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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. PORTLAND, NOVE3IBEE 9 1913. LAURELHURST GAIN 111 NEW HOMES BIG TYPES OP NEW HOMES BUILT HT IiAUHKLaURST. OREGON : IS SUITED FOR FLAX INDUSTRY TURKEYS TROT BOLDLY ON OAKLAND STREETS Gobblers," as Side Industry, Add $30,000 to Revenue of Town Which Also Ships Cattle and Sheep. V Wore Than 400 Dwellings Are Built in Addition Cost ing $1,500,000. Eugene Bosse Says World's Best Can Be Grown in the Willamette Valley. ACTIVITY NOW IS BRISK CROP BETTER THAN GRAIN ar " if .I i "! J - t -' -r - " it 1 M 10 Yithin Two Months 50 Residences Have Been Completed and Many More Are Planned School Structure Is Sought. Since Laurelhurst, one of Portland's high-class residential' districts, was placed on the market four years ago more than 400 dwellings have been completed at an aggregate cost of ap proximately $1,500,000. While the ad dition has been making' marked prog ress at no time has such a big activity in residence construction been noted as during the past two months. Since the early part of September 50 new dwellings have been built In various parts of Laurelhurst and plans are un der way for several other homes. "Laurelhurst has been going ahead at a rapid pace the past few weeks," said Paul Murphy, of Mead & Murphy, sales agents, yesterday. "There is no district in Portland that presents such Activity In building operations. In face of the big building growth there is not to be found a single vacant house. There have been numerous inquiries from persons desiring to rent houses, tiut there have been no houses to rent. In addition to the large number of dwellings under way many more are being planned and there is every Indi cation that Laurelhurst will witness extensive building, operations through out the "Winter." One of the Important projects for the district is the clubhouse to be built lor the Laurelhurst Club. A site con taining nine lots at East Burnslde street and Laurelhurst avenue has been purchased and plans for an unique and attractive structure are being com pleted. The building will cost about 115,000. It will overlook Ladd Park, one of the finest natural park prop erties in the city. In the northern part of the addition a site will be selected for a modern school building. It is expected that the question of establishing a school Will be definitely decided soon.' Fine Ilomea Completed. Among the lot owners who have Just Completed homes and have houses un-. der construction are the following: L. Y. Keady Is completing a six-room bungalow, costing $3S00, on East Oak street, near East Thirty-ninth street. C. J. Gulden Is starting an eight room bungalow, costing $3600, on East Ash street, near East Thirty-ninth Dr. 33. N. Hamm is erecting a $4000 home on East Couch street, near East Thirty-ninth street. Nina M. Haberly Is building a $3500 home on East Couch street, between East Thirty-ninth street ami East Forty-first street. Camp & Depree have just completed a $6000 bungalow on East Burnslde, between East Thirty-ninth and Laurel hurst avenue. H. W. Kobare, a San Francisco fac tory agent, here on business, became attached to the city and decided to lo cate here. He is building a $4000 six room dwelling on East Davis street, near East Thirty-ninth. T. K. Askwith has just purchased a lot on East Davis street, between East Forty-fiist street and Thirty-ninth, and Is having plans prepared for a home. Will C. Davis, of the Rogers Print ing Company, has just completed a $4000 two-story house on East Davis street, near Thirty-ninth. . E. AY. Beder, a contractor, is building a. seven-room house on East Everett street, near Fortyrsecond, and a similar house on East Forty-second street, near Hoyt street. Asa Wyman, who has built many .beautiful homes in Laurelhurst, is erecting an eight-room home for him self on East Glisan street, near Forty aecond street. Ruby and Pearl Goulet have just moved into their new home on East Glisan street, near East Forty-second street. George M. Anderson sold his home on East Glisan, near East Forty-second street, last week for $5000 to KUa Ca bin. J. W. Gill has just completed and novtd into his beautiful colonial home cn Laurelhurst avenue, near East Forty-second