The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, November 08, 1914, SECTION FOUR, Image 54

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Newspaper Page TextTIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 8. 1914. PROHIBITION MAY AID REALTY SALES HYDROGEN PLANT INSURANCE REPORTS GIVE TAXATION TIPS National Association of State Commissioners Advises Conservation of Funds and Application to Intended Use. IS - BEING- ERECTED 8 Prominent Representatives of Building Fraternity Fa- vor Dry State. ' ONLY FEW ARE PESSIMISTIC Manager of Columbia Investment "Company Says Certain Elements " May Lose, but Community Will Gain; Tax Defeat "Welcome. Judging from expressions of promi nent representatives of the real estate and building fraternity last week fol lowing the election, the consensus of opinion among the men of the trade Is that prohibition will not hurt their business in Oregon. In fact, a majority of those interviewed could read a bet terment In the situation. Without an exception, all express gratitude at the decisive defeat of the Troposed $1500 exemption, the water front amendment and other similar measures. The fact that the single-tax Idea has been rapped by the people of Oregon at two successive elections is seen as a good omen. Even those who are inclined to be skeptical of the influence of prohibi tion are glad to note that the state of Washington went dry as well as ore ron. If Washington remained wet, pro hibition would have hurt Oregon, some argue. Others have felt that prohibition is certain to come, and that now is the proper time to accept it when the real estate and building market is about at bedrock as a result of several perti nent causes. Optimism Is Prevalent. "Since it is coming anyway, we might as well get it out of our system, when It can't do us much harm at the worst," Ss the way one put It Some announced that thev had been advised that cer tain projects and investments would not go through in case prohibition carried. Among a large number of prominent realty men. only one felt that the pass age of the prohibition amendment would be a severe blow. He was quite nronounced in his objections, but re quested that his name be withheld from the interview. -"Prohibition will cut Portland rent als in half." be said. "The market has been dull for some time in anticipation of the wet and dry vote, and now that the state has gone dry there will be absolutely no market for some time at least.. I believe the effect of the dry amendment will be more discouraging than if the $1500 tax exemption and the water front measures had passed Their defeat will counteract the effects of prohibition somewhat, but not enough. Eastern investors have come to the conclusion that they do not wan to come here and face freak laws. Th worst is that we in Oregon never can tell what's coming next nor how soon. Prohibition Benefits Seen. ' Dean Vincent, president of the Port land Realty Board, is authority for th statement that a prohibition Orego will not affect the realty business un favorably. . "The victory scored by the drys will not hurt the real estate market a par tide. In fact, I believe it will have ' wholesome influence," said Mr. Vincent yesterday. "The history of all large realty com panles, both in Portland and elsewhere, shows that drinking men, as a gen eral rule, do not pay their install ments on purchase contracts as promptly as those who do not drink Absence of saloons ought to mean more money for investment purposes an employment to more people, consider lng a given amount to be expended. "A man can spend his entire week's pay check over the bar in a short space of time, but if he bought groceries and Incidentals with the same money it . would last much longer and cause five or ten times as many transactions, thus iriving employment to a greater pro portion of people. ' f 1500 Tax Defeat Welcomed. - "I am certainly pleased to note that the proposed JlaOO exemption and the waterfront laws were defeated by the people. These defeats will serve to cor rect the impression that Oregon accepts all "new-fangled" fads. The decision Indicates an Intelligence on the part of the people that is gratifying to see." Mr. Vincent expressed regret that the water ordinance passed at the recent eity election and said he did not think it would have carried if the voters had understood the import of the measure. "As a result of the ordinance, many property owners are planning to bill the water rent to tenants in advance. he said. "While credit can be extended to most tenants without fear of losses, the rule will not apply in all cases. and it will be. impossible to make any distinctions - "A certain element may lose by pro hibition, but the community as a whole will gain," said O. L. Ferris, manager of the Columbia Realty Investment Company. "I, for one, am pleased at the result, and at the news that the proposed 11500 exemption law has been defeated so decisively. This, the