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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1913)
10 TTTE STTXDAY OREGOXIAtf, POUTLAND, NOVEMBER 2, 1013. A SELLWOOD STREET FARM ON ELECTRIC LINE VAC ANT YEAR AGO NOW SITE CfF PROSPEROUS VILLAGE CONTAINING 57 FAMILIES BIG TIMBER TRAuiS SOLD NEAR BANKS WORK NEAR FINISH Pleasant Home, Situated in Heart of Fertile Powell Val ley, Makes Big Progress Soil Survey by State Experts Shews That Land Is Well Adapted to Diversified Farming. Paving and Sewers Under'Con- Lumbermen Turn Attention to Forests of Washington County. . struction Represent Cost of About $3000. , ; : I j - -. . . - I r -- f. y-fr Hvtr. . ;.- t5$s NEW BRIDGE DISTANT HOPE Commercial Club to Bide Time and Begin Campaign for Span Over I "Willamette Wien Conditions j Seem to Justify Action. Etreet improvements and sewers that will cost about $300,000 are being: com pleted at 'Sellwood and more will be undertaken later. The East Sellwood (ewer system, which connects with the Znsley-avenue conduit, will be complet ed In a short time. A few more con duits will bo laid on some of the main streets, when the system will be com pleted. This, sewer system connects (with the main conduit on East Twenty third street, the 'drainage being- from East Fifteenth toward Kast Twenty third, where it will connect with the Insley-avenue conduit, which runs to the Willamette River through Mid Way. I Property owners In Sellwood were jLBsessed to help pay for the Insley-ave-p.ue conduit, and they will now get :the benefit Construction of this sewer system east of East Fifteenth street permits the completion of hard-surface pavements on Umatilla, Spokane, Neha lem. and Maiden avenues east and west and East Thirteenth street, which had keen held up for some time. East Thir teenth street is the business street and Is being paved. It will hardly be com pleted this year unless there should be alr weather for at least a month. An asphalt pavement 1s being laid. BJid the concrete foundation is being put down. It extends for nearly one mile through the business section of Sellwood. Altogether. the Sellwood pavements will cost more than $250,000 outside of the sewers. Next year it is hoped to extend East Thirteenth street to a connection with Bybee avenue and thence with Milkau kle street. Also efforts will be made to extend Milwaukie street (old Kast Nineteenth) from Nehalem avenuo to the Clackamas County line. All the paved streets now extending to the "Willamette River intersect Milwaukie Btreet. but this latter street is in a bad condition. The school district Is erecting a con crete addition to the schoolhouse on Harney and East Fifteenth streets, and the work is well advanced. This build ing 13 part of the main structure and will cost 130.000. Later the entire building will be replaced with a fire proof schoolhouse. The old part has etood nearly 25 years. Sellwood citizens are hopeful of the construction of a bridge across the "Willamette In the course of a fpw years to take the place of the Sellwood Xerry and connect the boulevard sys tem on both sides. The Sellwood Com mercial Club expects to start a cam palagn for this bridge when the time is considered ripe. It is thought that a Blnglo span can be built near the land ings of the Sellwood ferry high enough above the river to do away with the necessity of a draw, and that the cost "will not be more than $300,000, as the river is narrow at Sellwood. There is talk of asking the City DAIRY BARN AT WEST STAYTON IS OF MODERN TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION Aim of Willamette Valley Irrigated Land Company Is Aid Dairying Industry Fine Crop of Corn Is Raised. - , . - . - - - ' i r - : 3 H7 Willamette Valley Irrigated Land Company has Just com pleted a model dairy barn at West Btayton to aid in upbuilding the dairy business on the irrigation project lyiragr A illustration of the rapid de velopment "of the country sur rounding' Portland is afforded In the little village of Pleasant Home, on the Mount Hood line. Where a year ago there was nothing but I. N. Day's farm house, today is a pretty village of 57 families, with three general stores, two churches, a school, a hotel and res taurant, a lumber yard, a barber shop Commissioners to make Sellwood