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TLAND", SUNDAY IIORNING.I "OCTOBER, 13. SLUICING AWAY OF GOLDSMITH HILL i . -. TOOK FOUR YEARS AND COST $1,(2)00,000 NEW HO"" OF TITLE & TtiUST CC ?ANY REASONSFORADVISIN'G ITi Basic Principles' Sound and I Before Man'7 Learned -'to - U" .Wood'" ot Metal He;r , Would Result in More Equi table Assessment! . Learned io.'UoV C) - THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, POIi ASSESSOR REED GIVES in i 1 -1 RECORDED BY HIST0..V . Stt v. m . 'jfp "Z (rP r ! ' ; "mm i ' mi i ' f.v ...... . ... , .. ? v, " i-' . . ;i :., : .: ::!:: . :;:: ' i t - ; - -' ' . : ; ::. 1 ... :.: .' f - I If ,-:ymmimm ' H A ;-:-. ;v.-: .- v. ' i " f :; I " ? ; - V ' J w- . -a ii i i-n -- - -- Westover Terraces Above Cutting ,. heading ? on Fairfax Terraces.; Below Looklnf west The xTeat reel&matloa i prejeot ( . . . . wwwu wiumuiui iiiii w wmv '.i head of Lovejor ,k Street ! and Cornell i rusa oa : Duuainr vvmww wrrmcw i will be completed thle felL i ' InUmenU were recorded TMterd eoareylng I0 Weetorer lota from the - Lewla-Wlley Hrdl-eallo oompany to the J ewlr; Incorporated , Weatorer eompany ana a mortgage on ui (ami property to the Title et Truet oompanjr to aecur an Issue of tlM.000 .of .Improvement ; bonda, .which have been aold and the , money to be used for immediate oom JileUoa of the Weitover Terrace pro ect. i- m'VV. :.'iv'-i't.f 'i A very noteworthy feature of the fl " ' nanclng of thla Immenae project la t the fact that It baa all been handled , by local capital, a act unusual oeeur frenea In Portland.. "- :i - ' -William H. Lewie. president of the lwls-WUy Hydraulle company, whet v aeen In hie office yesterday, expressed ; great pleasure In not baring te go out ; of Portlana to obtain capital for the I completion of thla project ' v . , y 'p.- :' Have Talth l yortlaad. ) We have never wavered la our faith In Portland and In our belief Westover ; Terraces would be the f lneat resldenoe Jeectlon on the Paclfio coast.' aald Mr. j Lewis. "The fact that we wers able to ; obtain capital to complete thla under taking at home demonstrates again that Portland capital hat confidence la. the . development of thfs city and Is avail. hie for real constructive undertakingc. '"Blnce wo begun building Westover ; Terraces, about four yeare ago, we have - expended more than yi,ooe,eoo and have Ccitly Structures In Irvington and Mt Tabor Districts Are f Included In List ' -'ii' y "' The large and elegant realdaacs at the outhweet eorner of Seat Beventeeata and Braaee etreets, buUt a year or so ago by R. B. Hloe, was aold last Thara day by Mr. Rice te X JtcOannra, of Ed- . moatoa, Oaaada for $11,800. The bouse couples a -quarter bloak site, and la an of the flaeee bmea-la frvtagtoa. 2t is understood that the buyer eontem. rlate moving his family here at aa early data aad ooeupylng the place. Xr. J. N. Oogblan haa purchased the XValdlaw property ea Mount Tabor. This rropertx comprise black a, la tlouat HIGH CLASS RESIDENCE PROPERTY SOLD IN CITY DURING LAST FEW DAYS away bill near" Fairfax Terrace by moved tram the terraces to Gntldg lake more thaa MOO.OOO cubio yards of dirt, or more than two-thirds of the entire project Tbero te remaining about 800, 00 yards to bo moved, wbloh will com- Sleta the underteklng, and while It is mm than one-third of the total yard age. It will finish more than halt of our area In building cites. , Oae of areatcst Developments. i- "Westover Tsrraoea when completed will stand aa one tot the moot remarka ble pieces of engineering and real es tate developments ever (undertaken In the West From an engineering stand point it is the only case where an addi tion' was carved out of a steep hillside to fit a definite plan.. Before undertak ing the Job we brought-the best land scape engineering talent in theaworld to Portland to design the work andvhave spared neither trouble nor expense to perfect it' ? . . ' Whether from a atandpoint of beau ty of design, unsurpassed view, conven ience of arrangement or aUblllty of ooastruotlon it will stand the hardest tests that can be applied. From a real eatat standpoint It la different In most every detail from the ordinary real es tate development In the fact that every alto of the property has been built to order, the actual construction of which haa coet about $1600 per lot whereas most real estate development la only a matter of lay In r off streets and blocks and putting $n street Improvements. . v Attract Worldwide