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10 TIIE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 10, , 1922 EAST SIDE TO GET I iOTIEfi WING. Quarter Block at Grand and. Salmon Bought. RAPID GROWTH SEEN ; Big Factor In Building Vp Dis trict Is Believed to Be Boss Island Bridge Plan. The business section of the east aide district is going forward rap Idly in the vicinity of Grand ave nue and East Salmon street, and the erection of another structure In that district was foretold last week when O. L.aurgaard, city engi neer, purchased a quarter block at the southeast corner of that inter section from the Hawthorne estate. The deal was negotiated by Fred W. German, who is handling a large amount of property belonging to that estate In the same section. A big factor in the building up of that section of the east side is ibelieved to be the plans for the construction of the Ross Island bridge. When the bridge is com pleted that will place property in the vicinity of Mr. Laurgaard's purchase in the central east side section. Price Not Made Public. The purchase price of the property taken by the city engineer was not made public, although it is known to have been held at $16,800. It is Improved by a two - story frame building with two stores below and flats above. Mr. Laurgaard an nounced that he planned later to remove this structure and substi tute a modern fireproof building. Definite plans for this, however, he eaid, would be announced later. The tuilding to be erected, he said, would probably be a two - story otructure. Sir. German also recently sold property at the northwest cornel of East Sixth and Madison streets for the same estate to the Olson Machine works. The new owners have erected a one-story concrete building on the property. This property was purchased for $6000. Garage Is Completed. Billy Ferguson has just complet ed a one-story garage on a quarter block at the northeast corner of Grand avenue and Alain streets. The site was purchased originally for $14,500 from the other half of the Hawthorne estate . A one - story fireproof building has been erected by the Motor Ex change on a site at the southwest corner of Grand avenue and East Main streets purchased from the Ladd Estate company. The Francis Motor Car company recently purchased the southeast corner of Grand avenue and East Madison streets from Whitney Boise for a reported consideration of $19,500, and is now erecting a building on the property. This structure is adjoining- the company's present location. CHICAGO GETS BIG BUILDING Straus Company Plans Structure Worth $12,000,000. A 22-story building, representing an investment in land and building of approximately $12,000,000, ot which $7,000,000 will represent the cost of the new structure, is to be erected in Chicago for their occu pancy by S. W. Straus & Co., ac cording to news received here last week. This building- will be the first one be erected in Chicago under the new zoning law, modeled somewhat after the New York zoning regula tions. It will occupy the site of the Stratford hotel, 161 by 171 feet, at Michigan and Jackson boulevards. The new structure will give S. W. Straus & Co., two of the finest buildings in the United States, their new building in New Tork having been opened June 1, 1921. This com pany has exerted a big influence on building throughout the country, nd they announced that this year their loans on new buildings in the principal cities of the country will approximate $150,000,000. Two new structures in Portland, the Am bassador apartments and the Sov ereign apartment hotel, were made possible by Straus loans. REAL ESTATE BULLETIN' OCT Official, Publicalion of Xorlhwcstl Association Appears. The first issue of the "Northwest Real Estate Bulletin,- official pub lication of the Northwest Real Estate association, came off the press last week. The issue is full of snappy news items and editorials dealing with the activities of the northwest association and its mem bers. T. AV. Zimmerman, secretary of the association, is editor of the pub lication and he announced that the new organ would be issued monthly for distribution among the members of the association. The initial publication is a four page sheet and has as its slogan, Every board a 100 per cent mem ber." ONE-STORY BUILDING SOLD Thomas AY". Murpliy Pays $30,000 Cash for Property. Thomas W. Murphy of the Murphy Auto company purchased a one story garage building and 100 by 100 feet of property at the south west corner of Sixteenth and Alder streets last week from Harry E. Coleman. The consideration was $30,000 cash. The deal was handled by J. I'red