second rap that has been dealt the single tax in the last two years, will serve to better our credit in the East. Lately the Eastern., connections of Portland agents have been cautious about mak ing loans in Oregon, preferring to await the results at the polls." Prohibition Success Likely. "Prohibition will not make a particle of difference with "us real estate men said J. Kred Larson, of the firm of Umbdenstock & Larson. "The same amount of money will be here and all f the dollars will still be working, The sensible men who have been fol lowing the liquor business legitimately now will put their money into some other branch of business. Those of ; them who may carry a sore spot around 'with them and who may pretend .oppo eitton to the enforcement of the law will stand simply in their own light and thus harm themselves alone. . "The enactment of prohibition may have hurt in Kansas and Maine, but i can do no harm on the Pacific Coast. ?We have so many advantages here that will offset any possibility of. a disturb lng influence and will be able to ad Just ourselves in the 14 months al lotted for that purpose under the law 'Prohibition will not scare capital away from Oregon and I predict that . it will deprive us of no money, bus nesa. health, prestige or growth. Th wisdom displayed by the people in th . defeat of tho vicious measures on th ballot shows how sensible and square tha people are." Business locations In Demand. "Since Oregon has gone dry, I am , triad Washington took a similar step, else the situation mignt nave anecte' Oregon more unfavorably," said E. Daly. "I have noticed recently that there are fewer vacant stores on Washing . ton street than a year ago. There : aeems to be more Inquiry for locations , than for some time. X have Been sur prised at tha number of application received for space in me new ouiiain that George, F, Rodgers, ox baiem, ana .... ...................... ............ ....... t T I - $25,000 BUILDING TO RISE AT ONCE. i ' - trf$ -:fH- :; I f - ' faifrf ' ' ' " a&AritfrA i I' : " " ' ' i-y":-; '''''i'-'- 'J :.-:.' ::. : : " 1 c : j :- 11 1 3-4HHrlRE M f ?:?yu: it ?7t - ! . 4, - ' ' . ' . ' - ?; :: i - . . s J5- - - ' H - " ' - " : . m ' . , Tt ; ' ' - .- - : lv Tr? : y , - - ;-,. , ....... , T -""XiQjgtoems - ' 2i,2 '- ,mn.,,.iiiimiiwi" - ; I I - - ' - -- - - , ,, . ., ( Oxygen Also Will Be Made in $15,000 Factory Under Con struction on East Side. E GRESHAM CANNERY READY Apartment-House on Sandy Road to Cost $18,000 Is Projected and Numerous Dwelling: of All Sizes Are Contracted For. " An oxygen and hydrogen manufac turing plant is being erected at the corner of East Seventeenth and Center streets, in the South Bast Side, and is said to be the first plant of the sort In this state. The buildings occupy the corner with tanks in the rear. Ma- STRICTIRK PLANNED BV RODNEY GL1SAS. Bids are now being received for the construction of the two-story and baseraenj building about to be erected on property 100 feet square at the northwest corner of Fourth and Couch streets for Rodney L. Gli san, who owns a similar building just west of the location. The exterior will be faced with pressed brick and galvanized iron cornices and a feature of the equipment will be three hydraulic elevators. Through the agency of J. Fred Staver, the quarters in the building have been leased to three whole sale firms. Architects Houghtaling -& Dougan, who drew the plans for the structure, estimate that the construction will require about 120 days' time. The estimated cost is i 25,000. are building on Thirteenth and Wash ington streets. "How could prohibition hurt the real estate business?" asked Herbert Gor don, president of the Lawyers' Title & Trust Company, yesterday. "There will now be all the more money to spend for other things. Naturally we are glad the $1500 exemption, the waterfront and universal eight-hour-day measures did not carry, as their mnuence would have been detrimental." "Prohibition will not affect leasinc from the agent's standpoint, . except that it may increase the number of leases and thus be a benefit." said W. H. Webb, an authority on' leasing. "I look ror a great demand for small business locations, for moving picture theaters, lunch counters and pool rooms. "Inevitably, the rents for inside lo cations will have to come down. Sa loon owners have been paying much more for places than they have actual ly been worth. In some instances sa loons have paid two or three times as much rent as any other line of busi ness would pay." BUILDERS AT WORK BRIDGE BONDS ON SALE BIDS FOR. 250,000 WORTH, BEARIKG S PER CENT IXTEREST, ASKED. Maturities Will Be $10,000 July 1 of Each. Year, Commencing J 018. Local Buying Is Urged. October Permits Aggregate About $545,755. Investment Company for the erection of a $5500 two-story home at 775 Stan ton street, between East Twenty-third and East Twenty-fourth streets, in Irvington. Mr. Ruppe plans making his permanent home in Irvington