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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, ' PORTLAND, . SUNDAY ' MORNING, JULY 12. 1914.
REALTY AND BUILDING NEWS OFTHE WEEK IN AND NEAR PORTLAND
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SALES AND HAPPENINGS
UN REAL ESTATE WORLD
Really 1rokers express the belief
I that loral market conditions are look
I ing betjter. A marked Improvement in
'expected by early fall. Aa Portland 1
' one of the big realty eenters,Of the
' j8rlflcl states, any improvement here
' villi, itj Is believed, have- a favorable
Influence on the real -estate, business
In othr coast cities. ; In spite of the
i almot i total absence of sales in high
prircl properties during the past year,
activity In residence holdings has kept
-' right' ojn, hundreds of small parcels,
1 chiefly j In the near-ln suburbs, are
i hanging hands every, week. Much of
thin movement is trading equities,' but
the greater portion are outright pur
chases by home buyers. . .--
Hotel Manager Buys Land.
Georgia Plrie, manager of Gearhart
hotel, baa purchased from George H.
Primroaie three snail tracts ef acreage
, located In Primrose Acres, near Mult
nomah Station, on the Oregon Electric
line. Consideration involved, $5000.
Bala la
tratford-ldney Addition.
Henry
C. Weber haa sold to -John
I. Perkins an Improved residence lot
on Division street, near Twenty-fourth,
in Btrat!ford-Sidney addition. The Im
provement conslata of a email cottage.
Ferkinsjpaid $2600 forthe lot.
Seal la! Vernon XotaC
Lot lis, block 33, Vernon, located on
Kast Twenty-fourth street between Al
berta and Bumner, was recently pur
chased by Fred A. Schaffer from H.
W. Brown for $2000i 1
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sold .to
Forman, and associates hav
Gertrude B.. Inskeep the resi
rit-nce property described as lot 10,
block 4
Vlllamead, for $2500.
Acreage Bala oa Oregon Electric
A three acre tract located a short
distance north of Hillsdale has been
deeded
jby Lillian B. Powers to F. A.
Estock,
! consideration $2480.
, House Bala la Bosedele.
Louis A. Hart has purchased from
Ira L. Appleton a house and lot de
scribed as lot 14, block 10, Rosedale
Annex, and located at the southwest
corner bf Kast Fourteenth and Web
ster streets. Consideration $2700.
Gleneyrte Home Changes Hands.
A tie'W Oleneyrie home, located on
East Twenty-eighth between Knott and
Stanton' was purchased last week by
M. L. Sandon. The property was sold by
11. O. MacElvaine for $5623. It com-
prised a lot and
id practically new dwell-
Home Site la Mallory Addition Bella.
The quarter block at the northwest
corner $f. East Forty-first and Grant,
in MallOry addition, tias been sold by
B. T. Brumwell to F. A. Johnson for
$4150.
Miss Weber Bays Boss Cottage.
George AJ" Ross "has sold to Miss
Leone Weber a house and lot at East
Forty-first and Ivon streets southeast.
Consideration, $4500.
Sals of Crystal Springs Lot.
Frank A. Reed has sold to H. E.
Noble a portion of lots 7 and 8, in
block 81 Crystal Springs Park. The
property is located on East Fifty
fourth street - near East Glisah, and
brought $2750.
Haw Burnside Street Home.
As a site for a modern residence, C.
W. Hayhurst has taken title to a
lot on East Burnside street neaf Floral
CONTRACTS LET AND
Big Structure for Third Street.
Plans are being prepared by "Archi
tect C. A. Duke for a combination store
and apfcrtme.nt building to be erected
by H. Meter on Third street between
Market and Clay. The building will
cover ai plot .74 feet front and 96 feet
deep, and wjll be three, stories high,
and wljl cst approximately $35,000.
The first floor will contain four large
store rooms and the two upper floors
will be arranged for living apartments,
containing altogether 37 two and three
room suites. Specifications are now
ready for contractors" Inspection.
Architects Planning' Market.
' Architects. Whitehouse & Fouillioux
have been commissioned by Scott
' Brooke I to get up the drawings and
working plans for a one story and
- basement concrete building, which is to
. be erected at Fourth and Yamhill. The
.building is to be utilized as a public
markets Excavating for the basement
and foundation of the building is now
'under way.
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Build $7500 Home.
