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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAU PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. MAY 8f, 1911. ' .." i WO PERMITS 10 A BUILD ARE ISSUED if A s- v sy IN TOIY DAYS 'aluation Called for Is $V 100,000 Record Com pares. Well; With That of Last May. , is CETH INDUSTRY SOUNDS DOOM OF STONE MASONRY i i: The announcement that th City and bounty Medical society ia going to build sky scraping . cfflce building: , tnai a , four' or five story brlolc building will Wo up at Fifth snd Madison; that a big araga wilt be built on Fourteenth, and 3ouoh; that Keating & Flood have taken t ten year lease on the Pantagws the-' itre taktn. with . .numerous smaller transactions in the bolldlng line that Fme to light during tne weeic roaaes i Interesting budget of news. "" Another interesting feature of , the i nreek was the announcement yesterday pn Building Inspector, Flummer that the first 10 days of the montn snow kbout 4(0 permits, calling for-the ex tendlture of more than 11,100,000. these figures compared with the record of May,-1010, when the total volume or feermlts amounted to 11,800,000, shows that Portland continues to maintain Its kolendld record for new construction. I BUoavatlng for the new East Side sibrarr on East Alder and East BUT With streets was' about completed last week and the firm having the contract. A Advance Construction company, ixpeots to begin work on tne super truoture within the next few days. The aw building will occupy a ground pace of 12x71 feet It will be of semi reproof construction and will cost ap- roxlmately 185,000. $78,000 Struotar. The largest, permit Issued during the eek was taken out m r. b, u r, moanv and orovided for a. one story rick carbarn to-be erected on East lrtleth street between Lynn hoco, at a coat of 176,000. '"'w..X"J. "" " I lift' I "l " ! Rock Crusher and the Mixer fAre tNow Rapidly Driving Out Artisans . With White . Caps Mallets and Chisels. Looking south on Laurelburst avenue Bt its Intersection with East Olisan street. In v the Lavlhurst tract. ..- Less than one year ago this .property was in Its raw state. fJow on the one' block In the center of the 'picture there are four residences under construction, which when completed will' represent an expendi ture of fully, 1 2 0.0 00. . : , -'.-V'- .? -i : vu, jr:'..-uiA --a-;, . , ' " . - ' ' ' ' " GREAT INTEREST City and County Medical Soci ety Plans the Erection of a Fine Office Building Other Real Estate News Features. The week's developments in real and I estate were of more than usual Interest I and lmoortanca. Not onlr th vni. At the corner of First and Madison. um ot trading large and of a diversi illllD Buehner has begun the erection h.J. . . Permit u7.n out TlaVt wei provide, for P- ? the retail ... -m ..r aa.. mh muii mn .TOugn. or law gut. VdwPaVTHolman''took-ot a v-lt&J&- I,.-. .w - . ,nrv .n.mit I auouuncements. 1Mb vwvaa, iwi wmw v'" l A A . M . a ... ' . 1. ,,. K. ..--i ,t s-cond and Mont I "lu' " "peciai interest was tne house to be erectod at Sna " MO"j: announcement that the City and County gomery streets at a oost of 111,000. Mr. I Mm,,, BnYl.f... . H. . . m 1 S Ksi flMmA I aw aue Haul nU Wm IUVTV I Sit- ,iriitv Twi three-story frame ment lcn wU1 " probability lead hotel. His investments in building in " . h. , !. i i' hha !Wot wUl amount to close to M T'; TvMual mTmbers ,i7'.w-- tn rn..h M I of the society. Of course the doctors do hljX Tf ram. of fie, ?hV7eV anS a new X building' building to go up , at the Ltnepwbrtirtor'lS , .,, , .7 i Mr aha Mr hi w: But Uielp moan business and as Ifuildtng will cost 176,000. Mr. Heaiy I th ,,k v..i. eontamDlates adding eight more stories t,.. v- --..i.: r"' ? t. th. building a. soon a. the develop. 