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a 7 i i 1 1 'S . ,' ; ., '.'(. ' . . 'l-';':';:!' .'f -J ' MANIFESTED FOR RURAL PROPERTY : t. r ' - s Sales of Acreage Distributed Vr iri Many, Sections of State; ; ; Rinehart ; Ranch, of-' 490 ' 'Acres Sold for $22,000.' v - '' . THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. SUNDAY , MORNING, JUNE ',4, V 1911. I'" ,,,,11,, 'I L !1 !'! L-LSJ .J-!l-i.''-JJWII !1 J1L...J1.!'. 1.1.1 L J1.J!JLJ l.-Li U-LU HI I I I M, , I ' . 11.11.1 i, I 1 .! J i . I 1 1 . . " 1 ; .. . : 11 1 '" "1 mm mm Panama Government Land Have Recently Been Thrown The ont . noUbU thing . In ' th real utit situation In Oregon at thl tlm, 1 the lively interest , taken In country ' property. Thin, demand for acreage II o general that It Involve every sec. .tlon of the state nor la It limited to any particular claaa of rural property, Everybody that, can, ralae the price aoem bent on grabbing a piece of Ore ; gon acreage while it U on It upward way to city property , prices, V On of the largest real eatate deal of recent' tnoniha waa completed thl week by the Enterprise neal Katate company Wagner A Corklna) In the aale of the r. I. Rinehart ranch on lower Prairie creek to Henry Fletcher Of thla city for 122,000. The ranch la a very desirable place of 490 arrra, of which 310 acrea are under ditch. The deal Include nine hare In the Big Bend Ditch company Mr. Fletcher haa taken possession and will move onto the place at once. Other recent deal put through by , tne Enterprise Real Eatate company, and not heretofore credited, arei Seven teen hundred acres north of Enterprise, C. P. Ratwdal to Hansen Bros., for 117.000; the old Gould farm on Elk creek to Charles Kllen of Adams eoun ty, Wash., for 2S(0; block of land In . Gardner's addition to lUnterprl to Wallowa County Fair association, $400 the old Joe Lwler ranch, 10 mllea north Of town, to J. M. Comellson for $2000 L. Peranleau of Poison, Mont., haa bought through Payne A Sheets of thla elty, the u. U. Zell wheat ranch, si miles northwest of town, consisting of ISO arres, for lit an acre. It Is accounted by all a splendid buy and Mr. Deranleau is well satisfied with his investment. There are 100 acres In cultivation, hastwo good springs, well, small house and barn and is fenced and cross fenced. . Courter A Vick of Falls City nave this week sold A. H. Dodd's "25 acrea to A. A. Wade, and the Francis Zurer place or 10 acres to C. A.Rehmrl, both buyers being from Wenatchee, Wash., and each will move here soon and proceed to fur ther improve their properties. Courter tc Vlrk have also sold a 'farm of 107 acrea In the valley near this city to a resident of The Dalles. These three salef of a total of 202 acres amount to 116,000, and that's some business. V1 7, r- lT mr & Si x It The J. T Hill farm of 00 acres this aide of Junction City, which waa sold three years ago to a man by the name of Boyd, has Just been sold by the lat ter to a Chicago capitalist for $40,000, The Chicago man Is on the place now and announcea that he will divide the farm into 10 end 20 acre trade and place them on the market. He aaya that the Willamette valley Is being advertised more-in the et now than any other part of the country and he looks tor a big influx of settler here during the next few years. D. E. Oilman this week consummated a deal for 1160 acre of Morrow county wheat land at the head of Caaon canyon, known as the Nunamsker land, to Port land parties for S20 per acre. The cash haa been paid over on this deal and the transfer fully made, and It la on of the biggest and best deala of the sea son In Morrow county dirt The country around Sandy and be yond la rapidly settling up with a class of people altogether desirable and en terprlstng enough to reclaim the wilder nees from its wild state and make It one of the most attractive regions in Oregon. Land haa been selling out there all the way from 1 160 to If 00 per acre, none of the tracts consisting of mora than 20 acres.. Many .commercial or chards are being started, as It haa been found that apples especially are a pro ductive crop, of fin flavor and prolific. It Is estimated that S000 acres have lately been sold to men who will raise fruit About (00 acres arc already planted and some ' orchards will bear fruit this year for the first time. The Mount Hood wagon road has 'been the greatest factor .in bringing the Bandy region Into prominence, and the Mount Hood railway will helpNt along. Far up Into the mountain are numerous new houses of solid construc tion, and the opening of the district Is a revelation. It 1 noticeable that the builders and buyers are nearly all from Portland. Vincent Schmidt and T. H. nrdnr have recently bought 80 acre along the Sandy river and have' option, on 150 acrea more. They willplat the flrat tract Into 10-acre farm and put them on the market. Thia section will oon be yielding a large share of the fruit raised In Oregon. ' The elevation Is about "1500 feet, Just bout the right height above the ocean to raise big red , apples. , , , f. ' Paul Mertschlng of Oregon City ar rived In PrUtevlll the last of the week. Thla Is Mr. MertschlngB Second trip to this country. The first time he came he got 1160 acre of land and so well pleased was ha with hi bargain that he couldn't keep It to himself. Ha had to tell hi , neighbor. , Then he had to make a second trip. He la now -looking tor six or seven location and if suit able land -can be found a colony of Clackamas fanner will settle in Crook county,' ... Leverett Tallman, a sophomore In Pearson's academy, haa Just sold fori $3000 cash a ranch that he Owned In Umatilla county, Or. Tallmaa entered I the academy three year ago and after completing bl freshman work dropped out of school for two year and took up a, government claim on Government mountain. 