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6 THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING. AUGUST 9,' 1908. OUR YEARS TO COMPLETE 4,000,000 YARD; FILL ON' THE EAST SIDE Hi JSP2" " , ;li I r 3 k t f ! V V 4 "lift )l,''v v 1 ) 1 v v I r s ' , ' v $ . : ' , i i Scooping 4,000,000 yards of sand and Snivel from the bottom of the Willam ette river, employing the heaviest and inoat powerful machinery In use In Portland, for the reclamation of two and one half miles of east side streets, la the task assumed by the Pacific Bridge company In Its big east aide fill contract. Nearly four yeara will be required In completing thfs fill work and when It la dono a vast amount of property In the east aide wholesale and ware house district will have been made Im mensely valuable. In some instances the value will be Increased four fold. But this Is not the only benefit that ' Portland Is destined to derive from the making of the east side street f!ll9 4,000,000 cubic yards of fill material taken from the bed of the Willamette river will result In making a J6-foot channel from harbor line to harbor line, for a distance of eight or 10 blocks. This la an Improvement that Is not costing; the taxpayers a dollar and yet la a work of great value to, the Port of Portland. The contract of the Pacific Bridge company with the city provides for making; a full 60-foot wide fill to take th place of the old condemned, ele vated plank roadways along the follow ing streets: Kast Stark street from "Water to East Seventh, work Just com pleted; East Sixth, from Water to East Oak; East Washington, from East Sixth to East Eighth; East Eighth, from Belmont to East Washington. Kast Morrison, from East Seventh to East Ninth; East Ninth, from Division to Taggart: East Salmon, from Water to Union avenue. All told, this amounts to about two and one half miles of streets. ! Lowlands are ruled. In addition to the street fills, the Pacific Bridge company has the con tract to fill the lowlands bounded by Hawthorne avenue. Belmont street. I'nlon avenue and East First street Most of this area Is now a hole in tha ground having but little value, which when rilled to basement level will be come a valuable portion of tho past Bide warehouse district. The elimina tion of the last of the elevated road ways and the making of fill streets in the low-lying lands on the ea.it side will add a large and valuable district to the wholesale and warehouse area of tho city. When the question of making these fills was first presented to the publio there was considerable apprehension up on the part of property-owners in the district lest the cost of making the, fills would result In a practical oonfls cation of the abutting property. This fear, however, disappeared when it was shewn that a 60-foot lot in tho district would only be taxed about J2.00H to ! pay for the fill work In front of It I 'Without the fill, property In the dls- j trlct was almost unsalable, while lots on East Stark street, fronting on the; recently completed fill, h.ive a cash valuation of from $8,00 to Jin.nnn, one propertv owner having recently re fused $30,000 for n half Work frontlns the Stark street fill. Payments Are Reg-ulated. Property owners In the fill district have the option of paying for the fill work In cash or of bonding their prop erty and paying the bonds In 10 an nual Installments, with 6 per cent In terest. Several have elected to nav In cash, but a majority of those owning. abutting lots adopt tne 10-year bond ing plan and thus meet the obligation in a way that works but little hardship. A very few years ago, when nil the streets traversing the east side low lands were wooden trestles, the most favorably situated property in the dis trict would hardly sell for $5,000 a lot, while within the past 12 months un improved quarter-blocks in tho district have brought $25,000. Of course it Is not pretended that this large Increase In values Is alone attributable to the le,t- ' 1 " "" 'J " 1 1 i m ..i mi efrrrvvvrrnn rCV"V"V-l h - fy r.i Ain K r"7f: ", r,,,.,, a , , .; ;z :;;:;::.:i.::L,;.zn m uuuiJuiiiBiiuiiiiiBi nuiii i - "in up- ii i in 'in 'i in i iTTwrnni ii" 1 rum inn 1 ting of the fill contract, but the pros pect of permanent filled streets through tho district had much to do with the increase in values there. been constructed. Seven hundred horse power is required to start this bucket. A commendable .public spirit Is shown by the Portland Railway. Light & Power company in permitting tne ra An Immense outlay of money was re- r!flo Rrtilie cormanv to onerate Its iiuire ! In or ler to economically mak I cars over the electric lines. While the ;li.so filLs. Before a yard of material j urH used lti transporting the material Im.l been lifted from the river bottom nseil In mnklne- thn fllln Interfere, to una transported 10 mo streets 10 im filled the Pacific Bridge company ex pended about $:'0nj000 In building a powerful dredge, erecting a Oantry crane tho first of Its kind In Portland building barges, trumcars and other necessary