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OPERATORS EXtUf i" Westover Terraces Provide Beautiful Scenic Auto Drives jmu huuu, ui I.Lm I Carline Building Into New Residence District Mado by Washing Off Goldsmith 1IUI by Hydraulic Pressure .iYVU rrovlde Easy Access to McCIcay Park, One of the Most Beautiful tn the City. HUT STEELPllli III PUBLIC E TO OPEN AT ONCE E II QCI Statistics From 44 Cities Show .Great Prosperity in Every Section of United States Chicago Leads.. ;.-r More Varieties Used Today Sluggishness of Late Some Output Reached Nearly C, 000,000' Tons Which if 4 Kept Up Will More Than Tcp Record vof 1910. - Than Ever Before; Many At tempts 'at Imitation Being Made by. Some Dealers." what of, a Mystery but. Is t Generally Accredited to Ex pected Change in Politics. Ann vrnnn c Fill!) . -'; :.ajs !,', " MKimmmu i i1 ,i i sww3M ,.,. .m,;, ..afaasassasasyV . : October building 'statistic from 44 cities, representing every sctljn of the 'country, compiled by tho American con Jl tractor , of Chicago, reveal a gain ..or 8 per cent as compared iwltn the figures for October one year ago. The same . ' cities show that for'th 10-moirtb.s'of the year ending with October 31,' a gain , of 4.2 jpe pent was made oyer the total for the same period In 1911. ' V. Considering the fact that . nowhere In the country' in October of last year was The growing .popularity of fine bard wood floors has, brought' into use for that purpose-many of the fancy, high- priced woods, which wefe formerly util- Izedr orilyln the Vef FnffoWr:rurnitUM and the interior decoration of the man slons of the wealthy. - Especially in the east, what are : known as the "gray woods", have come Into fashion recent v for flooring.. Th.e favorite wood for this gray errecr is; majagua, a decorative wood of Oaba, which makes a beautiful gray "floor with shaded streaks of green a 'nAlltial...'ramiM' .r,...- tl-" """u. is nQiner wooa , -- - , b ay vf i vmot iw ouiiaing record of last month, with a quadrennial election - In ; progress, was . altogether satisfactory. The following; f jciues made gains last month in excess of 60 per tent: Atlanta,. 530 per cent; Baltimore, 89; Buffalo, 78 : Memphis, 97; Minneapolis, 5,S? Norfolk, 247 Philadel phia, (6; Patterson, 5Jpetrolt, C7. . Tames snow Gala. The following tables give the compar ative figures for October,. 1911 and 1912, and for the first 10 months of these years: October, ISIS. Cost."" --City. Akron ... . Atlanta . Baltimore ,, Buffalo .. Chicago . , ' Cincinnati. Columbus.. Denver , . . pes Moin'a Detroit ... puluth . . . Evansville. Ft Wayne. O. Rapids. Harrlsburg' , Hartford Cansas Cy. joa AngTs tfanohester Memphis i. Milwaukee. Hlnneap'lla Nashville . Newark Yew Hav'n Mew Orl'ns Norfolk ... Octdber, 1911. PC. PC. nost. r?ninT.ii. .1 490,1)45 f. 293,436 67 .. 835.403 630 639,028 89 916,000 8,785,700 2,624,870 ... 421,678 ... 432,300 4 112,860 117 1.623,649 67 237,566 125,041 J lit, 750 403.933 112,850 471,705 726,848 1.821.727 100,486 436 879,786 97 1,073,732 718,816 73,632 724.766 289,980 ,2,116,267 1,019,654 1,616,000 8,746,600 798,625 841,983 450,610 256,809 2,644,006 178,785 229,925 193.41S -218.092 61,175 608,505 893,835 2,667,780 638,789 ' 760,891 1,196,366 1,117,380 65,518 773,748 899,465 187,632 848,513 in it that enters. largely - into' the. flooring trade. This wood has a beautiful color ing, toned to - a fashionable gray - tint that forms an admirable background for handsome tugs. Teak is oomlng 'into general, use for- flooring the homes of people who are willing to expend as much for the floors of their libraries as the average Portlander pays for his entire residence. This wood is also largely used for wainscoting, panelling and beaming in expensive residences where every effort is made to get sat isfactory color schemes in woodwork. aiany Taristies TTsed. 