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' SCIENTIFIC METHOD OF HANDLING DIRT FROM BASEMENT AfJD FOUNDATION EXCAVATIONS
Portland Concern Makes Dirt
Fly for New Buildings With
Modern Machines Invention
of C. J. Cook.
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New Town In Beautiful Tuala
tin Valley Is Made Terminal .
of United Railways.
, Dirt moving hyi become a science In
TortJand. The ' one . man ho ' is . re-
; sponsible for the complete: revolution
Which has taken place in the past five
years la the haldllng f dirt taken from
basement excavations la C. J. Cook, head
of th well known firm of the C' J. ,Cook
company. : Thl& concern now thinks lees
of digging out 1000 or i?00 cub.lc yards
ot earth In a day knd transporting 1t
Hcross the city to some fill 'than the
. olc-tlar excavating- contractor thought
of removlng'.fiO cubic yards In the same
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Under the ; old-' aysttun. : to. " excavate
for the foundation and: basemen of a
quarter block building required from l
t eight weeks, while the C J. Cook
.company now thinM there Is something
badly wrong when It falls to complete
such a. Job in 16 days. '. Witfi' such a
change as this, truly, dirt moving In
Portland has .become a science.
Kuee Quantity Bandied. '
: Mr. Cook's company might be -described
as a wholesale mover of dirt,
cilice It handles approximately 200,000 cu
bic yards every ytar and has for the past
' Jive years moved this prodigious amount
of old mother earth every, yea Th la
conoern has not only worked s, revoj
Hon in excavating foundation and basev
'Tttents . and in grading residence addi
tions adjacent to the city, but 'h!l
making a comfortable sum of money for
Ifeelf it has added many thousand tt
dollars In value to much of the close-In
east Bide districts. This has been done
by hauling thousands of wagon loads' of
earth across the Morrison street bridge
end dumping them Into the old sloughs
' that at one tlma criss-crossed much of
the east side from the river , to EaBt
Tenth street and from Burnalde street
south of the Inman-Poulsen mill. So
much of this filling has been done that
Mr. Cook now thinks that excavating In
Portland will become a serious problem
in th next two' years, for the reason
that there will be nowhere to put: th(
' dirt. ; -
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In other words, according to him,
basements that are now excavated for
from 65 cents to 75 cents ft cubic yard
will cost II or fl.68 yard, and all
because the dirt will have to be hauled
. four or flra miles instead - of one or
two miles.
Mr. Cook Is very modest about his xna were is now a greater volume
company's wonderful achievement in of durable building construction going
the dirt moving line, but he is even on in Portland than at any time In the
more so when it is suggested to him city's history is easily proved by a
that his own invehUye genius has trans- e0mparlson of the building operations
. formed what was at one time a hercu- , .... .
i.n ...v under wy lnH 07 and those of today.
proposition. It is by means Sf tha big Jn fur !. Corbott build-
machines called excavators, these huge 1 viB JDuara oi irauo, commercial
- derricks that swing arctihd with" . the 1 C.lub, ; Failing , and Mediclal buildings
rapidity "Of ft fly wheel and pick up and the T. - M. C, A. and T. w; & A.
enormous iron buckets filled With dm, struotures, were aU In process of rec-1
that basement excavating has been mads yon
so slmpl. and comparatively cheap. Th year 190 h up to this time
, coo invsator. ; . bean considered the high water mark
Mr. Cook designed this machine him- w building in this city. At that time
self and had the first one built Just fireproof buildings under construction
five years ago by the Willamette Iron were estimated at a value of 12,100.000
Workft-Later a-h had two erected In and Portland thought that ft stupen
the east and now operates all three of a0us surtl to be invested in, fireproof
thtm. His company '.also uses the reg- structures In this city in any one year,
ulation steam shovels in excavating, but How few people realise the fact that
the steam shovel Is only adapted to dry thero are under construction at this
weathar. whild the big , derrick exca time in the business" center fireproof
vator will work quite as well In rain buildings valued at more than $3,000,000.
-, as it will in sunshine. In fact no kind The reason that this fact is so little
of weather Interferes with .the operar' appreciated is, that Portlandera have
fcon of this machine. -The excavation come to-'look upon the putting up of
for the foundation and basement of the a skyscraper as a rather commonplace
Medical building was done by one of affair, while four years ago the buildr
these machines during the silver thaw, lng of such a structure marked ah
and three of them were lifting 850 cubic epoch in the city's development,
yards of earth each every day during A Building's.
- wnstmetAd another of these labor aav I . . ela" A buildings now under
i----i-.- i.hi-i..i;- wnswucuon, in tnis city, -but- struc
, oen completed and turned over to , the
This is ft derrick which Hits wagon ,-.. , . .
v,. h -rh t' th- owners that cost over $1,000,000. while
and carries it far out over t fill and
there dumps it, all done by machinery.
