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"THE , OREGON SUNDAY -JOURNAL,-PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. MAY 10. 1003.;
iOQD PRICES' rTTv-:.;:.--.-; v.--.o-:iTL- . 1
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Cut-Bate Offers Have Xo
' Been Accepted on Realty
This Winter.
pbofjtSonneably
5 EYEBY SALE XOW
Great Activity in Construction of
Residences Shows Steady Growth
of City in the Many Fine Home
District. ,
The atAdy tona of Portland realty
, continues to ba th feature of the Pa
cific jnorthweat real estate market
Property that was priced at a certain
flrur in May lat year, long: before
the money stringency was thought of,
ll selling in Portland today for the
Bsme prices or in many cases for ad
vanced flffifrea. A corner on Union
avenue that was sold yesterday for
$4,000 was placed on the market a year
ago at this figure, and repeated offers
of lower prices during the year failed
to effect a purchase,
- The same rule holds good with sub
urban realty on both sides of the river,
and business property In the down town
districts. Suburban property, is stead
ily advancing, as Improvements and
population warrant, and there Is hardly
a man or woman In Portland today
who bought property last year and -could
not get a profit on it today.
- ' Oubarbe Orowlaf Baploly.
- This Is a condition of affairs that
Is rare over the country at large, and
It proves the oft-repeated saying that
Portland values are not inflated, but
are keot it a reasonable and conserva
tive level, despite the continued tempta
tion to : boost ' prices to annormai
prices to
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In all parts of the city permanent
Improvements on residence streets and
1a various additions new and old are
to be seen. The men who have laid
out residence additions are pinning
their faith to their properties, and
spending money to build them up Into
deairabla and valuable home neighbor
hoods. On King s Heights many evi
dences of improvement are seen, ex
tending northward along the Cornell
road as far as the head of Kearney
street. Willamette Heights is going
ahead, and Nob Hill continues to build
handsome residences costing from $10,
vVO to $25,000.
Ssiffiita Xsgloa Booming-.
Portland Heights has resumed its
last year's building boom, and the move
ment is seen away up on Council Crest,
where property .has auddenly been
brought into the market by the begin
ning of construction of the Crest reser
voir from which the whole heights dis
trict la to secure strong pressure back
of the unsatisfactory water supply
which the heights has not greatly en.
joyed in the past. The recent construc
tion of a first class fire engine house
and Installation etf a -eompleta fire
lighting crew on the heights has given
much satisfaction to residents.,
East Portland from Mllwaltuie to St
Johns Is again picking tip its building
work, and - the contractors are said to
day to have enough work on hand or
Jn sight to carry them until after next
fall's election. A real estate man said:
"I believe from observation among
the contractors that they could get
along very well on the present work
..-til imrt- .wilnii in cnlta of the pes
simists and slow people who are always
talking about waiting until after elec
' tion' before undertaking to do anything
William Kuyatb, a builder, has pur
chased 80 lots in five different blocks
In Rose City park and will Immediately
begin construction of residences that
will be sold on the Installment plan.
He wilt- erect dwellings costing from
" $2,000 t $$.500.
- Kertdeac Oolng Up.
Many people who purchased lot
this and neighboring additions last yeaf
are preparing to build, and a number
have commenced construction. Good
rich & Goodrich are building a cement
Mock bungalow for Robert Withrow.
The Butterworth-Stevenson wmpany is
erecting a residence on Kenton avenue
for U. S. Eckles. of the Portland Gas
eompsny. , Clauson & Icia uaon have
planned a two-story residence for Mrs.
Kate Jones, to be built on Cully sve
nue, and work will be commence d next
week. A residence for a W. Eastman
la being built on Wauna avenue by
the Multnomah Mill & dumber com
pany. F. A. Schneuer has purchased
five lots on Cully avenue and will erect
a $S,600 residence Immediately.
The handsome country home of Fred
W, Brooker, superintendent of the Port
land Country club, Is nearly completed
end will bv cost 46,000 to l.00O.
is a two story, old fashioned struc
ture, with wide rambling porches,
adapted from the) southern style It
is located on flva lots, fronting on the
Alameda.
. Permanent Improvements.
