OFFICE FURNITURE liOfl TRACT IS TENTATIVE PLANS DRAWN FOR NEW COUCH AND SHATTUCK . SCHOOLS TO BE ERECTED ON SITES RECENTLY PURCHASED Buildings Will Cost $160,000 Each and Will Contain All Latest Improvements Stereopticon Slides Are Prepared, Showing How Structures Will Look, and Patrons Are Given Opportunity to Make Suggestions if They Have Any Objections to Proposed Arrangements. MADE III PORTLAND SOLD FOR $150,000 R. H. Brown Cites Home Indus try That Is Not Properly Supported at Home. La Grande Capitalists Take iOO Acres Owned by Cor poration in Salt Lake. VALUES GOOD AS EAST'S HARNEY RANCH IS BOUGH Unionists Look to County and Its Un developed Resources for Homes fl and Delegation Sees Sections J-i Xow for Sale. The interesting fact was told in Portland last week that A. T. Hill, La Grande capitalist; Horace E. Cool ldge, of the La Grande National Bank. arid Floyd McKennon, a La Grande farmer, have purchased from the Amal gamated Sugar Company, a Mormon corporation of Salt lake, a 1600-acre ranch for a consideration of $150,000, and that they are putting the entire tract In crop. The 1600 acres are located in the Grand Ronde Valley, between La Grande and Hot Lake. In 1903 the Amalgamated Sugar Company built a large sugar factory at La Grande and began to educate the people of that Community in the science of raising sugar beets. As the best possible site for- beet, culture this Grand Ronde tract was picked, and 70,000 was spent lri Improving it with one of the finest irrigation systems in the .North west. " So perfectly were the series of dams and canals laid out that every acre can be flooded at any time of the year, the arrangements of the gates making it Continually sub-Irrigated. ,.This Utah firm raised sugar beets for eight years, and, while it made the place pay, owing to the adaptability of its system. It did not receive sufficient support from the farmers to pay to run the factory. Consequently the factory Was torn down and moved to Burlay, Idaho. Since 1911 the firm has been raising grain on the irrigated land in Oregon. '.'The expensive improvements on the ranch, in the form of implements, stock and buildings, are Included in tne purchase by the La Grande com pany. Mr. McKennon will be the active manager of the project, Mr. Hill will handle the livestock and Mr. Cool ldge will look after the financial end. Pendleton Men Make Big Deals. A. B. Cooley, of Pendleton, last week purchased from Ed Holloway a 1280 affe Harsey County ranch, located seven miles east of Burns and adjoin ing the State Experimental Farm, at a figure of (45,000. pne-half of the tract is .In growing grain. A full farming outfit of tools and equipment, including a caterpiller engine, is on the place. Mr. Cooley is selling the largest part of his leased holdings In - the Indian reservation near Pendleton to Charles W. Tulloch, of Pendleton, for 125,000. Included in the purchase are TOO acres of growing grain, 700 acres of Summer fallow, stock and implements. To Bruno Weber, of Pendleton, Mr. Cooley has also sold 240 acres of Sum mer fallow, located adjoining Mr. Weber's holding on the reservation, tor $7200. The place is already equipped with a caterpillar engine. 'Yamhill Farms Bring High Figure. Wilbur Cook has sold his 75-acre farm, two miles south of McMlnnvlUe, to- Pratt Sitton at a reported considera tion of 15.000, or $200 an acre. The 22-acre place of George Keen, . not far south of McMinnvllle, has been sold to Harry Brenneman for $12,000, Some McMinnvllle property was in volved In the transaction. Cove Ranch la Sold. Julius Fisher last week took title to the 229-acre ranch of Harvey Dahlstrom in the Cove district of the Grand Ronde Valley adjoining the original holding of Mr. Fisher. Last week's purchase gives Mr. Fisher 400 acres of choice land. Forcfit Grove Fruit Ranch In Deal. Through the agency of the Good In vestment Company, T. O. Goff, of Forest Grove, has sold his 13-acre fruit farm on David's Hill, near Forest Grove, to C. M. Straus, who lived at Beaverton before moving from Idaho and Cali fornia. He will now make his perma nent home at Forest Grove as well as Mr. Goff, who moved to Oregon recently from Montana. Rone Farm Transferred. A. O. Vogel, a recent arrival from New Mexico, has' purchased from D. B. Hunt the ISO-acre Rone farm located 12 miles east of Sutherltn. He has alleady assumed possession and will engage in general farming. Bogard & Shields, Roseburg real estate men, biEught the two parties together. The