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c:. n r U i I r t - 1 J w u - : i. a mm tXutEO S500.000 FOR HALF a St r m mb'er of Permits Issued Is 429; Total Construction for February Will Exceed $1, 000,000; Plans Given Out. Building permit for February passed the halt million dollar mark with , the close of business Wednesday the 14th. The exact figures are 429 permits and, 1507.044. The halt month's record prac tically assures that "February's total of -nw-mstrctlen w411weee-$lveo.OO and very likely will go far beyond that, figure, as there are a number of plans for larga buildings on file with the building inspector, some of which will "be reached and permits issued before March J. "Residence construction so far In February has been the ' dominant feature of the city's building activity as It was throughout the month of .'January. There seems to be no pros pect of a let up to the activity of home- ' builders in Portland, and on every hand there is abundant proof that the demand equals-he supply.. Among the large hew building pro- , positions announced last week was a new hotel by the H. W. Scott estate on the west half of the Scott homestead on Upper Morrison street ; The proposed new hostelry will occupy the full quar ter block at the northeast corner of Thirteenth and Morrison and Is to be three stories high. It will cosO between .$60,000 and $70i600. Piece Brings 940,000.' George M. Strong of Strong & Co., realty brokers who recently acquired the fractional block bounded by Tenth, Burnslde and Oak streets as extended, will Improve the parcel, upon the open ing of Oak street with a modern durable structure in keeping with the buildings buUt In that district during the past .year. Mr. Strong paid 140,000 for the parcel at trustee's sal. It has an area of 8200 square feet and fronts on two prominent tborodj6$fares7 . Plans of the- Westminster Presby terlan church were filed in the build ing Inspector's office last week by Archi tect Bills F. Lawrence. Construction work on the proposed .structure will be- 'gin about March, 16. ' Its estimated cost Is $100,000. ? ?"m.v , A local investor is having- plans drawn for a group of 14 bungalows which he proposes building on one block and . which Will be called "Bungalow Court" The court is to be enclosed In a cobble tone TOM. Inthe center of the court will be' handsome loggia and at one end a large garage with an apartment for the car of .ach tenant Underneath the garage will be located a central heating plant from which heat will be piped to the 14 dwellings within the court The estimated cost of the unique improvement including the site la 185, 000. . . On a S-aere tract near Sellwood. C U Pollock la preparing to oegin the erec tion of a modern county home ' which will cost in the neighborhood of $$000. - Flans of the projected home are be ing drawn in the offices of a local archl- tect " - w Attractive Dwellings. C F. Brown, a local builder, has be gun the erection of two attractive dwelings In Beaumont One is to be the regulation two story t room house and will go up on East Forty-first, near Klickitat Tile other lis of the Swlss . Chalet type, 1M stories. Each will .cost about $5000. ' v ' ' - D. Bryson Moore is preparing to build three medium priced homes In Rose City Park. tp. cost about $S000 each. W. A. Carpenter 'has a permit' for a i. story frame dwelling of unusually attractive design and arrangement which he Is going to build on East Twenty fourth street between Grant and Lin coln in Murraymead. " The bouse will cost about $10,000 and will be one 'of the finest of the score or more of hand '. some dwellings erected in Murrymade during the past 11 months. A permit was Issued last Friday to C. Whipple providing for the building of a II story frame dwelling on East Thirty-eighth street between Knott and Stanton. The cost Is $4000. On Woods street between FJrst and . Front South Portland, ground has been ' broken by II. Wank for a two story frame flat building which wilLapproxl maiely cost $5000. ' Thomas VI gars, who has built a num ber fhoraestnLadd's addition, has just taken out permits for two new dwellings to be erected on Elliott ave . nue. between Ladd and Birch street in the same addition. The houses are to be IH stories each and will call for an expendltion of about $9000. On East Twenty-first street between . Siskiyou and Klickitat E, T, Taggart is building a modern 2 story frame rest- TtOffiaiTJorfelfleI3cncerTwenty i vvmmf&M f if " wm m ititk . it imlm iti i":t4U lflW.? Jill I 1 4:. LPV j-y: r Residence of H, A Kroeuest corner Mallory avenue and Sumner street, Walnat Park, dence which will cost between $5000 and $6000. :, ;: - .. :- The firm of Nellsen and Larsen re cently .procured permits for two' 1 story cottages to be erected on Curtis avenue, between Bryant and Saratoga streets.