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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, , PORTLAND, JULY 15, 1917.
REALTY BUSINESS
r-1 U C H IMPROVED
Prospects Are Bright for Im
mediate Future and All of
Dealers Are Optimistic.
ABERDEEN TO BE CENTER
Entertainment for "Women Is Being
Arranged, as Well as for Many
Delegates From Portland.
, National Meeting Draws.
Interviews gathered informally among
a number of Portland realty men last
week indicate that the realty situation
is much improved over what it was a
year ago. and that the prospects of the
immediate future are decidedly promis
ing. Paul A. Cowgill. secretary of the
Portland Realty Board, who comes in
touch with the leading Portland real
tors almost daily, reported last week
that he had noticed more optimism
than for a long time.
He pointed to the fact that 10 Port
landers. Frank L. McGuire. F. E. Tay
lor. Dean Vincent. W. J. Patterson, H.
O. Beckwith, .Arthur C. Callen. F. H.
Strong. Paul C. Murphy. Charles L.
wheeler and himself, would be in at
tendance at the convention of the Na
tional Association of Real Estate
Boards, to be held In Milwaukee the
latter part of this month. This inter
est and enthusiasm, he said, reflected
prosperity.
Many to Go to Aberdeen.
Mr. Cowgill also predicted that a bis
crowd will go from Portland to the
Interstate realty convention to be held
at Aberdeen and Hoquiam, on Grays
Harbor, August 9, 10 and 11.
He received word last week that the
ntertainment for the women who go
to the Grays Harbor meeting will con
sist cf an afternoon at the Grays Har
bor Country Club, a musical Thursday
afternoon, an automobile ride and ban
quet on Friday and a trip to the beach
on Saturday.
"I think the situation looks very
much better," said E. J. Daly last
week in discussing the property out
look. "There seems to be a better de
mand for residences than for several
years. This is probably due to the
fact that the labor and material prices
are now sky high. Many, after they
lay plans for a new home, are fright
ened out of the idea of building and
decide that they will look around for
a property to purchase.
Gradual Improvement Seen.
"At the present time I have more
deals on than ever before and every
body I have talked with lately seem
to think things are gradually, but
steadily, getting better. It will undoubt
edly be some little time before the real
ty market is normal again and I neither
hope nor look for a boom, but mat
ters are bound to shape themselves
in a satisfactory manner.
"The great strides that are now be
ing made in the shipbuilding industry
and the steady improvement of the
lumber market are bound to have their
ettect. Do you know of anyone who
cannot find a good job? There is cer
tain to be plenty of lucrative work
for years to come."
"Real estate is picking up and there
is a better feeling than there was a
ime back." remarked V. H. Mall. "I
notice that investors are again taking
up small investments and buying up
equities. Industrial properties, par
ticularly, are looking up, and the fact
that large croups of residences nre
being torn down cannot help but ex
ert its influence on the residence mar
ket. "Portland property is on the up
grade, that's all there is to it. I re
gard the present as a poor time to sell,
but a good time to buy."
Owners Improve Residence.
H. W. Fries, of Wakefield, Fries &
Co., said last week that there was a
better disposition among the owners
in the residence districts . especially
near the industrial centers, to place
residences that have been vacant for
many months in rentable condition. He
expressed the belief that new families
are coming into Portland.
Before leaving for San Francisco re
cently to marry Miss Hazel Allen, of
Oakland, Frank L. McGuire. president
of the Portland Realty Board, said that
he expected to see the realty market
humming again before long. Like Mr.
Daly, he places faith in the shipbuild
ing and lumber industries and the fact
that the Government is turning loose
a tremendous amount of money to
carry on war preparations.
The faith of F. E. Taylor, former
president of the Portland Realty Board,
in Portland real estate was demon
strated conclusively when -he pur
chased a valuable lot on Ella street,
near Washington street, about a week
ago.
SEVERAL SALES CLOSED
FOUR PROPERT1 ES OF METROPOLI
TAN COMPANY TAKE.
