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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 1913)
BOOM EXPECTED L Opening of Panama Canal to Furnish New Market for Coast, Says McLeod. MORE MILLS AflE BUILDING Demand in East tor Western Prod uct to Come 8 Supplies of Tel low Pine year Atlantic Sea board Are Depleted. "With the opening of the Panama Canal an Immenss amount of lumber will be shipped to the Atlantic sea board" said George B. McLeod, of the Hammond Lumber Company, "but it la generally forgotten that In those mar kets new business will not be Inaugu rated except as It displaces the pres ent supply. The Pacific Coast fir can successfully compete with the yellow pine of the South In certain lines, and will do so, bat It Is sure that the pres- . 4Kl fHtAr will rnjrh Srther west and compete with this coast along: lines In which It Is strong est." This suggestion Is more or less of a warning' as to what the Paclflo Coast lumberman will have to meet In his struggle for an Atlantic foothold and for which preparations are being- made. The men who are back of the enter prise are long: experienced In the busi ness, many coming- to this Coast after having made fortunes In the East, and confidently forecasted the future local lumber situation, and many of these have seen their early purchases In crease ten fold In value. Canadian Market la DvIL During- the past few months the lum ber Industry has been somewhat lack !n Its activities owing- to outside causes, but Its g-eneral tone Is healthy on the entire Paclflo Coast except British Columbia. Black markets of Canada are due to the "busted" boom towns In that district. There the lum berman and loggers have been hit hard, but It has had no effect on the Indus try on this side of the line, except through financial channels. Jay 8. Hamilton, president of the lumber company bearing his name, who is considered sane and safe by - the lumbermen of the state, said: "Show me one reason why the lumber busi ness Is dull and I- will show ,you 20 why it should be good, and It will be before long. More preparation is being made now for great future business than ever before and by hundreds of people in different sections. There are no pessimists among them, and It Is impossible that all should be wrong." It was reported recently that the Crossett-Western Lumber Comany at Wauna, on the Columbia River, In Clat sop County, had shut down, and It was a-enerally attributed to the dull mar ket, but this was far from the truth. The company took this opportunity to carry out its plans to double the ca pacity of Its mill and when completed will have a capacity of 225.000 feet in 10 hours, and has sufficient timber In sight to keep It running for a number of years. It is the purpose of this company to ship almost exclusively to the Atlantic Coast, where it has a string of retail yards in the larger cities, now being supplied from Its mills In the Southern states. This com pany also has announced that it In tends to . establish at Wauna a ship building plant to construct vessels for Its own use. but It Is unlikely that these will be utilized except In the coastwise trade. . . - Plant Soa-sests Bfgr Thlagm. A plant that Is even more suggestive of big things. Is the mill of the Wheel er Lumber Company, on Nehalem Bay at Wheeler. It Is a Pennsylvania con cern and Its president. Mr. Du Bols, Individually owns 45.000 acres of timber lands In Tillamook County. An unusual feature of this scheme Is the prepara tion for the homes of emnloves. It is going on at the same time aa the con struction of the mill and includes 20 acres of sightly land, overlooking the ocean, on which la being built a house to the acre and. under the architectural drawings, no two will be alike. This company Is also preparing for the fiasiern trade, as Its owners have had yards In Pennsylvania cities for the past 50 years. Shipments from this mill will only continue this business, which is gradually falling on account of the depletion of the forests of that state. Two other mills in Tillamook County are coming to life and a third Is pro jected. The mill of the Brighton Mill Company, on Xehalem Bay. soon will resume full operation after a long shut down, and the Intention Is to run It to Its full capacity. With the Government Jetty work at the entrance to the Ne halem River having proved that that harbor will be navigable to large ves sels, that section no longer will be cut off from the world. The Tillamook branch of the Southern Pacific also la available. The mill of the Eagle Lumber Com pany, at Timber, owned by the Stand ard Box A Lumber Company, of Port UMBER BUSINESS " SULLIVAN'S GULCH IMPROVEMENT UNDER WAY. j I a - 5.. "-.,y- - a$i i . i. - . - ' I a x - t , v :-t " i tv v ' " l I -, v A. k I I t '-"L-t.