Staver and E. J. Daly. Mr. Murphy announced 'that he would raze the building at present located on the property and erect a modern one-story and basement concrete and faced brick garage building. Hoqniara Man Appointed. E. B. Arthaud of Hoquiam, Wash., a member of the finance committee of the Northwest Real Estate asso ciation and well known in real estate circles throughout the north west, has been appointed a member of a special committee of the Na tional Association of Real Estate Boards. This committee, which is headed by H. R. Ennis of Kansas City, has as Its function the obtain ing of a large and representative attendance at the Jacksonville, Fla.. meeting of the national committee nd board of directors of the na tional association on January 17 to 20. BUILDING I 1 I Xjt i ft t, t 6? fcwt Mj 3 St t I III 1 1 J w -SR .3 - T "v I P .r? T wnv.1VWwiC -will Jtl-'r.-s mmK . rust? ill .UK v - Ts---v? -'TzE&t' i . g,...sT.. , r"-" -z i - jf 311 I XcWk L S. TV- 1 ,s 4 SI Innini mrmn-rnu rmiil . l(Cik v - (ffir r n UU I n U UV LlUnfl rt, uiiiui niuuu I in i mm r i- PRICE IX XORTHWEST HOLDS STEADY AT $12 TO $16. Increasing Orders and Unusual Demand Promise to Restore General Prosperity. ' Reports from all over the country indicate a strength in the demand for brick which Is unusual for this time of the year, says the monthly digest of conditions in the common brick industry, prepared by the Com mon Brick Manufacturers' associa tion of America. The report said that orders on the books have not diminished, while stocks are lower than a month ago. The price of brick holds firm, according to the report, and a com posite of the country is $13.82 de livered on the job. The actual range in price is from $8 in Texas, where there is a destructive price war, to $19 in Philadelphia and Washington districts, where plants are sold out for the year. Quotations for the northwest section are placed at from $12 to $16, which is the same as a month ago. "There are unmistakable indica tions that the common brick in-, dustry of America is taking on a new lease of life," said the report. 'These indications have been appar ent for several months past and are so consistent in their trend that it is safe today to say that this ancient and honorable business, which had its beginning in Babylon centuries before the recording of history, is assuming a business-like mien and a prosperity that it has not known before. "This, of course, applies to the in dustry in the United States. There are some brick manufacturers who will say that it applies to only a part of the country, because they have not yet sensed this revival But it is not a sectional improve ment, it certainly is a substantial in herent betterment which will spread to all plants. RESIDENCE DEMAND BRISK Local Company Reports Sales in East Side District. A good demand for houses, espe cially in the Laurelhurst, Rose City Park, Irvington and Alameda dis tricts, is reported by Street, Law- head & Co. That concern reported the following recent sales negoti ated by David Harp and W. E. Whiteside, managers of their' Lau-relhurst-Rose City Park and Irving- ton-Alameda offices respectively: Dutch colonial house at 1165 East Pine street, sold by James Potts to Dr. C. N. Smitt for $10,500. Bungalow at 338 East Forty-fifth street North, sold by Harry Gibbs to George R. Hauskins for $500. New bungalow at 925 Skidmore street, sold by W. B. Cater to J. H. McDonald for $6750. New bungalow at 793 East Twenty-fourth street North, sold by S. Peterson to Julia H. Boone for $7500. New bungalow, corner East Forty third and Hoyt streets, sold by H. Me.Crum to George Peters for $5000. APARTMENT HOUSE LEASED East Side Property Is Rented Lone Before Completion. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Stryker have taken a 10-year lease on the new apartment-house being erected for Jason C. Moore at the southwest corner of East Twenty-fifth street and Hawthorne avenue. It is ex pected that the building. w:hich will cost $145,000. will be ready for oc cupancy by March 1. The building will contain 52 two and three-room apartments. The kitchens will be equipped with elec tric ranges and electric dumb wait ers. A. E. Miller and W. F. Tobey are architects for the structure. NEW APARTMENT IS MODERN Building Erected on Vista Avenue at Cost of $55,000. Electric ranges of the latest type and other high-class equipment have been installed in the 3-story brick and concrete apartment house just completed by the Peters Construc tion company at the southeast cor ner of Vista avenue and iLaurel : street. This building stands on a 60 by 100 foot site and has 11 four and five-room suites . fitted up in th latest manner. The apartment house was de signed by Ciaussen & Claussen and cost $55,000. ACTIVITY IX CITY CONTINUES z z 1 1 nil r " . -. ." i 1 Crelghton apartment building Inst completed at Hawthorne avenue aud'Eaxt Twelfth street. 