street. Ada E. Nickles is completing a seven- loom borne on Royal court, near East Forty-first street. William C. Hayhurst, secretary of the Equitable Savings and Loan Associa tion, has purchased a lot on East Burn slde, between Floral avenue and Lau relhurst avenue, and Is to break ground this month Tor a beautiful $6000 home, Ralph H. Torrey, manager of Laurel hurst Company, has purchased a lot on East Burnslde, between East Burnside and Floral avenues, on which he plans to erect a 5000 home in the Spring. M. G. Hall, superintendent of the Northern Express Company, is about to move into his beautiful New England colonial home on the corner of East Burnside and Laurelhurst avenue. C. B. Hurt has recently completed an eight-room two-story home on East Burnslde, near Floral avenue, which is one of the show places of the -addi tion. ' A. M. McKenile, a contractor, who has been building homes In Portland for 25 years, is completing a beautiful 12-room house on East Couch street near Laurelhurst avenue, and has pur chased a 73X100 lot on East Burnslde, between Floral and Laurelhurst ave nues, on which he will erect another higrh-class home. Emil Peterson has purchased a lot on East Everett, near Laddlngton court, on which he Is commencing the erection of a story-and-a-half nine- loom house. H. E. Wltsam, of Dooley & Co.. Is completing a story-and-a-half seven- room house, costing $4000, on East Everett, near Laddington court M. A. Reed, of Weidler & Reed, la electing a two-story eight-room house, costing $4500, on East Everett, near Laddington court. S. W. Lawrence, of the Portland Laundry Company, has purchased the sightly 100x100 corner at East Davis and Laddington court, and is erecting a two-story 10-room house, costing $7500. AV. K. MacklU; has recently completed an elaborate two-story 10-room house on East Everett street, between Lau relhurst avenue and Laddington court. Dr. D. A. Fellows hag purchased a corner lot at East Everett street and Floral avenue, on which he will erect & home. Dr. W. A. Wise has purchased a lot 80x160 feet Immediately in the rear of the beautiful Scott home and plans to build a home soon. Friti Sectem is completing one of the most beautiful eight-room bunga lows In the city at the corner of East Couch street and Floral avenue. O. W. Taylor, the well-known realty man, last week purchased Dr. W. A. i v i 9 f i !"t' mJ-r5SJ1fTsr - 5 t - - - .3 r P-! ' r-: I x I 'III I 5 ' 'll J L ?-- - . ,:,f . i; . I urrt! Wise's beautiful ll-room house at the corner of flfast Davis and Floral avenue. for ib,auu. W. M. Everett, who has built and soul 11 beautiful homes in. Laurelhurst, has Just completed a two-story eight l oom house on Laurelhurst avenue, be tween East Olisan and Buena Vista avenue, and has sold to W. H. Smith, of Roberts Brothers, for $8000. J. B. Moore is building a six-room bungalow on East Irving street, near East Thirty-second street. Henry Cepo is completing a story-and-a-half eight-room house on Royal court, near East Glisan street. Larsen & Raz have just completed a two-story eight-room house on Lad dington court, near East Thirty-ninth street. The Commonwealth Realty Company !s finishing a story-and-a-half seven .ioom house on Laurelhurst avenue, be tween Imperial avenue and East Thirty-ninth street. Ada II. Brewbaker is building a story-and-a-half seven-room house on Floral avenue, near Hassalo street. W. T. Thomson, of the Standard Oil Company, has just purchased a one and one-half story, seven-room house on East Thirty-third street, ' near Sandy Boulevard. A. P. Smith Is erecting a . six-room bungalow on Senate street near East Thirty-seventh street. Edith B. Rockwell la erecting a two story, seven-room house on Senate street, near East Thirty-seventh street. Carolyn E. Speer has just completed a one and one-half story, six-room house on Sandy boulevard, between Imperial avenue and. East Thirty-seventh -street. A. G. Dunnigan has recently . com pleted a one and one-half story, six- room house on Sandy boulevard, be tween Imperial avenue and East Thir-ty-sevtnth street. The Oregon Home Builders have re cently completed four attractive homes on Multnomah and Wasco streets,- near Sandy boulevard. Dr. C. F. Lauderdale has completed au,j-"WW J ' 1 i , ' ' '""II and moved into his beautful two-story, eight-room house on East Irving street, near aurimar Place. 