0.' hvily for K ta thTtauS JusUfy the tovMtment He is J u,. prorram Jaunched at tn. mMUng oi ine doctors neia last Wednesday la foundation sufficient to carry the ad' Idltlonal weight rive Story Building. The next large improvement in the Ibulldlng line in prospect for upper I Washington street Is five story ouua- Iing to bs erected by H. w. roes ana associates on the quarter block at the liorfiMst corner of Twelfth and Wash ington. Mr. Fries . contemplates wiiia night will be carried through. $00,000 to Quarter Slock. Among the larger sales of the week was tne purchase by R. It Thomnson of a Quarter block at Fourteenth and Couoh streets for 150,000. This prop erty was purchased as a site for a modern three story garage and It is an nounced that the owner will nroceed tiTl. ..mm.r .nA with that end In "UUIluou v r- Si- .iv.rti.ed for bids to re- w,t" construction, as soon as the tie old structure now encumber- " . ? i-i ih. -it. Aooiner ie or reaaty mvomnf a "5. Berg has broken ground on f0""' improvement was the purchase Eighteenth stree"between Lovejoy and Mr.hail for a two story frame apart- w'5 ?qn ana ment house to cost IS000. Madison streets for' 152.000. . Mf. Seu. wvav irat Will ltnniAa Kla x - j A s A .4- A " Ufallanil I v" vm auava v V WJ yiVUVltr WlUlin brlok apartment to cost io.vug. xms ,.'z ZZZZrz structure wHI cover a EOxlOO foot lot on Lovejoy street Between Euxteenm and Seventeenth. A permit has been issued to M. Heints for a SH story frame residence which he will build on Hlllcrest drive near Jtavensvlew at a cost of tli.000. George W. Priest, Portland's most ex tensive speculative builder of dwelling houses, took out a batcjb of permits last eek provwitvg tor xne- erection ot houses at an aggregate cost or z.uuu Tile houses are all to be built on Fa cifio street, between East Thirty-third street and, Peerless place in Juaurelhurst. Plat Building. M. Levlnger has let the contract for A four series flat building to be erected on Bast Thirtieth street between Madi son street and Hawthorne avenue. 'permit authorizing Its construction at a oont of 16000 was issued last Tiiursaay. CM. Jong Is building a double flat on East Ash between East Thirty eighth and East Thirty-ninth streets at cost of 14000. Permits were issued last week to Da id Taggait authorizing him to build two i H story dwellings on East Twenty- fourth street between Knott and Stan ton. The houses will cost tSSOO each. Another handsome residence for the Irving-ton district was authorized by permit last week. The house it to be built for Ralph . Robinson on East Seventeenth street between Knott and; Brazee. at a cost of S6000. Henry Jagger procured permits for a 14000 residence and a 1500 garage which he is preparing to build on East Twen tieth street between Stanton. ana bis' kiybu. ' i Joseph Paquet is building an addi tional bunker to his sand and gravel plant at th. east approach to the Mor riSOn street bridge. The estimated cost of the improvement is 14500. Archie O. Suitor harf taken out a per mit for a two story frame residence which he is building on FUnt street be tween Page and Tillamook. The cost of the Improvement will approximate 18000. Contract &et. ' The Central Investment company has begun the erection of a $6000 frame building on East Third street between Madison and Jefferson, iJermita wereiBsuea to i. Anaer son for two bungalows to be erected on East Sixty-first street between Siskiyou and Klickitat, The houses will cost 12500 each. ' v - F. N. Thomas has begun the erection of a SH story frame dwelling on Edst Seventy-fourth street between East AJ-J dor. and East 'Morrison.. The permit Just T Issued, fixes it at 14000. ; v C. A. ioy is. building two two-story frame dwellings on East Forty-seventh Street between Braze, and Thompson, each to cost 13600.- - , i Misses Q. & E. Iron s have let the contract for a fcvo story frame resi dence to be erected on East Fiftieth street between Hancock and Broadway, at a cost of 800. . ... . J. C. Robert is having plana drawn for a one story frame laundry building, 40 fey to feet, which he will build at th. southwest corner of East Twenty Tilnth and East Washington streets. The house wi(I cost 17000. It was reported yestardiv that V tional lot at the northwest corner of .Fifth and Clay streets has again changed hands at a considerable ad- "" ':' '." . " 1 vane. over , the figure paid by the In vestor who bought tt about a month ago. reported then at 120.000. The pur chaser of this parcel was not made public The price is said te have been 122,800, , Apartment House lte, ' Sixty feet of frontage having a depth of 100 feet located on' thv south '' of Hall street between Fourteenth and Sixteenth, was sold last Wednesday for 111,500. ,The purchaser was John Mil ler and associates and th. conveyor Haul. Buby. It Is understood that this property was purchased aa a site for a