-S- - t ' r -sf.. . T ' " XT' - "o. Vsjv ,s ' t I i - -y, . - v "' t: - - . v - Hi 1 --'tfvr w' - .t I - XVf- Vi&'tAX. y c v, PROGRESS OF GRADING FOI SPOKASE, PORTLANp SEATTLE SPUR AS SHOWN BY PHOTOGRAPH. 1 ill . i !fl .....aaaasaaeea a.e.i.a. ... . land. Is ready to begin operations. It has a capacity of 65.000 feet a day. Its cut will be shipped out over the Tilla mook branch of the Southern Pacific. Capitalists Visit Tillamook. . During the past week W. H. Eccles and a party of Utah capitalists visnea Tillamook County, where they own a large tract of timber. The purpose of their visit wss to decide on a location for a mill. What decision was reached was not made public, but It was In dicated that the mill would be In opera tion by- next Spring and would bo one of large capacity. . In the logging industry the largest project of the kind ever Inaugurated In this state-is that of the Silver Falls Logging Company, which owns 40.000 acres of timber back of SUverton. The logs are hauled from -that city by rail to near Oswego and there dumped Into the Willamette River. When this com pany Is In full swing Its dally capacity will be fully 800.000 feet. Another illustration of what the lum bermen believe is In store for them Is the activities of the Falls City Lum ber Company, a Portland corporation, with a mill at Falls City. It has or ganized the Silets and Valley Railroad, the construction of which has com menced from Independence to the SUetz basin and where the company owns some of the finest standing tim ber on this coast. This road is to be standard built and its prospective length is 40 miles as it advances through the timber snd later may- be utilized for other commercial purposes. Booth-Kelly Rebuilding. The Booth-Kelly Lumber Company has under construction at Springfield a mill to take the place of one that was destroyed by Are a few years ago, and it will be ready for operation within a few months and have a capacity of 200,000 a day. The delay In rebuild ing this mill was due to legal compli cations that have been cleared. Con fidence in the future of the lumber business by the company Is hastening the completion of the Springfield mill. In Eastern Oregon the lumber mills have been doing a better business pro portionately than those on the coast during the past few months. Several of them are running night shifts and ths box factories in that section never have done so well. Prospects for the Winter are good arid several are con templating enlarging their capacity be fore next year to meet an increasing demand. Timber deals of large size appear to be a thing of the past. Good holdings are not for sale at any price, but the Big Bend Timber Company disposed of 275.000.000 feet In Eastern Jackson County to Portland parties on a basis of $1.10 a thousand, and It will run about 60 per cent fir. In the same county 200.000,000 feet were purchased by a lumberman of Kansas City from its Wisconsin owners on a basis of 90 cents a thousand, but this latter sale is represented to have been made for speculative purposes. An allotment of the Klamath reservation, . containing about 52.000,000 feet of yellow pine, was bought recently by nearby mill owners at 23.75 a thousand. Broom Corn Crop Grown. GRANTS PASS, Or, Sept 8. (Spe cial.) Considerable experiment Is be ing made by a few farmers in this community In raising broom corn for commercial purposes. Farmers who are Interested and will harvest crop this year are Roy Lathrop. 14 acres; G. a Eaton. 10 acers; H. T. Prlchard. five acres, and W. W. Canby. five acres. The harvesting of the broom corn will take place later In the season, when It Is put through a process or baling, which prepares It for shipment The prospective acreage is said to be of excellent quality and the formed fibers are long and tough. POTATO YIELD IS LIGHT Reports From Polk County Say Late Crop -Unusually Small. BUENA VISTA. Or., Sept. 8, (Spe cial) From various sections of Polk County come reports of an unusual shortage In the potato crop. The acre age Is small this season and so is the yield In many cases. Early potatoes made a fair showing, but late varie ties do not present a good appearance In the field. . , . The blight Is believed to have Injured the potatoes in many sections, except In the river bottoms. In the bottom lands where the soil Is sandy a good yield Is expectea. Lewis County Tobacco Displayed. CHEHALIS. Wash., Sept . (Spe cial.) Although Southwest Washing ton has never made boasts of being a section where tobacco could be grown successfully, an exhibit of this kind was shown at the recent Southwest Washington Fair. The display weighed several pounds, being leaf tobacco as it came from the grower, Xavier Meyer, a well-known and successful German farmer living near Napavlne. The to bacco was well cured and had a splen did color. Many farmers in Lewis Coun. ty grow their own tobacco