The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, January 25, 1908, Image 9

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Newspaper Page TextTHE OREGON ' DAILY- JOURNAL', PORTLAND. SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25,, 1003... T7 II (TSl v r II X XII A 'I X ' J i II II . X fl I I I .X permits Issued .; for January Double Those for Jlontli r of December. , 't i ,; ;, 1 r i . . i .... .. - ' , . ' MANY. RESIDENCES J ARE ABOUT TO GO UP JLargcst Permit of Month la That , Issued to the Dsmnicler . Jnvest- mcnt Company for a Four-Story : Brick on Fourth ' street. '. 3UILDIIIG TAKES t - .. - - Till .From present Indications the building ermlts Issued In January Will amount o more than 1500,000, an Increase of 100 er cent of the December record..: The ursest' ner'mlt tor "the'month up to Lfte was that tor the Dammolsr Invest nent company, a fcur-atory brick bulli ng occupying tha half -block on Fourth treet, between' Everett and Flanders. haldo- from, this the permits' for ' the lonth consist almost entirely of dwell nir houses. - During the present werk a large num- or 01 residence perm us ranxmi in per alue front 11.000 to $2,600 have h"ucd.. W. M. Reward has be run the rection of a two-story frame dwelling n East Taylor- between East Twenty- nventh and Bast Twenty-eignm -streets, alurtd at IJ.600. ( . A 1 4.600 residence for .XV.. B. Wiggins Uliuer tvllDUULUUH VII viainitiw etween East Twenty-seoond and East wentr-xourtn streets, me nuiMing is w be a two-story rrame, nnisnea in rdwood. C. R. Welch Is putting up a reslAjmoe i Cleveland avenue, oetween iuiisjirs form enu uaerwin r sirocia to coat 4.600. - A frame store building corner Alblna venue and Blandena street la - under 'instruction for C. T. Gates, valued at J.0O0. W. R. Btokea ft Co. art building four weliina-n. one on LoveJov street, be- en Twenty-firat and Twenty-aecond i recta, coat i3,600. ana tnree on Mai- oy between urand avenue ana jsust ixtn etrepf, to cost s.uvu eacn. On East Oak street, between East welfth and East Thirteenth streets, Irs. B. Joyce bas begun the construe- on Of a 12,000 cottage. Architect, H. J. Hefty has awarded y Oorfce Weat A Co. the contract for e construction or a o,uuu swisa cnaiei it the corner or tiit Twenty-aecond kid K8t Clackamas streeta. C M. Jaiif Is erecting a 12,000 cottage i Eart'Ankeny between East Twenty cond and Euat Twenty-fourth atreetn. Mrs. P. J. Colburn la preparing to uUU what will be, when completed, le , of the nandsoneat noraea in the vinaton district. The new residence I to go up on the corner of East Six- entn ami Haisey streets ana win coal hout $10,000. . 25-YEAR LEASE III ! II G BLOCK Negotiations .Completed for Control of Corner at Sev enth and Washington. NiUAL KENTAL FORTY THOUSAND -I, ! r r. 1 if. ,i l .- Spencer Apartrtmenta, King and Wayne Streets. MSI III CREASE III USE OF CEBIT Output Far Less Than HcaTy ; Demands of Thousands ofBuildersi SIXTEEN MILLION BAKRELS SIIOBTAGE Twenty Years Ago Total Production In United States Was 42,000 Bar rcls Today Output Amounts 65,060,000 Barrels. to For tho past four years there has been a constantly Increasing shortage In the supply of Portland cement, and this, in spite of an almoat Incredible lncreaae In output. It la believed, how ever,' that on account of a phenomenal increase ' of output In , the ' laat t three months,, the '.supply during 1908 will equal, or nearly so. the ..demand, .v The demands of (hh trade1 In' 1908 exceeded the supply by 11.000,000 bar rels and the shortage of 1807 was 1. 