modern apartment house. - . Lot e, block I, In Russeire addition, which Is located Just west of th. old exposition grounds and oa th. south side of .Washington street was sold by D. C Anderson to Andrew Gordon for 220,000. Th. property Is improved with a large three story frame building. William Rsldt who has Improved a large amount of property In Holladay's addition and In the vicinity of Killings worth and Union avenues, has sold to Lillian J. Mitchell an improved 60 foot lot located at the southwest corner of East Sixth and Wasco streets, for $21, 760. Th. Improvement consists of a four series flat building which was erected there by Mr. Reldt about two years ago. A. R. Rice has sold to W. W. Richard son and associates; two modern dwel ling houses oeoupylng TOxlOO feet at the northwest corner of East Seven teenth and Knott streets. Th. oonsld eratlon Involved in the deal was $17,- 000. Booker Rons. fold. Jennie E. Wlnstock has purchased from Christians Becker a house and lot located on the east side of Twenty second street between Irving and John son for $12,000. - Th. property at the northeast corner of H sight street and Klllingsworth avenue was sold last week for $10,000. The purchaser was John M. Plttlnger and th. seller Edward R. Conlff. It Is described as lot 1, block $, Piedmont T. 8. McDanlels has taken title to lots t, 6 and 6, block 2, Brush's second addition. The property Is In the vi cinity of East Twenty-seventh and Di vision streeta and Is improved with a number ef small dwelling houses. The consideration Involved -was $9200. W. S. Bridges has sold to A. F. Pet- sel lots 7 and t, block il. Carter's ad dition, for $5000. This quarter block is located at the southeast oorner of Elm street and Montgomery Drive, Portland Heights. The Lanreiharst company has sold te T. 8. Townsend lots IS and It, block 2, Laurelhurst for $6600. 8. V. Cobb has purchased from the Rood River Orchard Land company a house and lot on East Fifteenth street near East Washington. Th. consider ation was $0600. a MaSd 67 ACRES SELL Consideration In Hood River Deal Is Said to Be $100,000. (Special Dlinateh ts tie Journal.) Hood River, Qr May 20. The largest real estate deal of ths season was con cluded yesterday when the Hood River Mineral Springs company cam. Into possession of the 17 acres ot land com prising the B. R. Manning property of 27 acres and the Warren Wells property adjoining, consisting of 40 aores. It Is reported that approximately $100,000 Is Involved in th. deal. A large por tion of the Manning property, on which a chalybeate mineral springs is located, Is in beating orchard, and the receipts from the property now secured by .the mineral springs company ware said to be $13,000 last year. A heavy timbered canyon crosses the 40-sere Wells tract through which flows a stream. The company proposes at one. to clear the underbrush In this canyon and pitch a large number of tents for campers. Permanent im provements will be begun at once and It is expected that in a short time the public natatorlum will be completed. The swimming pool will be approxi mately 76x100 feet. The property on which the springs are located is at an elevation of about 100J feet The park ing and boulevardlng of the grounds Will bo begun at once and' preparation made for the main building, to be used as a hotel and resort The directors of ths eomnanv sav they propose to expend approximately $200,000 in the Improvements snd If the present plans are carried out the hotel will be a reinforced concrete building, fire proof and of 125 room capacity. Th. property is two and one-half miles from Hood River. The mscadam road leading to th. grounds winds through th. Hood River gorge, a most scenic highway. Is the -business ' of the stone mason doomed; to extinction? Are we soon to see no mors -the white capped mason witn nis mauet and chisel as he fash I Vis the rough block of stone Into the key that holds the arch, or slowly re duces to Its proper dimensions the huge corner stone of the village ohuroh or the courthouse, the laying of which by the local Masonio lodge was attended by such Impressive ceremony! While we may not expect stone ma ions to btoome as eoarco as the pro verbial hen's teeth, there is every rea son to predlot that 10 years hence there number will be so small as to oause the craft to almost