'More varieties of fancy woods are used today In parquetry-flooring than ever before," says the Timber News, a London trade paper. "While the French cling to their oak- for floors, no matter what surrounding furnishings may be, Americans love to get . effects out of every variety of fancy woods to suit their tastes. Almost iwHike luster la obtained with some of: these fancy1' woods. For instance, the floors of one mansion in New York are of .vermilion color, bordered with a strange peacock tinted Cuban wood. Another has one floor laid in dark teakwood, a second In oak and a third in mahogany Black mahogany is especially in demand in America for. flooring in connection with rooms fitted up in Flemish style. Im mense QUantitnea of whlto anA rA ma.. 65 " Ihogany are used for floors, and oak and .. II curled maple are popular. 37 I , . -Fancy Woods rawed. ' 81 . . Fancy woods are used In a variety of 76 83 61 29 23 46 11 69 18 24 46 54 Manhat'n ' Brooklyn -Bronx . . New' York." Oakland . . Omaha .... Peterson .. Phll'd'lphla Pittsburg . Portland .. Rochester.. Bt. Paur: .. Bait L. Cy. t. FVncls'c Ecranton .. Shreveport Spokane . Wllkes-B'r. Worcester. 3,221.485 8,379,847 2,460,139 1,608,175 63 7,061,651 ' iolelCoH t)9 . 621,907 226,365 169,487 8,644,225 797,999 1,608.780 916,121 834,991 209,476 1.722.860 126.216 149.964 146,730 281,104 741.609 142 357 100,213 247' . 'styles for parquetry, including the clock. 6,338,333 ... 49 cube, square, basket, , prima vera, her- --??- ringbone and Fontainebleau effects worked out sometimes at great cost. 14 African tlgerwood, African redwood, the greenish-gold Jalapa wood, red-gold Courbaril, Sandwich Island walnut, gold- I en ebony, rose red majagua and similar 82 rare woods are also used for flooring, as 27, well as for beaming and paneling. Every effort has been made to Imitate these fancy woods by the art of the stainer and painter. Even Circassian' Walnut, Of Which thera in nitver rrfimh In I the market, has a noar-CIrcasaian iralta- I- - . , . . ' , v ' 1 " ' m ' ' - - ' ,:-' .'''7 . , - y. II' A -K- ' rs 863,480 102,219 2,346,130 2.136,670 1,690.980 1,104.775 671,482 178,700 1,265,892 171,409 84,434 185,026 171,252 647.532 34 '66 65 48 20 87 77 64 35 17 26 2d Totals ..249,729,019 $45,721,324 t ., Jan. 1 to Jan. 1 to ' - - Nov. 1.. Nov. 1. PC. PC. City. 1912. 191i.GainL.oa. - AKron ...V 4,147,861 S 1,208,213 29 Atlanta .. . 7 R!fi 4rt4 K 471 7 IS Baltimore. 6,838,899 7,968,640 .. Buffalo .. 11,797,000 8,364,000 41 hlcago .. 75,550,900 91,290,400 .. Cincinnati 8,088,087 12.133,650 . Columbus. 4,269,843 4,296,629 r. Denver .. 4,740,965 6,292,810 .. D. Moines 1.670.940 1.405.94O 18 Detroit .. 23,398,775 16,552,284 40 . Duluth'.. 2,001,044 2,359,903 ...46 Fvansville 1,808,027 1.840,443 .. 21 Ft Wayne 2,391.230 1.819,616 31 .. Harrisb'rg 1,010,270 1,187,260 Hartrora.. e.xaa.eoo Kans'sCy. 9,881,313 LosAnsTs 26,503,553 Manch'ufr 2.580,720 Memphis. 6,199,285 Milwaukee ' 13,061,684 Minn'polia 10,658,500 Nashville. 1,005,466 Newark ., 9,752,267 NewHav'n , 4,214,168 NewOrl'ns 8,176,335 Norfolk .. 3,193,774 6.822.070 29 12,227,218 .7 19.776,427 34 1,312,869 96 6,044,735 22 10,515,821 24 12,575,620 .. 1,113,754 .. 9,262,246 6 6.106,954 .. 2,799,668 13 2,710,640 17 tion that is frequently found. But imita tion never quite succeeds In woods, for u ioveiy son errects nature gives can not be quite obtained by paints or stains. or instance, various kinds of wood nave oeen stained through and through a deep mahogany shade, but the grata Is aiways sure to give tne imitation away, ium in aumemmg inat cannot be ex actly imitated. mm POROUS ES FARM NEAR T1GARD 17 Mnh'fri 103.775,320 Brookl'n 85,469,684 Bronx.. 81.303,845 94,605,112 32.264.486 10 20,046.872 66 New York Oakland . Omaha . . Paterson . Phlla. . . . Pittsburg .. Portland . Rochester. Bt. Paul.. Bait Lake Son Fran, flcranton . Bhrevep rl Spokane . W'ksbarre Worcester 170,548,849 7,735,022 4,053,511 1.798,119 32,694.865 9,925,914 3,380,827 10,517,361 6,605,952 3,052,638 20,337,605 1,265,644 -1,55758-2,041.322 2,168.817 4,900.679 146,916470 16 6,878,822 -31 4,955,036 . t 3,016,460 .. 36,678.080 10,814,398 .. 15.845,859 .. 8,086,135 SO 7,715,056 2.467.6J0 ... 18,090.165 12 " 1.604.757 .. " T.T70.415 15 3,083,435 .. 8S 1,810,693 19 .. 