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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY . MORNING, JUNE 28, 1803. DUILDIilG SIRS LIB IS EASIER Borrowed , Capital in Many SEATTLE W IIIILlPliOHELlili Local v Commercial Bodie Could Profit by Steps Taken oa Sound. I '-n.-u . xujsiueuixa. PROPOSED PORTLAND . HEIGHTS 'ROADWAY TO BE SCENIC WONDER OF WEST BjsaMsBssssswsjssesaajaaB-ssssaaBs njijw..wm"'-,n' .. . W. -nwv.jv.-,.: r i . ..mm iiy n'! mvrjjw awm.' ' w.V m is, i ij i i ji V i ja ij js'.y.iMPftw. ss sssss j i w, j : . gu.ii i i mrm ww y:rwB.ii vi j . hi jKsfl wsjaws'WTWesjsss isswj i.ihwwmt wytgwrf HWW W'-M-W w , jl i,ww!www That money ' U eaarfer In Portland than it has been for at least a year Is evidenced by the large ajnount of apart ment bouse and flat construction that is under war and being planned for the remaining sunnier months. ' ' As a rule, nearly all new. building is dona, with borrowed capital." re marked a Third street money broker. '! ob not mean to ear ?nt au or even a a majority ol new buildings are put up f entirely with borrowed monv. but the fact Is that very few people have enough roaay casn to carry mrougn tneir ouiia ing enterprises and as a result nearly all new construction Is partly financed with borrowed capital." Another Indication of an easier money market, so far as Portland is concerned, ; the ..freer movement . In city ; real estate. In -the ordinary residence lot transactions, but little borrowed eaplcal Is employed; but tn the larger deals in Inside property, a part of the considera tion la nearly always borrowed either from the banks or individuals.- There have been no less than a doxsn ales of Portland business property ne- fotlated since June 1, while for the hree months prior- to that date, there were not half that number of transac tions In high priced holding It has Aieen the contention all along of many local 1 realty brokers,- that real ' estate conditions nere were normal, ana tnat when the banks saw fit' to adopt a more liberal policy In making loans on central property that the old time ac tivity would return. .' :-ri..-..-i Hood River fruit lands are again at tracting the attention of Portland in vestors. C. E. Fields and P, H. Lyman of Reed, Fields & v Lyman, have lust purchased a ISO-acre tract of wild land seven miles from the town of Hood Riv er. The tract Is very. fertile, overlooks the famous Hood, River valley and Is Ideally located for fruit culture, . The purchasers plan to clear the entire tract and set it In fruit trees. I anotner sale recently made In the Hood river country was that of a 20 acre tract nurchased hv E. H OnnM of Portland from H. M. Abbott. This is an unproved holding and sold for 110,000. TRAIN FORTUNATELY - FLL UP THE HILL . ' (United Prase Leaaed Wire.) Haielton, Pa,, June !7. One man was killed and ten were Injured in : the wreck of a passenger train at Lofty, 11 miles east of here, early today, In vestigation shows that the wreck was caused by spikes pieced in the rails with the Intention, of derailing -he train, and detectives are searching for clues to the Identity of the wreckers. The accident occurred on a steep moun tain grade. The train was composed of an engine, a combination car and a day coach and" was filled with workmen, mostly miners, when the engine hit the spiked rails, the cars toppled over toward the mountain. Had they fallen the other way the train ' would have V ,,wwiv:':vvA (::: - . , 5 F v ly'-yy- - ' - 1 - - . . -: ' v ' :- :: K. ,. i - ..... :;::'. i '!''' i . .; -,. .:,: r . . ' i... I'.-...-: v-. V1-' 11 w i , x- . v.-. , . K 4 jrT k ' vr - o-'vii4::.;:::;::;.;:: '"If ' " j jr. n ix ii WW- :(T1 i, 3k f " a- f 1 ' Diagram 'showing route of roadway winding towards summit of heights. If the plans of the Portland Heights View from driveway would be excelled no place In the world. residents and the Civic Improvement Association, with respect to the widen ing and ' Improvement of. Vista avenue, Portland Heights, from the Ford street bridge to Twentieth street, 1 ar carried out,. Portland will hava one of the fin est scenio roadways In the country. . When R. Jl. Thompson. city engineer of . Seattle, was in Portland recently, he ' was taken for a drive ever Vista avenue, and. upon the plan of the pro- Sosed improvement being explained to lm, he trave it his unqualified approval and predicted that thousands of visitors would come to Portland annually for bo other purpose than to take In. the splendid view to be enjoyed in a drive along Vista avenue. The plan as prepared by Olmstead Brothers, landscape architects of Brook line. Massachusetts, calls for a 60-foot street from the south end of the Ford street bridge to Twentieth street. On the improved part of the avenue, the car tracks are to be set in close to the wall, and a roadway 26 y, feat wide will be curbed off from the car tracks. On both sldea of the Improved