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Techniaal Building . "can Bank Building 7Q First street SCOTCH FIRE BRICK "CONDOR" CEMENT THE BEST ALWAYS THE SAME BALFOUR, GUTHRIE Rate, Geo. B 4 Reynolds Electric Co 9 Riter-Conley Mfg. Co 32 Ross Co., The 14 Ruberoid Roofing (W. H. Thomas, mgr.) 4 Rubber Mfg. & Dist. Co 39 A Inlaid Floor Co 8 S Architectural Decorating Co 18 Inland Marblecrete 41 Sandstone Brick & Lime Co 15 Architects and Builders' Journal * Ironite Concrete Co 14 Savage, Frank M 4 Armstrong .Vichy. Co * J Seattle Bk. & Store Fix. Co 10 Adams & Moffat Heating Co 7 Seattle Cement Laundry Tray Co 17 American Pile Driving Co 38 Jamison, E. P. & Co 33 Seattle Electric Co 13 Seattle Engineering Co 36 B Johnson, Edw. J 35 Seattle Gas Engine Mchy. Co 15 Johns-Manville Co 18 Seattle Metal Ceiling Co 8 Balfour, Guthrie & Co 2 Seattle Optical Co . 4 Ba 1 lard Drop Forge Co 30 Johnston & Sayre 15 Smith, C. H * Barstow, W. S. & Co 35 Smith, P. W !.'!.!.'!!.'.' 37 Bates & Clark 35, 37 X Star Foundry Co . ... 18 Beall & Co 17 Kawneer Mfg. Co 46 Spokane Iron and Wire Works...... '. 16 . Chas. P., Co 10 Struck, R. N. (CI. Ad.) 42 Bonny-Watson Co 35 Kauffman, Henry 35 Suess Art Glass Co 4 Builders' Brick Co 15 Kilbourne & Clark 20 Superior Portland Cement Co 7 Buxbaum & Cooley 3 Koppel, Arthur, Co 44 Budd, Leonard 4 X, T Lamson Service Co 12 C Trick Binding & Printing Co. (CI. Ad.).. 42 Lee, Ivan p 42 Tacoma Dredging Co 38 Caine-Grimshaw Co 9 Link Belt Co ! 20 Tacoma Mirror & Bev. Co 4 Caldwell Bros. Co 34 Little Falls Fire (May Co!!!!!!!!!!!.!! * Tacoma Ornamental Iron Works...... 16 Camp TeRoller Agency 9 M Tacoma Trading Co 15 'il Door & Lumber Co 19 Todd Lumber Co . . 16 Classified Advertisements 42, 43 Magnesia-Asbestos Supply Co 16 Truss, d < Concrete Steel Co...!!!!!!!!!!! 11 Clark, T. F. (CI. Ad.) ' 42 Magnet Electrical Co 38 Clearwater Lime Co 20 .McAllister & Bennett 35 V Coats Co., A. F 40 M< ''li n tie-Marshall Co 32 Coast Mill & Fixture Co 8 McPherson, W. G., Co .. 1 United Iron Works 30 Coffey Plumbing Co 85 Mill Owners' Sprinkler Co 14 Columbia Bridge Co 38 Moran Company 30 Contractors' Supply Co 36 Minn. Steel & Mach. Co 40 V Crowe, F. T 40 Mitchell, Geo. E 36 Van Emon Elevator Co 2 D N W Dally, s. vv. R 17 National Wood Pipe Co 37 Wainwright Corner Bar (P. W. Smith, & l ralbert 41 Neal, Chas. F 3 lis, VV. H. & Son 20 Newell, Gossett & Walsh.!!!!!!!!!!"!! 35 agt.) 37 Nelson, M. p 13 Wash. Brick, Line- & Mfg Co ... 9 Denny-Renton Co 2 Wash. Pipe and Foundry Co 39 Douglass Wall Bed Co 9 Norris Safe & Lock Co. ..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 13 Wash. Portland Cement Co 48 1 >ow Construction Co 4 Norrlin, C. II 35 Northwestern Iron Works 38 Wash. Sheet Metal Works 41 E Northwest Bridge Works 49 Waterhouse & Price Co 13 Northern Life Ins. Co * Webster .Mfg. Co 39 Edgar & CampbeU 18 Xorthern Clay Co 19 Westinghouse Elec. & Mfg. Co 39 Electric Blue Print Co * Wells Construction Co 16 Electric S dug App. Co 15 O West Coast Agencies 7 Electric < Construction Co 8 Olympic Foundry Co 36 West Coast Wagon Co 39 Elect i ialties Co * Olympic Hoofing Co 2 West ('east Engineering Co 14 Lngineering Corporation 38 Onyx, New Pedrara Mexican Co 41 Waterhouse <£ Price Co 11 Hrickson-Wyman Co 10 Otis Elevator Co 3 Western Engineers 35 Ernst JIdwe. & Plbg. Co 16 Oregon Engineering Co 38 Western Electric Works 17 Ehrlich-1 iarrison Co „ 12 Oregon Foundry 39 Western Marble Co 30 (>r<'gun-Wash. Sewer Pipe Co 11 Whidby Island Sand & Gravel Co...... 5 P White & Davis 20 P Whiting Foundry Co 40 Falkenburg & Laucks 8 Wilson, F. W ., ... 35 Finlay & Robb 20 Pacific Bk. & Mhle. Co 30 Fryer, D. E. & Co 3 Pacific Coast Pipe Co 37 Fuller, A. E 15 Pacific Contracting Co 14 Guaranteed the Be»t Fuller, W. P., & Co 5 Pacific ) >oor & Mfg. Co 41 tic Elec. Engineering Co 11 Pacific Engineering Co 37 SAND and GR.AVEL a Pacific I hating & plbg. Co 15 raith, Bacon & Co 16 Pacific Ornamental Iron Works 4 Gawley Fdry & .Mach. Wks 47 Pacific Portland Cement Co 47 on Puget Sound George, Chas. E. (CI. Ad.) 42 Ac Tank Co 37 VV. S 35 Pacific Tel. & Tel. Co 20 WHIDBY ISLAND SAND & GRAVEL CO, Gomoll, Ed. L. & Co. (CI. Ad.) 42 Paraffine Paint Co 15 Anacortes, Wash. Goodwin, John M 35 Pearson, .MUM bray & Co 36 Gurley, W. & L. E. Co 39 ot, Robert & Co 35 Pioneer Plaster Co 20 H Pioneer Roll Paper Co 41 Hallidie Mchy. Co 39 Portland Lumber Co 47 Hill Bros 35 Portland Sanitary Floor Co 14 Hoffman & Godfrey 16 Portland Sheet Metal Works 37 Eboncoat Your Roof I roffman, AI. II 30 Portland Wire & Iron Works 11 Holmes Disappearing Bed Co 8 Povey Bros. Glass Co 3 Puget Sd. Art Glass Co 9 I [owes, Robert 35 Pureell Safe Co 7 W. P. FULLER & CO. Huber-Schneider Co 9 m Portland Seattle I Rainier Foundry Co 7 Tacoma Spokane Independent Foundry Co 47 J. H. STEELE 1JD. . B. STEELE Steele & Steele Brick & Tile Co. DRESSED AND PLAIN BRICK Phone Main 2557. DRAIN TILE Ind. 4811. 228 Globe Building SEATTLE. PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER Vol. 7, No. 18. N. to cost $20,000; Saunders & Lawton, Alas ka bldg., archts; E. J. Rounds & Co., Globe blk., bldrs. Mrs. Harry Orr, 1112 W. 64th st, will erect a 1-sto. fr. res. at 6722 llth ave. N. \\\, to cost $1400; A. Johnson, 825 W. 63rd BUlLCiPii^EEPublished Every Saturday at Seattle. R St., bldr. C. O. Bangs, 4242 6th ave. N. E., will erect a 1%-sto. fr. res. to cost $1400 at 6412 8th CONTENTS. ave. N W. BUILDING NEWS: Financial, Public Buildings, Business Buildings, Schools and C. Erickson, 1709 Howard ave., will erect Churches, Hotels, Hospitals and Apartments, Theaters and Halls, Residences, Manufactur a l-sto. fr. res. to cost $1400 at 7009 Day ing Plants. ton ave. O. G. Wilson, 7336 22nd ave. N. W., will EDITORIAL, SPECIAL FEATURES, PERSONALS, TRADE NOTES, MISCEL i a 1-sto. fr. res. to cost $1000 at 7338 LANEOUS. 22nd ave. N. W. • ENGINEERING NEWS: Municipal, Telephones, Power and Light, Electric Railways, F. M. Davis, 102 Valley St., will erect a Government Improvements, Bridges, Mining, Lumber and Mills, Steam Railways, Engineer 1-sto. fr. res. at 106 Valley st. to cost $700. ing, Marin* Construction, Public Roads, Sealed Proposals. American Portable House Co., 329 Arcade bldg., bldrs. Geo. Kennedy will erect a 1-sto. fr. res. at 113 McGraw st. to cost $1450. Thomas & Wallcott, 643 Ulckerson st., bldrs. SEATTLE, SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1909 K. Hodge, phone Main 1063, will erect a 1%-sto. fr. res. to cost $1600 at 1834 N. 51st St.; W. Laning, 234 Globe bldg., archt, and bldr. Rose Westershire, 224 28th ave. North, will erect 1-sto. fr. res. to cost $1250 at 2609 E. John St.; Thomas Shaw, 120 Marion st., archt. and bldr. R, A. Bills, 1901 6th N., will erect a 1%- sto. fr .res. to cost $3500 at 417 Smith st. Mrs. Emma Crook, 1824 Yesler wfciy, will eiect a 1-sto. fr. res. to cost $750 at 808 Klliott ave. N.; Mr. Larson, 821 Nob Hill, 4T,x72 ft. to the school at 4425 Holly st. to bldr. cost $13,000; James Stephens, New York K. S. Shepherd, 510 16th N., will erect bik., archt. Ward & Robertson, 3519 Wall- a 1-sto. fr. ros. to cost $1450 at 4528 Bagley; SEATTLE ingford ave., contrs. V. W. Voorhees, Eitel bldg., archt; H. F. The Council of Jewish Women is pre Patzhold, 6216 Woodlawn ave., bldr. paring to erect a 2-sto. school bldg. on J Washington st. near 13th ave. at a cost of Nora J. Bolt, 514 20th ave. N., will erect a 2-sto. fr. res. to cost $3300 at 1225 20th FINANCIAL $6000. Baths and gymnasium will be pro ave. N, vided. Miss F. G. Degginger chairman of Mary 10. Lang, 2 217 N. 5 7th st, will erect The city council has passed an ordinance committee. a 1%-sto. fr. res. to cost $1100 at 5639 Kirk authorizing the issuance of L. I. D. bonds Funds are being raised for the erection wood place. for the improvement of Aurora ave. et al. of a branch or mission church at 58th st. H. T. Ludwig, 302 E. 50th st, will erect a by concrete walks, also for L. I. D. bonds and 15th ave. N. 10. by the Methodists of 1-sto. fr. res. to cost $1000 at 4755 Thack- for planking W. 47th st. the Ravenna park district. ery Place. Plans are being discussed for enlarging A. A. Miller, 1615 15th ave., will erect BUSINESS the Washington Park Baptist Mission at a 1%-sto. fr. res. to cost $3000 at 4222 31st ave. N. and Madison st. A. D. Car 6th ave. N. E.; T. L. West, White bldg., A. C. Dresbach, New York blk., will make penter is superintendent. archt.; Walter & Johnson, 2347 N. 51st st, alterations on store bldg. at 1400 14th ave. bldrs. N". E. to cost $800. Alex Pearson, 754 HOSPITALS, HOTELS, APARTMENTS C. W. Strickling, 7702 E. Green Lake New York blk., contr. bldg., will erect a 1-sto. fr. res. at 156 E. Mary M. Miller will add a 2nd story to The trust executors of the estate of Rich 58th St.. to cost $1500. the brick store bldg. under construction at ard Jeffs will soon arrange for the erec Mrs. A. Gobler, 6th and Vine sts., will 112-122 4th ave. S. increasing the cost to tion of a home for aged people of King erect a 1%-sto. fr. res. at 2220 47th ave. $25,000; Seaquist & Arnot, archts., 411 county; $100,000 has been provided for that S. W. to cost $1500. J. H. Baehr, 1809 Washington bldg; Otto Roseleaf, Lowman purpose. Nob Hill ave., contr. Bldg., contr. F. McDonald, 4011 15th ave. N. E., will A. L. Smith, 605 Oriental blk., has let S. O. Hanger & Co., 225 Globe bldg., will erect a 2-sto. fr. hotel, 54x86, at 4009-11 the contract for his two $1600 1-sto. fr. res. erect a 1-sto. fr. store bldg. at 4210 E. 15th ave. N. E., to cost $2500. ai 711 L9th ave X. to C. L. Blethen, 5529 Madison st. to; cost $1000. Andrew Sater will erect a 3-sto. brick and Wallingford ave. Josenhans & Allen, 511- H. S. Kohn, 526 Central bldg., will erect plaster apt. bldg at Bellevue ave. and 12 Hinckley blk., archts. a 1-sto. fr. store bldg. at 4001 15th ave. N. Thomas st. to cost $15,000. V. W. Voorhees, Geo. Foraker, Foungstown sta., will erect E. to cost $800. A. F. Devereux, archt., Eitel bldg., archt. a 1-sto. fr. res. at 2X16 Bryant st. to cost Central bldg. Gighlione & Skinner will erect a 3-sto. $1100. Frank O. Anderson, Youngstown, J. Furth, 1203 Minor ave., will erect a 1%- brick and plaster apt. bldg. to cost $30,000 bldr. sto. fr. garage to cost $3300, at 1203 Minor ai I6tb ave. and Denny way. V. W. Voor Arthur M. Moeglin, 1615 10th ave. W., ave.; J. F. Everett, Walker bldg., archt.; hees, Eitel bldg., archt. will erect a 1-sto. fr. res. to cost $800 at O. A. Patterson, 631 N. Y. blk., bldr. Archts. Josenhans & Allen, 411-12 Hinck 4757 llth ave. S. W. American Portable J. C. Rathburn, 4035 15th ave. N. E., will ley blk., will have plans ready for bids soon House Co., bldrs., 329 Arcade bldg erect a 1-sto. fr. store bldg., to cost $900 for a l'-sto. fr. 8-flat bldg. to be erected on G. Regalia, 520 Blewett st., will alter at 4041 Brooklyn ave. Nob Hill ave. near Harrison st. for M. Han 2-sto. fr. res. at 4 50 [Owing st. at a cost Northwest Bldg. Co. will erect a 2-sto. sen; cost $5000. of $1100. Chas. E. Young, contr. fr factory bldg. 40x50, at 3415 Carr place, F. F. Travis, archt., 710 Alaska bldg., E. Ellsworth Green, archt.. Central bldg., to cost $2000. will erect a 2-sto. fr. tlat bldg. to cost 12,- is taking bids on a 2-sto. fr. res. at Alki E Stone, 14th and Madison, will erect 500 at 3420 Alaska st. Point to cost $1400 for Mrs. Gardner. a 1-sto. fr. store, 34x42, at 3946 14th ave. Moses A Millroy, 5041 12th ave. N. E., will N. E., to cost $700; J. E. Peterson, 661 THEATERS AND HALLS erect a 1-sto. fr. res. to cost $3000 at 4703 Union St., bldr. 9th ave. N. E. Brace & Hergert company, Western Mills, The Union Street Natatorium, Inc., Mat Fred Deschler will erect a 1-sto. fr. res. will erect a 2-sto. fr. 107x110 riding acad thew Dow, pres., will erect a reinforced to cost $1000 at 2135 2nd ave.; W. P. Vieh- emy to cost $5000 at P15-23 9th ave. N.; concrete natatorium to cost $100,000 at man. 2 12 Blaine st, bldr. Geo. Hughes, 2034 N. Broadway, archt. and Western ave. and Union st. The roof and T. Croft, 2129 Lake Terrace, will erect bldr. galleries will be supported by girders strong a 1-sto. fr. res. to cost $1000 at 2128 Lake C Cowen, 1438 14th ave. N. E., will erect enough to carry 6 additional stories to be Terrace. a 1-sto. fr. store bldg., to cost $600 at 4005-7 erected later for hotel or office purposes. A. L. Groom, 6608 10th ave. N. E., will 15th ave. N. E.; W. Arnold, archt.; A. W. Bigger & Warner, Crary bldg., archts. erect a 1%-sto. fr. res. to. cost $14000 at •lohnson, 4206 Brooklyn ave., bldr. J. J. Shubert is in the city looking for 66,08, 10th ave. N. E. Mrs. B. L. Graham, 4047 14th ave. N. E., a suitable site for a theater bldg. J. D. James, 907 lst ave., will erect a will erect a 1-sto. fr. store bldg. to cost 1%-sto. res. to cost $15000 at 6303 45th avo. $500 at same address. W. Arnold, archt.; RESIDENCES S. YV. A. W. Johnson, 4206 Brooklyn ave., bldr. Charles Barden, 1019 N. 45th st, will erect a 1-sto. fr. add to res. to cost $800 at Fauntleroy Land company, 912 Am. Bank Mrs. G. W. Dickenson will erect a 2-sto. bldg., will-erect a 1-sto. fr. store at 9219- 1019 N. 47th St.; J. B. Hensil, 911 N. 47th fr. res. at 820 Columbia st. to cost $3600. st. 23 Fauntleroy ave. Thompson & Thompson, R. H. Robertson, archt., Sullivan-Considine Maynard bldg., archts., to cost $3000. C. E. Andrews, Fremont hotel, will erect bldg.; Rabe & Sumarlidason, 6726 20th ave. two 1-sto. fr. res. to cost $1500 each at Johnson Bros, will erect a 2-sto. fr. store N. \Y\, contrs. 3519-3535 Meridian ave.; Joseph Parker, and apt. bldg. at 3902-4-14 N. E.,; B. Hart A. L. Smith has plans drawn by Archts. 1718 3rd ave. N., bldr. man, 3619-12 N. E. to cost $3000. Josenhans & Allen, 411-12 Hinckley, for two August Dermet, 2941 Chicago st., will cottages to be erected at 19th ave. and erect a 1%-sto. fr. res. to cost $900, at 2939 SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES Mercer st. by day work; cost $1800 each. Chicago St.; H. M. Harmon Station D., Jacob Fuson will erect, for himself two bldr. H. C. Henry has let the masonry contract cottages at Fremont to cost $1800 each; J. M. Andt will build a one-sto. fr. res. to M. Arveson for the erection of a me Josenhans & Allen, archts., 511-12 Hinckley costing $1,000 at 4414 West Brandon st. morial chapel at the Highlands. Somervell blk. Ira G. Benton, W. Wait and Elorus sts., & Cote, archts., White bldg. Leo Schwabacher, lst and Jackson St., West Seattle, will erect at same address a Plans have been filed for a 2-sto. fr. add. will erect a 2-sto. fr. res. at 902 17th ave. 1-sto. fr. and cement bungalow to cost $10,- May 1, 1909. PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER The Superior Portland Cement Co. MANUFACTURERS OF A TRUE PORTLAND CEMENT WHICH WILL PASS ANY RECOGNIZED SPECIFICATIONS Plant at General Offices Baker (Skagit Co.) Wash. 508-9-10 American Bank Bldg., on G. N. Ry. Seattle, Wash. PURCELL SAFE COMPANY 312 OCCIDENTAL AVE-, SEATTLE THE GENUINE HalPs Safe & Lock Co.'s SAFES -» VAULTS HERRING-HALL-MARVIN SAFE CO., MFRS. PORTLAND 8AFE CO.) ( PACIFIC 8AFE CO. Double-Door Round-Door 92 7th 8tre«t - 909 Riversida AT«. Xurg-lar-rroof Bankers' 8»f« Portland, Or. j Affiliated Stores ( Spokane, Wn. Rainier Foundry Co. Washers and Separators Sixth Avenue So. & Lander - SEATTLE Phone Main 3034 SUNSET MAIN 1727 Geo. 0. Kretsinger, Mgr. IND. 1811 West Coast Agencies, Inc. Mt. Diablo Portland Cement Acme Wood Fibre PlflStCr Keene's Cement Van Anda Lime Sarco Waterproofing 97 West Marion Street Seattle, Washington STEAM AND HOT WATER Adams & Moffat Heating Go. Heating ENGINEERS AND CONTRACTORS 22S Spring St. SEATTLE, Thone. Main 4777 Ventilating Power Plant* PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER Vol. 7, No. 18. 000. Plans were drawn by a Los Angeles architect. H. B. Kennedy, Colman Dock, will erect t-sto. i'r. res. to cost $12,000 at 1618 47th ave. S. YV.; Wilson & Loveless, 224 CEMENT TESTING Arcade Annex, archts. A. B. HawkeSj 615 Queen Anne, will erect -sin. I'r. res. to cost $1800, at 5072 Mail Orders given careful attention. :: :: Correspondence Solicited Orchard st.; 10. Crosby, 50 18 Orchard St., archt and bldr. E. Niquist will erect a 1-sto. fr. res. to $1500 at 4018 Latona. ave.; II. Lairing, 230 Central bldg., archt and bldr. C. A. llnyler, 401 10. 65th St, will erect FALKENBURG & LAUCKS .-sto. fr. to cost $1500 at 6340 4th ave. X. 10.; W. A. Kinney, archt. Analytical & Consulting Chemists it. C. Price, 327 People's Bank bldg., will a 1 :.-sto. I'r. res. to cost $2500 at 3809 Meridian st.; L. O. Menard, Columbia, 'Analyze Anything" 95 Yesler Way SEATTLE, WASH. archt. Leo. Krumel, 918 STesler Way, will • a l-sto. i'r. res. to cosl |600 at 1938 Alki ave. S. W. Garland, 307 E. 75th st.. will erect a 2-sto. fr. res. to cosl $1000, at :;2l N. 75th st.; Kingslej iv Eastman, 1260.Empire bldg., Inlaid Floor Company, Inc. archt. C. Ward t, :I72:: Keystone place, Manufacturers and Dealers in will ereel a l-sto. fr. res. to vest $1300 at 5725 Keys; ; A. i >. Scojtt, bldr. W. .1. Henry, 6301 Linden aye., will erect Hardwood Floorings and Borders a 1-sto. i'r. res. and altie a l 6303 Linden cost $1400. Joseph Rosella, will ereel a 2-sto. fr. res. to cost $2600 at 3001 15th ave S.; T. J. Our Floor-Surfacing Machines Someis, 3104 llth ave. S., bldr. A. Shuberg, 2500 10. Helen st., will erect Are the only ones outrivaling handwork in ,, 1 >_-sio. I'r. res. lo cost $1500 at 1012 25th ave. x. quality and price in America. Floors of 1000 1'. 10. AV.'ill wort li, 1219 21st ave. X., will feet or over are cheaper when done by a 2-sto. witli 1-sto. veneer brick at machine. 12 12 21st ave. X., to cost $7000; 10. Merritt, L. Edna Dickson, 3023 45th avo. S. W., will ereel a 2-sto. t'r. res. to cost $2500 at 3023 SPOKANE SEATTLE 45th ave. S. \\\; A. Lee .McDonald, archt.; Acme Building company, 405 Pioneer bldg., 7 Second Avenue 1523 Terry Avenue hldr. 61 Main 3232 Ind 298 J. B. Orser, 532 North 75th st., will erect a 1-sto. fr. res. to cost $800 at 521 North 75th. Kitt Gould has completed a $4000 house at 64th st. and Linden ave. and expects to erect a similar house on the nexl lot. .1. Anedson, 930 \Y. 62nd st., will erect a 1%-sto. I'r. res. to cost $1200 at 5813 9th ave. X. \Y. II. M. Brown, 2329 X. 63rd st.. will ereel .-sto. t'r. res. io eosi $1700 at 2329 X. st.: II. .Morrison, 2303 N. 63rd st., arch t. .Mr. llensell, 1019 X. 15th st., will erei l to. fr. res, io cost |800 at 1019 N. 15th St.; li. Ryan, archt. Mrs. M. Kohl, 3216 Hist sl. X. VV., will ered a l-sto. t'r. res. to cost $700 at 3210 61st ave. o. \V. Mr. 1 dsorow, lire bldg., will l •0 al 5062, 9th ave. x. 10.; O. K. Gr< L4th ave, x. 63., archt.; Moses & Millrov. .Mill 12th ave. N. I , bldr. Coast Mill and Fixture Company Rogei Levitt, 569 Empire bldg., will erect Sash, Doors, Window Frames, Mouldings a l-sto. fr. res. to cosl $800 tit 6522 15th ave. X. 10.: VV. S. Hemblong, 9th and Madison Store and Office Fixtures st.. hldr. Pho A. Burckman, 901 Like st, will erect a Columbia Station ____ 1M7 K5 v-* M SEATTLE l-sto. i'r res. to cost $700 at 3419 14th ave. VV. A. R. Lot/., 20106 1st ave. X., will erect , Sto. I'r. ; $1500 at 2446 1st Indispensable for Hotels, Homes and ave. X-; J. VV. Wilson, archt. Holmes Apartments Space Saving - Sanitary • Always Ready Disappearing PORTLAND Write for Photos of Typical Installations Beds 369-371 Arcade Annex - SEATTLE FINANCIAL The City Park Board has authorized the sale of $200,00i) bonds to purchase addi tional park property. Tier.' will Still re main honds to b« sold which will be offered sometime during the coming Bum mer. The Electric Construction Go. BUSINESS Archt. Emil Schacht, Commonwealth bldg., has awarded the contract for the Jones Electrical Contractors warehouse to be erected on tlie cor. of 15th "and Lovojoy, for wood work, to Max Ttys- trnp. 10. i 'landers st.; brick work, to Fri- Main 8034 berg Hros. 724 Post Street SEATTLE Wm. Frayler, 5th and Salmon, will re pair two-story brick store on 2nd St. bet. May 1,1909. PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER HUBER-SCHNEIDER CO. FURNISH, LAY, SMOOTH AND FINISH HARDWOOD FLOORS AND BORDERS IN ASPHALT, GLUE OR BRADS 926 ELEVENTH AVE., SEATTLE IN 5-16 OR 7-8 MATERIALS Ind. 2953 E. 340 .. ———— . - - -••_•_• •_. •• • • i ••• . "•— • - -• " — -t Architectural Terra Cotta, Square and Ornamental Pressed Moulded Brick ^_$J^l-CKi Hi*h Grade Firo Briek Are Our Specialties WASHINGTON BRJCK, LIME <& MTG CO., Spokane, Wash., c*m' ^f^^ln^^r^'Wn- PUGET SOUND ART GLASS CO. Manufactures MOWBRAY PEARSON COMPANY "Prism Glass Mirrors Leaded Glass Rib Metal Lath 131 East Augusta Ave. Luxfer Sidewalk Plaster SPOKANE, WASH. Lights Hyrib Sheathing Brick, Cement Phone, Maxwell 182 \3m^^^^^AX U 1 | ^^kJ^Llf^ii'XLy^^i la\ 1 ^l^X^Xi^X^^ ^N_5' \^x_^1 2225 Ninth Ave. SEATTLE REYNOLDS ELECTRIC COMPANY 89 Columbia Street, Seattle SUPPLIES Machinery REPAIRS Armature Winding, Motors for Rent (^m» ^^]\ahi^^ Get Our Second-Hand Bargain List Main 2504 Ind. A 5089 A-&Q COLMAN BVILDING The Most Scientific and Successful Method WE DEAL IN EVERY of Economizing* Space in Apartments, Wall Beds! Hotels, Residences. THING FOR BUILDINGS INVESTIGATE! ASK THOSE WHO KNOW! Do Not Accept Inferior Articles Designed to Answer Their Purpose DOUGLASS WALL BED COMPANY Phones: Sole Manufacturers Ind. 1828 516-517 White Building The Glassified Columns of the Main 5523 SEATTLE, WASH. Builder Bring Results M. A. CA1NE, Pre.. A. R. GARDNER, Sec. and Treas. W. E. GRIMSHAW, V.-Pre». and Gen. Mgr. Caine-Grimshaw Co. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in all Building Material Cement, Lime, Plaster, Sand and Gravel AGENTS FOR ARDEN HARD WALL PLASTER and GOLDEN GATE CEMENT Main 590 Offices: 202 PIONEER BUILDING, SEATTLE Ind. 5550 Docks, Bunkers and Warehouses—Piers 9 and 10, foot of Virginia St. Dock Phones: Main 2480, Ind. 1204. 10 PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER Vol. 7, No. 18. Mix Your Concrete with Brains The strength of reinforced Concrete Construction depends upon how well concrete is mixed The Smith Mixer is used more generally in Goncrete Work than any other mixer on the market THINK THIS OVER The Chas. F. Beebe Co. 46-48 Front Street - - PORTLAND Taylor and Salmon; cost $500; A. J. Anthers, TJ. S. Laundry, Grand ave. and K. Sal flat bldg. to be erected on 21st bet Hoyt and 256 Market st., bldrs. mon st., will erect a 3-sto. brick baundrv Irving; cost $4500. Geo. B. Van Waters, 191 E. 12th st., will bldg. on Grand ave. bet. E. Yamhill and Archt. Jos. Jacobberger, Board of Trade, erect a 2-sto. brick bakery on E. Ash bet. Tavlor; cost $20,000; John Bingham, 282 is preparing plans for a large flat bldg. for Grand and E. 6th; cost $6000; H. L. Camp & 20th st. N., bldr. the Campion Estate which will be erected Co., 94 Union ave., bldrs. on the cor. of 24th and Hoyt. Koshland & Holzman will erect a 4-sto. Ladd Estate, Stark st., will change front brick and concrete office bldg. on llth st. of 1-sto. brick store on lst st. bet. Salmon L. E. Sunhorn will erect a 2-sto. fr. fiat bet. Washington and Alder; cost $30,000; and Main; cost $600; F. H. Brandes, 303 and apt. bldg. on 10. 13th st. bet. Belmont Multnomah Mill & Contracting Co., bldrs.; 4th st., bldr. and E. Yamhill; cost $4400; D McKeen, 154 Emil Schacht, archt. A. S. Ellis, 187 6th st., will excavate for E. 12th, bldr. Rothchild Estate will change front of store on Washington, S. W. cor. King; cost Geo. L. Parrish will erect a 3-sto. brick Ground floor of 8-sto. steel bldg. on Wash $500; Donahue, 17th and Columbia, bldr. and concrete apartment house oh llth bet. ington het. 4th and 5th; cost $1000; H. Stei- arin Estate, Mohawk bldg., will change Main and Salmon; cost $12,000. Basement ner & Co.. 445 7th St., bldrs. front of 2-sto. brick store on Elder bet. 3rd wall is now being put in hy A. W. Powers; E. J. Daly sold the southwest corner of 5th; cost $400; J. A. Melton, 235 22nd Lents, contractor for basement wall. 13th and Everett sts., and It. F. Bryan s\ b".dr. the northwest corner of 13th and Davis Archt, D. L. Williams. Chamber of Com RESIDENCES. sts., presumably to the same buyer who it merce, has plans sufficiently completed for is reported, will erect thereon a warehouse Mtional stories for Chamber of Com John F. Janssen, 1512 Vincent ave., or wholesale bldg. Further particulars merce, that estimates are being received will build 1-sto. fr. res. on 51st bet. withheld for the present. for tin1 steel work. The plans show an Sandy road and Thompson. Cost $2000. F. E. Smith, mngr. American Surety Co. ornamental front of terra cotta of same M. Carlston, 237 Wane st., will build has secured a 25-year lease on S. E. cor. shade as sandstone of which balance of the 1-sto. fr. res. on E. 59thbet. Hassalo 4th and Washington, 50x100 ft. He an luii!c]in_; is constructed. Estimated cost of and Holliday ave. Cost $1000. nounces he will erect Class A reinforced Addition $135,000. A. J. Swegele will build 1-sto. fr. res. on Cleveland ave. bet. Going and Meag- concrete or steel bldg., 9 to 12 stories, as ley. Cost $1500. G. Kickers & Sons, soon as lease of present tenants expire in 355 Shaver st., builders. next 12 months. SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES T. N. Strong Labbe bldg., will build Alberta Improvement Association will IV.