- The combined cost will be about $5000. - . H. E. Brown has. begun the erection of a" twb story frame flat building on Forty-fifth avenue and Foster jcoad, which will cost approximately T $4000. On East Sixtieth street near the Al ameda, E. I Wright is building a ., story dwelling at a cost or $3000. Permits were Issued last' week for dwellings to cost $2500 or less to the following builders: H. E. Thompson, 1 M Btory cottage, Leo, near East Twelfth street, $2000; C M. Morris," 2 story dwellingBald win street near Mississippi ; avenue, $2000; J. Johnson, one story-cottage, Brooklyn atreetnear East twenty-first $1600; H. E. -Smith,' ona story frame cottage, East' Seventy-Second avenue, southeast $2500; N. P. Jensen, 1V4 story frame cottage, East Forty-seoond, near East Morrison, $2000;, J. E. Boubrtght 1 story frame cottagv . Broadway, near East Forty-second. $2000; C. Whip ple, ona Btory frame cottage, East Thir-ty-eightlvearJUnton$2600; Joseph Easier, 2 story frame dwelling, Oregon, near East Thirty-third, $3600; E. S. Dyer. 1 story frame cottage, Farragut between Derby and Farragut $2600," William Hargreaves, two story frame cottage, -Bills avenue, near East Twenty second, $2000; Henrietta B. Farris, two one story cottages. Forty-fifth avenue, near Seventy-second southeast ' $201 each,-'' 1 '. T I TRY IATE BERRIES Retarded Industry Can Develop With Railroad to Port- : land Markets. fRpeclal to Tbe JonrntH Tillamook, Or., Feb. 17 Berry cul ture promises to be a profitable indus try in thlL county. Lack of a market has retarded the development of berry growing, but with a five hour schedule to Portland, It is thought that large quantities of Tillamook berries will find their way to that market - 1 Strawberries. ; and loganberries will form the bulk of tho crop. It la-not probable that an effort will be made to grow early berries because of the late frosts and the prevailing cool se breezes.' . Instead, the Tillamook berry grower will davelep the late berry.: The season in this county is several weeks later than In other places and' the suc cessful grower will take advantage of that fact. It Is not unusual to sorve strawberries late In August " here and the late, berry should have, as ready a market as the earlier one.' Conditions are very favorable .for the loganberry and it is being grown in sev eral parts Of the county. With proper care, the plant is quite profitable and many farmers ark enthuslastlo concern ing Us possibilities. - ' Cranberry marshes, are found In vari ous parts of the county, the district around Sand Lake being ' particularly well adapted to this fruit Cranberries have been produced at 8and Lake for a number of years and have proved suo- - fIflE anOforthrup etreeta, ona of H1U 4UUrl LAMOOK WILL H s . V L I ''' - ' . "" 'i , , . i . '. . . - " ' 1 r - Vv;-l ; - . , ; i . .- 5 ; i -, " ; : 1 .: i , j ' . ' , T""" ill i nmji.iiitfii,:,i vlft'mawiriWfii iiairissW'ississisWBiaJ New home of J. B. Dlckover, recently completed at Mallory. avenue and PAINT CO. TO BUILD Fisher & Thorsen.to Build Near Old Location of the : Standard Oil Co. One of the beneficial results to come to the near in east side- from the re moval of the Standard Oil's distributing plant at East First and Salmon streets is the erection of an eight story re enforced concrete - warehouse : covering the entire north front of East Salmon, between East Water and East First streets. The sit belongs to Flaher & Thorsen, paint and oil dealers,, and this firm has Just completed arrangements to cover the entire 200 by 100 feet gth what will be the largest warehouse in Portland. Negotiations are under way between Fisher & Thorsen and a New Tork business concern seeking a loca tion in Portland ..looking to leasing one half of the- proposed struoture by the New Tork concern. The remaining half of the building will be occupied by Fish er & Thorsen as a storage warehouse. .Work on the construction of the pro posed building will begin about March 15. a Thr . estimated cost af tha im provement is $225,000. , eessfuL The berries are large, firm, well colored and .have very good flavor. - Blackberries, - huckleberries, salmon berries, salal berries, thlmblebarrles and numerous other varieties are found in the ' hills throughout the county, grow Ing wild. ' " the handsomest fiew homes in the" Nob m WAREHOUSE Five Dollars Saved Each Week Nets . $7,1 16 In Twenty Years. """Good intention! advisers say that If a person will' save $o a week xor 20 years, put It in a savings banks that pays 8 per cent Interest and compound the interest religiously, "ho" will have at the end of that time $7111.46. Also, there Is a familiar argument against buying life insurance. It runa about thin way: . Compare the returns at the