bought 12 acres on the Base Line Road
near Troutdale, for $3500; A. M. Culp
bought two fine pieces of residence
property in Lincoln, Neb., and one piece
in Omaha, Neb., for $15,800; F. C. Alten
bought two acres, highly improved, in
St. Johns for $12,000 cash; L. G. Reid
bought a home in Laurelhurst for $5000;
Dr. J. M. Short bought a two-flat build
ing on lot 4, block 2, Tilton Addition,
in the Sunnyside section, for $5500; Mrs.
Marie Rook bought 20 acres near
Gresham for $3500.
LARGE HOLDINGS- SOLD
COOS BAY PRO PERT Y IS PUR
CHASED FOR $600,000.
English Syndicate Buy Acreage and
Lots From E. D. Kinney and Ne
gotiates for Additional Land.
Major L. D. Kinney, who has been
interested in large holdings in the
Coos Bay district for several years, an
nounced last week while in Portland
that negotiations have been concluded
with an English syndicate for the
sale of a part of his property there.
The consideration Involves $600,000.
The English investors are represented
by W. J. Wllsey, of Portland.
Major Kinney said that a deal is In
progress also for the sale of the re
maining holdings at Coos Bay to the
same interests. About $450,000 is in
volved in this deal.
The Kinney holdings comprise about
1000 acres on the south inlet of Coos
Bay, with about two miles of water
front, 8000 lots near iVorth Bend and
370 acres on the upper bay. Before all
the property can be transferred it will
be necessary to clear titles and court
proceedings are now in progress to
that end.
It is understood that the English
syndicate plans to make extensive im
provements in the district and to build
up a large commercial and shipping
center on Coos Bay. It is expected that
much of the development work will be
under way before the opening of the
Panama Canal.
, Chehalis to Have New Hotel.
CHEHALIS, Wash.. June 28. (Spe
cial.) Chehalis Is to have a new ho
tel, J. A. Tilley, of Portland, having
rented the three-story Tynan building
on Main street, opposite the Courthouse,
which will be opened at once. Mr. Tilley
conducted the New Grand Central at
Portland prior to coming to this city.
BEAUMONT HOUSE IS PURCHASED
. . .
SOLD
street.
week purchase h.T,mi
nouseTs' of Dutch colonial typl.
with a tiled fireplace, and the din-
used. Mr Collins tonic no...inT.
FILL ALMOST COMPLETE
ETNA DT7MPAGE IS MORE THAN
100,000 CUBIC YARDS.
Construction of Cross-To-ivn Line
Will Bring East Twenty-Eighth
Street Great Traffic.
The final fill is being made in the
Etna Addition between East Twenty
fourth and East Twenty-eighth, East
Ankeny and East Davis streets. This
tract two years ago was cut up with
deep ravines, but these have gradually
been filled up with earth, more than
100,000 cubic yards having been depos
ited. Had the park bond issue been
approved at the recent election a por
tion of the Etna Addition would have
been bought for a playground for the
surrounding neighborhood.
A center of considerable Importance
has been built up along East Twenty
eighth street, where the large car barns
of the Portland Railway, Light &
Power Company and a large school
house have been located. Presently
the carbarns will be made a center of
still more Importance in the construc
tion of the crosstown carline with
East Twenty-eighth street as the basis.
Construction of the crosstown car line
will bring on East Twenty-eighth
street a great trafTic, that of the mid
dle East Side residence district, from
Vernon, Alameda and Olmsted Park
and Irvington south to Hawthorne ave
nue. The crosstown car line franchise
will be submitted to the Commission
ers soon after July 1. Assurances
have been given that construction of
the line will be undertaken as soon
as the franchise has been granted
and approved. At present the limits
are Hawthorne avenue on the south
and Alameda Park on the north.
BUILDINGS
COST
$924,765
Good Record Made This Months Per
mits for Week Are $201,545.