- f Xxoavator Owns Dirt
North Plains Is the latest town to be
laid out along the projected extension
of the United Railways through the
Tualatin . valley. The United Railways
line west Is piercing the richest section
of the famous valley and has already
located its "next terminus at the new
town of North Plains, which is situated
on a gentle rise in the center of the
valley. , l : ; '
Surrounding th town the rolling; fields
of yellow grain creep! away up the sides
f the hills till, they re lost amid , the
deeper color of the forest trees.' making
Ji , ideal spot for the townslte. Con
ractors and engineers have invaded this
peaceful valley and stakes and grades
.ire; rapidly, changing the face of Wash--ngton
county. The railroad is burrow
ing through the hills and nosing Its way
Dut to. the,vHey.. ; f", ;i . '.ri:.'W:;f ;
' ,. Anxious for Servioe.
The, railroad 'officials are anxious to
live North Plains a service as soon as
'possible as a number of purchasers of
the town propeTty are impatient to begin
operations and for. this reason ft tem
porary line has been constructed around
the hill to the north and will be used
until the tunnel Is finished. . ' )
It is further learned from officers of
the company that the track wlU be In
operation With electrloars shortly after
November,' although ; by , the middle of
this month operations will he . inm.
1 menced by . steam over the whole sys
tem. , ; .
' Tha, grade Is completed "and ftll the
bridges Are finished. The ties have
t-been- distributed over: the full length of
the line and the laying-of steel is
progressing rapidly, being already with-
i in two miles or North Plains.,,
New cars have been ordered end great
-improvements have been made In these
cars. All the latfft dnvire naMsvr f(r
speed and safety are hoir.it attach-- ! t
them and the comfort of passengers
has been ft matter of great considera
tion. One big difference is that the
color of the new cars will be thf fame
as those now operating on the Oregon
Electric Jlne. Thie colors have been ,
chosen for their brightness and lasting
qualities.
- Tunnel Construction Difficult ',
. The now difficult part -of the con-rfl
structlon of the North Plains line has j
been the driving of, the tunnel under
the hills, which enters the ridge at Cor- j
nellas Gap and Is now more than halt j
completed. . When finished it will ba
4103 feet long. ; ' ,
Gangs of men are working day', and
night driving their way through the rock
of the hllL The tunnel will lessen the
grade and shorten the time uetween this
city and North Plains; -The United
Railways line runs on an astonishingly '
low grade, leaving the city on a 1.6 P-
cent Krade, and it will run-through
tunnel on an almost level graae, wmie
the Southern Pacific leavea on a 4 per
cent, and the Oregon Electric on a . per
cent grade: This Is one reason ' tb :
company .decided to undergo the enor-i
mous. expense of driving a tunnel.
through the lower part of the range., f, 's
Plana for the depot buildings at North
Plain have been designed and the con-:
tract for their construction has been !4
Nearly opposite the site chosen ? for:
these buildings ft lumber yard U-beio(
established as fast as teams ere Able'
to haul the lumber from the mill some'
few miles away, f Lumber is also on the
ground for a store :r buildings , which will
be erected close to the new depot by
Harry Harris. -This is the first of sev
eral buildings that are tt 'be built- im
mediately. ' ' ' '
- The contracting for the grading of the
streets of North pitting has been let and ,
the work will be hurrlod along., ' Work
has begun on the big water system that
will supply the town and some of the
acreage tracts nearby with water.
.When the plans for the town re
carried out Tualatan valley, will have ft
model town - and Portland will be en
riched by the addition of this excep
tionally rich suburb. , ,.
' - in 1900 Belgium adopted' what ' is
called an ' Insurance annuity and na
tionally sustained pension act 'Under
It annuities are granted according to
age and amount of premium paid. Pen
sions are paid to ftll over 65 years under
certain prescribed conditions, of want ,
and disability.. . , , , , ,
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Never Before Have So Many
-FireproofStructures Been in
Process of Erection in Portland!
Labor saving devices employed by the C. J. Cook company In handling the enormous amount of dirt re
'moved in excavating for foundations and basements of Portland buildings, showing steam derrick and
excavator, derrick dumping dirt in fill from removal wagon bed, electric truck used in handling ma
terials for concrete mixture and wagon with removable bed filled with dirt, all making one of the
completest and best systematized arrangements for handling dirt on a large scale to be found in any
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dieted by "Architects Emll Sohacht &
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' Donald McKay's new'slx story build
ing going up at Third and Tamhlli is
progressing favorably, the work so far
having been done in record time. This
structure is to be' occupied by. the
lowers Furniture company as one of
the up to date coast furniture stores.