place is highly improved. Hotel Sold by Sheriff. ?5laf Severson, former owner of the old Lakeport Hotel at Lakeside, about three miles from Langlols, In the Marshfleld country, recently bought his former holding at a Sheriff's execu tion. The building is three stories and cost about $13,000, when built during the Lakeport boom of 1907 and 1908. SI. Severson is opening the place as a Summer resort. . Mount Angel Man Buys in Lane. Anthony Boukoswky, of Mount Angel, has purchased from Harvey Iramilton the latter's 68-acre farm near Hjolley at a reported consideration of $4000. J r Border Farm Changea Hands. !R. J. Cole has Just sold to W. J. Bray and son, George Bray, of Bray, 1S00 acres in the northern part of tffckiyou County and extending over liito Jackson County, Oregon, at a price of $55,000. It includes the famous ofid Cole ranch near Colestin. The place is! suitable for agriculture and grazing. t Farm Laads Traded. . . At a valuation of $25 per acre V. ET Viay has traded the Shelby Lee place lri the Heppner district of Morrow County to Carl Tier, of Timber. Or., for land owned by Mr. Her in Washington County. Stock and implements were not included in the transfer. George Vt,. Flint, of Lexington, negotiated the deal. Mormons Look Toward Harney County. J. L. D. Morrison, sales manager of tlie Oregon & Western Colonization Cempany. of Portland, and H. R. Sloan, of Portland, a prominent representa tive of the Mormon people, recently led a delegation of Mormons to look up l;iid In Harney County for the es tablishment of a colony there. Those included In the party going to Burns wre: George A. Fuller, a bishop of thft Mormon Church, his brother, John Fuller, and J. W. Wilson, all of Eden, Utah: J. Z. Stewart, ot Logan. Utah, and E. S. Reid. of Preston, Idaho. It Is 'aid that they represent many others who also look with favor upon the splendid agricultural possibilities of the undeveloped Harney country. It has ban discovered that the lava and ashs which cover th cities of Hercti Itneum and Pompeii contain a lrj per centage of valuable deposits, which are to be exploited commercially by the Italian government. , - r - fSl IT If - T 1 '-t -toaiSJi51?- hi - ir. '-" 1. , t - ' w i 3 . Ill SEszrrssr. j"-ggsssii5- 1 7 J " ffSSr;.,. -ir-j ; .. ..ii.i- ,my i , : ... , - ENTATrVE plans were completed last week by F. A. Naramore, su perintendent of properties and architect of the Portland school dis trict, for the new Couch and Shattuck school buildings to be erected, begin ning this Summer, on the two building sites recently purchased. The Couch building will be located on 12 lots on the eastern portion of the large block bounded by Twentieth, Gllsan, Twenty-first and Hoyt streets. purchased from Archbishop Christie for $142,000. The new Shattuck building will face the park blocks on the block bounded by Broadway, Park, College and Hall streets, purchased recently from vari ous owners for $126,000. Buildings to Cost $160,000. Each of the new buildings will cost approximately $160,000. While these expenditures are far below those for the larger Lincoln High School and the Jefferson High School buildings, the specifications have been outlined by Mr. Naramore according to most ap proved methods and the buildings will $50,000 DEAL JADE Two Lots at Morrison and .Chapman Streets Traded. BIG AUCTION SALE BILLED Scattering Sales of City and Subur- Dan Property Show Transac tions Reaching Into . Large Figures. Most significant among the property transactions of the past week was a transfer closed Thursday whereby the H. W. Corbett Estate assumes posses sion of the two lots on the northeast corner of Morrison and Chapman streets. This property formerly was owned by Mrs. Eveline Richet and is valued at $50,000 or more. In consideration of the transfer, the Corbett Estate assumed a $25,000 mort gage on the Morrison-street property and deeded to Mrs. Richet a 30-foot frontage at 228 Yamhill street between First fend Second streets, now Improved with a frame building. This parcel was placed in the trade at a valuation of $25,000. The deal was made through the agency of A. A. HalL The corner acquired by the Corbett Estate Is improved with a two-story building. Robert H. Strong, manager of the estate, said yesterday that no additional Improvement would be made on the corner at present. The fill re cently made on Morrison street from Chapman west to Twenty-first street will be improved with hard-surface during the coming Summer, and it is understood that a carllne will soon be built on that stretch under a franchise already granted. " Aside from the property obtained by the Corbett Estate in this transaction ,tt I not be inferior In any respect The Lincoln High School cost $524,083.01. plus 5 per cent for architect's fees, and the Jefferson High School cost - $288. 