a dis trict and having the remainder of the unpaved streets ,all paved at the same time. Only one street. East Thirteenth, is being paved north and south. Farm Brings $17,500. J. A. McDonald's 204-acre farm, near Lebanon, Or., was sold for $17,500 last week. The purchaser Is an Eastern man. Another out-of-town transaction was the purchase of C. H. Schmadeka's residence, brick building-, and other property, all located in Grangeviile, Idaho, by Lucile A. McDonald. L. K. Moore negotiated both deals. Monmouth Improvements Progress. MONMOUTH, Or., Nov. 1. (Special.) Work of building new cement walks and making general street improve ments is again in progress in this city. Last year four milaa at tracks were between West Stayton and Turner. The barn is equipped to accommodate 24 dairy cows. It is of modern, sanitary construction, with cement floors and the feed-rooms in a separate division. 1 and two blacksmith shops. A modern water system carries water to each house. The land adjacent has been divided into tracts f from one to ten acres, and the owners are prosperous gardeners and truck farmers. "The secret of this," sai-d J. Fred Lar son, ,of Umdenstock & Larson, "is not salesmanship, but intelligent work. The whole secret of acreage-selling- depends on three things the soil, transporta- laid, according to an estimate, and the work came as a result of an ordinance previously passed by the Monmouth City Council that all old walks, deemed Inadequate, must be replaced by cement walks. Property-owners have carried on these Improvements to a great ex tent, but the present time is seeing another revival of the work. Sandy Buildings Planned. Nearly all the buildings which were recently destroyed by fire at Sandy two weeks ago will be rebuilt and much better structures will be erected than the ones burned. Casper. Junker will erect two modern buildings on the site of the ones burned. Five buildings extending- for 200 feet on Main street were destroyed. The total amount of insurance carried on the property was $5000. 1 , (n A silo has been added to utilize the corn crop grown on a tract adjoining the West Stayton Schoolhouse. The crop was raised by B. V. Pompella and was one of -the best yields-grown In the Willamette Valley, tlon facilities -and the distance of the tracts from the conveniences of modern life. The Powell" Valley has the soil, the Portland Railway, Llg-ht & Power Company furnishes the transportation, and it only remained for us to furnish the conveniences of modern life. "Before the deal for the land was closed with the Mount Hood Develop--ment Company, we had men from the Oregon Agricultural College make a soil survey. With the help afforded by SODA TO BE MINED Extensive Industry Promised for Central Oregon. ALKALI LAKE DEPOSIT BIG I Gravel and sand are being- used in mak Ulnpr,i r! -n shinn. T.,., e t.'ins this fill. It will cost about $25,000 traded, After Grinding, and Lack of Transportation. Is Only Barrier to Progress. An industry that promises much fu ture development recently has been launched in the unfrequented sections of Central and Southern Oregon by the Oregon Borax Company, a subsidiary of .the American Soda Products Com pany, of Portland and San Francisco. The project is an extensive and an Important one. It provides immediate development of the soda deposits in Alkali Lake, Lake County. It is said that these deposits now are In the form" of carbonate of soda a product that enjoys a ready market. By chem ical treatment this carbonate of soda can be converted into bicarbonate ot soda, soda ash or caustic soda, com modities that are In constant commer cial demand. Alkali Lake contains carbonate ' of soda in Its pure form. No foreign sub stances serve to complicate the com mercial product. It needs no treatment except pulverizing to place it on the market as common, ordinary washing soda. Alkali Lake probably is the only place in Oregon where this carbonate of soda is present in its pure, crystal lized form. In fact these crystals alone j form the lake. There is no water in it. The soda crystals are pure white. The lake bed covers an area of atout 500 acres, and in some places is 16 feet deep. The body has not been" explored entirely and may be even deeper. At places where blocks of these crys tals have been removed the water has come up from below and in a short lime crystallized again. Thus, it is be lieved, an inexhaustible supply of soda ! crystals is offered. ; Lack of transportation facilities alone ' has retarded the development of this i property in the past. The place is about ; 70 miles from Bend and more than 25 ; miles from Lakeview, its nearest rail connection. The new "East and West Oregon" line now being built by the O.