equipment and In installing electric power equipment. Hug's Sooop of SteeL The big steel scoop on the dredge re quires 1.200 horsepower to operate It In bringing four cubic yards of gravel and sand from the bottom of the river. Over 2,000 yards of material u scooped up by this big dipper every "Jo hours. A night force will soon be put on the dredge which will bring the daily ca pacity up to over 4,000 cubic yards. Two 200-horsepower motors are re quired to operate the grab bucket which lifts the material from the barges and deposits It on the cars where it is houled out to the fills. Tho grab bucket operated by this Gantry crane has a capacity of three cubic yards and la the largest of Its kind that has ever Home extent with the regular schedules maintained on the electric lines, the street railway company recognlsa the volim and importance of the work a-nd submits to the temporary Inconvenience. Worse Still. From the Saturday Journal. The boy's mother had him by the ear, and In her upraised hand there wai a menacing stick. "I'll learn ye to tie the kettle to the cat's tail:" she yelled. "It wasn't our cat!" cried the fright ened boy. "No. It wasn't our cat," almost shrieked the enraged mother. "But It was our kettle!'1 It Hot KnonRh for Yon?" From the Atchison Globe. About one third of a man's time is spent asking questions that never should have been asked. As- (flj' aan flljllj 'fy;?. A laBliaMaaMaytaMBaaMBaaWalBjAVkkaV Train Loaded With Gravel Ready to B Dumped Into Fill. Grab Bucket That Brings Up Gravel. Dredga Titan at Work in Harbor. Huge Gantry Crane and Bankers on East Side of the Willamette. $200,000 GOES INTO NEW COUNTY ROADS THIS YEAR Under the supervision of Road Sup erintendent H. B. ChapmaD, Multnomah pounty will expend about $200,000 dur ing 1908 In the construction of new roads and In addition something like 125,000 will be used in road mainten ance during the coming winter. lp to date this year about $65,000 has been expended in new roads, but the road making equipment and force will bi? largely Increased for the remainder of. the year, thus insuring the building cf twice as much macadamized road In the last half of the year as during tha lirst half The county is in miifh better shape now for doit:? effec'ive road building than ever before, many thousands of dollars having been expended In pur chasing first-class road-making machin ery. The county now owns four stand Bid road toilers, one Port Huron trac tion engine and two portable enginns. four Aurora rock crushers and one Aus tin pyratorv crusher. .tOK-ther with a large amout.t of other necessary ma-ehliier-v nrwi tools employed In scientific rend building. Macadam Does Sown. About one mile of macadam road per month is being built from the road making plant at Kully Butte. The liase Unf rop.d has ben treated to a heavy coat of ruM'c.l rock from East Forty necinl street l" Motita villa, a distance of about 2 miles, there connecting 1 with the macadamized road running east to tho Twelve-Mile house and on to the Sandy ftlver valley. A large amount of work has been done this summer on the Germantown road In widening and macadamizing. This road is 2 miles long to the ton of the mountain and accommodates a heavy travel coming Into Portland from the rural districts of Washington coun ty. It intersects the highway known as the Sky Ldne road over which a large portion of the travel from the west will hereafter enter Portland. The ky Line road Is t tie old Cor nell road running north and west along the summit of the Mils skirting the west hank of the Willamette river. When complet'-d this road Is destined to become Portland's most popular scen ic drive. The view In many places is e.nsurj assed, overlooking eastern Mult nomah e.s well as a most beautiful farming country to the west, and com manding a splendid outlook of the Cas cades und the heavily timbered slopes of the '"oast range. At numerous points along this high way live Hnow-rappd mountains, Jloot Helens Adams, Jefferson und Rai nier, may he seen After much annoy ing dclav and considerable trouble, the county has succeeded in getting this road relocated and now the rond Is be ln widened from 30 to 40 feet and the grades materially reduced. A large force of men Is at work on the nnyon toad, which leads over the mountains, pa.st the poor farm, to SWvar. and lieaverton. carrying a very WXkkdtM Mil ' fllM J iMilrTfh 'fiTi--- VBy.r'tli OTwiHWllI hf.cjtinrniriir Residence of E. M. Miller. Shearer Street and Haight Avenue. . "-' J i V ' " i ! 0 ' I A ' A heavy travel. With one exception It IS probably the most traveled road leading info Portland, ns it traverses a rich gardening am dairying district. Every highway leading eit of the city over the hills to the south and west has been given a substantial coat of crushed roch, in other words macadam ized, while no less than 12 public roads leading out of the city have been sim ilarly treated from the c 1 1 -.