Attention, "Westover Terraces is a product of labor and capital combined in the r. lamatloa of an Inaccessible Piece of land. . Thla. project has attracted, at- r Tabor fcehtraJ Park, and Is one of the finest and most sigbUy residence sltee la the city. The consideration involved la the deal waa 145.000. - Mrs. Nelll C Hibhard baa purchased tne Lranoar reeiaenoe in eentru Laurel- hurst Paying IIO.OOO for .the property. . .Oeorge A. Nichols baa sold to Sarah A. icuikey the house ana two lots in Irv' lngton desortbed as lots 1 and t. In block , Brasee Street Addition; consld oration ITS00. :t ;5',?,r..;,".lfv-S' i-i". ICmlngu Stewart has sold to C C. Van Orsdall a house and lot located in Cen tral ast Portland for MOOO . . ELKS NOT PLANNING ! TO ERECT NEW BUILDING ; . That there) la no prospect ef the Port- toad Lodge of Blks building a skyscrap er on the site of the handsome and com paratively new Bike building, at 6tar ana Broaawey, is the declaration of an official of the local lodge, aad oae of the oldest and most prominent, members ot the order la ,PerUaneV::,v ''H--r, "We are . not going to . budd a new structure." said the- Elk, .rtJo official aeaoa contemplating such a project has been taken, by the lodge, nor do I be lieve there will be such action for many years to oome. The present building Is amply, large for the requirements of the hydraullo tfants. Center Balk , on Westover road. tentlon to Portland 'from all parte of the world because ef the unique meth ods of construction ifnd Its fundamen tal Ideaa of elty building. vs. Ay , .. Engineers from Enf land, Germany, Belgium,; France and Austria where landscape gardening haa .lta, home have oome to rortina to study a feature of it extremely new aad novel to them. "From Japan and' Australia and ether parte of tb world engineers have come to learn, of the methods of. Improving property adapted to a new ; country. Other cities of America have copied the plan of development and Los Angeles nas aeveiopea a westover : Terraces, copied somewhat after - the ' PorUand plan; which all goes to Show the dis tinctive value of the Portland Westover Terraces as a Portland undertaking." Better Conditions Aid Project The one drawback to th e work -'has been lta unfinished condition, extending over a period of the past eight months In which time it has been difficult to obtain money on account of the finan cial stringency; but recent developments have proved that conditions are already Improving in Portland as, shown by the consummation or tnese negotiations to seoure the money. -V:V."i..; too wnoie property wiu now be com pleted to correspond with the first sec tion and ' Westover Terraces y will now come Into Its owa';(-!;llifSii;t- The completlon-of the work will, be done under contract by the Lewis-Wiley Hydraullo company, former ownerl of the property along the same lines they followed In carving the first section of weacover Terraces ; out of the rough waumn or uoiusnutn tmu '- ' ': lodge; we bave Just finished paying for it and X don't believe that a doien Port land Bika can be found who favor the so-eaued puiiaing project" ' , COMPLETES DEAL -TO, BUY POULTRY RANCH Oscar ' O. Koepell, bond broker ' and banker rbf ; this ; city, who5 has been touring southern California, has closed a .deal for a 10 acre poultry and pig eon rancn near los Angeles. Be plans to give the ranch to his son vha i. Interested la the poultry business and wno wiu oeveiop ,iae place along sd. entlflo lines, r'-fi tt' SURVIVOR i)F VOLTURNolf i FINDS CHILDREN.' AUVE New Tork, Oct 18-WlthT the last of the survivors f rom . the' hnmait itn. Volturno ' among ' her vaasenrera the steamship Florlsel arrived- here today front Halifax;' where -. the ' party : was landed by ; the rjtappahaaaooki :-lBrst Peia? Polaok, one of the survivors, who waa separated from Her three Children at the time of the rescue and suppose! them dead-, found them on her arrival here, - f r-,v hi:-, - After making a thorough study of the methods of 'assessing land values for taxation purposes in use throughout the country. Assessor Henry E. Reed- has arrived at the conclusion that the Som- ere Unit System of Realty Valuation, wnich haa been adopted in a laraw num. ber of middle west and southern cities, is the fairest and most equitable sys tem or tnem au. . Mr. Bead has devoted considerable time to - the subject of land lassess- mont In the past three years and he saya that his Investigation of the sub ject has