10 TIIE SUNDAY OREGONIAN", PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 2, 1917. VACANCIES AT Retail District Gains Prove Satisfactory to Portland Business Trend. ELLISON BUY IMPORTANT Chautauqua Man's Purchase Only : Another Evidence of Popularity of Realty Here Residences in Brisk Demand. The best pews that has been fur nished Portland property owners and realty agents for a long time was pro vided last week when the report of the Portland Association for Building Own ers and Managers, summarized in yes terday's Oregor.ian. showed that store vacancies in the retail district are now much rarer than they were In May. 1916. In fact the gains made in the retail district between i'lrst and Eleventh streets and between Taylor. Yamhill and Pine streets are remarkable. The surveys, made on the basis of feet frontage, for the entire retail dis trict of the West Side, show an im provement of 3S.3 per cent. The dis trict Includes 52 city blocks, embracing 4.1.100 total frontage. All of the vacan cies on August 15 totaled but 2259 feet, as compared with 3663 feet in May, 1916. The north and south streets show an improvement of 41 per cent, and the east and west streets a gain of 32 per cent. The largest purchase of the week in volved the sale of a strip of land 52 by 104 feet in area extending through from Washington street to Alder street and between Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets. This property was sold by Mrs. Cora Puffer to J. R. Ellison, president of the Klllson - White Chautauqua bureau, which has offices in Portland and in Boise, Idaho. Exact Price Kept Secret. The exact price paid for the property has not been made public, but it is known that the holding is assessed at $32,000, and the presumption is that the selling consideration was in excess of that figure. The deal was handled through O. V. Badley. With the excep tion of about $10,000 worth of property the consideration is said to have been cash. The property is covered with a build ing that has two stories of frontage on the Washington street side and one story on the Alder street side. The en tire upper floor is occupied by the Acme Auto Company, while the lower floor on the Washington street side is divid ed Into three stores Nos. 528, 52S and 530. Mr. Ellison's work takes him over all parts of the country, and the fact that he has seen fit to make a substantial Investment in Portland property is in terpreted as a good omen by local realtors. Mr. Ellison recently pur chased the O. W. Taylor residence property in Laurelhurst. A residence deal that has been under negotiations for some time was cloned last week when T. H. Comerford, sec retary of the Portland Machinery Com pany, purchased from Mrs. Ella Apple Kate an attractive nine-room home lo cated at 500 East Twenty-fourth street North, near Brazee street, in Irvington. The consideration is understood to have been about $7000. George Watt, president of the Brighton Mills Company. Brighton, Or., has pur phased the 12-room house and quarter block situated at No. 775 Wasco street t the northeast corner of East Twenty lourth street. RcmodHns Is Planned. Mr. Watt Intends to remodel the house and grounds and will make it his luture home. The sale -was handled through T. Hartt Gardner, of Dove & Gardner, and the consideration is understood to have been $6500. : E. and C. Lovegren last week traded the two-story frame apartment build ing of 16 rooms located on Mailory ave nue, near Union avenue, together with 160 acres of land in Lake County, to T. "W. Spark for a fine five-acre tract situated along the Mount Scott carline at Firland station. The properties on each side of the trade are said to be worth approximately $10,000. One of the largest farm deals report ed last week was closed through the office of Ayres & Englehart Company, Portland realtors. A wheat ranch of 814 acres located four- miles east of the town of Klondike, in Sherman County, was traded by Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Sutherland and V. M. Kinsel to Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Warren, of Hillsboro, who gave the ranch owners title to p. 12 ncre and a 15-acre well-improved tract near Hillsboro as $17,000 of the consid eration. The balance was satisfied by cash and mortgages. The wheat ranch Was placed In the transaction at a valuation of $30,000, Including the equipment. Permit Issued for a 920,000 Garage.! L. G. Clarke obtained a building per mit last week for the construction of the two-story garage building planned for erection on his property at Twelfth and Stark streets and which is estimat ed to cost about $20,000. The