when the new residence is completed, about three months hence. Worlc on Home Bea-un im. Beaumont. For O. L. Ferris, manager of the Co Iumbla Realty Investment Company, Q. E. Maxwell has started the erection of a one-story bungalow at WORK ON DOCK IS STARTED Many Bids Expected for Erection of Postoffice at The Dalles Xew Homes Rise Fast Clackamas System to Cost $2 30,0 0 0. BY - S. P. LOCKWOO D. I (Second chapter of A series on Insurance l-axation. ACH state has its Insurance depart ment, in charge of a state offi cial, usually known as the Insur ance Commissioner. These men have formed the National Association ot In surance Commissioners, which meets annually for the discussion of inter ests to their departments. In 1908 they appointed a committee of their own members to prepare a report upon the subject of life insurance taxation. This ' report was submitted to and adopted by the National Association of Life Insurance Commissioners and emanating as it did from state offl clals having no financial lnteres the insurance companies, the report well worthy of earnest thought, and the conclusions of the Commislsoners can well be accepted. Among other things this report embodied the fol lowing: The state should insist upon the faithful conservation of life Insurance funds and their application to their in tended use. It should be as reluctant Itself to divert them from their in- chinerv has been Installed E. A. Finkbeiner. of 1077 East IJavis street, is the owner of the plant, which I tended use as to permit individuals to will represent an Investment of about I empioy them for political purposes or $15,000 and will be complete In all re- sDects. Oxygen and hydrogen are used In steel works Quite extensively in cut ting through the steel and for other purposes. . Cannery BuUdlnnr Costs 40O0. in extravagance of management. What, precisely, is life insurance? Primarily and. essentially It is a plan under which a large number of people individually deposit yearly in a com mon treasury a small sum of money with the understanding that the de- Thoae who attended the dedication of Dosltary 8nall Eafely and profitably in the building erected ty me resnam vegt a much iarger 8Um to f run uruncie .iovj.mm..i, vvw... v , saw a frame building 175 by 100 feet costing $4000. The building is divided into two parts, one end to be used for handling and shipping green uncanned fruits and the other end for canning fruits and vegetables for Bhipment. In that part of the building to be used for shipping the floor is or rour-lncn plank so that teams and trucks may be driven directly into the building for loading and unloading. A railway spur has been built to the south side oi tne tic fo.. 1 OUUOIUB. Forty-fifth street. North, in Beaumont. I ... j Vi , rTo that nthr port. Moved thereto by forethought The permit cites the probable cost of " .Jr " , ;hI a" mav he and affection, they withdraw yearly " j , .v,. ,., j ).. from their Income a special sum which present structure, when more room is f hey pay to the insurance company to needed. Mr. Davis said he had no mnify their dependents against a doubt but that this additional room "'"s ' " , , , . j.j ... , , v, o I the home and to educate their children. Will De IieCUIHX W ILII 1U bum. J The association has 200 stockholders. F;"Lre,iT..rt?.t. Ill I!.'e-S Apartment-house Projected. ! purposes. It is an act of pure unsel- An apartment-house is projected on I f ishness, inspired, by love and moved the dependents of those of the con tributors who die during the year. The depositary, that Is, the insurance com pany, acting through its officers, is the trustee of this common fund, charged with the duty of conserving and safely investing it, and of paying specified, dependents of each contrib utor the sum payable when the event insured against happens. The members of a life Insurance en terprise are, as a rule, provident men who have wives and children, or other I persons depending upon them for sup the building as $2000. At the office of County Clerk Cof fey, the Board of County Commission ers will receive bids until tomorrow at 11 A. M.. for the purchase of $260, 000 worth of interstate bridge bonds, bearing 5 per cent interest. An effort is being made by the Commissioners to induce Portland investors to buy the greater part of the issue. The bonds are to be in denominations of $100. $500 and $1000. according to the option of the successful bidders. Maturities will be $10,000 july 1, 1918, and $10,000 July 1 of each year thereafter until all have been paid. A ertlfied check for 5 per cent of the id must accompany each offer. The firm of Storey, Thorndike, Palmer & Dodge, of Boston, has approved the le gality of the issue. Issue Up In Klamath. Klamath Falls, dr. Bids will be received by A. L. Leavltt, Police Judge, ntil November 12 for the purchase of 25,021.15 worth of city Improvement bonds, payable in 10 years, bearing 6 per cent interest, said bonds to be issued