A large amount oMgrading and side
walk building has been ordered in ' Rose
City -park. Bellecrest and Wtberg
Hefghts. Joint contracts 'Sf or grading
snd sidewalks have been m ignea by th
Portland Trust company, the Rose City
Park eaeoclation and the Davis Invest,
ment company, owners of V Iberg
helrhts. for the improvement of Han
cock street east from the Sandy road
e. distance of 10 blocks. A contract
for grading In Wiberg Heights has
bn let to Manning. Wilkins & Smith
ii.mx. luniiv will be improved at
once from the carline north to Fremont
etreet, unaer joini rammvi .B..
Bellecrest by the Jacobs-Stine company
and by the Rose City Park association.
A contract baa been let for clearing
all the streets in the last named ad
dition, and grading will immediate y
follow. Two gangs of cement sidewalk
workers are now laying sidewalks at
--the -fa-:-faoof et-a da- :r. -r
It Is reported thst the city will im
mediately turn the Sandy road into a
city street from East Twenty-eighth
New lloma of IL B.
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Residence of Dr. O.
ARE NECESSARV
Property-Owners Eecognize
That More Aceommoda
tions.Are Needed.
The rumor of one, of even more, new ;
first class hotels for Portland in the
near future will not be downed. The
demand has existed for a long time, and
with the rapid growth of the city the
, demand has now become lnsistsnt. Last
summer the first class hotels here
could not take care of over 80 per cent
of the people who came to them. Rates
for rooma advanced from $1 to $1.60
for single rooms on the European plan,
still the demand kept up.
At one time last summer every hotel
in the city was full at 2 o'clock in the
afternoon, with a waiting list of over
60 In one of them, and metr sat In the
corridors as late its llaclock before
they could get a roomrhls was not
an exceptional case, either, for the con
dition existed more or less intense for
some weeks during the period of heavy
travel. The fact that it was known
that first diss hotel accommodations
were" 'limited In -Portland kept travel
away from this city last year, and
many who came and' could not get
rooms were compelled to go on either
to Seattle or to Ban Francisco. ,
As things stand today in this city the
hotels even at this -season of the year
never average less than 90 per cent of
their rooms full. At least 600 rooms
could be filled easily if another hotel
of the better grade was here to take
care of the demand.
Hob Hill Hotel.
Last week a deal was closed by C. K.
Henry whereby the entire block bound
by Davis, Couchi Seventeenth and Eight
eenth streets, changed hands. Whether
this is to be used for a new hotel to
cover the entire block cannot now be
ascertained. Inside rumors also point
to' the plot of ground on the corner of
Fourth and Alder streets as a site for
a new hotel. This piece of -ground Is to
be covered by a modern building this
summer, to be erected by the Hotel In
vestment company.. The block on Fifth
street in. Surveyors are at work estab
lishing the- grades. -There is a fair
prospect for a new street railway line
on this road as soon as grades are
fixed.
Residence of P. A.
mORE HOTELS
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Rice, East. Eighteenth and Clackamas Streets
T. Trommald, East Tenth and Multnomah Streets.
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Nearly Completed Residence of P. A. Carlander, East Seventeenth and Halsey Street.
and Stark, owned by Gay Lombard, will
be covered by a hotel building.
The new Cornelius hotel will open
May IE, under the management of H.
K. Clark, recently head clerk of the
Portland. This will add 160 rooms to
Portland's hotel accommodations, but
thst is only a drop in the bucket. The
Hotel Lenox has C. N. Bennett for its
new manager, who for two years was
manager of the Mltchel hotel in Everett,
Washington. Tull & GlbbB now control
the Lenox, having taken control April
21.
With the traveling public having to
wait from 10 to 16 hours for a hotel
room, and then often rorced to go at
midnight to some cheaper rooming
house, and having to wait for five
roomingn
days to get even an upper berth In a
sleeping car out of the city in any di
rection. It Is high time this city had
more railroad trains and at least 26 to
60 per cent more hotel room than It
bas at present.
Carlander, East Seventeenth and Halsey Streets.
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FOUR DEALS IN ONE
WEEK BY ONE FIRM
The following sales of real estate
were made this week through the Neal
Brown Heal Estate company:
M. J. "Con well, of Forest Grove", to
1P. R. Dickison, of Portland. 68 V, acres
tme mile from Dllley, Washington
oOunty, Oregon; consideration, 14,026.
W. R. Dickison to M. J. Conwell,
residence at 22 Skidmore street, Port
land; consideration, fz.iw.