for home use and the Industry Is becoming more important each year. Bulilders' Exchange Adds Members. At the regular monthly meeting of the board of directors of the Builders Exchange last Thursday the following were elected to membership: Bates Sand & Gravel Company, Al bert J. Capron, manufacturers" agent: Benjamin L. Smith, building engineer: Ohio Varnish Company; G. A. Saunders Supply Company, contractors' supplies; Nott-Joslyn Company, building ma terials. A full board waa present and much Interest manifested In the work of the exchange. tHESUXDATOREGONIAX, POBTLAyP, ATTRACTIVE ... .. - fc ' i,- life. ? : 'if - , v nhlMij 1 ; , fi Urjc FT" " " 1 : ! " J ' Tw-v I , ..wl. f" -- occupies ground area 62 by 100 feet There 9otJ;j,vlng beda. 12JSrZlJl SVmLThe'Tui ling will cost ,63 000, Jt will he riy toT oLulrt November 1. -It was designed by Architects Claussen & Claussen. GULCH TO DEVELOP Extension of Spokane, Port land & Seattle Important. SLOUGH WILL BE FILLED Many Blocks Xow Under Water on East Side Will Be Elevated and Become Desirable as Sites for w Buildings. Extension of the spur of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway Company, up Sullivan's Gulch, and the fills to be made In Hawthorne slough, thus re deeming and bringing into use a large area of East Side property now dor mant are considered highly Important to the East Side. Substantial progress is being maoe . ... . - . u Ci. 1 l(v n ' n on the initial worn, m . Gulch extension. Preliminary grading has been started, northward irom east approach to Burnside rwesnd alongside the Princess Hotel, and a track has been put down on which to place the steam grader. t-v. in. win awlna- around into bui- livan's Gulch through the land formerly occupied by the Baivation An" duatrlal Home, oorner East Davis and East Third streets, and thence east ward along the south side of the line of the 0.-W. R. & N. Company, straight until It strikes the bluff at about East Eighth street From this point in the bluff grading has been started along the south side of Sullivan's Gulch east- "Ynarontlv a deep cut will be re quired between East Eighth street and the East Twelfth street bridge in order to keep clear of the main line of the O-W. R. & X, which follows the south bank closely. The material will be used to fill up the part to be oc cupied by the spur between the mouth of the gulch and. East Eighth street The track will be carried on trestles across this space until this fiU can be made. a Development Is Expected. t i. nn.Marad that Sullivan's Gulch district will develop Tapldly when this spur has been built, vine spur nm bring in use much property for ware house and factory purposes extending up this Gulch. There is hardly any WEST SIDE APARTMENT-H0T7SE n w i. wnnn RISKS AT COST limit to the expansion possible along Sullivan's Gulch. The Pacific Bridge Company is op erating dump trains in filling up Haw thorne Slough between Belmont and East Salmon streets. These dump cars run from .the river and carry gravel and sand taken from the bottom of the river. The dump trains are run along the west side of the slough where the material Is dumped in the slough. Con siderable progroess has been made on this fill, but it Is an extensive piece of work and will require several months to oomplete. About five complete blocks wil be built up out of this slough as a result of this fill alone and made available for buildings. South from East Salmon street to Hawthorne avenue an Important im provement will be made by whloh the Hawthorne - Slough now filled with water will be filled. It Is estimated that from the streets to be improved, In the East Madison street improve ment district enough material can De secured to nearly fill the slough to the grade line. Several streets running east and west are to be Improved across this slough and also East Tenth runlng north from Hawthorne avenue will be improved as part of this dis trict Park May Be Graded. The general grading of Hawthorne Park Is contemplated which will also yield much filling material that can be dumped in the slough. All the trees and brush along the slough have been cut down and are being removed pre paratory to this extensive Improvement. Hawthorne Park between East Salmon and Hawthorne, East Ninth and East Twelfth streets comprise nine blocks, half of which are out by Hawthorne Slough, and the Improvement means the Improvement of this entire addition. The streets through the park were opened last year, and the improvement of ths East Madison street district car ries their full improvement The cost of the fill the Pacific Bridge Company is making is ' about 230,000 and that of the Hawthorne Park will be about 125,000, and with the Im provement of the Madison street district the cost will be about $70,000. ROAD IS BEING SURVEYED Line Hun Between