1 He atayed On bl claim for two year, proved up and got the prop erty Into fin condition. Ha reentered the academy last fall, being two year behind his former claasmates. . ' Front elevation of club bouse to" bo erected "by the Rom City Park'Club at tb Intersection of Tho Alameda v ' and Sandy road. Drawing- by Architect Roberta ft Roberta. TELLS ABOUT USE OF GLASS BRICK; PLANT IS COSTLY Material for Wails in Low Class of Buildings Employed in Some Parts of Germany; Proof-Against Fire. In a recent report to the department of atate, Conaul General Robert P. Skinner submits a mass of Interesting and valuable1 fact anent the manufac ture and use of glass brick in Germany. The conaul aays that glass brick are In common use In some "portions of Ger many for low buildings, but believe that they might be more extensively used In America In connection with our large use of steel In the frame and sup port of building. He says there are three types of glss brick well known to the architects of Germany. Xtun) Be Ouarood, One, the Falconer hollow brick, of a singular and Irregular shape; another, I 14 hollow rectangular brick, aimliar n hap to a common brick j and a pressed glass brick, molded Into the form of a thick letter -J." The chief objection to their more ex tensive use, thit la, their us In gen eral construction, or In the larger por tion of the wali la their Inability to support mora than their own weight or even thla, when the wall exceeds IS feet in height. As a consequence the glass brick Itself must be guarded and the opening above and below up- ported with girder a If on were blocking out a window opening In a wall. When these bricks are carefully han died they eeldotn crack or break, but aa they are sensitive to changea li temperature, builder must use , tneiu with considerable discretion. They are delivered to contractor loosely packed In straw and ar shipped In the earn manner In car load lota from the fac tories. Us Described. The conaul general' report describes the manner of their use by German builders as folic ws:. "The mortar ueed In laving them should be compoeed of one part of fine sand to four part of!cement, the lat ter to Include (0 to ?t per cent Roman cement V- "The rectangular, hollow, blown glass bricks hare become of late the moit popular form among German builder. They are thicker than the Falconnler brick and ar therefore more valuable for f (reproofing purpoeea,' although a little more expensive than the Falcon nler. i 'These bricks cost an average of 12 cents each In dimensions of S by 10 Inches face, or half that price when 4.7 by 4.1 Inches face. Brickwork of about 14 20 per ten thla kind coet square feet Costly to Xako. The pre glass brick made In the form of a thick letter, U art the cheap est but are also the' least popular, as cbangta tn temperature facilitate the passage of moisture and dust through the mortar, and aa th latter lodges on the Inner eurfaoe of the brlcka, they eventually lose their transparency. It la not understood that any of these forms are protected by patents. A large Hamburg building contractor eetlmates Ithat to erect a first-class plant for lmaking glass bricks as a specialty . . . . I A. . . . AAA T ,IUU IU GVft f4ia,0VV IU JIS,VVU. nuw- Trr It inntin that minr German f manufacturers of glass produce bricks aa one of numerous lines whenever mar ket conditions make it profitable. rorcelaln Brlcka Uaeoounoa. Porcelain brlcka are exceedingly un- i common, although there are a rew houeee In Hamburg, th exterior wall of which ar faced with them. Theee! brlcka are made near Stettin, from clay found on the laland of Bornhol In the Baltic. It aeema likely that they will never become popular aa they ar very heavy and expensive. A wall construct ed of porcelain bricks costs over 17.11 per ten square feet Finally they aeem to attract dirt and soon present a bad appearance, wails raced with glssed i clay bricks coet about 125 per ten 1 X k.l.L. n U In - . I Uny 1UVU uikm nuik i;vi 28' per cent higher than glazed clay brickwork. It may be concluded there fore that porcelain bricks will never come into use except in a limited and special way In inside construction. The whit glased bricks at present are uaed chiefly In quadrangles and right shaft. m u v fl uyo u 7n km n 'I W. B. Wiebke haa aold oight acres of land "nortlr of Eugene on the river road to winner Walton, lata or Michigan, for 12160..-. ..V f,'. , ' . More Alfalfa at Ooldendale. . 8pcel(t Dlapatrb to Th JaaraaLI -! 