GUI, head of Third street book
and stationery firm, has let the con
tract far the erection of a three .story
frame 'resldericc facing Terraca roaC
between Spring street and Busna Vista
"javenue! on Portland Heights. The con
tract price of the house is $7500. The
Mautz
Bullding & Investment Co. has
the wo
k.
Bids Sajaoted; Haw Ones Asked,
- Giving as its reason the excessive
figures! submitted by contractors, the
school -.board has rejected all bids for
the construction of the proposed new
Fulton Park school. Some- minor
changes will be1 made in the plans,
, after Which contractors will fe invited
to submit new proposals.
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Haw Hyde Park Bungalow.
The Metropolitan Investment & Im-
provesrtent Co.; obtained a permit last
Friday jf or a one story frame bungalow
fto be eirected at East Seventy-seventh
and Failing streets in Hyde 'Park. The
hbuse will cost $2000
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Delahnnt Building $8000 House.
M. Tj Delahunt took out a permlfi
Utt Monday authorising the construe
tton of a two story frame residence on
Tillamook street between East Seven
teenth and East Nineteenth, at a cost
ef $8080. Plans by Architect,' J. V.
Bennes.
Hsval Besenre Man's New Home. , . i
-. Umbdenslock - it Larson have . begun
the erection of a 1H story frame bun
galow, on Mississippi avenue between
;Dekumand Bryant streets for T. F.
; Blair, 'a commissioned officer in the
Oregon! naval reserve. : The structure
Will cos, $2300. - yi ,
Hospital Plans Ready. '
. "Architects Tourtellottft & Hummell
' announce the completion of plans for
, a $4i,000 hospital building to be known
'.' as Immantiel hospital.- and to be erect
ed at Graham and Commercial streets.
avenue. The pronertv faces north and
is one 1 block removed from Ladd's
Park. ". Several attractive homes have
been erected in this blocx In the past
12 months. ; Mr. Hay hurst paid $3230
for the parcel:
Bast Side Acres Change Hands.
Mrs. Jessie' May Hamblen has pur
chased by sheriffs deed 10 acres in
section. 27, township 1 north, range t
east. Confederation involved, $3815.
Hortheast Bide Bale.
The vacant lot at the northeast 'cor
ner of, Kaet Forty-fifth and Broadway
in Menefee addition has been sold by
the Portland Ti-.t . Savings bank to
the firm of Lewis & Shaw for $700.
E. Twenty-eighth Street District Bala.
A single lot on the south side of
East Burnside street,, 100 feet west
of Twenty-eighth, has been sold' for
$3300. which is considered a good price
for that section of the city. The prop
erty was purchased by M. C. Halstead
from K-va M. Howard.
Buaaell Street Deal
Harry A. Hostetter has taken title
to a 50 foot lot, unimproved, located
on Kussell street, 100 feet east of
Rodney avenue. J. W. Troup, the
owner, sold it for $3000
Irvington Park House Bella.
W. H. Warner has sold to John R.
Hughes a house and lot on East Elev
enth street between Knott and Stanton,
In Irvington. A nominal consideration
was set out in the deed.
Miss HOfsr Boys oa Elliott Avenue.
The Ladd Estate company has sold
to Anna B. Hofer a fractional part of
lots '9 and 12, block 17, Ladd's addition.
The property Is located on the west
side of Elliott avenue, near Central
park, and was sold for $1960.
H. C Keck Bays on Victoria Street.
Henry C. Keck has purchased from
Norman B. Evans -the " north 40 feet
of lot 6, block 6." Irving's addition to
Albina. The property is located on
Victoria street between Weldler and
Broadway. Consideration $200.
factory Bays Site for Plant.
The Wef tern Electric Works has
taken title to two lots located at the
southeast corner of East Thirty-fourth
and Caruthers streets. The parcel was
sold by E. T. Cannon for a $2500
considerat'.cjjC - -
Oantenbein Residence sold.
Judge C. U. Gantenbein's elegant new
home' in Murraymead was sold last
week to A. Welch, president of the
Oregon & Washington corporation. In
cluded in the transaction were nine lots
surrounding the residence. In part
payment. Judge Gantenbeln took title
to a fruit ranch at Hood River. The
value put on the Gantenbeln propertr
was $45,000, and the Hood River prop'
erty went in at $25,000. Mrs. Julia
Robblns handled the deal.
East Slda Church Sold.
