East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1864-05-11
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GRANT BLOCK.

This new Brick Block, which is tho
first venture Of tho kind on Washing
ton st. South of the Bancroft House
albeit it is an innovation on the pre-
conceived ideas of others who were i'm
pressed with the belief that the bust
ness tendencies Of the city were all in
other directions, or those who believed
business could be circumscribed with
in the limits Of a very small circle, Of
which the Bancroft was the "herb, !"
is ON institution, and more than that,
though hardly out Of its embryo
stages, and by no means "out of the
wet" for the trowel is but just clear
from its glstening walls--a success.
Tho Block, which is 70x80 feet ON the
ground, two stories high, has hand
some iron front below, stone sills and
curved iron window caps in second
story and is divided into three stores,
each 22x7S feet in the clear, with cor
responding rooms above; these are oc-
cupied as follows, commencing, of
course, at the North East corner:
First FlOor.-lst and I'd stories by
AKIN & BADcocK as Crockery, Glass
ware and Carpet store. Messrs. A.
& B. have as yet received but small
portion of their stock, but have here
and en- route by far the most extensive
and most extensively diversified as
sortment Of goods in this line ever
brought into the Saginaw market.
Second Store.-1st and I'd stories oc-
cupied by L. WOKE, as Dry Goods
store, and already filled with large
and elegant assortment of everything
that pertains to this branch Of trade.
Third StOre.-1st story not yet oc-
cupied, but rented to Mr.. CRUM, by
whom it will soon be filled with a
stock of Yankee Notions and General
Merchandise.
The second story over the third
store is occupied by the Courier News
paper and Job Printing Office, which
when complet, with the Type, Press
os, aud Machinery on hand and en-
route, and the fixtures in process of
construction, will be second to no 'es-
adjustment Of the kind in Northern
Michigan.
All the business institutions in the
block start out under the most en-
couraging circumstances, have "ample
room and verge enough" for present
convenience and future expansion, and
oil are eminently satisfied with the
structure and locality they do thus, for
business purposes, inhabit.
Mr.. John A. Wells has given to st.
Luke's Hospital, the four lots on La
fontain street, instead Of selling them
to the Hospital. The generosity de-
serves a handsome mention.-Detroit
Advertiscr g. Tribune.
Mr.. Wells, above mentioned, is not
only a gentleman of extreme liberality
but is also one Of the most sagacious
business men in Michigan. lie has
lived in Detroit thirty years, and was
for number of years Cashier of the
Farmers & Mechanics Bank, the bust
ness Of which position he transacted
with such care and good judgment as
to fully establish his reputation as a
sound and far-seeing fnancier Mr..
w. has recently become interested in
the Emerson property in this city, so
in controversy, and, with others
4terested, has made arrangements
whereby the whole, comprising some
seven hundred of the finest lots within
our corporate limits, will at once be
brought into market. 1t is certainly
an encouraging sign to see gentle
man of the well known reputation of
Mr.. w. take an interest Of this char
acter in our thriving young city, and
men of less experience will do well to
heed his action in the promises.