plans were drawn by Houghtaling & Dougan, and the contract is in the hands of Oscar R. Wayman. Pioneer Cafe to Have New Building;. F. B. Turner, who has charge of the general contract for the construction of the one-story building to be built for the Wllhelm estate on the site of House's restaurant, one of the pioneer eating houses of Portland, has let sub contracts on the brick and masonry work to John Girder and on the elec trie work to the Scott Electric Com pany. The building Is to be 50 by 100 feet in dimensions. Goodrich & Good rich are the architects. aiany Industrial Buildings Under Way. The Foundation Company took out building permits last week for the construction of ten 350-foot shipways, to cost $24,000; of a two-story sawshed and mold loft, to cost $7000, and a one story storeroom to cost $1000. The work Is to be done on the company's property on Nicolai street, between Harbor and Sherlock. The O.-W. R. & N. Company obtained official permission to alter a black smith shop, foundry, two storehouses and to er.ct a one-story shop on its property at the foot of Russell street, the total work to cost slightly more than $10,000. .. The Grant Smith-Porter-Guthrie Com pany took out a permit for the erection of a $2000 joiner shop and a $2000 ma chine shop at Chicago and Albany streets, in James Johns' addition. The loggers' Machinery Company obtained a permit for building -a one-story shop on North Eighteenth, between Sherlock and Front streets, to cost $u000. 910,000 Sale Reported. The T. J. Gore farm of .30 acres a short distance north of town was sold yesterday by Hon. M. A. Miller, who has owned it for a few months, to Jacob and Roy F. Fits water, says the STORE NOW PR Lebanon Express. Roy takes the part east of the old road and north of the ditch, and his father takes the re mainder. The consideration was not given out, but we understand It was about $10,000. all cash. REALTY BOARD TO CONVENE Friday Is Set for First Meeting Since Regular Summer Recess. The first meeting of the Portland Realty Board since the commencement of the regular Summer recess at the end of June will be held in the crystal dining-room of the Hotel Benson next Friday, starting at 12:15 o'clock. The coming meeting will be given over to the .reading of reports on the convention of the National Association of Real Estate Boards held in Milwau kee. Wis., in July. Formal reports will be rendered by Frank L. McGuire. pres ident of the Portland Realty Board: Paul A. Cowgill, secretary of the Port land Realty Board, and informal re ports will be given by several 'other Portlanders who attended the recent convention in unofficial capacity. $15,000 IS PAID FOR RANCH Sargeant Place In Roruc River Val ley Changes Hands. Oscar Sullivan, of Fresno, Cal., has purchased through A. N. Parsons the Sargeant ranch, on Williams creek, from R. P. Brooks, the deal including the crop, stock and personal property, announces the Rogue Rive- Courier. This is an irrigated ranch and one of j ATTRACTIVE LAURELHURST is- ' 5 7 l-ncf 1 " r-rJcor .Xew Mnc-Kuum Honse i Somhvresr Corner ot East r-orty-rirat and Kant Flanders Streets. Which Wu Sold lnt Week by 1). J. Mabouey to It. J. Cherry, of Boise, Idaho. the best in the Williams' district. Mr. Brooks has had the ranch only about a year, and Is forced to give up ranch life because of the poor health of Mrs. Brooks. Mr. Sullivan, who was formerly in the hotel business, left Fresno in his automobile 10 weeks ago, toured all through California, Nevada, Eastern, Central and Southern Oregon, and se lected this property as the choice of all he had seen. The consideration is understood to have been about $15,000. DEMAND FOR RESIDENCES BIG Replies to Newspaper Advertise ments Increase ' Heavily. Frank L. .McGuire, president of the Portland Realty Board, who is particu larly active in the sale of residence Property," reported last week that-there was considerable demand tor residences at the present time .among homeseek ers who are contemplating establish ing, permanent residence in Portland. Mr. McGuire says that replies to newspaper advertisements ' are aboui three times as numerous as they were last year. The outlook for the Fall realty market is bright, he believes. Through G C. Goldenberg, manager of the house sales department, Mr. McGuire's.office has closed the follow ing recent sales: A five-room residence located at 4116 Sixty-sixth street, sold to Joseph Brogen, who will occupy it himself. An eight-room residence located on lots 1 and 2, in block 9, Dunn's Addi tion, which Frank Jue purchased as an' investment. A residence located at 902 Cast Fif teenth street. North, along the