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Newspaper Page TextTHE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 19,' 1911. BUILDING RECORD I . Fl IS SEASON ::!$jJ ' . . SHOWS IBM " ' "I i v - mw jm m mm Hull , . , . I mm M - i -i , : U I It 111 1 1 1 1 , ; " IB t ' II II ' 1 : . ' II A7t jjsy 'Vf Residence of C. B. Moulton, near head of Lovejoy" street, ',', '- OREGON L1 GETS A RECRUt T Total Shown by Permitsvls sued; Exceeds That of Last - Year 'Many- New -Resi-! dences Are Planned. - ; North. Plains. Will Join This Week, Aided by Portland ; Excursion. , on of the largest piece of Us ate anywhere In tha city that has ao long escaped tn eager clutches of tha sub divides. ' - , It was purchased by Ambrose B. Scott, of Portland, aon of the lata Ear vey W. . Scott and W. B. Mlxter. of Rock Island.. III. Tha property la lo cated Juat south of Hawthorn avenue, between Eaat Twenty-ninth and Eaat Forty-fourth atreeta and extendi to within 100 feet of Eaat Grant atreet Tb new ownera plan to divide tha piece Into 140 lota, grade tha atreeta, lay aide walks and put In other ' necessary Im provements with a view to putting It on the market this spring. Judge Mallory retalna hlo residence and ground fronting weat - on East Thirty-ninth street, just aouth of Haw thorne avenue. vThroughout-'ltlO, the record of real deno'e , construction, . shown, by the bulldlnv dHtartmant maintain.!! ft'ralnl f between 11 and 10 per cent over the figure of tha previous yar. This was considered a remarkable record and re- auKu iu Biviua ' jruriiKiiu tire, yiacw mong f aouw .coast cine as a nome ."owning city. In spite,' however, '..-of Us . splendid record of laat year, tha figures -vf residence buHdlhso faJn.48iO re- rvearaTteady gain over the same period In 1110, . The figure are front January X to March 10, 1010 l0, and for- the , same period this year, 60S. While these figures show an Increase of less than 4 per cent, any gain, over .laat year I mors than .satisfactory to those who ob serve the steady advance of Portland ft. city of homes,'- trir - , , . : For the week ending with March It permits were Issued by tha 'building Inspector authorising the ' erection of TO dwelling houses. The vslue of all permits for the week amounted to 9271.- -epOi all bf Tvhlch will go Into the erec tion of new dwellings except about f 80.600. - " ; , .m,' '?('- Episcopal Bishop's stoma,- The handsomest rcsldeno provided for .by permit : last week is the new home to be built for. the 'Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Oregon, The house Is to--of Vbr4ck-"andT;nglllt half-timbered construction, two stories high, with full basement and will cost 30.000. - Plans for . the building were prepared In the offices of Architect Da vid C Lewis. It wJll occupy the half Mock v facing Elm street, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth, on Portland Height. " -1 - 'Another expensive house prlvlded for by permit Issued last week Is that of Mrs;- MoLlss McCraken Mason, .which is to be erected on Hancock street, .between Eaat Twenty-first and Twenty-second. XI is to be a two-story frame structure, and will cost approximately $8000. . The Benedictine Fathers of ML Angel procured a permit laat week for a parish house, which will occupy a quarter block alt on East Eleventh street, be tween Center and Blsmark. Tha esti mated cost of Improvement Is $10,000. On East Fifteenth street '- between Knott and Braseo George S. Frost has begun ths erection of a 1 story frame dwelling. ' The permit lasued for Its construction fixes the coat at $0500. i v Two Story ' OwaUlnf. -A permit was Issued last week t X, Kayser authorising the building of a destgft on Hawthorn -evvenu,. between Eat Fjprty-fourth and: East- Forty-fifth streets. : Th' cost of lth fmprovemsnt was named at $1500. ( ' in. B. Jackson took out a pormit laat week for a $4600 dwelling houaa whloh he Is building on East Eighteenth street, " between Salmon and Taylor. Ths houo . Is to be a two story trams of modern design. . ' '" i Lynds A Atkinson, real estate opera tors and builders, took out a permit last week for a two story "frama residenoe, which he is preparing to build on East Forty-seventh street; .between Siskiyou and Klickitat The Improvement wll. '. cost $3750 '- .', A permit was taken out by X