The building will cost between $90,000
announcement has been made In the past
few days of others of the same class
on which work will begin in ft short
time that will cost closa to si.sno.nnn.
This machine may be seen at work! Here la a total of more than t5.ooo.000
In the fill that Is being made in the Invested in nsw fireproof buildings, not
HAwtnorna siougn ai tjeimonx ana jbasi one or which was under construction
Eighth streets. Something that is not
generally known about excavating is
the -fact that thb dirt removed from
basements belongs to the excavator and
Is sold by him "or the company, to some
tne who has a fill to make. The exca
vating companies figure that what they
get for making the excavation Just
.about pays for the cost of handling
the dirt, leaving the proceeds derived
from the sale of the dirt on the profit
side of the ledger.
, Mr. Cook thinks that his excavating
, equipment is superior from every view
year ago and all of which will -be com
pleted by October 1. 1911.
In comparing Hie volume of new con
struction jMer wajLfoury earsa go
with that of the present time, no ac
count is taken of the score of brick
and- concrete apartment houses going
up .today, while not a single structurs
or tnis class was being erected In Port
land during any part of the year 1907.
- Spalding Building1.
Among the finer buildings Just about
completed are the 12 story 8paldlng
structure ana tne
point to anything of the kind in use in the first of which was built at a cost
other cities. He aays that the big con- 0f nearlv 1700.000. while th A,w,rt re
tractors of Chicago and other -eastern
cities have sent a man out here to
observe the work of his excavator and
vithout exception these mn have told
him that he had the beat labor saving
. device of the kind they had, seen.
T "ti i "Best Method.
Most of the dirt removed from base-
resents an Investment of $250,000. Of
the finer class A buildings which will
be under way in the next few months
is the new Lipman & Wolfe department
store which Is estimated will cost $600,
000. the 12 story office building of T
B. wllcox to cost approximately $400.
000 and the new Columbia theatre and
ttfnts fn large eastern cities Is handled hotel, which will probably represent an
by means of the big derrick lifting the investment close to $350,000.
wagon beds down into, the excavation
and after they are filled, lifting them
tack onto the wagon again. This pro
cess has been In vogue for many rears
Jn the large eastern cities, but men who
have seen the Cook method say that
it la crude compared to the way thu
same work is done in Portland.
The C, J.' Cook company employs
about 250 teams in keeping the dirt out
of the way of its excavators. Each
tuo-horse team handles two cubic yards
cf earth in a load and when the men
leave-the barns at 7:30 o'clock every
morning:, they know Just exactly how-
many cUblo yards of earth they are .ex-
James Stewart & Co. is making another
record In raising the steel frame of the
Ben Selling building at Sixth and Alder
streets. The steel frame of the base
ment and five stories of the superstruc
ture is in place. Mr. Gilbert says that
unless some unforeseen accident inter
venes the skeleton of the entire 13
stories will be in place before November
1. The work 1 being done with the
minimum obstruction , to street traffic,
and $100,000ndarrmridentirwiirn!w7d!!;rickr sti!,e(1 n ""ir
be completed by February 1
Another - large central structure re
cently begun for which the foundation
is about ready for the - superstructure
work is the five story hotel under con
struction at the northeast corner of
Tenth and Stark streets by Prledenthal
& Hlrsch. The building is to be of
brick construction with steel columns,
beams and girders. Its estimated cost
Is $75,000. '
Superintendent Gilbert for Contractors
steel dlrectly'from the trucks to the
places where it is to be used.
Increase Water Bates.
Umatilla, Or., Oct 8, The O. R.
& N., who Supply the city with water,
have given notice to all water users
Of advance in rates of double what the
rata was a year ago. The advance Is
causing a lot of disappointment, as
nearly all the users are O. B. & N. em
ployes.
HUGHES AND DORNEY
SQ
1 SZ4.000 FARM
CJHughe and R- B. Dorney nego
tiated the sale last week Of ft 820-acre
farm located seven miles northeast of
Vancouver. Wash. The property for
merly belonged to T. J. -Leonard, who
purchased it six months ago for $16,000
and sold it for $24,000 last week to
Charles A. Meyers. Mr. Hughes and
Mr. Dorney have successfully operated
In farm lands tributary to Portland for
the past year, having closed up ft num
ber of Important transactions during
that time.
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Under construction in the business
center are the following, nearly all 6f
which are fireproof structures: The
15 story Teon building, $600,000; 12
Btory Selling building, $400,000; 10
story Maegly-Tichntr building, $360,
John Deere Plow company's eight story
warehouse, $300,000; Marshall-Wells
four story warehouse, $200,000; addi
tional stories on the Chamber of Com
merce, $150,000; Hellig' theatre, $150,
000; Haak building, - $150,000; Frleden
thai '& Hlrsch hotel, $100,000; Powers
furniture store, $100,000. ,
. JTrw Work Progresses.