Ashford, Wash., and Lewis Postoffice. CHEHALIS, Wash, Sept ' 6. (Spe cial.) A party of Government en gineers is running a survey between AShford in Pierce County and Lewis postoffice In the eastern portion of Lewis County, for a highway that is to be a connecting link from the Na tional Park highway and the Upper Big Bottom country. The original Inten tion was to build the road from Ash ford to Hot Springs In the Cascades In the Cowlitz Pass neighborhood, but it was found, that such a route was Impracticable. The plan adopted Is te build from Ashford and down the Skate to Lewis. There is now available for the road 210,000. and It is understood that the Government will provide additional funds later to carry out the project which will be a part of a plan to build scenic highways. At Lewis the proposed Toad will con nect with state road No. 5 between Cheballs and North Yakima, which crosses the Cascades through Cowlitz Pass, and which, with its various con nections, will give the Federal Gov ernment wagon road and trail connec tions to all the various points In the Mount Adams and Mount St Helens neighborhoods, Packwood Lake and other places. SILETZ LINE IS MOVING Crews Building Branch Road Into Rich Timber Belt. AIRLIE, Or., Sept" i. (Special.) About 15 teams of horses arrived in this city recently to be- used in the construction work on the Snetz branch of the Siletz Valley & Eastern Railway. The work will start at the Southern Pacific tracks and reach westward into King's Valley. - It is reported that eight miles of the line will be complet ed this Fall and a foroe of about 100 men Is now at work. This line will open a rich timber belt Power Site Is Restored. ROSEBURG, Or., Sept 6 (Special.) Power site reserve No. 95, on the McKenzle River, involving 40 acres, has been reetored to settlement by execu tive order. The Assistant Land Com missioner has notified the local Land Office of this restoration. While the land becomes open to settlement Sep tembsr 30. no entry, filing selection or other appropriation will be accepted . . . . 1 OA ' oeiorp. uciuBcf-roui . SEPTEMBER 7. 1913. UNDER "WAT. OF $63,000. Much Work Is Well. Under Way on East Side. MANY INDUSTRIAL PLANTS One Factory, Two Power Stations, Garage, 'Sand Works, Church and Brooklyn Branch Library Are Among Structures. A new two-story building Is be ing erected on the southeast cor ner of East Oak and East Eighth streets, covering a lot 100x50 feet It will be occupied by the Puritan Com pany's soda fountain products factory. The building and plant will cost about $10,000. A basement will extend under part of the building. A hydraulic ele vator will be Installed and the upper floor will be ror storage purposes. A two-story brick building will be built at the corner of Mllwaukie and Powell streets, 60x50 feet. by. William Raabe. The excavations have been completed. On the first floor will be the Brooklyn Branch Library, which now occupies a frame dwelling that was moved to one side. The new building will cost between J8000 and $10,000. The Portland Railway, Light & Power Company has Just completed a concrete power and transformer sta tion near the Sellwood car barns at a cost of $10,000. The new dynamos and transformers are being installed In the new structure. The Northwestern Electric Company is erecting a concrete power station on Albina avenue and Railroad street in Lower Albina. It covers a single lot and is the height of a two-story building. The cost is about $15,000. The concrete work has . been com pleted. On Goldsmith street. In Lower Al bina, the Star Sand Company has be gun the erection of a concrete build ing to take the place of the company's building on the West Side where the site was appropriated for public docks. The cost will be about $40,000. Work of the new home of the Ford Motor Company, on East Division and East Eleventh streets, Is progressing rapidly. The concrete piers for the first story are being built up from the foundation. A large force of men with concrete mixers are at work about the new building. Preparations are under way for the erection of a new home by the Second Christian Science Church, on the northeast corner of East Pine and East Seventh streets. . NEW BUILDINGS RISE BUILDING BEING COMPLETED AT EAST TWENTY-SIXTH AND EAST CLINTON. r" iff II $ Is T cW - I" Clinton a;r"tV for It Uof a new'TyTe Of-Cons7ru7uo7,; hollow tile being used in the walls, with pressed brick front. The lower floor will contain business storerooms and a motion picture theater, which opens on. East Twenty-sixth street On the upper floor there are rooms and apartments. Cost of the building will be about J25.000. It will be the best structure of the sort built in this dis- trict ' MAM-SITES FOR FACTORIES CHEAP Real Estate Men and Com mercial Bodies Scout Re port of Inflated Values. . $300 ACRE PRICE OF