4,247,195 15 .. Atchison & Allen reDort that thv have in the last .eek closed a spot cash deal for a 20-acre farm near Tlgard i ttatlon on the Oregon Electric line for ' ' o r a a . - . t i J. r. Anaerson, recently from 9 ( ..laska. Mr. Anderson expects to build a fine bungalow on the place costing from $3u to 14000, and will make it a fine up to date place. In addition to this sale they report f ie sale of 414 acres near Garden Home for $750 per acre to Fred G. Carpenter oz rorua-a; aiso a 4 ft -acre tract im proved, at tsonlta station, to Karl Han neman or Portland for $1500. Also lot 6, block 36, Laurelhurst, for $1845, to United Building Investment company of roniana. a new tract of ZOO acres, all cleared, has been platted at Concomly station on the Oregon Electric line and win De placed on sale by this firm in five-acre tracts at once. They will be sold at retsonaDie prices on easy terms. Totals.. $546,517,454 $524,440,716 4.2 . . Chicago Keads. Twelve cities scored a gain of over 25 per cent -for the past 10 months when compared with the same period Of last year. A significant feature of the situation Is the remarkable and almost universal Increase in the smaller cities, all of which are enjoying prosperity in the Building line far beyond anything that lias been attained .heretofore. Among DRAWS DESIGN FOR COMMUNITY HOUSE Acting under the Instructions of the park board, Architect Ellis F.. Lawrence has drawn the design and specifications for a community house, which is to be built In Peninsula park. . The building will be oa one story structure with stucco" ekterior 28x70 feet in size and will contain an assembly hall for publlo gatherings, a gymnasium, lunch and toilets, . unnn rivpr nRruARn mvvu niikii uiivuniiu ! SOLD FOR $20,000 . Hobd River,. Or., Nov, 16. The De lano place at Odell, containing 37 acres, eight acres ;of which are in bearing or chard, eight acres in 8-year-old trees, and the balance! in timber, was sold the fore part Of the week to A. J. Nelson and W. EV Ainslee for $20,000. This orchard has the record, for Hood River valley, of turning off more extra fancy apples perf tree than any other orchard in Hood River. The buyers of this tract have been ' engaged in apple growing in Hood River for; several years. j' mji 'V m - ' Regular " commercial wireless service has been established between San Fran cisco and Honolulu, a distance of 2850 miles. ' 'H.1 ' ( cured from the city council. Edlefsen ' guarantees Hiawatha coal C-2303. - , The park board plans to erect tmii.r th 1rtrer cities Chicago leads In the 'Structures in alt of the city narkm n, amount invested, nearly aouhimg New " ucvocsor, tunas can ne ee. xorK, wnicn nuiierea a, acrease or nearly 80 per cent. 1 Philadelphia's gain of 26 per cent was an unusual feat for that staid old city. The larger gatna were spread all over the country. Portland was one of the few cities to suffer in com parison with the figures of last year, which Is aHie In a large measure to the heavy volume of construction here for the past few "years, i . ",, :r jjMgs.i,W!i.ewHfc rww "' ill 1 fit mi hi. i in ri i n "eajwj ' ,l r- s, Those operators and brokers who have given the real estate situation In Port land the most Intelligent study., are firm In the belief, that the market will very soon manifest a degree of activity far greater thari has been seen tere for two or three years past . i They look for. and predict a good de mand and sharp advance in values with the opening of the new year. The no tleable stiffening of the market since the beginning of the fait months la spite Of the fact that a national elec tion was at hand Is looked upon as a re turning symptom of activity, - Why Portland real estate should have been more or less sluggish for the past year is somewhat of a mystery and can oniy oe accounted for by the fact that the people were practically certain of a change in the national administration and held aloft through fear of an ad verse effect upon business. It could not have been on account of prices demanded for in every kind of oroperty. local prices are materially lower than they are in cities in Portland's class any where in the country. - xnat . business Jn