-W. R. & N. Company out of Vale 1 will pass within a few miles' of the lake. It is the purpose of the company then 'to build a branch line to connect wth the railroad. In recent months, however, automo bile trucks have been used to carry small quantities of soda to the nearest railroads for shipment. Occasional lots have been sent to Portland, to San Fran cisco and to Europe. Preliminary Expenditures (140,000. Many improvements already have been made by the company on the shores of Alkali Lake. They include permanent dwellings, garages, stffbles, an office building and some storage bins. An aggregate of $40,000 has been expended therein the last few months. A score of men are employed on the grounds extracting the soda deposits from the lake beds, preparing it for shipment and other work. As swon as the railroad gets near enough a force of probably 100 men will be employed there constantly. Emory E. Smith, of the engineering firm of Smith, Emery & Co., of San Francisco, which has charge of the work, has been ia Portland for the last few days. He is certain that extrac tion of soda from Alkali Lake is des tined to become one of Oregon's princi pal industries. Handsome Home Completed. The beautiful residence of F. C. Barnes at East Thirty-fifth and Klicki tat streets has been completed and will be occupied at once. It Is one of the mn ittriKtins on. . most attractive an expensive homes this survey, we were able to tell the prospective buyer just what the land was best adapted for and how to sow and care for the crop. "Consequently, when a farmer boug-ht a tract, he made no costly experiments. He planted the right crop, gave it the proper care and made a good profit from the investment. He was satis fied. There was none of the heart rending struggle that the city man usually undergoes when he first at built on the East Side this year, th cost being- about $30,000. It stands 6u an elevation overlooking the city to ward the west. The building- is finely finished. BIG EAST SIDE FTLIi MADE Big Area at Hawthorne Park to Be Improved for Building Sites. ' The first portion of the fill in Haw thorne Park south of Belmont street by the Pacific Bridge Company is Hear ing completion. This unit extends from Belmont street to East Salmon street, between East Ninth and East Eleventh streets, and the average depth of the fill finished will be about 20 feet. to complete the work South between East Salmon street and Hawthorne avenue the filling of Asylum ravine has been started from East Salmon street. Dump trains are run from the river by the Pacific bridge Company on the East Salmon street track and are switched back to the south side of East Salmon and dumped Into -the ravine. This is an ex tensive fill and will take nearly a year to finish. It marks the disappearance of Hawthorne Park Spring's, from which East Portland got its water in early days, and will do away with the stagnant. pools of water in the ravine. These fills are the most important work outside of the Sullivan's Gulch devel opment under way on the East Side. STANDARD BOXES FIXED FBl'ITHEX ANTICIPATE PROBABLE LEGISLATION. Coml'lete Set Settled Upon by Mann, facturera and Shippers In Meet ing Recently Held Here. "Endeavoring to anticipate probable Federal legislation standardizing crate and fruit box measurements, a confer ence of fruithgrowei'S, box manufac turers and shippers of the Pacific states, which met in Portland October 22, has formulated and adopted a com plete set of standards. Heretoforo about 75 different sizes of containers have been in use in the Pacific Coast states. The new stand ards contemplate three sizes, which will be made to tit any standard crate. Members of the standardization com J mittee were: O. H. Schwerdtman, chairman, Oregon Box & Manufacturing Company, Portland; O. C. Fenlason, Pacific