Neal Brown, of Portland, to John
Senner, of Portland, 60 acres two miles
west or Gaston; consideration, 12,700.
aenc9 corner of- East Nineteenth and
Oregon streets; consideration, 2,700.
Tomorrow, the 11th. positively the last
day tor discount on west side gas bins.
Remittances must be received before
discount period expires. Portland Gas Co.
CHICAGO: POLICE
STAND BY CHIEF
Officers Refuse s to Say Col
lins - Ordered Them to
- s - Work for; Dunne. ;
' (United Piees Leased Wire.) '
Calcago, May B.-r-Wltnesses for the
state having disappointed him -upon the
stand in the trial of ex-Chief of Police
Collins and 'Attorney Frank 'Comerford
on the charge of using their official po
sitions for political purposes. State's
Attorney Healy announced tonight that
he would begin - action at once for per
jury against the witnesses. V The wit
nesses were policemen, who were ex
pected to testify that Collins had in
structed them to ignore their beats and
help the candidapy of -Dunne for mayor
two years agov .
Tbo policemen all exonerate their did
chief, however. r r .
, 1 . Kondav Is the Day
To buy ladies' suits. Some of the most
wonderful bargains ever offered In this
city; what you pay ? 25 for elsewhere
will be $14.50 st Le Palais Royal, Mon
day. 37S "Washington stidet. ' ,
PUT UP
Ul IG
FOR
A: Fleshman "Will 'Accom
modate Oriental Tenants
on N. Fourth Street
A-three story brick building 100 feet
square to cost $30,000 is to be erected
fat once by A. Fleshman' on Fourth street
between Flanders and Ollsan streets to
rent to Chinese. D. Lysen is named in
the building permit just issued as the
builder. A. Fleshman, the owner, is a
shoe merchant at $47 Morrison street.
"The lower floor will be ror cninese
stores,' . said a representative of . Mr.
Fleshman yesterday. -"The two upper
I stories- will be used for a Chinese lodg
I lng house, or such other purposes as
may develop The building will be
among At best or its tuna, d
built with':
the object or giving i
place for the Chinese
th hnat claaa. -
clean, sanitary
Of ' this city of
"Thev make arood tenants, ana are an
Important part of the business life of
this city, especially , in regard io our
growing trade with China, tm time
i haii rone by. both for the. good of the
Chinese themselves and the health of
the- city in general, ror tne cninese to
he crowded Into dark, old tumble-down
rookeries, - such as many of them now
occupy. I propose to provide a com'
para lively
y first
class place' for them ;
' ftaSrWnaftsV.sVa'IIMftgl HMftll&Attmi
that is, for the better class. The Chi
nese are rapidly going down to the lo
cality where I am going- to begin to put
up this building as soon as we can get
under way. '
RESIDENCE LOTS
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Speculative Feature Absent
Most Elaborate Concrete
House in City.
The many nsw homes being built in
Highland and Lincoln Park annex.
well as greatly , Increased school at
tendance at the 'Highland school, are
Indicative of growth In tha northeast
corner of Portland,, ionproved streets
and opening of new ones throws on the
realty market new tracts of land for
homes, and active buying has resulted.
These tracts, like many . others In
Portland, hay been all sold out by the
original owners, those who subdivided
tne property ana put it on the market
Transfers in these sections are be
tween individual buyer and seller, and
In most cases a sale results In the
building of one or more homes.
Sunnyside is another example of this
activity that' is noted Dy smaller deal
ers who have - not the selling of one
addition more in mind than another,
The speculative feature Is largely ab
sent in such transactions, although
property In such localities is sure of
ncrease. r f ';
Among dwellings neartng comoletion
in Piedmont, the cement block house
being built by Messrs. Parrlsh and
Thompson is more pretentious than any
yet constructed in Portland, having an
elaborate portico of broad dimensions,
Including1 columns of cement, one piece
from floor to celling. These columns
are the largest single pieces noted in
local cement construction. "A
EXPERIMENT STATION
HESULTS IN KLAMATH
(Special Pispatcb to The JgssaaL) '
Klamath -Falls,- Or, May - The
grains, grasses and trees planted by the
government as an experiment are doing
well. The cool weather has retarded
the growth somewhat, but W. H. Heile
man of the reclamation service, who is
In charfce of all experimental work, is
well satisfied with the resulta He ex
pects to experiment later with a hardy
rass mat win oe sown on tne canal
anks. This will add greatly to the
beauty of the country as well as keep
tne nanas in Detter conaition, .