000,000 barrels. In 1886 42,000 barrels of Portland cement were manufactured in the United States. Since then the production of this commodity has grown by leaps and bounda until the moderate output of 27 yeara.ago has grown to the enormous total of 66,000,000 bar rels, an Increase of 130,900. per cent in the year 1907. . A few short years ago the workers of wood looked In vain to the north, to the east, the south and the weat for a visible supply of lumber for the uses of the next and Succeeding generations. The ateel king came. In a manner, to the rescue. The scientists told ua that 60 years would crobably mark the end of the steel age, to a large degrwt. at I the,' prevailing rate of consumption. Naturally there followed an era of "tall thinking," when the "captains of in duatry" found more pleasure in holding divine faith In the old adage, "neces sity Is the mother of invention." than they did In attempting conclusions re garding the all-Important matters of wood and steeL Saves tha Situation. Just at. the time, when the situation was really beginning to look dark, there stepped Into the commercial anma, a "master of destiny" in the building world, hailed as the "king ef construc tion." and "emancipator of the commjn people," from ever-Increasing construc tion prices foruana cement. Portland cement has been called by Edison and others of renown in the building world, the propnet or tne "con crete age"; heralding an era or age proof, flre-proef( water-proof, sanitary construction; an era when the modest cottage of the day-laborer will be built complete In three days and built to stand - intact, ciean-cui ana innaDiiaota for generations. An era when the mag- nlricent mansions oi our millionaires will rise from the ground like mush rooms, fairly, springing into majestic piles of high-art construction built In a moment, as it were, to defy the ele ments for all time to come. An era wofn wiv BRyBvrajwn in uur great cities will effectually resist and retard general- conflagration; and. In the lend, an era of absolute fire-proof construction ao generally applied that the term "general conflagration will become obsolete. So More "Kamahaoklea." An era when even the memories of the hideous ramshackles, today so much In evidence In our towns and cities, will sink - Into oblivion, for "ram- abackles" will not- be known to the concrete age. - ' Today we are building ' our brldgea, levees, abutments,-- sidewalks, streets, carfloors, foundations, even our railway ties, telegraph poles and a- thousand other things besides beautiful homes and giant buildings, all of concrete. Where is another of nature's produc tions that is put to ao many useful cur poses. . And yet. Its sphere of useful ness is being daily widened. Truly may Portland cement be hailed aa "mas ter of destiny." TEACIIERS MAY GET RATES TO CLEVELAND - (Special Diapatcb to The Journal.) Salem, Or., Jan. 28. After, extended correspondence State Superintendent Ackerman of the department of public instruction finds he was mistaken in the statement made in his former Inter view, to the effect that delegates to. the National Educational association had never been given reduced rates this side of tho Missouri river. He says the railroads are showing a good disposition to help make the Cleveland meeting of the N. E. A. a success by giving re duced rates to. all who wish to attend that great educational gathering to be held June 29 to July 3. The program la soon to be ready for distribution to Oregon educators. . 4 COME i v ' EARLY THIS YEAR "t. V ' ' ' : " ''."V.. A .-. :.-' "'.'.,' . " '.,,," Lumber Dealers Anticipate : - Fairly Good j Spring ;'"" r Business' 'kP: LOW PRICES HELP BUILDING INDUSTRY Mills Gradually Resume' Operations In Hopes of Being Able to Work . Off Enough Material to Keep Head ..Above Water. . With an Improvement la the foreign and eastern , demand, lumber dealers look forward to a fairly good spring market. They do not anticipate" the heavy business of last spring when Cal ifornia was . buying right and left on soeculatlon bat look forward to a healthy. steady market to " flU actual wants in the respective territories. Wholesale dealers and brokers report Inquiries coming in quite lively from the east even at this early oate, eo- uv tiflins ma monin wnmi A.ylrm in h.f r art of the continent be gin to look about lor aipcaa ior . summer. -The