3 Residence nt 1137 Eaftt AnJkeny street sold laHt week to S. Kudleman for 914,000 by the Cnrcoran-Jones Realty com pany. 3 Dutch colonial bouse at 1165 East Pine street on quarter block sold by James Potts to Dr. C. X. Smidt for $10,500 through David Hoxp of Street, Lam-head & Co. 4 Xfw hospital for crippled children to be erected by the Shriners on plans prepared by Sutton & Whitney. IS Two-story concrete building now being erected for Melchior Ras at southeast corner of Fifteenth and Flanders streets for occupancy of Inde pendent Printing company. NEW LEASES ARE DUDE DEMAND FOR BUSINESS PROPERTY CONTINUING, Deals Aggregating Gross Rental of More Than $400,000 .'Are Announced. Demand for commercial locations has continued through November and into December in spite of the approach of the holiday season and the usual unwillingness of organ izations to change locations during that period,. according to declaration yesterday of B. Metzger of the firm of Metzger-Parker company. Mr. Metzger said that leases aggre gating a gross rental f more than $400,000 have been consummated by hia coiriDany and that during the first week of December the demand for space has increased rather than diminished. The following leases were an nounced by Mr. Metzger: A five-year lease by A. Armstrong to Alfred E. Peuthert, covering 149- 151 Tenth street. Mr. Peuthert has occupied a portion of this 'building for the last three years, and because of the expansion of his business has found it necessary to increase the scope of his activities and take in the additional portion of the build ing. Mr. Peuthert announced that it is his intention to spend several thousand dollars in fitting up a fur store which "will have no equal on the Pacific coast outside of San Francisco. ; A five-year lease by Joseph D. Sternberg to James Menengatos, covering the three-story Butte hotel. The Butte hotel is 50x100 feet in size, erected on the southwest corner of Sixth and Couch streets. A five-year lease by Paul Van Fridagh and Hortense Van Fridagh Taylor to the Harnden Press, cov ering 50H square feet of the first floor space in the three-story build ing erected on the southeast corner of Fourteenth and Burnside streets The building has always been pre viously occupied by automotive lines A three-year lease was granted by the same parties to the Boston Var nish company of San Francisco, Portland and Seattle, covering 7000 square feet immediately adjoining the space leased to the Harnden Press. The Boston Varnish company has operated in connection with the Timms-Cress company for the .last several years, but, according to Mr. Greene, the head of the organization, who came to Portland for the pur pose of closing the transaction, the tremendous demand for the product of the company in this district ne cessitated that a separate depot be operated, and although there was. some doubt as to whether or not Seattle would be chosen, it was finally decided that the advantages offered by Portland were greater, and so the space was negotiated. A three-year lease by J. E. Dur ham to- H. E. Christensen, covering 2500 square feet on the southeast corner of Eleventh and Couch streets. Mr. Christensen has been engaged in the repairing of auto motives for a number of years. The Hood River ADDle exchanee. desiring to unload its product direct . merchandise per 100 pounds, 10 cents. ; to the consumer and having 100.000 j These records were kept with pen i boxes of apples to dispose of, ha? and ink which is yet in perfect con opened several store rooms in the j dition and easily legible. - STRONG DESPITE ADVANCE-OF , . m I i i JAVrr't Z htfM several BIG tracts OF FIR 'S city with the Intention of disposing its product, among which is a ore room located at 107 North Broadway. $35,000 ADDITION PLANNED Western Cooperage Warehouse to Be Constructed. De Young & Roald are now pre paring plans for a $35,000 addition to the plant of the Western Cooper age company for use as a ware house. -. ' " The addition will be "one story In heijfht "and will cover- a ground space of 200 by 400 feet. It will be of frame construction, .with corru gated iron sides and roof. ''Con struction work will start immedi ately. The design for the church to be erected at Tigard for the Methodist Episcopal church there, as prepared by De Young & Roald, has been ap proved by the board -of architects of the Methodist Episcopal church a Chicago. Bids for the structure are now being taken and .construc tion will be started shortly. Early Events Recalled by Old Minute Book. Granting of License for Old-time Ferry Recorded. " H1 ILLSBORO, Or., Dec. 9. (Spe cial.) A perusal of the very early records of what is now Wash ington county discloses some inter esting items. - According to what appears to be a minute book, but what was in real ity a court record, is found under date of April 26, 1847, an excerpt as follows: "County court record Methodist meeting house, O. B. Tucker, Ralph Wilcox, Judges. Present. Robert Morse. Order administrator of Rob ert H. Poe estate to payV. W. Daw son $312.70 account filed. (Signed) William Geiger, Clerk." Mr. Gelger is remembered by some of the older generation as being a relative of the late S. B. Hustdn, senator of Mult nomah county. O. B. Tucker was presiding 'judge, according to the record. 1 ' November 2, 1848, Robert Tupper was married to Mallnda Beal; April 1, 1849. William Hall and Susanna Beauchamp were married, and July 29 of the same year the marriage ceremony of Elizabeth Kinsey and Henry Tucker was performed. These records appear to have been re corded some time after the events, as their date order is irregular. On, December 3, 1849, probate court was begun and held in the house of D. H. Lownsdale in Port land. Fifteen merchant licenses were issued and three grocers' li censes made out. The next item was: "Washington county probate court, territory of Oregon, granted j a permit or license for Robert! Moore and ' John McLaughlin to.j operate a ferry between Oregon and Linn cities." i This notice to issue was published I In the ' Oregon Spectator" and car ried the following fees: Foot passengers, each, 124 cents: j on horse, mule or jack, 25 cents; onei horpe, mule or jack and one person, 3 cents: wag-ona, either loaded or empty, each. $1; each yoke of oxen, 5 cents: each head cattle, not yoked, 25 cents: : each pie. sheep or goat, 12 cents:) SEASON DEMAND FOR HOUSES GOOD. LUMBER CUT SLUMPS NORTHWEST OUTPU-T OFF BY 31 PER CENTv Total Production for 1921 Put at 5,829,598,000 Feet in Re- port of Federal Bureau. THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU Washington, D. C Dec. 8. The total production of lumber during 1921 by Oregon and Washington, . ... ., ,.,. according to preliminary statistics just released by the department of commerce, was 5,829,598,000 feet, which is a decrease of 34 per cent when compared with the cut for the preceding year. The-,enP,-r ProanUC,V0n f la! as 74J.04a.e00 m 1921, compared. , , 5V "'J! iJZllit0'!?!. with 5,135,826.000 in 1920 and 7,625.- 188,000 in 1919. Washington has been the chief lumber producing' Btate for manv vears and Oregon ranked second in 1920. Douglas fir 1 is the principal species cut in both; states, and for several years tneir combined output. of lumber from this wood has comprised about 95 per cent of the total for the United States. The forest service reports that the decrease in the lumber cut in Oregon and Washington -in 1921 compared with that for 1920 was due to lack of demand, low prices and unsatisfactory shipping facili ties, and that the indications are that the 1922 cut, -wh.ile larger than that of 1921, will also be some what less than the cut for 1920. Three years' lumber cut in the two states shown as follows: Oregon 1921, 2,006,782,000; 1920, 3,31 6,098.000; 1919, 2,577,403,000. Washington 1921, 3,822.816.000; 1920, '5,524,509.000; .1919, 4,961,220, 000. PRINTING HOME IS RISING 810,000 Concrete Building Is Be ing Erected on Flanders. A two-story concrete building is being erected for Melchior Raz by W. C. Arthur & Sons at the south east corner of Fifteenth and Flan ders streets under plans prepared by C. L. Goodrich. The structure will cost in the neighborhood of $10,000. The property has been leased to the Independent Printing company for a term of years and that concern expects to take possession early in January. The lease was negotiated by .Sidney G. Lathrop. SYLVAN REAL BURNED CLAY BRICK PORTLAND'S ART FACE BRICK . STANDARD BRICK & TILE CO. 83 Fifth. Bdwy. 8274 Brick Tile - Bldg. Materials Recent Transactions Declared to Indicate Brisk Business ' for Coming Season. A tract of timber in Columbia county containing about 15,000, U00 feet of cedar and red and yellow fir was sold recently by the gov ernment for $39,000 to the Nehalem Timber & Logging company, it was announced last week. In Clackamas county Charles H. Burbolt bought 655,000 feet of red fir for $1000. and in Yamhill county L. N. Tompkins bought 1,000.000 