The Eugene guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1924-1930, April 25, 1925, Image 13

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Newspaper Page Textjvening. April 25, 1925 THE EUGENE GUARD Page Thirteen IlifpLilS OF EVS OWNERS TOLD FIVE-ROOM HOUSE IS FOUND TO BE- PRACTICABLE Accompanying Plan Shows Home That is Small, but Contains Enough Room to be Large, With Small Expense Lacking in the Larger Building 0 nt to own a home of i The Pacific Coast Better '"tow" issnfd th! fo,lowing "rfoBS for the person wishing r '..Ene home a misstep VSoZ.'e.-ogetth. best M ... ,t watch every step. iTirf low association, or bank, money on the property, . direct financial interest in Vjm fd yourself on certain fSu mflkin that no old mortgages, no un ha taiei. or bill- for building .fUli, or other claims against the nin yonr title Is clear, or u insured or guaranteed. Lenrn ay esiementi, such as the right telephone company to place its i pon yonr lot t oo make a purchase offer with deposit, include -a statement whether window shades, stoves ,tier movable property are in 4 Bisk from loss by fir or tnt ahoold be assumed by the T until the title passes to yon. en offer should be dependent sor tbtalning a satisfactory loan since the proposition, and the j f the owners to furnish pa ts show a good marketable title, from liens or encumbrances. In words, do not bind yourself to purchase until yon are sura of yon are paying for and that you fouce it. on most be prepared to pay taxes mr property and possibly special imentt for installation of water, nge, electric lights, gas or other e otffltles. or street paving and alks. Note what improvements lretdy made and what additional joa may have to pay for. i baying a house and lot yon borrow what yon cannot pay in Bemember that the more risks limine the fewer the lender will to charge you for. Tour promise y back what you borrow will be ed by a mortgage or trust on iroperty. A first-mortgage loan it over one half or two-thirds of tine of the piece of property is j-safe investment, and the rates west should be low. The lender second mortgage takes more and rates of interest nnd dia s are higher. If you agree to i home without the title passing n at once, the seller tikes less ind yon may save money, tere are building and loan as ions throughout the country, us orjranized to serve the needs of s like yoursolf, who wish to a a home. Their plan of weekly rathly payments, both on prln- and for interest, has proved from the experience of mill if people as an aid to systematic Loans may often he obtnln om savings banks, trust eom ), state banks, individuals and es for estates. I 'tainiiiR money on a second age is usually not so easy. Re er that when the owner of n takes a second mortgnge in ;at be may plan to sell it for i that he probably charges you ' ifths or less of its- face value, lingly. I I Sfa uu , . I n it - C.HAflML J"7 CttAUDLt- T ioox.no i ii nun jt tt : . U I pj ' MTCtti; - iivitiq noon P3 I Piniriq toon -nr ii I fr-rriil r4 Much has been said about the five room house and its practicability. To prove that one is practical we show here a bouse that contains enough room to be large and with the lesser expense of a small bouse. The exterior design is one that is most Adaptable and popular on the coast. This design being in shingles will fit into almost any landscape as a small, homey and cheerful resi dence. Being influenced by the English cottage it doeB not take on the char acteristic squareness of the rooms, which is most undesirable. One will notice in glancing; over the floor plan that ell the rooms are large and airy. The bath room at the back be tween two bedrooms is accessible from the kitchen without going through the living quarters which at times can be most embarrassing. There Is a convenient linen closet in the L as well as a sufficient amount of cupboard space in the kit chen. The fireplace located in the end of the room and away from the entrance is nice as it eliminates the cold drafts and chance to blow ashes back into the room. "With a small amount of work in plantings and shrubbery arrangements ! brick vene construction which Is i used In some parts of the country as a make-shift between all frame and masonry construction. It consist of . four-inch brick wall tied with thin ; metal strips to frame stduding and sheaving. Veneer forms one of the 1 worst fir?, hazards possible in resi- uennai bunding, because the firemen cannot tell by exterior appearance, that it is a sham and often enter The building in case of fire believing that the walls are