1 Captain R. B. Rice has completed a fine ten-room dwelling on East I-Ioyt street, near East Forty-first street, and is commencing the erection of a one and one-half story, 9-room dwelling cn t.ast Ctlisan street, near Laddington court. . The Provident Trust Company is about to excavate for two one and one- half story, seven-room- houses on Has salo street, between East Thirty-ninth and Kast Forty-first streets. COMMUXITY HOl'SE ACCEPTED Fine Structure at Peninsula Park Bnllt at Cost of $40,000. The work of finishing the lnterl6r and installing the heating apparatus at the Peninsula Park Community House was accepted by the city Monday. The interior . of the structure is of plain design. The gymnasium floor is of hard wood. The finishing and the heat ing plant cost the city $9000. The structure is of irregular, shape. It contains an auditorium and an of fice, a library and trophy room, a lunch room for the men's lockers, a men's gymnasium, and a women's gymnasium with a -locker-room. Quarters for the physical directors also are provided. The structure cost about $40,000. The Brooklyn comfort station at the BrooKlyn playgrounds also has been accepted by the city. It cost $1700. - Home to Cost $30,000. : Work is in progress on the new home of Daniel Kern on East Fifteenth street near Clackamas street. It is a brick house and occupies the center of the half block facing East Fifteenth street and will be the most pretentious struc ture erected in Holladay's Addition this year. The cost will be about $30,000 The brick work has been finished. 1 I 1 LIHHTON'S PR06RESSBI6 XEW WATER AXD SEWES SYSTEMS COST 173,00. Contract Let to Build City Hall and Fire Station Bull Run Wa ter. Ia Blsr Aawt. Mayor Schaeffer, of Linnton, figures that the new water system of that place, with the pipeline and the reser voirs, will cost $150,000 when com pleted. The - pipeline is finished and water runs into the lower reservoirs by gravitation. Several high-service reservoirs are under construction, one to be built is near the site of the pro posed St. Helens Hall school. 1200 feet above the Linnton road near the junc tion of the Germantown and Cornell roa.ds, which is the highest point. Wa ter is pumped Into the hieher reser voirs by electric pumps. Bonds to the amount of $100,000 were issued to pay ror. the pipeline, and the reservoirs. costing about $50,000, are to be paid for by the property, benefited. Work on the sewer system, costing $25,000 is In progress. The City oCuncil of Linnton has let the contract for the erection of a $1500 building to be used as a repair station, nrcnouse ana city hall. A fire sta tion has ben built between Whltwood Court and Linnton. A pressure of 85 pounds furnishes fire protection. The City Council levied a 7-mill tax to take care of the water bonds and to pay Portland's charges for water. Now that Linnton Is supplied with Bull Run water, the town's growth will be more rapid than ever befare, it is expootea. Expert Asserts It Benefits Ground When Planted as Alternate in Rotation Many Workers Can, Depend Upon It. BY EUGENE BOSSE. SALEM, Or., Nov. 8. Too much al ready has been written in the news papers, and otherwise explained, con cerning flax culture, the new industry for the Pacific Coast and particularly about the Willamette "Valley. Nevertheless, as my position in the flax industry in the United States was. and still is occasionally honored by the confidence of the Department of Agriculture at Washington, I will tr to explain the possibilities of the flax and linen industry on the Pacific Coast, probably the best fitted, region in the world for the complete and high de velopment of that attractive, pleasant, interesting and fruitful pursuit. The flax and tiemp grown west of the Cascades in the states of Oregon and Washington can be graded as first class, and equal in quality to the best produced in Europe. ;. Onson Standard liiffrh. The standard is a little higher in Ore gon, but the crop a little heavier in Washington; the difference showing probably the effect of a different chem ical composition of the soil. I was awarded five gold medals In competi tion with Europe for