Clackamas Farm of 75 Acre Sold for
$12,Mo and Houses and Lots
Also Change Hands,
Four properties belonging to the
Metropolitan Investment & Improve
ment Company, as well as two other
residences were reported last week as
sold through the Fred A. Jacobs Com
pany.
I he residence at 11S8 Maryland ave
nue. North Albina, was sold to Edward
A. Freeman on a valuation basis of
$4650, and a house at East Forty-ninth
street and East Broadway, in Wiberg
Heights, was sold at a like figure.
On a valuation basis of $12,000
75-acre farm in Clackamas County was
trawtferred to Floyd H. Bills. Two lots
in t:ock 14 of Errol Heights were sold
to Mrs. Albina Xormandin for $1S00.
The Laurelhurst home of George E.
Crr. manager of the L. C. Smith Type-
wrifer Company, located at 1132 Senate
street, was sold to H. Jacobson, who
has just returned to Portland after
making his residence in Glenn Ferry
Idaho, for the past 20 years.
A five-room bungalow located at 1600
Rodney avenue, owned formerly by
Mrs. Nellie van Buskirk. was sold to
William McKinley, of the Hammond
Lumber Company, on a valuation basis
of $2100.
All of the sales, with the exception of
the farm deal, were handled by J. P.
Parker lor the Fred A. Jacobs Com
pany. Box Factory Has $8000 Klre. "
ASTORIA. Or.. July 13. (Special.)
A tire which started from overheating
of a drykiln at the Astoria Box Com
pany's plant today destroyed one kiln
with its contents and badly damaged
two othr kilns. The loss will total
from $S0O0 to $10,000.
WHITE SHIELD HOME FOR YOUNG MOTHERS WHO HAVE NOT
TAKEN MARRIAGE VOWS MONUMENT TO LATE E. HENRY WEMME
s 1 .
Public Maternity Hospital, Dedicated Last Thursday, Is Situated Beautifully on Hills North of Portland, With Unobstructed View of Mount Hood,
Roads to Which Were Hobbies of Dead Philanthropist Christian Science' Church Controls Maintenance Fund.
THE White Shield Home for unfor
tunate rf?irls, located about a half
mile beyond the head of Thurman
street in the Willamette Heights dis
trict, was dedicated last Thursday and
formally turned over to the public In
a dedication address delivered by
George . W. Joseph, the acceptance
speech being made by Mayor Baker.
The late K. Henry Wemme left an
estate valued at about $400,000, the
income from which he donated for the
purpose of erecting and- maintaining
the home. The trustees named by Mr.
Wemme were J. J. Cole, Jessie M. Car
son and H.-A. Weis. The will stipu
lated that at the end of three years
the control of the endowment fund
should revert to the Christian Science
Church. This three year period ex
pired some time ago and the home was
last week placed under the management
of the church, but the building itself
was presented to the city, to be used
as a public lying-in hospital for way
ward girls.
The home, which was built from
plans submitted by A. E. Doyle, a Tort
land architect, is beautifully furnished
throughout and has accommodations
for about 25 girls. The surgery is
especially modern. The building, which
stands three stories above the ground,
has an east front and commands a
beautiful view of the city and sur
rounding country.
The White Shield is nestled In among
the trees on an elevation above the
Linnton road and below Hillside drive,
the roadway that leads along the hill
from the head of Thurman. street to
Linnton. The home may be reached by
taking the "W" car to the head of
Thurman street and then walk to the
building. Motorists may drive to the
MEW BLOGK PLANNED
Richard F. Wassell to Erect
Close-In Apartment-House.
CONCRETE WILL BE USED
Cost or Proposed Structure Ap
proximately $150,000 Other
Large Work Reported and
Several Homes Started.
Although no definite announcement
has been made lately, it is known that
Richard F. Wassell, prominent apart
me it-house builder, who left Portland
some months ago to carry out construc
tion work in Walla Walla, Wash., is
back in Portland conferring with con
tractors and with the officials of the
city building bureau relative to the
cost of a five-story reinforced concrete
apartment building that he proposes
to erect on a corner near the heart of
the Portland business district.