Portland is sound and prosperous Is admitted by everyone familiar with the situation, nor has there ever been a time In the history of the city ' when the prospects of the future were brighter than they are now. Money Is plentiful, big crops have been herveeted all over the northwest labor Is well employed and the merchants are enjoying an unusual era of good business. Another feature of the local conditions which Is greatly in Portland's favor nd that Is the fact that the future growth and development of the oity has not been discounted to any large extent by the subdivision operators. A much larger .suburban area In ev ery other western city has been sub divided and marketed than in Portland, in- other words Portland has not been boomed to death by the real estate men. Not only rdo Portlanders realise, but Others coming here from a distance, agree that Portland real estate at pre vailing prices, offers one of. the safest . and most profitable Investments that 'can be made anywhere. A new high record of steel production In the history of the Industry In the United States was established In, Octo ber, according to advance notices sent out byhe Iron Trade Review, f From the Statistics avaliabla which, thouirh only partial, are authoritative and cover a large fraction of the total, It Is reli ably indicated, that the Ingot output of the steel works of the United States reached close to 8,000,000 tons, or at the rate of nearly. 21,000.000 tons a year. The highest previous record attained by the Industry . was also In the present movement and came In May of this year. The production then was approximately 2,600,000 tons, or at the rate of about $1,600,000 tons per annum. ' The .ingot output of the Steel Cor poration In October broke all records and was considerably" in excess of 1,600,000 tons. If the independent interest had done fully as well as the leading pro ducer, which is driving Its plants at an unprecedented gait the 8.000.000 ton mark for the month would have oeen ruuy. reached and probably surcaad. There are some indications that suggest, however, that the independent produc tion relatively was not quite up to the scale of the largest producer. The; marvelous expanse of the oreaent iron and steel market is concretely ex pressed In the October figures of erode production. At the rata of output then attained, the 26,000,000 ton mark of 1910, which hitherto represented th high yearly record, loses much of it lmpresslveness. , , Another Indication of the nreiMtnt great activity of the Industry Is found in the iron ore shipments from the Lake Superior ranges in October when 7.010. 219 tons were moved, making the rt- est tonnage of any October In the his tory of the trade The next largest Oo. tober , tonnage was in October isoa when 1,625,801 tons were moved. . . The Brotherhood of ftaiiM rC recently organised a new lorta-. .t don, Manitoba. , , : . - .... Journal Want Ads bring results. Top Four residence streets on Wegtover Terraces t nd remainder of Goldsmith, hill. Centar- Hard gurfao , lng Cumberland road oni Westover Terraces, Bottom One ot the giants at work sluicing down Gold- smnn .B,ni, weitoyer Terraoes. ; The loud rumbling of the heavy can nonade and the noise of the Insistent pounding, grinding end tearing, in the effort to reduce Goldsmith's Hill, above Cornell road, all have ceased. Has the attack failed 7 Has the. enemy been re pulsed T The answer Is to be found in tne view from the south of beautiful level building sites now part of West- over Terraces, and in the statement made by the Lewis-Wiley Hydraulic company, the engineers, that they are now moving the giants and executing a flank movement, previous to starting the final assault, which will be executed from the rear of the hill, and. be en tirely hidden from view. Hereafter it will not be possible to watch the gradual moving back, week b7 week, of the great high wall of gravel;' nothing Will be noticeable, until on a day some few months hence, when the entire hill now remaining In sight will collapse as if at a single stroke. As each of the terraces is completed the street