Harlon R. Gardner took title last
week to the property belonging to the
Hassalo Street Congregational church
located at the northwest corner of
East Seventh and Hassalo. This hold
ing comprises a full quarter of a block
covered with buildings. Since buying
Mr. Gardner has transferred the same
property to the Irvington Realty com
pany. In both deeds the considera
tion set forth was nominal. In part
payment for the church property Mr.
Gardner deeded to the church trus
tees an unimproved lot In Alameda
Park.
BUILDINGS PLANNED
on the upper peninsula. The design
calls for a four story fand basement
structure, 45x110 feet in ground dimen
sions. The general ccneme calls for
the ultimate construction of a hospital
138 by 270 feet, but for the present
only the smaller building will be put
up. In a few days contractors will be
asked to submit bids on the job.'
Haw Irvington Dwelling.
Contractor J. R. Cales has broken
ground on East Fifteenth street be
tween Stanton and Siskiyou, Irvington,
for a two story frame residence. The
house is to be built for J. M. Thomas,
and will cost $3250.
To Enlarge laundry . '
The City laundry haa'" obtained a
permit for the enlargement of Ithe two
story brick building occupied by th.
laundry and located at 95 East Ninth
street. The Improvement will coot
$2500.
Holman to Remodel Apartment.
Edward Holman has i the contract
to the Parelius Manufacturing com
pany for the remodeling of the three
story apartment building at Third and
Montgomery; streets. The Parelius
company will do the interior mill work.
me piumomg contract being let sepa
rately. It is estimated that Mr. Hol
man will expend about $20,000, In re
modeling the building
Apartment to Be Enlarged.
Arrangements have been comDleted
by E. Carpenter to begin the erection
of a three story addition to the frame
apartment building located at 560 East
Taylor street. A permit for the build
ing was obaiaed yesterday, in which
the cost of the Improvement was given
as buuv.
Pacific Telephone Company's Building-.
The Sound Construction company has
been awarded the general contract to
build a two story addition to the Pa
cific Telephone company's Woodlawn
branch. The estimated coat of the
ounaing is $20,000.
Local Men Get Aurora. Job.
Sadler & Kraus. Aurora merchants,
have commissioned Hotaling & Dougan,
arcnitects, to prepare sketches and
worKing drawings of an 80x100 foot
combination store and lodge building
io oe ouni at Aurora. The building
will be reinforced concrete . and the
cost limit is $15,000.
Hallock Obtains Three Permits.
Contractor F. S. . Hallock obtained
permits yesterday Xor three $1800 bun
galows one to be erected in Albina,
one in Taborside addition and the third
in Kinzei 1'arlc.
Home builders'. Company Gate Pennita.
-Permlts , were issued yesterday , to
me Oregon Homeouiiders for the erec
tion of three new dwellings at total
cost oi S84UO. th larger of the struo
tures is being built for "William Wheian
in Alameda Park. The house will face
Aiason street near East Twenty-sixth.
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Residency of Judge C. U. Gantenbeln which; was porchased last week by A.Welsh, president of the Ore
gon and Washington. Corporation. for $45,000. ' The house is a true specimen of colonial architect
ure. It occupies a full; block in Murraymead and is one of the most attractive homes in Portland.
CALI FORN IANS T EACH
AUDITORIUM LESSONS
Both San Francisco and Oakland, are
building fine modern auditoriums, and
the money with which to-bulld them
became available long after Portland
voted $600,000 for a public convention
hall; The California cities had no
trouble in locating their auditoriums,
so it is said. There-was no prolonged
fight between different sections of
those cities, for the honor of possessing
the auditorium; no suits were filed to
restrain the officials from using their
best Judgment in selecting locations.
Arthur .Callan, of - Callan & Kaswv
local realty -operators, has Just re
turned from a three weeks' sojourn in
California, and he says that while in
San Francisco and Oakland -he learned
a whole lot about locating auditoriums
that he could not have learned had he
stayed in Portland.
"They conduct public business in San
Francisco and Oakland- in an orderly
business-like way," said Mr. Callan.
"The people in both those places de
cided that they wanted a big, modern
auditorium, so they voted the money
nnrt then told thpir ltv of fir lain tn am
ahead and rjulld the structures. These
officials lost no-time in carrying out
the mandates of the people. First they
and will involve the expenditure of
$4500. The others are one story cot
tages, one of them to be erected on
Fjist Twenty-ninth and Wygant and
the other on Stratford street near Mis
sissippi avenue, each to cost approxi
mately $2000.