SOME Available Locations on East Side and Along Columbia Slough Are - ' Numerous and Land Is De clared "Worth Price Asked. Just whom two men consulted in Portland in their search for factory sites ' last week, before declaring through the medium of a local paper that factory sites could not be procured in Portland except at prohibitive prices, local real estate men and representa tives of the commercial organizations are at a loss to know. After the asser tion was made by the two men, one of whom represented himself as coming from a brass and bronze foundry of Brooklyn and one from Pears Soap Company, of England, an effort was made by' real estate men to ascertain where In the city they had pursuod their alleged 10-days' vain search, but no real estate firm or dealer was to be found who had been consulted by either of them. The Chamber of Com merce made a careful investigation and found the same thing that the real estate firms had found. Complaint Is Made. When the two appeared at the Com mercial Club and made their complaint they declared they had searched the entire city and had found no land that could be procured on railroad or river frontage for less than $3000 an acre. Having unburdened themselves of their grievance they departed. Their statements as to prevailing prices on suitable factory sites, met with indignant denials from all sides. "If parties looking for manufacturing sites would consult the advertising col umns of one cf the papers they would find there an offer of free factory sites on the Willamette River, and about 100 acres of land with 6000 feet of river frontage, served by rail and river," said H. L. Moody, In a Tecent communi cation. "There is at least one concern that is not trying to hold up manu facturers." "There Is plenty of land suitable for manufacturing sites in Portland," says J. Fred Larson, "and at perfectly reas onable prices. A factory cannot come to a" city and try to drop down any where and secure land for a song. But where there is suitable factory land for sale, the price asked is fair and the value is there, and the manufacturer has it when he secures the land as one of the stable assets in his concern. Value Declared Staple. "There is no other city in the country where land values are as stable as they are In Portland and you don't find the real estate concerns speculating or try ing to pump" into them values that aren't there." One of the two men announced before leaving Portland that he might return again and renew negotiations for a site for a factory. "I know -of two large bodies of land, one on the Columbia and one on the Willamette," says one of the prominent realty men of the city, "within 12 miles of the center of the city and well sit uated for manufacturing sites. They are on the farket for. from $100 to $300 an acre." "A man - cannot expect to come- to the city and pick up the very choicest site at a foolishly low figure," was the opinion of another of the leading real estate men of the city, "but the asser tions made by these two men, as to the prices, are utterly absurd." Lands on Slough Available. "There Is' plenty of land, well situ ated, and suitable" for factory sites that can be had at prices ranging from $200 to $900 an acre," said A. B. Slauson. "Out- along the Columbia Slough where water and rail connections can be eas ily made, there are hundreds of acres available. That land is worth about $300 on acre for dairy purposes Tight now. The values fixed by what the land -is capable of producing and the values in the land out there are un questionable. In East Portland on the O.-W. R. & N. line there is land suit able for factory sites, which is now worth $400 to $500 an acre for dairy land, and which can be bought for such prices if anyone desires to use it for factory purposes. "There may be land in the developed manufacturing centers which is held at from $3000 to-$5000 an acre, but it Is worth it When a man says he is unable to secure a factory site in Portland for less than those figures, he Is either wholly mistaken or has not looked into the matter with any thoroughness. "I have not been able to ascertain as yet where these men tried to secure their factory sites, which they com plained were held at such prohibitive figures." HOQTJIAM BUILDINGS BEGTXN New - Depot to Be Finished by De ' cember, High School by August. HOQUIAM, Wash., Sept. 6. (Spe cial.) Work on the erection of a new union passenger station In Hoqulam r fm&tmttt'itirmvtMititiiii KXEIST BUILDINO. was begun today by Contractor E. 3. Rounds, of Seattle. This week work also is to be started by Dltlefson & Gehring, of Seattle, on erection of the new Hoqulam school building. The depot will cost approximately $40,000 when comnleted. and the High School close to $125,000. The depot is to be completed by December 1, and the High School by