Irving ton carline, sold to Texie Butler. Two lots in block 7, of Marchmont Addition, together with a six-room res idence which the purchaser, K. H. Struck, expects to occupy. A residence and garage at 3804 Sixty- sixth street. Southeast, which G. E. Falls bought for a home. Sold to Emily R. Dorney, lot 18, In block 31, Irvington, for J1S00. To Mrs. Agnes Beebe, lot lo. In block Terrace Park, for 400. More than 2,000,000 European wom en have been forced to take up men's work since the war started. CLACKAMAS COUNTY METROPOLIS NOW BOASTS OF COMPLETELY EQUIPPED MOTOR CAR PLANT. NEV GARAGE OF MILLER COST OF BUILDING IS NOW EXCESSIVE Homes May Be Bought at Prices Much Cheaper Than. " They Can Be Built. " LABOR AND MATERIAL RISE '. E. Bowman, Ten Years Active Suilder in Portland, Advises Teople Who Want Homes to "Buy Without Delay. Residents of Portland who contem plate, the purchase of a new home in the near future are advised by those in close touch with the present status of the building market to "make hay while the sun shines." Architects and builders declare that RESIDENCE IS REPORTED CONSIDERATION OF $6500. i8-3 ' ;h:. i it; - K-m the residence which cost the owner (4000 a year ago would now entail the expenditure of about $7000, if it were to be duplicated. These same authorities express the opinion that the house which cost $15,000 several years ago would cost nearly $25,000, if It were duplicated today. The reason is given in the greatly increased cost of . mate rials and the fact that labor Is much dearer today than It was a year ago. Lumber More Than Doubles. "Let's take lumber, for instance," said F. E. Bowman, one of the promi nent ' builders of high-class residences and apartments. "Lumber known as 'No. 1 common,' which sold a year ago at $9 a thousand, now sells for from $20 to $25 a thousand, depending upon the quality. Labor Is approximately 33 .1-3 per cent higher for carpenter work, and it is hard to get even at that price. A year ago we paid car penters $3.50 a day. Now the ruling wage at the American Lake cantonment is $5 a' day. ' "Furthermore, the. cost of plumbing materials, of wiring, of paint and paint machinery, of sheet metal work, of glass and many other necessary mate rials has doubled. The cost of mill work has increased about 50 per cent, and so it goes. , Residence Building Stops. "Plaster sold a year ago 'for $8 a ton; today it tarings $14 a ton. Cement is already 10 cents a-barrel higher than it was, and there is a good chance for a material rise In the immediate future. "As a result of the present prices there will be hardly any residence con struction until the people get accus tomed to the new prices or until the prices come down. Personally," t be lieve it will be a long, long time before prices drop. "Meanwhile the houses that are now on the market offer good buys at the old scale of prices. I figure that a man today can buy a completed house and its lot much cheaper than if some one gave him a lot with the provision that he build a house on it. Because of this situation, no one need hesitate about buying a residence at the pre vailing prices. Higher Rentals Predicted. "As soon as the general public awakes to the fact that It costs so much more PARKER COMPANY AT NINTH ANI to build today than it did last year, prices will be increased gradually and with 'them I predict that rents will go up correspondingly." Mr. Bowman has for the past 10 years built on the average of one residence a month in Portland and has also erected a total of 14 apartment houses. As a result, he is thoroughly familiar with the market. With the exception of one or two buildings that are now nearing 'completion, he is not" carrying on any building work at the present time. Those brokers dealing especially in residence rentals report that there are now virtually no desirable residences for rent in Portland and that the apart ment buildings aro also well filled. More Residence Will Be Needed. In. the final adjustment more resi dences will have to be built, because new people are coming Into the com-' munity every week, and, as an addi-1 tional factor, many residences, some of them more or less desirable,' are being torn down each month to make way for the industrial expansion of Portland. Ultimately these newcomers will be obliged to build'in order to get suit able places to live in. Just at present many who could af ford to erect fine homes, even at the present cost of construction, are rather cautious. As a rule the men of this class are busy : turning their capital over into increased profits and are quite too busily engaged in the prac tice of making money to think