-sto. fr. res. on Johnson bet. 20th have plans prepared and erect 2-sto. bldg., The school board, upon Investigation, has and 21st. Cost $1000. on one-quarter lot in center of Alberta ad decided to recommend the erection of a new S. Gasnell, 1241 Michigan, will build dition; 1-sto. will be fire engine house and school house at Rose City Park. Several 1 %-sto. fr. res. on Michigan bet. Simp stores; upper floor fitted up as meeting hall. sites have been looked at and a selection son and Ainsworth. Cost $1000. Archt. Emil Schacht, Commonwealth will be made in a short time. Henry Perry will build 1-sto. fr. res. bldg., has prepared plans for E. J. Haight, Bids will be received up to May 4 at the on Claremont st. bet. Oneonta and Ma- 229 Beech St., who will erect a 2-sto. and school clerk's office for the following school drona. Cost $1000. S. Grimshaw, 412 concrete basement brick store on Union buildings: The Glencoe school, additions Florence, builder. ave. bet. Going. Concrete basement is now to the Albina Homestead and the Davis Wm. Wilson, Rose City Park, will being put in. school building. T. J. Jones,, 334 E. 3rd st, erect 2-sto. fr. res. on E. 24th bet. Goddard & Kelly, 6th and Washington archt. Brazee and Alameda. Cost $3000. sts., will erect a 2-story factory on E. Grace Memorial Episcopal church will S. y McCann, 367 Cable, will build Alder between E. 8th and E. 9th, 50x100. erect a 1-sto. fr. church on 17th st. bet. 2-sto. fr. res. on Cable bet. Mill and Cost $4000. C. W. Vanstone, 86 E. 17th St., Weiill. r; cost $2000; H. R. Eckert, 667 Rod- Montgomery. Cost $800. builder. ney ave., bldr. Joe Celaria will build 2-sto. fr. res. The Ladd Estate, Stark st,, will change on E. 13th bet. Franklin and Kelly. Cost front of 5-story brick store on Washing HOSPITALS, HOTELS, APARTMENTS $1400. E. Bracco, builder. ton st. between 2d and 3d sts. Cost $1500. Archt. Emil Schacht, Commonwealth bldg., Lewis & Lewis, 22d and Upshur sts., con Archt. Claussen & Claussen, Board of has prepared plans for W. J. Baker, 788 tractors and builders. Trade bldg., are preparing plans for six Roosevelt ave. for 1 Mi-sto. fr. bungalow to P. H. Flynn has secured contract for flats, 2-sto., 80x100 ft., full cement base be erected at Mt. Adams, Council Crest; cost 300 feet cement sidewalk and retaining ment, for J. T. McDonnell, to be erected $3500; bids are now being received. wall for A. L. Watten, at 9th and Going, on Hovt. bet. 21st and 22nd. Cost $16,000. Archt. A. II. Faber, Commercial Bldg., also a large contract for cement sidewalk Plans ready May 5th. has prepared plans for Joseph Carter, Van on Northrop st. for A. H. Mahan of Salem. John Duthie will erect a 2-sto. fr. flats couver, for a 2-sto. concrete foundation and Archt. Emil Schacht, Commonwealth bldg., and apt. house on E. 18th st. bet. Belmont basement fr. res. 30x35, fire place to be of has prepared plans for Dr. Henry Jones, and E. Yamhill: cost $500; McClaren & pressed brick, to be erected in Vancouver; 49 17th st. N., for 5-sto. brick warehouse Clark. 998 E. 17th st. N., bldr. cost $4000; bids are now being received. to be erected on the cor. of 15th and Love- Arlington Club will excavate for their 4- Archt. A. IT. Faber, 213 Commercial bldg., joy; cost $12,000; plans are now open for sto. brick and concrete bldg. to be erected is preparing plans for 80 res. to be erected bids. on Salmon bet. Park and W. Park; cost of at Waverleigh Heights, for Portland Build J. B. Yeon, University Park, will repair a'ion $1,500; Hurlev-Mason, Board of ing Association, 213 Commercial bldg.; resi a 2-sto. fr. store on 5th st. bet. Alder and Trade bldg., bldr. dences to cost from $2000 to $10,000; plans Washington; cost $500; Moore & Meaj W. IT. Fancher, Lumber Exchange, is pre will be ready from time to time and bids Co., 42 lst, bldrs. paring plans for Mrs. E. T. Burdin, who will be received. Russell & Blythe, 215 Commonwealth will erect a 2-sto. fr. flat and apt. bldg. R. M. Widney, 570 Couch st., will erect bldg., will repair Are damage on a 2-sto. on 21st st. bet. Hoyt and Irwin; cost $4,- a 1-sto. fr. res. on E. Harrison bet. 38th and fr. store on the cor. of 6th and Pine; cost 000. 39th; cost $2000. $600; J. Turnlmll. 984 Thurman st., bldr. Architect W. A. Dean is preparing Edith R. Reeves, 609 Laurel st., will build Archt. W. L. Morgan, Failing bldg., has plans for a 3-story apartment house to a l!/_-sto. fr. res. on Council Crest; cost $2,- purchased the one-quarter block on N. W. be erected at corner King and Washing 000; J. H. Finnegan, bldr. cor. Grand ave. and E. Stark for $25,000, ton sts. Cost $45,000. R. E. Brown, 1198 Mall st., will erect a and is now preparing plans for 4-sto. and Archt. H. M. Fancher, Lumber Exchange 1%-sto. fr. res. on Mall St., bet. 39th and basement reinforced concrete bldg. to be bldg., is preparing plans for Mrs. E. T. 41st st.; cost $1500. erected thereon. Purdin, 87 14th st. N., for a 2-sto. apt. R. D. Hubbard, 1191 E. 30th N., will build May 1, 1909. PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER 11 KAHN TRUSSED BAR CUP BAR Reinforced Concrete RIB METAL HYRIB, for Partitions, RIB LATH Roofs etc. Write for Particulars RIB STUDS We Co-Operate With Owner and Architect We Prepare Designs THUSSEV CONCRETE STEEL CO 1120 Board of Trade Building, Portland i GRILL WORK FOR ELEVATOR ENCLOSURES. ELEVATOR CABS,STAIRWORK,BALCONY- RAILINGS/IRE ESCAPES ETC. J)ORTl_\ND,Oregor\. PACIFIC ELECTRIC ENGINEERING CO. CONSULTING JEJINJQ INEERS ERECTING 213 Second Street PORTLAND, ORB. School Directors! One good reason why you should install a Fan System Heating Plant is that we can heat your building and VENTILATE it perfectly at less cost for fuel than any system which merely heats it and supplies no adequate ventilation. Look into it. The health of any individual demands pure air ! The w. G. MCPHERSON COMPANY HEATING ENGINEERS 328 Glisan Street Write for catalog. PORTLAND, OREGON F. L. CHASE. JR. E. E. GILMER. Mgr. Washington Manager for Oregon, So. 246 Arcade Annex Waterhouse & Price Co. Washington ana Idaho Seattle 641_ 6th St.. Portland Main 2098, Ind. 8499 PASCHAL L INTERLOCKING SIDEWALK LIGHTS Main 6214 WHEN YOU WRITE TO ADVERTISERS IT WILL PAY TO MENTION THE BUILDER and ENGINEER 12 PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER Vol. 7, No. 18. a 1-sto. fr. res. on E. 29th bet. Killings- Archt. Jos. Jacobberger, Board of Trade. .1. S. Thebuge, 900, Bowdoin, will erect 1- worth and Jarrett; cost $1500. is preparing plans for F. E. Dooley, 729 slo. fr. res. on Bowdoin st. bet. McKenna H. S. Edmondson, 987 E. 20th st. N., will Hovi st., for 2-sto. fr. res. to be erected at and Monti,'th; cost $1000. build a 1-sto. fr. res. on Glen ave. bet. and Cornell Road; cost $10,000. .1. c Campbell, 363 Tillamook, will build Prescott and Going; cost $2000. Plans will be ready in 10 days. Archt. J. C. Wrenn, Board of Trade bldg., a 1-sto. fr. res. on E. 24th st. bet. Emerson Antone Jansen, 935 Mississippi st, will is preparing plans for Mr. L. Lamond of and Sumner sts.; cost $1200. build a 1-sto. fr. res. on Humbold bet Pat Pipman, Wolf & Co., for a 1-sto. fr. res., X. C. Sears, 792 F. 34th, will erect a sto. ton and Concord; cost $2000. 6 rooms. 2Gxlfi ft., to be erected on 23rd st. fr. res. on E. 28th st hot. Rhone & Francis; L. R. Endicott, 495 Union ave,, will build near Northrup; cost $3500; bids will be cost $1700. a iy2-sto. fr. res. on E. 27th st. bet. Bis received from May lst to 10th. Fred Jacob, 548 E. Davis st., will erect a marck and Powell; cost $2000. il VVaidt, 1232 E. Yamhill, will erect a 2-sto. fr. res. on 10. 35th bet Market and The tract of 462 acres in the heart of 2-sto. fr. res. on E. Yamhill bet. 40th and Stephens sts. Cost $2000. Wm. F. Fischer, East side, Portland, known as Ladd's Hazel 42nd; cost $2500. 5 18 B. I >avis, bldr. Fern Farm, has been sold to a syndicate of Con Hughes will erect five 1-sto. fr. res. Portland and Seattle capitalists, headed by on 22nd st. bet. Vaughn & Wilson; cost Otto Arbuckle will erect tt 2-sto. fr. res. C. K. Henry of Portland, and will be platted $1200 each; Horn & Co., 1073 Front st., on Rex St.- bet. E 9th and E. llth; cost into residence lots and placed upon the bldrs. $2500; T. O. Sands, 307 Failing bldg., market this summer. It will make 2880 Lucy M. Arnold, 1764 Hoven st., will build bldr. building lots, and building restrictions from a 1-sto. fr. res. on E. 36th st. bet. Ste $2000 to $5000, will insure a high class of phens and Harrison: cost $1800. GOVERNMENT construction. A. VV. Goddard, 490 Mill, will build a 1- Archt. Emil Schaact, Commonwealth sto. fr. res. on E. 61st st. bet. Baseline The Marine Supply Co., Tacoma, has been bldg., is preparing plans for N. A. King, Road and Belmont st; cost $2000. awarded contract for furnishing and install 175 21st St., who will erect a 3-sto. fr. and Xiner & McFarlain, 1108 E. Grant, will ing a Taylor water-tube boiler, 1200 sq. ft. brick res. on 20th and Salem to cost $25,- build a 1-sto. fr. res. on E. 37th st. cor. Ing surface in Quartermaster's Dept. 000. Stephens; cost $1400. Steamer Major Guy Howard; cost $2400. Kenton Building & Construction Co., 11 Mrs. J. H. Clayton, 1535 Knowles, will Lafayette bldg., are having plans prepared build a 2-sto. fr. res. on Hancock st. bet. E. and will build five 1-sto. fr. res. on Watts 22nd and 23rd; cost $4600; D. McKeen, 164 bet. Delaware and Brandon, each to cost E. 12th St., bldr. $1200; total cost $7000. .Mrs. D. J. Phillips will rep. 2-sto. fr. res. SPOKANE T. B. Griswold, Commercial and Beach on 12th st. bef. Clay and Markel; cost $4800; sts., will build 1%-sto. fr. res. on E. 20th Walter R. Thorn, 273 llth St., bldr. bet Alberta and Brainard; cost $2500; A. F. A. A. Poolman will build a 1-sto. fr. res. Darling, 1039 E. 19th N., bldr. on Olayborn st. bet. E. 14th and E. 16th; cost $2000; D. O'Connell, 593% Bybee st, BUSINESS Butterworth & Stephens, 35 Lafayette bldr. bldg., will build five 1-sto. fr. res. on Watts C. A. McCale, 533 Morrison st., will build John Sarginson, s. 916 Hillyard st, will st. bet Delaware and Brandon; cost $1500; a 2-sto. fr. res. on Knot, cor. 16th; cost $4,- a 2-sto. brick veneer shop, on total cost $7500. M. L. Camp & Co., 94 Union ave., bldrs. side Sherman st., bet. 3rd and 5th aves., W. H. Whitney, 1160 Detroit will build W. A. Moore will build a 1-sto. fr. res. on $6000. 2-sto. fr. res. on Holman st. bet. cor. Haight, E. Morrison, hot. llth and 12th; cost $500; Geo. Kronenbcrg, 6 Lost st., will erect a cost $2000. 11. L. Camp & Co., '.' 1 Union ave., bldrs. 1-sto. hrick Btore hldg. at S. 10. cor. Pacific W. G. Stillwell, 420 Garfield, will build a F. Wolff, 430 E. Sherman St., will erect ave. and Sherman St., $(!500. T. G. Cooper, 1-sto. fr. res. on Garfield st. bet Portland a 2-sto. t'r. r->s. on I 20th & Hazel; contr., 1509 12th avo. boulv. and Dekum; cost $2000. cosl $1,000; H. L. Camp & Co., 94 Union ave., Woodward A Stein, 1011 Sprague ave., will W. B. Russell will build a 1%-sto. fr. bldrs. erect a 2-sto. fr. shot), s. VV. cor. Gardner res. on E. Yamhill bet 39th and 40th st; \V. T. Harlow, 212 Alisky hldg., will build ave. and Washington, to cost $3500. cost $4500; W. M. Conklin & Co., Wells a 2-sto. fr. res. on E. Stephens, cor. Glenn Fargo bldg., bldrs. ave.; cost $2,500; A. P. Smith, 612 Commer SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES Olive Anderson, 1161 E. 31st N., will cial bldg., bldr. German Baptist Brethren will erect a fr. LAMSON A. Business Building "With Every Modern Convenience" ===IS NOT COMPLETE unless equipped with Lamson Service for carrying Gash, Messages or Parcels with speed, security and economy. Pneumatic Tubes, Gable Garriers, Wire Gash and Parcel Garriers Selective Garriers, Belt Gonveyors Lamson Consolidated Store Service Company 405 Peoples Savings Bank Bldg., Seattle BOSTON 1003 Call Building, San Francisco Send for Bulletin P.B SERVICE Agencies in all Principal Cities May 1, 1909. PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER 13 church north side Holly ave. bet. A. & B. sts, $1200. J. F. McFarlen, bldr., 3108 Holly ave. WHY NOT The Spokane School board is advertising for bids for the erection of a new two- BE UP-TO-DATE AND USE A story brick school in Altamont addition. Estimated cost, $35,000. Plans can be seen at the office of Secretary B. A. Thomas, Ad ministration building, Fourth and Stevens. Sanitary Desk? Bids opened May Ll. Hids will be opened at same time- for erection of two 2-sto. mi brick additions to Sheridan and Au- ALL PRICES FROM $22.50 UP dubon schools. Kstimated cost of each $15,000. Plans can be seen at office of tary Thomas. school board is planning on the ex- penditure of $150,000 in finishing and fur We will take your old desk nishing the new North Central High school. in trade and allow you Plans by Archt. G. A. E. Bergholtz for the Third U. P. church have been accepted its full worth and the foundation started. Day work. Bids for materia] received by Rev. D. S. Sharpe, E. 1 !M 2 First a The largest complete office out Charles Wood, archt., 716 Peyton bldg., fitters in the Northwest, and has completed plans and is ready for bids for alterations and improvements of Bethel agents for the world'• three Presbyterian church, contract will aggre largest manufacturers. Send for gate several thousand dollars. catalogue. HOTELS, HOSPITALS, APARTMENTS The local Carpenters' union is having plans drawn for a three-story apartment house on West. Riverside. Day work. Will eost about $15,000. INorris Safe & Lock Co. W. W. Ilyslop, archt., 415 Rookery, has 307-11 ^liird Ave. S. SEATTLE Commonwealth Blag. PORTLAND completed plans for a three-story $30,000 apartment house tor Van B. DeLashmutt on Sprague, mar Spokane. Russell and Vincent, 805 .Mohawk, have awarded to Contractor T. G. Cooper the contracl for the erection of the 1-story brick ami apartment house for George Gro- Figures, Portraits and ,i the sou >rner of Pacific ami Sherman. Clapp & Clapp, arehts. m:, Mohawk, have Bas Reliefs a Specialty awarded a contract for the foundation and M. P. NIELS0N excavation of the Blessing apartments, Pine ami Pacific, to Olson & Borg-en, for I Will be ready tor bids on superstructure in All Kinds of a 1V\\ i l.i George W. Odell denies, as was announced Sculptor Architectural elsewhere, that lie is having plans drawn Sculpture i'"i- a five-story hotel at Sprague and Adams. •Mr. Odell states tiiat it will be at least a year before plans are considered. Attorney E. O. Conor. Hyde block, will Entrance Gate to A.Y. P. E. Crv#i44l/-» • ry brick store and apartment house on Pacific and Short avenues. No Grounds, 15th Ave. N. E. Seaillc architect. .M. S. Bentley, E817 Mission, has started work o.i a three-story brick addition '•'• io th. Reliance block, corner Second and Lincoln, costing about $15,000. O. M. Bur ner has e ntract for the stone work. Mr. Bentley is now ready to let con- tracl tor brick work, other contracts for CENTRAL DOOR & LUMBER CO.' plumbing, plastering, wiring, etc., will be hi as work progrese Jobbers of THEATERS AND HALLS PLATE SHEET and ROUGH GLASS 1. (). < >. C. will erect 1-sto. brick addition lo i-sto. brick bldg. .at N. 10. cor. Mill Btt DOORS and WINDOWS ami Alain 00. (11. II. .hum s. archt. ami contr., 621 Fernwell blk.) WE MANUFACTURE MIRRORS RESIDENCES Wholesale Agents Genasco Roofing S. Seitenbach, 2337 Third ave., will erect a $- on Short court near SEATTLE SPOKANE Grand. No architect. PORTLAND Al. S. Bentley, E817 Mission, has awarded Thirteenth and Glisan 393 Aroade Annex 715 Peyton Block to Joseph Rodell for $2300 a contract for the erection of a residence at Nineteenth and Ad Archt. G. A. B. Bergholtz is drawing plans for an 8-room i i r Mr. Potter, southeast corner Ninth hue. Mr. Potter will now accept bids for material. s. Copley, :' 124 11 . will er< i Essential Elements in Electric Wiring L'-sto. I'r. res. east side West Point load, bet. Augusta and Nora aves., $2400. B. M. Watson, 172!) Mallon ave., will erect a 2-sto. fr. res. N. W. cor. 7th ave. and Are RELIABILITY Madison st.; $6400. Complete House and Store II. L. Little, B. 1712 12th ave.. will erect SAFETY Wiring Furnished .-sto. I'r. res. north side 12th ave., bet. Pittsburg and Napa sts.; $2500. ECONOMY Ellen Johnson, 1622 Knox ave., will erect a 1%-sto. fr. res. N. W. cor. Knox ave. and Maple st.; $1700. F. o. Leary will ereci a 1%-sto. fr. res. north side tve., bet Astor and Lidg The Seattle Electric Company erwood sts.; $1000. I.. P. Meyer, S. 323 .Monroe St., will erect Sunset Main 200 Independent 200 907 First Avenue a l-sto. fr. res. north side 5th ave., bet. Ray and I -.; $1500. Henry Barmann, 1112 Helena st., will a 1-sto. fr. res. east side Helena St., ind Bradley aves.; $800. Albert Lyberger, E. 2223 Providence vae., MENTION THE BUILDER and ENGINEER WHEN ANSWERING ADS will ereel a 1-sto. fr. res. north side Provi- 14 PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER Vol. 7, No. 18. dence ave., b >t. Napa and .Martha sts.; $1500. T. E. Conner, .'921 Montgomery ave., will .i t-sto. fr. res. south side Montgom ery ave., bet. Cannon and Elm sts.; $1400. Metal Ceilings and Sidewalls W. Palmer, Viola, Ida. (Gen. Del., Spo kane), will erect a 1-sto. fr. ros. north side SEATTLE METAL CEILING CO. Illinois ave., bet. Hamilton and Columbus sts.; $1000. Jos.Slaughter, Mgr. Phone, Ind. 4411 734 Post St.. Seattle Same, will erect a 1-sto. fr. res., N. W. cor. Napa Ith ave., $1000. G. S. Hebberd, care Tull & Gibbs, will erect a 1-sto. fr. res., north side L6th ave., bet. Ivory and Perry sts.: $1500. R. G. Littler G. H. Beazan F. M. Boll will erect a 1-sto. fr. res., N. Audubon Part add., $1500. WEST COAST ENGINEERING CO. Chas. i). Wright, 1853 Dean ave., will a 1-slo. t'r. res., east side Howard st., Electric Light Power Electrical Engineers Mill and Factory bet. Wabash and Olympic aves.; $500. and Tele jhone Installations Keith & Whitehouse, archts., Empire Installations and Contractors a Specialty State bldg., have completed plans and are Estimates, Specifications for bids for a $6000 t'r. 6-room cottoge 412 Couch Building, and Reports Furnished... PORTLAND, OREGON at 2nd and Poplar for the Arthur D. Jones company. Archt. Carl Jabelonsky, 439 Peyton, will will have plans ready May 1 for a $2000 res. for Joseph llancox, in Roosevelt add. John F. Coats, E. 1024 8th ave., will erect a 2-sto. res. on Wall, near Sound. "Pacific Contracting Co John Sarginson, S. 916 Hilliard st, will erect a 2-sto. fr. res., east side Conklln St., 438 Worcester Building. PORTLAND, OREGON bet. 3rd and 5th aves., $4500. W. S. Nicholson, S. 1324 Browne st, will General Contractors Writ* Us for < a 1%-sto. fr. res. at N. W. cor. Browne Estimates st. and llth ave.; $3500. II. O. Malcolm, 1914 Knox ave., will erect a 1 '-.-sto. fr. ros. at N. E. cor. Knox ave. and Cannon st.; $3000. Otto Hoppe, 03317 Atlantic st, will erect a 1-sto. fr. res., west side Altamont St., bet. irt and Liberty aves.; $1000. [IRQ NITEl F. K. Dent, E. 528 Carlisle ave., will erect Basements Made Waterproof a 1-sto. fr. ns.. north side 27th ave., east of Grand st.; $2700. Peterson & Swetman, ALL KINDS OF CONCRETE WORK contrs.. ]•:.. 2508 4th ave. CONCRETE Herman P. Bouffleur, 707 Front ave., will COMPANY erect a I ft-B to. fr. res. at N. W. cor. 12th BZ% THIRD STREET Phone, Home A1577 PORTLAND.ORE. ave. and Ash st; $5000. Peterson & Swet man, contrs., B. 2508 4th ave. F. R. Hupp will ereel a 2-sto. fr. res. south side Waverly Place, bet Mill and Howard sts.; $5500. Peterson & Swetman, John K. ''oats, 10. 102 1 8th ave., to erect 2-sto. i'r. res. east side Wall st., bet. Sound Mill Owners Sprinkler Company and Cotta aves.; $6500. No contract lot. Kmit Nerland, E. 121 avo., to • itct 1-slo. fr. res., N. W. cor. 13th ave. and I dvision st; $600. .*. Automatic Sprinkling Equipment .*. Wm. Bement, 1009 Montgomery ave., to 1-sto. bk. veneer res., S. E. cor. Belt Rockwood Heads - Rockwood Valves st. and Carlisle avo.; $600. Cottage Construction Co., F. W. Guilbert, Room 23 Seattle^National Bank Building SEATTLE ins Fernwell, will erect a 2-sto. fr. and stone res., costing $5000, on Wall, near Grand, lev. I'. .1. Arthuis, Qonsaga college, will erect a 2-sto. res. on Boone ave., near Ham ilton; $2500. J. II. Connolly, HI. IT:; I South eontr. Carpenter & McNeil, contrs., 1522 Main ave., will erect four 2-sto. fr. cottages. II. II. Pettit, contr., will erect a 1%-sto. fr. cot. for F. \V. Mauser, 1027 Augusta ave. A. w. Cowley, archt., (i;il Peyton, has Magnollth Sanitary prepared plans and is ready for bids for a The best finish for bath six-room modern bungalow to cost $3500 to he erected for w. Cochran on the S. E. rooms, kitchens, halls and cor. of Manito boulvd. and 23rd st. stairs because the most san Mr. Cowley has also completed plans and Flooring is ready for hids for an 8-room modern itary — noiseless — cleanly — bungalow to cost $4000 lo be erected for Mr. Meeker adjoining the above. non-absorbent—permanent. W. B. Bankson, S222 >,acey st., will erect and iialpth st, $1,- Ask for circular. 250. Mrs. 10. B. Shinn, 2107 Sharp ave., will a 1-sto. fr. res. south side Sinto ave., Int. Xettleton and Belt sts, $:' Geo. Bottler, 05 108 Lincoln st., will erect Enametile a 1-sto. concrete ros., south side Harvey R. W. PHILLIPS, ave., bet. Pennsylvania and Martha sts., Manager ('has. W. Wilbert, E. 3210 Illinois ave., is Wainscoting to erect 1-sto. bk. addition to store, north side Main ave, bet. Division and Browne sts., $2000. BUILDING PERMITS Cottage Construction Co., 408 Fernwell -4*- blk, 2-sto fr and stone res east side Wall st, bet 13th and Grand ave; cost $5000— I' .1 Arthuis, Gonzaga College, erect a double ros north side Boone ave, bet llton ami Cincinnati st; cost $7500 (J PORTLAND SANITARY FLOOR CO. M Connolly, contr, E1734 South ave—E G lOrskin, E1507 Pacific ave, 2-sto fr res, N Phones: Main 2023; A2023 W cor Mill st and Cleveland ave, $4000—V N Fisher, 02834 Washington st, to erect 145 FIRST STREET PORTLAND, ORE. a 1 '.-sto fr ros north side Providence ave het Post and Howard st, $2000—Werner Eg- gerth, 1614 Montgomery ave to erect a 1}_- May 1,1909. PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER 15 This cut of the Cascades shows what Malthoid Roofing will do under a Heavy Water Pressure. At the A.Y.P. Exposition Malthoid Roofing covers all the buildings and lines the Cascades. THE PARAFFINE PAINT CO. W. L. RHOADES. Manager N. W. Territory Fobes Bldg.. 558 First Avenue S. SEATTLE Main 593 Ind. 766 Sandstone Brick Qi Lime Co. MANUFACTURERS OF Sand- Common Lime PRESSED BRICK SCIENTIFIC PROCESS 226-228 Sullivan Bldg., SEATTLE Phone, Main 943 BUILDERS BmC&'Wfm&BM BUFF &. BUFF _JL Jl Li MANUFACTURERS OF L~,._;*j • ^WdrvH Manufacturers ef Precise ; ENGINEERINGS dkrSttS*^1 s,t : ..cfN.R ^>1H§OTI^H, ASTRONOMICAL rr.Tr. r Side Track^ ± K p s™™^_pUf^r^^ .l)j,HGL|LAHAN PBOT ^S0UfH---SEATT«rWA5H- INSTRUMENTS Represented In the Northwest by A E. FULLER, C. E. -:- Electrical Contractors -:- Rooms 316-17 Pacific Blk SKATTLE Johnston House Wiring, General Contracting and Supplies & Sayre LET US FIGURE ON YOUR OUT-OF-TOWN WORK 723.St. Helens Ave. - TACOMA Both Phones 4396 Electric Sanitary Cleaning Appliance Seattle Gas Engine Blaisdell Vacuum Company Machinery Company 304-A Central Building Seattle CLEANING SYSTEM, Stationary Vacuum Cleaning Alaska Building - SEATTLE Machinery Water Packed Pistons SEND III YOUR ORDERS NOW EOR THE ANNUAL YEAR BOOK WRITE FOR BOOKLET LIME TACOMA TRADIINQ COMPANY BRICK TACOMA PLASTER SEWER PIPE STANDARD PORTLAND CEMENT 16 PACIFIC BUILSER AND ENGINEER Vol. 7, No. 18. sto fr res south side Montgomery ave bet Maple and Ash st; cost $2300—E B Irwin, E809 34th ave, to erect iy2-sto fr res west J. L. TODD LUMBER CO. side Post st bet Everett and Olympic ave; cost $1500—Spokane Home Building Co. 601 blk, to erect a I1/,-sto fr res at 914 DOORS Tacoma New York bet .Monroe and Lincoln st, $2400 SASH —Same, to erect 1%-sto fr res north side GLASS HIGH GRADE INTERIOR FINISH Igeport ave bet Arch and Moorland st; cost $1750—Same, to erect a l^-sto fr res north side Bridgeport ave bet Arch and Moorland st; cost $2200—Chamberlin Real te & Improvement Co, Jamieson blk, to erect a lV.-sto fr res west side 13th ave WELLS CONSTRUCTION CO. HOFFMAN & GODFREY bet Grand and Latawah st, $2650—Same, to erect 1-sto fr cot north side 35th ave bet Grand and Perry st; cost $1750—E M Col lins, 2035 N W Boulevard, W. Arthur Smith, archt., 3-4 Golden Gate CONTRACTOR blk., has completed plans for a $4500 resi Electrical and Mechanical dence to be erected for Wm. Hawkins in and BUILDER Cliff Park. ENGINEERS Alfred Jones, archt., 312 Mohawk, has completed plans and is ready for bids for Estimates Furnished Power & Light Installations on Application. a $4000 1%-story residence for R. E. Porter- field on Thirteenth avenue west of Monroe. A. L. L,undquist, S1212 Jefferson St., will Industrial Plants erect a 2-sto. fr. res. at S. W. cor. Jefferson st. and 12th ave., $5500; Contractor and 601-2 Bernice Bldg. Tacoma builder same. Telephone, Main 1066 1005 A Street] 1 TACOMA Spokane Ornamental Iron & Wire Works TACOMA SpoKane, Wn. Builders sv.nd Designers of Iron, Brass a_n_ Bronze FINANCIAL Work for Buildings Water Warrants— Tlie Fidelity Trust company and the Na IRON AND WIRE FENCES AND GATES tional Bank of Commerce, Tacoma, were awarded the $250,000 special water fund se rial warrants bearing 6 per cent interest Catalogue or Special Designs upon Application and running 20 years. BUSINESS Anton Huth, ii Brewery TACOMA Special Designs on Application & Malting Co. has id four lots on BUILDERS and DESIGNERS OF Bast 2'.) rd si., I'm- $35,00, and will erect a ouse. Ornamental ORNAMENTAL IRON, BRASS Plans for ihe new Savage * Scofteld bldg. and BRONZE WORK on A st. From three to six stories and an elevator will ho put in Iron Works TACOMA lake a, first-class office bldg. J. E. Bon- nell is ihe cunt i'. ter Sandberg has purchased lots and will i !