my flax grown In the Willamette Valley. Flax is a very good alternate In the rotation of crops, and, to the contrary of suggestions from people of the' East ern states, where flax is grown for seed only, often several times in succession, that flax is hard on the land,' I affirm that it beneficially prepares the ground for a full succeeding crop of any kind, as it does in Belgium, which has the same climate as ours. When sown thick enough for fiber and seed Doth, and the ground plowed deep enough, the main root penetrates easily and draws one half of the nourishment of the plant the other half necessarily coming mostly from the carbonic acid of the air through the leaves. On the other hand, when the flax Is cultivated for its seed only, the land plowed shallow, seeded with one to three pecks per acre," the roots cannot penetrate into the depth. The stalks too far apart allow weeds to grow be tween and so, coarse flax stalks and rapacious weeds combined, forced to feed at the surface, injure the land and give a bad name to the flax crop. Crop AVIir-Pay Well. It must be admitted that the flax crop will not prove a gold mine to the farmers, but it will be better than as ordinary grain crop paying from $25 to J69 per acre with less work in har vesting, though a little more care will be required in the preparation of the land for seeding, and it will keep the land clean, which is a part of fer tilization. But the greatest advantage of its being largely cultivated. Is that it will be the raw material to supply numberless flax fiber mills, which in their turn will be the support for the creation of manufacturing plants, em ploying armies of workers and giving life and activity everywhere in our fa vored section. In the beginning of the industry we would be at a disadvantage in lacking; BlilllCU ,11 1I1D IM11IU.U1,LU1 U . we couM start at the bottom and make coarse goods first. XEW SCHOOL, SOOX TO RISE Bishop Stott Institution Will Accom modate About 80 Students. Work will soon begin on the Bishop Stott School, a two-story structure to be built four miles north of Yamhill, Or. The building will have a full ce ment basement. The main building will be 44 by 120, with a wing 40 by 50. Accommodations for 70 or 80 students will be provided. The structure will be built of hol low tile with a cast finish. The roof will be of tap and gravel. The cost is estimated at $20,000. No general con tracts will be awarded for the plumb ing, heating and painting. Jacobberger & Smith prepared the plan if. N0RTHWESTISEXPL01TED PORTABLE EXHIBITS OF NORTH- KRX PACIFIC PRAISED. As Direct Result of Displays In Mid. die West, Many Settlers Will Be . Attracted to Oregon. Much favorable publicity has been given the Northwest In the last few weeks through the portable exhibits made in many of the cities and towns of the Middle West by the Northern Pacific Railway, which also made a creditable display of products gathered in the terfitory tributary to its line at the International Dry Farming Con gress recently held at Tulsa, Okla. Many of the leading papers In Kan sas, Oklahoma ana otner Aiiaaie west ern cities have devoted much space to favorable comments on the Northern Pacific exhibits. The Wichita (Kan.) Sunday Eagle recently printed an ed itorial which was inspired by this method of exploitation. It appeared under the heading, "A Great Lesson in Publicity," and told about the beautiful exhibit at the Wichita fair, "brought there as a business proposition by the Northern Pacific Railroad." The exhibit consisted of wheat, corn. flax, potatoes, apples, cherries, fish, clams, rye, barley and various other grains and fruits gathered from the productive area of the Northwest. As a matter of fact, much of the display was obtained by Northern Pacific rep resentatives in -the Immediate Vicinity of Portland. They knew that they could get specimen products right here that would serve their purpose Just as well as those that they might have se cured by much effort and considerable expense from some distant parts of the state. The Northern Pacific aims, by these exhibitions, to present only the aver age possibilities of the Northwestern soil and climate. It does not seek to gather freak or abnormal orchard, field or garden products, as