of self-supporting brick construction, only to be crushed by the thin veneer walls. The economy wall is in the main a 4-inch brick wall but with 4-inch pilasters at frequent intervals bond ed into the 4-inch wall so that it be comes seif-siiftaintng and substantial. This wall has been tested and even though the hollow interior of a limine might burn, these walls will stand secure. The wall is also planned so as to give unusual protection around window and dor openings and to provide a substantial masonry bear ing for second floor joista and roof timhers for small dwellings, garages and other buildings of light occupan cy. The new economy wall will have the advantage over any other -construction in use today. Its coat is approximately that of the cheapest frame construction, is much lower then brick veneer, and far below the cost of any wall built with hollow pre-east units. It is declared by brick men. It also affords a much warmer and drier wall than anything yet de vised in masonry, costing less than the solid brick wall. i0 VALUE TAKES E f lool run run HO 531 this could be made an attractive home. - Plans and specifications for this bouse and others published here will be furnished on application to Wai-ters-Bushoug Lumber company. CONCRETE WILLS DESCRIBED ''Houses made fireproof by gypsum concrete walls" are described in the current issue of Popular Science Monthly. The magazine says: Gypsum, commonly called "nlastar marble bleach, asbestos, wood flower and other minerals in various pro portions. Then, thoroughly mixed, is produced mngnicite. The specifica tions vary according to the nature of the work and the lays. Magnesite calcined at low temper ature with magnesium chloride pro duces a cemently quality and has been known for half a century. The secrecy maintained by its manufacturers has hampered its more universal use. Of recent years the public begun to real ize its value, also the similarity of the various named products. How- PATENT FIRE ItL TO REPLACE BRICK Longest Tunnel LONDON. April 2.-. Britain will possess the longest tunnel in Europe when the scheme ftr carrying the waters of Ixich Trief nnd l.och Ing gaa to a hydro -electric station at Port William is completed. The tun nel will he 15 miles in length, two and a half miles longer than the Simplon tunnel, ami in some placet will be 2000 feet under the mountain. Mountain All Motal ROMFj. April 25. Aluminum man ganese and mercury all have been dis covered in one Italian mountain. It if estimated the mountain, named Mount Amiata. which appearently is largely made tip of mctnl, also con tains gold. A Fingerprint Maze LONDON'. April 2."i. More than 400,tJ00 fingerprints are recorded nt Scotland Yard. Since this system was adopted in 11)01, more than 250,000 criminals have been identified by this method. DETROIT, Mich., April 25. When the members of the National Assm-in- i tion of Heal Estate Boards gather in Detroit in June for their anminl con-j vention, they need not go so very far from their headquarters to find striking instance of the way in which real estate values increase. j Manhattan island may have been -sold for $ 23 by the Indians, and aec- tious of Chicago's loop were perhaps I bartered for an assortment at jtandy j trinkets, but the record ( in cash real estate transactions must undoubtedly go to tho plot of ground in this city which was once bought for one large copper cent. The purchaser was Mary Watson Hudson, a citizen of Detroit, who ob tained a plot of jrfouud in accordance with an act of congress, which for a cash consideration granted every real cstnto holding, following the disas trous fire of 1S05 in which the thriv ing little city was virtually destroyed. It is upon the same site which she obtained for a cent that there has been built the $14,000,000 Rook Cadillac hotel, the tallest hotel in the world, and with the largest num ber of rooms of any hotel outside of New York city. Portland, zoned during 1024. the de partmeoi' records chow. The num ber of cities and towns now protected by zoning ordinance has reached 320, and more thou 24 million people are now living under such ordin- ; a nee s. lUvi! estate hoards under the lead- : ership of the National Association of Heal Estate Board have had a lead big part in. the drafting of zoning or- . dinancea so as to conserve the rights both of the gencrnl public and of the individual property owners affected. , Of the totitl number i( ami in.; ir-: dinancea now in operation, 100 are comprehensive ordinances, regulating the use. height and nre: of buildiujcs, t the department