-sto. bldg. adjoining his 10- sto. bldg. on Pacific ave. and S. 15th st. ter Davis, Bank of Califor nia bldg., purchased two lots on South G Ernst Hardware ® Plumbing Co., Inc. st. for $5,000, and will erect a business BUILDERS' HARDWARE block on the property. He will have plans PAINTS andOIES Main 6353 514-518 PIKE ST.. SEATTLE Ind. 4126 SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES Plans hr i been completed bj Archts. Heath & TwJ-'hell, Fidelity Bldg., tor a 2- sto. fr. Bchool IO cost J6000, to i>e erected on a trad of land a 1. Xorth Puyallup pre- Magnesia-Asbestos Supply Company ed in the county by Marshall R. Snell. Independent 1212 OF WASHINGTON, (Inc. Main 835 HOSPITALS, HOTELS, APARTMENTS If It's Made of ASBESTOS We Have It Se Miorary fr. hospitals for the care of contagious diseases will bo or. 116 Main St. SEATTLE by (he county en the county hospital grounds en Pacific ave. THEATERS AND HALLS J. J. Bhubert of Shubert Bros., theatrical igers, hat I to open a theatre GALBRAITH, BACON ® C0.I here. The Star or Savoy theatres may be d and remodeled or a new one built, te decision not having been made. Tin- Central Labor Council has raised $600 e bus of a fund for the erection nf a Tacoma Labor Temple. T. P. Burns is Cement ss agent. RESIDENCES u. AI. Duff, contr.. has purchased $20,000 Lime...... worth of lots in Central Park add., and will erect $40,000 worth of small homes this summer to be sold on installments. i Archt. Paul Bergfeld has completed plans Plaster for a *71><>o res. for Antone Mueller, cor. of South 1th and T, st. It will be frame ruction with all modern improvements. e 2-sto. fr. res. of Albert G. Davison, i':',^!! Wilkeson ave., was damaged to the ex- Of $700 by lire. Pier 3, Pier 12 Seattle, Wash. Billiard &. Hill, archts., have completed May 1, 1909. PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER 17 Metal Cabot's Stains Concrete Mixers Fireproof Doors Lath Safety Treads Dehydratine Tile Terra Cotta Clothes s. w. R. DALLY! Drvers Structural Steel Expanded Metal Everything Good in Sunflower Metal Cement BUILDING MATERIAL Roofing- Celebrated Wool Orcas Lime SEATTLE TACOMA SPOKANE I Felt Sidewalk J'ire Blackboard Slate Reinforcing Steel Joist Hangers Lights Brick ^roTcE^ .00k at Our New Trade Mark' To the Northwest Indians the Swastika cross is an emblem of good luck. U in this case it means that we "Always make good." The people who make good a . es who always "Get There." We are certainly getting there. Our trade mark stamped on every Tray, and every Tray "GUARANTEED." For TRADE MARK of Plumbing Supplies. Write today for Catalogue B. v^A/QpY TR^L^^ Seattle Cement Laundry Tray Co. Phom W. Vin SEATTLE, WASH. Sterling- Chicago Concrete Mixer Roller —The Most Rapid Mixer Made- Bearing Mixes anything mixable from dryest concrete to most adhesive mortar without change or Concrete addition of parts. Lower to charge than any other batch mixer. Carts and Simplest and most perfectly controlled discharge. Barrows Built in four sizes: —5 to 26 cu. ft. per batch. For full particulars, call upon or vnte Have no Equal TRY ONE If you Chicago Concrete Mixer Equipped with Beall & Company, Portland, Ore. don't find it a labor- Automatic Charging- Elevator. saver return it. r Wn/hinsrton, Cretron and Idaho. IT WILL PAY TO MENTION THE BUILDER and ENGINEER WHEN YOU WRITE TO ADVERTISERS 18 PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER Vol. 7, No. 18. J-M ASBESTOS ROOFING is the only prepared roofing that chemical fumes, gases, heat or cold will not affect— because it is the only roofing made of an indestructible mineral—ASBESTOS. It is also the only roofing that will not rot, rust, melt or crack. Is a Sure Fire Trotection against burning sparks, embers, etc.—Iron, tin and most prepared roofings need paint ing every year or two, and are really never paid for. J-M ASBESTOS ROOFING JVeeds JWo Tainting Therefore its first cost is its only cost. Keeps buildings cool In summer and warm in winter. Write for Samples and Booklet. H. w. JOHNS-MANVILLE CO. "Branches in all Large Cities 576 First Avenue South. Seattle, tOash. S for a fine country home to be erected ; I). Armstrong, manager of the Sperry mills, ai Gravelly lake. It will be frame construction with great fireplace and pan- :. finish inside. J, !•;. Bonnell, Tacoma, has been awarded the contracl for the erection of the frame servants' quarters building al the Country ('lub, American lake. It will be 30x50, tWO stories and contain 17 rooms, with toilel and bath. BUILDING PERMITS \v EC Gerish, 6118 S Yakima ave, cot at 5906 S Yakima ave. $900—South Tacoma .Mill Co, repairs to planl al 907 S C st, $liMM) -Mrs A B Holbrooke, 4209 N Mason ave, dwlg, at 1202 N Verde st, $2500. \- M Wolford, 8016 S 13th sl, cot at 1922 s oak st; cost $1000—G W Powers, 6443 S Sheridan st, col al 5451 s Sheridan st, $1,- 500; R C < >eder, contr- -J Michael, 1009 South M St, dwell, $1800—C E Strain South O st. dwell, at 913 S Ainsworth, $2,- R00; Kettner Brothers, contrs \v AI ___• I, 635 S Stele st, cost, $! Bertleson & Sons, NT. Fife St., dwell, $3,- 500—A M Fischer, cottage, Xo. 8ls1 st., $1,- C Sevier. 3523 Eas-1 V st.. dwell, $1,- 000 Reeves & Forgerson, contrs., dwell, st.. $1900—W A Hill, 4910 Vassaull st, cot, $1000; Siegerfoos & Harris, contrs—J Bush, 737 S Tacoma ave, alter, $1,700—H .1 Schmider, 2:::;:; s Hosmer st, cot, $1250; V R Hill, North G st, brick apt Frank Goulmont, 614 South 35th sl, cot on S 34th st, $1600—C .1 Holt, cot at 3738 East .1 st., $500. P .1 Sweeney, 1715 S 8th st. dwlg at 722 N O st. $t2iii) A L Thorn, 3909 N 18th st, cot. $500. City of Tacoma. concrete pumping sta tion ami reservoir al South Tacoma, John Huntington, contr, $9000—Club Construc- company, garage for Dr Jaynes al 222 St. Helens ave, concrete, $2000—W E John son, 371 1 X 32nd st, dwlg, $1200 .1 A Smith, 6013 S Junetl st, col on S Oaks st, $700—J Westergaard, 221 S J, cot, $1200. British Columbia Building Victoria Dr. Ernest Hall is having" plans pre pared for a new business block to be three stories. The Victoria Hardware company will a two-story brick building 28x60. Lira Oat has been granted a permit to • •reet a 8-Story building to cost $35,000. Architectural Becorating Co. SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES R. J. HAHIN, Manager Bids will be received up to May 27 by i i* .* w\ t* _C t\ J. A.* Western Branch 1255 First Avenue Evered ('riddle, supervising archt., this Phone. Main 5666 place, for the erection of a two-story and basement brick school building for Prince Artistic Relief Ornamentation Ruperi. The Christian Science Society will erect quarters here to cost $4000 to $5000. Bids will be received by the Minister of Estimates quickly given. Public Works up to May 20 for the erec WARM AIR Let us figure for you. W» can save you money. tion id' a 2-room school house on Quardra JEWELL FURNACES Everything in th« lin« of Sheet Metal W»rk. st ret 1 ext-nsion. Telephone, Main 2648 HOTELS, HOSPITALS, APARTMENTS 89 Pike Street, Seattle Edgar & Campbell Bids will be received for the erection of the Chronic building for the hospital for the insane at Coquitlam farm up to May May 1, 1909. PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER 19 Northern Ctay Co. Manufacturers of ARCHITECTURAL TERRA COTTA Fire Brick and Other Clay Products Telephone AUBURN, 253 Auburn WASHINGTON :;i The building is to be of reinforced con Granite Palls, Wn.: This place will prob- crete and brick. Bids received by Evered in the near future on the proposi- Criddle, supervising archt., this pis NORTHWEST BUILDING of bonding for the purpose of building ool house. Milton, Or.: The = ection for dist. MUNICIPAL 31 embracing this place and Freewater, sub- Streets— Financial mitting the proposition of bonding for $35,- Al a meeting of the Smith Saanich Mu iihl a school in each citv. car- nicipal council, it was decided to sel aside Aberdeen, Wn.: The recenl special elec Ntwport, Wn.: This place has voted $15,- the sum of $14,436 for the improvement of tion to vote honds of |80, ' lo er j ''"ads this year. school building and to refund $10, I other to take up "~" outstanding loie's was carried. school district. Oroville, Wn.: The council has din STEAM RAILROADS Albany, Or.: Lids for 11 I of school bonds have been opened, it is sup • [ty attorney to take steps necessary to posed that they will go to S. A. Keen & ote bonds for a Over $300,000 will be expended this year municipal water system. by the 10. .V- X. railway between Victoria Co. of Chicago, who bid $550 premium and and Wellington. These plans Include a steel print ing. Port Orchard, Wn.: The state of Wash bridge at Niagara < lanyon. Asotin, Wn.: Lids will b id by ington secured the $1750 of scho the countv- treasurer up to May 3rd for the offered for sale by district Xo. 11 purchase of $8000 in bonds of school dis at pa w 5 per cent. Vancouver trict No. 25. issued for the purpose of In Raymond, Wn.: Preliminary steps were BUSINESS stalling a steam heating plant and sanitary by the city council for the issu closets of said district onds to cover in part the cost of A hrick store and apartment building will Baker City, Or.: Tlie Citizens' Xational ss tin- Willapa soon be started for John Shawnahan; VV. cured the issue of water bonds, South Willapa at this place. "• Archer is the archt. amounting to $52,585, paying a premium of estimated cost of the two structures will be $3,454. '.- SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES Boise, Ida.: Articles of incorporation Salmon, Ida.: The comptroller of the i filed for the Lank of Lnhl and currency has approved the application of Two tracts of land are to be secured nty State Bank at E. S. Edwards, G. B. Quarles and others 'n the southern part of the city for Maries, The Lnhl bank will have a capital for for the Citizens' Xational school building purposes. >0. VV. C. Dickie is one of the Bank of Salmon, with a capitalization of Holy Trinity church has under con 'rporators. The St. Maries hank will 000. sideration the erection of a new church have a capital stock of $15,0.00 with Wil .Salmon, Ida.: :tion will be held in 'utilding. liam i K.iiar at its head. sounty on May 16 to vote on the propo The B. C. Klectric Ry. Co.. through its Cordova, A.: S. Blum, president of the subsidiary corporation, the Vancouver sition of I the sit:/! of $10,fioo for banking corporation bearing his name, at i uilding a court house. Gas Investment Co., has secured exten Valdez, announces that his company will sive waterfront holdings in Hastings establish a hank here. Starbuck, Wn.: The election recently townsite. It is understood that the Chehalis, Wn.: The school I sold bonding proposition ground will he used for the establish to the state $40,000 of school bonds at par, of $l5.iiin: i for building :a school house ment of an extensive gas plant. same to draw i i., per cent. in a victory for t Chehalis, Wn.: The question of bonding Twin Palls, Ida.: Li's wil ived STEAM RAILROADS in the stun of $15,000 for building a city by th school district Xo. 10 of hall will be submitted on June 1st . for the The Canadian Northern railway is mak Davenport, Wn.: The $170n of bond ing a preliminary survey for terminals in purchase of $ i iriet \o. i;, recently offered for 77. issued for the purpose of buildii - Vancouver and New Westminster. sab- were purchased by ounty Slate Bank of this place for $1705 and "o MANUFACTURING PLANTS draw 5 per cent Interest Davenport, Wn.: The Lincoln County Public Buildings Rice Mill— State bank secured the $7500 of school T. M. Stevens of the Portland Rice Mill honds recently offered for sale by Dis Butte, Mont.: Bids will i 6 by ing company has located here and secured a trict No. 84. >mm.issioners up to May 15th site for the erection of a rice mill to cost Pinley, Wn.: This place has voted $10,- for tie- erection of a jail building, plans by $25,000. 000 in bonds with which to erect a brick Link & llain-. State Savings building. Cer- or concrete schoolhouse. for $3000 required with bid. GYPSUM Hailey, Ida.: This school district has Colfax, Wn.: Bids will he received up voted bonds in the sum of $20,000 for to May 1, for ring and repainting The Pacific Coast Gypsum company will building a schoolhouse. of th ie courtho erect a new plant h> Hillstooro, Or.: Adams & Co. of Los An- Ellensburg, Wn.: The contract for the secured I ••> of school bonds i ruction of the new Carnegie library BRIDGES of school district No. 7 of this place re- in this city has been awarded to W. O. ale. The i for Ames for $9275. Repairs to cost |3500 will be started at $Li.l75. once on the swing span of the Cambie Hoquiam, Wn.: A special election will Eplirata, Wn.: Bids will be received up streel biidg ilse creek. be held here May 25 to vote on the propo to May 7 by the county commissioners for sition of bonding in the sum of $85,000 for building tie- Grant county court house. The PUBLIC ROADS taking up expense warrants of the city and - were prepared hy M. F. McAnnelly other municipal purposes. of Wilson Oeek. Seventy-five thousand dollars will be ex Lewistown, Mont. The voters authoriz pended on trunk roads at Point Gray this ed the erection of a school house and au Lewiston, Ida.: The county commission- summer. thorized the issuing of $19,000 in bonds. Continued on Page 39 20 PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER Vol. 7, No. 18. No Modern Building KJbite Lirinting Office, Hotel, Church, School or Residence, should be erected without a SPENCER TURBINE DaVi$ FCompan y INCORPORATED Vacuum Cleaning System The Most Efficient—First Cost Moderate— Operating Expenses Low Architects, Engineers and Owners Are Invited to See the System Demonstrated at Our Store Kilbourne & Clark Co. 307 First Avenue South, Seattle Prints everything Jobbers of Electrical Machinery and Supplies. from a monthly Heating, Ventilating and Electrical Engineers. magazine to a microscopic menu =PHONES: Ind. 816; Main 8127 Telephones W. H. DENNIS . Finlay ® Robb MAIN ARCADE ENTRANCE vm> Tin, Sheet Iron and (Just Below the Marble Stairs) Furnace Workers METAL CEILINGS 1320 Arcade Way : * . .•/ Illustrated Catalogue I and Estimates on Ap plication. WHOLESALE and RETAIL Main 3704. 88 Lenora&2l05 1st Av. Seattle Ind. 1558 The Strongest Screened Lime in the Northwest The Best Local and Long Distance Telephone Service Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company 1104 Third Ave., Seattle. IF YOU NEED TECHNICAL HELP HULLUW rLAiHEn uLlluKb MONARCH WOOD FIBER PLASTER TRY AN AD IN THE CLASSIFIED Foot of Massachusetts Street, Seattle, Wash. COLUMN OF THE BUILDER, May 1. 1000. PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER 181 This journal is the pioneer in structural thinking class unanimously endorses the advertising field of the Greater North cause and stand ready to help it along west and zealously guards its field, not in every possible way. There are a great against legitimate publications which give many—the majority, probably—who are value received to the advertisers, such passive. They do not fully realize that improved roads really mean money in for example as the Western Architect, their pockets and consequently do not now preparing a special Seattle number follow up their congressmen and legisla and which this journal stands ready to tive representatives with demands for assist, but against a host of handbooks governmental action. If they did it would which have been characterized as "busi be a very short time before the roads ness leaches," the circulation of which is would show the effect and good results variously stated and the prices for space would follow. Poor roads undoubtedly variously "quoted to suit." The people impose a burden on all who consume the products grown in the rural sections and who endorse the proposition in one way brought to cities and towns by farmers. or another are generally and unwittingly An exchange puts it forcibly and truly taken advantage of. when it remarks, no study can be more Readers of this journal will remember convincing than that of the economic how it exposed the graft of one adver waste placed upon the shoulders of the tising solicitor who was misrepresenting 85,000,000 people of this land from the al Henderson Ryan in a privilege granted most criminally shameful condition of 2,- by him for the publication of a brochure 000,000 miles of road. Every pound of containing a number of his apartment farm products brought from rural sec houses and other buildings, and how tions to thickly populated oenters has Published Every Saturday at that advertising solicitor was unable to placed upon it a fictitious value, because 316-318 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wn. collect many of his accounts. Another it costs the farmer more to transport it Main 743, Ind. 743 instance is cited of the grafters who than it would cost him were the roads PORTLAND OFFICE: 1022 Board of Trade; worked up the Greater Seattle and were in passable condition. Everybody who telephone, Main 7476- denied by the courts the right to collect thinks must concede the evident fact that SPOKANE OFFICE: 512 Columbia Bldg.; a large number of accounts. if a farmer with two horses can draw but telephone, Main 2804. This journal was also directly respon 600 pounds to market in five hours, he sible for informing Cutter & Malmgren would save money if with one horse he TACOMA OFFICE: 772 Commerce St could haul 1,200 pounds in two hours. SUBSCRIPTION: $5.00 a year, payable in of the way in which a solicitor was using advance. their letter to coerce advertisers into tak Were the roads in good condition, he ing space in a book about to be publish could do that and more. Any saving in ADVERTISING: Rates on application. ed; the result was that Mr. Cutter threat hauling a ton of farm products would Entered as Second-Class Matter at the Post ened the solicitor with prosecution for bring a benefit, not alone to the farmer, Office at Seattle the misuse of his endorsement and stop but to the consumer, and if the product ped the undertaking at once. hauled each year was large, it is not hard Some people consider, especially the so to figure that the saving would be large. In its total this annual waste amounts Misuse of Endorsement licitor, that such interference is none of the Pacific Builder and Engineer's busi to an immense sum of money, so vast that it seems' astonishing that it should The business of this world would be ness, but it is, and every fair-minded man will appreciate, regardless of the be annually thrown away, simply because broughl to a. standstill if for one day those responsible for appropriations of the endorsements of commercial papers motives that he may attribute to such action, that the expose of crooked busi money to construct roads cannot be *ere withheld. Inventors would lose brought to a realization of their tremen much of their incentive if the United ness methods lies within the province of the press. The journal has been heartily dous importance. The time for an awak States did not put its seal upon their In ening is here, and the quicker the awak dentions. Lawmakers would be confined commended for its work along this line, and many instances are known where ening occurs the greater benefit the farm to demagogical harangues at the street er will enjoy, and as the farmer benefits corners if the populace did not approve money has been saved the prospective ad vertisers and others have escaped being so will all business be helped.—Stoves of their enactments. And editors would and Hardware Reporter. be roasted on grills of bankruptcy, fired held up. by their own puhlications, if public opin The misuse of the Metropolitan Build ion refused to be moulded by their edi ing company's endorsement of a booklet torial sentiments. covering the White building is the most Business Hints Xo one, then, denies the value of en recent case that has come to the atten Just how a good many men succeed in dorsements, in one form or another, and tion of the Pacific Builder and Engineer. business is the wonder. The Hustler the functions which they are called upon Upon inquiry it has been learned from tackled a new restaurant the other day. to perform In everyday husiness life. It some of the advertisers that they did not It had a good promising sign and the out is not to question their value, but their consider the medium as having any ad side looked all right. That was all. Ex misuse, thai erery one must keep on the vertising value whatever, but owing to cept for a good honest appetite the food alert to forestall. the representations of the solicitor they would not have been eaten, and for sev The editor has more respect for the made a contribution to the building com eral hours after the meal was partaken of Clever p< • of a man who forges the en pany, or in other words took space for there was very dee]) regret in large chunks dorsement to a chech and comes into cash "policy's sake." Nothing of this nature around this writer's desk, and the after that belongs to the other fellow than he was ever intended by the Metropolitan noon was not at all a pleasant one. The litis for the man who flaunts the endorse- people and they were surprised when remembrance of that toughest of tough ""'nt of a respected business man, whose this journal called their attention to the beef which didn't taste so very good after Patronage is desirable, and thereby se fact. it had lodged, lingered for a long time. cures business whicb is given entirely This is a proposition that should have Yet the man who runs the place probably for "policy's Bake." There is no harvest gone before the Builders' Exchange for thinks he is treating his customers all which falls so readily before the sickle investigation, and members would have right. If he doesn't make money, perhaps of "misused endorsements" as that which been correctly guided in their actions he'll wonder why. If he does it will be grows in the field of advertising where later. Advertisers occasionally refer another cf the strange cases. So in other it seems almost Impossible to eradicate these matters to their respective trade business. There is too often carelessness the husiness weeds. papers for advice, or take them up with and lack of knowledge of knowing just Since the Pacific Builder and Engineer the Adcraft association of their commun what your customers are getting. See to in its campaign against, such subtle ity; both are practical means of deter it that they are well treated; that no graft the Builders' Exchange of Seattle mining the value of such schemes. poor or shoddy goods are palmed off on and the Washington Chapter of the Amer them; that they are not sold an article ican Institute of Architects have gone on Poor Roads a Burden that they will take home and grumble record to the effect that members are not about, and let them know they can always to entertain any advertising propositions The question of good roads is one that have their money back if not suited and which have not first been investigated no one should tire reading about or work you will certainly find that you are trav and endorsed by the respective associa ing for. Like most movements it re eling over the road to success.—Stoves tions. quires a lot of agitating. The reading, and Hardware Reporter. 