910.45. No figures are available on the Washington High School, but it did not cost nearly as much as the other two buildings. There will be ns architect's fees to acCDunt for this year, as all such serv ices will be performed in the office of Mr. NaramSre. Figures on the last four buildings erected show that the work of his office cost the district only 2.88 per cent. To this, perhaps, 1 per cent should be added for office charges and superintendence. ' Slides Show Plans. In order to give the school patrons In the respective districts opportunity to incorporate their own ideas and wishes Into the building plans, two sets of stereopticon slides have been pre pared, showing In detail the present stage of the plans for each of the build ings. These plans were exhibited to the people of the Couch school district at- a public meeting held In the Lin coln High School last night. The slides illustrating what the Shattuck School Is to look like will be thrown It owns io property west of Tenth street. - Proposed Auction Arouses Interest. The auction sale announced by the Fred A. Jacobs Company this week, to be held in conjunction with A. J. Rich & Co., of San Francisco and New York, within the next 60 days, has aroused considerable interest. A large number of property owners have expressed themselves as ready to dispose of their hlodings, And several down-town Port land pieces have been listed. Third Street Sale Made. ' For a consideration of $2000, Patrick Murray has sold to Samuel Singer a portion of tne quarter oiock huik on the northwest" corner of Third and Baker streets. Suburban Property Sells High. Property located about seven miles east of Portland near the Powell Val ley road and adjoining the Ryan place has been purchased from William Hughes, administrator, by M. H. O'Con nor. The deed, filed last week, cites $24,000 as the selling price. A fraction over 100 acres are Included in the transfer. IVob Hill Home Brings $30,000. Through a. Sheriffs deed, Mrs. Esther- M. Cook has assumed possession of four improved residence lots, lOOx 200 feet In area, extending from Mar shall to Lovejoy streets between Nine teenth and Twentieth streets. The deed stipulates $30,818 as the consideration. There Is a large residence on the prop erty. Bast Alder Street Corner Sells. ' A house and lot located on the south west corner of East Eightieth and East Alder streets was transferred by J. W. Spiller last week to A. B. Gangloff. The consideration was $3200. Glenwood Park Property Moves. Martin T. Duffy took title last week through J. A. Bishop, executor, to one block and three additional lots In Holmes' Addition to Glenwood Park. The consideration named In the deed was $2225. East Burnside Street Sale Reeorded. For $2700 G. L. King has sold to the Brighton Development Company a va cant lot on East Burnside street near Floral avenue. Laurelhurat Site Sold. The Laurelhurst Company has sold to Rose Leland three lots described as block 55, Laurelhurst Addition, for a consideration of $4125. Sale of Bartark Parrel Made. E. P. Hopwood has taken title to a j -z?3D Co luc A OSr on the screen tomorrow night to the patrons of that school. If any serious objections are entered against the present proposed pro gramme, it is probable that .some al terations will be made to suit their wishes. However, a large number of the school patrons have- already ex pressed their satisfaction with the plans laid by Mr. Naramore. Work May Begin In August. After the plans have been indorsed by the school patrons and the School ioara, Olas will De aavenisea lor sag the contract let immediately. It is hardly hoped that the actual consruc tion can begin before some time in August. Therefore, it Is probable that the school will not be ready for occu pancy at the -opening of .the second term of the coming school year, Feb ruary, 1915. Each of the new buildings will run two stories over a ground story or basement and contain 24 classrooms, Including domestic science rooms, sewing-rooms and two open-air class rooms. The general type ot consrttc tion will be reinforced concrete frame with brick exterior walls. The mater ial going Into