The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1910-03-31
CAPT. McCAN BUYS
HALL BUILDING
ARTISAN LOT SOLD TO MCDONALD
Two Big City Deals and Many Trans
fers In Orchard Lands Mark Heavy
Week In Real Estate.

The hall building has been purohss
ed from Charles and h. o. Hall BY
Capt. Charles p. MoCan at a price
10 the neighborhood OF $50, 900, thu
exact price not being given out 10y thl
parties OF the deal The Hall struo
ture which Is the most modern auC
hest equipped block in the city hav
Ing frontage of 100 feet ON Oal
Street and running 65 feet deep Ions
Second street, was purchased by Capt.
McCRn as au investment. The build
ing was completed aud occupied Just
one year ago and while the Halls
netted a big profit In the money they
had invested, 1t is an excellent pro.
perty and will yield the new owner
large return on his Investment.
Capt, McCan, who came here from
New Orleans less than three months
ago has invested heavily in Hood
River and is now the owner OF over
$780, 900 worth of property here in
Guiding city and valley property. He
yaid SAT. 900 for 80 acres on the west
side which he Ia improving and dew
eloping into country place and a
few weeks ago he paid $40, 900 for the
half block now occupied by the
Hood River Box Co.
A second big deal In city property
oonsummated this week was the puI-
chase by Mayor d. Mcdonald of the
quarter block belonging to the AR.
tisan Building Association at the
| northwest corner OF Third and
Cascade streets. The price paid for
the lot, which is occupied by the
Mcdonald implement store, was
sl4, 600. The Guiding only covers
one half of the lot and it is the in
tention OF the new owner to erect a
modern business structure upon the
corner In the near future.
A number of big deals in the
valley orchard lands have been ol osed
up this week. W. j. Baker x Co. :,
report the sale of 20 acres OF improv.
cd property three and half miles
out on the west side from Rev. j. W.
Jenkins to DI. John Westervelt, of
Plaintieid, N. }. The price paid was
$4,000 Or. Westervelt who is a den.
t,st, was out here last fall and looked
the valley over. lie eXpeo's to bring
his family here and make his home
in Hood River In couple of months.
DR.. Westervelt practiced dentistry
for a number of years in Europe.
Mlcheal Pendergast, of TT. Worth,
Tex, has bought the James Church.
ward place across from the Pine
Grove school, paying Sll, 500 for ten
and half acres, eight acres being in
orchard. Mr.. Pendergast returned
to TT. Worth and will Ering his
tanally here next month.
b. h. Duncan IL Co., report the
sale of the Copple place on the egst
side south of fuckers Bridge to
Clyde s. Mason, formerly OF Chicago.
Mr.. Mason has been Investigating the
valley for several months and 10
nephew OF j. K. Shelton, of Grand
Rapids, who has an orchard here.
The Copple place consists OF 70 acres
OF two year old orhoaTd.
The Willamette Trust d Investment
Co, has bought 40 acres of partially
improved land in Mosier from b. h.
Columbia Orchard tract and which
the company expects to subdivide
and sell in small tracts. About %
acres of this land is already in
orchard. The new company has been
by II. q. Brock, j. b.
Knapp, ID. W. Taylor and +. }.
Iiegler, OF Portland. MIR. Duncan
has also sold 40 acres of improved
and In Mosier to Fred N. Patterson,
of Wenatehee. The Duncan company
al so reports the sale. of 40 acres OF
Mosier land by Il. Ii. Hartwig to A.
J. Derby.