in denominations of $500 each. They will not be sold for less than par and accrued interest. Bids must be accompanied by a certified check for per cent of amount of bonds. Disposition of Bonds Discussed Florence, Or. As no appropriation for the Siuslaw jetty was made by Congress in the rivers and harbors bill, the question of selling the recent ssue of $100,000 bonds and placing the same in the hands of the United States engineers to continue work is under consideration. $(JOOO Issue Proposed. Payette, Idaho. A special election will be held November 14 for the pur pose of voting on the proposition of ssuing $6000 worth of bonds for build ng a metal pipe line at the water works. Seattle Takes Alternative. Seattle, wash. Having failed to receive a single bid for an issue of 505,000 steam plant bonds, the Council amended its ratifying ordinance to pro vide that the bonds may now be Issued n denominations of $400 each, Intend ng to place the issue before the Seat public for sale over the counter of the City Controller. Although, the aggregate of building permits was not as great during the past month as for October, 1913. a notable increase was recorded over the preceding month, September. For Oc tober, 1914, the authorization amounted to $545,755, as compared with $309,140 for the preceding month and $681,710 for October, 1913. The permits issued last month called for the following work: Seventy-six residences at a cost of $146,000; three docks, to cost $137,500; seven store buildings, to cost $62,400; 10 ordinary buildings, costing $51,000; one club home, to cost $5000, and 75 stables and garages, including repairs, costing $12,200. Tiro $2500 Permits Issued In Day. The American Can Company has awarded a contract to K. V. Berglund for the construction. of a dock on Front street, between Fourteenth and Fif teenth streets, at a cost of $2500. An other $2500 permit, .taken out the same day last week, gives Karl Keller per mission to erect a one-story frame warehouse and store on Vancouver ave- ue between Cook and Ivy streets. The plans for the latter building were rawn by Stokes and Zeller and W. W. Patterson has the contract. Work on 94000 Dock Started. For the Denny-Renton Clay & Coal Company, Robert Wakefield has com menced the erection of a dock on the O.-W. R. &. N. boatyard along the river. The work, as estimated in the permit, will cost about $4000. Woodmere Gets New Home. The construction of a one. and one- half story frame residence has been begun at 7511 Sixty-third avenue South east, in Woodmere, by Ira L. Martin, It will cost about $2000. C. J. Smith Builds 92300 Home. H. E. DePeel is building a one and one-half story frame dwelling on East Seventy-fourth street between Multno mah and Hassalo streets for C. J. Smith at a probable cost of $2500. Many After Poatofftce- Contract. When bids are opened at Washington, C, November 12, . by Supervising Architect Wenderoth, it is predicted that a large number of proposals will be found for the work on the $75,000 postofflce to be built at The Dalles. The structure will be two stories of partial fireproof construction with a tie WASCO "WHEAT XjAXX IS SOLD Other Realty Transfers Reported by Hartman & Thompson Bank. The realty department of the Hart man & Thompson Bank reports several farm sales this week. Among them are the following: One hundred and sixty acres of wheat land in Wasco County, Oregon, near the Tygh Valley, all cleared and In cultiva tion. Sold to George Fisher, of Port land, who' is going to move on to the farm In the near future. Four hundred and eighty acres of Wheat land in the Monkland country, Sherman County, Oregon, all in cultiva tion, to Mr. Wilson, the consideration being $12,000. The owner took In part payment some Portland property. Eight hundred acres in Gilliam County were sold for $25,000 to Henry Frock, an old wheat-raiser from East ern Oregon, who will move his family to Eastern Oregon at once. This is said to be one of the best grain farms in Gilliam County, and is located in the famous May vine country, about seven miles southeast of Condon. Also 40 acres of beaverdam land in Washington Caunty, Oregon, about 14 miles from Portland, at a consideration of approximately $12,000. Gresham Farm Is Sold. Frank Michaels has sold his farm two miles Bouth of Gresham, to Samuel Weiss, of Portland and has moved to Portland, to reside at 397 Eugene street. Mr, Weiss does not expect to reside on the farm himself, but will have a representative on the place to continue farm operations. The terms of the sale are not known, but the farm is considered a valuable property and under a good state of cultivation. PORTIAXD 5IAX COSIPLIMEXTKD C. J. Hogue Engineer of Firm That! Built Fireproof Structure. "Wrij.n "Thp Arrbitftct anii Kneinftftr' nf rsiifnmii. in i.m. tola nf ine sanay roaa uy me i,oiimiuuivcn... Dy a nign sense or auiy, th, r.mrVahlB fire routine- dualities "eauy company, iu cuoi. fio,vv. uie insurance is not a