of building, operators say. The day is soon coining, however, when their thoughts will turn toward plans for a new home, and then, students of the SOLD TO IDAHO MAN AT tfifMuifrir nihil situation predict, there will be a rapid change in the prevailing attitude. TWO HOMES ABE SOLD IDAHO FARMER BUYS HOUSE IN , LAl'RELHCRST. R. J. Cherry, of Boise, Pays S650O for Klne-Room Residence Rex Perkins Sells House to O. W. Taylor. Paul C. Murphy, sales agent for Laurelhurst, reports the following sales made in. Laurelhurst during last week D. J. Mahony sold to .R. J. Cherry a nine-room colonial house on the south west corner of East Forty-first and Flanders streets, for $6500.' Mr. Cherry is a wealthy farmer from Boise. Idaho, who has selected .Portland as his fu ture home. Rex Perkins sold to O. 'W.. Taylor an eight-room residence on East Irving street, at Mirimar Place, for $6000. SUGAR COMPANY BUYS LAND $25,000 Paid for 255 Acres Near Central Point. . The Utah-Idaho Sugar Company Is in the market for 1500 acres of Rogue River "Valley land and last week made its first purchase of 255 acres of irrl gated land near Central Point, says the Grants Pass Observer. For this they have paid $25,000. There are five acres of orchard on this land and 250 acres of sugar beet land. It lies both sides of tne southern racmc Kauroad and on the Pacific Highway. There is some profit in beet .raising when $100 an acre can be paid for the land. Mrs. F. L. TouVelle has also invested in beet land in the same vicinity. She purchased what has been known as the Palmer and Paxton land, 185 acres, for $35,000. The former purchase is known as the DeBarr tract. MAIN STREETS, OREGON CITY. GARAGE IS MODERN Oregon City Firm Has -New Supply Station. BUILDING JUST FINISHED Structure of Miller Parker Com pany Is Located at Ninth and Main Streets and Is of Ap ' proved Mill Construction. OREGON CITY, Or.. Sept. 1. (Spe cial.) With the completion of the Miller Parker Company's garage, work on which has been rushed by the Ore gon Engineering & Construction Com pany. Oregon City may boast of one of the most completely equipped and mod ern automobile supply stations in the Willamette Valley. The new building Is situated at the corner of Ninth and Main streets and is of approved mill construction. Entrance to the main floor of the garage is provided for by two large driveways, wide enough t-o allow two machines to pass, and while one of the entrances is on Main street, the route of the Pacific Highway through Ore gon City ,the exit is on Ninth street, thus eliminating danger from passing streetcars and motor traffic. On the main floor of the building the display room for the five different makes of automobiles handled by this company the Overland. Willys-Knight, Dodge, Oldsmobiie and Cadillac, is lo cated. Three .ldes of this display room are of plate glass, two of them being on Ninth and on Main streets. Offices on Ground Floor. There are three ofiices on the ground floor, in addition to the shoowroom and salesroom. The . office of the garage service department, the private office or the management and the office of the salesroom are centrally located, ad jacent to the electric fixture display darkroom, the only one of its Kind in the city. This room is located In the center of the building and has pro vision for the display of about 50 or 5 electroliers. The greatest effort of the garage will be to cater to the tourist trade, says Ralph Parker. To properly take care of the scores of tourists who pass through Oregon City over the Pacific Highway, shower baths, dressing and lounglng-rooms. smoking-rooms and elephone booths are being installed. A restroom for women has been pro- ided on the mezzanine floor, with a padded window seat, Turkish rugs and arge mirrors, especially planned for the benefit of tourists. The shower baths and lockers to be installed in the basement are also in tended for the use of athletic teams visiting the city or playing In city games. Repair Shop on Second Floor, . Another feature of the new garage, which is an innovation in garage serv ice here, is the General Electric auto matic air pump, which will maintain an air pressure ranging from 150 t 200 pounds, day and night. A battery of five oil pumps, as well as a gasoline pump, are arranged in piain view along the driveway through the garage. The second floor is given over to the repair shop, the painting-room and the storage space. The painting-room is iion-ieu 'iu ii iu sides of the room is window space. An inclined driveway on the outside .f the building provides an entrance to the repair shop on the second floor. This the management believes is