182 PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER Vol. 7, No. 18 FIG. 1. THE HOIST AND BINS AT THE MINE, GYPSUM, ALASKA Pacific Coast Gypsum Company, Owners DEPARTMENT OF CEMENT, LIME and PLASTER The Development of Alaska Gypsum, Mines and Mills ————————————_—. STAFF CORRESPONDENT Steamers en route from Puget Sound to Juneau and Skag staff, stucco and wall plaster, and in these forms it is fully way, or to the Copper river country, frequently call in at appreciated by the builder; in the raw and ground state it is Sitka on Baranof island, and continuing up, pass the island valuable as a fertilizer, when it is known to the trade as of Chichagof, lying next to the north. These boats, carrying "land plaster." merchandise, mining and railroad supplies to Alaska, often The Chichagof gypsum deposits are associated with beds find at Gypsum, on Chichagof island, return cargoes of rock cf cherty limestone lying in unconformity upon carboniferous from the remarkable deposits which have given the postoffice rocks; folds, shears and tilts are much in evidence. The and the stream on which it is located their names. government geologists are undecided as to whether the deposit Nine years ago these gypsum deposits, now annually visited belongs to the Permian or Triassic age. by a member of the U. S. Geological Survey, were one of the The beds strike easterly and westerly, turning at times unknown and undeveloped natural resources of that great to N. 70 degrees E. The dip is northerly and varies from 20 Northland. Four years ago the government expert on ce to 60 degrees. No walls have been encountered, although ments, limes and plaster gave neither Alaska credit for one at times a conglomerate formation has been taken as such. of the most important commercial deposits of gypsum, nor The deposit has been extensively developed by the Pacific Washington credit for the 150-ton mill whose boiling kettles Coast Gypsum company, of Tacoma. A 160-foot vertl< at Tacoma are daily contributing much toward the structural compartment shafl has been sunk and levels established at development of the Greater Northwest. These, then, are the 80 and 160 feet; the entire work being executed in gypsum. arguments for presenting at this time a comprehensive ac The accompanying map shows the major portion of the un count of the mines at Gypsum, Alaska, and the mill at Ta derground developments on the 160-foot level. The total coma, Washington. linear work of 1,200 feet exposes an area exceeding 450x225 Outcroppings on Gypsum creek, about a mile from the feet with a depth approximating 160 feet. The extent of the shore of Iyoukeen cove, a harbor lying next north of Fresh deposit is as yet undetermined. water bay on the east side of Chichagof island, led to the The overhead stoping system of mining has been inaugu discovery of the deposit and to location in 1900, when 20 full rated and stopes, the largest being 100x120, have been claims were staked off. opened up. The mine is practically dry and the mound holds This is the only known deposit in Alaska where gypsum is exceedingly well. The underground picture was taken in the found in sufficient quantity and cf proper quality so situated above mentioned stope and shows two Howells post augur with reference to transportation facilities, that it may be con drills at work; the absence of stulls should be noted. Twenty- sidered to have any commercial significance and to warrant fool pillars are left between stopes, or stalls, with air pas development and milling. sages to assist in ventilating the mine. The commercial value of the rock was apparent from the In breaking down the rock an effort, is made to produce first; its high percentage of calcium sulphate, running op to large tonnage coupled with workable sizes. Holes are bored 77.2 per cent with 22.3 per cent of water, placed it well to to a depth of 6 feet and charged with No. 2 dynamite. The the fore as a rock gypsum for plaster purposes. results of these shots are shown in the bottom of the stope. Gypsum in a calcined form is the essential constituent of The rock is drawn from the stopes through the typical May 1, 1900. PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER 183 mine-ore chutes into 20-foot Truax, end-dump cars which op erate over an 18-inch gauge track of 12-pound steel. Figure 2 shows chute, car, track and the operation of drawing down the gypsum. The cars are run direct on to one of the two ore compen sated cages operating in the 3-compartment shaft. The Orr & Simbaur hoist is rated at 40 h. p. and is supplied with steam from a Pennsylvania Boiler Works 60 h. p. boiler; coal is. used for fuel. The boiler house, hoist building and rock bin are shown in Figure 1. A little closer observation will also show a leaded mine car on its way from the ore cage over an elevated way to the single-cornpartment rock bin, having a capacity of L.500 tons. In addition to the underground equipment mentioned there is a Canton duplex, steam station pump which takes the seep age from the sump and forces it to the surface, where Gyp sum creek picks it up and carries it away to the sea. The surface develcpments at Gypsum consist of those shown in Figures 2 and 5; besides, there are a blacksmith :. 2. DRAWING THE GYPSUM FROM A CHUTE Mine of the Pacific Coasl Gypsum Company shop, and office, and the usual boarding house and bunk buildings. The rock bin at the mine discharges into five-ton double gable cars with automatic doors; there are six of these. The motive power is furnished by a 36-inch gauge, 12-ton saddle- tank Porter locomotive; both cars and engine were furnished by Phillips. Morrison & Company, Seattle. This rolling stock- operates over a 36-inch track with 30-pound rails. The total length of the track is 6500 feet; the grade up to the cargo bunkers is 2 per cent and up to the rock bin at the mine it is iy2 per cent. The storage capacity at the wharf bunkers is 1000 tons, which is being increased this season to 3000. The bunkers and all of the wharf subject to salt water borers are con •J », structed upon creosoted piles. The extension of the present bunker to treble its capacity will also provide for loading ships with a draft up to 25 feet. -nFIG. 3 ill-Till: OVERHEAr ^*D BTOPINGSYSTE» ' M IN THE MINK The storage represented by the rock bin and the bunk Pacific Coast Gypsum Company, Owners ers is but a small part of the total reserve which has been FIG. 4. MAP OF THE UNDERGROUND DEVELOPMENTS ON 160-FOOT LEVEL Pacific Coast Gypsum Company, Gypsum, Alaska 184 PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER Vol. 7, No*. 18. allowed to accumulate in the stopes and at the present time and satisfactory reduction of the plaster with corresponding amounts to fully 20,000 tons. fineness. The plaster mill of the Pacific Coast Gypsum company is A screw conveyor carries tlie ground, calcined gypsum located near the llth street bridge on the tide flats with both from the tube mill to the elevator which discharges it into water and rail transportation. The rock is brought down hopper bottom stock bins of 1000 tons capacity. from Alaska in cargo lots and the finished products are ship The stock bins discharge into a screw conveyor which ped out over the Northern Pacific railroad and by boat. empties into the boot of an elevator that lifts the product to The accompanying illustration, Figure 6, shows the plas- the mixer bin, capacity 50 tons. plaster for Victoria and Vancouver, B. C. The factory site The mixer bin discharges into the hoppers of two 5-spout Broughton mixers, where the charge is weighed and cor embraces about an acre, part of which is filled in. The build rectly proportioned in calcined gypsum, fiber (hair or wood ing is of standard mill construction, 150x130 feet, 3 stories as desired), and other ingredients, making up the composi high, and rests for the most part upon creosoted piles. tion for hard wall plaster. The Broughton macmnes From the hold of the ship the rock is raised by an matically and thoroughly mix the Formula ami at the proper time it is drawn off into closely woven, heavy jute bags, electric hoist to the third floor, weighed and distributed by weighing, when packed, 100 pounds. car, the same as used underground at the mine, to the rock The plaster of Paris is packed in the same manner as (he bins which have a total capacity of 3500 tons. hard wall plaster; while the land plaster is packed Si) pounds An endless rubber-belt conveyor takes tne rock from the in a sack, and the dental plaster goes into barrels containing 250 pounds each. Auxiliary to the machines used in the manufacture of the plaster are the wood fiber machine which shreds Ihe Cot tonwood sticks; and ihe hair picker which separates (he fibres and makes them easy to mix. The entile plant is motor-driven. The electrical installa tion consists of four motors, two Stanley and I wo Westing house. The energy is furnished by tlie Seattle-Tacoma Power company. One motor drives ihe wood fiber machine and the machinery connected with raw grinding: one drives the agi tators in the kettles, the air compressor and ihe elevating machineiy which delivers the product to the stock bins; one drives the tube mill elevator in connection with same, and the fourth one drives the mixers, the hair picker and Ihe ma chinery conveying the calcined gypsum from tne stock to the mixer bin. The plaster as it is shipped is sampled and tested for setting properties; thus the quality ol' every carload is checked FIG. 5. THE WHARF AND lit'XKERS, GYPSUM, ALASKA Pacific Coasl Gypsum Company, Owners bins to the grinding department. The rubber belt is 24 inches wide by 80 feet between centers; it is in turn fed by a canvas cross conveyer of the same width, but 55 feet be tween centers. All the conveying as well as the elevating equipment in the mill was rurnisned by the Stephens-Adamson Manufacturing company, Aurora, Illinois. The grinding is completed in two stages. The first stage is accomplished by a Butterwcrth & Lowe cracker, having a capacity of from 12 to 16 tons per hour; this grinder re duces the rock to about a ^-inch size. From the cracker the rock drops into the hoppers of the two vertical Sturte- vant rock-emery mills, which finish the reduction. The rated I'Mt. g. VIEW OF THE MILL AT TACO capacity of the Sturtevant mills is 8 tons each per hour. WATERFROXT The grinding finished, the raw product is elevated to a Pacific <'oast Gypsum Compi 1-compartment kettle bin of 25 tons capacity, or an equiva lent of about three kettle charges. The plaster when mixed with sand is prepared to take on a The kettles are the regular 10-foot, 4-flue type manu set in two hours. factured by Butterworth & Lowe. They are set with the The mill contains some special features, one of the most same firm's coal burning furnaces and fronts which have noteworthy of which is the regrinding accomplished bv the been adapted for burning fuel oil (oil is heated by steam gen tube mill, the first and only installation of tlie kind in anv erated from water); the oil is atomized by air previously com plaster mill in the United States. pressed and forced through coils in the flues of the kettles. The company manufactures all the products mentioned it takes about two hours and 40 minutes for a charge and markets them in every part of the Greater Northwest, to calcine completely, reaching a temperature of 387 degrees including British Columbia and Alaska. F. when it comes to the second settle. Complete calcination The operating force, including administration, consists of is known to the expert calciner by the physical appearance 45 men, about equally distributed between mine and mill. of the batch and at the proper time he discharges it into a 2- The plaster products of the company are meeting with compartment masonry hot-pit with concrete bottoms; each much success in the territory and plans are now under way pit is provided with 3 gates through which the hot calcium for increasing the mill capacity at Tacoma to 225 tons per sulphate discharges into a screw conveyor which delivers it day, and for building a 2-kettle mill at Vancouver, B. C. to the boot of the elevator that raises it to the regrinding The officers of the Pacific Coast Gypsum company are: bin. Richard Vaeth, president; S. A. Perkins, vice-president; W. R. From the regrinding bin the hydrated sulphate is fed au Nichols, 2nd vice-president and general manager; and A. F. tomatically by a screw feed into a tube mill, 6x20 feet; this Albertson, secretary and treasurer. T. H. George, C. E. and M. tube mill is the same as is used in the final reduction of the E., is superintendent at Gypsum, Alaska; D. C. Stapledon is su clinker in Portland cement mills, and ensures a rapid, uniform perintendent at the mill, Tacoma. May 1, 1909. PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER 185 for some time in charge of the office of the association, will probably be retained THE YEAR BOOK AT WORK as assistant secretary. Salient points in the work of the asso Used as Reference, Special Circulation and Advertising Capital ciation for the past year were given in the Year Book edition of this journal un der date of March 27, Part I. It may be of interest to some of the journal, but not one of those who belong The association has been most cour advertisers who took space in the Year to its "honor roll," that is to say, those teous to the press of the city, and at the Book of the Pacific Builder and Engineer who have been advertising with it from special entertainment given the editorial to know how others are using it, in what the beginning: writers and members of the executive light it is held and how some of the ad- "* * * We have no hesitancy in re staffs cf the various papers of the city on January 21, 1909, the directors of the isements attracted attention. To this peating to you that we think it. is a low- end the editor gives below a few of the policies cf the city press assured the asso down way to treat one of your oldest ad ciation of their support. best ideas and expressions that have vertisers. It seems to the writer that it drifted into the office. was up to you to get around and see your A commendable step in the organization advertisers. While your Year Book may of the association's work was taken on February 1st, when headquarters were A CONSTANT REFERENCE not have any particular value as an ad vertising medium, we are under the im dished in room 4, suite 802-820 Cen An active firm of architects, Aberdeen, tral building, Seattle. This office is in Washington, write under date of April pression that it has, or you would not be connection with the chamber of com 24th, ordering copies and commenting around soliciting from people that do not merce, civic, commercial and professional upon tlie Year Book: patronize you only once a year. associations which have secured different "Enclosed find 50 cents in stamps, for •'* * * yye consider these special rooms in the same suite. numbers a sort of a 'hold-up' game, but which kindly forward us two copies your This move was made to concentrate in _"< ar Book. The issues we received have still it must be admitted that they are better advertising mediums than the ordi one locality most of the associations l taken by the contractors here. We which have charge cf semi-official busi find it very useful to have a copy in our nary number, and we prefer to be held ness, and it undoubtedly will tend to private office and one in our public office up rather than miss an opportunity of strengthen the influence cf all of the lor reference, the number being the most. advertising in a special number." associations concerned. One result of ;;l index of building materials and this cnange has been a greatly increasing DISPLAY WHICH COMMANDS initios we have ever had placed be- ATTENTION amount cf effice work, mainly the matter fore us—a very important compilation iving information to inquirers about the outside architect who is often in The Paraffine Paint company comments industrial conditions in Seattle. Owing to need of information as to up-to-date mate- favorably upon the Year Book in general the number of visitors expected this sum rials and specialties. and is held by a clever advertising stunt: mer, this phase of the association's work "Yours faithfully, "Gentlemen: I received your Annual will be even larger than the trustees can "TROUTMAN & LEATHER." and have been very much interested in now anticipate, and in all probability the statistics that you have compiled. some different office arrangements will be "There is one matter, however, that 1 sary. A USEFUL PUBLICATION ;ni particularly interested in, and that is The lett< r from a layman which is quot- the advertisement of the Electrical Spe < d below continues in the same strain as cialties company, in which you apparently S. C. Irwin that from Troutman & Leather. A. L. made an error and put in a slip to call S. C. Irwin, of Irwin Brothers, archi- Lynch, Port Orchard, writes: attention to the fact. I am inclined to be , Fittsburg, has opened an office in "The Year Book was certainly a very lieve that this is a new advertising dodge the Chamber of Commerce building, Ta- good iss.ie, and it seems to me a very and one that is well worth the while. I ccma. Mr. Irwin has been in the Greater useful one to your clients. It looked well have had at least half a dozen people Northwest about eighteen months and and contained a lot of information that speak to me about that ad, and I thought during that period has spent some time was interesting to me—a layman. It if this was something new and originat at Ellensburg, Washington. seems like a big task to collect and ar ed with you that I would like to get in Air. Irwin pursued his studies at the range till the data, keep it well balanced on it. It certainly did call attention to Western University, Pittsburg, and fin and ;tt the same time make it attractive. the ad more than anything else, for I ished off at the University of Michigan. Yon seem to have accomplished all this find everybody turned over that slip to His courses embraced general lines of in an acta ptable manner and I wish you find out what the mistake was, reading engineering with electives in architect all the success that your painstaking ef- the advertisement clear through. ural and structural work. forts deserve." "Kindly let me know if this is permis For some years he was associated with sible, and if so I am going to have you Eastern firms, and during one cf these SPECIAL CIRCULATION make a few 'errors' for me. * * * engagements he had one piece of work The large ord< r placed by the manufac Wishing you continued success in your which included 94 warehouses. It is this turers el ihe "Golden Gate" Portland ce publication, we are experience that has made him a special ment, as well as those placed by others "Yours very truly, ist in that line. requiring a large number made it neces "THE PARAFFINE PAINT CO., The firm of Irwin Brothers has been sary for the publisher to arrange for this "By Wm. Laurens Rhoades." carrying on an independent business for by special permission from those who the past six or seven years, and still would naturally have received copies of operates under that name. S. C. Irwin's the issue. The following is a copy of the office, Tacoma, is entirely separate from letter sent out by the Pacific Portland the Eastern office. Cement company, Con.: EXPONENTSOF PROGRESS The Elks' hall at Ellensburg, Washing ".Mr. .1. F. Dowing, ton, is from Mr. Irwin's plans, as is also "Ashland, Oregon. the new Carnegie library, the contract "Dear Sir: We are arranging with the Manufacturers' Association of for which was recently let to W. O. publishers of the Pacific Builder and En Seattle Ames. He has under way four houses gineer, to mail you a copy of their Year for Charley Flummerfelt and one for T. Hook. At the annual meeting of the Manufac F. Nelson, all of Ellensburg, and has "On pages 11 and 136 you will find some turers' Association of Seattle held at the been commissioned to prepare drawings 'Golden Gate' data, that may be of inter Hotel Lincoln, April 17, 1909, the retiring for a residence for Link Palmer in the est to you. president, John W. Efaw, presented an same city. "We hope that you will get your share exhaustive report covering the activities of the season's business, and all indica of the association during the past year, It is a good deal better to be "done" tions seem to point to its being a busy 1908-09. The regular order of business once in a while than to go through life one." was put through and the following officers selfishly, never trying to help others, elected: never thinking higher than self. There <)F ADVERTISING VALUE Oliver T. Erickson, president; A. F. are men who take advantage of those A letter which was not very pleasant to McEwan, first vice-president; Frank A. who endeavor to extend the helping hand receive, but which at the same time gives Ghiglione, second vice-president; F. R. but they are comparatively few and gen the Year Book a creditable standing, came Graff, treasurer; and A. T. Timmerman, erally "get theirs" sooner or later.—The from one of the old-time patrons of the secretary. Richard Hayter, who has been Hustler. 186 PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER Vol. 7, No. 18. the same time, or as either, independent ly and entirely; and may be converted INTERIOR INSTALLATIONS from one to the other within five seconds. These features, if practical in their ope The Modern Kitchen and the Range ration, and they are guaranteed to be, are just what every kitchen demands in the solution of its four most important improvement in this line. There is, how problems: ease and rapidity of cooking The modern kitchen occupies an unique food, economy of fuel, durability, and place in the architecture of today. It is ever, a stove now being placed on the market, backed by an unqualified guaran temperature regulation in summer and a radical departure from the generous winter. Dutch kitchens where much of the family tee from the manufacturers who have es life was lived, and which were developed tablished reputations both for the manu Experience with gas burners concedes in an effort to economize fuel. But social facture of stoves and financial soundness, to them the best solution of the first conditions and the "Autocrat at the that, to put it plainly, is an "eye-opener." problem. To conserve and utilize the Breakfast Table" have so changed in The writer ran across this stove a short entire heat units of any fuel is well-nigh their demands upon domestic service and time ago during a demonstration by the impossible, but it is one cf the para methods of cooking that now the kitchen Z. C. Miles & Piper company, at First mount problems of industrial economics has become the "private office" of the avenue and Spring street, Seattle, and and is today receiving world-wide atten home. Consequently it is greatly reduced found another example of making one tion. In a coal stove much heat is wasted in size to what is professionally called a square foot of floor surface do the duty in warming up and cooling off the stove; kitchenette, resembling somewhat the of two. with the ordinary gas burner, considera ble escapes into the room or up the flue. modern galley. Aside from a labyrinth This stove, known to the trade as the of drawers, bins and pigeonholes, there To utilize this wasted heat of the gas, Champion Interchangeable range, is a thus red icing the amount of gas required are closed-in spaces for tools and un i nd patented invention en which the sightly dishes. for a given work, is where the Champion Champion people, of Cleveland, have been ranee set ms i rue to its name. The flcor space is reduced to a mini working for a number of years, and which mum to save steps more than space, and • several trials is placed on the mar The reader will note that outwardly the any change which will reduce physical ket as a product of 1909. The illustra e differs very little from any of the effort is welccme. Tools and supplies tions give one a clear idea of the appear- standard coal and wood stoves. The gas have been pretty well taken care of. but of the range and some details in burners may or may not play directly with the demands for both a gas and its censtraction and operation follow. upon the utensil, and also a regular coal range with their attendant advan The function of the range is two-fold, stove pi]e is provided to produce draft tages, there has seemed little hope for Ing as a coal, wood and gas stove at and carry away smoke and fumes. The gas conies in under the kitchen Iloor and is piped up lo Ihe fuel-box burn ers at A, the oven at 15, the broiler at C, •and additional burners at 4 and 6. The top of the range shows the gas burners at 1. -. I, and 6 with lids removed; and :'» and 5 with the lids on. With burner;; 1 and 2 going, and draft to flue closed the waste heat is carried across under the other lids, around under the oven and then out. These two burners will do the work of four open ones and with the assistance of the auxiliary burner B and the heat spreader the oven can be brought to the required temperature for baking. Turn on now the two reserve burners at 4 and 6 and yon will have four burners heating six lids, the oven in baking con dition and the top warming closet sup plied with plenty of heat. With the introduction of the broiling burner at C while the baking is going on in the oven comes another valuable fea ture. The broiler takes the flame direct and shields whatever may be baking be low; or if it is desired to raise the.tem perature very quickly in the oven the broiler may be removed, and the flame temporarily used at C, assists that at B in developing the heat. To convert the gas range into a coal range the burners at B, C, 4 and 6 are turned off, the burners at 1 and 2 are released and they drop back into a pock et of the range and the gas is automatic ally cut off. The firebox is now ready for a coal or wood fire, which may be started and at the same time, if it is de sired to use gas, the other burners may be relighted, or could have remained burning. The range weighs 350 pounds and is constructed of No. 18 Wellsville polished steel on the outside with another thick ness of steel inside and a lining of heavy asbestos board between. The body is exactly like that of the standard coal or wood steel ranges. There are two types: one designed for eight months of gas burning and four of coal during the year, and another designed for the opposite ratio of gas and coal. The price of this range is between that of a first-class gas range and that of a THE CHAMUION RANGE, SHOWING WORKING PARTS high-grade coal range. May 1. 1909. PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER 187 wood preservation in the Northwest will no longer be hampered by the high price cf oil. and the demand for treated tim ber will undoubtedly increase very rap idly. In view of the excellent market for coal-tar creoscte in this vicinity, a Spo kane concern is preparing to manufacture this oil. This firm obtains coal tar from local gas plants, and by redistilling it, produces creosote and pitch. BOOK REVIEW All Books d Below Sent Post paid upon Receipt of Price. AERIAL FLIGHT—VOL. II—\ERO- DONETICS.—By P. AV. Lancaster. IX "an Nl,s! 208 illus trations. 