Mr. Wassell has built more apart
ment-houses during recent years than
ny other Port lander, including the
Imperial Arms, Tudor Arms, Royal
Arms and Rex Arms structures, all of
which he has sold at good profit fol
lowing construction. The Tudor Arms
and Imperial Arms, the last two built.
Mr. wassell sold to his partners in
those building enterprises. D. B. Mc
Bride and Claude H. Starr, respectively.
The sale of his interest to Mr. Starr
was made only recently.
Each of these buildings cost in the
neighborhood of $125,000. but it is ex
pected that the proposed new apart
ment, to be known as the Republic
Arms. will, if erected, cost nearer $150.
000 than $125,000. The first hint that
Mr. Wasasell was planning to build
new apartment structure was given
some time ago. but the location has
never been announced.
It is said that Mr. Wassell has his
eye on a site that is closer in than
Tenth and Alder streets, and the park
blocks near the Arlington Club are
involved in the guessing that is goinf
the round in local building circles.
Auto Bulldlns; to Rise.
A one-story brick automobile build
ing. to cost $10,000, is being planned
for erection on a full quarter block
at East Third street and Broad
way by Rushlight, Ransom & Penney
Ford agents. The plans are being
handled by C. A. Duke, a Portland
architect, and the lease deal through
J. Fred Staver.
Announcement is expected shortly of
other automobile structures that are to
be erected in Portland, at least one of
which will extend to two stories.
New Theater Nearly- Ready.
After the expenditure of between
$25,000 and $30,000 on remodeling and
interior d-ico rating, the new Liberty
Theater, located on the southwest cor
ner of Stark street and Broadway, will
be thrown open this week as one of
the most elegant motion picture houses
on the entire Pacific Coast. The archi
tectural end of the work has been in
charge of Carl L. Linde, a Portland ar
chitect.
Chorea Decides to Build.
The congregation of the East Side
Baptist Church decided last Sunday to
build their proposed new church build
ing on their quarter block at East
Twentieth and Couch streets. Con
struction work will be started as soon
as the plans are definitely completed
and approved. The present church
located at East Twentieth and Eas
Ankeny- streets. - It is expected that
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head of Thurman street and then fol
low Hillside drive to Mayfair and Alex
andria avenues.
Under the direction of George H. Ot
ten, landscape architect, the natural
shrubs around the White Shield home
have been preserved and the parking
plan arranged to give so far as possible
the effect of private residence grounds.
The site for the home was chosen
on the western hillsides overlooking
Portland and facing Mount Hood as a
about $25,000 will be spent on the new
edifice.
Stable to Cont $35,000.
The local officials of Wells. Fargo
& Co. obtained a building permit last
week for the erection of a stable and
garage building at 265 North Seven
teenth street, in Couch Addition. The
estimated cost of the structure is giv
en as $35,000. The plans iwere drawn
by James H. Humphreys and the con-
ract is in charge of Litherland
Abrey,
Several Monies to Rise.
R. H". Torrey took out a permit last
week for the construction of a $5000
residence at 129S East Flanders street.
n Laurelhurst. the plans being drawn
by H A. Askwlth.
W. Killion has commenced the erec
tion of a $1000 dwelling at 134 Hart-
man street, in Oak Park.
H. W.-Dickinson is building a $3100
residence at 701 East Fifty-ninth
street North, in Rose City Park.
F. E. Bowman & Co. have commenced
the construction of a two-and-a-half-
t'ory residence at 522 Seventeenth
street, in Carter's Addition, that is es
timated to cost about $8000.
REALTORS TO HAVE FUN
GRAYS HARBOR PEOPLES RAISE
fl'S'D FOR EXTERTAIXMEXT.
Speakers From National Realty Asso
ciation Are Expected to Attend
Interstate Convention. '
One of the most Important excursions
ever arranged from Portland, will be
the Inter-State Tiealty Association spe
cial to Grays Harbor. Wash., August
9, 10 and 11. The train -will be made
up of all steel coaches with every
ATTRACTIVE COUNTRY HOME OF
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RESIDENCE RECENTLY COMMENCED AT HILLSDALE, WHICH IS TO COST ABOUT S10.OOO, COMPLETED.