much more satisfactory than an elevator in side and requires no floor space in the building. About eight men are employed in the garage during the season when the average amount of travel is on. Besides the ordinary garage service, the Miller Parker Company will furnish storage battery charging service for all kinds of batteries. To provide for this a mo tor generator is being installed in the machine shop on the second floor. The new garage, which is 80x120 feet, is made with reinforced concrete walls, with mill construction inside. LAND NEAR WESTON BOUGHT Iley Winn Pays $100,00 0 for Large Mose Taylor Ranch. Iley Winn has taken another large tract of land the Mose Taylor place. northwest of town, which he bought from Mr. Taylor, for around $100,000. reports the Weston Leader. This place is at present being farmed under leas by Marlon HanselL Mr. Winn is now the largest holder of land in the Wes ton district, his possessions comprising the Taylor place, 600 acres; the Mead owbrook Farm, 637 acres, and his Iry creek ranch. 240 acres, a total of 151:; acres of choice Weston ground. Hu also owns a section and a half of lighter land in the Juniper district. Iley Winn grew up on a farm, and his success has been due to knowledge and love of the soil and to his confi dence In Umatilla County. He is now 47, and began farming 'on his own" at the age of 21. Farm Sal Reported. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Knappenberg, of lone, completed negotiations for the purchase of the Parkers Mill property from Mrs. A. L. Ayers, reports the Heppner Herald. This property consists of around 1000 acres of fine hay and range land, a considerable amount of timber, sawmill, etc., and will be made headquarters for Mr. Knappenburg's cattle business. The property is a very desirable one from the stockman's viewpoint. At the same time Mr. Knap penburg closed a deal with W. R. Irwin for the purchase of his residence prop erty on Chase street. 14 7-Acre Farm Sold at Good Price. Mayor A. M. Pryor sold his fine 147 acre farm one mile north of Harrlsburg this week to William Bronson, of Polk County, the consideration being around $100 per acre. The place is well im proved and equipped with all necessary buildings. Harrlsburg Bulletin. t Benson Alumni Picnic. The Benson Polytechnic Alumni held its annual picnic at Lake Grove last Sunday. About 90 members were on hand and the day was enjoyed by everyone.. Boating, swimming and the playing of various games made the day one long to be remembered. NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. OF VT. Wm. Goldman, General Manager. 209-210 Oregonian Bldg. LIFE INSURANCE IS FACTOR IN CULTIVATING HABITS OF THRIFT Rapid Gain in Number of Policyholders Indicates Tendency of People.'. Total Premiums Paid Staggering. BY LIP'E INSURANCE EDITOR. JvtiJi i. KOCKEr liLLBK, naving spent $20,000 for a model ice plant, has decided to cease competing with local Ice men at his home, Po cantico Hills, near Tarrytown. N. Y. It is said that the increased cost of gasoline hastened the money king's decision. When a slight advance in the cost of gasoline causes a multi-millionaire to abandon a. refrigerator plant erect ed at the cost of $20,000. it behooves the average man to question himself as to his own particular habits of thrift. Statisticians lell us that America is the wealthiest of nations and at the same time the least thrirty. There are two barometers of thrift savings banks and life insurance companies. Savlnffs Banks aln. According to all reports, the savings banks are fairly well satisfied with the business they are doing, and the life insurance companies are doing more business than ever before in the history of the country. Probably life insurance indicates most accurately just where we, as a people, stand in the- matter of thrift. While the assets of the life insurance companies have assumed a staggering total, less than ? per cent of the actual money value of our productive lives has been covered by life insurance. while our burnable property is covered by fire insurance to the extent of ap proximately SO per cent. What have the thrifty people of the United States accomplished during the RATE IS CRITICIZED Discrimination Against Side walk Elevators Charged. LITTLE WATER IS USED Regulations Requiring Automatic Devices to Prevent Speed and Sudden Stops Urged by Build ing Owners Association. PORTLAND, Or., Sept. 1. (To the Editor.) As. there are 165 sidewalk elevators in use in the city of Port land, the owners of the properties may be interested in knowing a little more In detail of the difference in point of view of the Portland Association