Work of putting in the concrete foot
An Exclusive High-class Restricted Addition to Portland Heights
MAGNIFICENT PANORAMIC VIEW
of the entire city from Selhvood to the City of Vancouver, the
WillarnetteHand Columbia Rivers. - . - -
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-No Alarm Clock Is Going to Ring
When the Time Strikes the Hour
ot Your Opportunity
Every day we hear people tell of the prices property was selling
for in Portland several years ago, and what a mistake they made
in not investing at that time. ,
There never was a better time to buy real estate in Portland
than RIGHT NOW, and those whd do not grasp the opportun
- ity when it comes along will have the 6ame old story of lost
. opportunities to telL . ' !
More people have become rich through buying real estate than
from any other way. f - -
, Land owners are the most independent people on earth.
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" Offers YOU the opportunity to be independent. We are selling
lots as low as
8250-55 Dovvnand S5 a Monih
Complete abstract from U. S. patent down to date, showing
clear title, furnished, free with each lot. All streets graded,
water mains in front of every lot, sidewalks in front of every lot
All Improvements Paid
, This, is YOUR OPPORTUNITY to get t itartf f orWpayT
ments are so easy that most anyone can buy a lot and get the'
advantage of increase1 in price which is sure to come.
Investigate
You owe It to 'yourself. Take Mount Scott car to Lents. Our
Office 1 opposite station. Or 'come to our main office, and we
win take you out in our auto -
Geo. T. Moore Co.
517-518 Abington Building, Third St, Bet Wash, and Stark
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pwled to move thAn day. The handling ings and basement walls for the Tichnor
f dirt has been reduced by this co,m- & Maegly building and the Powers fur-
pany toi such an exact scienee thst the niture store, two of the largest central
; ocavators are kept .constantly, at work structures recently begun, Is practically
lifting the big buckets cf dirt tip to completed. Another week will see the
the trsp.
Ko Time Lost
The engineer who handles the exca
vator knows -Chat 1 there is going to be
a wagon underneath: to catch the earth
walls of the first story of both build
ings well under way. Plans of the
Maegly & Tichnor building, at Seventh
and Alder streets, have been radically
changed from the original design, which
5 SNOW-CROWNED MOUNTAIN PEAKS
A beautiful verdant park contoured and platted to please the artist
eye. Sheltered nooks arid wooded knolls, winding drives and sight
ly terraces. This beautiful property now offertd fof your inspection.
I N V E ST IGTE NOW
VIRGINIA HEIGHTS
when It is dumped into the trap. No ?' ? "i J"J2, UL?f"8iruc
time Is lost by men waiting for teams
to Cbro. They , are alwaya there, an,!
the earth Is carted away as fast as It
la brought out Of the hole. "
The C. J. Cook company Has been in
the business of diffging excAvttions in
Portland ffr. 18. y-ars. For the first I on this machine before he got one that
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iron type, "ine new uesign.caus ror a
10 -story reen forced concrete . strncture.
to cost $250,000 instead of $100,000, the
estimated cost as originally ' planned.
Plans for the building have been com-
irrtbod of the pick and shovel and the about it modestly he Is naturally proud
mule 'team."- It is Just five years ago of the fact that he is the Inventor-and
tJiat the first derrick excavator w&s pert 1 the. buljder.of one of the greatest lab-jr
frcUd. Mr. Cook worked Ion lght years lsnving devices of recent years.
On' the West Side of -the River
Joins Paved District
Bull Run Water '
Best Car Service in the' City
Streets. Now Being Graded
No Bridges to Cross t
Building Restrictions -i
Joins a District of Character
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IfYouHad$1500
Tacked On
J1M P. CO.
Ivlatn 550, A 1550
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r' To your present yearly' income, wouldn't .you feel rich?
- ' A five-acre farm at
NORTH PLAINS
.Would give you such an addition, or more. Besides, you
could stijl hold your POSITION in the city. Come in
and ask questions about the town of NORTH PLAINS
and the fertile acreage surrounding it. -
' A ' Our salesmen are; perfectly willing to, spend any
amount of time with you." It will pay you to find out
, about the most productive spot' in TUALATIN VAL
LEY, and we are able. to. offer you exceptional prices and
terms on this, property only Snjinute from the heart
' of Portland. 1 '
ONE TO'FIVE ACRES
-ROTH-TRUSTTGGMPAN-
Room 3 Chamber of Commerce, Portland, Oregon
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