Improvements, including all mains, alsd the pipes from the central heating plant, are put in place and fol lowed up with the laying of the trolley track and the bltullthlc paving. Already two fino residences are completed and occupici on the lower terrace, . and in various stages of .being finished are six others. In the, case of, two of these. owrSed'TtsJIiSettVflTl'T'two -well-known lumbermen, D. B. Hanson .and R. C. Hulbert. a strong rivalry has sprung up as to who shall get , the mechanics' out Of the way tind be the . first , to issue 1 vltatlons to a housewarmlng. ' . That Kings Heights gulch has almost disappeared is disclosed by the view of Westover Terrace-from the south. It has been filled up by the hydraulic method as much es 65 feet In plaeea. and ' Instead ' Of the usual, and almost perpendicular slopes of the gulch, there now apper . blocks -or level building a "And instead of streets being stopped abruptly- on both side of tjie gulch each of the terraces connect up by an easy grade with th streets of the property to tne outn. .This will pro vide fo. 'automobiles a series of scenic boulevards at. various elevations along the f.ee of the hillsides, and will make possible a trip through, Westover Ter- raoes to i-iclea Park, from thence to the City Park and on to Portland Heights, whioh will perhaps be the most exhilarating auto trip with the greatest variations In grades and scen ery that can be found within reaoh of Portland." In this project the economy of creat ing level terraced hillside property by the hydraulic method is most notice able. :t has bem possible to move on the average over 10,000 oublo yards of gravel for each site in the-district, and this without raising the selling price of the sites abovu that of ordinary Heights property, which do not have a penny expended uoon them for .ttw leveling the ground or for the Improve ment oi tne grades. Westover road and Cnmberini are the principal thoroughfares in West-, over Terraces. On these the grades do not exoeea s per cent, which is less than the grade of some of the business streets of the west side. This will allow the easy delivery of wood, coal and all household supplies, and also permit au tomohlles to reaoh tho highest point of the property on the high gear. The. Westover Terraces carllne, now under construction, will proceed from Pettygrove street through the entire property, terminating at Maoleay Park, thus making this the most beautiful and least known of our city parks, eas ily accessible. The following have homes in West- over Terraces either under construction or fully completed: J. R, Elliott, Mra Elisabeth Ducey, R. C. Hulbert. O. M. Anderson (two), D. B. Hanson, W. H. Lewis, W. a Morse. Saving and Investing for the Thrifty By John. M. Osklson. Roger Babson, the financial analyst said In an Interview the other day that so long as a man has no money he is let aione, out as soon as he becomes the manager of dollars he becomes a target for criticism, and he must knaw a. good deal, about dollars andthe eN ncieiu management or them or .! he will be in constant trouble. Scientific analysis of all labor costs haabeen pushed with great enthusiasm. It is time, thinks Mr. Babson, to begin to consider the scientific handling of the. dollars which go into the Traslness. He believes that the dollar put Into a business and, backed by the time and brains of its owner ought to yield 20 per cent return. Unless this can be figured, after eliminating all foresee able risks, the dollar's owner had bet ter put It into some corporation where the profits are eyre and the quality of financial management has been proved from long experience. I have been curious about how busi ness men handle their surplus money. "How," I have repeatedly asked, "do you keep those surplus dollars at workr Very, often the answer has TYPE OF APARTMENT" HOUSES BUILDING ON THE EAST SIDE been that the surplus dollars were hot at work at all their owner bandied them as if they had no value except in the event of an emergency. "But," I have protested, "you would not hire ten men at the first of the year and