the exterior will be red lot located on the southwest corner of East Thirty-ninth and ' East Yamhill streets. The property was deeded by Frederick W. Drake for a considera tion of $3269. N Southport Factory Site Sold. Two lots in block 1, of Southport Ad dition have been sold by L. G. Wiede witsch to the North Star Iron Works for $4000. It is understood the prop erty .was purchased as a factory loca tion." McMlllen'a Addition Transfer Made. A lot located on the southwest cor ner of Cherry and Goldsmith streets. In McMlllen's Addition, was transferred last week to John G. Tracy, through a Sheriff's deed, for a consideration of $11,164. . Portland Homestead Sale Reported. For $4000, E. I. Karr has sold to George H. Ribbecke and others 70 by 156 feet located near the Intersection of Corbett street with Bancroft avenue, in Portland Homestead. Glenwood Park Sale Made. Four lots In block 2, of Holmes' Sub division to Glenwood Park, have been transferred by Martin T. Duffy to Wil liam R. Lacey for $3200. HOSPITAL COXTKAOT IS LET La Grande Man to Construct Grande Ronde Addition. LA GRANDE, Or, June 20. (Spe cial.) The contract to construct the annex to the Grand Ronde Hospital has been awarded to G. H. Rush, of La Grande, and the work will be started as soon as the excavation, which was begun this morning, is completed. The building is to be completed by Septem ber 1. The new part will be modern and fireproof, and is to be equipped with an electric elevator. The additional room will be utilized as office rooms, private rooms, additional ward room and special rooms. The cost will be approximately $20,000. Every St. Paul House Occupied. ST. PAUL, Or., June 20. (Special.) St. Paul is able to boast the distinc tion of not having an empty house in the town. A number of new dwellings have been erected this season and others are In course of construction, but the supply 1 still less than the demand. Thfr English poaTTofflce is said to make $50,000 a year on unredeemed money or-oera. '7, face brick with terra cotta or. artificial stone trimmings. In addition to the classroom allot ments, the principal's office and ante room, the teachers' restroom and an assembly hall with a large stage and a seating capacity of about 600 will be provided on each of the first floors. The open-air play roof, furnishing adequate playground facilities for the children In safe quarters, will be lo cated directly over each of the audi toriums. An emergency hospital room will also be provided. No classroom will be located over either of the au ditoriums, the latter being on a level with the second floors. On the ground floor will be situated the swimming tanks, the manual train ing rooms, the playrooms, or gym nasiums, the boiler-room and the boys' and girls' toilets. Features of the equipment will be electric lights, inter-communlcating telephones, an automatic clock system and a vacuum cleaning system. The heating and ventilating will be effected by low pressure steam boilers with fan. thermostatic control, air washer and humidity control, liberally designed In all parts. The blackboards will be of slate or glass' and the plumbing fix- LOG HAUL IS UNIQUE Device at Booth-Kelly Mill at Springfield Marvel. HUMAN HANDS DO LITTLE From AVaterpond to Storage Beds or Cars, 1-ors to Finished Lumber Are Carried by Xear Thinklng Systems. SPRINGFIELD, Or., June 120. (Spe cial.) The first operation on a log, as It is picked out In the pond at the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company's new mill, now nearlng completion here. Is unique. Instead of the old-fashioned log haul up, the new mill has a device by which the log is lifted vertically from the water until the winding chains have rolled it onto the log deck. The main saw is a steel band. 1 Inches wide and 9 feet long, and will cut a board nearly six feet wide. From the main saw the boards are carried the length of the mill and transferred, by chains, across to the trimmers, which are operated by com pressed air. Pressing of a little lever raises and lowers the proper saws to give the board the right length, and then the stick is carried back to the initial end of the mill to be resawed to the finished sizes. Once finished, tne boards are aeiiv- ered to the three sorting tables, ex tending nearly 300 feet beyond the mill. As the boards are carried along on. rope cables, workmen select the different Bizes, drawing them off into piles, until there Is a supply for the monorail car to take