of Building Owners and Managers ana the City Council on this subject. The latter denied the petition of the Asso ciation lor a reduction In the minimum rate charged for water used by these elevators. Although the matter was a small one, involving perhaps not more than $30 a month either to the city or to the property owners interested, there was a real nrinciule involved. In disposing r the netitlon as it did. tne cicy maae no effort to protect itself against the damage which it says arises from the use of sidewalk elevators. The minimum rate for all metered water services is 50 cents a month throughout the city, with one excep tion. This Is for sidewalk elevators. the waterpower for which is furnished from the city system. A minimum of $3 a month is charged. Approximately 10 per cent or perhaps 20 in all of the users of sidewalk elevators do not need $3 worth of water a month and therefore pay more for the service than they actually receive in water used. The discrimination against the users of sidewalk elevators was ordered sev eral years ago by the Water Board on the ground that the sudden stopping of elevators tended to produce what Is known as a "water hammer." If sev eral elevators are stopped suddenly at the same time, a break in the water main may follow, it is said. The belief was that the penalty of $3 a month on the sidewalk elevators would tend to a correction of the trouble. The prop erty owners who use their sidewalk elevators very little during the month, do not believe they should be required to pay $3 for a service which other people are getting for 60 cents, and en deavored to bring an end to the dis crimination. It was clearly pointed out to John M. Mann, Commissioner of Public Utilities, that the remedy for the situation was a requirement for the use of such safe guards as would prevent the sudden stopping of elevators with the conse quent "water hammer." The real pre ventive lies in not allowing the side walk elevators to exceed a certain rate of speed. Speed is not an essential of sidewalk elevator service. Barety an capacity are. If the elevators are equipped wltn the proper automatic devices, and the service pipe cut down to Ihi inches, which is sufficient in practically every case, the speed will be limited, and there will be no "water hammer" at any time. This is the remedy that should be applied by the city and not the foolish discrimination in rate. Onlv 10 per cent of the elevator users are affected and they are the smallesc users of elevators in the city. The other 150 owners of elevators, who are prin cipally responsible for "water hammer" are not affected in the least, nor are the city's mains protected in any way. It is also Interesting to note that of 155 cities in the United States owning their own water plants, not one, out side of Portland, sees fit to impose a similar penalty, nor attempt to pro vide such a futile safeguard. It Is further shown that the only economi cal power for a basement elevotor Is the water service. JAMES J. SATER, Secretary Portland Association Bulld ' lng Owners and Managers. GRAYS HARBOR LAND VALUED Total Is Placed at $48,000,000 by County Assessor. ABERDEEN. Wash., Sept. 1. (Spe cial.) Grays Harbor real estate has an aggregate value of more than $48,000. 000 according to figures compiled by THE HIGH COST OF LIVING The rising prices of everything your familv eats, wears and uses mean that vour life insurance purchased a few years ago. or even last year, will buy less of the necessities than at the date of purchase. The dollar of last year means onlv 80c at present prices, thac " of 1910 only 75c, that of 1904 only 52c. This demonstrates the need of more life insurance protection for every fam ily. .National Life, insurance has not increased in cost, but through larger dividends has actually decreased and gves a bigger dollar's value than ever before. past year by means of life Insurance! The statistics of the life insurance busi ness transacted during the year li15 show the amount outstanding increased by $909,000,000 ordinary and $256,000.--000 industrial, so that the total busi ness now on the books of the compa nies is $18,337,491,233 ordinary and $4. 388,050.222 industrial, making a grand total of life Insurance protection to the extent pt $22,725,541,457. Assets of CompanirsIncrease. The assets of the various companies were increased over the preceding ypa by the sum of $246,000,000. The total assets of the various companies now reaches $5,186,591,533. We also find in the surplus account, including capital stock and amounts set aside for future distribution in the nature of premium refunds. $661,859,072. Last year the thrifty people of Amer ica. paid premiums to the sum of $782. 