East Forty-first Street Bungalow.
Will Fries has let the contract to
F. J. West to build a 1 story frame
cottage on East Forty-first street be
tween Multnomah and Hassalo, at a
cost of $3500.
Alterations at Tenth and Washington.
O'Shea brothers, owners of the busi
ness property at the southwest cor
ner of Tenth and Washington streets,
have awarded the contract to Lltherland
&. Abrey for extensive alterations to
the building. These alterations will
consist for the most part in rearrang
ing the Washington street stores and
putting in new fronts and removing
the brick wall on the Tenth street
frontage and substituting a glass front.
The interior will also be rearranged.
Plans for the work were prepared by
Architects Bridges & Weber.
Hew Besidences in Berkeley.
Building activity in Berkeley and the
other additions adjoining the Reed col
lege district on the south Is more pro
nounced this summer than at any time
since that section became a residence
suburb of Portland. Several modern
homes are under construction, a num
ber are nearing completion, and ar-
PANORAMIC VIEW OF HEART OF PORTLAND'S BUSINESS SECTION SHOWING WEALTH OF NEW BUILDINGS
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View Jooklng northwest ; which shows the greater- portion of the heavy, construction of recent -years Lin Portland.- On the east side of Fifth "
, street,V the main thoroughfare in the picture,. can be seen the Corbett building, the Failing, now occupied as a temporary - annex" by ;
. Meier & Frank, and the Yeon . building. : On the opposite side of the street Is seen the' old Meier & Frank building, now being demol-;:"
ished to make room for a neW.skyscraper; the LIpman & Wolfe' department store, the Holts store and the Neustadter building in the -distance.
Over on Sixth' street is the Y. M. C. A., th Hotel Portland, the Northwestern National Bank building, the Selling, the Meier ;
& Frank annex and the Wilcox building. On Broadway is seen The Journal building, the Broadway building. , Here are buildings :
, representing a total outlay approximating $10,000,000, and nearly all erected during the last flTe years... . . .., . : , -. .
decided that a public-auditorium would
be used for. the. most part by transient
people and j naturally they concluded
that the proper location for such a
building was within. easy reach of the
big i hotels. They selected sites with
that fact In view, let the contracts and
now the buildings are under way. -
"What a different condition we have
in , Portland. Here we, decided several
years ago that the city needed a public
auditorium, the money was voted and
some of it has been spent, but we have
no ' auditorium. . Everybody seems to
have i different view about where that
auditorium ought to be located. In
spite of the fact that a commission had
been named according to law for the
special purpose of . locating and build
ing the structure, everybody in town
seemed to have a different notion about
where It ought to be located, with the
result that we don't yet know where it
will be located.
"Down in California they all know
what, a strenuous, time we have had
over pur proposed auditorium, and I
was chafed .about it no end of times.
Portland's auditorium experience could
never be duplicated In a California
city."
rangements are being perfected by nu
merous owners of property there to
build dwellings before the rainy sea
son sets in. Berkeley, the center of
this activity. Joins Eastmoreland on
the east and is Just west of Errol
Heights and south of Woodstock, may
be reached by two carlines. A move
ment is bn foot to have the streets
hardsurfaced and sidewalks built
throughout that and adjoining addi
tions. Stores and Hotel at Fourth, and Salmon
Architects Whitehouse & Fouilhoux
will let the general contract in a few
days for the erection of the proposed
Feldenhelmer building at Fourth and
Salmon streets. The structure is to be
a two story brick and will be utilized
for stores and a hotel.
Telephone Building Enlarged.
The Sound. Construction company
took out a permit yesterday for the
construction of a two story addition
to the Pacific Telephone building in
the Woodlawn district. It is estimated
that the work will cost $20,000.
Elks to Build $80,000 Temple.
Architects Hotaling & Dougan have
received a commission from the Elks
lodge of La Grande to get up the de
signs and working drawings of an Elks
temple to be built In that city at a cost
not exceeding $80,000. The Intention
of the La Grande Elks is to. put Up a
three-story structure 60x100 feet in di-
mensions, with exterior walls In faced
brick with terra cotta trimming. The
building will be used exclusively for
lodge purposes and will be so. ar
ranged that a Turkish bath room and
some gymnasium apparatus can be installed.
Haw Home oa Tabor Heights.