avenue. will be concrete walls averaging SO feet in height, one to retain the upper em bankment and the other as a support to the widened roadway, much of which will necessarily be a fill. On both sides of the avenue, for its full length, will be a concrete sidewalk. City Engineer Taylor has suggested to the committee having the improve ment in hand, that the plans of Olm stead Brothers be changed In some minor particulars. Engineer Taylor proposes, to make several of the curves sharper and to set the roadway deeper Into the hills on the west side, in order to avoid the necessity of building such high supporting concrete walls on the east side of the drive. These changes have been approved by E. L. Thompson, chairman of the committee from the Portland Heights Improvement association, and at the meeting of the street committee of the city council this week Mr. Thompson and Mr. Taylor will ask that the altered plans be adopted. Jt Is proposed to have the whole cf Portland' Heights and Council Crest formed Into an Improvement district by the council, and the cost of the widening and improving of this avenue, which Is estimate by the city engineer at $160,000, assessed arainst the prop erty of the whole Heights district. The property holders along that part of the avenue to be widened are earnestly In favor of the plan. In siite of tha fact that In places the widened roadway will cut Into their property 20 to 25 feet. Mrs. Preston Smith and Judge M. C, George, the most extensive owners of realty along the avenue, are lending every aid to tha committee engaged In harmonizing the different Interests Involved. been thrown down a 60-foot embank ment. , , . .. Engineer ; Aaron Raub of Pottsvllle was killed almost instantly and 10 pas sengers In the first coach were Injured. The Injured were brought to the state hospital here. . -. . rfEW YEARS BRINGS ABOUT GREAT. ' CHANGE AT UNIVERSITY PARK iiiUlimilii i i in l iiiii iwimimmw i u nniL.iiminiii,iiniiinii muni- "" ihiihiihihi lki I iihhm 1 t 1 , , :.:1ws;';'", ' " .'v:. " -. ' "" vmWMm ' S , - : w ; . - t V' -.& . v-.I-r1 . '-. lj rj : -::-;v, . f . c ... vW. "t". ' " .: V -. " . . - - ; ' i a i v ( ' , , " ''',- , . , ' . I Hi iMiimsniiaw n iimimii i i iin iHiiim iinniiiM.M. man ml iine.iminiTi u. in J Residence of L. Hlnkston, 661 Dawson street. University Park : : An unusually- large number of the above type of dwellings are being con- ! H WV U . ... . W. w. , .1 t ' BkMU portsmouth'dlstrlota. Contractor D. 8. : Walton, who settled on the peninsula 17 .,r, mm mrA -vtiA lias iHiTf )i, Aiairini 1 change from a brush field to a modefn thriving realdenoe suburb, with a popu lation of 10.000 or more, has built a numtwr of this type of homes. The building is 36 by 26 feet and-contains six full-slsed rooms and the necessary closets, oantry and bath room, and costs about $1,800. Tha Interior finish cf the building Is stained fir. The parlor and dining room are done In imitation mahogany, and the bath room Is in white. , i V ; tsiflwiiMs- .M ,J v KesideacA ot Mrs. Ida I. West, 1011 Mississippi areauo. BIGBU1LDIHGF0R PAPER COHY Pacific Firm to Erect Six story Brick at Fourth andAnkcny. Arrangements hava been perfected by thePaolflo Paper company for tha erection of a- six-story brick building on the Quarter block at the northeast corner of Fourth and Ankeny streets. Architects M-cNaughton, Raymond and Laurence ar preparing the plana for tha structure, which Is to be of the mill cor traction, alow burning typo and will cost about 7 6,000 to build. , It will be exclusively for the occupancy of the paper company and will be designed to mtrl the requirements of such a bust- nens. The Paolfle Paper company purchased two years ago the half block on the north side of Arkeny street extt-ndlng front Fourth to Fifth streeta The east half of this property will ba occupied by the above structure .and on the west half, wh'oh la the northeast oci ner of Fifth and Ankenv. will be erected at otice a one-story brick structure for store t nooses. On- this corner ci'arda What ft "known as the oldest school house In Portland, a small dilapidated one-story frame structure Hugh McOuire manager of the Paciflo Paper company, will notify the Oregon Historical society of the proposed Improvement of this site and tittir to viva to tha aocletv tha school house in event it Is desired to- remove it to some other location and preserve it as one of the valuable relics of pioneer days In Portland. . , , FOREST GE0VE MAY . LOSE R. D. SERVICE Bonds Diverging From City Must Be Repaired Before Winter Sea- , . son Seta In. . (Special DUpatea to The JoomaLl Forest Grave, Or., June 2". Postmas ter H. C. AtweU has received a letter from the fourth assistant postmaster general calling his attention to tha con dition of tha roads over which the two rural routes out of thi) city run. The. roads are said to need improving and if thev are not