- limits to the county line. Tho Sard road, running east t, ,-o'!r,i Rose City P.iik. out Columbia slough, and on to Troutdale. Is one of the fin est country roads in regr,n and is Unci with fine farms owned by up-to-date, progressive farmers. One of the finest drives In the state, from which Is to be seen some of 1 )re fon's fnr-fnmed mountain scenerv Is the road running ee.st from Portland across the Handv river, f Mowing the ridge rosd on the brow of rho moun tains to 1-ntoiireile Kalis and Bridal Yell. At sevcrn points CIs ncid Is over 1 f-ftft feet above tl . C.dun.M.i river, from which Is aff..rd-d a rr iir nlflcent view r,f rf C-d-im!la river gorge On tM rond i t ;;'-':. o see the I'H'-nde Tio-i-j-iiot f cl,,Sp range In l! Their na'l e r;i icfs View of Tine Scenery A superb view is t-. lie had of tv lordly ' vd tmbi.i. wlniing Its wiv through tiie mlrht' rift i:i the i 'acii;. nnce spanned bv the llrldge ,,f ih Gods.' The view of the valley the ever m lien1rg rler to -he vv, t an Its er r n lslan'Is is well worth t'-e trip The count- is at th! t'rr ccrvlni: r.n considerable r" t work in the moon. tmns ari'urd Prldal ell. where some eT- client erases are twir.g est.aitllsne pome oiling ha be--n dc-ne o-, the 10-JCRE FARMS FOR SETTLERS Itpalty JJoanl Adopts Plan For the Easy Location of Newcomers. Members of the Portland realty board are deeply Interested in the movement recently Inaugurated of establishing model 10-acre farms near Portland to ell to prospvtlv settlers. The plan was suggested by Whitney !. Boise and i was adopted by the realty board at Its lajit meeting W. H Chajln. of Chapln A Harlow, gives the following explanation of the proposed undertaking: "The realty board is launching a rnr- , : poratlon with a capital stock of $10,000. 1 in- puijfr ,ti lllK Op a JfOfQ- sized tract of land near Portland and es tablishing on this large tract a model Id-ario farm This model farm is to be divided and arranged with the as sistance of T'r Jam's Withycomb of the !tate Agricultural college, together the party who la operating;' this model larm. "Aa the matter now stands, Oregon is spending many thousands of dollars ad vertising her resources to induce people from other states to make Oregon their homo. These people arrive at. we will say Portland, without any idea or knowledge of what they want to do, where they want to go. or what to en gage in. In fact, they are adrift on a sea without compass, sail or rudder If It was not for our exceptionally won derful resources, nine tenths of the peo ple would return to the east discour aged and disgruntled. Telia What But Hot How. "Our literature is filled with what can be done In various products. It cites an example of some man at Mc Mlnnville who produces an enormous amount on a half acre of ground, who planted celery. Another Instance of some man at Aurora who Is devoting his attention to asparagus. Some other man near Montavilla whose time and attention Is taken up with berries. And various other people in widely separated parts of the state are dividing their en ergies to as many different projects as there are men. As this project now stands, the "model farm will improve everv one of these phases. "Tho Agricultural college will issue bulletins regarding this model farm, and strangers can see for themselves the actual bonafldo figures. Just exactly what Is produced on yery acre of ground on this model farm. With an object lesson like this before a pros pective purchaser, it Is very easy to un derstand who he would grasp the idea, select for himself whatever line of agri culture or horticulture he would wish to embark In and then be guided bv the combined experience of the Agricultural college and the director in charge of the model farm. Ho 'allures Allowed. "It will be the policy of this company to see that no purchaser Is allowed to make a failure. Cooperation among the owners will be the watchword. The Idea will ho carried out to the fullest extent in agriculture, tha same as it has been in horticulture in the Hood River valley. It la simply a matter of coop eration. "After one tract Is disposed of, other tracts will be put on the market. This property will be for sale by every mem ber of the realty board. Advertise ments will be inserted throughout the United States under the head of the realty board. Literature will be Issued, giving the names of all tho members of the realt" board, so that customers can select whichever member they see tit. "If some large tract of land is be yond the means or ability of the realty board to hnndle as a corporation, they will sell bonds to lnveste-r-a, tislng the money derived therefrom to purchase properties, to bo divided tip In five and 10-acre tracts. It Is a well-known fact to those who are posted, that Oregon Is not producing Its supply of butter, eggs or pork. "With this intensified farming in 10- acre tracts throughout the valley, there Is no Question but that there will he enough of these products to supply not only Purtland, but the cities on tho Bound. "The stock will be first offered to tho realty board and whatever remains after they have finished subscribing will bo