Building operations for the month
have been very brisk, although the rec
ord for new structures will not be as
large as that for the corresponding
month of last year. There have been
Issued 443 building permits with a total
valuation of $924,765, and with one
more business day left in the month, it
Is probable that the valuation will be
approximately $1,000,000.
There were Issued last week 100 per
mits representing a total valuation of
$201,545. A large proportion of the per
mits call for the construction of dwell
ings. The summary of the week's permits
is as follows:
Monday is $14,950
Tuesday la 12.0S5
Wednesday 14 03,1. '3
Thursday so 64.140
FTlday 19 11.245
Saturday .. 10 9,000
Total . ' 100 $201,545
Richard Lorenz, a member of the Ger
man Cousulate in St. Paul, Minn., has re
ceived the golden cross in token of his
elevation to membership In the Knight
of the Order of the Prussian Crown.
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MANY HOMES GO UP
No Abatement in Residence
Construction Noted.
EAST SIDE IS ACTIVE
Large Proportion of New Dwellings
Will Average In Cost Over
$3 000 West Side Hills At
tract Homebullders.
Portland continues to make big pro
gress in the construction of homes. In
all sections or the East Side many
dwellings are under way and many of
them will cost over $3000 on an aver
age. On the hill sub-division on the
West Side several fine dwellings are
being built and a number of homes
are being planned.
Among the permits Issued last week
is one lor the erection of a fine dwell
ing for Mrs. L. M. Keady on East Oak
near East Thirty-ninth street. This
house will cost $5000.
W. N. Everett will build a house cost
ing $6000 on Laurelhurst avenue. East
Glisan street. The dwelling will contain
two stories and will be very attractive.
B. R. Quick has had plans prepared
for a bungalow which will be built on
East Nineteenth near Bybee street. The
nouse will cost $3000.
Joseph Montag will build a frame
dwelling on Longvlew between Mason
and Skldmore streets at a cost of $2800.
D. M. Barnes has taken out a permit
to build a two-story flat building on
Hawthorne avenue, near East Twen
tieth street. The building will cost
$14,000.
The RIverview Cemetery Association
has had plans prepared for a two-story
frame dwelling to be built in Riverview
Cemetery. The house will cost $3000.
J. L. Stevens will erect a one-story
dwelling on East Nineteenth between
Claybourne and Bybee streets. It will
cost $2500.
Joseph B. Toung has taken out a per
mit to build a house on East Forty
eighth street, near Fifty-ninth avenue.
The house will cost $2500.
C. E. Minslnger will build a two
story dwelling on Floral avenue, be
tween Glisan and Irving streets at a
cost of $5000.
A. Hedley will build a fine home
costing $3000 on East Sixty-second
street, near East Stark street.
A permit has been issued to Anna G.
Calef to build a bungalow on East
Forty-first street, near Thompson
street. The house will cost $3000.
H. Everett will build a two-story
house on Montgomery, near Eleventh
street, at a cost of $2500.
James McKinnon has had plans pre
pared for an attractive dwelling which
will be built on Upper Drive between
Grenlvolde Court and Smith street. The
house will cost $4000.
Dr. Jessie McGavin will build a two
story frame dwelling on Alameda
Drive, near East Thirty-fifth street, at
a cost of $3000.
A permit for a two-story flat build
ing has been isued to Fred CapelL
The building will be erected on Linn
avenue, near Thirteenth street, at a
cost of $3500.
The Building & Trust Company has
started the erection of a bungalow
on Skidmore street, near East Thir
tieth street. The house will cost about
$3200.
Mrs. Helen J. Tomlinson has taken
out a permit to build a flne two-story
residence at the head of Lovejoy street.
The house will cost $5000.
A handsome residence will be built
by Claude D. Starr on Maltby, near
East Thirty-sixth street, at a cost of
$7500.
Dr. L. L. DuBois has had plans pre
pared for a two-story dwelling to be
built on East Salmon, near East Fifty
seventh street. The house will cost
$6000.
The Investors' Building & Trust
Company has started the erection of
a two-story dwelling on Laurelhurst
avenue, near East Forty-first street.