repaired this summer the service will be discontinued. The let ter to Mr. Atweu reaas: "The department has this day called the attention of road officials to the bad condition of roads on routes one and two. You will take uo the matter Wlin uie ruuu oxiicikib uiu pnmi in terested, and inform them that unless all roads . covered by rural delivery from your office are properly repaired during the present summer season and ? laced In good condition so that unln errupted service can be maintained throughout tha year, tha withdrawal of rural aeuvery rrora neglected roaaa wiu very likely follow. s "Failure to. comply with this require ment should be reported In ample time to admit of consideration of amend ments ot routes before the beginning of winter." .!':..:,.,, . a U. S. SENATOR HEYBURN TO BE BOISE'S GUEST (Special Diapetcb to Tbe JoeraaLV ? Boise. Idaho. June 17. United BtateS Senator W. B. Heyburn will deliver the Fourth of July address in Boise this year, and a committee) has been ap pointed by the commercial club to re ceive the senator.' Boise Is to hold a three-days' celebration, July 1 to 4, , CHEHALIS GUARDS SUSPECTED FIREBUG (Special Plupatoh to- The joutnaLt Chehalia. Wash.. June , 27. Afavnr West has appointed two mora night watchmen, with instructions to arrest all suspicious characters. The precau tion is taken on account cf recent In cendiary flrea at Tenlno. Centralis, and Chaballf, .-, , ,; .;, , . . &tiZ.A-?&: ':"!1:-ia.i yiS A", t;-i-'i-;ir,;,m;;'ti.v.;ii: t;.:.. ;,r f .. lj : : Lf?5 m "Civic Improvement" has baen adopted sea slogan In Seattle. The newspapers and residents of the Puget aouod city are discussing a plan for . beautifying and- Improving the city on a scale much greater than e anything heretofore at tempted. Some of the leading citizens have brought forward a comprehensive flan of civic; improvement for 8ettl hat might well be looked into by 1 ort land."". In the opinion of some of the more wide awake citizens of Portland, the time ha come when something must be done toward formulating a general scheme for the guidance of tha munici pal authorities In beautifying and im proving this city. The Seattlu plan as outlined by A. Warren Gould, a prominent resident of that city, it 11 follow: An , effort will be made between now and the next aosslon of tha legislature to oreate a sentiment strong enough to pass a bill authorizing the appointment of a com mission composed of representative men to formulate a comprehensive piaa of clvlo improvement. "We who are Interested in tha plan believe that all of improvement clubs, commercial bodies and others interested In the development of Seattle will taka hold of the question with sufficient earnestness that something may be ac- 1 eompllshed this year. "A law will be introduced in tha next legislature which will legallza the ap pointment of a commission to be com posed of persons representing every da partmcnt of clvlo life. Every commer cial body in the city should be repre sented. Business men, worklngmen, architects, lawyers, clergy, bankers, aa well as tha various city departments. should be included. "This body should be authorised to Frepare a plan for clvlo improvement or the future. When a plan has ben evolved, it should, of oourse, be sub mitted to the peopla for their consid eration and approval. The scheme for clvlo improvement which this commis sion . would work out properly would lnolude tha selection of a clvlo center,, boulevards, seawalls, narks, lights, tun rels. grades, and all kindred subjects. unce a plan is aaoptea ty the peo ple the city authorities would have something definite to be guided by in following out imDrovement work. This large plan would be followed. Every piece of work undertaken and com pleted would be a part of tha general scneme. ana wouia do in narmony wita what has already been completed. "It Is very essential that a work of this kind be started soon enough. De lays of years in eastern cities and on the continent hava necessitated fh total destruction of buildings more val uable than any in Seattle. "Probably the city where a comore- henslvn municipal Improvement schema has been mapped out' and developed most extensively In Washington. D. C. The Improvement in Waanlngton dates back to tha time of President Washing ton, uieveiano. unio, baa an excellent clvlo Improvement, plan, and tho work. Is well advanced. Chicago. St. Louis, and Boston are cities whera a great work has been mapped out for years to come." - - . . ... ' Here la a suggestion for the benefit of the .new clvlo Improvement commit tee and tha Portland realty board, both organisations having recently taken, up the question of developing the park, boulevard and streeta of Portland, that tnu natural opportunities for making a beautiful and attraotive city may be improved Dalles Cherry Fair Preparation. (Special Dltnatch to Tht Journal.) The l)anes. Or., June J7. Prepara tions for The Dalles Cherry fair, which commences June 30, are Bearing comple tion. The first day of the fair will be market day, on which date there will ba a parade. There will also be a free auction by the Business Men's aaaocla- - tion. Thera wiu ba no Fourth of Julv celebration. All The Dalles oeonle who celebrate will go either to Hood River or jjuiur. .. Owing to instructions In the will of W. W. Wilson, auctioneer.