August 1 next Mr. Rounds' force is now engaged In clearing the site for the depot The old structure will be moved west to Eighth street and the freight sheds east to give room for the new struc ture. The depot Is to be of brick, with stone trimmings and tile roof, a large train shed Is also to be built The local yards will be much ln creased in size, as they are already congested with freight and passenger business. Coos Bay Docs Much Building. MARSHFIELD. Or., Sept 6. (Spe clal.) During the month of August permits were issued for $22,000 worth of building here. Moat of the building permits were residences, the business blocks having started earlier in the season. The contract for the new con crete building for the First National Bank of Bandon was awarded this week to J. W. Wright, former Mayor of Hood River, and J. M. Bentley, also of Hood River, for $17,000. FINE FARM RECLAIMED MODERN METHODS WORK WON DERS NEAR NEWBERG. Dr. AV. L. Bishop In One Tear Show What Can Be Done In Making Soil Yield Full Values. NEWBERG, Or., Sept 6. (Special.) About three years ago W. D. Young, an extensive manufacturer of hard wood flooring, of Bay City, Mich., came, to the Coast to make an investment la land. He spent some time in California, then went to Washington And finally came to Newberg and bought a farm of 816 acres four miles west of this city, of which 400 acres 1b cleared and the remainder in timber. He was fortunate In having an enterprising, energetio son-in-law then living at Billings, Mont Dr. W. L. Bishop. Last year ho made a proposition to Dr. Bishop to go on the property and develop it as It should be developed by up-to-dato farming methods. Dr. Bishop had been practicing medi cine for 19 years, but was convinced that there waa a future for him in a new line of industry, and his success with this year's operations has dem onstrated that he made no mistake ia accepting Mr. Young's proposal. Ho moved with his family of wife and two children to the farm, employed a num ber of men, bought 16 horses, several cows and hogs and, with Improved farming Implements, went to work. His first crop of oats and vetch produced 30 bushels to the acre where same of his neighbors had only 15 or 16 this year; he had water put up to the build, lngs from a fine spring by means of a ram, built, six miles of fencing anil proposes to build six miles more and in eight months time worked a mar- velous change In the appearance oi in ' property. Dr. Bishop proposes to focus most or his efforts on three things the growing of Newtown and Spitzenberg apples, the raising of Duroc hogs and Holstein cattle. The apples he Intends to put on a boat at Dayton and ship by water to localities where a market will be supplied by Mr. Young's extensive busi- ness connections. This year he had the land plowed 10 inches deep which was a surprise to the old farm and to his neighbors. He used a disc freely, thor ougly to pulverize the soil, with the result that it is in fine condition and his next crop of grain will be of a much more satisfactory character than here tofore. This year he has a fine crop of lima beans. He has just completed a large addi tion to his barn and will erect a silo for the saving of all of the green feed, on the place. As illustrative of his methods of utilizing everything in sight may be quoted a remark of his little 8-year-old girl. She said: "Papa uses everything on the plaoe except the smoke and the empty tin cans. I expect we will soen use the smoke In smoking bacon, and I suppose he will find some way to use the us cans before long." . One of the valuable features of tn big farm is 160 acres of oak timber with running water. In this rrove ht proposes te turn his hogs and It is Ideal for that purpose. He has joined the Dundee branch of the Farmers' 8ociety of Equity, has done work this Summer In road improvement In his vicinity and) expects to do a great deal in that , lino in connection with his neighbors. THE DALLES IS "BROKE" Irregularity In Bond Proceeding la Temporarily Embarrassing. THE DALLES, Or., Sept. . 6. (Spe-i ctal.) This olty is In good financial condition, the best in years in fact, but Just at the present time it is about "broke," being so financially embar rassed that the Council, at its meeting last night, could not order the regular monthly bills and the salaries of offi cers paid. The financial difficulty is not a seri ous, one however, though it Is incon venient to say the least It was caused by an irregularity in the pro ceedings for the sale of street im provement bonds a few months ago. As a result the bonds were not sold and considerable money for improve ments had to be diverted from other funds of the city while the city re advertised for the sale of the bonds and went through the necessary red tape, which consumes several weeks. of East Twenty-sixth and