system, oi the remarkaDie lire-resisting qualities i jik b. niv, ov,iter-t han LM..n. j. k,. .i,t. been commissioned to prepare plans, I as a public charity and supported by and It is announced that work will a burdensome general tax, nor does start within the next two weeks. I it contemplate public orphanages, old It will contain 16 suites, will be a ladles' homes or other public charl- two-story structure, 44x95 feet, witn I ties maintained at the expense of the full basement. The exterior will be state. So far as It goes, it Is a sub- finished in brick veneer. Six Residences Begun. Hallock Building Company has start ed on the erection of six residences, each to cost $1800. Four of the dwell ings will be built on East Main street, between East -Seventy-eighth and East TCirhtleth streets: one on East forty cept a four-story reinforced concrete I eiKhth street between Stanton and Sis- storehouse, the property of the Naum- irivou streets, and another will be keag Steam Cotton Company. This built on Bryant street between East punning, xooay as good as me oay n i Fifteenth and East Seventeenth streets. yu"l presents a sinking ei.n- The outlay will represent $6400 in i .,iu. r ri,r Drl pie of the fire-resisting qualities of a addition to the lots. It was the larg- LaUrelnUrSt, KOSe LltY rflrK, wcii-uum cuutreio uuuuing wnn wir- ... single residence contract for some I . .. . time. ana inner oeunons ruyuiai . company jtsuiias uireiiins. The Wlberg-Oppegard Investment Company has started on the erection of one-story frame dwelling on n.ast of a reinforced' concrete building which withstood the big fire in Salem, Mass., June 25. it paid a compliment to Chester J. Hogue. of the Portland ar chitectural firm of Foulkes & Hogue, who was constructing engineer of the firm which designed and built the warehouse referred toi In speaking of the Salem fire the California publication says: "The burned area was something mare than 2a0 acres and the total loss was $14,- 000,000. Practlcaly everything in the path of the fire was swept away ex- stitute for all of these, and, if uni i versal, would obviate the necessity of them all. Hence the state should en courage it, not hinder it; it should help it. not hurt it. . This true relation of the state to life insurance has found practical expres sion in the laws and practices of many of the older countries of Europe. In Great Britain, for example, life insur ance premiums are not only free from taxation,, but that part of a policy holder's income which he devotes-to the payment of premiums is exempt from the general Income tax. provided the amount so used does not exceed one sixth of his income. In Germany not only is there no premium income tax, but life insurance among the laboring class Is compulsory. There is no pre mium income tax In France, Belgium, Austria. Hungary. Italy or Spain, or even in Russia. t in 1 A legislative investigation of life ln rt la I urance conducted by one of the states aisciosea mat the management of some of these corporations had made con tribution from the trust funds in their charge toward the payment of the ex penses of political campaigns, the en richment of favorites and general ex travagance in the conduct of business. This disclosure . created, and properly created, a public sensation and scan dal. Public sentiment with substan tial unanimity condemned it. This state of public sentiment clearly dem onstrates that the public mind is alive to the true nature and character ot such funds and the uses to which they are dedicated. The state, and the public, too. well understand that extravagance in the management of life Insurance corpora tions falls either upon the policy holder by increasing his premium pay ments or upon the beneficiaries of the insurance by diminishing the sum nav- able to them. Therefore, in order to protect the policy-holders and their beneficiaries against extravagance in such management, the states in which tne principal companies are incorpo rated passed drastic laws limiting the expenses which these corporations may incur. Why should not the state and th public, which wisely and vigorously resent and prohibit by drastic laws in tne interests of the policy-holders and of the beneficiaries of Insurance the di version of such funds for political cam paign purposes or for extravagance In management see with equal clearness the unwisdom of their diversion at the Instance of the state Itself from their appropriate use to increase the rev enues of the state? Does not $2 taken from the company by the state out of every $100 a policy-holder pays for the premium, either correspondingly In crease the sum the policy holder must pay, or reduce the insurance bene tits he thereby buys, the same as if the $2 were diverted by the management to polit ical campaign contributions or used In extravagant expenditure? Life insurance taxes either increase the cost of insurance or diminish the amount of it. In the one case