- South-ond-. on Sea, England, his favorite pony fol lowed him to the grave and was shot at Blllerlcay. BBaawsjSMSBSBissjBBaaBBHBaaMMKaBHBH m cJOHN B.HARR.IU3TON Hf EAaST is in and oak. HOOD RIVER TRACTS (II ACTIVE DEfilAi Local Firm .Negotiating Many Sales of Oregon's Famous Fruit Lands. That Hood P-tver apples " and fmlt lands hava advertised Oregon more wide ly than any other medium or resource la the conviction of MacRae A Angus, exclusive dealers In Oregon fruit land a F. W. Angus of this firm, who handles tha business at Hood River, visited the f ortiano orrioe tn tne Chamber of Com merce Wednesday and stated to The Journal that June had proven a banner month in the valley and that prospects pointed io me uiggesi summer ana ran business that section has ever known. "The financial strlnaencv in the nt and middle west has - turned all eves on Oregon and other sections of the Pacing northwest," ha said, "and tho result has been that a fine class of moneyed neoDle are looklno- for invest ments and homes. We have sold orchard properties and uncleared fruit lands In Hood River valley this spring to the kind of peopla one generally expects to meet in the most cultured circles of eastern aocletv: and - thnaa twinla are now uvmK uu meir new possessions. Active Demand for Trffs. "We now' have soma capitalists clos ing up their eastern affairs and nego tiating for , several thousand acres of fruit lands in Hood River which they Intend planting to, orchards. All this promises well f er the valley and for union KcneraiiT. zor n in nrincrino mon ey and tha right kind -of peopla to our "Our firm has received InnufrlM shout Hood River fruit lands from every state in the union durlnar th thru months just ended and our mall is flooded daily wun inquiries xrom tne most Important fruit . centers of the country outside Hood River Itself. This is due in a measure to the fact that nn mint other districts hava been visited by late frosts or disastrous storms, and fruit rrowers are coming to realize that Oregon's tine climate goes a long ways towards suc cessful fruit cultura "Hood RivefMa verr oroud of tb fact that she has never lost a crop and this fact la attracting manv hnrtiniiitnr- ists from other sections. .This is par ticularly true in reference to Colorado and Montana; the recent floods in the latter state causing great dissatisfac tion amonar both horticulturists and agriculturists. "a am just closing-up a sale with soma nrominent Callforniana tnAn-r " Mr. Angus continued, "and these parties are delighted with Hooa Klver vallev and all of western Oregon. They tell me they have thoroughly Investigated con ditions and prospects In both states and feel that we offer far mora, both present and future, than ' anything in California We are alwavs narticularlv nroud of galea, to ..dur neighboring state, .for Iti 'li t fi i M-ff r! L ' r- i t lis , - g JN - iJJ ' . 4 ' " ' ' 'l- " 1 sJisSiAM'SS 11 1 f 'Iiiii i ni i iiVr.tinWi-iVlV74- riifi-MV-'1 I 1 f "" 185 EAiST ' 15TH ST I r-rv; - t , : ' ' 1 ' i fc. -"v 1 : r r c - . - I my.tivy.'-i-yyt . f ... H , : ii s x r ahows that Callforniana are oomlng to realise that Oregon la tha right state for fruit. "Incidentally I might mention that wa are now corresponding with prospec tive - buyers in England, Jamaica and Yukon territory, all of whom had heard so much about Hood River apples that they wrote for information about the vallev. In this connection, a buver In one of the large department stores here In Portland told us the other day that ha did not know much about Hood River until he went to New York and there ha saw Hood ' River apples advertised everywhere. Including tile densrtment atorea 'I had never paid any attention . V . .1 .- w-w. " ".in, UUL WUW I saw these apples advertised In tha storea on the fruit stands, in tha hotels and even on the Pullman cars. I thought ii lime o iuugaw want we nava nere in Oregon. We expect to maka a. moat enthusiastic orchardlst cut of this man, but he had to go to New York to be convinced that Oregon was a. , great place." . " .. . . j - i ii . n mmim .... POETLAND 1LVN i r BUYS FRUIT TRACT Through this arencv of Devlin s.nrt rirefcaugh, tha H. M. Abbott 1H acre ranch in Hoed River ; valley has boon Hold to E. Gould of Portland for $10,000. This tract is situated In the neart of the fine fruit district aid is considered , a cheap buy at tha price, noarly J60C the acre. Debts are about the onlr things that crow, bigger by. contraction, ,