1 Ooldendale, Waalu, June .About 1000 acre of alfalfa haa been -planted in the vicinity of Ooldendale thla spring. It la raised without irrigation. - There have been scattered patches and until last year very little attention was paid ttA thm ernn. ' Tha wnnA rtrfrm mnA n, ,tn.. ar obtained without trrlratlim. . Th I roots of alfalfa go deep . so after the Second rear the' rroWth'ls haw and and Boulevards Make This "The Coming Section" siWholc Btktdks for homes in this section are. at tractive. High restrictions and fine homes here at present insure, the future. Not less than V4 block sold. ' May we show you the beauties of this slope of Mt, Tabor, known as Swim's at head of Hawthorne Avenue Chapin & Herlow 332 Chamber of Commerce v- Open to Americans on the Same Terms as Panamanians THESE LANDS ARE THE RICHEST AGRICULTURAL LANDS IN THE WHOLE WORLD, and what is almost of equal importance, 'and yet not generally known, is that the Provinces of Chiriqui and ' Code have a climate that is nearly ideal, with a mean temperature under 80 degrees, and a variation on either side of not more than 10 degrees throughout the-year. There are over 300 sunshiny days, with a rainfall of 70 inches, so distributed throughout the year that it rarely-rains for more than an, hour at a time. This makes for ideal agricultural conditions, and no place on earth can show better results. Sugarcane, when once planted, will reproduce, itself continuously .for at least 15 years. Furthermore, it contains the highest amount of saccharine matter known, and Cuban cane, which has made every planter rich, is not in it by comparison, the Panama cane giving 40 tons to the acre, where Cuban cane yields only 23. One does not need to go beyond this fact to realize these lands are the most desirable purchase possible, yet this is only one of many equally good possibilities. On the Costa Rican border is a belt of citrus fruit land which can not be excelled anywhere. Here oranges attain perfection at a sea son of the year (November 1 ) when they have the world's markets to themselves and will command the highest possible price. As many as 600 bushels of white potatoes per acre have been grown in Chiriqui, and 300 bushels an acre is an average cropr There are potatoes growing there today which were planted 1 3 years ago, and year after year have repeated as a volunteer crop. If. similar conditions exist anywhere else on earth, we do not know of it. Panama has been kept back solely by lack of a stable government and a total absence of transportation facilities. The United States government is now back of Panama, while transit facilities are near at hand. Must a man be unusually intelligent to grasp what this will mean? Cannot a)st anyone realize that with ships passing through the canal to almost every point on the globe, the world's markets will be opened t& this favored region as no other point on earth? This is precisely what is going to happen in Panama. Some fine morning the water will be let into the canal and the dream of five centuries realized. Never again can such a favorable combination of circumstances exist. The liberal terms under which these marvelously fertile lands can , be acquired make them virtually a gift: $2.50 per acre down, and $2.50 in four years with no interest or taxes to pay until one year after the, completion of title. So far as the selection of lands is concerned, we are in a better position to do this for you than though you were in Panama to act for yourself. VV have experts who are familiar with the country, and who can and will do the , very best possible for us. As there is only one price for government lands, it will readily be appre ciated that we have nothing to gain except by securing the very best For one unfamiliar with the country to attempt to locate anything now would prove exceedingly difficult, owing to the total lack of transportation facilities . but the new railroad from Panama to David, in connection with the Canal, will open up this country to the world, almost in the twinkling of an eye." Those who wait, however, to ride through the country in a Pullman car will find their opportunities gone. . ,7 ! 0 . i The Time to Act Is Now ' Fo7 the man" mean a fortune lies within his grasp. The man who can only see behind can never sit in the seats of the Mighty. Your one great big chance is NOW. A comparatively few dollars placed in these lands will soon return your competence every year, and finally a fortune. Once in possession of the fandr you have four years to decide how you wish it cultivated, with no taxes or interest to pay while you are thinking it over, but NOW is the time to ACT. If you are dissatisfied with the lands selected by us for you , , We will return your money upon demand9 at any time within two years This gives you araj)le time to see for yourself. We KNOW we can make a better selection for you than you could do for yourself, and we are prepared to stand back of our assertion. You thus have everything to gain and noth- ' ing to lose by availing yourself of the terms offered. Fill out the form below and your application will be filled by the govern- -ment in the order received by us. . v ' - . The title is perfect, being a government title. Agents Wanted . Panama Development Company 216 Mercantile Place r Z Between Fifth anil Sixth Sts. Los Angelea, California APPLICATION FOR LAND PANAMA DEVELOPMENT CO MP ANT. 21( Mercantile Pleee, I os Angel e. Cell for nie. Deer Sir: Enclosed please find 1 for my account Panama, auitabl for the cultivation of .. . ( ... for which plM purchase .acre of Government land la the Republic of I further agree to pay you the aunt of $2.10 per acre for each and every acre o pur cheeed for my account wlthl n a period of four year, it being optional - with me as to when I shall make payment during the period named, and It is mutually understood and , agreed that I shall not be called upon to. pay any interest or taxes under thie agreement It i further understood and agreed that should I becom e dlsnstief id with my pur chase at any time within two years you will return the full amount paid, on assignment , to you of all my light. 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