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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING. AUGUST 9,' 1908.
OUR YEARS TO COMPLETE 4,000,000 YARD; FILL ON' THE EAST SIDE
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t f ! V V 4 "lift )l,''v v 1 ) 1
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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-
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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.
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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
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Residence of E. M. Miller. Shearer Street and Haight Avenue.
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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
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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. - '