GRANT'S PASS PUTS
ON THE SPEED LIMIT
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(SpeeUd Dlspateb to The' Joonud.)
Grants Pass, Or, May t.Th city
council has passed an ordinance limit
ing tha speed of motorcars to It miles
per hour within "the city limits. Other
restrictions are also placed upon driv
ers, such as keeping to the right. slowV
ing aown to six miles an hour at-corners
and stopping when passing fright
ened teams. Violators of the ordinance
win oe punished? by a fine of from $20
to $100, or a Jail sentence of from five
i 4"v oays, or oom. l - . '
L. WHITE, Ohlmf mt Stmtf
"GENTIE DENTISTRY"
Mt WUflMgTOT It, Ml. Ilfr SROIt Rail I7SI
kaMkuuTrwtaidf. otw MSare-alr &Lm lur
CHANGING
HANDS
It 11 RINTDM
ii ,) Is the ch6fcest addition within the four-mile circle; and the1
fi mot reasonablfc in price of
M The building activity in this
tnanever. oetore. . , ,
If you buy for a home you know you will never have heavy
street imprpvements ; you are close tos streetcars and in '
a section of the city where good homes are being built ,
If you buy for an investment, the indications seem to show
that a greater proportionate return on your' money will
be made in this locality than in any other, .
Lots are now selling at from $175 to $300 each, on easy
terms. Investigate this property and judge for yourself.
Take W. W.' car at Third and Yamhill, get off at Woodstock
Station ; the property lies east the sign points the way.
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Donald is situated on the Oregon- Electrio Railway," half way be
tween Portland and Salem. On account of the fine fruit district sur
rounding the townslte it is bound to make the best town on the Una.
It is the Intention of the company to sen these lots, as they want a
hundred different people Interested in this townslte.
B1AUT1TU1
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Tuesday,Mayl2, 1 908
v . TBBKSt OITB EiLT CASH I OWB UU OHX TBAJL
I ONE LOT GIVEN AWM
When the sals-begins at ft o'clock noon, every person on the ground
win De preseniea wun a iicaei,
chance on one or the best lots on
ciose ox tne sate witnoui pnoa
EXCURSION
A rate of one and one third fare has been secured from all points
between Portland and Salem to Donald for this day.
Train leaves Salem 9:05 a. m., returning leaves Donald 3:21 p. m.
. Round trip, 06c, .
Train leaves Portland S:iB a. m., returning leaves' Donald 4:11 p. m.
Round trip, tl.OS. - ...... ... . ..
uvszo mr iaxxis htutabt baits itbjsh r.xnrcK oir oboubbs
AT wooir. . .
The Donald Townsite and Land Co.
' B. J- X. OrLBTJUT, Auetioasm. T. If. DBXBT, Manager, Salem, Or.
Terlliir
The Scenic Addition of South Portland
One Hundred Fifty Lots in this Tract
tfovr offered for sale at prices ranging from
$400 UP
Served by three electric carlines, eight to ten minutes' ride from the
business center; walking distance.
: - This Is Your Opportunity
To proctfre a homesite or an investmet on the West Side, right in
the city, with fine view of snow-capped mountains, East Portland
nd Willamette River. Lots 50x100. Streets 60 and 80 feet wide.
TERMS $100
Down, balance monthly or quarterjy payments; interest 6 per cent.
GO OUT TODAY and look them over. Take any south-bound car
on Second or Third street, get off on Corbett, between Seymour and
Richardson avenue. Salesman on the ground -to show property. For
further particulars inquire of
J. C. COSTELLO
Phone Main S177.
Yet, OPPbRTlWlTY is
Chocking
at
IT IS A CHANCE TO MAKE MONEY -
An Acre for the Price of a Lot
Midland
Acre
AT LENTS
Title Guarantee C& Trust Co. also Oregon Saving:
, C& Trust Co. accounts taken in payment
. - IT PAYS TO SEE US v
CHAPIN Q, HER.LOW
332 Chamber of Commerce. Phone Main 1652
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any other property so situated.
part of the city is greater today .
Phone at Office, Sellwood 1234.
AUCTION SALE
OF TOWNSITE I
WILL BS SOLS
BZSDia OS
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B30K-
wnion win entitle tne noiaer to
the sue, to be given away
at the
331 Chamber of Commerce.
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