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10 THE "OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 13. 1910; ELECTION AMD THE MM AFFECT 1FJL1Y One of Few Important Trans actions of Week Was Sale to Captain Veysey W Build ing and Hotel. , Electron week and ba'd weather had a marked effect on the Portland realty market during the last few days. No Important transaction In business prop erty was reported, although the usual number of residence properties changed hands, which gotes to show that both local people and outsiders continue, to be keenly alive to the value of Portland ; real estate. ' . i One of the larg-er transactions to be closed op since the first of. the month the sale by M: B. Lee to Captain Veysey, formerly of the Banfleld-Vey-1 sey. Fuel company, of the. new two Story store, building and . hotel located on Macadam, street, just opposite the Oregon furniture factory In South "Port land. The consideration Involved In the deal was $12,000 cash. ' J Holladay Park and Irvlngton came In for a big share of the attention of last week's Investors, several nigh class residence- Tropertie8-haTtng changed hands in that section of the city. P. J. McDonald has taken title from John U. Holm of the quarter block lo cated at the northeast corner of East Nineteenth and Schuyler streets. .The consideration involved was $5000. Roblna u. Scott purchased from the Irvlngton Investment company two lots occupying the southeast corner of East Twenty-first and Stanton streets, pay ing $4000 for the quarter block. Thomas C- Devlin has sold to Chula Strong , two lots located on Clackamas - street, near East Twenty-third, consid eration $&593. . ... ' W. C. Alvord has , sold to Mary M. Gibson the house and lot on East Four- teerth between Thompson and Brasee l streets for $4760. Louis J. Bader and Otto SaUman have $ each purchat,ed five lots in Jtose City i I'ark, Mr. Bader securing lots 2, i, 18, 1$ and SO, block 113, for $4000, and Mr. Salsmnn lota 1, $, 5, 17 and 1 In the ' same block for a like consideration. (. E. E. Fulton has purchased from A. A. ' Harter a new house and lot In Overton Park. The property Is described as the north 4half of lot 4, block F, and was sold for 5000. R. C. Dan ton has purchased from J. Lane an improved quarter of a block In Vernon fir which $6000 was paid. , , Block 36, Waverlelgh addition, bound ed by-iaiiworth, East Thirty-third and East Thirty-fourth streets, was sold last week by Florence A. Mund to , W. W. Bicbardson for $8500.' I. C. Brum has sold to James C. Fall ing the building site at Rlverwood for , $9750. This property is a part of the Kiverwood subdivision, which was put ' on the market about' a year ago by H. L.J corbett. ail or which has been disposed of to buyers of summer home sites. Mr; Brunn paid $7000 for the parcel. M. Barde has-purchased from I. Van Duyn the 60x100 foot lot at the corner .of JTwenty-fmh nd jVIarshalLatreet for 00O. f Miv Barde is having plan drawn for a $16,000 residence to be erected on the site. Edward H. Cahalln has purchased from E. H. 'Mix the 60 foot lot located on the south side of Kearney street be , t ween Twenty-second and Twenty-third. The consideration, $6260. CAPITALIST BUYS LOT FOR $15,000 MARKET ' Blalsdelt shoup & Daly report the tale of the southeast corner of Eleventh and Montgomery for $16,000. The property.was bought by a local capital ist as an investment, and was formerly owned by E,' 3. aly, who bought It 10 days n-.-.....vi....vs-. , The same firm -has sold the P. O. ; Shirley ranch of 160 acres, located in : Lincoln county, near Corvallls, to a - - local - investor for a - consideration of '. $60Q0,, The tract Is all under , cultiva- t!on and Is highly improved, having - j KOod substantial farm house, barn and then buildings. The stocK and imple ments were Included in : the transac ;. tlon. : . Forest fires are divided into three r'assos by the United State Forest Service, surface fires, which burn fallen leaves, grass, brush and small trees; ground fires, in deep accumulations of vegetable mold on mineral soils, and crown fires, which sweep the tops of trees. mil Lighted Show Windows Create a ..desire 'to buy. The holiday trade Is almost at hand and snappy, well lighted show windows and stores will attract tho girt purchasers. W also wish to ctll your at tention to our line of lighting futures for residences, hotels, apartments and offices.. l'lion for our representative r can at our salesroom and arrange for us 1o talkthia jnat- M.J.lValsh iu btxjm: ax, ah bxxtu. i otn FhonsMl t,, . .... 