lose Its Identity, It is said. And what Is It that is destined to bring about so vast a cbangeT ' Simply the growth of the manufacture of ce ment in this country and In Europe. a wo raota tell the story. . Xtstory of Trade. Cement works were not known In this country nntil the year 127$. Up to that date all the cement uaed in the United States waa imported from England and Qermany. Twenty-two years later, or in 1000, we ware making $0 per cent of all the oement used in the world. Since that date the industry has grown marvelously. There are three kinds known to th. trade, of whidh th. Portland Is th. most familiar, so called - because It hsppens to resemble a certain kind of gray rock found on the island of Portland off the English coast Portland cement was first made In England in 1825 and it was not until (3 years later that the first cement works were, established at Copley, Pa. Output BmaLL So late as 1890 the output of the few plants In this country was very small. In 1811, only 18 per cent of all the cement used'here was of home manufacture, the remaining coming from abroad. After that the whole sit uation underwent a rapid change, and the United States now supplies th. trade of th. world. No man knows how hold this valu able material may- be, for the ruins of ancient Rome are solid masonry, laid with oement made from volcanlo ashes mixed with lime and water. Ths ruined cities of ths Aztecs in Central America also contain ancient masonry laid with cement and walls built of ce ment and rubble. As we know it the material la a mixture of lime, silica and aluminum. These elements in the right proportion have tha remarkable property of cohering until the product finally becomes as hard aa stone. Lima is obtained by burning limestone and sil ica with aluminum is the natural prod uct ot common clay. The ease with which this material i bandied makes It desirable. - It to la far cheaper to handle crushed rock and oe ment than it te to handle great blocks and slabs of heavy atone. With eon erete, a new abutment for a bridge can be poured and molded Into shape In a single day, whereas It used to take a gang of skilled stone masons, all of a month to build it By this means also a good, substantial house can be mads in 14 - hours. ".; ; r :?y ; (.' ' ICaktiif Crushed Stoae. '' . ' ' . Most of the old flagstone quarries have long since been abandoned and a majority ef the out stone quarries have been turned into the manufacture of crushed stone for roads and concrete works. Walks constructed of cement are not only cheaper than flagstone, but better. Concrete everywhere is taking the place of masonry. . Likewise the concrete mixer is taking the place of the stone mason. , , REPORT ACTIVE CALL FOR SMALL HOLDINGS .It Is. said that the garment workers' strike fund will exceed $2,000,000 by next 'July. More than 110,000 persons belong to the union. : , The realty firm of Knapp Mackey, which operates largely in suburban properties, report an active demand for small holdings with a good list ot sales Closed during the past It days. ' Ia Ardsnwald this firm bss sold H lots to the following buyersi Mrs. James. Neeley, 4 lots, $1400. Elmer Blddlnger. two lots. $800; Lillian Wynoook, two lots, $1000; Wallace Mailer, three lots, In MarysTllie subdivision, five quar ter aore tracts have been sold as fel lows: H E. Prulk, $860; C T. Fisher, $600; Axtel Matson. $500y John Cullen. $800; Emeriok A Flnlayson, $476. Six aores, located In section 82, township 1, south range 2 east was sold te O. G. Farm an for $8200. What Water Will Do OITM essssdmsnte made ia the Wirtei Me valley skew that int. gotten durtag ths dry eases set easy lassMssr the ere, bat results t eeteaadlag Incseasis as fellows: On Same Land Without Irrigation With Irrigation WSW AW W WA A11V4TJUO.O. V ,VJV Corn.; up to 7lf --5L- Increase f'ffik Onions; jptol43$ Potatoes: Increase,, xjptol80y Copyright J. BL H. Investigate this before deciding where to locate. Tor particulars ean on the Willamette Valley Irrigated Land Company, HARTMAN 4k, THOMPSON. Sole Managers, Cham, ef Com. bldg. (Ask for Mr. Harteg.kn For the first time in years, all hut a few of the chairmanships of the Im portant committees of the house of rep resentatives are now held by southern Democrats. Charlotte Olebratos. rRMrtal rrtinatch to Th