The house will cost $5000.
EUGENE PLANT TO ENLARGE
Woolen Mill to Meet Demand for
Larger Output.
EUGENE, Or., June 28. (Special.)
Unable longer to keep up with orders
with its present equipment, the Eugene
Woolen Mill Company has Just author
ized the expenditure of $5000 for re
pairs to the plant and the installation
of new machinery. Included In the
improvements is the erection of a new
drying house, in which is to be placed
a new machine for the mechanical dry
ing of the wool. The present process
is the primitive one of spreading the
washed wool on a basement floor, but
the new process will deliver the wool
in far less time, ready for carding and
spinning. A new extractor and an ad
ditional warping machine will be In
stalled also.
The mill employs 40 men and as
many women, running the spinning ma
chines constantly. It is turning out
700 yards of cloth daily, with a month
ly value of from $16,000 to $17,000.
Most of its product is sold in Portland
and San Francisco, but Eugene Woolen
Mill suits are in demand here.
Roseburg Hotel to Be Improved.
ROSEBURG. Or., June 29. (Special.)
It is announced that C. W. Hopkins, of
Portland, owner of the Grand Hotel,
in this city, has decided to add one and
perhaps two stories to- the hostelry. An
electric elevator will be installed.
Hlmes & Oliver, who have a lease on
the property, say that work on the
proposed Improvements will commence
at once.
Lodge Hall at Rockwood.
The Oddfellows' Lodge at Rock
wood, on the Base Line road, is pre
paring to erect a one-story building at
that place. It is announced that work
will be started on this building as soon
as the plans have been drawn.
Lot Brings 97500.
Louis Rosenblatt has purchased from
George Bamford a lot 100x100 feet in
size for $7500 cash. The property lies
at Twenty-first and Myrtle streets. The
sale was negotiated by Mrs. John
Brooke.
Gearhart Cottage Under Way.
Harry Lang, of Portland, is erecting
an eight-room cottage at Gearhart. The
building will be very unique and at
tractive. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Rosenblatt
and children have gone to Gearhart to
spend the Summer at their cottage.
UNDERWOOD GROWS FAST
(Continued From First Page.)
Northwestern cities. The plants seem
freer from the destructive mildew here
than in most districts.
The growth of the fruit district has
justified many Improvements bv the
North Bank Railroad. The big power
development of the Northwestern Elec
tric Company, where a huge dam, more
than 100 feet in height, and a power
house developing 20,000 horsepower
was constructed on the White Salmon
RIver, the work being conmleted thin
Spring, has hastened this progress. New
iracKs nave been constructed. The
two local stores, that at the station of
Underwood and that at Hood, about a
mile to the west, have een increased
in sire and the growers have been fur
nished better accommodations. A kind
of co-operative rural free delivery has
oeen estaDUsneo, the carrier making
the rounds of the district three times
a week, distributing mall, groceries and
meat.
Trackage for the railroads is lim
ited as are locations for business house
on the railway, because of the narrow
strip of land at the foot of the gorge
along the Columbia. Indeed, the rail
way company in places has been forced
to blast out the right-of-way for its
tracks. A townsite has been laid out
at the top of the gorge, and there many
new homes have already been built.
Town win Never Be Large.
While the town will never assume
large proportions because of the lim
ited territory, it is gradually assum
ing more importance as road improve
ments are being made and as the stock
and hay ranchers of the interior are
Increasing the size of their places and
are looking toward more convenient
locations on the Columbia as ship
ping points.
A few years ago the region was
practically impassable to motor cars,
but now as roads are being constructed
to all parts of the scenic district, vis
iting motorists from Hood River are
fond of ferrying across the Columbia
on Sundays and on holidays. Indeed,
it is said that one has not had a good
view of the Hood River valley until
he has looked down upon the larger
district from the Underwood Heights.