Neater for a $4000 frame residence which' he Is building on KUHngsworth avnu, be tween Halttand Vancouver. VlV3Ti Nine permits for two sbry residence1 were taken out by O. W. Priest )ast week. Tha houses are all to b erected cm East Thlrty-aeventh Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth and Fortieth streets, be tween Brase and Knott . The houses will cost between $2000 and $2600 each, the whole -Improvement involving an ex penditure of approximately JJ5.000. J.,: r:v" ' ,; (jtber Bidivos Uniid. ' A permit was Issued last wi'ek to J. Herbert for a on story frame cottage to be erected on Eaat Thirty-fourth street between Hawthorn avenue and East Lincoln atreet It estimated cost la $3000. :"' " B. L, Hawley'has broken ground bn East Forty-secoadtreet between Han? Dock and Tillamook, for a two story frame cottage which will coat to com plete $30001 The following permits were taken out last, week by horn builders for homes which will cost to complete $3000 and ' less: . .. ,.J H O. Brelthaupt 1H story cottage, 6kld- J more, between Fatton and Concord. . D. Cheney, one story cottage, Halght liye between Peart-and Killingsworthi 7 C. O. Westland, two ona story cot tages, East Forty-eighth, between Main . and . Madison. . ... - -, Emma Olsen, two story frame dwell rng. East Forty-fourth street between Brasee and Thompson.- ' W. Barr, two story frame dwelling, Lombard atreet between East Twenty' seventh and Eaat Twenty-eighth, A .f William Haynea, two story frame dwelling, Wasco street, between East Twenty-third and East Twenty-fourth, ' T. A. Sutherland, one story frame ot tage, Hawthorne avenjue, : between Eu clid avenue and East Fifty-second atreet . ... i . A, E. Ketchum, two one story ;ot "tB(?e, East Grant street between East -Thlrty-uinth and East Forty-first U- N. D.. King, ono story frame cottage, Dekum avenue, between Union And Gar field avenues'. -. - . C t R. F. Magnetts, two story - tram dwelling, Rodney avenue, between Jar- rett and Ainaworth. J. T. Oray, two story frame dwelling, Bast Thirty-ninth street between Bra gee and Thompson. - F. H. Hocken, , one story frara. cot tage. East Fortieth street between Han cock and Tillamook. Mary Wilde, a reaidant of Audobon, Towa, two story fiSme dweljlng, East Forty-ninth, between Hancock , and Y JBroadway. ' H. P. Barnhart three one story fram 6ttages,' all to be erected In southeast arn section of city ' Y T. H. Powell, two two story fram dwellings, Lincoln street between Glenn JMid yEasUIhirty-lourth. i i J. H. 8ettiamr, two two story rrame cottages, East Burnslde) between Eaat Thlrty-firt and Eaat Thirty-second, r ,i a. w. Reder. two story frame dwell ing, East Twenty-eighth, between Al der and Morrison. Lareen and Has, one story frame cot- Nortbk," Plains, th new . town In the Tualatin valley, will become a member j.of the Oregon Development league this week. ' The Dusmees men or in piace will meet Thursday evening In on f the larger buildings there to perfect organisation of. th North Plains Com mercial club. An excursion of Portland business men, .'including representatives ef tha commercial club, development league and the United Railways will be one of the features of the evening and a special car'-wUlr-carry th delegation from th city to North Plains.' 8everal addresses will be mad by residents of the Tualatin valley as wU ae Port land 'mea.---;-"'";-'' -''' fi':?C,::r; .North Plains, although only 60 days old, boasts of7 Us lighting and water systems, gtadad streets-andratdewalks, with more .than twenty buildings e cuDled or in ths course of construction. A weekly paper Is to b published at ALAMEDA PARK SALES FOR VEEK JUST ENDED tag. : East Forty-first between Brase and Knott - . Forrest Parsley, one story frame cot tage, Kelly stret between East Thirty third and .East Thirty-fifth. ' Chlng. Hlng Ong, two t story frame dwelling, East Market between East Eleventh and Eaat Twelfth. - C. Q. Shepperd, two . ' story frame dwIUng-. East Fifteenth, --; between Thompson and Braxee. , Robert B. Beat, two story frame resi dence. East Thirteenth, . between Knott and Stanton. TO BECOME GRWT '1 do not see that conditions could be much healthier or much better,'; said H. P.palmer of : the H. ; P. Palmer-Jones Co., yesterday in discussing the general altuatlon In Portland and In the Port