InornfiL) Charlotte, N. C, May 10. Charlotte was filled with visitors for the carni val celebration to mark ths anniver sary of the Mecklenburg declaration of Independence, a document said to have been promulgated here on May - 20, 1776, nearly a year in advance of the declaration of independence signed at I Philadelphia. I f LJ C The . Industrial Town on the NorthBank Soon to be the PAY ROLL CUT Journal Want Ada brine; results. Land Clearing Loses Its terrors! Our chief aim in promoting the new" magical CHARPIT method of clearing stump lands is to end that horror which many people have of buying -raw Oregon Und,L From the beginning land-clearing has meant' racking, killing toil. And the' word has gone abroad. Now that it is changed let the word be spread , broadcast that Oregon's most perplexing land prob lem has been, solved--solved fully and completely. Today, and from now on, out goes the 4-foot stump without hard work, powder or much expense. Simply take a mattock and a match and CHAR PIT it. v .., - Moreover, the CHARPIT knack is simple and easily learned. If you had no experience you couldn't learn how to milk a cow from a written description; not without practice It's easier to learn to CHARPIT than fo milk a cow. - It makes a lot of difference to some people whether they take on an obligation of, say $400 (on easy terms) for ten acres of prime raw land, or say $2000 for -ten acres of -cleared land. CHARPITTING makes the difference between $400 and $2000 an immense sum compared with the cost of taking away those stumps yourself. And if youH look into it you will say that CHARPITTINO Is really more like fun than work. It's twice the fun playing golf is and half the fun of going fishing.' So you can get your prime raw land and clear It at your will and without cash no matter what your age or strength way be. If you buy the higher priced clear land -that-$2000 purchase price must be paid, with interest, within the time limit. We have made the most successful use, ourselves, of CHARPITTINO on our Immensely fertile district in BEAYER HOMES at " mEBL AMD And we are able to put the MAN PF WAITED MEANS on an orchard or garden tract that wfll give him EARLY INDEPENDENCE.- ' s ' ' i ' Our district is an hour's runrdown the Columbia near Coble. Products can be shipped to Portland by rail or water at small' rate brought on by competition. No more fertile land can be found anywhere plenty of good water for all purposes, good roads, stores, churches close at hand, school 'open full season, beautifully located. This district meets, the DE MANDS OF THE MOST EXACTING HOME BUYER. For this we are asking today $25, $30, $35, $37.50 and up to $80 per acre. And you can make small payments monthly, quarterly or at longer intervals if you wish. , ' In tracts of 5, to, 15, 20, and up to 40 acres. V We want you to arrange with us at once to see this land F7B. ttdLiBROOK GO. -$!&5$M MVI-isaiga Ic I vlaa? 8 miles cast of Portland, on the main line of the . - 'T. North .Bank Road, 10 miles west of The Dalles., HVVir Te I rlaa? Is n rcsPonsc to the economic demand that calls J If Lyle had not been throttled for 30 years It would today be the largest city between Portland and Spokane. Wrinf Fc Rnrlr rif 1 vlia? ne of e greatest areas of fertile YYIiat IboaCJl Ol lyiC., ar productive orchard -and farm lands directly tributary to any single city. This immense area has no other gate way but Lyle no other outlet but Lyle. , , Wliaf F1qa? LyJe as me of railroad facilities Is an important , VY flat lbt; railroad junction point. It has the best steamer land ing on the riven it has immense waterpower right at its gates; it has several new brick and concrete business blocks already contracted for; it has an active Com-1 mercial Qub, cement sidewalks, piped water, graded streets, new, railroad station coming, new overhead bridge, new life, new energy; it has every advantage that goes to make a big city and . v ' 4 'yr Lyle Will Be a Big City, Soon, Too! Better go up and see Lyle before the best plums are picked. Prices of. lots range from $250 to $750, improvements included, easy terms. Take North Bank train' any day, 9:55 a m.; return home 7:45 p. ml . $ Free Illustrated Circular and full details on request '' k ' Keasey, Humason & Jeffery Dealers in Land . 2d Floor, Chamber of Commerce Portland, Ore :