Fruit Package Com pany, 'Raymond, Wash; I. N. Cable, Sebas topol Berry-Growers, Incorporated, Sebasto pol, Cal.; A. V. Stone, fruitgrower. Hood River, Or. ; F. I-. -Nash, Hague Box & Lum ber Company. Tacoma; J. C. Barline, Wash ington Mill Company. Spokane; C. W. Hook er, Hood River Apple-Growers Association, Hood River, Or. The full report of this committee on standards for boxes and crates, which was adopted by the conference, fol lows: The quart berry box Is of a capacity to conform to the U. S. standard dry quart which contains 67.2 cubic inches and the two-pint berry boxes conform to the U. S. standard dry pint which contains 33. G cubic inches. The pint crate specifications are drawn to accommodate 24 pint boxes and the quart crates are designed to contain 10 boxes ; STANDARD BERRY BOXES. IT. S. Standard Quart Berry Box Dimen sions: 5xox2 13-ltl inches deep. Outside band Length 21 3l-;t2 inches. Width (green) 3 8-16 inches. Thickness 23 from 1 inch. Band scored 2-5-5-S-4 31-32 Inches. Bottoms Length 10 inches; width (green) 4 inches; thickness 26 from 1 Inch. Bottom scored 2 13-16-4-54-2 13-16 inches. U. S. Standard Shallow Pint Dimen sions; 5x5x1 13-32 Inches deep. Outside band Length 21 31-82 inches. Width (green) 2 W Inches. Thickness 23 from 1 Inch. Band scored 2-5-5-5-4 31-32 inches. Bottom Length 7 11-16 inches; width (green) 4 inches: thickness 26 from 1 inch. Bottom scored 1 13-32-4 j-l 18-82 inches. U. S. Standard Pint Berry Box Dimen sions: 4x4xl7j inches deep. Outside band Length 10 15-32 inches. Width (green) 2 11-16" inches. Thickness 23 from 1 inch. Band scored 2-4 -4 -4 H -4 11-32 inches. Bottom Length 8 inches; width (green) 4 finches; thickness 26 from 1 inch. Bottom scored l-4Vi-lTs inches. STANDARD BERRY BOX CRATES. - 16 Quart or 24 Shallow Pint Crate Western U. S. Standard 2 ends lO 7-16x 7HX7-16 Inches. S. I. S. ; 1 center 10 7-16x. 7Vjx7-16 inches, rough; 4 side slats 22x 3xl-G Inches; 2 bottom slats 22x34x1-6 I inches: 2 pieces-cover 22x54x1-5 inches, li9 Quart Eeck Crate Western U, S. tempts to farm, for, with Oregon soil and scientific culture, there is not much doubt about success. "The farmer stayed on his tract and the merchant, the hotelkeeper and all the rest followed him." The profits of the Powell "Valley truck farmers and gardeners vary at the present prices to from $300 to $500 an acre, according to the crop. The chief products are poultry, fruit and vegetables. Standard 2 ends lO 7-16x8 V4xl3-16 In ches, S. 2 S., Dadoed; 1 center 10 7-10x 8Vtxl3-16 Inches, beveled, dadoed; 2 side slats 23 94x4x1-5 inches; 2 side slats 23 x3 H xl-5 Inches: 2 bottom slats 23 Hx 34x1-5 inches; 2 pieces-cover 23 x54x 1-5 Inches; 2 decks 104x994x1-5 Inches. 24 Shallow Pint Crate Western U. S. Standard 2 ends 1594x494x7-16 Inches, S. 1 S. ; 1 center 1394x494x7-16, rough; 4 side slats 22x2 94x1-5 Inches: 3 bottom slats 22x394x1-5 Inches; 2 pieces-cover 22x794x 1-5 inches. 24 Shallow Pint Deck Crate Western U. S. Standard 2 endslo 94x54x1 3-16 Inch es, S. 2 8., Dadoed; 1 center 159ixl5sx 13-16 Inches S. 2 S., beveled Dadoed: 2 Fide slats 2394x2x1-5 Inches; 2 side slats 2394x3x1-5 inches: 3 bottom slnts 2394X 89ixl-5 Inches: - pieces-cover 23x794x 1-5 Inches; 4 decks 10v4x7xl-5 Inches. 24 Deep Pint Crate Western U. S. Standard 2 ends 1394x594x7-16 Inches, S. 1 8., hand-holds; 1 center 13 94x5 94x7-16 Inches, rough; 4 side slats 1094x294x1-5 In ches; 3 bottom slats 1994x34xl-5 inches; 2 pieces-cover 1994x694x1-5 inches. 24 Deep Pint Deck Crates Western U. S. Standard 2 ends 1394xCH:X3-16 Inches, S. 2 S.. Dadoed; 1 center 139ix6Vxl3-10 In ches. S. 2 S., beveled Dadoed: 2 side slats 2074x2x1-8 Inches; 2 side slats 2094x3V4x 1-5 inches; 3 bottom slats 20x394xl-5 in ches; 2 pieces-cover 20x694xl-5 inches. Notes: Cleats No cleats will be fur nished unless ordered by buyer. Thickness S. T. and B., 1-5 Inch, means 3 pieces from 1-inch lumber. Hand-Holds Ends will be hand-holded when so ordered by buyer. Trunk Fuctory to RJse. The Multnomah Trunk & Bag Com pany will rebuild its plant near Ken ton, which was recently destroyed by fire. The new building will be 50x100 feet in size. Work will be started at once. Wood Is cut thin enough to be used as a substitute for wall paper by a