'I I if If Main buildings' of the Pacific Iron & The building Is to be a three ,:. ' .. . : . 25,000 Acres of Willamette Valley Land to Be Put Un der Irrigation by Capitalists Farmers to Benefit. Portland capitalists who have sub scribed to the plan for Irrigation of 25,000 acres or more of Willamette valley lands believe the Increased pro duction will contribute double to Port lands business what the Willamette valley now represents. The work Is being taken up scientifically. Analysis of the soil is being made. ' It will he known in what elements the soil Is deficient, and where particular crops can be raised to the best advantage. " The investors announce that they will be satisfied if in the land Bales they recover the money they have put In. The chief purpose la to prove the feasibility of Irrigation for the WJllam-' ette.'- ' , '-v.. r ' .y 'r ' .: John Hartog, authority on farm land development, who, first devised the plan for Irrigation, made a statement yes terday in which he explained fully what the plan Is and ; what he believes its value to Portland and the Willamette valley will be. Mr. Hartog said: "3f P. O'Brien, vice president and gen eral manager of the O. R, & N. rail road and .,. Southfrn Pacific Uvea in Oregon, and Df E. A. PJerce of the state board of health, heve both Joined the Hartman A Thompson 'Byndlcate formed to put under Irrigation several thousand acres of, land In the Willam ette valley; . , , . '. Are Enthusiastic ""'"Bottr-merr 'mrenthtt8iaatle-wi' -the possibilities and the beneficial effect the culmination of the scheme will have on western Oregon and Portland. It is an undeniable fact that Oregon has been well advertised, but it is also a fac,t that-$he cities 'and towns have grown wonderfully thereby, while - the actual development, of , the agricultural Industry - has -been backward. . As , ,a rule a newcomer buys out the previous owner and a farm remains a farm, the only change being In the name of own ershlp. ' -.' . , t : 1 i , "A few favored localities are an ex ceptlon to this rule; localities ' where scientific commercial fruit raising has been made a success; but aside from these, no advance has been' made in the agricultural situation. The towns and , cities cannot, continue to prosper unless the country back of them war rants it Intensified farming of , the Willamette valley lands will prove the very, thing needed to rectify the pres ent situation. , - . . "Experiments having proven that crops can be doubled and trebled by applying water during the dry, grow ing aeason; that green feed : can be had during that period to supply dairy cows witn the needed stuff to -make dairy ing a real success; that 10 acres, ir rigated and properly developed, wii; handsomely, supply the average fam ily, one can hardly fathom the i im portance of taking several thousand acres and putting a family on every 6, 10 or 20 acres of same. ' Methods of roref atherv "The present methods of farming are those of our forefathers and in order to keep up with the times, new meth ods will have to be employed and will Decome tne rule ere many more years nave passed. It Is slow work to chance existing methods and without some con centrated effort like the one inaug urated by the Portland syndicate it might not be consummated for many a decade. The class of men mnrunA to finance and handle the undertaking insures its beinj well done, and yet, although their financial strength Is such that the entire district, proposed to Irrigate, could be easily handled at one time, it Is deemed wise to go slow and develop the district In units of about 1000 acres at a time. "The first unit will be seld at such low prices that it will be settled up quickly and as fast as one unit com mpnees to move, another one will he ! taken up. Not only does the syndicate expect, to irrigate the land, but the Intention is to put some of the sub divisions in crop and improve them with a complete home, so that the newcomer may have a place where to lay his head and