they fall on the policy-holders; In the other on the beneficiaries of the Insurance. The state should not permit the mis appropriation of those funds by in surance management, it should not divert them from their intended use. WEEK'S SALES LARGE glass windows in metal frames, rein forced on tho inside by tin-clad shut ters dropped by automatic fusible links and equipped throughout with auto matic sprinklers. So severely were the wire-glass windows exposed to the fire that some oi tne glass ruseo. ana sagged out ot rv.BBV(,nth avanues. to cost $1700. Hor f 1 1 a fromaa Vt Avv.navA .Ain . ' . . . i j, V jV . L L""'5 ace D. Jones, Sr., is the builder, feet distant, directlv in t h na r h r,f t b. I re. In the building were stored fin- lonirrs.uoo """" '"P" ished good3 worth at least $200,000. Methodists will erect a one-story Spalling of the concrete from the heat I frame chapel on Coeur d'Alene street, was not noticeable excent in two or between Hickey and Vanderventer three very small patches." PORTIiAXD PROPERTY NOTICED Westover Terraces Comes in for Ar ticle In Uterary Digest. Mrs. Lillian J. De Keater has let a mart In Laurelhurst during the past Terraces the Literary Digest has the contract tor tne erection oi a one-story week. The largest was tne i. following to say of the Portland pro ject: "What is perhaps the most compre hensive service ever rendered by en-. gineering to city-planning, at least for residential purposes, is the recent carv ing or a scenic residence district out of an Inaccessible hillside in Portland stone exterior. More than half a dozen Portland firms have been figuring on tho work. Water System to Cost $S50,0O0. Bids are being received by the South Fork Water Commission of Oregon City for the construction of a water supply system between Oregon City and Clackamas, in Clackamas County, pursuant to plans drawn by the en gineering firm of Hurlburt & Rands. The estimated cost of the project is $250,000. HIsh School Contract to Be Let. In all probability the contract for the construction of the high school building at Athena, Umatilla County, will be let within a few days, the bid ding having been closed last week. Ac cording to the figures of the. architec tural firm of Tourtellette & Hummel, the cost will be about $35,000. The structure will be two stories above basement and will contain 10 class rooms and an assembly hall with i capacity for 500 persons. John Hedstrom Awarded Contract. Earl A. Roberts has awarded the contract to John Hedstrom for the erection of the two-story brick and mill building to rise on the corner of Larrabee street and East Broadway at an approximate cost of $10,000. Th two floors of the building will be dl vlded Into . offices, stores and apart ments. Erection of School to Proceed. The School Board, at its meeting Thursday, directed the school clerk to advertise for bids for the erection of the $55,000 Richmond school unit and directed the school architect to perfect plans for a one-story, nine-room Ken nedy school. Bealty Company Builds Stores. The Washington Realty Company has directed the Shuholm Company to erect a one-story brick store building on Washington street between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets at a cost of about $6500. The plans for the work were drawn by Architects MacNaugh ton & Raymond. Mr. Ruppe Ereets Irvlnarton Home. Adam Ruppe, who formerly operated a large ranch near Pendleton, has ar ranged with the Mautz Building & Sixty-second street, in the Southeast IMWCCTWICMT PPRlfin HFRF Side, between Twenty-sixth and Twen- I t w I mfc-in i streets, at a cost of $400. Building- to Be Repaired. D. H. Amadon has started on the re pairs of a one-story building on East Thirteenth, between Klllingsworfh ave nue and Church street, at a cost of $oOU. s:tOOO Contract Let. Indications Point to Unusual Sea son, With Sales Aggregating Several . Thousand Dollars. Acreage Also Is Iiiked. Sales aggregating about $20,000 were frame residence on East Forty-first I Minnie A. Bleecker to Levi Rodkon of street, between Thompson and Brazes I lot 7 in block 12, Laurelhurst, witn tne streets, to cost $3000. Mackey Bros, are house, for $5600. The property is located in the trian gular block on Irving street. Floral I avenue and Peerless place. The other sales in Laureinurst were: Lots 7 and 8 in block 8. by W. R. Red- the builders. A. S. Blowers to Build Home. A. S. Blowers has started the erection of a story and a half residence on East Fortieth street, between Hawthorne Or rw ,ii,iMnr j. to. " """-;v.:::,r.:L": "I mond to E. J. uarrow; tne laureinurst Km v, j i .j ,, i . . :r. ... ; I r-nmnnnv to Peter ttremiaas or 101 io uoo uccu uanw uj ii.vuia.unc metu. i 11700. s. M. tjiowera is tne Duiiaer. . , - - ,, (1inn. tVi Ods into an irregular series of ferr-nr-n I ...... in oiock si, j-wuimuui-t, I '.111, H.airt.nn. nM. II . v i v . . j-i . . n I n m a a . connected by a serpentine boulevard . . . baurinuri yuiii.u, that winita fmin fnni tn I Work has been started on tne erection I Johnson. lot 6 in diock , ior iovu. thi. Kv, i-. i I of a S1500 home on EaBt Sixteenth I the Laurelhurst Uompany to . m. aior .oic.i owcd. 1 - , . . - I ... ,- nun- th. "Owlngr to the constant ascent to the Blreel "etween Aincrm vuius. 