From plans drawn by Kmil Schacht, a Portland architect. J. H. Williams, general contractor, has commenced the
erection of an attractive country residence of Dutch Colonial type at Hillsdale, near Bertha Station, for Mrs.
Emanuel Herrman. The estimated cost of the work has been placed at $10,000. ,
The first floor will contain a large living-room, vestibule, pantries, a kitchen with servants' room adjoining, a
large Gunroom, covered porch and a large piazza on the north end of the house, floored with red tile. t
The sleeping, dressing and bathrooms are located oil the second floor, together with two spacious Bleeding
porches.
The house Is to have hardwood floors throughout, and will be heated by hot water. The interior finish Is to
be of stained fir for the first story and of Port Orford cedar and white enamel on the second story. The living
room is to have an eight-foot fireplace of red pressed brick with bookcases on either side. The house will be
equipped with electric carpet sweepers and with other electrical appliances, including an electric washer, - emer
gency switches, etc
fitting acknowledgment of Mr. Wem
me's philanthrophy. Mr. Wemme en
dowed the toll road leading to Mount
Hood and was the first to dream of
the proposed loop road around the
mountain. He also assisted in obtain
ing the right of way along portions of
the Columbia River Highway. In
memory of his association with Mount
Hood a total of 600 Mount Hood rhodo
dendrons have been planted in the
grounds about White Shield Home.
comfort and convenience for a plea
sant trip.
Interesting and instructive talks will
be heard at the convention on realty
and civic subjects by some of the best
speakers in the Northwest. The Na
tional Realty Association will hold its
convention in Milwaukee, July 24 to
27. and some of their best speakers
will come from there to the inter
state convention.
The convention is not to be all
serious work, as the Grays Harbor peo
ple have raised a large fund to enter
tain the delegates and guest3 are as
sured there will be "something doing
every minute.
About 250 active, associate and af
filiate members of the Portland Realty
Board have signed up for the trip.
Those who have not done so should
communicate with any one of the fol
lowing committee: A. C. Callan, Frank
McCrillis. O. V. Badley, L, W. Cronan
or H. L Idleman.
FARMS BOUGHT. FOR $50,400
Heppner Places Produce Abundant
Crops of Grain.
The J. C. Brown and W. E. Brown
farms, located about four miles north
of Heppner in Blackhorse, have been
sold to J. B. Woodward, of Athena, says
the Heppner Gazette-Times. The con
sideration was J50.400 and all stock
and implements are taken over on the
deal by Mr. Woodward.
This is one among the largest indi
vidual land transactions consummated
in the Heppner section so far this sea
son. The farm is considered to be one
of the very best in the Blackhorse
country. It is one of the oldest places
in the county and has been very successfully-farmed
for many years, pro
ducing abundant crops of grain.
To enable migratory fish to rise
over waterfalls, dams and other ob
structions in streams, a Canadian fish
eries official has invented an automatic
elevator.
DUTCH COLONIAL TYPE PLANNED FOR MRS. EMANUEL HERRMAN
The cost of the White Shield Home,
including the four-acre site, the build
ing and the improvements made upon
the grounds, has been about $80,000.
The maintenance is to come from the
income from the endowment fund and
the girls are to be given hospital
clothes and free treatment during their
stay. Between the hours of 2 and 10
o'clock today the home will be open
to public inspection, but thereafter it
will be closed.
SITES ARE OPTIONED
PLAKT TO I'SK FLAX TO BE ERECT
ED HERE.
J. Sidney Starling of New York, Is at
Head of New Company With,
f 250,000 Capital.
Two locations in Portland have been
optioned, it is understood, as the pos
sible location for the proposed factory
plant that is to be erected by, the Pa
citic coast Linen Mills, which was in
corporated last week with a capital
stock: or 5250.000.