such are misleading and deceiving. It is pointed out. Northern Pacific agents report that many Inquiries from prospective set tlers have been obtained as the direct reiMlts of these exhibits. . a a v ,k it its tut sa 1 1 iii i i OAKLAND, Or . Nov. 8. (Special.) ! Oakland, Or., the turkey town! This Douglas County town ships more turkeys than any other point In Oregon, If not In the Pacific North west. It produces annually 100,000 pounds of this most aristocratic of Ore gon flesh and yearly furnishes Thanks giving and,-Christmas dinners for 10, 000 families. Dike tobacco in early Jamestown, turkeys literally flourish upon the streets. An especially attractive band of snowy hens 'and youngsters under the leadership of a gobbler, of great ini tiative and industry, frequent the newly-paved streets In the afternoons, picking up gleaming bits of sand to aid digestion. But turkey-raising is only a side In dustry. There Is not a single person who makes the raising of turkeys his .sole business, but, on the other hand, there is not a single farmer but has a flock, . ranging from 10 to 400. Therein lies the beauty of It. The $30,000 received for turkey meat is clear gain. There are no big produc ers and thus no feeding of costly grain. The size of the herds correspond to the size of the ranges. Th& large ship ments made from Oakland are the ag gregate of these multitudinous but small flocks .all-, over the. country. It is a democratic Industry, from which varying sums are received by all. Toiv Is 40 Years Old. Oakland is 40 years old. It has ver satile backing in hardwood forests of ash and oak and maple, in thousands and thousands of acres of. rich pas ture, in broad and numerous valleys, which grow corn and alfalfa and there fore everything else. Oakland is one of the largest ship ping "points on the Southern Pacific between Ashland, and Portland. Ten thousand head of sheep are shipped outjter and a good sewer system. RECORD LOIS liDE Deals in County for Month In - volve $4,815,172.12. ROAD SIGNS BIG LEASE Northwest Fidelity Company Files Mortgage for $700,000 on Prop erty at Morrison and Sixth Streets. What is believed to be a record for the county was made last month, when mortgages, leases and contracts to the amount of $4,815,172.12 were recorded In County Clerk Coffey's office. Not including the lease of railroad equiment by the Southern Pacific Comany, in volving $2,010,000, the total mortgage transfers for October exceeaea ,ouu, 000. The biggest deal of the month was the lease by the Commercial 'I rust Rom any, of Philadelphia, to the Southern Pacific Comany, of nearly 1000 cars, the deal being designated "Southern Pacific Equiment Trust, Series B." The lease Is secured by ten certificates of $201,000 each, being subject to redemp tion on September 1, or thereafter on the first day of September or March In any year at 102 Ya per cent and accrued dividends, upon 90 days' prior notice by publication. This lease was recorded October 14. October 1 the Northwest Fidelity Company mortgaged the property at Morrison, Sixth and Broadway to the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company to secure the 'payment of two notes, one for $150,000 and one for $550,000. Two Blsr Mortgaarea Recorded. Two big mortgages were recorded October 20, one for $300,000 and one for $177,500, both involving lots in west over Terrace. The Westover Company mortgaged a large tract of lots to se cure the payment of -a $300,000 bond issue, payable October 1, 1918, and bear ing 3Vi per dent interest, payable semi annually. The Title & Trust Company is the grantee. On the same date the Lewis-Wiley Hydraulic Company mortgaged lots In the same tract to the Ladd & Tllton Bank, to secure an Indebtedness of $177,500, bearing 7 per cent Interest, payable on demand. On October 3 the North Pacific Lum ber . Company mortgaged property in the old Guild donation land claim to S. Benson, to secure the payment In five years of a $300,000 loan, bearing inter est at 6 per cent. Timber MortjraKe Made. On October 18 the Elwood & Snow Timber Company mortgaged timber lands in Columbia. Clatsop, Multnomah, Linn and Lane counties, Oregon, and Jefferson County, Washington, to Thomas Irvine & Son tOk.secure a five year loan of $50,000. The dally record for the month fol lows: October 1 .