feet of red fir for $2104. A stile of more than 15,000,000 feet of red fir in Marion county to the Silver Falls Timber company of Silverton for $30.5u0 was reported. In Clackamas county Earl C. Latou rette bought for a company of tim ber operators .1,090,000 feet of red fir for $1638.27. These sales show timber opera tors are getting ready for a large business the coming year, and con tinued activity in the sale of gov ernment timber is predicted by Frank O. Northrup, receiver of the United States land office for this district i v Five patents have been delivered ' for timber that was sold 60 days t ago. this being the average length of time the general land otnee Washington records. requires to examine BUILDING TO HOUSE SHOPS I Women's Specialty Establish ments to Be In New Structure. A one-storv concrete building is to be erected on site 50 by 100 feet at the northwest corner oi ' i,we'Iln, . ' m i Dr. Neal U Zimmerman and Mrs. M. Bernard ot Astoria, who recently purcha9ed tne site The building wi have a mezzanine flobr ajid will be aivlded into five compartments , be tenanted by women's specialty ; shnns ... ' Leon Bullier of the F. E. Taylor hn h..dIin ,he leas. ing of the building, announced that home decoration establishment of Bertha Stuart will occupy space in the structure. , fsftcci A WP TVl DlD UCrlMnUC J THE STORM - MODERN HEATING- KEEPS YOU WARM ! WHEN the winter's storm breaks around your home you want to keep warm. Maybe we can assist you in that regard. As fitters we surely know our business. We charge modestly for our services. . . Steam Vapor and Hot Water Fitters Alaska Plumbing & Heating Co. 363 East Morrison Street East 2954 FURNACE We have the Rlchardson-Boyn. ton Furnaces both the plpeless and the regular kind. We ar experts on heating and ventilat ing We will give you the benefit of our forty years' experience in this line. . It will save you future trouble and expense by installing the right furnace in the right way. J.C.BayerFurnace Company S04 MARKET ST. SHRifJE HOSPITAL WORK WILL BEG j Plans Under Way for $260,- 000 Structure. EXCAVATION JOB IS LET I Building to Be Fireproof, 360 Feet Long and Will Have Three Sections. Plans are being prepared by Sut ton & Whitney and excavation work is to start immediately on the new . $260,000 hospital for crippled chil idren to be erected by the Shriners at the southwest corner of East Eighty-second ' street and Sandy boulevard. It was announced last week that the work of excavation had been let to the firm of Abbott & McCulloch and that this would begin without delay, -m the meantime tne plans for the building itself are being completed and it is expected that figures for the construction or tne structure will be let in about a month. Tae building will be a fire-proof structure and will be 360 feet long and portions of it about 100 feet wide. It will be in three sections, the center housing the administra tion offices, nurses' quarters, boiler I room, laundry, kitchen anu dsmng room. This center structure win be connected by corridors to wings on either Eide, one of which will be for boys and the other for girls. The hospital will be sufficiently large to house 60 patients and with bedrooms for 20 nurses. The hospital to be erected here is one of ten authorized for erec tion under the direction of the Shriners' national board of hospital ization for. crippled children. An other is under erection in San Fran cisco and others are to be erected in various other cities of the country. Mayor Baker is chairman ot the local building committee- It is hoped to have the local hos- pital completed and ready for op- .ratlnn hv n.Tt fall. i APARTMENT HOUSE PLANNED $18,000 Structure to Go Up on Twenty-Fifth Street. A bungalow apartment house cost ing $18,000 is to be erected at 353 Twenty-fifth street for W. H. Ross and N. C. Soule on plans prepared by C. B. Martin. The building will be of frame construction with stone stucco ex terior. There will be three 2-room apartments on the first floor and four four-room apartments on the second floor. It will be heated by gas floor heaters. COSTS HELD TO BUDGETS V ' 5 STATE INSTITUTION'S KEEP WITHIN APPROPRIATIONS. Marked Increases in .Population and Advances, in Prices Are Blamed by Four Others. SALEM. Or., Deo. 8. (Special.) Five of Oregon's nine state institu tions will complete their operations for the present biennium, -which ends December 31. within the ap propriations authorized by the "1921' session of the legislature, according to a report prepared here today by R. B. Goodfn. secretary of the state board of control. The Oregon state hospital, for which there