Architect Charles W. Erts obtained
a building permit yesterday authoriz
ing the construction' of a one story
frame cottage at East Forty-third
and East Morrison in Tabor Heights
addition, to cost $3500.
Home on ' Portland Heights.
A building permit was issued Thurs
day last to contractor L. D. Horn for
a two story frame dwelling which he
is building for F. Langerman on cur
ton street between Lounsdale and Six
teenth, Portland Heights. The site em.
braces lots 5 and 6 in block 68. Con
tract price of the house Is $12,000.
Golf Park Cottages.
Richard Wilder and Victor A. John
son have awarded contracts to J. Q.
Kilgreen for the erection of two cot
tages at Oolf Park. The houses will
cost about $1800 each. Plans by Arch
itect D. L. Williams.
Church Plans by Ertx.
Architect Charles W. Ertx is prepar-
ing plans and working drawings for a
frame church edifice for the A. M. E.
church to be built at East First, and
Halsey streets. The building will cost
$5000.
Hew Building at Fourth and Salmon.
Messrs. A. & C Feldenhelmer, Wash
ington street Jewelers, awarded the
contract Thursday last to Palmer &
Ellison, to build a two story store and
hotel building at Fourth and Salmon
streets. The building will cover a
quarter of a block and will cost ap
proximately $20,000.
$3500 Cottage In Marlow. '
Contractors L. R. Bailey & Co. ob
tained a permit Thursday for a one
story frame bungalow to be erected on
East Fifty-third street between
Thompson and Brazee, in Merlow ad
dition. The house will cost $2600.
A. B. Buliart Gets Permit.
A permit was issued Thursday to
A. B. Buliart lor a one story frame
cottage which Is being built by him at
6380 Sixty-third street, 6. E. Cost,
$2000.
Town Building In Southeast Section
Ground was broken this week by O.
F. Winkley for a one story bungalow
on East Fifty-ninth street, S. E. The
house -Is being built for Philip Town
and will cost $1700.
Tenth aad Burnside Parcel Improved.
A contract has been entered into be
tween the Fiske Rubber company and
Strong Brothers, owners of the tri
angular parcel of land at 'Tenth and
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First wing, of proposed 22-wlng school building at Kenton. The site
Lombard and Fenwichv. streets and comprises a double block. As
contains six rooms and an assembly hall. When completed it will
largest and finest school houses in Portland.
Burnside ' streets, whereby .Strong
Brothers, will build on the triangle
for the rubber company, a. three story
and basement building 48x80 feet. The
contract provides that the Fiske Rub
ber company " Is to take a long time
lease of the improved property. The
building will probably be of brick and
mill' construction. ,
Portland Firm Plans Churchaa.
The proposed new Catholic cathe
dral at La Grande will be erected en
tirely by contractors of that city. In
opening the bids last week the local
firm of architects having charge of
the work found that - La Grande con
tractors had . underbid those from ev
ery ' section of the state. The esti
mated cost of the building is $38,000.
Included in the specifications is a re
quirement for the use of terra cotta
and brick manufactured by one of the
Oregon plants of the Denny-Renton
Clay and Coal company. The same
firm of architects that designed the
La Grande church have also been com
missioned to'prepare plana for a Cath
olic church to be erected at Jordan Val
ley, Oregon, the limit of cost to be
$8500.
Haw Bossmere Bungalow.
A building permit was issued Friday
to W. H. Dowes -for a one story frame
bungalow to be erected at East Forty
first street, between Thompson and
Brazee in Rossmere addition,' to cost
$2800.
REALTY TRANSFERS
Harlan P. Gardner et al to the Haualo
8tret Oonrrecational church, lot. 14.
block SI, Alameda Park addition $ 10
Charlea W. Dempaey and wiia to Paul
Ahrena. lot 4. block 5. KTanaton ad
dition 1,175
Association Trust Co., somerset exc.
lots 10 to 14, block 2. lots 1 to D.