announcement states, j J'artial regulation, applying only to use of buildings, or in a few cases : to use and area or use and height, , is gin by 121 ordinaucos. I Matchbox Their Home j PARTS, April 25. Pygmy mice, so ; small that a family of the in can bo , housed comfortably In a matchbox, ; have been sent hero from Africa. ' Osourn Hotel Beauty Phone UH. Tarlour. Phone S. K. ?vn frT piano wnin. CONCRETE BRICK BURIAL VAULTS DRAIN TILS IRRIGATION PIPS SEWER PIPE CULVERT PIPE HOLLOW TILE BLOCKS SEPTIC TANKS Eugene Concrete Pipe Co. Blair. Phone 903 s e; City zoning, designed v to protect! home owners and other land owners in the reasonable s of their prop-! erty, has gnined much headway in the last year, according to a statement just issued by the United States de- J pnrtment of commerce. Sixty-two municipalities, including Pho OREGON P40 MOTOR CO. 030 Olive A substantial fire safe brick wail that can be built at a lower cost than any other masonry wall now in use Wns intrmlitrxtrl in Phlfxii,,, Kominlli- of Taris," which has been used for j ever, a greater knowledge of the ma-:.- u-i-t, ,,nfn(1 r ,1 centuries for plastering walls, is the ! terial and the industry is needed to ia the bk niifnCturep of the essential 'part of a new fireproof further growth. . I "n.tr'- lc wail is the invention of building material. Mixed with cin-1 In 1867 Slnnialnus Sore, a French i m"'m J rver; architect 'f 'be tiers, gravel, crushed stone or furnace civil engineer, discovered mngnesinm ! olnu,on llrR'k Manufacturers' nsso slag. nnd poured in forms, it can be oxyrhloride cement. A few yenra . p.ml:on HIJ W,IS ll"w" fr He used to construct main walla nnd par- earlier he discovered zinc oxychlorlde ! tlme .Rt. th! meeting of that titions of one- nnd two-story build- cement which has been used for fill-1 " """" ings. It Is possible now to erect nn j mg teeth.- Thus the most commonly entire house-" of this incombustible used name is plastic magncsite, but mineral nt a cost that compares fav-'lhis obviously is a misnomer, as it ornbly with that of a wooden building. ! is not mngnesife but magnesia. The While it takes ordinary concrete ; former is the mineralogicnl name of several days to harden, gypsum con-j Hie carbonate of mngnewium nnd nf- erore will harden within 110 minutes. J ter calcination its residue is oxide of Hie new wall is known on the ",eco-i nomy wall," nnd as compared with the! solid eight-inth wall, which requires Hi brick to the square foot of wall'j surface, the economy brick uses only seven nnd one-third brick to the stpiare foot. The wall is particularly ATKER IN SESSION ire goiii forward for the nnral conrrntinn of the Pa-ortb-e Real Estnto nssocin- I held in liellirghnin, Wash., 'A 31 and August 1. tlsnd and rnriMis other cities ' IVific northnrst re plan o ndinj dclrjiations of real to the fathering. It i pro to run auto caravan, from this od other points in the territory ""wintion to nellinshnm. 1 Beliintham Realty hoard is S Preparations for entertnin ot the delegates and has some Plan, nndef n.. I : i..-: n'i nr uiviu.imi i ' P'nrm, according to word ! . " 1. . Zimmermnn, secretary of the association, tton bake on the beach and Hin, win be some of the fea . "ere will also be a aeriea of erenu and salt water bath- tf"ram of the convention Is "J l ""ki"- lt ' Planned to ' ol the pr,.,r,m wm PonsiBt wrence. nn.i.. i -t m- The plan is to enable t take part in the discus-1 " all inl.jeets. j . G. Kdwnrds. president, and it ,. executive secre- F.t.7 ''"'"rt Association of, ,"!' will he present : , f''h't"' nnd will speak. I .' , " """""'Inn will fol- Z y ,h' Wf Knijhts l""tert to hrinx a laree , ' ''"minenf realtors to the ' At effort w,ll he made to have; r,r .T, "'",n'1 lh r"' "' nt (tenv.,r,, This speeds up construction work.! .magnesium or magnesia, if the min-;"1'81"" to u.spince tnc misuostantiai lessening labor costs.' Also, since thejcrnl is calcined at low, ft'"p-t..n..ft i material seta so rapidly, a compnra- the resulting oxide is both plastic lively small number of forms can he , and caiwtic. that is when mixed with used' over nnd over as the wnlls go water it produces a sticky mass. To up. Another ndvnntage is that gyp- ; properly nenne tne term -plastic it sum is considerably lighter than oth- Jwas deemed more advisable to use er concrete. i the term "caustic" to properly dis- AU corners and openings are rein-! tingnish the high temperature nnd forced by steel rods or welded- steel , low temperature. The former ia the fabric. In one-story construction. I one used for commercial mngnesite. outside walls