was appropriated $875,- 600 for maintenance at the. begin ning of the biennium, has expended $779,837.72. In case the December expenditures of this institution do not exceed materially the costs of operations during previous months, the mark of perfection for your protection when buying lumber, lath, shingles, mouldings, sash, -door, glass frames, general mill work, or boxes, box shooks and crates. EAST SIDE MILL & LUMBER COMPANY Fot Spokane Ave. Scllwood 597 Oregon Door Co. Ft. Spokane Ave. Sellwood 62 1 llljllM there will be returned to the state approximately $40,000. There was appropriated for the conduct of the state home foV the feeble-minded $295,200 for mainte nance. Of this amount $255,681.73 has been expended. It is likely that this institution will return to the state on January 1 of next year ap proximately $29,000. The state school for the blind, for which there was appropriated $40. 000. probably will have $1000 on I hand w hen the hiennium expires. The expenditures of this institution up until December 1 aggregated $37,049.39. For the girls' industrial school there was appropriated $47,300. of which amount $41,071.87 bas be-.n expended. Based on the average monthly expenditures, this institu tion should return lg the stale ap proximately $2000. The Eastern Oregon state hospi- , tal. for which there was appropri ated $260,760 for maintenance, has expended $233,031.92. and should have a balance at the end of the year aggregating $10,000. The state tuberculosis hospital, which had an appropriation of $126,800 at the beginning of the biennium, will about break even, according to Mr. Good in s report. The original maintenance appro priation for the conduct of the state penitentiary was $296,400. This appropriation was exhausted some time ago and the state emergency board - authorized a deficiency ap-. propriation of $34,000. The total cost of maintenance of this Institu tion up to December 1 was $313, 638.43. A small part of the de ficiency appropriation should be returned to the state. The original appropriation of the state training school for boys ag gregating $117,000 also has been exhausted. A deficiency appropri ation of $19,500 was authorized. Expenses of the training school up to December 1 aggregated $127, 197.4 4. . , The Oregon state school for the deaf, which had an appropriation for the . biennium of .$77,000, also exhausted its funds and was al lowed a deficiency appropriation of $16,000. Up to the first of this month the cost of conducting this institution aggregated $85,415.16. Members of the state board of con trol said that neither the state training school for boys nor the Ore gon state school for the deaf would exhaust their deficiency appropria tions Dy January 1. The appropriation of $72,720 for the operation of the Old Soldiers' home at Roseburg also was ex hausted recently, and a deficiency appropriation of $25,000 allowed. The cost of operation during the biennium has been $97,720. Marked increases in population and advance in prices for commodities were re sponsible for the deficiencies cre- ;r r, '"', ,1 . ; 'IV :."cf . . ',Z,Z". '.. " '""'"". W ficials said. Stable to Be Remodeled. The old Crown stables at Union venue and East Salmon streets recently leased from the Hislop estate by the Union Produce com pany is to be remodeled for the use of fhe latter concern at a cost of about $20,000. The structure is a 2-story concrete building cover ing a ground floor space of J00 bv 100 feet. Plans for the remodeling have been prepared by Claussen & Claussen. MARION TAXES, INCREASE Rise in Valuation in County May I . Offset Amount. SALEM, Or., Dec, 9. (Special.) The county and state taxes of Marion coutity 'or 1923 will be $33, 367.ia higher than this year. This does not necessarily mean, however, that taxes will be higher next year, as the assessed value ot the county for 1921 was $42,091,057, while for 1922 it was $42,290,019. The budget as approved follows: State purposes (estimated) $401, 473.95: general fund, $374,864.54; county school and library fund, $150,934.40; high school tuition fund, $63,300; and general road fund outside of Salem, $138,000. The total is $1,128,572.89. . . Gasoline Cheap in Sweden. STOCKHOLM. Competition in supplying Sweden with oil. Includ ing gasoline for use in automobiles, has resulted in price reductions un til the liquid is cheaper in this coun- . try than in New York city. As a result the motor car agencies are enjoying a period of extraordinary prosperity. American, Russian, -Dutch and German oil companies 'are active In the competitive field. East Side Box Co. Ft. Spokane Ave. Sellwood 597