exact condition in Cal- J... i. ..ih in h difficult to ret at but dealers having oeen id Inquiring Into eonaiuona aecm mv t ih.m it innfnri inu uo inrfiui Atvmn in small Drooortlons. Locally tha aemana xor duuuiui i fair. oricea nave naa a stlmuUting ef rect upon ouucuni "JT tlons a a regarda structures in ' which wood figures Urgely and this has helped to assist the otherwise weak market Some mills in fact, report keeping their teams busy continually, wnicn i i show that they do about aa much local business as last year, urn. ihrnuvhnut tha state are gradu ally resuming operatlona and the output naV la considerably larger than two month ago, when the advance In freights and other causes made it ad visable to curtail the output every- In reference to the foreign mar ket it might be aald that the outlook is fully as good today as last year at this time. Ilalf a doaen cargoes, ag gregating all of 10.000,000 feet, have already been sold for early delivery and negotiations for others are on Logs are quoted from $.S0 to $10 per 1,000 feet and loggers propose to keep them there If possible. They declare It sounder business to let their camps lie Idle than to slaah prices, because the time will eventually come when they get the price. - Pi m -BOWS YOUR tirinvarn inn ' uiAmu Aim BOW: ARE your :.":; j - .'V , - CI I P LLLd Wi have added to ens supply depart meat a full liae of eleotrio and Oom blaatloa fixtures. Whea the aav bouse la balar eenrpped, eall and sea oa. mil lias ef BX.EOT&IOAX1 BUT , 1US. Bepair work a specialty. WESTERN ELECTRIC WORKS SI izXTX T, JTOXTlVUrS, OB. VXOVZS atAZV !. ;'ia9. TRAVIS BROS. LIMBER CO. 451 Hawthorne Avenue v essees Agree .to Erect Building Not Less Than Eight Stories High Proposed Structure Will Be Steel nd Brick. " Negotiations were completed during e week for tha lease of the McGinn mrter block at the southeast corner Seventh and Washington streets, vned by Charles McGinn, to J. J. and A.-Jennlns-a for a term Of 25 years gotlatlona were begun several weeks ko. as announced" at the time in Tha hurnal. Under tha lease, the lessees tree to erect not less than a six-story 'lining.: covering the entire site,- tne tiding to do ox steei ana oricK con- ruction, to pay all taxes, insurance lid ' publio Improvement assessments d to rmv a monthly rental or j,jjj.3J, kich for the 26-year life Of the lease 11 amount to 11.ouo.uuu. 11 is aiso a rt of th ao-reement that at the ex -atton of the lease the building and her Improvements shall revert to the fcner of the ground, ,it la under lood that the lessees . will probably gin building operations in the , early miner and the contemplated improve- nt will be not less than eight atones !th and possibly 10, . By -the - terms-or tnia tease a new luatlon is estaDiisnea ior t-oriiana iiiness ttroDertv. as the annual leasal $40,000 is equivalent to 6 per cent 1800,000.' xne nignesi pricea prop- ity . heretofore sold In Portland, the Ids," Wortman & King corner, brought 50,000, although the Falling corner ross Fifth street from the above, was tsed on a valuation . of 1600,000, for auarter block, i . c. iCharles McOlnn, an old time resident Portland, purchased .wis property Early 60 years ago, for II. E00. He had manv riaiterins; oners 10 ouy but has declined to part with It, J arernng 10 muaa an buviuiuikvuus ig ' time lease. w MM IT MAY COST YOU DEAR If you fall to look over our attractive stock of Builders' Hardware. We know that we have Just what you most need, and that you' can' secure a good article at a price that defies competition for the quality of the article. AVERY & CO. ' J- !