end of 25 or 80 years from paying $200 a year on an insurance policy, and put ting $200 a year Into some form of per fectly safe investment yielding H per cent Of course, the fallacy of this ar gument can easily, be worked out A man does not buy life Insurance as a straight Investment and (here la the real hitch) the -average man has not the strength of will - out of moderate earnings to put aside for Investment a definite sum at definite intervals ever a long period of time. . . t ... ... ...... For the old type of saver who out out cigars and new neckties In order to nut Haslde $S a week, there haa been sub stituted another. Here is the plan he has worked out As soon aa you - can scrape together $100 start a checking account at a regular commercial bank. Theh deposit all your earnings salary or commissions, or-whatever you re ceive. You'll find that you won't write checks for a lot of things you've been spending cash ror. and that vour an count will Increase at an. encouraging rate. When- you've got $300 to your credit buy through the bank a bond or mortgage or a piece of real estate cost ing $500. - Turn over the bond or mort gage or real estate to the bank to secure the loan of $200. Interest on the se curity or the rents will be paid to you. After a time the $200 1ftui will be wiped out by your Increasing deposits. Then do ltt again. It Is a stimulating habit. and one that gives you standing! in the business community quicker than any thing else. And there's no feeling that you're serving a sentence while you're -doing It John M. Kosklson in Savings and In- vestments. in. x. Globe. A finely Improved 10-acre tract lo cated at Witch Hazel station, near Reed vllle In Washington county was sold last week oy the Columbia Trust com pany .to 12 W.. Bolton for $10,500. Th entire piece 'is in a high state of cul tivation and- is. Improved with a large new aweiung, Darn and other outhouses. PART OF ELMEND0RF " ACRES' SOLD, $18,000 A part of the Elmendorf Acres, near Woodburn, containing 6S aoresJM been sold to a P. Wilson" of Woodstock,. for This tract la alrMdv nlpjui high staU of culUvatlon. Lewis Realty company, 811 Corbett-i buildlnsiJ. nege-tiatetf-the deal, and will have charge rtt Mm t-. " .1.1. : ' They also report the sale of an (00 acre tract of wheat land near lone, to ... payeitn9. pur chaae.prloe-being $20,600. Mr. Saalfeld is aa expert dry farming man and intends to purchase TEN ACRE TRACT IS ; : SOLD FOR $10,000 uuire auomonai xarnunf land, -,v. S TRACT IK! UPPER PB! ,11 New Arrival Takes Land Piece to Be improved, Subdivided. - F. Dt Thompson, a newcomer to Pori land from Fort Worth, Texas, has tak en title to an 8 acre tract of unplatted land on the upper Peninsula, which ha plana to subdivide jind improve. The land is located on Alblna avenue Just north of Portland Boulevard." and la In aeistrict which has come to the front at a rapid rate during the. past 11 months. Mr. Thompson paid $30,000 for the piece and plans to expend an addi tional large sum In Improvements. Mrs. Tyler Woodward through brok ers Wakefield, Fries A Co haa pur chased a 25 by 100 foot lot Improved with a two story brick building, and lo cated on .First street lust south of Yamhill. The property belonged to the Davenport estate and was sold for $27,500. : ;-.v,-- :v ;- PURCHASES A LOT AT' EIGHTEENTH. SAV1ER W. H. and F. B. McEldowney have Sumner street, Walnut Park. purchased from 11. W. Fries a 59x100 foot lot located at the northeast corner of ElghteenUt and Savier streets. The consideration involved in the deal was $17,600. Wakefield, Frlea Company unuuieu ine irennwDon, heretofore. Your' SHU :WaSn-flT BPR You' Move to 'Ia the money you save can go toward the building of a more modern, better finished home than you could otherwise have, PARKROSE lies just a short 'distance east of Rose City PaTk. The new car line runs out there now. Take a ride out Sunday, aft ernoon. Let us show you what possibilities for Investment and for economical living there are out there, . You can buy a whole'acre for as low as $1200 and on the easiest kind of terms. FOURTH AND STARK Olili';!::!! are selli;:g fast In Ten Days Sales Aggregate $104,000; Settlers-Plan . Improvements. Ontario, Or, Feb. lV-About $10i.t)00 In land sales have been : made her during the last 10 days, Considerable of this land has been sold to late ar rivals. The scheme of the Ontario Ad vancement company, backed by the On tario Commercial club, in adding new settlers to this locality. Is working successfully. The population of Mal heur county will be materially Increased as the result of placing 1000 acres of land In the Immediate vicinity of On tario on the market in five, 10 and $0 acre tracts. - Arthur J. Clover of Msxloo, haa pur chased considerable land about Ontario. The . ararrerate - of - his Durohasea amounts to about $12,000. All the land is still In sage brush, whloh he ex pects to take off and put the land In cultivation, except 20 acres adjoining the city limits, which he la going to subdivide. . J. A. Williams of Barney county haa boufht a 10 acre tract close to Ontario which he expeots to improve. He has also completed a fine residence on Villa Park hill and expects to make Ontario his home. J. B. Cook of Redmond has also purchased a five acre tract from th Ontario Advancement company. H. C. Herrick of Redmond haa1 moved to Ontario to go Into the real estate business. Mr. Herrick was formerly from Ely and McGUl, Nev, and is golng there to Interest colonists in Ontario tracts. - ., C R. Shaw, lumber and cement dealer of Boise, haa purchased the T. H. Howe lumber yardV It is surmised that he Is planning to make Ontario a distribut ing' point,- J . .... . C S. Watson of 8t Anthony, Idaho, haa 'purchased the Ontario pharmacy from Harry WSlthyoombe. , K E Among the many pretty new homes announced last week to be erected this spring In Irvlngton la, the , two story bungalow for Mrs. Clara L. Saunders to be buUtat East Twenty-Blxthjtreet, between Knott and Brasee. The struc ture will contain seven rooms all floors laid in hardwood finished in fir and Ivory enact Its estimated cost Is $4000. - .- ;: .' - - A permit waa recently Issued to A. J. Cartwrlght for a two story frame resi dence which he has under construction on East Davis street, near. East Thirty ninth. The building will be one of the many attrlctlve new homes in that dls district , and will cost approximately $6000. The. Commonwealth Realty oompanjn la just finishing a modern two story frame dwelling of the semi-colonial type on East Ninth .street between Stanton and Siskiyou. The structure will cost $6000. PLANS ARE DRAWN FOR 10 RESIDENC You will be able to affdrii a BETTER home cost of living will be so materially reduced ' th STREETS CHAMBER TKwwTMaiil 208, A-2050 i i i it 1 1 bULiLiil jibll.li i IK OLD DAYS AT VI1EAT CEIITER After Period of Quiet Pendle ton Reports Good Prospects for Busy Yp In All Lines; Much New Construction. ; (Speetet .s Vhe 9enraal) ' Pendleton, Or., Feb, IT. The . year 1(11 is starting off more propitiously from a building standpoint for. Pendle-' ton than has any of its immediate pred ecessors. With but a month and a half gone and that In the winter season, the sight of carpenters and concrete work ers at their labor and the sound of the hammer and the saw have, grown familiar again, as business houses,, pub 11a buildings and residences take form. Down In the west end of the city a structure Is nearing completion whloh will house a modern and up to date abattoir and .cold storage plant The PendletonMaat company, tjLor ganlsa tlon of local butchers, haa hafla force of men at work for several weeks and within a very short time complete slaughter house machinery and equip ment will be installed la a concrete -building. The institution will b ooa neoted up with the city sewer System, thereby insuring cleanliness and eani- tatlon. .' r --- - Vorkl&r on Aaylum Bulldtnf . The first concrete work waa done osj the buildings of the branch asylum workmen having poured the columns ex 6ne ward. When the weather Is settled definitely, ' Olson t Johnson, the con tractors, will open the work using both' night and day shift and will push it to the earliest completion. .. , ' Within a few days actual work win have oommenced on the construction of ! a 'new home for the Pendleton high school. The old building baa been rased and the debris cleared away so that as soon as the material for the struoture ' arrives, work can be commenced. When activities are started, the work will be pushed as fast as possible for the con tract calls for completion jpf the build . ing by the opening of the fall term, . Kayo Will BnlU Oarage. Mayor W. F. Matlock has just an nounced that he will tear away his brick building on West Court street and erect a concrete structure to be used as a garage and repair shop for B. F. Trembler, agent for the Cadlllao au tomobiles. The building will be L shaped and have two entrances. This projected work will mean the tearing away of the first brick building ever sacrificed to progress la Pendleton. It ' waa built $1 years ago as a home for the East Oregonlan but In recent years has housed the Pendleton Prtntery. Building In the residential sections has also begun to pick up. William Mo JClnney, teller at the American Nation al bank, has just completed a fine bun galow on the north aide of. the river, HermMn Peters, a prominent saloon man, is building1 a commodious resldene on West Webb street ana J. A. Horn is putting up two five room oottages pa Willow Street than you have hac OF COMMERCE BLDG. X