8vo. Cloth. $6.00 net. The present, volume, which has just been published, is the second and con cluding portion of the author's work on Aerial Flight. It deals with tne main tenance of equilibrium, with the phenom enon of soaring, and with other kindred matters. In the main the present volume is a narrative of the author's own investiga tions, both theoretical and experimental: it nclndes, however, a detailed account of most of the previous work of import ance available at. the time of writing. The treatment is direct, and the var ious arguments are presented in as sim ple a form as has been found possible. The mathematical work is perhaps some what more advanced than that employed in Vol I., but the results stand apart from the methods by which they are ob tained, and consequently the conclusions may be followed by the non-mathemati cal reader without difficulty. HS&TTEP1^ HEATING AND LIGHTING ANNUAL.—1909. Many tables. 4to. Cloth PrlcPailS25r datSd pages for memoranda. A trade reference both for plumb THE CHAMPION RANGE AS A FINISHED PRODUCT ers, sanitary, heating and lighting engi neers, builders, merchants, contractors last eighteen years. City engineers no and architects, containing much valuable Wood Preservation in the Northwest information. E. T. ALLEX* longer think of putting in wood-block pavement unless the blocks have been The practice of wood preservation is (MM."lu'IX\v' A^? J^^FORCED CON- spreading so rapidly throughout the carefully injected with a preservative. »«fii 7Wi LT' Webb and w- H- Gibson. 236 illustrations. Svo. Half leather. 450 Northwest, that the state of Washington, The value of this work in wood preser pag« s. Price, $3.00. alone, now uses approximately 4,000,000 vation can not be over-estimated, for it gallons of coal tar creosote per annum means a saving of thousands of dollars A working manual of approved Ameri for this purpose. for the people who use large quantities can practice in the selection, testing and The growth of timber preservation in of material, and a prolonging of life of the structural use of building stone, brick, Washington has been most phenomenal. country's rapidly diminishing timber sup cement and other masonry materials' Twelve years ago, there were only one- ply. Because of the importance of the with complete instruction in the various fourth of a million gallons of creosote work, the government through the United modern structural applications of con used for the purpose of intercepting the States Forest Service is doing every crete and concrete steel. ravages of teredos, or ship worms, and thing in its power to show the economic wood destroying fungi. Today, however, advantages of treating timber, in order that its practice will continue to grow as ixc'U\vY 1\,,,'?1XKSS OF ENGINEER- most of the piles used in the docks upon ••mvi , 1 w- CONTRACTING—Charles E. Puget Sound are treated with creosote it has in the past. fornr»,ti«th numerous forms and blanks ror practical use. 8vo. Cloth io prevent destruction by teredos. Un Because of the high freight charges on Price, $2.50 net. 172 pages. treated Douglas fir piling is destroyed commodities shipped from the East, local by teredos in from six months to two creosoting works have been purchasing Containing: The relations between years' time, but if properly injected with their oil in England. The oil shipped the engineer and contractor. Ordinary creosote, piles will last twenty years or from England comes in steel drums, con forms cf contracts. Ordinary Specifica more. taining 110 gallons each. These drums tions and Contracts. Inspection of Engi Railroads and traction companies have cannot be returned, and it is, therefore, neering Work. Estimating Materials and joined in the good work, and are treating necessary to sell them to local users at the Cost of Engineering Structures. Bid their cross ties with this oil to prevent their own price, which is usually consid ding on Engineering Work. Organization decay. Douglas fir railroad ties, erably below cost. In order to obtain of Contract Work. Essentials of Contract untreated, must be replaced every five oil more cheaply, one of the creosoting Law. or six years, but when properly treated companies on Puget Sound is having a with creosote, they may be expected to large tank steamer, with a capacity of 1,250,000 gallons, built for the sole pur "Golden Gate".Portland cement is being pose of bringing creosote from London. used in large quantities for the new curb 'District Forester, Portland, Oregon. When this steamer is put into service, work on Main. Washington and other parallel and intersecting streets, Seattle. PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER Vol.7, No. 18. employe shall not be held to have as office and to save time for the civil en sumed the risks of his employment in any gineers and surveyors who are submit LEGAL DEPARTMENT case where the violation by such common ting plats for approval, the following J. H. LONGFELLOW, LL. B. carrier cf any statute enacted for the safety of employes contributed to the points should be observed: injury cr death of such employe. "1. A complete traverse of the field Sec. 5. That any contract, rule, regu notes, covering survey of section, show ing error of closure, and how error has FEDERAL EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY LAW lation, or device whatsoever, the purpose An Act Relating to the Liability of Common or intent of which shall be to enable any been balanced. Carriers by Railroad to Their Employes ccmmon carrier to exempt itself from "2. Traverse Of section lines deduced in Certain Ca any liability created by this Act, shall to from above. Be it enacted by the senate and house that extent be void; Provided, That in "3. Traverse of exteriors of plat. cf representatives of the United States of any action brought against any such com mon carrier under or by virtue of any of "4. Sketch map of section to scale of America in congress assembled: That 400 feet to one inch, showing— every common carrier by railroad while the provisions of this Act, such common engaging in commerce between any of carrier may set cff therein any sum it "(a) Co-ordinates of all section and • he several states or territories, or be has contributed or paid to any insurance, quarter-section corners, center of sec tween any of the states and territories, relief benefit, or indemnity that may have tion, and plat corners. or between the District of Columbia and been paid to the injured employe or the "(b) Courses and distances of all lines any of the states or territories, or be person entitled thereto on account of the shown. injury or death for which said action "(c) Method of subdivision, showing tween the District of Columbia or any of was brought. the states or territories and any foreign how center and other inferior lines have nation or nations, shall be liable in dam Sec. 6. That no action shall be main been deduced. ages to any person suffering injury while tained under this Act unless commenced "(d) Indicate government corners he is employed by shich carrier in such within two years from the day the cause of action accrued. found. commerce, cr. in case of the death of "A full description of all corners found, such employe, to his or her personal rep Sec. 7. That the term "common carrier" reset or relocated, must be given. The resentative, for the benefit of the surviv as used in this Act shall include the re ceiver or receivers or other persons or tracing offered tor record should carry a ing widow or husband and children of proper certificate." such employe; and, if none, then of such corporations charged with the duty of employe's parents; and. if none, then cf the management and operation of the the next of kin dependent upon such em business of _ common carrier. An Opportunity for Surveyors ploye, for such injury or death resulting Sec. 8. That nothing in this Act shall Frequently the Pacific Builder and en in whole or in part from the negligence be held to limit the duty or liability of gineer is called upon to furnish a new en of any of the officers, agents, or employes common carriers or to impair the rights gineer in the territory with information of such carrier, or by reason of any de cf their employes under any other Act as to where an Instrument could be bad fect or insufficiency, due to its negligence, or Acts of Congress, or to affect the prose for temporary work, or if there are any- in its cars, engines, appliances, machin cution of any pending proceeding or right good buys in second hand instruments. of action under the Act of Congress enti ery, track, roadbed, works, boats, wharves In this issue a bargain in a compara or other equipment. tled "An Act relating to liability of com mon carriers in the District of Columbia tively new Keuffel & Esser transit is be and territories, and to common carriers ing offered for sale in the Classified de Sec. 2. That every common carrier by partment, and the Journal would call the railroad in the territories, the District of engaged in commerce between the States and between the States and foreign na attention of engineers and surveyors to it. Columbia, the Panama Canal zone, or oth It is worth investigating. er possessions of the United States shall tions to their employes," approved June be liable in damages to any person suffer llth,,' 1906. Boosterfestogrophs ing injury while he is employed by such Approved, April 22, 1908. carrier in any of said jurisdictions, or, The Caldwell, Idaho, commercial club in case of the death of such employe, MASTER AND SERVANT—RISKS has undertaken to raise $6,000 as a pub to his or her personal representative, for ASSUMED licity fund for advertising the A.-Y.-P. ex position. the benefit of the surviving widow or hus "Beyond the ordinary risks of his em band and children of such employe; and, ployment, a servant does not assume any The Medford, Oregon, commercial club if none, then of such employe's parents; risk, except by express agreement, or has memorialized Congress asking an ap and, if none, then of the next of kin de where he must be presumed to have done propriation Of $1,000,000 for Crater Lake pendent upon such employe, for such in so from the fact that he continued in the park improvements and $100,000 for a jury or death resulting in whole or in employment, though the extraordinary new federal building. part from the negligence of any of the danger was known to him, or was so obvi The taxation committee of the Seattle officers, agents, or employes of such car ous that he must be presumed to have Chamber of Commerce, after an investi rier, or by reason of any defect or in had knowledge of it." gation pertaining to the collection and sufficiency, due to its negligence, in its Schroder vs. Montana Iron Works, disbursement of city and county taxes, cars, engines, appliances, machinery, (Mont.) 100 Pac. 619. announces.that with proper management track, roadbed, works, boats, wharves, or $70,000 can be saved for King county on other equipment. state taxes. Sec. 3. That in all actions hereafter CARRIERS—BURDEN OF PROOF. The Boise, Idaho, commercial club 1ms brought against any such common car "In an action for injuries received by a asked the citizens of Boise and Idaho to rier by railroad under or by virtue of any i assenger, caused by the breaking of an name some catchy phrase to be used as of the provisions of this Act to recover axle under the tender, and the partial B slogan. A cash prize of $2f>.00 will be damages for personal injuries to an em derailing of the coach in which plaintiff given to the person Bending in the best ploye, or where such injuries have re was riding, it will be presumed that the combination of words to the advertising sulted in his death, the fact that the em accident was caused by the negligence of committee up to June 16. ploye may have been guilty of contribu the carrier, and the burden of proof is The Bellingham Chamber of Commerce : tory negligence shall not bar a recovery, on the carrier to rebut such presump has employed Charles Adams, a local en but the damages shall be diminished by tion." gineer, to make a map of the tidelands the jury in proportion to the amount of Pate vs. Columbia & P. S. R. Co., surrounding Bellingham, showing the negligence attributable to such employe; (Kash.) 1100 Pac. 324. names of the owners and the prices at Provided, That no such employe who which they are held. This is being done may be injured or killed shall be held to Instructions to County Engineers with a view to securing manufacturing have been guilty of contributory negli In the organization of the office of coun I hints in the future. gence in any case where the violation ty engineer, especially where a large vol The Seattle commercial club has gone 1 by such common carrier of any statute ume of work is regularly passing through, on record as favoring a with open exposi enacted for the safety of employes con it becomes imperative that some system tion every day in the week during Ihe tributed to the injury or death of such and order should be recognized and fol entire time of the fair. The club has employe. lowed. To this end County Engineer issued a pocket sized folder containing Sec. 4. That in any action brought Morrison, of King county, Washington, valuable statistics concerning Seattle, as against any common carrier under or by has promulgated the following instruc to population, finances, municipal plants, virtue of any of the provisions of this tions which may prove equally valuable and so forth. There is a strong demand Act to recover damages fcr injuries to, to others in similar offices: for the folders, as they are the right size or the death of, any of its employes, such "In order to facilitate the work of this for mailing. May 1, 1909. PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER 189 the entire plant of the Dupont Powder Works at the new town of Dupont with TRADE and PERSONAL FACTORS window guards. The Taccma Table company and the Michigan Furniture company have merg ed under the name of the latter, with Seattle Notes ginning this week is the Contractors' Sup $150,000 capital, and will manufacture fur ply company, 428 Mohawk building. J. B. niture in a new shop being erected at P. W. Smith reports the Wainwright Small, secretary and manager. This com South Thirtieth and Ferry streets. galvanized steel curb bar is being in pany sells earth and rock handling ma The Smith Cement Brick company will stalled in the street improvements now chinery, steam shovels, graders, dump soon begin the manufacture of a new under way on Fifteenth avenue northeast carts, concrete mixers, wheelbarrows and glazed enameled cement brick in all et al., East Aloha et al., Twenty-third ave the like. colors. nue et al.. Thirty-second avdnue et al., W. H. Galvani, civil engineer, of Port Jackson street et al., Taylor avenue et al., Notice of Business Changes Olympic place et al., and all of Moore's land, and associated with W. S. Barstow & Co., Failing building, has been ap University addition, Seattle. Also in the Seattle Engineering company, formerly Alder Btreet (^ al. improvements in Ta pointed by Governor Benson as delegate from Oregon to attend the second annual in the Colman building, has taken a com coma. and in all of the curbing now being National Peace Conference which meets modious suite of offices at 721-723 Central done in Aberdeen. It will take 40,000 feet at Chicago, May 3-6. building, Seattle. or nearly eight mi' rs to complete Patrick J. Donorue, architect, has open these contracts. During the past two Nott-Atwater company is the new style, ed a new office at 604 Crary building, Se years there has been installed approxi- formerly the Nott-Davis company, 40 attle. !y 20 miles of the Wainwright bars First street, dealers in belting, roofing in the Puget Sound country. The Anderson Map company has moved and mill supplies. from the Epler block to suite 18 Whitney The Isaacson Iron & Machine Works building, corner Third and Marion, Se have made extensive preparations to meet Spokane Notes attle. the demands of the canning, logging and milli u. This company makes to Blair-Meagher company have been J. A. Mclntyre, plumber, has removed awarded the plumbing and heating on from S. 5 Stevens street to S. 110 How order and carries in stock complete log ard street, Spokane. gers' and mill supplies and tools, such the Wentworth-Child & Day building on as blocks, hooks, swivels, and so forth. Division street. Lavan, Mueller & Co. have moved from An unusually good season is anticipated. 492 Arcade Annex to new headquarters at J. F. Bolster, plastering contractor, has 2000 Western avenue, Seattle. The Ideal Heating company has re returned from a seven weeks' trip to Cal ceived an important contract for a two- ifornia. Word has been received at this office pipe hot water system to be installed in to change the address of C. L. Simons Samuel Hill's residence. This is a rather C. B. Pride, hydraulic engineer, has en from 956 20th avenue to 2551 Queen Anne large contract and the system used was larged his quarters in the Columbia build avenue, Seattle. particular! ed. The company has ing. Runte Bros., formerly of 765 Lakeview moved office and shop to larger quarters H. A. Dunkle is the local manager of avenue, Seattle, are now located at 3210 at 505 Railroad avenue south. The force the Independent Asphalt & Paving com West 35th street. has been increased from four to twelve pany, with offices in the Sherwood build The International Contract company skilled mechanics. ing. have moved from 737 New York block to Davis & Halbert have added to their Guy H. Heberling and R. J.Zell have 501 Central building, Seattle. upholsterii decorating line, new joined the partnership of the Federal En The Paraffine Paint company, Spokane, machinery and appliances for interior gineering & Blueprint company at 220 has moved from 210 Lindelle block to 829 hardwood finish and decorating. Their Wall street. Nettie avenue. latest work in this line are the residences Daniel Hanlon of Inland Heating & Ven The Morse & Briggs Lumber company of Geo. II. Parker, Adam Hemrich and C. tilating company, 6 Bernard street, has of Portland, Oregon, are now located at C. Chittenden, Sea: patented an improved boiler, which is at- Front and Hull streets. Former address A. F. Russell, heating contractor, after ting considerable attention. 410 Board of Trade building. S. E. Erickson company have moved a month's service on jury duty, is back G. B. Pratt of Portland is managing the I at his office anxious to make up from 1004 South State street to 424 South new Spokane branch of the Byron Jack- K street, Tacoma. lost time iron Works, manufacturers of pumps. Byron Jackson Iron Works have opened The Washington Faultless Finishing office in Mutual Life H. G. Richey, author of technical ref- company, Mr. Robeson, manager, former ice books, has a temporary office at ly at 406 Arcade Annex, is now at 403 b dlding, from wh- /ill look after r ss in pumps, 1> Golden Gate block, from where he su Kit el building, Seattle. dredg< s i inns of machinery. A. pervises the construction work on the C. T. Diamond, architect, has changed C. Bark is local m Federal building. his office in the Lindelle block, Spokane, The Seattle Metal Ceiling company has to room 326. shipped ; hio, 60 squares of Tacoma Notes F. T. Crowe & Co. are about to move metal plates to be used in Sampson & into their fine new brick waehouse on [en's new hotel building just com The Western Marble company is pre Railroad avenue, Spokane. plete d at Cordova. Alaska. paring a fine exhibit for the A.-Y.-P. ex The New Era Paint & Varnish com position. The company deals in Alaska pany has moved from its old location at ble and its exhibit will be constructed 172 First street to larger and more con Portland Notes from this product, which will be placed venient quarters at 187 and 189 Second in the Alaska building at the fair. The street. P. ('. Davis, representing Gladding, design is one of great beauty and will oc- Bean & ' Yancisco, was a space about 16x16x15 feet. a visitor Ice of the Pa Northwest Hardware Dealers' and cific Builder and Engineer last week. The Wells Construction company, Metal Associations Gladding, McBean & Company have fur which is just finishing the bridge on Co nished the beautiful while enamel I lumbia avenue for the city and is now At the annual meeting of the Northwest COtta facing on the new Meier & Frank working on the Pacific avenue viaduct, Hardware Dealers' & Metal Association, building at Sixth and Alder streets. J. has taken a contract from the Milwaukee held at the commercial club in Tacoma, C. Bayer & Company, at Front and Market railway to extend the Pacific avenue via a number of routine matters were dis B, ate the local representatives. duct for 203 feet across the railway prop cussed and reports of committees on the The Pacific Brick & Marble company, erty. This will make a viaduct over 400 year's work heard and the following offi 402 Corbett building, with factory at St. long. It is concrete, reinforced, and cers elected for the ensuing year: T. H. Johns, is one of the new advertisers in will he covered by 60 feet of earth. The Honeyman of Portland, president; Leo the Builder and Engineer. G. Chaloupka Wells Construction company will also Schwabacher of Seattle, lst vice-presi is secretary. Tlie products include "El- start this week on the Yakima avenue dent; R. R. Gill of Spokane, 2nd vice- bram" ami cement brick, "Elbram" sani culvert. president; E. F. Messinger of Tacoma, tary baseboard and marble slabs. The Tacoma Ornamental Iron Works treasurer. The secretary is to be select Another new Portland advertiser be has taken the contract and is fitting up ed by the executive committee. 30 PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER Vol. 7, No. 18. THE MORAN COMPANY Manufacturers of LUMBER, BOILERS, TANKS, STANDP1PES, IRON AIND BRASS CASTINGS, STEEL ROOPS, BRIDGES, GIRDERS, PUMPS, GASOLINE ErNGIISES, HOISTING EINGIINES, PILE DRIVERS, GALVANIZING.! Coppersmith Work in All Its Branches Seattle, Wash, Representative of TAYLOR IRON & STEEL CO. THE BUCYRUS CO. AL. H. HOFFMAN I CONTINENTAL CAR & EQUIP SALES AGENT AND DEALER IN MENT CO. THE HAYWARD CO. Contractors, Railroad and Mine ALEXANDER MILBURN CO. THE W. BINGHAM CO. Supplies and Equipment ROCHESTER & PITTSBURG COAL COMPANY Warehouse on Northern Pacific OFFICE: 328 HUTTON BLDG. DEARBORN DRUG & CHEMICAL Ry. and Spokane Inter COMPANY national Ry. SPOKANE, WASH. CHAS. W. HILL Bell Long Distance Telephone Contractors' SAN FRANCISCO Spokane: Equipment Cor. Railroad and American Stevens Hoisting Engines and Derricks Seattle: In Stock 109 Main Street 1012-13 American Bank Bldg., Seattle Mills at Tacoma, Wa_sh. ^cstem Marb/e CQ Wholesale "Dealers in _> ALASKA, MARBLES The Only Up-to-date, Fully Equipped Mills in the Northwest Look at our Alaska Marble in the following buildings, and judge of its quality and character for yourself. MOORE THEATRE STOKES' TEA ROOM ARCADE BUILDING CENTRAL BUILDINGG SUTHERLAND LIQUOR CO. WASHINGTON ANNEX AMERICAN BANK BUILDING PERRY HOTEL ThelGo-Vemor's Mansion. Olympia. Wash. Estimates, Trices, Samples Furnished on Application The Ballard Drop Forge Co. " t!l"£SZf££ Phone Bollard 32 1145 64th Ave. N.W.. Bollard. Wash. May 1, 1909. PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER 31 Fort Ward on Bainbridge island. Thirty new buildings are io be constructed. BRIDGES The county commissioners awarded the contract for repairs to Whitney Bridge No. 148A, to James McBurney & Co., for $2,- The improvement will cost BIDS OPEN 1300,000. Under this head will be found each Fire Hose— STEAM RAILROADS week abstracts of contracts to be let, Bids Will be received by the board of Th n Pacific R. R. Co. has filed giving date bids will be opened, and public works until May 7th for furnishing 0.0x300 ft. on piers the issue said notice appeared in the hose, etc. 1 and 2 to cost $150,000 each. The Pacific Pacific Builder and Engineer. peering Co., 75 W. Washington st., has Paving— contract. Tl ict for asphalt paving on Date of Date of s awarded to A. R. Gib PUBLIC ROADS nig. Publication. son, 212 21s1 ave. N., for $26,234.45 and $2,260.75 for maintenance. The board of county commissioners will - Seattle, Wn Mpl. supplies.... 5- 1 Contract for grading and paving on 23rd receive bids up to May 11 for the construc ! 4-24 x. was let to A. R. Gibson for $17,- tion of James Donlan road: 4600 ft. of Mont- -Hall 5- l 813.62; Cor maintenance, $3236.50. standard earth road with culverts. 3 Asotin, Wn.—Sch. bonds 6- 1 paving Franklin ave. was let Tlie Hoard of County commissioners will I- 3 New W< stmins Asphalt Paving- conipanv for ! for the construe-* pipe 5- 1 $4416. tion of Sam Hible Xo. 2 road, 21,230.90 ft. 5- 3 Bellingham, Wn. Paving 5- 1 road with culverts Xorth Yakima. Wn.—Sewers... 5- 1 Grading, Etc.— bridges, etc. I Spokane, Wn.—Bonds 4-17 Peterson & Co., X. 12nd st. and 5- l \';iiici)!u er, '. 4-21 • < ., were awarded the con- ELECTRIC RAILROADS ntralia, Wn.—Grading 4-24 tra< i ic, on Xorth and East The Moran C just completed one 5- I Vancouver, '•' 4-24 i.. e1 al., for $32,019.50. and have timl ven more Portland, Or. 6-1 The Elliott Bay Iron Works was awarded cars for the Seattle, Henton & South- 5- I Seal i le, Wn. Road 5- 1 the contract for grading, etc., on 31st ave. Railway. The car is the invention of 5- l Everett, Wn 5- 1 S. et al. for $48,797.02. Charles II. Anderson of Seattle and a corn- 5- i Centralia, Wn.—Streets 4-24 \ arded the contract is being formed for their manufac 5- i Seattle, Wn. -Bridge 4-24 oncrete walks on Shelbv ture. 6- I Kalama, Wn.—Kip-rap 4-17 si., et al., for $22,052.10. Port Orchard, Wn.—Bonds 4-17 >ntract for cement walks BRIDGES 5- 5 Everett, Wn.—Paving 4 21 on H 1., let to A. W. Yaw 5- 5 Connell, Wn.—Warehouse 4-24 & Pro .'.20. The county c have instruct- 5- 6 Washington, D, C.—Government department to ad- Boi lers, etc 4-17 Sidewalks— se for bids to reconstruct the bridge 5- 7 Pocatello, Ida.