away, either to the storage yards or to the dry klin. The one sorting is enough and. when a load of lumber is delivered in the yard. tures throughout will be of the most sanitary vitreous ware. In order to keep the classrooms as far from the abutting car tracks as Dosslble. the new CDUoh School win face the east This will necessitate a different arrangement of the rooms on each of the floors, but the number and character will be the same In each of the buildings. Shaltuek to Pac Park Blork. The Shattuck building will face the park blocks with a central court In front of the auditorium, and with sev eral entrances. The Couch building will be located about 130 feet back from the frontage on Twentieth street and five feet from the Glisan-street line. This provision Is made to preserve the valuable shrubs and trees now located In the front yard of the Portland Convales cent Home site, where this school building Is to go. Each building will cover an 'approximate ground dimen sion of 130x195 feet. The Shattuck School will be moved as nearly to the Tark-street line as Is feasible In order to keep the building away from Broadway, where It Is pos sible car tracks will be located at some later date. the workmen know the whole load goes Into a single stack. Big timbers are carried the entire length of the mill and out. Into the open dock, to a timber slzer. capable' of smoothing a timber 16x30 Inches. Tim bers here are handled by machinery, one man being sufficient to do tlie work. The big sticks are loaded di rectly onto the cars from this dock. Automatic devices cut ths number of men required at the dry kiln from six to one, and the lumber, Instead of lying the broad side down In the kiln. Is clamped Into a bundle and goes, through the kiln on edge, so as to get better distribution of ths drying heat. Lumber for the planer department Is delivered along the south side of the shed. Is worked across through the planers, and then delivered on the north side. Into the runway leadlnK to the storage shed for flooring, siding and other finishing lumber. Precautions hare been taken at every point to safeguard the workmen and the mill. Nearly all the motors are placed In the basement of the mill, with trans minion chains coming through the floor close against the frame of the machine. Starting boxes are located near the machine they serve, so that the machinery may be stopped with the greatest speed, should tnere be need. Automatic sprinkler devices are scat tered throughout the mill and a looo-gallon-a-minute pump has been In stalled. All the wiring, both for the power wire and the light service, are In Iron pipe conduits, and. as far as possible, these conduits are burled In the ground, below the mill, running from the main switchboard to a point underneath the outlet where the power Is to be used. The mill throughout have been coated with fire-resisting. salt and lime solution and ths dry kiln Is constructed entirely of hollow tile. $50,000 PERMIT IS GIVEN W. C. Arthur A Co. to Build Blork for A. C. Ruby on Fifth Street. A building permit was Issued yester day to A. C. Kuby for the construc tion of the three-story fireproof concrete building to be erected on the southeast corner of Fifth and Burnside streets. As previously announced, this building will cost about $r0.000. The contract has been let to W, Arthur A Co. C. A Berlin protestor estimates the commer cial value In electricity of a riash of ngnt-niog- lasilns for one-thousandth of a sec ond at 29 cents. Chairman of Portland Realty- Board Publicity Committee Calls Atten tion to Need or Patronising Coant Manufacturers. pt n. if. unowx. Chairmen publicity Committee, Port . land Realty Hoard. I wonder how many of us, tipon en terlng a store to make a purcha. ourselve. -Was It made on the Taclflo Coasir The Pacific Coast Is my home, and I trv not to be narrow enoush to base mv lovalty to the confines of Ore son, for the Interestn of this entire Coaxt are IJentiial and 'home Indus try" means Induntrles on our West CoaL Through the efforts of the Oressn Development League and similar or ganizations on the Coast we are bring ing thousands of farmers and tillers of the soil to this country every year, and this agricultural development will eventually develop the cities, but why wait for agriculture alone. It alone will not do IU laaastrlee sad Parralle KerSed. The mnnufarturliig Industry, the cap ital to build It and the parroll to oper ate It. Is what the -Mf of the Tscirio Coat most