land territory. "Everybody knows that Portland has advanced wonderfully during the past five years, but I want to go on record aa ssylng that I will miss my guess K th development snd . progress of Port land and of Oregon during ' the next decade 1 not much greater than .thai of th last half decada t without , a doubt Oregon Is destined to become on of the most populous and most prosper ous states In the weat and Portland, as th metropolis of the state, wilt un doubtedly b on of the great cltUs of th country. . k "Mn with capital ar coming hr In greater numbers than ever before and many of them are wisely Investing, In anticipation, of the increase in values I that wllLresult from the completion, of Nh Tanama "Time was wnen some or our own eitlaena expressed the belief that realty values here were too high, but such talk Is very rarely heard now. Careful in vestors as well as men who have made a study of realty values know that Port land real estate la, low la price when compared with the prloes prevailing In ether cities of Its slsa, Th result Is that they are putting In their money tn all sorts of city property and are pick ing up every available bit of. acreage that can be had .in the poruana cue trlct" -. :.- ! - i-.': "', Mr. Palmer baa proved his confidence In Portland In the last-three or four years In more ways than one. He is not only doing considerable operating; on his own account In local realty, but he has built a number of the handsomest resi dences In, the Irvlngton district,, all of NEW FIAT BUILDING PI ANNFll I M II II II ! '1 T $8000 7 r u r u j. r- , ? .. ' .y: ... ; if r l '. T If IIIIiM. .rr, '""tk ;. ' 1 J 'Tb Alameda Park Land company re ports the following sale In Alameda park during the week ending yeaterday : E. J. Huard, 08x100 lot at the south west corner of East Twenty-Second and Mason streets W, Ev Hlnkley, 100x100 feet on East Thirtieth street near Ma son;' B.; A. Lota, 100x100 on Regent's drlv. corner of Shaver; Irregular shaped homsit having 7$ feet front age on Eaat Twnty-fourth street, sld to O. A. Winston; six lots. 60x103. on East ;Twntyfonrth street and Ridge wood avenue, sold to E. V. Carter and Cr-Braiirl00rt00nsst-T,wenty sevsath street near Fremont to A. N, Hulli 80x100. on - East Twenty-fifth street, between Regent's drlv and Rldgwooa avenue to L. W. Herbert 60x100 on East Twenty-fourth street near Fremont to Alfred Malm: 100x100 on East Twenty-eighth street, near Ma son, te E. E. Layman; 60x100 at the corner of, Eaat Thirtieth and Preaoott to W. E. Reed., - , . - LumberTiurd-IorWcdlaJid.- Woodland. Wash.. March . 16. 'The building activity' of th past two year has 1 n duced M er. Or len b roth ere to put in a retail lumber , yard at this point snd ths same will be In oper- ! tlon in a short while, with a full stook I of rough and dressed lumber, ahlnplo. moulding snd other goods that belong io sucn a. siock. . ' . t j )' ' ' i mm i,i mm Beloit Machine Company Co . templates an Investment ; : of Half Million. The Berlin Machine works, of Beloit, Wis., IS contemplating the building of a branch factory. In Portland. B. F. Yates, president of ths company, aptnt several days In Portland, recently and it J understood that he la vary much' Impressed with this city as a suitable sit for his contemplated Pacific coast branch factory. ' . - .,, The' Seattle Chamber ;f " Com rnerc, according to a atory published in th. Seattle Post-lntelUgencer, is making strenuous efforts to -induce Mr. "Tate to locate his branch factory In the sound city. Th Post-Intelligencer admit that! Portland has th better ; or. the argur ment, but contends that Seattle has chanc to land the big plant s. While to Portland. Mr, Tates aald that the erec tion and eoulpplnr with the proper ma-1 ohlnery of such a factory a he plana for th Paclfio coast would involve an .4nn if tRnanAA . if i.a nld that his business in the Pacific north-! west even now Is extensive enough tc warrant the, establishment ' of a half million branch factory, - v The Berlin Machine Works manufao1 tures many different kinds of machines.' Its specialty, however, is saws. f The proposed branch to be erected on the coast will employ from 260 to $00 men. FUND FOR SAN DIEGO'S PANAMA EXPOSITION (XJnltad Prp Lri.A Vrtr.V - nt 8acramento, Cal, March- r-1$. -Sa Diego Is given $50,000 of state funds to draw plan for and start, a Califor nla building at the San Diego Panama exposition, by a bill whlclt passed the assembly today. The senate bad al ready paused the blll..vV. i it. ::.'