offered to merchants and others who are looking for a good investment. Will Draw Dealrabla Bettlara. "This scheme has been pronounced by railroad men who are engaged In devel opment work to be the most feasible immigration scheme ever instituted. It combines more good points and is more certain of success than any other Im migration scheme ever projected, as It has back of It every real estate man In the city of Portland, and some of tho out-of-town real estate dealers. "It has the backing of the Agricul tural college, the railroads and some of our capitalists. The problem of divid ing large tracts of land In the Willam ette valley has been a very serious one, and almost an impossibility to accom plish. But this protect renders the mat ter comparatively easy, and we believe will do more toward development of Oregon than any other scheme ever pre sented to the people. COLD WATERJVEDDINGS A Marriage Ceremony Consisting of Washing the Head. Marriage among the IIopl, a tribe of the Pueblo Indians, is an institution re garding which those most concerned have least to say. When the parents of a girl find it expedient for her to get married, they look up an available man and negotiate with his parents. After the matter has been arranged the principals are notilied, the girl goes to the home of the bridegroom's parents and grinds corn for them for three weeks, while tiie bridegroom makes a kind of sash for the bride. Then one morning at sunrise they both bathe their heads in coli water, which completes the ceremony. There have been many Instances of the bridegroom refusing to go thtough the performance, says a writer in (tilt ing. It has then proceeded without him and been accounted virlid, and several weeks later he lias yielded and had his head bathed. The Navajo ceremony Is much mora elaborate and Impressive, but thin the N'avajo girls are much nicer. The regu lar tariff on a Navajo girl entering the port of matrimony for the first time 'a 12 horses. On the second occasion tho tax Is nine horses, while subsequent marriages are free. This Is not purchase money, but Is merely a tribute of respect to a mother-in-law and a token of appreciation of the care and expense Involved In bearing and rearing the lady, a recognition not unworthy of consideration bv civilized bridegrooms. On the other hand, and deserving of great condemnation. Is thai law of many tribes, unwritten but of much sanctity, that a man and his mother-in-law shall never meet after the ceremony. "Tou are nil run down," the physi cian said. "1 advise you to go to Paa zazza Hprlngs to recuperate. ' "That Is Impossible," answered the patient. Why?" "I run the hotel at Pazzazza Springs." GRADING STREETS IN IRVINGTON I?. jB. Clef Saperia Undent of Ko4s for Ma:taemah County, courtv mads of MuDn-'mnh alt t cci Rti 1 1 n ,ne corps 01 1 ne instructors or t ha t as vet this method of trea!ntr r-nMio lnatirtitlon. The manager of the Swift Idebwiv s has been t.-it pttle ,: ) r packing plant will f jrnlah plans for this county. A small bit of -ve San lv modern nognooses. ron running through th farm -f P. 1 Intensified rannlnf. roberLa.fto'i 'roTi , Hazelwood fre.mery company of 'he PM I.lne rVi Vs. s, ' TJ" rrr"?'' "LS"11' oilfd An effort 1. to be made before 1 l?" - "Jr n8' .Vl ,he P"0ufln another dustv eaon come, round to i"'" , p-M-aaie. Induce th- county court to enter oner. chlrk.n-hou... will ba con- . compressive' end thorough under- ,i, windmi.i will be installed taking of oiling sll the roads that lesd 1 ,lhl" -""J ,fl-rm- upplyjn running In'o Pnrtl.nd. and -rclall- those on '- Jb over the ho,,., nd barn. Kacn which is th- hevc-t rsvel ""TV' 'i1' frm iU cum" Multnomah cotintv hum aboit 85" r8ld1 cared for with all the brains m'le. of rubllc M eh wars, of wh'eh r'1 Inte.l I genee of the whole atat of T5 mile. Is m'scarfnmrzed ITT rr.i'.ei "r'-on In ether words, rhle model emvelxi and mtle plar-ke farm will demonstrate to all of th It Is 'ttma1 bv th..e in rharre of world Just exactly what can be done in th wn-k thet If th courtv continue. , Oregon on 10 acre Its prent vetm of permanent road: " Ith such as object ler,n before construct!. ,n for fire rear larger n j 'be people there will b ) dllllt- In will bare the f!nt avafem of nub'lr , detnoretratlr.B' to homeaee-kera fro tha mads of anv county on th. Parlftr east what Oregon 4a capable of pro coast. Over 2S mliea of road have been 1 -u"tnK- and what eettler ran aecom rrcdjm'"l In the past three rears rlih Not only that, bt era man mhl'-e with tb present road-fnaklne fi- who purchase a tract of land near this rllittea thhi Utl ran h 4oubled la model farm ean hare th ttenefH of ;i Xhm aext Ura rear a. 1 I tba mslractlsa and . Inf matim treaa fe: 't r:r:: r.: - , .... . : , e - ; - Ii -v' - . : r ) 7 eTT7V The above il!otratvn bova a new elevaling grader that bat jast been installed by Htrood Wile. Irho haf the contract for improving the itreeti in Frotpect Tark, the tract known at the old Jrringtoa race track. Thi machine takes, tbje place pf abt SO tnea and 10 team. - '