$ 740,P7-.25 October 2 B2. 100.30 October 3.. ,889,684.00 i.HI.tiWi mm, if . vM4 ' -r yearly. Added to these exports every year are 1EG0 head of hogs, 750,000 pounds of wool, $50,000 worth of mo hair, 18 carloads of prunes, 35,000 pounds of hops, much hardwood, chick ens, eggs, butter, potatoes and general fruit. Few Plaeea for Sale. Oakland is the second town in Doug las County, being rivaled only bj- Rose burg. It has a population of 2S00. There is little landlordism in the country adjacent. A "for sale" sign is a hard thing to find In the town, and visitors are not besieged by real estate agents. "Why should we sell out?" the peo ple ask. "Sooner or later we'd come back again everybody does." The town has six churches Presby terian, Episcopal, Methodist, Christian, Adventist and Baptist. Lodges and women's clubs have large memberships. The Shakespeare Club is particularly worthy of mention and its ten years of uninterrupted, existence is a com pliment to the Intellectual caliber of the town. Induatrlea Are Many. The school building, which is the best single building In the county, is a modern two-story brick structure. The high school Is regarded as one of the best in the state and draws stu dents from Albany, Central Point, Gar diner, Wilbur and a large circumfer ence of country districts. The town has flouring mills, a brick and tile factory, planing mill, creamery and a hardwood factory, which puts out much wagon material. Its complement of stores Is generous three groceries, hardware, shoe and two dry goods stores, three hotels, a millinery, a fur niture store, two livery stables, a moving-picture show and a weekly news paper the Advance owned and edit ed by D. E. Vernon, a well-known newspaperman. The town has Just ten blocks of pav ing done, has Its own lights and wa- October 4 S8.0S4.0O October 87.S52.00 October 1 88. 394. TO October 8 32.41 7. OO October . r.S.OHOO October 10 31.OS0.0O October 11 40,U7.0o October 24.Sls.if) Octotaer 14 "2.04;12S.on October 13 2S..H42.0O October Irt P,:t.27.40 October 17 32.2:7.40 October ! llu.soo.oo October 20 4!"..o5.00 October 21 Nll.l.M,::o October 22 ".-.,125.0O October 2 J I)4.44l.:i0 October 21 42.S43.nO October 25 4."i,704.K:t October 2J 09.4.S!.OO October 25 -. . .".7.34D.SH October 29 r. . . . 2O.S73.O0 October 30 5().023.:;o October PI 31.394.O0 Total ..S4.S13.172.12 IMPORTANT KXCHAXGE MADE As Result of Deal Emanuel May Plans Fine Structure. Two hotels, covering half a block each, will be the probable result of a realty deal last Thursday. John Matthlesen, proprietor of the Matthie sen Hotel, 204 Columbia street, traded the half block between Fourteenth and Lownsdale streets, on the south side of Yamhill, to Emanuel May, a Portland capitalist, for the quarter block be tween the Matthlesen Hotel and Clay street, and a cash bonus of $20,000. The Clay-street property was valued at $75,000. It Is the site of a three-story brick warehouse. Which Mr. Matthlesen Intends to transform into an annex to his hotel later. For the present he will rent the building for warehouse usage, after spending $10,000 for repairs. Mr. May expects to erect either a family hotel or a fashionable apartment-house, probably a six-story struc ture, covering the whole half block be tween Fourteenth and Lownsdale streets. As yet he is undecided, how ever, as to the ground space of the building, and may build on only half the property. The proposed structure will cost btween 1125.000 and $250,000. LATTER DAY SAINTS CIItRCH Structure Costing $20,000 Under Consideration. The Church of the Latter Day Saints contemplates building a new edifice to cost from $15,000 to $20,000 at East Twenty-fifth street, between Haw thorne avenue and East Madison street, where their mission home is now located. "The church at East Tenth and Sher man streets is too small to accommo date our congregations," said Charles Redd, secretary of the Latter D.ny Saints' Mission. "The location is not central enough. We expect to build a new church, but we have not consulted an architect yet, and will not until we have disposed of our church at East Tenth and Sherman streets." STUDIO 413 Stark. Main 6873. Photographs Buildings, Constructioa Work. A