convinced him that the Intro duction here of the ; Somers system would prove beneficial and satisfactory. He says that the baslo principles of the Somers system are right and that only sugar moainoauons would be eery to make It fit local conditions. !v'-5 eed Olves Beasons. , Mr.' Reed has prepared the followlna statement in wnicn he gives hie rea sons for approving the system and sets forth at length what Is thought of it By assessors in ether portions of the lrvA;r'ra;I:.,.!' "For the purpose of determining land values, eastern cities are adopting what la known as the Somers Unit System of Keaity valuation. This method of oom putatlon waa Invented and perfected by vv. a. Homers when he was connected with the assessing, department of St Paul, Minn. It waa first applied in fit Paul in 189C, and this is chronicled , in the "Final Report of the United SUtet induatrval Commission." published In 1991, volume 1, page 104a, . eunce tnen.the system has been In stalled with good results tn Cleveland and uoiumhus, Ohio; Bast St Louis, cspnngnsia ana JolleL iiiineist Houston. Galveston and Beaumont Texas; Au gusta. Georgia! and In part of -hlla- aeipbia, pa. and Dee Moines, Iowa. It la under consideration In Baltimore, and Is attracting the attention of real es tate operators, land valuers end asses sors all over, the country. Aa a gen eral rule. . the system is favorably con sidered, buf here and there a orltlelsm arises, but not from cities which arc ap plying the -system. , a , vJTew System satisfies. - , TSeveland and Columbus adopted the Somere .Unit . System la 1110. .when Ohio abandoned Its method of assessing land every 10 years and began assess ing it every; four years. Both, cities are well satisfied with It Mayor Baker of Cleveland telegraphed to the mayor of Dubuque, Iowa, some time ago that he knew' of no other system that, pro duced equity in assessments- and added that Cleveland was emphatic la Its praise.'.-- vy'Vj..:-.!k;ti:.(y;'i'.-.'v Last March, the mty assessor of Des Moines endorsed the Somers rule - as being "not only a uniform system but a system founded upon sdentlflo truths and most thorough investigation." He said further Wat be application ef the Somers system to all of Des Moines, In stead Of to the business district only, would enable. him "equitably to assess every property In the city, so that each owner would pay his full share ef the taxes and no more."' v my '-',, v,: ;-.." The report of the Deo Moines asses sor, and Cleveland's official report are among the strongest formal endorse mente which the Somers' system has re ceived from any source. In addition, the Des Moines assessor's report Is a terrlflo "Jolt, to outworn and uas&entlflo methods of ascertaining true valuations; principle fcpWa Bees, SxpIalaadV . "Some weeks ado the underlying prin ciples o the Somers Unit System were explained in a series of five articles by Walter W. .Ponce puoyihed la the Sunday Journal '- from week to week. These articles gave a clear insight Into the workings of the , system and com prehended practically all of the Inside Information .1 respecting .the system whioh Is mode nubile; except that which becomes the' property of aa assessing department or municipality upon; adop tion of the system. .'-.".'- Briefly, under' the system the Judg ment of -the' Value of land la expressed In the value "of a "unjt foot" A unit foot Is a frontage of ground' one foot A HOME WORTH WHILE k ' . hit mil ii ii i ii n II' wni li ' i 1 o K i mm n u uri.iniii i.iiimi ,rn ,i I ram iwriiii.ii, rm , ,,,1 YOUR OWN HOME at S3d ' and Moltaomah lav Lturcnmrst ;Tke Rose Qtjr Parle car -''S vjX'Vfto 83d stieet andtmTl !t : Ybu'U appreciate the time - '.. 'i-...(...; iiiAiiinu aiiu uic materials uiai nave rrr.arpn a nnmfl t t r sg striking original, so full of the personality you've lpnd'fcj in se :'? 'those delays and the iinknoVn ex tiiaV'CTCou and embarrass the average hbmebuildelv f li 4750.00, with terms of fjoo.00 tuh. - ana ips pauncs n su.uo per month. - f .. And, like all transactions of this com pany,, for the first time in the history of florae cuuainr mworjc in a an re guaranteed on a time basis -- "j by tbl the honor and faith and Hltrof its officers..'.: 'I .if' 'I. r i': .V:.