a crgpcomlng on. ut Invested. "Strange to say, ready have letters been received fronTeastem points ask ing that land be reserved for would be settlers. This, . without any adver tising whatsoever! "Our dry summers, so ideal for grain raising, are an obstacle in the path of intensive farming and as the state progresses, it has to become less and less of a grain raising commonwealth end this cannot be' accomplished ex cept by irrigation In such parte as are not favored -by natural eub-lrrlgation. The part that needs irrigation In sum mer is only a small percentage of the total 60,000,000 acres contained In th" boundaries of Oregon, but whene It is needed, It la needed badly. "Th legal and technical details of the proposed nlans a r nno, k..i ggrfcoanut,and ,lt,, i eoitfMetlywrJ PROJECT' TO ' lif AKE ' : ;' i CROPS GROW IN 3 j K5j WARM WEATHER Kilirfg iM-m I ; ;.,.Tr? ",e mln canai nd Jaterale will be completed by next March." .... . . " The Ban Francisco labor council has decided to join the national committee on prison labor. The membership fee has been forwarded. , .y-.V-:. v-;: ","';;; v. " If U . -.( , r -L r 5 j' 4''9si$v'.' Steel company under construction- story struetuielof the slow burning : New residence of Judge W. B. G. W. Priest Takes Out "Per mits Jor Eight. Two Story.. Houses. - Permits were issued last Monday to . Priest authoiljiinrthe erection of lrht dwelling houses at Rossmere. , AH of the nefw buildings are to be two 'story frame structures, and each, will cost $2000, making the total amdunt involved in this program of improvement $16,0001 This la the third fet of new homes built in the Rose City Park district by Mri Pyest, in the pastiimonthst. and bring the cost of his Investments In that sec tion, including the valu of the jots, to about $76,000.. "Mr. Priest is the most 'extensive spec', ulative builder in the dwelling house line In Portland, and together with T G Anderson, who has bui't two solid blocks of California, bungalows at Rose City Park., besides a number of , similar houses In the East Gllsan street district has built over loo new homea In Port land since January, 1908. This last batch of houses to be erected hv m Priest will occupy the blocks facing East lmny-eigmn ana isast Thirty-ninth streets, between Hancock and Tillamook. Pn the same date permits were taken out by Mrs. M. Helnes authorlaing the erection of two one and one half story cottageson Kelly street between Glbbs and Whlttaker, to cost $1500 each; Contractors Clark and Anderson, have begun the erection of a one and one half story cottage on , East Twenty-eighth street, between East Sherman and East Caruthers. . J. L.. Lewes took out a permit last Monday for a two rtory frame cottaes. which he Is bulldlftg on East Thirty- first street at a cost of $2000. Stebinger Brothers have broken ground on East Fifty-first, between Main and Madison, for a one story frame cottage, which will cost to complete $1800. On East Fifty-second street between Tillamook and Thompson, Mrs. -Laura N. Hales has begun the erection of -a one and one half story, frame cottage, to cost $2000. - . J. M. Fletcher is building a two story frame dwelling house on East Forty second street between Alder and Wash ington. The permit issued last Monday calls for an expenditure bf $2000. - ymf :;iit mv it Ivsmm I W'h nr, MB ttit : mm- --m m " if j ; i ' 4 if jPif'js'f , I: 1! ' ? hi .Jiu J, 3 LL' NEWDWEllK . FOR ROSSMERE Thirty years ol hard toil and nothing to show lor it. Why didn't I do this ten years ago? That is what a man said a day or two ago" While ne gotiating for a , NORTH PLAIN TRACT: Ire is going back to the farm before it's too late. What are you going to do to make your future secure?' Why' dont you buy a small farm v at NORTH PLAINS?' Low ' prices eay terms. Call or write for booklet. RUTH-TRUST-COMPANY ROOM 3 CHAMBER 'OF COMMERCE BUILDING . . PORTLAND, OREGON t '1 .4 I at Twenty-second and Nlcoiai streets. V type andtwlll covet hiif a bVock.; u ' " 1 i Gilbert, Twenty-first and Myrtle Five Properties From 37 to 360 Acres Sold Puringthe J ' Week for Subdivision. A number of important acreage deals in property In the vicinity of Portland were made last week. The largest of these .was the purchase by James M. French and Edmund Llndstedt of the