101 m ctimmii ,ni kii v. i. j streets, oy jonn nisson. Laurelhurst company xo tnrist " i " -""-"""S IIU - i w, 1,11ft am th t n 1 n sir .a ..... j . i z i n i j ' tjn i ynnxiin. 1 1 1 L U III UIUI, .V A A " - - - - far.nn. in AiAvainn .1. , I , . ... , . I Laurelhurst Company to Harrison R- ... v. . i i i worK nas oeen started un a. reaiaenco , , . c , . , i rt 00 and uoiier sides of tha block, i. i w ah. tt. a.n,v.nr(1, Kincaid, lots 5 and 11 In block 38. con- street, to cost $3000. It will be a one story frame building. Portaoraah Apartments Enlarged. The Portnomah Apartment building. at the northeast corner of East Thir teenth and East Taylor streets, has Ashland Man Obtains Alberta Sec- I been enlarged at a cost of $6000. An I addition was Duut at tne nortn end or the old building, which increased the ASHLAND. Or.. Nov. 6 (Special.) capac,ly 01 l"e uu,lu1" ne-inira. W. D. Hodgson, of this city, has traded Store Bulldlna- Finished. his orchard property east of town, a I The one-story brick building erected I ,,00rf a int in block "V ZO-acre tract, known as the Bly place, I by Dan Kern on Grand avenue, near from L L Stair. John E. some cases as high as 90 feet. This difference in elevation Is taken up by tne construction of terraces." ORCHARD TRADED FOK FARM Johns Heights, for $1350. E. L. Rose sold In St. Johns Addition two lots to E. Roy Ingledue for $696. William Friter sold to Lena All wen seven lots In North St. Johns. Ascot Acres Purchased. The Title & Trust Company sold to A. R. - Theakson two tracts in Ascot acres for $1500. This property Is in the acreage on the Base Line road east of Montavilla. Tho Rose City Park Association sold Henry C. Rippey a lot in Beaumont, for $855. Catherine Nicholas took title to a lot in Westmoreland from Sarah J. Cunningham for $600. St. Helen's Hall May Be Rebuilt. It is regarded as probable that a modern fireproof building costing in the neighborhood of $100,000 will be erected to replace St. Helen's Hall, re cently destroyed by fire. The adjust ment of the loss made between the in surance companies and the trustees of the school is completed, it Is said, but tho decision to erect the new school probably will await the arrival of Bishop-elect Sumner from Chicago. The former building on St. Clair and Ford streets and Park avenue cost about $75,000. . Possibly a new site will be considered for tbe proposed building. Mr. Doa k Reports Trade. Samuel Doak. real estate dealer, re ports the following exchanges consum mated by him during the week: Ex changed for Ernest Underwood, house and, lots 5 and 6, block 5, Firland Ad dition, at a consideration of $5000, and lot 7, in block 7, Katherine Addition, at a consideration of $800, to A. L. Skldmore, for store Dullding and stock of merchandise at Wllkesboro, Wash ington County, at a consideration of $4600, with mortgage and cash to balance. slderatlon nominal. Sale Made In Rose City Park. Henry A. Hoover has sold a house and lot in Rose City Park, the consid eration being $2500. The property is described as lot 7 in block 125. In Lin coln Park Jacob Bartholma purchased of W. S. Hufford the south half of lot 10 in block 6. the price being $1000. James Clowe took title to a lot in Wil lamette addition from P. A. Marquam. In Tabor Heights Mahala stair pur- for I1Z50 Price sold for an even section of wheat land in I East Burnslde street, is finished and I 0t 14 in block 29, Piedmont, to W. E. jwoerta. mere is a line, new bunga-I will he occupied as a hardware store I Hartel for $1250. low on the orchard property, and all rin a few days. It cost about $3000. tne stocK and implements go with the land in the deal. ine orcnara contains apples, pears and cherries in bearing, and Is located near tne Normal School grounds. Ellcnburg Gets Xew Creamery. C. J. Smith Builds. C. J. Smith is having a story and a half residence built on East Seventieth street, between Multnomah and Hassalo streets, to cost $2500. H. E. McPeel Is the builder. Mrs. M. T. Burdura Is hav ing a $1700 home built on East Glisan Sellwood Lots Move. For $3000, Albert Grosneck last week sold a group of lots located in various blocks of Sellwood Addition to Mary Scharplng. R. J. Kinney and associates also took title through L. Davis to lot 3. in block 49. of Waverleigh Addition, for $3200. M. W. Hepperly has paid Clifford B. , Harris $4500 for property described as lot C, block 1, of Ideal View Addition. A house and lot in Hutchinson addi tion were sold by John E. Ness to Ida Putio for $3300. A quarter block In j Peninsula addition was purchased by I H. T. Massman from R. B. Carey for $600. HelK-hts Lana is oia. Mary E. Norton, took title to lot 9 In Directors of Prominent Life Insurance Agencies Members of Life Underwriter Association of Oregon ELLENSBURG. Wash. Nov. 6. (Special.) Following the consolidation I East Forty-ninth streets. of the Alberta Creamery and th Spring Creek Co-operative Creamery. 