- Eight story building recently completed on the . west . side ' of - Fourth street, 60 feet north of BUrk, by the Title ft Trust company, ' which organisation will occupy all : of the ground . floor and two : upper floors. AbOT the ground floor the building takes form of a tower BO by SO feet, occupying the front half of the lot. The ; .' ground floor Is one large room, 60 by 100 feet, all of whloli will be occupied after November 1 as the main business office of the Title eVTrost company. The tower effect utilized for . the seren upper floora permits a flood of light to enter the rear offices from f;t the 60 foot square light court. V: :' ''-'C;'; ;, .. ;i-r? vCM wldo and 100 feet deep, located la the central section of a block at a distance from any street corner' or other Influ enoe that might affect Its value, other than that which It obtains by reason of access to the Ufa and basinets of the city through Its own frontage, - When, the value of a union foot has been fixed on th four aides of a city block, the exercise 'of Judgment of the value of land In that city block Is com plete. Tng somers system provides a method based upon mathematical tables and a curve of value, of applying that Judgment accurately and . scientifically to all land in that-block, sdentlflo method te alsu provided for ascertaining building valuta r:.u,. ';.-;i-f'i' :. l.i;;-,:w- . ' ! Basle PrlnclDlea might ' '- Vtom what X have been able to learn of the Somers system In an investiga tion extending over a period of three years. I am oonviaeed that Its introduc tion here would prove beneficial and sat isfactory. ' Its baslo principles are. all right and at most It would not have to he modified much to fit oondltlonvhere. In Its behalf the following; may he said,, using to some .extent the words ef east ern endorserst,, ' - , -(-'. '-. Flrstt It would provide a basis for obtaining common Judgment Of land values through the expression ef com munity opinion, and a common method of applying that Judgment, Second: it would provide a eolentlfle basis of comparing the value Of one lot with another, one block with another, and one dlstrlot with another a vary equitable consideration la fixing values. , Third: AX would provide a complete analysis of the factors which enter Into site values, - - .-.','...'- JTourth: Applied to buildings. It would provide 'a proper classification! a uni form Inventory of bulldlnr'conttruotlon) uniform methods of ascertaining repro ductive coet and a uniform method of see It juit to the north. , and the study, the worb, '. . ' .' ''. "''' i materials backed financial '.., .; i '''. .,'' i 'iZQi-; 'CSJ&t A 'An. ','"' jJl' .V depreciating buildings according; to con dition and usefulness.-.; t"v-y:. ' Fifth; It would pave the way for the annual publication in book form' of land value traps; as In New Tork. and thus give the widest publicity to assessments and assessment methods. , ' . , HallAttoa irealf B Baals.''.' Sixth: It would reduce the work of the hoard of equfllsatlon to nil so far as real estate Is concerned, because, the as sessments would be founded upon scien tific methods and could be successfully attacked only by proving that the eel en tlflo rule was wrongly applied. . Seventh: The assessments being founded upon- community Judgment of values, the serious question which arises wnea property owners have to face cash payments or bonding for streets and sewers, ought In a large degree, to be eliminated, v- .". , .,-' Xhghtht With true waluts poastble ef wwrwnonni oy smentino methods there could, be no possible objection to the enactment of a state law forbidding the payment of mora than doubi assessed value for land . reanired to public uses. . xvinth: With land waluaa AmrmA according to sdentlflo methods for as sessment pnrpotes, wild and unrea sonable speculation ' tn land would he effectually checked, to the great benefit of the community aad of awr m tid ing lU it - y.??.".::-; ' . Vifv .r v,.- , Sntty U Onsrsateed. . . Tenth- Is a dtr situate Ilka nUki on two sides of 'a river, and animated by a certain degree of rivalry, the Som ers system would carry the guarantee of equity la the assessments aad satisfy each stctloa , that the other had no undue advantage In taxation, . r lt Is unnecessary to comment here on the method of assessment at present la use In Multnomah couatv. It la as that in effect In any community la the United States where scientific rules 1 1 ' -t - ' ' . II i a ' . :,,.-!' ' -.- : ... ; -. . , .... ... ,- "Clasag Clippings from the : : Classified Columns" BEAUMONT ;., 10 rooms, strlcUy up to date.' I sleeping rooms. , On paved street two blocks from carllne, s , . . Owned by non-residtntimutt r be eold. ., ., ... .... Price pnl 14150, which In. : eludes all improremeata Ttrmt reasonab le. J. H ROSE.QTY, PARK m5n1thf.dt,ln.r5.T,. 