705.944. These premiums, together with interest and other receipts, brought the total income of the companies up to $1,040,629,940. Policyholders and bene ficiaries were paid a total of more than $10,000,000 weekly, or during the year the companies paid out on maturing claims $544.14S,776. Forty-five per cent of this amount was for death claims. One striking comparison of the statis tics is to the effect that after these payments were made and after a'l other expenses were provided for. the compa nies saved from the Income accounts approximately $274,000,000, which will be used for "strengthening the protec tion back of their contracts." This in dicates that policyholders benefited during the year by some $36,000,000 more than they paid to the companies. the County Assessor. The total acre age in the county, outside of cities and towns, is 819.939 acres, of which 434.573 more than one half is timber lands. There are in the county 362.452 acres of unimproved logged-off land and 22,913 acres of improved lands. The County Assessor's figures place the average value of the timberland at $31.57 an acre; ot the unimproved logged-off lands at $4.75, and of the improved lands at $39.42 an acre. The valuations are on a 50 per cent basis. Eighty Acres Bring $10,000. David Speelman lias sold SO acres of alfalfa land near Wingville to John li. Hoke. The consideration was $10,000. Baker Democrat. EIGHT SALES REPORTED I'HED XV. GERMAN COMPANY HAS BRISK BI SIM3SS. Properties Are Being Improved and Dc uinni! for Aorklngmens Homes .(rows; Busy Kail Korecast. The following recent sales were re ported last week by the Kred W. Ger man Company: Lot 4, block 3, Woodlawn, was sold for Louise Emig to Carl Detering and a re-sale of the same property made to Mrs. M. A. Carver. This property was in a rundown condition, but is being improved by the new owner. Lot 5, block 3, Florence Heights, lo cated at 521 WeDster street, Improved with a five-room bungalow, was sold to Charles Spang and Helen Anderson for Alice West. Lots 15 and 16, block 1, Tetonka Park, were sold to Karl Johnston, a recent arrival. This property is also being improved by the new owners. Lot 20, block 6, Vernon Addition, was bought by C. W. and Hattie Chapman and resold to Walter and Myrtle Chandler, the last sale being made as a result of selling to Paul and Nellia Olander lot 4, block 4, Lorrlngton Ad dition, for Mr. and Mrs. Chandler. The last-named property is improved with a three-room bungalow, which the net.' owners are improving. Lot 36, block 1, Laurelwood Addt tion, was sold to Oscar Charlst tit Operine Fievez. This property is lo cated at Sixty-thircr street Southeast, and was improved with a rundown five- room bungalow, which the new owners are improving. Lot 4, block 19, City View Park Ad dition, located at 462 Bldwell avenue. Sellwood, improved with a small house, was sold to James A. Baker and Cora Baker for Mrs. Blanche Hennessy. An 80-acre ranch, 11 miles southeast of Eugene, known as the Scholl Ander son place, was sold to C. W. Emmons, of Forest Grove. Lots 8 and 9, block 87. University Park, was sold to Hermia B. Rouse for Rose Wright Swafford. This property was located at 620 Oberlin street and was improved with a three-room bun galow. Mr. German reports a stronger de mand for working men's homes than at any time during the last four years and looks forward to a busy F4.ll sea son. Director) of Prominent Life Insurance Agencies Members of Life Underrvriien.' Association of Oregon Wm. Goldman. General MaiiaKnr. NATIONAL LIFE UK VElUluUI. ( trfgottlitn jrilng. H. t,. Col ton, MMge, MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL IFH. Chamber of Commerce BIO. K L. Harmon, iliinager, PENN MUTUAL LIFU. Northwestern Bank BMc Horace Mecklem. Manaser, NEW BNUI.ANU MUTUAL LIKE. Northwestern Bank Bidg. feUis-UruHsniayer Co.. (Jeneral Agents, TKAVELEllS INSURANCE COMPANY yuj-P.10 Wilcox Bids. MORTGAGE LOANS , Verv flexible contract. NEW WORLD LIFE INSURANCE CO.. '0' Stevens Bldg. Aloee & Amesbury. Genera) Agents, NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE INS. t-W. rorlnweaiern rana '!. Judd Lowrey. Supt.. AMERICAN CENTRAL LIKE INS. CO., 710 Uekum Bldg. John Pauer. Superintendent, THE PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE CO. 01 Northwestern Bank Bldg. T. 11. McAllis. State Mgr., UNION MUTUAL LIFE INS. Board of Trade Bldg. CO., Edgar W. Smith. Manaiter. EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 300 Oregonian 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. Bead J. A. Kates. UoMburi W. A. Bogard.