W. W. ' Meyers farm,' located 16 miles, southeast of Portland on the Abernethy road. This tract comprises - 320 acres and was sold for $75 an acre, or $24,00 for the 'arm. :. .' J Two tracts "located on the Oregon Electric railway changed' hands during the week, involving a total considera tion of $17,500. One, a 66 acre piece at Glencoe Station, was purchased by J. L. Droff for $10,000.. and the other, a 37 acre' tract,' was sold to Henry E. Droff for $7600. The purchasers of bota these tracts were former residents of Hood River, who decided to locate nearer Portland. , . : : i Fifty-two acres adjoining El'Tover on the north and facing Vnlon avenue on the west have been - sold by Lewis - P. Love to E. Brong, of the Brong-Steele Co., for $83,000. Upon the expiration of the lease under which the property is now held." Mr. Brong will develop the tract into bulraing and factory 'sites. It is admirably adapted to both purposes, having a - frontage of - about 1000 feet on Columbia Slough, the O. R. ft N. crossing the south half of it, and the Vancouver' car line running along the west side of the property, ;; In England recently there have .been several exhauslve tests of a secret steel, for safes which withstands . the oxv- acetylene. blowpipe, the: temperature of I which is the highest that can be handH tea wunout tne use ety crucime. Journal Want Ads bring results. . T HE ADI) IT I O W W H CHARACTER WE ACREAGE v .WIS ABE SOLD HEVTCOURTHOUSE WSIUD TOR M il Never Anything Put, Up in r Portland That Shows So Lit tie Done in So Long a Time; ; End Not Yet in. Sight. - . The other wing. of . Multnomah coun ty's atew oourt house, will be erected by one 'contractor If .County Judge Cleeton is in office when the contract la let This -plan of allowing half , a doi?n different contractors; to ' work on i i .I. -ii. , '.. ...i Btreetg, Portland Heighta. one building at the same htlme is a failure," declared Judge Cleeton yes terday, while talking ajout the exas perating slowness in the construction of the big stone building. ' . . "Harmony is out of the question where a half dozen different men are working on one building under different contracts at the same time, and . with out harmony among ,he contractors delaj Is sure to take place,1' continued the head of the county court. f'When the time comes to let the contracts for the next wing of the court house; I propose to wee that one man gets the entire 'job. Then this contractor can EVIDENCE PROOFoselling 'ME M 50x100 FO EK With cvery ; from $1250 pungaiows in : V ??eM?J. ' ! ''UUJJUUliUUUDUUUUUunu i h it i&n ii - PA I ; hCljmrs- ii mmm II II III! IHM . ' JO UMBDENSTCK'& LAESOM COMPANY" 288 OAK STREET be made to live up to the term of thi contract. It, is my observation that where more than, one contractor has a hand in any lUndv of a big building, that the work proceeds much more slowly than where the Job is let to one man' for a lump sum." 1 v - There . probably never was a big building put up in this city where the work proceeded as slowly as It does on the fcounty court house. From the very start the job has been slow. . All. the contracts were based -upon the comple tion of the steel work and the steel contractor is now four months hehind time with ' twoN . stories of the steel frame yet to pitt up. .This delay threw the stone contractor behind. The brick contractor also fell behind on account of the steel frame not being completed on time. Then came exasperating de lays in getting: the stone from the In diana quarries resulting in the loss of the greater part of September and Oc tober, pretty weather -during, which the stone walls might have been com pleted 4f the material had been on hand. Ohe car of stone that left New Bedford, Ind., September 1, was 60 days enroute, three, weeks of that time the car being delayed at The Dalles, not withstanding frantic efforts were be. lng .matie by the stone contractors to locate it ' ' -. ' ; ; .,',,..:. . . Another needless . delay was aeca- sloned. by he steel contractors putting up 'the steel rornlce.iall of which had to, be taken down so that the stone man could swing the heavy blocks of stone Into the wails. ' v ' ' ' , Judge Cleeton says' that he believes the work will now proceed without any further delay. Most tf the stone is ; here and : the contractor' for this part of y the work has - promised the county court that the .work of putting up he walls shall proceed ; from now on, rain or shine.; The steel' frame for ihe ; jail is on hand andVwlll be put up as soon as the atone work is 'completed and the steel contractors can have the use. of the derrick. Judge Cleeton said that he could set no tjm when the wing would be completed but that he was confident that no such delay In carrying on the work wou take place as has. charac terized the Job from its inception up tQ .the present time. .. L WOMAN INVESTS IN ;. TWO STORY BUILDING Mrs. Martha R. Taylor, a local fh vestor, has purchased 60x100 feet im proved with a two story . brick build ing, situated h the west side Of Front street between Washington and Alder streets, from W. J. Yore and R. E. Bauske. two California capitalists, who have Invested largely In Portland real estate during the' past three years. The price paid for the property was $40,000 and the sale was negotiated by the H. P. Palmer-Jones company, ' - '' ' The recent activity in Front street proflferty is largely accounted for by the agitation of the municipal dock Ques tion, which, If carried out, as now ap pears probable, will ; greatly enhance property values along Front street. PIN IN THROAT 30 , YEARS; WOMAN DIES NearCN. J., Nov. 12. A pin which she swallowed 30-years ago has Just caused , the death here of Miss Mary Shaw. She was $ years old when the pin accidentally slipped down her throat For years' ctterward she sufi fered greatly from throat trouble that had been caused ,by it, until one day she Roughed up the pta.' Some time ago her throat began to trouble her again and physicians found i a growth there. , An operation failed to relieve the ailment and her death followed. . , ; , A Combination of Low Prices (including Im provements), Easy Terms, Restricted Loca tion, Beautiful View, Excellent Car Service. rapidly DECIDE to 0 tf'EO'M JE IT E 0500-and some for less lot one comPlete set Architect's, Plans for bungalows worth to $5000. Your, choice from the most practical selection of ortiana. ELECTION DOES II SERIOUSLY AFPECT HUH Good Number of Permits Is-. : sued for New Houses and Smaller Brick; Stores and v Buildings. J"Sp ,'8f th 't that last Tuesday rhJ'ih!j Action, the build- line '. ri '"I;n residence but mu s , ' u"0,n Pector but little beiow rh.r "t was a imam m .."."'': eek were U6d dUr,nR tho I. ?. tr.,.P:v,d,n 'or four Series wee house are to be modern" in everv ri! ISShi' an,d hanomely OnMtA fimmm 3 ..,1 1 . . '. ' ' .uuitn took out a permit for a two story brick veneered store and h.0UM' Wh,ch th ""I build ..nert S'f? er,mlt of.th week was Issued to the Columbia Contract com Pany for a one story frame warehouse 'h" T(' between East Salmon and East Main streets. The estimated cost of the building is $10,000 Another good sited permit issued last which he will build on East ; Twelfth ' street between JCnott and Stanton, at a cost of $5200. V permit was Issued last week to s- Ry-'Co. North Bank), providing for a one story frame build ing to be erected on Hovt trt k.... Tenth and Eleventh, at a cost of $4000. Thomas Vlgars, who has built a num- ' Jeof welllna; houses In the L.add addition, procured a permit last W6e.k l0Tl two ory .residence, which he is bulling on Ladd avenue between Hawthorne avenge , and Palm street (Ladds addition), at a cost of $3000. On East Forty-slxth street between TUlamook and Hancock. L. R. Bailey has ' begun the erection of a 1H etory frame cottage to cost $3600. Joe Nolle has taken out a permit for a two story frame dwelling to be erect ed On East Twenty-eighth street be tween Powell Valley road and Franklin street at a cost of$300(K - Two permits have been issued to the Tlpion Real Estate company providing for the building of one story frame cottages on East Forty-sixth street neai' Gladstone, at a cost -of tieoo each L. R Bailey Is preparing to begin the erection of 12 modern dwelling houspjr of the two story type at Rose City Park. dns ouuaings wui cost from $2600 to $6000 each, and will contain from five to eight rooms. , . ffyirla soon la V have' its. first ti. phone system, Unking tne towns In the Lebanon .mountains. ' go out there TODAY P4HONES MAIN 6719, A-7374 A. T fr.-