—Dormitory add. 4-17 The contract for concrete walks on Flor ar river two miles east of Ren 5- 7 Bellingham, Wn. Road 4-17 entine streel was awarded to X. Jahn, Em- ton. 5- 7 Bellingham, Wn. .... 4-17 . for $2360.92. Anacortes, Wn.—Bonds 4-17 Contrad for concrete walks on West Roy ROCK CRUSHER 5- g Toledo, ds 4-24 street el al. was let to A. W. Yaw & Brother The bid of the Poison Implement Co. to 5- 8 Prosser, Wn. Bonds 4-24 'or $1012. furnish a X'o. 5 Symons rock crusher for 6 10 Washington, I >. C.—Government Contracl for concrete walks on 18th ave. $3,250, wa ed by the county com Supplies 4-17 N. W. et al., v, i J. J. Liston et al., missioners. 5-10 Washtui Roads 4-24 for $12,682.01. Address of Liston, 5248 Shil- 5-14 Honolulu, T.H.—Govt, cement. 4- 3 N. W. 5-12 Seattle. Wn.—Sch. bonds 4-24 5-15 Missoula, Mont.—Bonds 4-17 Water Mains— 5-22 Washington, D. C.—Pearl Har- C, F Graff, Hinckley blk., was awarded iv dock 4-3 the contract for water mains on Bagley ave. 5-24 Washington, D. C.—P. O. Eure el ;il.. for $28.$302.20. ka. Cal 4-24 Washington, D. C.—Govt, sup Sewers— plies 4-10 Dicken & RIghtmire, 172 1 24th ave., were MUNICIPAL er, B c -Bonds 4-24 ded the contract for sewers on Pine Paving— Vancouver, B. C.—Water pipe.. 4-24 st. et al., for $5,195.40. ( The city council has ordered plans for :- 9 Eureka Mont. Sch. bonds 4-24 Parks— Vancouver. ^Vn.—Bridge 4-24 the paving of Yakima ave. from Division r>- 6 Wenatchee, Wn.—School 4-24 The park board has voted to acquire Bai- to Center st. 5- 5 Vancouver, v-. 4-24 1"\ peninsula for park purposes by condem- Light and Power— 5- 5 iok, Or.—Septic tank..., 5- 1 nation proceedings. The owners ask $2000 The City of Tacoma has begun condemna 5- 5 Kennewick, Wn.—Church 5-3 per acre for the land. tion proceedings against the holders of ol l-2-l I 3 of Qunee Anne hill have peti- about 160 acres of Thurston county prop- coma, Wn.—Grading, etc.... 5- 1 rctiase the Pe- in the vicinity of the Nisqually can Tacoma. Wn. nains . . . 5- 1 ' tract of 5 acres which adjoins a yon, to be used for the municipal light 5- 7 The Dalles, 0 •' 6-1 d by the city for a park and power plant. 5- 7 Ephrata, Wn. I !ourl house. • • • 5-1 ground; $20,000 is the price asked. The Seattle-Tacoma Power Co. has sub 5- 8 Pleasant Hill hool .... 5 The Interbay improvement club has filed mitted a bid 1 • r kilowatt for 1500 5- 8 Moscow, mvenl ition asking for the establishment of tional h. p. electric current with pro- 5-10 Salt Lake, U1 5- 1 play grounds at 30th ave. W. and Emerson n for reduction on all contracts to % Washington, D. C. Gov. sup... 4-24 st.. and on the Prosch tract on the north cent per kilowatt. 5-10 Asotin, '• ....".-] west slope of Queen Anne hill. Grading, Etc.— 5-1] Seattle, Wn.—-Road 6- 1 Chairs— 6-11 Kimberley, [da -Bank bldg 4-21 Hids will be received by the commission Hall 5- 1 An ordinance has been introduced in the er of public works of the city May 6 for 6-12 Washington, D. C.—Gov. move printing $3000 for the allowing municipal improvements: able towers 4-24 Of chairs for the state armory. Water mains in dist. 537, from llth to ;,-ll Seattle, Wn.—Fireboat moni- pared for the pav is on Dock st. 5 - 1 ing of W. 59th st. from 24th ave. N. W. to Grading in dist. 682 on North 19th and "-II Colville, Wn.—Bands 4-24 I ave. X. AV. Xorth 21st St. 5-15 Butte, Mont. -Jail 5- 1 Fireboat Monitors— Grading and sidewalks of cement in dist. 5-17 Everett, Wn.- Roads 5- 1 The boaru of public works with receive m Xorth 22nd and Cedar sts. 5-11 I 'ol i Rep. court house. 5- 1 bids ti]) to May 14th for furnishing six Building a plank road in dist. 692 on East Rainier, < >r. 5- 1 monitors for the use of fireboat. from Bay to Cleveland ave. nle. Wn.—Govt, bldgs 5- 1 Boulevard— Bertleson & Son, 610 X. Fife St., were 5-21 Washington, D. C.—Govt. sens. 5- 1 Park Hoard has adopted the Lancas- awarded the contract for grading North 5-27 Victoria, i: C. School 5- 1 de boulevard to Magnolia 26th St., in District 690, for $3,200. The ' Victoria, B. C. Hospital 5- 1 other end of the street included in Dis including the purchase of thirty-nine trict CO.", was up for bids for improving 8- 9 Hinsdale, Mont.—Bridge 5- 1 me-half acres of land at Wolf creek to 7-1o Hail 5-1 from Proctor to Orchard, but no bids were is a natural park. offered and it will be readvertised. The es MANUFACTURING PLANTS timate was $9,414. Water Mains— Holsoip Hros. of Spokane and Chicago John Galucci, 1218 S. Sheridan ave., was purchased several acres near Earling- awarded the contract for laying iron wa SEATTLE ton and will erect a plant for the manu ter mains in Puyallup and other streets in facture of semi-steel castings. District 540 for $20,923, against ten bid ders. GOVERNMENT nk Ricco and Mike Pope were award MVNICIPAL is will be received at office Construct ed the contract for laving water mains in ing Quartermaster, 322 Arcade Annex, Seat- Fairbanks ave. and East M St., in district Streets— lb1. iii> to May 21 for the construction, of 539, for $1,895. An ordinance will be introduced in the city [uarters and other bldgs. at Fort Auto Fire Engine— '.''"i'!' il foi iruetion of the proposed Ward, Wn. Henry B. (Mark. Captain. Q. M; Contract has been awarded for the pur- Magnolia way, a 100 ft. street from 2nd av. 1Ni The war department is planning to spend of an auto-chemical engine for the - and Broad st. to Elliott ave. W. and half a million dollars in improvements for city fire department to the Gorham Rub- 32 PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER Vol. 7, No. 18. McClintic - Marshall CONSm_S2Sv Largest Independent Manufacturers in the U. S. of Offices Work*: Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, STEEL BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, Etc. New York Chicago Pottstown ANNUAL CAPACITY: ONE HUNDRED and FIFTY THOUSAND TONS St. Louis Seattle Carnegie, Pa. San Francisco C. F. BOTCE IT. B. KYLE Pottstown 839 Central Bldg., Seattle Monadnock Bldg., San Francisco iiei- company Cor a Seagrave machine for ELECTRIC RAILROADS The Tacoma Railway & Power company will soon extend Its 6th ave. c to the beach at the Narrows. MUNICIPAL Grading— The following Mds were received for grading, curbing, parking and sidewalk ing: Buckeye ave., Posl to Washington sts.: Engineer's estimate, $4,900; n. B. Handley, $4,800; Abbott A Joslin, $4,617; Mitchell . $4,488; Massie Hros. & Long, $4,450 < a warded emit racl ). Hartson avo., Perrj to Pittsburg sts: En gineer's estimate, $13,200; H. L. Lilienthal, $1 :• 300 (contracl awarded). The city council has passed a resolution requesting that plans be prepared for grad- curbing, parking and sidewalking Jef ferson st. with a roadway 29 ft. and 5 ft sidewalks. Permission has been granted by the city •ii t<> the STEEL CONSTRUCTION IRRIGATION AND ENGINEERING The H B. Hritmell Co., Terminal bldg., lias awarded tl ontract for grading iit sidewalking of Rockwood Park to John Costello for $10(5,000. This does not PLATE AND STRUCTURAL WORK include the water system, which will be lei by contract later. OF EVERY DESCRIPTION POWER AND LIGHT PLANTS The Washington Water Power company, Spokane, will ered a H-sto. power station In Host's addition. While not. definitely de- COMPLETE PLANTS clded, it is probable that the structural work will be done by the day labor sys- t for material. FT. L. Bleeck- er, secretary W. W. P. Co., Spokan ENGINEERING The Palisade Improvement company has purchased the Big Springs addition con As a medium calling for bids on municipal and county work, The Pacific sisting of 504 lots. The addition will be Builder and Engineer is the best in the Northwest. The Commissioners of Improved with graded streets, steel water mains and cement sidewalks. Improve Spokane County say that $2,000 was saved to them by inserting a call in the ments in the addition will cost at least Builder. $30,000. May 1, 1909. PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER 33 Contractors' Equipment Brag Scrapers Western Bump Cars 'Rails Wheel S crapers Battenport Locomotives Frogs Tlotus Marion Steam Shovels Stuitches E. P. JAMISON & CO SEATTLE TACOMA SPOKANE ment specifications have been completed fice of the general purchasing officer, Isth City Engineer Foster. The work will mian Canal Commission, Washington, D. C, cost $55,560. until May 17, for furnishing the above-men NORTHWEST ENGINEERING Medical Lake, Sewers, Etc.: Medical Lake tioned articles. Blanks and general infor will have a model sewer system and many mation relating to this circular (No. 506) of the streets will be paved. _ may be obtained from this office or the office North Yakima, Wn., Sewers: Bids will of assistant purchasing agent, 10S6 North Municipal be received up to May 3rd for the laying of sub-sewers in various parts of the city. Point street, San Francisco; also from the Aberdeen, Wn., Streets, Etc.: Seven con- H. S. engineer's office in Seattle, and Cham is for street work were awarded: An- New Westminster, B. C, Sewer Pipe: Bids ber of Commerce and Board of Trade, Ta erson & Co., for filling and grading will be received by the city clerk up to Market St., 60 cents per yard; for putting .May 3rd for the supply of vitrified and coma. in sidewalks on Al street to Holm and John gla/.ed stoneware sewer pipes of various Washington, D. C: Proposals for Fur son for 50 cents; the steam roller to J. I. sizes for the city. nishing .supplies During the Fiscal Year Cast & Co. of Racine, Wis., for $2,200, etc. Puyallup, Wn., Streets: This place will lune 30, 1910: Ranges, Stovepipe Asotin, Wn., Water, Etc.: A move is on spend $65,000 on street improvements. Hi bows, Nails, Tracks, Screws, Rivets, Cot- for the municipal ownership of the Rainier, Or., Streets: Bids will be re- Hasps and Staples, Hooks and Eyes, plant. If the project is ed up to May 20 for the improvement of s, Coat Hooks, Door Bolts, Hin- Indorsed by the citizens, bonds to the Union, Commercial, and other streets. Cer Drawer Pulls, Padlocks, Faucets, ,000 to provide these improve tified check for ten per cent of amount ol ars, Ice Tongs, Iron Rings, Copper Gas- ments will be issued. bid required. Torches. Truck Tor Bellingham, Sewers: Fred McElmon will Renton, Wn., Water: The fire and wa pedoes, Dry Batteries, Locomotive Head receive tl i for the erection of the ter committee of the city council has lights, Lanterns, Lantern Globes, Steam trunk sewer on Bldredge avenue, his bid be plans under way for the improvement of Gauges, Gsease Cups, Water-gauge Glasses, ing $14,230.94. Window Glass, Clocks, Ladders, Oars, the water system at a cost of several Lea tlier, Canvas Duck, Candle Wicking, Rail Bellingham, Pave.: Hids will be received thousand dollars. way Blags, Twine, Matches, Rat Traps, • Her up to May 3 for the Vancouver, Wn., Pave.: An ordinance was Rules, Paper, Etc.—Sealed proposals will be block pavement passed providing for the paving of Wash received at the Office of the General Pur paving with brick ington street. chasing Officer, Isthmian Canal Commis I lo] [j : i reel et al. sion, Washington, D. C, until May 19, for Boise, Ida., Pave.: It is probable that furnishing the above-mentioned articles business blocks will be paved here Government Blanks and general information relating to during the summer. Washington, D. C: For the construction this circular (Xo. 507) may be obtained Chehalis, Wn.: The mayor has vetoed of three brick buildings for the United from this office or the office of the Assistant gas franchise ordinance granting the Males Naval hospital at Bremerton navy Purchasing Agent, 1086 Xorth Point street right to manufacture and sell illumin yard the bid of W. N. Concannon company San Brancisco; also from, the U. S. engi- ating gas to R. H. Petley of Seattle. of San Francisco was lowest, being $143,- attle, and Chamber of Colville, Wn., Water Pipe, Etc.: Hids will 971. Commerce and Board of Trade, Tacoma City council up to May 4 i of 2-inch galvanized pipe, Washington, D. C: The government will davenport, Wn., Water.: The city coun expend $60,000 in establishing beacons and cil has pu & Company of other aids to navigation in Alaskan wa Marine Spokane over two miles of steel water ters. Washington, D. C: Bids will be received Bandon, Or.: William McKay, local shipbuilder, has secured the contract to Eugeie, Or., Pave.: Bids will be received up to May 27 for the erection of day school build a gasoline boat to ply among Ore by the oil r up to May 4 for pav buildings at Klamath Agency, Oregon. See gon ports, such as Tillamook, Coos Bay ing (>ak st. ed proposals Pacific Builder and Engi and Bandon. The boat will be 95 feet Everett, Pave.: The board of public works neer. over all and have a 24-foot beam. let the contract to repave the Great North- Washington, D. C: Bids will be receiv . iaduct ami Broadway to Thorsvig and ed by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs -Mi by for $46,273. up to June 1 for the erection of the Puy Friday Harbor, Wn., Sewer: Tlie citj has allup school, Washington. See sealed pro Public Roads •I to put in a trunk line sewer to cost posals Pacific Builder and Engineer. $5000. Bellingham: Whatcom county will build Georgetown, Wn., Grading, Etc.: The Washington, D. C: Proposals for Fur- approximate 125 miles of good roads this Dishing During the Fiscal Year Ending June >n to cost $250,000. city council has awarded the contract 30, 1910, .Miscellaneous Supplies as Follows: for grading, planking and sidewalks on Hand and Push Cars, Warehouse Trucks, Sandpoint, Ida. The bids for building the the extension of Bateman st. to Myers Warehouse Scales, Wheelbarrows, Jacks, Whitcomb and Hasselroth road were reject- & Maple for $2000. Anvils, Vises, Forges, Shovels, Picks, Tool tng too high, the lowest bid being Kent, Wn., Reservoir: D. E. Johnson Handles, Blacksmiths', Machinists', Carpen 3 100. of this place was given the contract for ters' and Track Tools, Machetes, Drills, Snohomish, Wn.: Bids will be received constructing the 300,000 reservoir for the Harden Tools, Pipe Tools, Saws, Differential, by the county commissioners up to May city for the sum of $1401. Snatch and Tackle Blocks, Pulleys, Wire 17 for the construction of a portion of the Lewistown, Mont., Light, Etc.: Sam W. Rope Attachments, Hose Clamps, Sister Everett-Mukilteo road for a distance of has asked for a gas and electric light little over a mile. franchise in this city. Hooks, Brooms, Brushes, Dusters, Squil- Mabton, Wn., Water: The contract for gees, Mop Heads, Solder, Cotton and Wool Ming the new water system at Mabton Waste, Sash Cord, Manila Rope, Oakum, Was given to the Northwest Bridge com- Marline, Vitrified Sewer Pipe, Draintile, Manufacturing Plants pai at Tacoma for $12,100. Brick, Fire Clay, Asbestos Cement, Etc.— Medford, Or., Pave.: Oakdale ave. pave Sealed proposals will be received at the of Baker City, Or., Flouring Mill: Work has 34 PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER Vol. 7, No. 18. THE CALDWELL BROS. COMPANY SEATTLE TACOMA HAVE IN STOCK COREY HYDRANTS, RENSSELAER VALVES, ROAD ROLLERS, ROAD MACHINES, BOILERS AND ENGINES, HOISTS, STERLING WHEELBARROWS, GOULD POWER PUMPS, ROCK-CRUSH ING MACHINERY, DIAPHRAGM AND CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS. Ingersoll-Rand Air Tools and Compressors We will he pleased to quote you prices. been started on the flouring mill to be erect- the extension of its lines to the smaller R. Co. announces that a tram line will he . G. B. Stout. mines of the Coeur d'Alene district. : oss LulU island brii Bonner's Ferry, Ida., Boxes: The Cres Wenatchee, Wn., Power: Hids will be re- Sunnyside, Wn.: George Arrowsmlth, rep cent Box company's mill was destroyed by ceived by the city up to May 25 for elec mting It. 10. Strahorn has purch fire recently, causing a loss of $20,000. tric power required for o the pump [. Scotl a lot as a site for an elec CentraUa, Wn., cannery: The grocers of ing machinery to be installed for the '. tric substation. this place and farmers of this community system of the city. on plans to have a cannery established. Xo names mentioned. Telephones RAILWAY INCORPORATIONS Everett, Caskets: A. R. Maulsby of the Portland: lOlectric Development com- Bellingham Casket factory has purchased American Falls, Ida.: The Independent pany: W. B. »!obb et al. the Van Horn building on Pacific ave. this and the Bell Telep Portland: The I'ort land. Butte & Baker place, a building 60x120, and has started re franchise Citj ailroad. modeling the interior of same for the open I ines. ing of his factory. American Falls, Ida.: This p] Steam Railroads Cottage Grove, Or.:, Woodwarking, Etc.: Rocky H. L. Hoxford & Co., will erect a large ain Hell Telep: pany. Butte, Mont.: Preliminary surveys for planing mill and woodworking plant. Buhl, Ida.: The Rocky Mountain Bell the line from here to Calgary, Alberta, Everett, Safes: It is rumored that the phone Co. will install a telephone sys- completed last winter by the Cana- Modern Safe & Lock company may build a ti m l Paciflc and on the final location of ory for the making of its goods here. line August 1 work will be started. Great Falls, Mont., Wood Working: Mc- Dayton, Wn.: Isaac Rice et al. were Rae & Cluston are preparing to erect a ted a telephone franchise to erei Georgetown, Wn.: Bids are being taken , and door factory 50x150 of brick. line from Dayton to Roblnett ngton Railroad com- Contract for erection of building has been Mountain. m of a 1 -sto. fr. passen- ( >. .iarl. Grangeville, Ida.: The Whitebird Tele and Height depot al this place. Pasco, Wn., Motors: It is reported thai phone con i organized to build Great Falls, Mont.: R. W. Ryan, general .1. K i, backed by moneyed men of a mutual superintendent of tbe Great .Xorthern, has ish Columbia, will build a large moto. The line will be twenty miles long. given orders for changing of the tracks factor'.' h Grangeville, Ida.: Josi com the passenger station in preparation Renton, Wn., Ice: H. S. Gilseth is pany was granted a franchise. w depot which will cost $50,000. preparing to erect a 2-story frame build McMinnville, Or.: Tin- huilding of a depot ing near 3rd ave. and Wells st. for an Jacksonville, Or.: The city council has he Southern Pacific at this place now it, with lodging rooms above. any. seems assured. Building and plant will cost $35,000. Sait Lake, Castings: The production ot Lents, Or.: J. B. .Marshall and others Robe, Wn.: The Johnson-Dean Lumber steel castings is to be started here have organized a company and company is asking bids for the construction nd Col. E. A. Wall, the own- will do considerable construction work. ra i Iway. of the Salt Hake Engineering Works Missoula, Mont.: The Rocky Moun Twin Falls, Ida.: It is reported that the will erect the plant which will cost $50,- phone company will soon begin exten has let ;t contract to the * sive improvements in the t south for building a Tenino, Wn.: Gas Apparatus: Tlie McAr bra n< om Twin Hal is to I [olllster, a thur Gas & Power company is being fo being made In Miles, Pig Timbi r, G distant • lies. for the purpose of manufacturing the gas I lamilton. apparatus invented by McArtbur. It is the Prosser, Wn.: A telephone franchise was ition of the company lo install a fac granted to A. H. Brown in various sections Lumber and Mills tory. of the county. BeUingham: H. II. (Mark and Tint Henn.au MANUFACTURING INCORPORATIONS Stevenscn, Wn.: Tlie Columbia 1 have secured 200 acres of timber in town- Wallace, Ida.: Subm >tor Manu phone company wi ed a franchise mid ::T (d* this county and will facturing company, $5,000,000; W. A. Smith g the con ii Prindle te county. establish togging camp property Stevensville, Mont.: The Montana Inde ill tlie nea Seattle: McCabe Manufacturing Co., $100,- Bonners' Ferry, Ida.: Work is to start 000; Wm. L. McCabe et al. pendent Telephone company will begin op erate within a short time and will tit one i reconstruction of the sawmill also have communications from here to Mis ipany. Power and Light Plants soula, and other portions of the Btu or a buildii feet. Coeur d'Alene, Ida.: M. I). Wright and Bellingham: It is reported that the TELEPHONE INCORPORATIONS Thomas J. Stoi a site Washington Mining & Developing Co. will North Yakima, Wn.: Tin Moxee Tele- for tt mill on (he Spokane river just b spend $200,000 in erecting a power sta company, $10,000; .J. J. Matterson tion on Collins creek. W. N. Rath is 'he Big Hour sa wmill and w mill one of the directors of the company. e| al. Colville, Wn.: Bids will be received by Hillyard, Wn.: Tin- Edwards & Brotherad the countv auditor up to May 1.5 for the Electric Railroads Luml ny will erect a planing mill construction of a 32-ft. standard pile bent and lumber yards. over China creek. BeUingham: Construction work on the New Westminster, B. C.: Tlie Bm Mabton, Wn., Light: The town council water front line of the Bellingham • pany oi •oils is seeking has rejected the application for a franchise Bay & British Columbia railroad has been a site near Hie city for one of its i asked by the Yakima Valley Power com- started. mills. t'or furnishing light and power to the Burnaby, B. C: A by-law ..as been p Port Townsend, Wn.: A shingle mill will town. by the municipal council giving the H C. be started in the near future in connection Moscow, Ida.: The Moscow Gas Co. Electric railway power to construct a tram • ns' Electric Lighl company. has been organized with a capital stock line from the east boundary of Hastings townsite east for several miles. tm of ibis city has furnished a of $25,000. Work will proceed at once portion of the capital. with the erection of the plant. Everett: The Everett .V- Cherry Valley Traction company is rapidly securing the Newport, Wn.: The Northern Electric LUMBERING INCORPORATIONS n granted a franchise. tween Monroe and Tolt. North Yakima, Wn.: Articles of Incor Everett: It is reported that work will Caldwell, Ida.: Farmers' Lumber & Coal poration have been filed by the Yakima Cen n at once on the Everett end of the company, $25,000; T. H. Bridges et al. tral Heating company with a capital of Seattle-Everett interurban railway. Lawrence, Wn.: Hridge Shingle contp 100 by Alex- Miller et al. Missoula, Mont.: . Articles of incorpora $1)1)00; c. 11. Hon* et al. Tukwila, Wn.: Foster and Tukwila men tion of the Missoula Street Railway Co. Goshen, Wn.: Goshen Humber company have formed a company for the purpose have been tiled, witli a capital stock of $1000; C. H. I [off et al. of installing a plant to furnish light at $100,600, with J. R. Wharton and W. A. Foster, Tukwila and Riverton. No names Clark, Jr., interested in the matter. mentioned. Work is to begin shortly on the urban Theaters and Halls Wallace, Ida.: The Washington Water portion of the system. Power company of Spokane contemplates New Westminster, B. O.I The B. C. E. Ellensburg, Wn.: Work has been start- May 1, 1909. PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER 35 Oscar Stromberg B. T. Mass BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL CARDS WESTERN ENGINEERS Box 40J Mining, Milling and Mechanical Designs and Installations Manufacturers' Agents W. A. GLEASON, S. B. 308 Arcade Building, Seattle o ENGINEERS o Phone Ind. 42JS STRUCTURAL ENGINEER Specialist in Steel Work and Waterproofing- ARCHITECTS and Main 689; Ind. 4672 o F. R. Bate. T. S. Clark DECORATORS o BATES & CLARK CO. 334-335 Globe Bldg. SEATTLE ENGINEERS Electrical and HydrauUc Designs and WEISSENBORN ®. CO., Inc. Installations a Specialty- OHN M. GOODWIN Water Wheels. J Consulting Decorators Designers of Interiors SBATTLB CONSULTING. ENGINEER PACIFIC BLOCK 514 Denny Building, Seattle Phone, Main 1368 330 Peyton Building SPOKANE S. B. Hill Phons Main 2941 C. E. Hill 615 Pacific Block I W. R. Hill Seattle, Wash. CONTRACTORS HILL B-ROTHE-RS B. L. McAllaster S. Bennett CIVIL ENGINEERS Development Projects, Power Plantf McALLASTER & BENNETT and Water Works, Irrigation, DyKing Consulting and Constructing and Drainage, Industrial Plants, Hog Engineers. Naval Architects ging Railways, Etc. F. W. WILSON Phones: Sunset Main 441; Ind. 2560 703 Central Bldg., Seattle House Mover Foundation Work General Contracting Main ROBERT HOWES 3256 1339 Weller St. Phone East 2734 Engineer and Constructor Q H. NORRLIN Water Power a Specialty - Examinations, Reports, Designs and **** CONSULTING and CONSTRVCT1NG Superintendence. Electric, Hydraulic ENGINEER. and General Engineering Work. Designs and Estimates P. O. Box 436. Vancouver, ii C. Tugboats, Steamships, Power Plants, MISCELLANEOUS o 1 Sternwheel Boats, Steel and Wood 617 Worcester Bldg. Portland, Ore> £WD. J. JOHNSON, S B. Main 13 PHONES Ind 13 CIVIL ENGINEER BONNEY-WATSON CO. Surveys, Plans, Specifications and Successors to Bonney & Stewart Estimates for Waterworks, be7fr Systems, Roads, Pavements, Munici Funeral Directors and Embaliners pal and Industrial Work. 326 Lindelle Building Spokane, wn. LADY ASSISTANT Mam 2658 Turn to Page 43 for the direc Third and University SEATTLE tory of Consulting and Civil En J-[ENRY KAUFFMAN gineers. CIVIL ENGINEER Structural Work a Specialty Twenty Years' Experience 510 Chamber of Commerce, Tacoma ._>VY/r#v, y/stj/tstny/ffrt/ ^ R NEWELL, GOSSETT SSL WALSH pOBERT PICHOT & CO J Importers and Dealers CIVIL ENGINEERS FRENCH TILES OF ALL KINDS Surveys, Plans and Estimates for Kailroad, Irrigation and Water Including Patent Lock-Joint Roofing Tiles and Ornamen Power Projects, Report* on Projects. tal Terra Cotta Sample Room, 421 Globe Building Phones: 32 Washington Building, SEATTLE Main 3586; A 2636. Portland, Ore. 36 PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER Vol. 7, No. 18. in the club house to be erected by St. Andrew's Catholic church. Junction, Wn.: An I. O. O. F. lodge Telephone: Sunset Main 523 building' is to li' Hadley, Ida.: The Commercial club, the Woman's club i i hletic clubs of the Olympic city will erect a clu to be two sto il, and to cost $15,- 000. Lewiston, Ida.: The North Idaho Chil- Foundry Iron Castings cted here by Char itable societies. Rev. S. B. Chase is super- : 'lit. Mabton, Wn.: Jacob A. Knapp of North Company Seattle, Washington for an odd Lo be of brick, two l to cost about $14,0 Missoula, Mont., Trunks: Albert B. and le of land in Hi" Daly addition and will- begin of a trunk factory building to be 26x60 ix*- SBBSBH V Exclusive Agents North Yakima, Wn.: Stockholders of the ENGINEERS decided to i stock from $10,000 to plans prepared and will A. Leitz Co. i once with the construction of STRUCTURAL Instruments the building, to cosl $125,060. North Yakima, Wn.: On account of a new H YDRAULIC building ordinance John Cort will be com- model tlie Yakima CIVIL i Attention to Repairs Pasco, Wn.: Articles of incorporation I. O. O. F. lodge with k of $45,000. It is re- SEATTLE ENGINEERING rill short ly ereel an COMPANY THE SEATTLE OPTICAL CO. i aid i-viiow s' i emple and theater. Sunnyside, Wn.: The plans submitted by W. L. Hunter, instrument Dept. VI. 11. Ra architect, has 722-23 Central Building Seattle for the $20,000 hall of the Ave. SEATTLB I. O. O. !