J. Sidney Starling, president and gen
eral manager of a flax company in
New York, is the organizer and prin
cipal officer of the new Oregon com
pany, which has contracted for flax
now being grown in the vicinity
Salem, Turner and Gaston.
Mr. Starling refused last week to
state what Portland properties he has
under consideration for the factory
cation, but he did predict that the.plan
would De under operation during th
coming winter, with a daily output
between 5000 and 6000 yards of linen
crash and toweling.
The company will manufacture both
flax and hemp products, but will spe
ciauze on tne iormer.
Two Parker Farms Bring $19,550
Two real estate transactions were
put through in the Parker district last
week. Involving the transfer of 18
acres of farm land, when the Emanue
King and Fred Loy places were sold,
announces the Dallas Observer. Mr,
Vieth, an Idaho farmer, was the pur
chaser of the 91 acres in the King farm
at a price of $9900. and the Loy place
brought $9650, or $100 per acre, from
Sussman & Pol sky, of Portland. Both
of the farms are well improved and
numbered among the best in that part
of the country.
BETTER INDUSTRIAL
STATUS AIDS REALTY
Owners See Better Days
Ahead and Display Re- .
newed Confidence.
MARKET PRICES STIFFEN
Concessions Xo Ixmger so Freely
Granted as Hitherto Real Ks-
tate Likely to Be Active This
Fall and Lively Next Spring.
BY HENRY E. REED.
Assessor of Multnomah County.
Improved industrial conditions in
Portland are beginning to have their
ffect on real estate. Owners of prop
erty are more cheerful than they have
een for three or four years past; they
see better days aneaa ana navo n-
ewed their confidence in the future of
the city.
Market prices are showing a ten-
ency to stiffen and concessions are not
granted so freely now as in the recent
past. Passing events foreshadow a
tronger situation and some activity
n the Fall, with good prospects for a
larger volume of business in th,e Spring
of 1918.
At the rate at which "Portland Is
growing and prospering now and mak-
r.g allowance for the better tone
hich prevails in nearly all lines of
business and among all classei of peo-
real estate cannot much longer De
denied its rights.
Portlands Foundation ! Solid.
Portland stands UDOn a surer foun
dation today than at any time in its 75
years of history. It has more to back
t up and more to look forward to tnan
ever before, our prosperity is suo-
stantial and the things that will grow
out of it are more real than the out
growths of any past forward move
ments.
To support this statement it is not
necessary to go farther back than the
period following the Lewis and Clark
Exposition, when we had the best times
we had known up to then. New rail
road work caused the expenditure of
large sums of money and it was accom
panied by a sudden influx of popula
tion, a considerable decree of land
speculation and a building boom.
In the natural order of things such
conditions were destined to come to an
end. and they did. The depression took
hold in earnest in January, 1914. Its
effects and the recovery from them are
too recent to require reference here.
Portland's new prosperity is founded
upon smokestacks and payrolls, tne
sure structure of any commercial city.
It has every aspect of permanence.
with potential power of expansion over
a very wide range of endeavor. It is
many times more stable and desirable
than the prosperity prising merely
from large outlays for railroad con
struction or any other work of transi
tory character.
Persons who have not kept pace with
recent developments in the city will
be surprised to be told that there are
more men and women employed in
manufactures in Portland today than
at any other time in the history of the
town and that they are paid Detter
money wages than ever before.
Shipbuilding In Great Asset.
The art of shipbuilding, which had
been all but forgotten in Portland, has
come to be an Important industry. At
this time nearly 11.000 persons are di
rectly or indirectly dependent upon
this source for their daily employment.
This number will be increased to close
to 20.000 before the year 1917 runs out.
The Northwest and Columbia plants,
in South Portland, will be working
7000 men when they are going right.
When we use figures like these we be
gin to think of the big iron and cot
ton mills in the industrial hives of the
East.
Shipbuilding has within it elements
of hope and strength for the commun
ity more farreaching than the mere
construction of vessels and present em
ployment of labor thereon. In course
of time, perhaps well into the future.
however, the world will have all the
ships it will need and building will
slow down. But by that time new in
dustries will grow out of shipbuilding
and our manufacturing force and capi
tal will increase rather than decrease.