block . lota IO la 13. hlork- T W
11. btock 8 10
A. E. Mortrrud to B. W. Obonradt et -al,
lot 1, block 2,JMagdalcna Park... 223
Emma L, Frace and husband to Nellls
8. Clapp, lot 18, 19, block 1. Corona
Park 10
F. D. Thompson to A. H. Tetlow, lots
20, 30, block S3, Jotwomorf 675
Portland Trust Co. to P. P. Daboey, '
lot 4. block A, Menefre addition .... 3,263
The Jacobs-Stlne Co. to Harriet Alex
ander, lot 27, block 31. Hyde Park. 800
Bankers' Investment Co. to Harriet
Alexander, lot 28, block 81, Hyde
Park 10
Warren Emrlck and wife to Albert
Dobner, lot 14, block 5, Foxchase ad
dition 10
larott A. Doan and huaband to Vaibtl
N. Doan. lot 38. block 18. Fair port.., 10
Henry Chambers to Lillian J. DeKeater,
lot 14, block 82, Rossmers - 10
Harlan P. Gardner et al to Irvington
Realty Co.. lota 5, 6, block 80, Holi
day's addition 10
Kot MarcVtt t Catherine E. Bacon.
lot 11. block 1, Patt addition 450
BEEF FROM SACRED BULLS
Kansas City, July 11, Forty so
called sacred Hindu bulls were sold
here to be converted Into ordinary
American beefsteaks. They were
shipped from Big Lake, Texas, the first
"sacred" cattle ever - received in; Kan
sas City.
Old wax phonograph records, broken
and melted bake excellent insulation
for electrical work.
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LAND IS HELD TOO HIGH;
PROSPECTIVE DEAL FAILS
Recent efforts to locate an Import- I
ant institution at the northeast corner
of Fifth and Morrison streets, which
would have brought about the erection
on that Quarter block of an elegant and
ornate business building, were a com
plete failure for 'the reason that the
owner of the corner lot put a price of
$450,000 on his property which was
considered much too high by the pros
pective purchasers. Because of the ex
cessive price demanded for this corner
the $600,000 improvement which other,
wise would have been located at Fifth
and Morrison will be made in another
section of the city.
The Fifth and Morrison street cor
ner, which is known as lot five block
62., was assessed for 1914 taxes at
$230,000. and the building at $8300,
which is Just 63 per cent of the $460,
000 asked for It by the owners.
If the 1914 assessment is a fair in
dication of land values, and it is very
generally agreed that Assessor Reed
made a Just and-equitable assessment
for the 1914 tax roll, then it is evident
that the price asked for that lot was
much too high. Based on the assess
ment, which throughout the city is not
far from 76 per cent of the market
value, the single lot at the northeast
corner of Fifth , and Morrison would
have been fairly well sold at $326,000.
The inside lot of the Fifth and Mor
HUGE MORTGAGE IS
Chehalls, Wash., July 11. Covering
40 . closely typewritten pages, one of
the largest . mortgages ever recorded
in Lewis county. Wash., has Just been
filed in the office of the auditor at
Chehalls. The recording fees amount
ed to $33.76.
The mortgage was in the form of a
deed of trust from the Eastern Rail
way and Lumber company, of Centralis,
to the Grand Rapids Trust company
of Grand -Rapids, Michigan, trustee.
end was given to secure an Issue of
$260,000 of timber bonds purchased by
LATE RURAL REALTY
TamhUl Xaandc Are Active.
The A. L Mcintosh place, situated
six miles north of McMlnnville, con
sisting of 150 acres, was sold last week
to A. H. Leland. The tract is under
cultivation with the exception of 14
acrea. Mr. Leland is planning to ereot
new buildings on the place but pri
marily bought the farm as an Invest
ment. The Ira White farm comprlslne; 1C0
acres, located near McMlnnville, haa
been sold to a Portland woman invest
or for $25,000. This is considered one
of the most ' valuable pieces of farm
property in that county.
Walter L. Hemben of McMlnnville
has closed a trade with A. L. Stover
of the McMlnnville dairy, whereby he
takes title to 960 acres of Sherman
county wheat lands, and the latter gets
60 acres located five miles west of
McMlnnville. The wheat land haa some
Incumbrance, which, is assumed by Mr.
Hembree.
Iowan Buys Parm Hear Gaaton.
. B. S. Strong of Ottumwa, Iowa, has
closed a deal for the purchase, of a
200 acre farm near Gaston, Washing
ton county. The property was bought
aa an Investment and will be rented,
although the. new owner will reaerve
a email area on which he will build a
summer home. .
BuganVs Propoeed Baw School. -
The Eugene board of education haa
aaked for bida for the construction of
a, $100,000 high school building. "It is
understood --at the contract will call
for the completion of the building no.
later than January 1, 1916. .
Pine K0fel as Berth Bead. .