recently patented process.' EAST SIDE CHURCH REMODELED. ft" - -R i:;v;iiFitf spiffs s is sa 2 i.. ..:,:r. h.t - H -1 NEW EXTERIOR IS COMPLETED. Repairs to the St. Francis Church, East Twelfth and East Pine streets, which have been under way the past several weeks, re practically- completed. When the church was built the outside was cov ered with metal laths and concrete, but the concrete -contained an acid which destroyed the metal ath, and the entire outside concrete coating began to disintegrate. It was decided that the only plan would be to remove the concrete and replace with galvanized Iron. It has been an expensive job, the cost being- nearly $6000. The effect of the gal vanized iron has been to accentuate the height and bring out the gothlc design of the church. LOGGING ROAD TO BE BUILT Xew Mill of 12 5,000 Feet Capacity Constructed and Another Is Con templated on Dairy Creek. Bank Reflects Prosperity. BANKS, Or., Nov. 1. (Special.) Residents of Banks are elated over the attention lumberman are bestowing- on this section. Within the past week there has been completed at Schofield two miles above Buxton and 10 miles from here, a $250,000 saw mill by the Standard Box & Lumber Company, a firm with headquarters In Portland. Cobb Brothers were superintendents of the project. J. A. Minnick, chief mill wright and R. B. Blodgett, of Banks, directed the construction of all ma chinery. The mill is capable of hand ling 125.000 feet of lumber daily but Its capacity can be Increased to 150,000 by the installation of a bicrger edprer. There is a large area of standing timber in the vicinity of the mill. Con siderable timber had to b cleared to -reate the site for the mill which Is the most up-to-date of any In this part of Washington County. More satisfactory still to the neanla of Banks, Buxton and Manning and intermediate territory is the announce ment, confirmed during the last week, that big lumber interests in this state and Washington, represented by W. D. Eccles, have acquired 2080 acres of the finest timber land between here and Buxton. It is announced that a logging- road will be built from the site of the mill along Dairy Creek to Banks, and It is also believed that another road will have to be built In a diametrically dif ferent direction as this timber belt stands on what Is known as the "two" divides. Speculation is rife as to the location of the mill but generally ac cepted surmises are that it will be near Mannering. Wherever it will be the enterprise is bound to mean a bipr fillip to business In this locality. The Washington County Bank last week passed the $100,000 mark in de posits. Ever since its inception the bank has been steadily progressing and has been regarded as among the safe and conservative county or rural banks of the state. It was founded five years ago, its first president being N. I. Burnett. whose death occurred last month. W. L. Moore, the vice-president, then became president while John A. Thornburgh. a Forest Grove banker, purchased stock and was created direc tor and vice-president. Cashier Gallo way also was elected director. The new officials are congratulating themselves on the record made in the first month of the new administration. "This progress," said President Moore, "is not phenomenal or unexpected. It is due to the general tone of prosperity among the farmers. . The dairy business has been exceptionally fine this year. So has grain, hay and potatoes. All have had a splendid yield. The hop growers have had a record season. It is no exaggeration to say that there is not a pessimistic note in the country around us this season." Hotel Building Planned. Work will begin soon on a three story structure of brick and mill con struction with a pressed brick front, to be erected at Broadway and Everett streets for Cord Sengstake. The build ing will be 40x100. The ground floor will be five store rooms facing Broad way, and the upper stories will be di vided into 34 rooms to be fitted up for a hotel. The second and third stories will be equipped wifh all the modern conveniences, including hot and . cold water, steam heat and baths. No gen eral contract will be let for the. work. The plans were prepared by Foulkes & Hogue. sill Mi k "i ft! II fill mm S-.s". fa: "1 l - irr A'-l. A