-.,, 45 Third St, Bet Pine & Ash OREGON PAINT & VARNISH COMPANY JOBBERS AND; WHOLESALE AND' RETAIL DEALERS IN Paints. Oils; Varnishes and Pointers' Supplies 93 GRAND Av. AND 389 E. WASHINGTON ST. Telephone East 2898 Distributors for the Green-Marshall Company's Paints and the Los Angeles Varnish Company's Varnishes THE LUTKE MFG. CO. .Kannfao toxera of SHOW GASES Bank and Store-Fixtures Boyt ink Sixth Sts. mnATO, OBSOOV. M U R E SCO THE IDEAL WALL FINISH W. P. FULLER &,CO;; Pacific Coast Agents This Bank Pays More Per Cent WAVERLEIQH Lots NOW $225 and up; $25 down; $10 per Month Buy now, sell later. Make money as others have done JW0. P. SARE(EY COMPAWY 12 Sixth Streeti Cor.' Washington PHONES: MAIN J5SO. We repeat the Fan Sys tem' is the only method of insuring perfect ventilation in any place, at any or all times, independent of wind, weather, or other condi tions. If fresh air is wanted in any particular v plafie it must be forced there; not allowed to "go" We have had the experience, we have the facilities and we will give you the satisfac tion you desire-No "guess work" or "probability" about it ' THE W. G.McPHERSON CO. i . 328 Gllsan Street, Near (Ih HEATING AND VENTILATING ENGINEERS Common Fir Lumber, $8 M. PHONE Eait 202 B 2020 mm The Aeiw p QUALITY L Paint Store A complete line of the Best Paints, Enamels, Stains and Varnishes thaft it is possible to make. . New Era Paint and Varnish Co. ; 172 FIRST STREET . ' " NEAR, YAMHILL' WE ' RENT ELECTRIC SIGNS 41 Second SL - Between ' Asb sad Pise Phoae LJala 8475 JOS. HORN UNO non xaxv nss E. FISCHER CITY IRON WORKS , . BLACKSMITHS, MACHINISTS, BOILERMAKERS V Tanks, Bawdust, Conveyers. Hyflraullo Pipe, Oratinc. tton Doors, Fire Escapes, Qenerat Repairing. woxKs, 803 non sr. , . roxTxuuro. oxsoov. H0LL ADAY'S ADDITION The ONE BEST place In Portland to buy. GEOGRAPHICAL CENTER and MUM DtMKABLE residences property of the city . . THE OREGON REAL ESTATE COMPANY 88& THIRD STREET - ' ' THE ADAMANT COMPANY'S s Celebrated HARQ WALT. PLASTERS are the beat. V 'CROWN BRAND" HalrPIbsrsd ' ' " T WOOD FIBRE PLASTER FINISHING PLASTER tUnflbered) oznoe, woroesrer aiiaff, Fboae Hal 718. some Aiais. laetory, root letli It. noas Slais 8109. THE J. McCRAKEN COMPANY Roche Harbor Lime, Alsen's Portland Cement; KeptI ' Building-, 1 Casting and Dental Plaster, Imported Fire Brick. Imported and Domeatlo Fire Clay. Hair Flbered Hard wall Plaster, Plastering Hair and Fiber. Allunited Steel Studdins Herringbone Expanded Steel Lath. Boston Sheet Metal Lath. ; x , 831-03S raiB 8TJUBST. Phone Ilaia 870. YOSTXAjrO. OXSOOV. IF TOU HAVE A ROOF TO COVER' FIQURB WITH US ON Q EN A SCO . ROOFING Carried In stock for all kinds of roofs and fully (maranteed. -, t Central Door & Lumber Co. 13th and' Gllsan Street. ; - Phones Vain 4795, A-179S. 0aAo I FIR CORDWOOD FIRST GRADE SECOND GRADE Long ...$6.00 Long. ...,.. $5.50 Sawed . . .?G.50 Sawed .$6.00 X I Phone East 202 B-2020. 451 HAWTHRONE AVE. CEMENT -LIME-PLASTER VIGARITE ; LIME, WHITE'S AND OTHER K CEMENT. OCCIDENT CEMENT PLASTER v ' -rt . GEO. B. RATE & CO, 182 . MADISON ST WEST END OF BRIDGE - Stevenson & Paulsen Practical Plambers. Gas, Staara and Hot Water Flttere--AU Work Guaranteed First Class Estimates Cheerfully Given. 1 i" ' 253-255 Flanders St. Phones: Main 7354, A3352 John A. Melton OABPEVTZB AJTO BUILSn Factory and Of flee 235 Second street, near Main. Phones: Main 1787; A-1787 Ofrice and Store Fixtures built . and remodeled. h " ' i Alterlnc and repairinf ; houses. Shov .-aea anJ Counters built Repair Work Given Prompt AttentionFounders, Machinists and Boilermakers, ', , v. Building and .Structural' Work. :iZ1;,. PHOENIX IRON WORKS v Office and works, Bawthorne Avenne and East Third Street. Phone East 99. posrsAim, omsoov. More Light at Less Cost : Inverted Gas Light Burns Three Hours for One Cent Cheapest ana best light on earth. Fits ; all fixtures, . , Distributors for Portland. Mantels of all kinds. . Xome Phone B-3423. STAR LIGHT CO. 108 Grand Ave. ASBESTOS BEITS POS BAMPUS. ' Portland Asbestos 'Kg. Co. Office asd Salesroom, 272 CHsca Street f . ' ' r Phone Mala 471J."" A. T. SAMUELS ' Phones Main 4884; A3SS1 The Electrical Ar-r? 1 1 ' 1 i . ' . - gas and electric ri::Trj:.".: . ' V ' ' Phones-Main 98r, ' A3981, . . . p 1 f 490 ,Washinjton Street, Near Fouri:' '.-C i - if , .