Then again the shipbuilding era has
revived Portland's ancient maritime
spirit, which, above all things that we
possess, needed a dip in the fountain
of youth. Portland needs shipping to
broaden the market for the products
which it handles. It will have to
build the ships with its own money
and operate them. This it will do.
Shipbuilding has opened a lead Into
this important line of enterprise.
Latent Industries Await Vs.
I know of a number of industrial
projects in the making that mean much
to the city. They cannot be mentioned
now, as they are not ripe. They are
going to be worked out successfully
and Portland will be the gainer.
Portland is a whole lot better,
stronger and more confident town than
it was a year ago or even six months
ago. Its response to the liberty bond
call and its achievement for the Red
Cross showed the stern stuff of which
the town is made. It brought out the
Portland of old. ready, willing and
able to start anything it puts its mind
to and finish what it starts.
It is not practicable to review all
that is happening hereabouts in the
course of a short article, but briefly
it may be said that the lumber indu
try is back on Its feet and the prices
of the product are the best that have
been realized since the San Francisco
fire of 1906.
There is only one weak spot In our
structure and that is in respect to re
tail trade. This line has had some un
favorable factors to contend with since
about February, but appears to be get
Una: its stride, with a good outlook f
Fall. With so much business all around
them, it would seem that the retailers
-will not have to vatt long for their
turn.
Portland I on Up Grade.
To sum up: Portland is on the up
grade and. together with the rest
the state, ought to gain steadily in
population from now on. Readjustmen
of business premises caused by the
closing of saloon locations when pro
hibition came in has about run its
course. With the people generally
employed in profitable ways and the
nonulation Increasing, the city s stock
of idle houses and living quarters ought
to be reduced to the minimum by nex
Spring.
I have talked with well-informed
people who believe that there will not
be any idle houses in Portland eight
or nine months from now. As demand
for real estate and real estate values
are based upon the growth and pros
perity of the community, there cannot
be any argument on the future of
Portland realty; it is good.
Portland real estate has never had
so much substance behind it or in front
of it as it has today. And it Is not .
going to get any cheaper.
LAl'RELH VRST LOTS ARE SOLD V
Four Tracts Included in AVcek'S
Sale of Close-in Properts-.
The following realty sales involving
the transfer of property in the Laurel
hurst district were reported last week:
Mable C. Flanders sold to Dr. R. K.
Watkins a .corner lot in Laurelhurst,
at East Thirty-ninth and Pine streets,
a nominal consideration being vqowq.
Joe Sandvall sold a six-room bunga
low located in Laurelhurst. at 1200
East Burnslde street, to H. fti. Turney
for $4000.
The Laurelhurst Company sold to
Edgar Oilley a 75xl00-foot site in Lau
relhurst, on East Burnside street, near
Laurelhurst avenue, for $3375.
W. C. Kuehner sold to Everett A.
Johnson a lot in Laurelhurst, on East
Ankeny street, near Laurelhurst ave
nue. & nominal consideration being
shown.
H. U. Pittock sold to Everett A. John
son a lot in Laurelhurst, on East An
keny street, near Laurelhurst avenue.
nominal consideration being shown.
UNIFORM COURSE ASKED
REAL ESTATE INSTRl-CTION IS NOW
NATIONAL ENDEAVOR.
Lack: of Co-ordination Betfreen Agen
cies of the Country Hereto
fore Muck Felt.
The announcement that the National
Association of Real Estate Boards will
sponsor a uniform course of real estate
instruction constitutes a timely mile
stone between the old order and. the
new in the field' of real estate endeavor.
For several years educational agen
cies in various parts of the country
have been offering courses in "real
estate." Despite the lack of co-ordination
between these agencies and the
lack of precedent in fo-mulating their
methods of instruction, popular demand
for authentic and systematized infor
mation on the more important phases
of real estate operation has enabled
them to successfully accomplish their
mission, in most cases.