And a sublime view meets the eye of
the traveler when he stands on the
brink of the gorge at an altitude of
almost 1000 feet. He can look up the
Columbia for a distance of more than
10 miles, and the orchards of the
Hood River district appear below him
like the garden of a miniature park.
It is a delightful, birdseve view. tVhll
off to the south on a clear day Mount
Hood looms up with its gigantic white
peak. No Underwood resident can
complain because of lack of scenic
beauty on which to feast the eye.
camasIwWli. big
PLANT NEARLY AS LARGE AS
WORLD'S LARGEST.
Capacity of Crown-Columbia Paper
Company to Be Materially In
creased for Future Needs.
Within a few days the Crown-Columbia
Paper Company at Camas, Wash.,
will have in operation the largest paper-making
machine in the world, a
machine that will turn out news print
186 inches wide and at the rate of 650
lineal feet a minute, says the Camas
Post. In referring to the new ma
chine and the big paper-manufacturing
plant, the Post says:
"The wonderful piece of mechanism,
which took about two years to manu
fauc, is 250 feet long, and its greatest
width is 36 feet. For the last 60 days
a force of skilled men have been busi
ly engaged in setting up the machine,
while another force has been just as
busily engaged in building new beat
ers, four of which are being added to
the equipment of the mill.
"The great institution presents a
wonderful sight, with its enormous ar
ray of machines and army of workmen
turning out print, tissue and wrapping
papers, but what is even more signifi
cant of the good fortune in store for
Camas is the work of improvement go
ing on in the various branches of the
mill and bag factory. The putting in
commission of machine No. 8 means the
addition to the force of quite a num
ber of skilled mechanics, to say noth
ing of the many additional laborers
who will be required.
"Improvements and additions pro
portinately great are contemplated for
the bag factory, in which there will
be Installed 18 new machines for the
manufacture of paper bags. These ad
ditions will entail the providing of
additional floor space, so the length
of the bag factory will be increased by
200 feet, and there is also a report
that in the near future a new building
will be erected at a cost of $40,000.
"Fourteen new motors have recently
been purchased and installed. The
largest of these is 1800 horsepower and
is used in the grinder-room. Two,
of 350 horsepower each, go in the wet.
room and three of similar size and
one of 150 horsepower will furnish the
necassary power for the beaters. One
50-horsepower motor has been installed
in the boiler-room and a 50 and a 25
In the bag factory. In the sawmill
a motor of 100 horsepower has been
installed and one half as power again
goes into the chipping-room. Besides
the foregoing, the generatingr-room and
the acid-room are each supplied with a
motor of 150-horsepower. These, com
bined, use practically all the current
so far contracted for from the North
western Electric Company, but it is
understood that there are still many
motors to be Installed. There will be
22 beaters in all when the four now
being built are completed.
"The tremendous capacity of the
new machine will be better understood
when it is stated that it will turn out
10,000 square feet of paper every min
ute, or a square mile in less than 48
hours. Maintaining this gait for about
six months, and assuming that Port
land and suburbs cover an area of 100
square miles, the great machine could
turn out in that time sufficient paper
to make a roof for the entire terri
tory. "It is not an uncommon experi
ence to hear regret expressed that the
opportunities for money-making do not
present themselves as they did a dec
ade or two ago, but If those who
share that opinion could make a men
tal picture of the Camas plant of the
Crown Columbia Paper Company 20
years hence, or even 10 years from
this time, and realize what will be
the effect of the enormous growth of
the concern on business conditions and
property values here, they would quick
ly conclude that there are still to be
found opportunities for profitable in
vestment just as good as those that
offered 20 or 30 years ago."
It has been discovered by the United
States Bureau of Mines that two-thirds of
the world's radium Is being made in Eu-
rope from ores shipped from America.
STUDIO
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413 Start.
Photographs Buildings, Construction
Work.
Three Operators.
Plumbing Supplies, Wholesale and
Retail, Contracting and Jobblnc.
249 Sainton Street, Bet. 2d and ad
Pipe & Klttl3Ka- .Pbone. Mala 787
Stark-Davis
4 Company