nee'i. Our cities are grow ing and IIicbs people need employment. Thousands f settlers rnme to Ihet'osst t'arh year who would trve on the farm. It Is up to us to develop our nanufa-turlni. How tan 1 do my part, insy headed. Easily. Hy patronising those Inilus trlts already here. If any readers have not visited the dni'Uv of 'home-made products" In the corner room of the ground floor of the Commercial Club, he should mass It his duty to go down today. tirrafrwt la m4. Our Mggrst field of possibilities Is In the development of line of manu facture using wood as Its raw material. It Is a well-known fact that when the lumber business Is la. k In Ihe North west, our whole buMness slai hens. let's all of us Join forces and boost for anything that will help the lumber business. I'll wager that not one-hslf ef ens per cent of Portland's population knows thst oak. mahogany and other ral.lnet woods are manufactured from the log right here In Portland. I II ! ven ture to eay that not one-tenth of that small number knows Hint hlgh-rlesa office difks and ladles are nm'le right here In South Portland from this asms oak and mahogany by a o l nlany, organised a year and a half ao ay two Portland men and now being oper ated successfully. Ihe only one west of the lllsslsslppl lllver. I'pon being Interviewed rei-enlly on this subject, the proprietors of this company gave me to understand ther could get better tipMrt. I have bought two of their ilei-ks through a lo-al sta tionery house, and they are giving en tire satisfaction. Of all the hiah-rlass stationery houses In our city. I am advised that only two of them support our local desk factory and handle their line; the others are not so loyal. One big stationery house even goes out of the way to do these local people all the harm they can, and those same proprietors of that stationery house, t am told, are native Orsaonlans. or at least have lived hers a long time. - la that the proper spirit T I'fcoae t'aaaaaay's Spirit Itlafct. In dwelling further on this suhlect, I like to give credit to those to whom credit belongs. I'pon completion re cently of Its fine new building, one of the finest on the Coast, ths Paclflo Telephone A Telegraph Company found It was going to require :0 new desks, and accordingly circulated the Inquiry among all the Portland dealers. Includ ing the one manufacturer. I'pon receiving quotations and exam ining various lines, several of the of ficials of the telephone company took the trouble and time away from their business to go ontto Houth Portlsnd and Inspect the plant and line of our "one manufacturer," and upon Investi gation found their desks of an squat quality with Eastern desks of a sim ilar grade, on an even basis of price, and without further consideration gavs the order to our own manufacturer, thereby keeping that money at horns. Now, wasn't that the proper spirit. Let's all of ns practice It. Kugrae Prrsslla g2O.0n for Una I a. During the month of My building norm It. amounting to 120.000 were Is sued by the building Inspector In Eu gene, calling mostly for moderate- priced residence construction. A largo number of residence sre also under course of construction at Hutherlln, a thriving town In Douglas County. Krnest Kroner, a rortlsnti arrnitecv has awarded the contract for the con struction of the Wnodburu library building to A. A. !-loneld. a ood bnrn contractor, for tll. Directory of Promintnt Life Insurance Agencies, Mtmbtr$ of Lift Vndervnurt Aoda6on of Oregon w m oalamea. atasafee, MAMlAllAM l.la lreutaa I'lug. 11. u. toltoa, Manas. ASSAC'li i:ni I I mliiai. UrtV tkamlr of (omsiM HISS- U H. rJ. . facirio m ru a i. Title A Trulce. liag B U. Hermes, Masse. I-EN XI UAL 1.1 rg, Mortswirn renk Hlag. lloreo Me- kim, kisneeer, HEW kS'H.M !'1U1. Lift Wertkw tra lsnk Mtdg. Ala u. Ksis, y . SI-T1-1L 1-1 C INSI KAN ci. eg H. Ve Crtt loss- Harry Rlcbr, 0aral AL CGLLHBU I IF I 1 Kb! 1 IU apaidirg Bills C. a Bllaa, eaerel Aat, COLtMiM l.irgi TP. LIT CO, Sllverinn, Oregoa. a, p. Lorkwooo. i--fr. ass JMM. alga COLL Mill A l.llt THLST LO, Spalding ins a. FM!-remS)r C., Ural AfelA INI TMAVXIF.HS INK. CO, So ilO Urn. IlinS. T. H MrAlUa, Mn-r. V'KION kill u l.lrK ip, a. CO. MT Phorlnrk Blag. Joha Fever, Mesas. PHl'DIMIAI. ink Cv r AMKP.ICA. RnthrhllS Peg. Amhir. Menat-r. JtORTKwrsTKHN M1TI'LI ifllM CO, Northwestern pans tles Jvdd Uwri. Msregr. AMIIIICAN ri.vTKAl, I .IMC IN". COW ft Ixkiim P leg kc, iriir. )iai.a A l.ivl. Mx sgarSj AETNA l.vsi haNCB ,, Teoa BiSs.