•'. Puyallup, Wn.: Work on the two-story fr. Odd fellows' building is to beg-in at once. Thi tding will be 52x130 ft. ELECTRICAL Sunnyside, Wn.: The Odd Fellows are HAND POWER plan for building PNEUMATIC ssed brick building. CRANES • Vancouver, Wn.: The project of erecting building in this city is under —FOUNDRY EQUIPMENT usiness men. E. G. committee WHITING FOUNDRY EQUIPMENT COMPANY looking after the matter. 525 Colman Building NORTHWESTERN JGENTS SEATTLE Wenatchee, Wn.: The question of procur- • led building of the ili Is now up to the general I id the erection of a $15.ooo to $18,000 building. Wallulu, Wn., Flour Mill: Butler & See- lour mill have ordered Lookjngfor TZusmeM? the machinery and let the contract for the structure. The mill will • day. Mining Corfcine, Mont.: Marcus 1/. Hewitt company Install ;n Loisl and a 600-ton ENGINEERING concentrator this season. Helena, Mont.: The ROCK Rose Mining & Milling operating in INSTRUMENTS Fori Hai the ereel Ion of a mill. Murra-"-. Ida.: The mill al tin J Is tO h I Ion mill Increased to pacity. I 11 ed Improvemenl s property will cosl aboul $50,000. Saltese, Mont.: o ghes, the man- he Smiles. [dated Alining 11 ions are FOR SALE BY pendl I li" Installs i Ion of a re- ier1 y. GEO. E. MITCHELL MINING INCORPORATIONS 509 Mutual Life Bldg. SEATTLE Phone Ind. 1813 Clarkston, Wn.: I',. Al. & D. Gold Mining mpany, $! ' I'.. I >ecker ai. Republic, Wn.: n Republic com- III.Y; O. B. I iollis el al. Seattle: Northern Bell Alining company, HALF THE SIZE AND WEIGHT 150,000; w. P. Prichard ot al. L. O N US FOR PRICES Seattle: Wauconda Alining, Smelting & eiining company, $3,000,000; S. M. Dow, Earth ? \\.- « Handling al. Spokane: i Smelting com- Machinery carried in Stock iny, $1,500,000; diaries G. Cromwell et al. Wallace, Ida.: The Northern Light Mining at right prices -mpany, $600,000; John P. Gray et al. Contractor*' Equipment from Steam Shovels to the smallest Tool required Don't forget we carry Irrigation and Engineering Adna, Wn.: C. I >. Young is putting in a Symons Portable Gyratory Crusher "The Little Red Wagon" sawmill on his plai »f town. O ily satisfactory portable outfit on the market. in stoc Ellensburg, Wn.: The Yakima offlc 4..1 steel construction. Chain drive. Capacities CONTRACTORS' SUPPLY COn th" United States reclamation service is twenty to fifty tons per hour. gathering and fitting out a crew for the 428 Mohawk Block purpose of sur proposed Kit t Itas May 1, 1909. PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER 37 Fireproof SHEET METAL Architectural and Ornamental Sheet Metal Work WOOD WATER PIPE Machine Banded Stave Pipe, 2" to 24" diam. Continuous Stave Pipe, 10" to 10 ft. diam. For City Water Works, Irrigation Systems, Metal Skylights Mining Dredging, Sewers, Power Plants. NATIONAL WOOD PIPE CO. 210 Wells Fargo Bldg., Portland Made in 10 Standard Types 10 Jefferson St., Olympia, Washington PORTLAND SHEET METAL WORKS PACIFIC TANK CO. Contractors for Manufacturers Tin, Slate, Tile and Composition Roofing Water, Oil and Mining TANKS Factory: E. 7th and East Madison PORTLAND. ORE. _,eud tor Catalog. 210 Wells Fargo Bldg., Portland Pacific Coast Pipe Co. Pacific Engineering Company Manufacturers of. WOOD STAVE PIPE Machine Banded Wire Wound and Continuous Stave for Waterworks Systems, Power Plants, Irrigation, Hydraulic Work, Etc. Factory and Office: _ . CONTRACTORS 4515 14th Ave. N. W. Phone, Ballard 646 Seattle, Wash. ENGINEERS Machinery Phone: M. 2418. Merchants Power Plant Equipment Malleable Iron PORTLAND - SEATTLE Shoes Wainwright Galvanized Steel Corner Bar For Protecting the Edges of Concrete Curbs, Steps, Columns, Etc. t&SS CONCRETE EDGE PROTECTOR g£_2£_ Public This Bar is in use in more than one hundred and fifty cities of the United Sates as the principal feature of the WA1N- .WRIGHT STEEL-BOUND CONCRETE CVR.B. Absolutely Non-Breakable. Better (ban Granite, Cheaper than any Natural Stone. The Corner Bar should be used on all exposed concrete edges. Correspondence invited. Metal parts for sale Northwestern Agent, T>. W. SMITH. 1900 4th Av. N., Seattle Phone, Queen Anne 1 145 38 PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER Vol. 7. No. 18. high line project. The work will cost $1,- 500,000 and will give water to about 70,000 J. D. HULL, M. E acres. ENGINEERING CORPORATION _, P. BADENHAUSEN, M. M. E. Everett: The county commissioners have granted a franchise to the Everett Light & COMPLETE POWER PLANTS Power company to lay a pipe line a dis tance of six miles into Lowell. Badenhausen Water Tube Boilers Lamont, Wn.: This place is to have 353 ARCADE ANNEX SEATTLE a water system, through the efforts of Dan Morgan and others. New Westminster, B. C: The provincial executive has granted permission to the Vancouver Power company to build a 60- foot dam at Coquitlam lake for power pur poses. The undertaking will cost $400,000 The Magnet and will star! immediately. CONSULTING and CONTRACTING North Yakima, Wn.: A. A. Nichol and ENGINEERS. House Wiring, Power Sta M. K. Galloway have filed on a water right Electrical Co. tions, Power Transmissions. of 100 cubic feel from the headwaters of 209-10 Boston Block the Klickitat river. The filing is the pre Phones—Main 2725,.Ind. 1820 liminary step to the Irrigation of 5000 acres Of land in the Yakima Indian reservation. Pendleton, Or.: The Furnish Ditch com pany of this place will construct a $150,000 storage reservoir near Horseshoe Bend on the Umatilla river about 15 miles below Pendleton. Columbia Irtfrg? dompang Wilbur, Wn.: Tt is stated that the fin ances have been arranged for the large irri gation system near Steamboat rock in the WALLA WALLA, WASH. Grand Coulee, 26 miles northeast of here, CONTRACTORS, MANUFACTURERS, BUILDERS project embraces 4000 acres. William Thomson and II. M. Hanson of this place are STEEL BRIDGES, FOUNDATIONS the promoters. Usk, Wn.: Dan Morgan, vice-president Fred B. Grinnell Co., Terminal hldg., Spo kane, win receive hids for 3% miles of 4-in. wooden wire wrapped water mains to be laid here. Will also receive bids for 4000 feet same kind to be laid at Lamont. Tacoma Dredging Co., Inc. Weiser, Ida.: Articles of incorporation Frank Goujter, President E. M. More, Secy, and Treas. Df the Boise-Owyhee Irrigation company A. C. Mills, Vice-Pres. A. W. Tweeden, Genl. Manager have been filed with a capital stock of $5,- 000,000 to irrigate 200,000 acres of land in Oregon and Idaho near Weiser. C. B. 419 California Building, Tacoma Jlurtt is president of the organization. White Bluffs, Wn.: Plans are under way for the Irrigation of 15,000 acres of land at Wahluke. The Columbia River Orchards company announces that it will shortly let the contract for the ditch. Second Hand Electric • Power Machinery ENGINEERING INCORPORATIONS Milton, Or.: The Lower Hudson Bay Irri BOUGHT and SOLD gation company, 11400; Ed Hoon el al. Electric Power Plants Installed Electric and Hand-Operated Crane* Oregon, Wn.: Pleasant Valley Irrigation 329 OR & Power company; 50,000; A. L. Muker OREGON ENGINEERING COMPANY ^IJ^^SXTSQ' et al. Portland: United Building Investment company, $1.1,000; S. P. Mickey, 774 E. Main et al. Portland: Cooper Sandstone & Construc tion company, $100,000; H. H. Willett et al. BRIDGES. Asotin, Wn.: Bids will be received by the county commissioners up to May 10 for the erection of a steel bridge with an 80-foot span across Asotin river near Jerry, Wash ington. Bellingham: The county engineer was directed to prepare plans for the erection of the Riddle slough bridge and wing dam. Conconully, Wn.: The county commission ers have decided to allow $1000 toward the construction of a $2000 bridge over the Me- thow river south of the town of Winthrop on the theory that the citizens of that vicinity will supply the other $100.0. Hailey. Ida.: The petition of the peo ple of Lost River for a bridge across Big Lost river was granted and bids will be called for the erection of same at once. Hailey, Ida.: Hids will be received by the county commissioners up to July 10 for the construction of a bridge across Aubrey creek. Hinsdale, Mont.: Bids will be received by the county commissioners up to June 9 for huilding an 180-foot span bridge across Milk river north of here. Hoquiam, Wn.: The county auditor was instructed to call for bids for building a bridge over North river on the line between Chehalis and Pacific counties, one-half et the expense to be paid by each of salfl ties, Index, Wn.: Preparations are being made by the Big Palls Lumber company to con struct a cable bridge across the South Fork American Vile Driving Co. for use in logging. Kennewick, Wn.: The Blalock Island Tile Bribing Harden Tracts company, the corporation de veloping the Blalock island, announces that it will construct a bridge to cost $30,000 Bridge and Concrete Work to connect with the main land. Missoula, Mont.: The contract for the JOBBING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO construction of a hridge across the Lolo river at Lolo was let to O. E. Peppard for CITY DOCK the sum of $2330. Telephone Main 186 Everett, Wash. Port Orchard, Wn.: Bids will be received by the county commissioners up to May 3rd for the erection of a bridge across the May 1, 1909. PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER 39 slough near Seabeck. Certified check for five per cent of amount of bid required. Robe, Wn.: The Johnson-Dean Lumber company is preparing to build a bridge across Canyon creek, a 1000-foot span, 40 H alii die Machiner y Co feet high. ENGINEERS AN» DEALERS IN Salem, Or.: The city engineer has been instructed to prepare plans for re modeling the Bush bridge. HIGH GRADE MACHINERY Woodland, Wn.: The Commercial club is planning for a bridge over the north fork for Power, Manufacturing 4L Repair Plants of the Lewis river. •••Mesial AT*, fc King St. Ma 1st AT*. SBATTLB Northwest Building News Continued from Page 19 WEBSTER CONVEYING MACHINERY Is Suitable for Handling Cement, Sand, Gravel, Coal, Ore, Etc., Both in Bulk and Package Send for Catalog WEBSTER MFQ. CO, Works at Ne. 3 Chicago, 111. ers decided to have two instead of three 1111 American Bank: Bid}.,, Seattle Cells in the additional wing or tne county CEO. E SIBBETT, MGR. jail and accepted the bid of the Pauly com pany for the sum of $2579. Monroe, Wn.: The sum of $175,000 of the $250,000 appropriated for the Monroe re formatory will be utilized in making per ELBRAM manent improvements. PACIFIC BRICK & MARBLE CO. Olympia: Samuel Loney of Walla Walla Was awarded the contract for 500 barrels Of cement for the penitentiary at $2.75 per Elbram and Cement Brick Offices, 402 Corbett Bldg. i. f. o. b. Walla Walla. Elbram Sanitary Base Board Salt Iiake: Bids will be received by the Elbram Marble Slab FACTORY, ST. JOHNS, ORE. county commissioners up to May 10 for a jail building, estimated to cost $150,000. Tillamook, Or.: Bids will he received by the county clerk up to May 5 for the con struction of _ septic tank, to be of cement. RUBBER MFG ® DISTRIBUTING CO. Business Buildings Mill Hose and Supplies Vulcanite Roofing Albany, Or.: Andrew Tauchner has Belttng drawn plans for the 2-story business building to he erected by Wm. Stetter. Ind. 3759 550 First Avenue South, Seattle Main 3947 Albany, Or.: IP T. Wentworth has the contract Cor enlarging the Albany State Bank building for Mr. Bain. Astoria, Or.: Work has started on the August Danielson building. The building Butte Portland Seattle Spokane will be a substantial husiness structure Lewiston Building Couch Building Central Building Columbia Building With concrete and rock foundation. Archi tect Wicks has the matter in hand. Industrial Plants Bandon, Or.: Archt. Ernest Kroner of Street Railways Portland is preparing plans for a 2-sto. fr. store and office bldg. 40x100 to be erected Light and Power lure foi- Mr. Timmins of Astoria to cost Mining $10,000. Mr. Kroner is also preparing plans for a 2-sto. fr. bldg. 50x60 for Mr. Stoltz Motors, Transformers to cost $1000. Lamps, Generators Billings, Mont.: S. F. Morse will erect In stock at all Coast Cities a l-sto. 50x140 business building. Chelan, Wn.: Robert P. Harris will erect Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. a one-story brick bids, here 72x22 feet. Cordova, A.: Bowers & Brennan will erect Pittsburg, Pa. a business building at once. Ellensburg, Wn.: Manners Brothers will erect a two-story concrete business block. Emmett, Ida.: W. T. Crouch will erect a two-story store and theatre building here SIDEWALK tit once to cost $25,000. The buildiner will - - OTtEGOJV be of pressed brick. DOORS Everett: W. J. Bennett, will erect a two- story brick block after plans drawn by Archt. Trumbell. Plans reads- this week. Eugene, Or.: J. I >. Matlock is prepar roujsiwRy 471 E. Alder St. Portland ing to erect a 3-story concrete building on West 8th St., cor. Willamette St., l 28x50, cost $8000. ?•^^v-^^v.^^v.^v•^^v.v>v•v^^_•_v•v•v.^v^*vwv^rvw_vvvwvvvv_vu Pishtail, Mont.: The contract for the fish hatchery to he erected by Drs. Lindsay and Arnold near here on the Stillwater was awarded to .Archibald and Allison of Bill t W. & L. E. GURLEY ings for flj Grand Porks, B. C: Work has started TRANSITS COMPASSES on the erection of Wm. Bonthron's $10,000 business block; also on Power & Pribilsky's LEVELS RODS, Etc. double store hldg. and on the B. C. Tele- phOne ' 'ompany bldg. Send your Instruments (any make) we will Repair Them Thorough Grangeville, Ida.: The contract for the ly and Guarantee Our Work erection of the brick block to be known as the Grangeville Savings & Trust and Wil Manufacturers' Ex- SF ATTI F Largest Manufacturers kes block was awarded to Theodore Johnson change Bldg. JbA l l ^^ in America. of .Moscow for |29,600. r ^ Harrington, Wn.: The First National %^v•^vv•vAVA^•v•vA^^^^v^^v•r^^^v•^^^v^v_^_•_^_•_^_v_v^p_^_v^_ J hank of this place will soon erect a bank building. Hamilton, Mont.: Loyal Reimel will erect Large Stock of a business block two stories. L'xxSO. I-Beami, Channels, Hamilton, Mont.: A. II. Peters, general West Coast Wagon CompanyAngles , Etc., on band manager of the .Missoula Concrete company, win oversee tie- erection of a building of ESTIMATES FURNISHED concrete for the Bitter Root stock farm. On aJl kinds of Structui .1 Material. Helix, Or.: Gibson & Cole, contractors ndleton, will erect the reinforced con Write us. Tacoma crete building for the bank here. 40 PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER Vol. 7, No. 18. LABOR - SAVING MACHINERY Let us consult with you regarding, methods of cheapening your cost of pro duction by the most economical handling of materials in bulk or package. Have you our Catalogue? LINK-BELT COMPANY 439-40 New York Block SEATTLE Chicago Indianapolis Philadelphia Moscbw, Ida.: The regents of the Uni Hoquiam, Wn.: Nelson & Shaw have mer will erect a three-story business build versity an- asking hids for the construction let -a contract for the erection of a two- ing. of the two wings of the Administration story business building to cost $20,000. Weston, Or.: Burglars dynamated the building which will cost $100,000. Hoquiam, Wn.: Alfred Nelson has taken in the store building of Sim J. Cully North Yakima, Wn.: Plans have been out a permit to erect a store and office then set fire to the building. The drawn by Archt. Lin B. BiBBSll for the con building to cost $15,000. building > ged to the extent of $3,- struction of a boy's college for St. Joseph's 000. church. Idaho Falls, Ida.: Ed Henry has been Oak Grove, Or.: Work has started on the given the contract for the foundation of the erection of the M. E. church. Salisbury-Earl building. Schools and Churches Feck,, Ida.: This place is making prep Independence, Or.: Wm. Campbell has arations for the erection of a school begun work on a 2-story business build Albion, Ida.: A gymnasium to cost huilding. ing. $35,000 is to be erected for the state Plains, Mont.: Plans will be received normal school at this place during this up to May 8 by the clerk of the school Juliaetta, Ida.: W. H. Stump has bosun year. work on the erection of a two-storv con district for a school building 80x80, the Belling-ham: The Methodists of Silver plans to provide for a heating plant or crete building 32x60 feet. Beach have about completed arrangements Kootenai, Ida.: Tt is understood that W. stoves, and building to be of concrete and for tlie immediate erection of a church. brick. C. Finnegan of Trout Creek, Mont., will Everett, Wn.: Bids will be received up come here nt once for the erection of a Pleasant Mill, Or.: Bids will be received (o May 1 by W. G. Letson. clerk school by ll. C. Wheeler, clerk, up to May 8 for largo business block. district Xo. 75, for the erection of a 3-room tlie erection of a school house in Trent Kootenai. Ida.: Hunzicker & Weissenberg, school house. district. Certified check for ten per cent the contractors have received -word that Eugene, Or.: The school board has of bill required. W. C. Huebsehmann of Tacoma will come awarded contracts for the two school here at once to arrange for the erection of Porter, Wn.: The M. E. church society buildings, to cost $8000 each. Construc has incorporated and has begun the erec- a large business block. tion will be under the supervision of W. ', ion of a church. Moscow, Ida.: Frank G. Carnwall has TT. Alexander, a local contractor. the plans drawn for a brick business E'igene, Or.: Archt. John Hunzicker is Tenino, Wn.: The Methodist Episcopal block. preparing plans for a. large two-story school church will ereel a $3000 church building. Missoula, Mont.: Olson & Johnson of Wal The Dalles, Ore.: Hids will be recei huilding for the Catholics here. up to May 7 by the clerk of school district lace. Ida., have received contracts for build Piler, Ida.: Payne Heyle of Buhl was ings amounting to $89,000 here. Among Xo. 12 for the construction of a 1-room awarded the contract for the new school frame school building. these buildings is the Missoula hotel, alter building and work has started. ations. Victoria, B. d The Parish of St. Barna Friday Harbor, "Wn.: Registrar Condon bas is to have a new church. D. B. Mac- North Yakima, Wn.: A. E. Larson is and Prof. Priest of the state university have Laren is the vestry clerk. to erect a block of buildings in the near recommended a site on the waterfront for Woodville, Or.: Archt. ('has. Ii. Burggraf future to cost $65,000. The building will the buildings of the biological station. of Albany is preparing plans foi- a six-room be of brick, three stories and basement. Glendive, Mont.: The contract for in brick school hldg. to be erected here. Cosl 125x130. Later Mr. Charles Carpenter stalling the heating and plumbing in the >• l r.,000. will erect a business building adjoining new high school was let to Crambs & Beet that of Mr. Larson. of Dickinson, X. P. Nvssa. Or.: J. F. Tourtellotte * Co., Glendive, Mont.: Plans have been per Hotels, Hospitals, Apartments Boise, are preparing plans for a hrick buiid- fected for the erection of a Methodist :m- 30x50 for the bank of this plat Episcopal chdrch to cost $15,000 to $20,- Ashland, Or.: F. C. Clark has submitted Pendleton, Or.: The millinery store of 000. a sketch of plans for a hospital huilding Mrs. O. F. Chattin was recently damaged Glens Ferry, Ida.: This place is to have to the Commercial cluh. The main portion by fire to the extent of $3000. w school huilding. J. W. Smith, archt., of the building will be 34x77 and will cost Sandpoint. Ida.: R. A. Crimes of the Fi- Boise, has been engaged to draw plans for a'.out |_ir,000. Stock for the building is rlelitv Trust company will erect a hrick a two-story 8-room school building. being sold and it is likely that work will building here with 50 foot front. Kamiah, Ida.: Work will begin shortly begin on same soon. Snohomish, Wn.: The huilding occupied after July 1 on the Indian day school here. Boise, Ida.: Work is soon to start on the hy the H. S. Blaine store has boon moved O. TT. Lipps is the agent. Owyhee hotel. J. E. Tourtellotte & Co. are to make room for a lnrge husiness block Kalama, Wn.: Father Capistiap of Win tie- architects. to hp erected soon. lock is promoting the erection of a Catholic Butte, Mont.: .1. l-;. McCormlck has taken Springfield, Or.: Archt. Y. T). TTonsill of church here to be 62x30 in dimensions. hold of Boulder Hoi Springs. He will im- Eugene is preparing plans for a 2-story Kent, Wn.: This place is taking steps prove and enlarge the property and to a reinforced concrete building to be er— toward the erection of a school building large extent rebuild tie- hotel. He will here. Tt will he 40x120. to rust $10,000. spend about $10,000 on the place. St. Anthonv, Ida.: The Fogg Mercantile Kent, Wn.: This place has voted bonds Cottage Grove, Or.: The owners of the •any will enlarge its store building for the erection of a six-room school build- London mineral springs will mave exten soon. sive Improvements in the hotel. Levi Geer Summerville. Or.: The Chatin meat mar- Kennewick, Wn.: The board of trustees is one of the owners. ind other buildinsrs wore recently dam e Presbyterian church will receive bids Ellensburg, Wn.: The United Cities Trus- aged to the extent of ahout $5000. up (o May 5 for the erection of the church tee company of Seattle is making arra Tillamook, Or.: A building company at this place. Archt. F. A. Swingle has ments for the erection of a brick, 5-slory fo?-n>e ed plans for a 2-story brick hotel, 75 by 140} to be erected for J. W. McKnight. Glass front, six stores. Concrete base NEW PEDRARA MEXICAN ONYX CO., SAN DIEGO, CAL. ment. Second floor apartments. Material wanted by J. W. McKnight, this place. SLAB and TURN WORK Lamont, Wn.: Dan Morgan of Spokane, ONYX OF ALL KINDS president of the LamorK State bank, has NATURE'S MOST BEAUTI announced that he and his associates will FUL STONE See Exhibit 1308 lst. Ave-, Seattle W. E. Hartley. Sales Agents build a modern brick hotel here Medford, Or.: A syndicate composed of Delroy Getchell, E. B. Picknell and others will erect a hotel and bank building here, 100x125. INTERIOR WOOD WORK Merritt, B. C: Wm. Mclntyre has begun Washington work on the erection of a hotel, the main we want all DuLders body of which will be 43x75 feet. and architects to know Kampa, Ida.: R. E. Elvers has given Sheet Metal Works that we carry out any n out that he expects to erect an opera Incor orated details In all the hard house here to cost $20,000. woods and are anxious New Westminster, B. C: Archt. IT. S. SHEET IRON AND Griffith of Victoria, prepared the plans for to give estimates on CORNICE WORKERS olumbian Hospital Engineer any work in this line. Gamble of Victoria is engineer in charge. HEATING & VENTILATING North Yakima, Wn.: A. C. Thomas is ting a $20,000 apartment house. A. K. Davis <_l Halbert opson is the archt. Agents for the North Yakima, Wn.: Archt. Lin B. Bis- 806 Central Building, Seattle announces that he is preparing, plans TORRID ZONE & STANDARD for a 150,000 apartment house for outside FURNACES Workshop Telephone p irti.s. 8th and Seneca Main 4123 Pasco, Wn.: U. 1>. Norton is to erect a L915-17 Seventh Ave, SEATTLE three-story lire-proof hotel here Fasco, Wn.: The Windsor hotel, recently by fire will probably bi U. J'. Norton, one of the owners, has undei consideration the erection of a three-story This Imprint to the Building Trade is concrete h< Like the Sterling Mark on Silver Pendleton, Or.: W. F. .Matlock, chief own- ad w. .