2' -rooms,' full cement fla fhadaSL near car. beautiful fau4" - V 1 ' joe, euxiuui pnoe sssoo. which and stwer. I I SI The Qrefton Home Builders 140S Yeoa CuEIJins;, Tifth and! OLIVER, aV JEFFERY, Pres. 1 ' Bricks have played an Imii.-iT ,J In the history of the world s i tlon. t . Brtckstha little 2x4xsU.'J block of : red clay was the first buud-J tng material of which there is authentic record. Long centuries tef ore primitive- mm had1 the tools; wherewith te shape stone to hia liking or the machin ery to reduce the tree to lumber, be had discovered that he could mix clay, water and straw and after allowing It to bake under a tropical sun he had blocks that piled one upon another would make a wall, giving him prelection from en emies,' animals and the elements.;. , Whllp - great ' Improvement has been mailt tn the manufacture or bricks, par., ttoularly within the -past half-oeritury, ' but little"- ground hat been i gained. In thousands of years In the matter ot strength and permanency,. The crude looking bricks found In a perfect etate of preservation among the ruins of the Pueblo - Indians, datjng back to times ' so remote that even the Identity of the race which made them, la In doubt are as. bard , as flint end stand a good chance to stilt outlive many: of the modern brick produota a There are many different kinds of brlrk. Tb most common and the one most generally found nowadays la the standard brick whioh Is supposed to moeiure two inohes by eight inches on the exposed surf sees and four Inohes by eight Inohes on the bed or broaded eldo. Then there Is what la called the : Roman brick which la usually 14x13x4 lnchea Only day that burns very hard la used la Roman brick on account of tne thinness and length. Roman brick are a little more costly than the stand ard variety but they, make a handsome, wall when well laid. There la a much larger brick called the Norman site, hut these are too large to look well In a houstf, and only appear well In a high broad wall. Then, too, there la the hollow or" terra cotta brick whioh la of three sixes, 4x4, 4x11, and 4x18. Within the past few years manufact urers arc turning out two new styles. of brick known as tapestry and clinker brick. The tapeatry one gets its nam a from the fact that, a number of them built In a well together, gava a -somewhat variegated tapestry effect Clinker brick Is simply aa overburned, partly melted, standard brick, It Is popular with soma builders In chimney aad porch work, , ORDER OF MOOSE MAY: V ' ; ' ERECT BIG-BUILDING it a largely attended meeting of the loSal lodge of Moose, held Id the Royal building, last Sunday afternoon, the In ltlal step was taken looking to building a large etruoture to be' known as the Moete building. A ' special ooaunlttee was named to Investigate the' 109 or more sites that have been offered to the lodge, with Instructions to report the five most desirable and available locations to a meeting to be held later. From among these sites the lodge will select oae and open negotiations for It,, purohasa. .,'"'''.- ''i' The lodge how has tlBe.eOO pledged to the building fund, and It Is believed by the most active members ef the or der that Buffloleat funds can be raised within the lodge membership te pat up 1 the proposed building. ' ?. l; of the Somers type are not applied. After all that may be said la Its be half, tba fact would remain - that the Somersf system would revolutionise It and produce aa assessment, barring . Juggling; of the figures, that the peo. ' pie would regard with eonfldenoe. la the long; run Just and equitable assess meat is the foundation of government' If the assessment Is unjust and laequt taMe, nothing is right .. ... ' - CDore Manufacturer Drops Dead. - Bad rranolsoo, Oct la. Preeident Oeorge A. Moss of the Moss Glove com pany, a. pioneer tn the Paolflo coast glove laduttry, dropped dead of heart disease today In. the checker room at the Mechanics' Institute. NEW; TODAY - NEW BUNGALOW , 250.00 Cash, $25.00 a . i Month Including; ;;,.Jnterest; I extra large rooms with at tia, cement basement oak; . floors, pressed brlok f lreplaoe, window shades and fixtures, finished throughout In white : . VHSir v,lJr Prtee only -l ANOTHER NEW ONE .V'; - 12860, llBat cash.y t(r a-, month, tlmllar to above, only .' on mere expensive lot, - , i " Alder Streets, Portland ' ; M a B. HURTT, Manaeen