1 he Bradner Company, of Seattle, large butter manufacturers and one of the oldest established firms In that line in the Northwest, will open a branch in Ellensburg. The Bradner company had street, between East Forty-second and I Lamargent Heights, the consideration being $2500. r . u. 1 nompson 10m to W. I. Shult two lots in jonesmore, Jion $2800 Home Started. For I. H. Taffe. A. S. Treaey has com menced the erection of a two-story frame residence on Clinton street be tween East Thirty-eight and East Thlr- a branch creamery at North Yakima "'"th ftreets- la Richmond addition also . I The plans, drawn by the firm of building Hawthorne Home Repairs Are On. C. II. Ager is having repairs made to a residence on Hawthorne avenue. 'be tween East Seventy-sixth and East Seventy-seventh streets, at a cost of $825. A one-story frame store on Air berta, between East Sixteenth and East Seventeenth streets, is being re paired by the owner, J. E. Golden, at a cost of $500. Girandview Builders Arc Active. G RANDVIEW, Wash.. Nov. 6. (Spe cial.) Six residences, as many barns and five silos are in the process of Bridges & Webber, call for costing about $2500. Improved Lot Sells for $6300. An improved residence lot on East Fifteenth street between Siskiyou and Klickitat streets, Irvington. has been deeded by Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Rice to Amelia Fait for a stipulated consid eration of $6300. The property is de scribed as lot 7, block 69. Irvington. tavilla. for $900. Barnes Carmack purchased lot 11 in block 38. Belle Crest, of S. J. Holmes for $1000. Thaddeus W. Veness took title to lot 33. block 34, Waverleigh Heights, for $1050. In Lincoln Park G. Gorr purchased two lots from Sheriff Word for $880. Four lots in Eroll Heights were pur chased by the Wilberg-Oppegard In vestment Company from Clarence R. Hill, the consideration being $900. Numerous Sales Told. In Piedmont John E. Price sold to W. E. Hartel lot 14, In block 29, for $1250. Frank Burroughs purchased' lot 11 in block 66. in Sell wood, from P. Sirlanni. for $1200. Two lots In Kairview were sold by W. Ellison to Martha C. Cornutt with the Improvements, for $1000. The Hi bernian Savings Bank transferred to Mr. Huntley Starts Work on Home. W A Hiintlev Is liavin? ft rn-Mtrrtr cottage built on East Thirty-first Josepn in. Anuerson two lots in apitui street horween Allrp nrl T.nne streets I Hill for $900. C. R. Hill purchased four construction in this district with pros- at a cost of $1250. The Rodney-avenue lots in Eroll Heights for $900 from the pects of considerable more building Christian Church is having repairs J. A. Strowbrldge Estate tompanj during the Fall made to the church building at a cost of $900. Hood River Plant Again to Rise. The Stanley-Smith Lumber Company, whose plant at Hood River was de stroyed recently by fire causing a loans of $65,000, has announced that it will rebuild Its planU Xew Residence Is for Sell wood. J. T. McGregor has begun the erec tion of a story-and-a-half residence on East Thirteenth street, between Bid- well and Leo avenue, at a cost of $4500. Mr. McGregor will be his own builder. MacNaughton & Raymond sold to Frank Lanning the west 70 feet of lot 4 In block 116, Stephens' Addition. This property Is located at the corner of East Tenth and East Harrison streets. The consideration is not given, but the property is worth about $2500. J. B. Campbell sold to M. Martinson lot 6 and part of lot 5 in block 203, St. Wm. Goldman, Manager. MANHATTAN Llrt, Oregonlaa Bids. U. Q. Colton, Alanaser, llASSACUUBUXTii MUTUAL X.1JTS. Chamber ot Commerce AAldg. K. I. Hartnoa, Manager, FENN MUTUAL, i-lt ii. Nortaweatern Bank UlUg. Hurmce Mecklem. Manager, NEW GNQLAKU MUTUAL. 1.1 FB, Northwestern Hank ttldg: Manager, Alma 1. Katx. MUTUAL Lli'lS INbUlUNChi CO. OF N. I. Corbett Uldg. G. M. tilocum. Mgr. RELIANCE INS. CO., Pittsburgh, Pi. UUS Morgan JUtldg.. Portland.. Or. a. V Lockwood, Vice-lTea. and Uen. llgr. COLUMBIA LIFE Ac TRUST CO., Spalding Bldg. Fettla-GroBsmayer Co., General Agents. VHM TUAVELKKS' INS. CO. 803-B1O Wilcox Bldg. T. U. McAlua, Manager, UNION MUTUAL LUIS INS. CO, 66T Sherlock Bldg. John Pauer, Manager, PRUDENTIAL INS. CO. OF AMErUCX Hothchild Bldg. E. W. Amesbury, Manager. NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE LNn. CO Northwestern Bank Bldg. Judd Lowrey, Manager, AMERICAN CENTRAL LIKE INS. CO.. 608 Detain Bldg. McCarger, Bates & Lively. Managers. AETNA L1FK INSURANCE CO, tun Bldg. Charles J. Little Agency. Inc. Managers western Oregon. IDAHO STATE LIFE INSURANCE CO.. 6O6-607 Venn Bldg. Pnocc Main 24l. J. "Wm. Johnson. Agency Director, WFSTEHN STATE LIFE INS. CO, 01 Northwestern Bank Bldg. Fhoue Marshall 1U70.