- Arrangements were practically
closed today for the erection of "The
Simpson," a four story concrete and
brick hotel at North Bend. The hotel
ia to coat $76,000 and will contain
about 86 guest rooms. It is to be built
on the Slmpaoa property at the corner
of Montana and Sherman. A stock com
pany Is being formed to carry the pro
ject through. r, -V
Tide X.ends Ba3almed , .
Seven of the finest farms adjacent
to Reedsport and Gardiner,, in Douglaa
county, 'which a few years ago were
used chiefly for stock ranges, nave in
the past few years been converted into
dairy farms by W. P. Reed. - Twelve
miles of diking built' by Reed has re
claimed the land from the tide flats.
Two years ago these hundreds of acres
only supported two families, whereas
at the present. time they are support
ing seven, and In s short time more.
Mr. Reed has subdivided his reclaimed
tracts and leased them to others on
shares, which, Is advantageous, to all
parties, ; thus putUng - the land under
cultivation. .. . ' . . .
Bleraat Saw Baa sing
The Ontario National bank, the old
est financial lnatitutlon - In Malheur
county, has Juat completed a aew bank-
tilt.
L1LJLJL-.
wttt' towns Mm' SMN. 1 w
OOULL
is bounded by Russett. Greenwich,
shown In the picture the building
be a 22-room building, one of the
'
rison street quarter block was assessed
for 1914 taxes at $110,000, which is 71
per cent of $160,000, the sum the owner
is reported to have agreed to take had
it been possible for the prospective
buyer which wanted to buy the entire
quarter to get the corner lot at a fait,
valuation.
The quarter block at Fifth and StarX'
now occupied by the J. G. Mack Com'
pany, which has been selected by the
First National bank as the site for its
new building, has been sold to the banic
by the Corbett estate for $400,000. .This
quarter is assessed for -$235,000 and
the building for $33,000. Taking the
value of the building from the price
to be paid by the bank for the prop
erty leaves the actual value ef the
land at $334,000. and of this sum the'
1914 assessment Is a little more than
70 per cent.'
The fact should not be overlooked
that the lot at the northeast corner of
Fifth and Morrison is probably worth
no more In proportion to its assessed
value than the quarter block at the
southwest corner of Fifth and Stark,
yet the owner of the Morrison street
corner holds It at nearly double th
assessed value, while the owners of "
the Stark street property, the site of
the proposed First National Bank
building, agreed to sell It at a price
based upon an assessment equal to
about 70 per cent of Its market value.
FILED AT CHEHALIS
the Lumbermens Trust company of
Portland.
The property mortgaged as security
for the bonds is valued at considerably,
more than $1,000,000, and Includes some
seven sections of timber lands, the
saw mill plant of the lumber company
In Centralla and the right of way,
roadbed and rolling stock of the Ta
coma, Olympla and Chehalls Valley
railroad, which Is operated by the lum
ber company.
The mortgage was filed by Carl 8.
Kelty, cashier of the Lumbermens
Trust company of Portland, which un.
derwrote the bonds.
AND BUILDING NEWS
ing house, which is said to be the fin-,
est building of its kind In eastern Ore-,
gon. The building is a two-story stone
structure and cost about $25,000. More
than $6000 was expended in putting in'
new fixtures and office furniture. Two
steel and concrete vaults, one for coini
and the other for the safety deposit
boxes are t part of the bank equip-'
ment The entire lobby Is finished in'
Vermont maple, and the fixtures and
furniture in bronze and mahogany.'
Practically all of the equipment and
furnishings of the bank were supplied
by Portland dealers and contractors.
Pennsylvania Road
. Rushes Car Repairs
Improved Prelght Trafflo Zs Absorbing-
Idle Oars and Officials Prepare
for Crop Btovlnr period,
Philadelphia, Pa., July It. Becauati
of the increaaing absorption of box
cars for crop moving purposes, Pnn-,
sylvania railroad officials have giverti
orders to repair all freight equipment!
as quickly as possible. There arej
35,487 freight cara awaiting repairs.
Improvement in freight trafflo begun,
four weeks ago steadily advances. Thj
number of idle freight cara ta decreas
ing, and due to the creep moving de
mands has greatly diminished the laat'
few days. The number of idle cars'
east of Pttteburg is now' 11,141, mm
compared with 72.000 a week ago and,
60,000 two weeka ago.
Builders' and Finishers'
Directory
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