arc made at least six ! The occurrence of magnesite min erals is found in many parts of the world, in Austria. Csecho-Slovnkia, fireece, India, New South Wales, New Caledonia. Portugal. West Africa, on Island of Margiritn, and Kastern C-ahndn. ns well as the I'nlted States. WE HAVE For Sale 3 Second Hand Water Closets 2 Second Hand Sinks In Good Condition at a Bargain WILLIAMSON & CO. 153 East 10th Phone 636 incites thick; in two-story buildings eight inches, while partitions need be only three or four inches thick. In a laboratory test made recently by the Department of Civil Engineer ing at Columbia Tniversity, a wall of gypsnm concrete was exposed to fire and kept under temperature of 1700 degrees for an hour. After the test the exterior surface of the wall show ed no signs of the heat. When the side of the wall exposed to the flam es was washed ivitb water from n fire-hose, it showed only a little of the cement wnshrd away, leaving a slightly jutted surface. Magnesite Origin Given Explanation By a. c. nrns Maenesite what is it ? That is the question of many who are building or contemplating build ing In Eugene. The material known as mngnesite is the commercial product, after caus tic magnesia cement has been placed In air-tight machina with cilfcia, talc, BOILER MAKERS and WELDERS W. SHENTON rhone 101)4 518 E. 8th St. Eueene Foundry and Machine Co. Let Gas be the Finishing Touch That Will Ascure Your Home Comfort. Of course tlic new limiio will bt piped for pas! It's almost ns essential for comfort and convenience as doors and windows and a roof. If you're building this summer, notify us now. Or if you intend to have "the old nest" made mod ern nnd up-to-date with Gas Service, let us know. Call at our office and let us demonstrate new Vul can Smooth Top Gas Iiange. Free estimates on any installation new house or old. Just phone 28, or coino into the office. Mountain States Power Co. 881 Oak Street Phona 28 Protection IJxplained , .. the out.ide of rotir "t i 7 '? rt- v -.. fm,, impossible to ' te '.,'.!"". 11 '" "'' Im- differ-no, in ita "' ouui'1"' - in tha room .. ' Oi.lllld to M Jt' ';'r,,n' kept ,r ii r... "nii.r. mis V.'"'n"" '"" pin well this "i;;,." ,7"n- 'Vk1 to rot. . jrr r iiUT , tiai ice time an S.e that roatt of 'k i i " ?W of HEAVY OLD GROWTH FIR SLABWOOD CORD $4.50 C0RD Give u your orderg befora June 1st There' A Reaaonl BODY FIR SECOND GROWTH OAK ASH MAPLE We are now booking ordert for ummer delivery of KING COAL From Carbon County, Utah See ua before you buy Prompt Deliveries Courteous Service MANERUD - HUNTINGTON FUEL CO., Inc. Phone 651 Room 24, 1st Nat'L Bank Bld. FINE TOOL WORK AACH1NL In our machine ahop we not only do fine tool work but mnnufnrtiiro fine toola tlismalT, thoBo Inatrumnnta of pre elalon which all gooil me chanlca love to work with, becauae the toola almoat Kuarnnt"e Rood work. If you have any job requiring aklll and accuracy. Mini It here. Eugene Foundry and Machine Company 518 East 8th Avenue Phono 1054 S. B. FINNEGM Machine Blacks mi thing Soil Truck Tires; Auto and Truck Springs; Auto Wheels and Itims; Oxyacetylene Welding We carry carbide in cans; also blacksmith coal, and oxygen in tanks. A Clean Camp and a Dead Fire The First National, on behalf of tho Forest Protection Sorvioe, urges overyono to bo extremely careful when enjoying tho great out of doors this summer. A clean camp and a dead firo will protect Our valuable forests against that destructive enemy tli o FOREST FINE! FIRST NATIONAL BANK Eugene, Oregon jT)f DISTINCTIVE :fjl Will brighten up your home for Spring. Our line will include just what you want. Select your paper from our very complete stock of new patterns. LET US SHOW YOU 9 WWtSHfS . LUDFORD'S Paint, Wall Paper, Art Goods , 922 Willamette Phone 749 Twin Oaks Lumber Co. FIR AND CEDAR LUMBER SHINGLES LATH HARDWOOD FLOORS Phone 782 669 High St. At Your Service LUMBER AND BUILDING MATERIALS Walters-Bushong Lumber Co. 4th and Poarl Phone 500 CONTRACTORS -And- ME BUILDERS We were never better prepared to supply you with Lumber, Lath and Shingles We have a large stock of lumber of all grades and dimen sion, and have added two new trucks to our equipment which insures you of prompt delivery. Remember we offer you nothing but old growth stock of the most durable quality. We have a plan service that is of great benefit to any one planning a home and we want you to come in and make use of it. It Will Pay You To See Us Before You Build. The Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. 507 Willamette St. Phone 452 4 i . 1 ! i- I t'l i ft .; I i ' i