tell them to loaf around and be ready to start to work about the first of Hay In case teH of your regular handg quit!" That would have seemed absurd to these practical men, yet many of them kept money idle In the banks, or working less than "half time," for them. If dollars ought to earn 20 per Cent. then $3000 Idle for a year would amount td hiring and keeping Idle for a year a man to whom you paid 12 a day. As the else of the business organization In creases, the chances of waste and the opportunities for' profitable use of dol lars multiply. MPROVED EAST SIDE LOT SOLD FOR $25,000 PACIFIC IRON WORKS BTRTTCrrrAX 8TEEI1 h ABCmTXCTUKAt IKOW" Immediate Delivery . Tortlana, or.1.- . If' - - J.' t 1 -s,f i'-f mv ft'-.--'-- . , . v . t kl? .t . . - 14 V . . 1 D6.' ." ' " - S Thi-ee story structure under way foj Uo Hoi prod k-Larnggn Iavestrneat companjr,- at East Seventh and Taylor. The Charles Ringler com pa ny "reports the sale of an. Improved 60x1000 foot lot at the southeast corner of East Sixth and East Davis streets for $26,000. It was purchased ,by Charles Mample from J. Blegbedler. The lot Is Improved with the Kerrigan apartments, a small laundry building and two cottages. The same firm reports the sale of a residence on East Twenty-ninth street to T. A. Roots from J. Thompson for $3600. Mrs. Louise Falvre has purchased from J. IL Oatman an Irregular shaped parcel of ground fronting on East TWen-ty-slxth and Powell streets. The lot is Improved with four cottages and a com bination store and Bt)a.rtmAnt hn1lf11nr Thd consideration Involved Is 113,000. FOUR LAURELHURST. , HOMES CHANGE HANDS One of . the most imnottant transactions of the wk.-invnivrf Un handsome new Laurelhurst homes, I nni sum ior total considera tion of $34,000. The houses were among those1 erected durlna the. TitkHt fiiimman on East Davis Jtreet, near the .center of Laurelhurst. by "the Chapin-Herlbw Mortgage ec. Trust company. They were purchased by Lulu ll Legg, who paid $8600 -each for them. - - JUly has purchased 490- automobiles and 6000, bicycles for its arnvr la Af rica - ,. PI an a Home at PARKRlSE 9 9 9 Right now get oat your pencil and paper and plan your own home. Your not planning an expense you're pla&w ing a saving. In the first place the terms are so easy that you can easily- secure a whole acre at once, If you can't afford an elaborate house start with a small one. What you want is the start the start to get ahead. Now, you are paying out a good amount every year In rent Hie move to Paxkrose will cut your living expenses square in two, giving you a chance to save one-half. Come in and See Us Now Slauson-Craig Company 304 Oak Street, Opposite Commercial Club Bid WE0N BUYS HOSPITAL JLOTl) 'enlnsula riot, Under? Dlsctmaioi Rerntlr. Ira rinnA nn t .!'r- . W " wbww .v. ' J L- That J.'B'Teon haennrTiajiit'rrAr ine remnsuia Hospital bloca 1J of Var a urn s A.uairion ta a lhi ns h ik SOld BV the Cltv tn I ha hn.nltal t. 12000. far below Its art in I vain TiO io. itu, Became Known yesterday, whenl xi. i son sia-nco, in circuit court.-suit semsi me city to. remove a ciou rom his title. The eloud eonalata ne woras in the deed: This conveyance .fA iin xpress condition thatnif jtrantew" wf Ot use or permit said lireml.ee tn kl .ised tor any purpose ottsr than A bos-. puai or tor a similar ptjrpose.' iir.Teon asserts that tils clause was nserted into tne !! kt sh City Auditor witlsout autloiitv f th nuuTi ?vra r mi any council n igr tnie reason tne contention la irmncqa mat It IB not Binding. wniie tne sale bv tn a . - w . Oftitai was candlnr Vf. XknA m.i m w w re I at i.vrr DrODrtv hoMii... Vir..Mr , A- - - es -wjwu ne diocx in question, protestedio . tn Doira liike in, njnr ir wi. . Itwlce what was beln eald fo- it ti?clared that he did not . Jpital in that vtcivty.. a u wtuj4 Jl jure ju preperty. "CLOUDED TITLE- Means llttl- to you when its the other fellow's. ' hutYf J?at invested. KutJ.tt money ' title eomnlfooni v" Certificate of Title.- Jn-. fourth and oak. ' fANO MAIi: A' r O ' Tl'I'tW .0' ' fntUnl your. bir)!-i. f Kn . ' -"rtl-""'"J-.'--;i.--'--ji:...-......fl.-