Now comes the National Association
f Real Estate Boards with a uniform
ourse of instruction. The movement
has assumed an importance proportion
ate to the vital economic benefits to bo
secured. The National Association pro
poses, in substance, to produce a text
adapted to the requirements of modern
real estate practice. To adapt the text
by the use of master sheets and. sub-
tituted chapters, to conditions as they
exist in various parts of the country.
preserving in each case only the sound
economic basis and fundamental form
of the National text. To present this
ext. together with a complete and
thoroughly tested plan of instruction,
to the various educational agencies
which are qualified to preserve the
high academic standard of practical
instruction which the National Asso
ciation hopes to maintain.
It is reported' that a text has already
been prepared which is in the process
of revision for actual use: and that
many colleges and universities through
out the country, through their exten
sion divisions and schools of com
merce, have hailed the production of
this course with enthusiasm and have
pledged their aid in Its successful de
velopment. The plan of Instruction will enable
the National Association to standardize
and improve real estate methods
throughout the country; to raise eth
ical and professional standards and in
crease the sphere of economic useful
ness of the real estate broker; to make
scientific investigation of the laws-
of real estate development: to promul
gate among the real estate fraternity
and its clients the evolution of real
estate practice which has accomplished
the progress of modern commercial
and industrial expansion, and to se
cure the assistance and co-ordinate the
experiences of the leading authorities
throughout the country on the various
phases of real estate development and
operation.
$35,000 Farm Deal Reported.
One of the biggest land deals to take
place in Douglas County was closed
when Orvil Martin transferred his fine
big ranch at Days Creek, consisting 'of
700 acres. 350 of which is river bottom
land, to W. C. Pickens and J. O. Metz,
receiving in part payment the home of
Mr. Pickens on South Stephens street
and that of Mr. Metz located on North
Stephens street, reports the Roseburg
News. The exact amount involved in
the deal has not been made public, but
t is said to be in the neighborhood of
$35,000.
Indian Lands Sell at Pendleton.
PENDLETON. Or.. July 14. (Special.)
-Two tracts of Indian wheat land
sold here this week brought good
prices. Bruno Weber bought 160 acres
adjoining his ranch on the south res
ervation for sii,120. The owner was
the mother of Michel Wilson. The
other piece, SO acres, was bought by
Tom Thompson from the Ealonni heirs
for $10,480. It also is located on the
south reservation.
Directory of Prominent
Life insurance Agencies
Members of Life Underwriters'
Association of Oregon
Wm. Onldznan, General Manager.
NATIONAL LIFE OF VKKilO.NT.
Oregoniaa Uldff.
H. G. Colton. Manager,
MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFB.
Chamber of Commerce Blds-
E. L. Harmon. Manager,
PENN MUTUAL. LIFE.
.Northwestern Hank Bldg.
H race Mecklem. Manager.
NEW ENGLANU MUTUAL L.LFB.
Northwestern Bank iSldg.
Pettls-Groesmayer Co.. General Areata,
IHAVSUilUi INSURANCE UOHrAJI,
303-S10 Wilcox Bids.
E. W. Ameabary, Manager.
NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL. LIFE INS. OO,
Northwestern bank Bldf.
Judd Lowrey, Supt..
AMERICAN CENIU'-L LIFE INS. CO..
7XU Oekuia .:dF.
John Pauer. Superintendent.
THE PKUDENTI7AL 1NSUKANCB OO
601 Northwestern Bank Bidg.
T. H. McAllls. State MKT.,
UNION MUTUAL LIFE INti. COl
Board of Trade Bidg.
Elgar W. Smith. Manager.
EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE BOCIETT,
S06 Oregouiun Bids.
State Members
Portland Realty Board
The following real estate men are
the accredited members In their re
spective cities of the Portland
Realty Board. None of these sought
membership, but were selected after
a canvass of the available men in
their line. If you have a real estate
transaction In any of these cities or
wish information, write them:
Astoria Astoria Harbor Imp. Co. j
Bend J. A. Estea, T
BoKburg-W. A. Bo gar d.