\. Brown, manager of Hotel Pendleton, have made arrangements for the i-. habllitation of the hotel building. Interior Finish Ritzville, Wn.: C. Ferris White, of Spo- k.o.e, is preparing plans for a hotel • General Mill Work sd .'ere tor a company of which U. H. ne, president of the Pioneer National Estimates Furnished on Detail Work I. ok, is at the head. The building will 1x92 feet in dimensions to be of pressed Telephone, Main 1762 SEATTLE h.ick, three stories, and to cost $45,000. Seaside, Or.: Contractor T. A. Davis is preparing plans for a cafe building for Dan ,1 . M.OG Valley, Wn.: Preparations are being made foi the erection of a 2-story concrete hotel THE NEW PATENTED SURFACE COM 60x65 to cost $7500. No names men- POUND, A SUPERIOR SUBSTITUTE FOR Vancouver, Wn.: Archts. Berndt & Tegen, marblecrete ', "i {.wetland bldg., Portland, were award TRADEMARK POLISHED MARBLE AND GRANITE ed tl • i tor plans for the new St. Joseph hospital to b here on double block bounded by 13th, Reserve, 12th and INLAND MARBLECRETE tilding will he- five stories, of COMPANY, Spokane, Wn. brick, seven concrete. Cost $70,000. Con tacts will be let separately. South 175 Howard Street Theaters and Halls High Graa. Low Priced Cambridge, Ida.: Bids will be received L A. Caviness up to May 12 for the erection of a concrete block building, 30x86 mbridge Lodge No. 2 7, I. O. O. F. Everett: Two vaudeville theatres are be ing opened in the Kiverside district, one by the Washington Amusement company the other hy J. C. Kumery. Helena, Mont.: Bids will be received up to May 3 by John P. Davies, care Massena Bullard, 6 Gold block, for the erection of tlie Udd Fellows' Home. Check for $500 payable to John F. Davies required with bid. McMinnville, Or.: Archt. E. E. McClaren, The Root that "ProOes," sun-proof and Portland, has prepared plans for a 3-sto. brick and concrete bldg. for the I. O. O. F. rain-proof; needs no paint or repairs lodge, io be erected here. Bids are now received. Rubber Sanded Roofing won't chip, won t rust, won't tear, won't warp, Pasco, Wn.: The Odd Fellows contem- won't decay, won't crack, won't absorb moisture, won't attract electricity, the erection of a $30,000 temple here. won't wear out, won't be affected by climatic changes or conditions, won't Puyallup, Wn.: Unity Lodge, No. 18, I. O. O. I-'., has started on the work of erect cost as much, in the long run, as other roofing. ing its lodge building. The building will be 60x120, two stories high. What Rubber Sanded Roofing WILL do is told of in our Booklet, "Roof- Talk," which will be sent free upon request, together with samples of the Roofii g itself. Rig-by, Ida.: The Rigby Amusement Com- . Ltd., is b inlzed with a capital of $10,000. A large building for PIONEER ROLL PAPER COMPANY amusements, spblic meetings, etc., will be Makers of Rubber Sanded and Rubber Flaxine Roofing and Refiners of ^sphaltum erected. Boseburg, Or.: The plans of Archt. W. Department 13 Seattle Paper Co., Distribute. Agents LOS ANGELES, CAL. A. Straw, archt. for the $20,000 Masonic Temple, to be erected here, were accepted. The Dalles, Or.: The Masons have de eded to build an addition to their building. The building will also be remodeled and an THE BUILDER CLASSIFIED COLUMNS 6IVE THE BEST RESULTS FOR LESS MONEY additional story added. The building when completed will cost about $75,000. I 42 PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER Vol. 7, No. 18. ENGINEERS. ARCHIBALD 0. POWELL, MEMBER AMERICAN Society Civil Engineers. Consulting and Civil En * & gineer. Main 8009, lud. 1579. 404 Central Building, Classified Advertisements SEATTLE. ENGINEERS' AND MILL SUPPLIES. 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Fees moderate. 503-504 Pioneer Build Store and Office fixtures made and repaired. Gen and dealers in new and second hand Gasoline en ing, SBATTLB. eral jobbing. J. A. BUNCE, Tel. Queen Anne 237. gines. General repair work; estimates furnished. lst Ave West and Mercer St., SEATTLE. Phone, Main 2217. Office, factory aud salesroom ALFRED GFBLLBR, ATTORNEY AND COUN- 816 First Ave. South, SEATTLE. •elor at Law, 620-621 New York Block, Seattle. CHAS. D. WALLACE, STORE FIXTURES. GBN- eral Jobbing. High grade work, moderate prices. HOUSE MOVERS. Twenty years' experience In speedy settlements of Phones: Main 5502, Ind. L 5089. 1932 Western business controversies. Ave., SEATTLE. L. B. GULLBTT, HOUSE MOVER AND CON- tractor, raising aud wrecking. Brick, stone and BDWARD F. KIBNSTRA, ATTORNEY AND concrete foundations. 6 Haller Block, Seattle. Main Counselor. Special attention to abstracts of title WM. M. CROALL, CARPENTER AND CABI- 4878, residence Ind. A 676. NO JOB TOO BIG net maker. Office fixtures, general repairing, fine and to collections. Practice In all courts. Ind work and Jobbing. Phoue, Main 227. 2522 Third TO STAGGER MB; NONE TOO SMALL TO RE A 8589. 413 Mutual Life Bldg., SEATTLE. Ave. (rear), SEATTLE. CEIVB PROMPT ATTENTION. AWNINGS AND TENTS. YORK & WRIGHT, CONTRACTORS. Store and HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING. AWNINGS, APRONS, BAGS, FLAGS, TAR office fixtures and general Jobbing a specialty. paulins, Camp and Stable Tents. Horse Blankets. Phone Main 3189. Corner Plummer street and West WB PAINT ANYTHING Every description of Canvas Goods. Kiunear Mfg. ern avenue, SEATTLE. House and Sign Painting, Decorating Co., 2001-7 Eastlake Are., Seattle. East 694. Ind. Hart-Thompson Company. Main 5502; Ind L 6080. 4840. Samples and prices submitted on request. THE IRA F. WARD CO., MANUFACTURERS OF 730 Post St., SEATTLE. furniture, store and office fixtures; general jobbing METAL OR GLASS AWNINGS of any description. and repairing. Main 5770. 95 Union St., cor lst INTERIOR DECORATING. Westlake Sheet Metal Shop. Ind. 3575. 2222 Eighth Ave., SEATTLE. MICHIGAN UPHOLSTERING CO., MATTRESS Avenue, SEATTLE. work; finishing aud general repair work. Furni CONCRETE BLOCKS. ture made to order. Tel., Queen Anne 76. 70U BLUE PRINT AND MAP& B. AND B. CONCRETE BLOCK CO., Contractors Queen Ann* Av*., SBATTLB. ROYAL BLUE PRINT COMPANY. Blue Prints, for foundations, walls, general concrete work and Maps, Tracings and Drawings. Satisfaction guar SPANISH TILE ROOFING. Phones, West IIS, Ind. HARDWOOD FLOORS IN ALL DESIGNS LAID anteed. RAPID AND ACCURATE WORK, 515 L 1970. Foot of King St., SEATTLE. and finished. Inlaid borders, floor wax. City ref Bailey building, SEATTLE. erences. Tacoma Parquet Floor Co., 724 St. Helena H. II. McMASTER, MANUFACTURER OF SAND Ave., TACOMA. BLACKSMITHING AND FORGING. faced concrete blocks and cement C«KI tractor. Suo- ISAACSON CO. IRON WORKS. MACHINE, MA qualmie street. Station M. South Seattle. Write JANITORS' SUPPLIES. rln* and loggers' blacksmithlng. Miners' loggers' or call, have no phone. GLOBE SANITARY SUPPLY CO., INC. Dis and well drilling tools to order. Builders and con infectants of every kind. Sanitary toilet paper tractors' blacksmithlng. Main 3756. Res. Phone, CONTRACTORS. service. Lavo Soap Polish, Liuseed Oil Soap, Bast 6481. Foot of King street, SEATTLB. PAUL STEENSTRUP Brushes and all utensils for cleaning buildings. General contractor, concrete construction, paving, Phoue Main 2923, Ind. 4806. 1010 Post St., SE sewers and water mains. Phones: Main 6454, Ind. ATTLE. BOATS AND LAUNCHES. 5176. 505 Bailey Building, SEATTLB. WALSTAD MACHINE AND ELECTRIC CO. Launch machinery installation and repairing a spe IVAN P. LEE, HOT WATER HEATING AND THB DUST CLEAN CO., MANUFACTURERS OF cialty. General machine shop work. Light manufac steam fitting. Repair work a specialty. 734 Post a dust collecting and disinfecting compound. Carry turing. Phones, Sunset Main 7790; Home A 1447. street, Seattle. Main 2101, Ind. 601. complete lines of Janitors' supplies. Both phones, Works: East end Eleventh street bridge, Tide 902. 610 First Ave., SEATTLE. flats, TACOMA. COPPER WORK. MACHINERY. FRBD B. SOHL, BLOCKMAKER, WOOD TURN- J. H. ERICKSON, COPPERSMITH. STBAM ship, hotel, brewery and candy factory work a WESTERN MACHINERY CO., 2233 SECOND •r, Steering-Wheelwright; Heavy Purchase and Ave., SEATTLB. Ind. A 1157. Main Sheet Blocks a Specialty. Ind. A. 1405. specialty. General repair work. Main 1824. 1043 1802 Railroad Ave., SBATTLB. Railroad Ave. So., SEATTLB. Brick and Tile Machinery. Rock Pulverizers for Tube Mills, BOILERS, HEATING AND POWER. DRAFTSMEN. Automatic Weighing Scales, LOOK AT HERBERT BOILER COMPANY'S RAY A. WAGNER, SPOKANE. DRAWINGS Pltless Platform Scales, detachable fire-box boilers; smokelesss boilers; drop made for bungalows, mission residences, etc Mail Corn and Oat Crushers, tubes; hot water heaters—and YOU WILL SPECIFY orders solicited. Telephone Max. 3770. 1310 Nettie Power Transmitting Machinery of every description. THEM. A fuel saver. Sole agent for Pacific North Avenue, SPOKANE. STAR MACHINERY CO., INC. We BUY, SELL west, P. A. COSTELLO, 17 So. Washington Street, and exchange machinery of all kinds, manufac SPOKANE. ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS. ture a full line of saw and shingle mill machinery. B00X BINDERS AND PRINTERS. CITIZENS' ELECTRIC CO., wiring and fixture Write for monthly list. Main 802. Ind. 302. 1731- TRICK BINDERY & PRINTING CO., SEATTLB. work a specialty. Office phone Main 4019; residence 1735 lat Ave. So.. SEATTLE. Fin* commercial printing, book binding and pauer phone Main 3228. MARTIN JOHNSON, Manazer 7 PEARCE A HENDRICKS, MACHINISTS AND riling, loos* leaf ledgers, journals and cash books; Horton Street, GEORGETOWN, Wash ' tool makers; gear cutting and general repair work. billing systems of all kinds, sizes and styles. In Phone, Main 2217. 816 First Ave. South, SB ATTLB. dex cards, etc., mad* on short not lee. Bank and ELECTRO-PLATING. county supplies. W* are thoroughly equipped to SEATTLE MECHANICAL A ELECTRO-PLATING furnish anything that may be required, and the NOVELTY IRON WORKS, ENGINEERS AND Co. Nickel, copper, brass, gold and silver plating machinists. Manufacturers of laundry machinery. quality of our workmanship is unexcelled. Esti model makers. Specially equipped for large work mate* cheerfully furnished. Mill work and general repairing. Tel., Ind. X Tel. Ind. 6330. Rear Epler Block. SBATTLB 7187, 632 Westlake Ave., SEATTLB. May 1, 1909. PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER 43 NEW OR USED MACHINERY. FILING ROOM STORE AND OFFICE FIXTURES. Clapp A Clapp, 405 Mohawk Bldg. tools and supplies. HOLMES MACHINERY * SEATTLB WOODWORKING & MFG. CO. MAN- Cowley, A. W., 404 Jamieson Bldg. 8AW WORKS, Twenty-fourth and Pacific Ave., ufacturers of store, office and bank fixtures, in Cutter & Malmgren, Exch. Bank Bldg. TACOMA. terior finish, mautels, furniture and mill work. Ellis A Sanders, 502 Empire State Bldg. Goodwin, John M., 330 Pevton Bldg. Sunset, North 920. 452 Swing St., SEATTLE. Held, Albert, 607 Hyde Bldg. MINING AND CONVEYING MACHINERY. Jabelousky, 439 Peyton Bldg. JEFFREY MFG. CO., COLUMBUS, OHIO; RBP- STRUCTURAL STEEL. Jones, Alfred, 312 Mohawk Bldg. resented by Pacific Engineering Co., 76 Washington PACIFIC IRON WORKS. STRUCTURAL STEEL, Pond & Booth, Symons Blk. St., SEATTLB; 609 Lumber Ex. Bldg., PORTLAND. Castings; 1,500 ton beams in stock. E. end Burn Russell A Vincent, 305 Mohawk Bldg. side Bridge, PORTLAND. Smith, W. Arthur, 3-4 Golden Gate Bldg. Stritesky, L. R., 508 Empire Bldg. MACHINE TOOLS. Sweatt, R. C, 605 Jamieson Bldg. ^MANNING, MAXWELL & MOORB, NEW YORK, White, C. Ferris, 417 Peyton Bldg. represented by Pacific Engineering Co., 75 Wash Wood, Chas., 631-2 Peyton Bldg. ington St., SEATTLB; 509 Lumber Bx. Bldg., Tacoma. PORTLAND. Barton, Vere, 113 So. 8th street ARCHITECTS' DIRECTORY Bullard A Hill, 622 Provident Bldg. MARINE SUPPLIES Brack, Leonard, 603 Provident Bldg. EXCELSIOR SUPPLY CO.; state agents for Farrell, William, 304 Bank of Commerce. Smalley gasoline engines. Dealers in marine supplies Fuller & Mauley, 432 Provident Bldg. and equipment. New and used launches and gasoline Gove, George, 525 Provident Bldg. engines bought and sold. Phones, Main 5388. Ind. Heath A Twichell, 603 Fidelity Bldg. A 353. Ill Seneca street, SEATTLE. Albany, Oregon. C. F. W. Luudberg, 310 Provident Bldg. Potter A Merrill, 219-20 Provident Bldg. Hand, Wm. R., 318 W. First St. MILL WORK Russell & Babcock, 530 Provident Bldg. BELL STREET MILL CO.," INC. GENERAL Tacoma Arch. Co., 518 Bankers' Trust. Bellingham. Woodroofe A Constable, Fidelity Bldg. mill work, doors, sash, stairbuilding, store and Doan, T. F., 402-3 Sunset Bldg. office fixtures, mouldiugs, frames, turning and scroll Wells, B. B., 921 18th St. work. Phone, Main 5622. Bell at. and Elliott Sandpoint, Idaho, Ave., SEATTLE. Boise, Idaho. Foster & Mountjoy. Vancouver, Wn. MOULDING AND STICKER WORK. Hinckley, Arthur S.. 1313 Harrison Bvd. CANAL MANUFACTURING CO. GENERAL Tourtellotte & Co., J. C, Wellaud Bldg. Nichols, D. mill work, interior finishing. Job work promptly Butte. Walla Walla. attended to. Phoue: Queen Anne 1875. 347 West Osterman, Henry, Baker-Boyd Bldg. Biewett St., SEATTLB. Kent & Shanley, Hennessey Building. Kern & Co., M. D., Owsley Blk. Mulvane A Clancy, 24 Jaycox Bldg. Wenatch**. PATENTS. Chehalis, Wash. Sussex. J. W., Columbia Bldg. BARNES & CO., registered patent attorneys and Wilson & Co., (.'. Lewis, Garbe Bldg. mechanical engineers. Patents that protect. Free advice to inventors. Correspondence cheerfully an Coeur d'Alen*, Ida. swered. Write for book on patents, caveats, trade Kreig, H. M. marks, copyrights. Complete library United States Williams & Graham. patents. Foreign patents obtained. Main 5750. Everett. ' 76-77 Starr-Boyd bldg., SEATTLE. Turnbull. B. F. 411 Am. Bk. Bldg. MASON, FENWICK A LAWRENCE, PATENT Kennewick, Wn. EXPERTS, established 1861. Secure best patents Swingle, F. A. ENGINEERS' DIRECTORY in all countries, cheaply. Advice and guide book Lewiston, Idaho, free. 432 Burke Building, SEATTLE. Tourtellotte, J. E. & Co., Durt-Baker Bldg. North Yakima. J. F. WATSON, DeVeaux, W. W., Miller Bldg. Formerly of Washington, D. C. Write for free ad Nash, John vice. Main 839, Ind. L 1598. Room 344A Central Portland Bldg., SEATTLB. Thompson, A. K., Dudley Bldg. Olympia, Barstow, W. S., A Co., Failing Bldg. Gray, Howard F,„ 814 Boundary St. Newell, Gossett A Walsh, 32 Wash. Bldg. PATTERN MAKERS. Norrlin, C. H., 617 Worcester Bldg. I AM FULLY B.U1PPBD FOR PATTERN Pendleton, Ore. work, small model building and wood carving. A. Howard, T. F., Despaln Blk. Seattle M. HUMPHREY, Tel., Main 8004, 2022 Westlak* Pullman, Wn. Bates & Clark Co., Pacific Block Ave., SEATTLB. Bittman, H. W., 526 Central Block. 8wain, William Fuller, A. E., 317 Pacific Bldck Portland. Gleason, W. A., 334 Globe Bldg. PLUMBING. Clausseu & Claussen, 305 Board of Trade. Hill Brothers. 615 Pacific Block. A. F. RUSSELL, hot water aud steam heating Dittrich, H. C, 005 Worcester Bldg. McAllaster A Bennett, 703 Central Bldg. A SPECIALTY. Water works, plumbing, ice plants Doyle «_ Patterson, 423 Worcester Bldg. Powell, A. 0., 404 Central Bldg. and power work. Maiu 5900, Ind. 1848. 700 Post St., Faber, A. U., 213 Commercial Bldg. Seattle Engineering Co., Colman Bldg. SEATTLE. Fancher A Palmer, 517 Lumber Exch. Sinks, F. F., 409 Globe Bldg. Goodrich, King & Goodrich, Failing Bldg. Smith, C. IL, Colman Bldg. D. S. CROUGHAN, STEAM FITTING. Gas and Kroner, Ernst, 610Mi Worcester Bldg. Weld, F. F., 544 Central Bldg. plumbing contractor. Jobbing a specialty. Phoue Kable A Kable, tower, Chamber of Commerce. Western Enginers, 308 Arcade Bldg. York 66. 4210 Rainier ave., Columbia station, MacNaughton, Raymond & Lawrence, Concord Bldg. Spokane SEATTLE. McClaran, E. E., 525 Lumber Exch. Morgan, W. L., Falling Bldg. Goodwin, John M., 330 Peyton Bldg... COURTNEY PLUMBING A HBATINO CO., Murray A Austin, 362 Washington gt. Johnson, Edw. J., 326 Lindelle Bldg. JOHN P. COURTNEY, MANAGER. Sunaet Bast Travis & Wilson, 555 Sherlock Bldg. Tacoma 7»; Indeepndent 4701. Address, 1608 Broadway, Williams, D. L., 825 Chamber of Com. SBATTLB. Wrenn, J. 0.. 401-3 Board of Trade. Kauffman, Henry, 510 Cham, of Commerce Vancouver MODERN PLUMBING & HEATING CO., 600 Roseburg, Oregon. Seattle Boulevard, Seattle—Plumbing in all Its Straw, W. A. Howes, Robert, P. 0. Box 436 branch**; difficult j*b* solicited. Hot water, ateara Seattle. and hot air heating contracts. Special attention Aiken, Wm. C, 302 Central Bldg. to repairs. Phoaes, Main 6911; Ind. 3C51. Ballantlue A Peters, 403 Ceutral Bldg. Bebb A Mendel, 503 Denny Bldg. M. G. KNIGHT A COMPANY. SANITARY Beezer Bros., Northern Bk. & Tr. Bldg. •lumblng, heating, ventilating and gaalttlng. Re Bresemann A Durfee, 335 Central Bldg. Sealed Proposals pairs a apecialty. Telephone Main 4113. 017 Denny Breitung, C. Alf., 423-4 Walker Bldg. Way, SBATTLB. Bryc* A Co., H. B., 433 New York Blk. Buchinger, Theo., 305 Arcade Annex. FREMONT PLUMBING CO. PLUMBING AND Devereaux, A. F., 526 Central Bldg. gas fitting. Repairing promptly attended to; es- Proposals for Buildings. Department of Dose, C. C, A Co., 601 Oriental Bldg. the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, Wash timatea given. Phones: North 177, Green 116. Re»- Gould, A. Warren, 1212-17 Am. Bk. Bldg. ph*ne. North 308. 8512 Fremont avenue, 8BATTLB. Graham A Myers, 905-8 Lowman Blk. ington, U. C, April 23, 1909. Sealed pro- Houghton, B. W., 415-417 Collins Bldg. marked on the outside of the IVAN P. LEE, HOT WATER HEATING AND HowellS & Stokes, 700 White Bldg. ii envelope "Proposals for Buildings. •team fitting. Repair work a *pecialty. Main 2101, Huntington, D. R., 620 Colman Bldg. Puyallup School, Washington," and address Ind. 601. 734 Post street, Seattle. Knipe. Robt. T., 201 Lumber Exch. ed to the Commissioner cf Indian Affairs, SAWS-AND REPAIRS Lohman, George, 16 Hancock Bldg. will be received at the Indian Office, Wash HOLMES MACHINERY AND SAW WORKS. Mllner, Warren IL, 462 Arcade Annex. ington, D. C, until two o'clock p. m. of Band, gang, circular and crosscut saws. Slllngle- Place, W. N. G., 61 People's Bk Bldg. June 1, 1909, for furnishing materials and •*w grinding and all kinds of general repairing Russell A Rice, 609 Johnston Bldg. y to construct and complete TACOMA. Saunders A Lawton, 1319-21 Alaska Bldg. Sergeant & Arndt, 412 Washington Bldg. titory, .school-house, laundry, office and SHEET METAL WORK. Schack, Jas. IL, 64 Downs Blk. two employes' quarters at the Puyallup MOTOR BOAT TANK WORK A SPECIALTY. Sexton, F. A., 450 Arcade Annex. Schoi ngton, in strict accordance All work guaranteed. H. AMICK. 8hop Phone Somervell A Cote, 718-22 White Bldg. with the plans, specifications and instruc A 1970; Res. Phone Ind. 8303. Foot of King Spalding A Umbrecht, 423 Globe Blk. tions to bidders which may be examined at St., SEATTLE. Stephen & Stephen, 726 N. Y. Block. this office, the offices of the Improvement WESTLAKE SHEET METAL SHOlT Cornice Strassburger, H. E., 214 Oriental Blk. •tin. Minneapolis, Minn.; Construction work and everything in sheet metal and roofing. West, Thos. L., 911-12 White Bldg. News, Chicago, 111.; American Contractor, fad. 3575. 2222 Eighth Avenue, SEATTLE. Van Siclen, W. D., 60 Downs Blk. Chicago, 111.; Pacific Builder and Engineer, Voorhees, V. W., 412 Eitel Bldg. Seattle, Wash.; The Ledger, Tacoma, Wash.; SHOW CASER ~ White, W. P., 825-7 Central Bldg. EDWARD L. GOMOLL & CO., MANUFACTUR- Wilcox A Sayward, 720 Central Bldg. Post-Intelligencer, Seattle, Wash.; United ers of show cases, bank, office, cigar and stor* Willatzen A Byrne, 602-3 Crary Bldg. Stat, s Indian Wart-houses, Chicago, 111.; fixtures. Manufacturers of the "DIAMOND" pat tia, Xebr.; St Louis, Mo.; San Fran ented all plate show case, the most perfect show Spokane. cisco, Calif.; Xew York, N. Y.; Builders and case ever put on the market. Office, factory and Traders' Excha inneapolis, Minn.; St. salesrooms 2801-2811 Third Ave., Seattle. Phoue: Anderson, C. W., 419 Fernwell Bldg. Paul, -Minn., and Omaha, Xebr.; Xorthwest- Queen Anne 73. Ind. 2761. THB LARGEST AND Ballard Plannery, 517-18 Kuhn Bldg. Ein Manuic'cturers' Association, SL Paul, MOST UP-TO-DATB PLANT ON THB COA8T. Bergholtz, G. A. E., 417 Lindelle Bldg. 44 PACIFIC BUILDER AND ENGINEER Vol. 7, No. 18. •Minn., and at the school. For further in for the improvement of Maple street from of ihe U. S. Post Office and Custom House formation aptiiy to H. H. Johnson, Superin Bast Front street to the West line of Wild building at EUREKA. CAL., in accordance tendent, Tacoma, Washington. R. G. Val ing street; Magnolia stret from Gold street with the drawings and specifications, copies entine, Ac-ting Commissioner. to Buckner street; Pine street from Gold of which had at. this office or at 291; 5-1—3t. street to Buckner street; Main street from the office of ihe Postmaster nt EUREKA, East Front street to the west line of Berry CALIFORNIA, at tin- discretion of the Su- SEALED PROPOSALS street; Locust street from East Front ilhg Architect. __ street to the west line of Berry street; Wal .1 A A110S KNOX TAYLOR Proposals for Buildings. Department of nut street from East Front street to Gold the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, Wash Supervising Architect. street; Plum street from East Front street 287; 4-24—2t. ington, D. C, April 19, 1909. Sealed pro- to the west line of Diamond street; East pals, plainly marked on the outside of the Front street from North line of Maple NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS sealed envelope, "Proposals for Day School t to South line of Plum street; Gold Buildings, Klamath Agency, Oregon," and e1 front Maple street to Plum street; The Board of Directors of School District addressed to the Commissioner of Indian Diamond street from Maple street to Locust No. 46, Wenatchee Chelan County, Wash- Affairs, Washington, D. C, will be received t; Buckner street from the south line ,n, will receive sealed Blda up to 12:00 at the Indian Office until two o'clock p. m. of Girrard street to Locust street and be o'clock noon, Thursday, May 6th, 1909, at of May 27, 1909, for furnishing materials tween said points by grading said streets and labor necessary to construct and com the office of the Clerk of tfie Board, for to the established grade. Also the con • Mowing Items: plete buildings, with cisterns or wells, for struction and placing of all necessary storm three day schools on the Klamath Reserva ITEM I. drains, sidewalks, cross walks, curbs and I'oi and completion of a tion, Oreg., in strict accordance with plans, gutters as shown by the plans and speci specifications and instructions to bidders, Brick High School Building complete, ex- fications now on file in the office of the cepting Plumbing and Heating. which may be examined at this office, the City Clerk, and under the supervision of the offices of the Improvement Bulletin, Minne ITEM 2. «, City Engineer. Plans and specifications For the Heating ami Ventilating Plant apolis, .Minn., and the Pacific Builder and now on file in the office of the City Clerk, Engineer, Seattle, Wash.; the U. S. Indian. ove named School. and under the supervision of the City En rTEM 3. . , Warehouse at Chicago, 111., Omaha, Nebr.; gineer. Plans and specifications will be fur St. Louis, Mo., and San l-rancisco, Calif.; nished on application. For the Plumbing and Drainage ot above the Builders ami Traders' Exchanges at St. l School. Paul and Minneapolis, Minn., and Omaha, ment to 1 a Improvement Dis- All of tlie above items to be executed Xebr.: the Northwestern Manufacturers' As 7 per cent interest. to the plans Hons sociation, St. Paul, Minn., and at the school. The estimated cost of the above improve prepared by STEPHEN .V- STEPHEN, Ar- For further information apply to Horace ment is $18,559. chitects, of Seattle, Washington. (.!. Wilson, Superintendent, Klamath Agency, Bids to be filed in the office of the City ITEM 1. Oreg. R. G. Valentine, Act'g. Conim'r. _ on or before 5 o'clock P. M. May 4th, - tin- erection and completion ofa tour- l»09. briCk school building according to 290; 5-1—3t. Each bid to be accompanied by a certified plans and specifications prepared by J. W. k for the sum of 5 per cent of the con- Sussex. e, Washington. HEATING CONTRACT i'rice. Plans and S] ms will be on file Sealed bids will be received until May The successful bidder to execute a good at the office of (li-- Clerk of the Board, 14, 1909, at the office of J. E. Tourtellotte and sufficient bond to cover cost of con Wenatchee, ami al of STEJ HEN & Co.. archts., Lewiston, Ida., for the labor tract, and any damages. & STEPHEN, ew York Build and materials to be used in tlie extension The Council reserves the right to reject ing. Seattle, Washin to the third floor of the heating system of any or all bids. Each hid sul.mil le,; must, be accompanied the Administration building, University of By order of the City Council, April 13, by a certified cheok drawn in favor of School District Xo. 40, Chelan County, Idaho, Moscow, Ida. 1909. : The bids are to be opened at Moscow, May W. H. HODGE, City Clerk. Washington, in amout lows: 15, 1909. The right is reserved to reject 285; 4-17—3t. Bid i for .$.".00.00. any or all bids. ' wo, check for $300.00. 292; 5-1—2t. Bid three, check for $300. I. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Office of the Hid four, check for $400.00. Supervising Architect, Washington, D. C, NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS The Hoard of I MI the right April 14, 1909. SEALED PROPOSALS will eel any or all bids. Notice is hereby given that sealed pro be received at this office until 3 o'clock Al.til 21, 1909. posals will be received by the City Coun P. M. on the 24th day of May, 1909, and .mux ,\. GHHLATLY, Clerk. cil of the City of Centralia, Washington, then opened for the construction complete 280; 4-24—2t. BUYERS' GUIDE Contractors ARCHITECTS—NAVAL. Pacific Engineering Co. McAllaster A Bennett Webster Mfg. Co. ARCHITECTS' SUPPLIES ASBESTOS. Mitchell, Geo. E. Johns-Manville Co. Magnesia-Asbestos Sup. Co. ARCHITECTS—DECORATORS. BANK FIXTURES. Weissenborn. Chas., & Co. ARCHITECTS—IRON AND STEEL. Camp-TeRoller Agcy. Camp-TeRoller Agcy. Coast .Mill ^ Fixture Co. Crowe, F. T., & Co. Crowe, F. T., & Co. Dally, S. W. R. Fryer, I>. B., & Co. Fryer, D. E., & Co'. Pacific Door A Mfg. Co. Minneapolis Steel & Mch. Co. Seattle Bank .v.- Store Fix. Co. Moran Company BEVELING—GLASS, Northwest Bridge Works Tacoma Mirror