..', Li I-J ?.- .-iUl-i : Residence of Jacobson, Twety.-aixth and Marshall streets. ' Tbo Jacohson home w one or tne mosi . . Imposing of the many hand8ome're8ldence8 In the western portion of Portland. , the property and water mains laid. A. Abemmrnstrictty"1iaf pur chased from Mrs.. C D. Chandler a 46 acre farm In. a fine state of cultivation located two iffd?onhair mile west or Boring' on the tSresham line of the O. W. P.' corapany.- The consideration was $10,000, aithogh the aeller took In ex change a 7 room hous located at Shaver and East Seventh streets, valued at $)8Q0. ,,,, ' : mmm Fl or in , . -7; Joseph Horning took -cut a permit last. week, for aour series, two atory frame flat building, which he Is erect lng on Graham avenue, between Knott and Williams avenoe.Tho building will cost approximately $8100, and will con tain four suites of six rooms each. On East Burnslde street between East Twenty-fourth and East Twenty-sixth, C Gedamk has begun" the erection of a frame flat building, which will con tain four, six room apartments and will post approximately $709. - - A permit was issued last week for a three story frame and concrete building to be erected on Wasnlngton street be tween Ella and Twentieth streets. The building Is to be erected by Andrew Gordon and will be need for a store and apartments. The cost of Improve ment as named tn the permit will be $12,000. . . - . Architect D. B, Fllckinter Is pre paring' plsns for a two story frame building 80 by GO feet-which will be created for R. W. Hubbard at tha cor ner of East Forty-fonrth" street and Hawthorne. The building will b used for stores and flats, two store rooms on the ground floor and two five room apartments above. y - The same architect Is getting up the design for a two story addition to the Freise Sanitarium on Stark street be tween East Slxty-slxtn and East Sixty seventh. The addition : for open .air sleeping apartments and will cost $36J0, Eugene Blasier has commissioned Architect David L. Williams to get tip the design, and working plana of a two atory brick building to cover a quarter block, which will be . erected at the aouthaaat corner of . Sixth and Wash ington streets in Vancouver, Wash, Th ground floor will be used for stone pur poses and the second story fitted for a lodging house.; The building will cost approximately $20,090. f 160,000 Warehonse ior Kennewlck. ' "ISiweUI llpttch t The JonraaLI Kennewlck. Wash., March 18, A $00, 000 warehouse for Kennewlck was the chief toplo ofdlscussion at the Com mercial club at Its last meeting. A stock company Is to be formed, enlist ing Seattle and, Tacoma capital, as well as local stock. The committee recom mended a concrete er brick structure. FULL OF NEW IDEAS The Reed Institute apartments, re cently completed at-the southeast cor ner of Thirteenth and Jefferson, Is said by those familiar with apartment house construction to be one of the most mod ern structures of Its .kind In Portland. It is equipped in several important par ticulars In a manner altogether differ ent from the equipment of the general run of apartment houses of the same slsa that is, those occupying a 60 by 100 foot lot .and five stories high. It contains 35 four and fiv room apartments, th rooms being consider ably larger than th average room in Portland apartment houses. Installed in the -building Is the largest automatic elevator In the city. "Electric power Is also used for the dumb waiters. A feature of the building Is the ar rangement which contains besides the steamV heating plant fuel room and Janitor's apartments, a laundry with steam drying attachment, maid a room for each of the apartments and a com modious storage room for each suite. The building Is of the post and girder type of construction, metal lath was used and a metal conduit system for the electric wiring installed. While the structure Is not fireproof, the numerous fireproof features used In Us construc tion render Us destruction by fire high ly Improbable. v - ' - North Plains within thirty days and several new Industries are reported headed that way. The water tower is