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Rh the corner of F and Eighteenth streets, forty thousand dollars. There were many others of elegant design costing twenty thousand dollars and less.

During the year 1884 there were built seventy-five large dwellings, thirty-six brick houses and blocks, and other buildings, bringing up the total to two hundred and eleven. For business houses there was spent six hundred and twenty-two thousand dollars; for residences, three hundred and forty-nine thousand five hundred dollars; for other improvements, seven hundred and eleven thousand seven hundred dollars, making a total of one million six hundred and eighty-three thousand, six hundred dollars.

East Portland's improvements footed up three hundred and forty-one thousand seven hundred dollars, and those of Sellwood and Albina, seventy-five thousand dollars. On street improvements in Portland there was spent three hundred and thirty-four thousand five hundred and fifty-five dollars and seventeen cents. Grace church was erected at a cost of forty-two thousand five hundred dollars, on the corner of Eleventh and Taylor streets. Pipe organs costing about three thousand dollars each were placed in two churches.

During the year following there was some decline in improvements, but as there was also a great decrease in the cost of materials, it was a good time to build, and those sagacious and able took advantage of the opportunity to erect some very handsome and costly structures, which have given character and tone to the appearance of the city. Among these may be mentioned the Portland Savings Bank, of brick, on the southwest corner of Second and Washington streets (Commercial block), at a cost of seventy-five thousand dollars; Jacob Kamm's brick block on Pine street between Front and First, eighty thousand dollars; the high school building on Twelfth and Morrison, sixty thousand dollars; M. F. Mulkey's brick block on the corner of Second and Morrison, forty thousand dollars; Weinhard's brick brewery, fifteen thousand dollars. R. B. Knapp's residence, completed this year, cost ninety thousand dollars; Pfunder's unique Swiss residence on Ninth and Washington, ten thousand dollars. About two hundred dwellings were erected at a cost of three hundred and ninety thousand dollars. Improvements were made in East Portland to the value of one hundred and two thousand nine hundred dollars, and in Albina of twenty thousand dollars, making a grand total of nine hundred and sixty-four thousand four hundred dollars.

By the state census of 1885, the population of Multnomah County was placed at thirty-five thousand seven hundred and thirty-two; about three-fourths of this should be attributed to Portland.

The year 1886 was marked by a great increase in buildings and improvements, some of which were of great extent, as will be seen by the following list: Morrison street bridge (commenced), two hundred thousand dollars; the new medical college, thirty-five thousand dollars; the reduction works in East Portland, fifty thousand dollars; Reed's five story brick building (The Abingdon) on Third street, between Washington and Stark, ninety-five thousand dollars; the United Carriage, Baggage and Transportation Co's. barn, twenty-five thousand dollars; the four story brick stable on Second street between Stark and Washington, twenty-seven thousand dollars; vessels built and improved, sixty-eight thousand, five hundred dollars. The stone church of the Presbyterians was projected at a cost of one hundred thousand dollars. The grand total of all improvements actually made, reached one million, nine hundred and eighty nine thousand, one hundred and ninety-one dollars.

The year 1887 witnessed a steady expansion in building, and improvements. The residence of Levi White on Nineteenth street, (now North Pacific Sanatorium) forty-five thousand dollars; The Armory, on Tenth and B streets, forty thousand dollars; W. S. Ladd's brick building at the foot of Morrison street, sixty-five thousand dollars; improvements on the Oregonian building by H. L. Pittock, eighteen thousand dollars; the four story brick building of C. H. Dodd, on the comer of First and A streets, seventy-seven thousand dollars; the build-