ready, for use and street lights will be burning- this week. Invitations her bn sent to all th prominent residents of ' the Tualatin valley and It is expected there will be more than 200 peraons at th meeting Thursday night Delegations are com ing from Glencee and Hillsboro, Several of the .largest ranches near the townslte of North Plains have been subdivided Into tracts of from ons to ten acres each and homeeeekers are being encouraged to buy homes and en gag In the berry, poultry and .fruit business. Small farms ar now being made profitable as a result of trana porta tlon facilities. This valley hae been under cultiva tion for years, but the products havs been brought to the Portland market with much difficulty because of the lack of transportation. MALLORY HOMESTEAD IS L 1 80,000 . 'Judge Rufus Mallorys homestead, comprising 17 acres located in the Haw thorne avenue diatrict wa sold last week for $80,010, or $I$00 an acre. The else 1 one -of the largest and most valuable tracts ; f yflose-JBi east side ; .1.. . m A I - acreage ini nnuin. uiijtvvu - SYNDICATE BUYS 25 ACRES TIF S 11IVIDE An inside acreage deal of considerable magnitude reported last week was the sale to a syndicate of local Investors of a 23 acre tract located eaat of Mount Tabor for $38,000.. " The property was purchased through the agency of the Spanton company and was sold by S. Anderson. The land is pn th Section Line road, on mil beyond tha lower Mount Tabor reservoir. , It Is - juat across the Base I.ln - road from the old "MuttnomahTian.'7 which has "long been a gathering place for the grangers and other pubUo bodies in that section. ; Th new owners whos names are temporarily withheld, plan To subdivide the tract Into country home sites con ststlng of one-quarter and one-half acre pieces, . Streets will be graded through National Addition : . There is no subdivision on trie local market whose future is so absolutely assured. : Opportunities are now at hand which will pass in a season. We can't give you any better advice than to visit KENTON-NATIONAL AD DITION and see its advantages face to face. , Just yesterday the streets "were liped with teams, plows, scrapers and wagons to rush the : bg street ' grading contract now i under way in NATIONAL ADDITION, which has caused much commentof late. 'Fortunes have been. made in a few years. ; Fortunes can be made in a Jew months If you buy what everybody is sure to Want , t . Call at ,our office and get" our latest folder, descriptive of KENTON. CO-OPERATIVE REALTY COMPANY -519 21 R A I LWA-Y E X CHAN G E The tj: I ( Talk This Over With theFaniily ;! . ' ... V' , . 'I ? -; . , J : i ' .. . . k a . ' ' . t , '-, 1 ' " .:' ' ' ' :'" " T' v ."You can. buy from' us by paying 9 per cent on the principal and & per cent per annym on the balance for, six years, and six years only. We will plant, care for and bring the orchard into maturity, harvest the crop and market iti collecting the balance of the 85 per cent owed out of the profits of the orchard. We advise Almonds, Apricots, Grapes or Peaches. , We are taking parties to the land 'Wednes day next and another Saturday, and would take you. .A full bearing orchard will stand you a A PER -ACRE Six years to pay for it. If you think there is better land in the northwest than ours at ; any price, then don't buy ours. You can be the judge, but we say this: It will be worth $1000 per acre in six years. The tracts are ', now going rapidly..' You'd better hurry. . . Call or write for further information. The Oregon - Washington Orchard Co. THIRD FLOOR, 306 RAILWAY EXCHANGE BLDO. ' Telephone Marshall 713. i ; ' Open Evenings and Sunday 10 to 12 and 2 to 5. Should Read Thi If in search of fertile land near Portland, or If they desire berry, fruit or poultry farms. We have the best land In Oregon and would like u tell you about , NORTH PLAINS Metropoli: of the TUAL ATIN VALLE" r North Plains Is the town which fs th terminus of the t'nlte.1 U'1--ways, one of the Hill propertlea. A fortune has been expended to tt transportation facilities to this rich valley. , Don't Ton-nu ppose -th ere -ts a ' good res s o n T " Cs JT rji" rl t i ; r -Information. Trains leave from lu front of our office dally at V.l, a. . m. for North Plains. RUTH TnUDT COMPrT""" v,.t, ! . ..(.' . cr, r,rx ;".. trmi f eecct 1.