The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-02-15
PROOF OF PROSPERITY
BUILDING BUSINESS IN DALLAS,



A HERALD reporter VIA yesterday assigned
10 tho work Of getting In tangible form the
principal improvements now In progress or In
0 interpolation In Dallas, To show the conf
denoe tho representative men Of the city
have In la future. The Investment Of large
suma Of money In real estate transactions and
heavy outlay In the erection Of now buildings
and extensions, Is the best evidence Of faith
In tho future Of Dallas that can posslbly DO
given. Only part of the gentlemen known
to be engaging heavily In thoso internal Inn
proyemons and whom II was desired 10 SOC
could DO found, but tho result was exceed
ngy satisfactory.
MoSsp. Kain y Campbell are
just putting tho finishing touches
on two new businws houses on Main
street. between PSydras and Martin
streets. They are I50r75 foot, two stories
high, and cost $1,000! These gentlemen are
also improving their building adjoining the
81. George hetel on tho west, at an outlay Of
$500.
Mr.. o, u. Splitter has now under good
constructive Roadway two.story brick
building for business purposes. on the south
side OF Elm street, inEast Dallas II 10 of
brick, 26x6O feet, md will cost about
| $4,000.
The heavy wholesale grocery firm Of
Schneider u Davis now doing business in
the large building ut the corner of Elm and
Lamar find their facilitbs too limited for the
demands of tho times, abd are about TO COM
mence the erection of u mammoth structure
on Elm and Market streets and Pacific avenue.
The dimensions of the buildings will be so feet
on Elm, 100 on Marked and 30 on Pacific
avenue. II will be two stbries high, and have
II basement 50Kl00 feet. They have left ten
feet space in the rear forl track from the
Texas & Pacific road. I'he building will be
so constructed that loadhg and unloading
can be done inside. The design of the
building is what is known rs commercial
gothic, with iron front, 1t will be ready for
occupancy by June lst and will cost
$4,000.
|. Freiberg & Co., wholesale grocers, are
improving and extending their present bust
ness house, corner Lamar and Elm streets.
The Block II Jet building, in the rear, has
been consolidated with 1t, giving them
frontage of 40 feet on Elm street, 1870 ON La
mar and 40 on Pacific avenue. The brick
partition between the two houses is to be re-
moved, the heavy goods to be handled on tho
Pacific avenue side and the retail business on
the Elm street side. Tho upper story is to
be occupied by n new gents furnishing and
notion firm, composed of three of the sales
men in Sanger Bros. and n young man from
Galveston. Messrs Freiberg u Co.'S inn
provements will cost them about $500,
when they will have one of the best houses
in the city. They promise not to block
AIDE the sidewalk when the improvements arc
completed.
II. l.. Marsais is now erecting what will be,
when completed zone of the largest whole
sale houses IN the city. 1t is in the business
centre, and is being built on what is termed
the modern grocery house plan. 1t has
frontage Of fifty fleet on Elm, fifty
feet on Main, an two hun red feet
on Murphy street, extending through
the block. The buildingis to be of stone and
brick, two stories high, with basement 50x
100 feet. The total frontuge will be 800
feet, and in every particular it will DO of
the most modern and convenient character.
II will be ready for occupancy by the first of,
June, and will cost $4,000. 4
Huey & PHILIP, hardware dealers, have Sc
cured the location on the north side of Elm
street. adjoining Schoelkopf & Go. on the
east, and will Immediately start work on a
two-story brick 50xlS0 feet, extending
through to Pacific avenue. 1t will be COM
pleted by August FIRST aud will cost $4,000.
Schoelkopf u Co. are to improve and ex-
tend their building An addition of eighty
feet is TO be erected in the rear, carrying it
back to Pacific avenue. The extension will
be completed at an early day, at an outlay of
5000.
Mrs. Cockrell has let the contract and
work will begin soon, on Q two-story brick or
Elm street, in the same vicinity as Huey Il
Philip. The building is TO be 50xl50 feet,
will be for general mercantile purposes, and
will cost $4,000.
Rev. MIR. Thompson, Of Marshall, has lot
the contract for two new brick business
houses on Elm street. adjoining Doyle's feed
store. They are to be 25x75 feet each, two
stories high, and will cost $4,000
Mr.. Metedith will build brick business
house 50xS0 feet, at the corner of Main and
Sycamore. Vt will be two-stories high and
for general b1siness purposes. The cost will
be about $l1 ,0O0.>
Judge A. B. Norton's magnificent three
story stone building, corner Elm and Syca-
more streets, is now approaching completion.
1t is of semi-Roman architectural design,
and will cost $4,000, and will BIO ready for
occupancy early in March. The stone used
in its construction was quarried on the
Judges land, just north of the city, and turns
out to be magnificent quality of building
material, hardening by exposure. The third
story of the building is designed to be used
by the Federal court, the second-story for
offices, and the ground-foor for general
business purposes. 1t may eventually be
converted into hotel, as it has in the second
and third-stories about forty first-class rooms.
In the event of its being so converted,
We feel positive the Judge will
chrsten it the Clay house, in
honor to the memory of the departed Sage
of Ashland, for whom the Judge reveren-
tally wears his ancient and elongated locks. |
Colonel George II. Afford will put up an
addition to his present handsome home at
the corner Of HARDWOOD and San Jacinto |
streets. 1t will consist of six rooms and two
double bay windows. 1t will be completed |
in about a month, and cost $500, making |
the aggregate cost of bis residence $4,000.
Mr.. W. A. Rogers, the Elm street hard |
ware merchant, has now under contract fine
frame residence on San Jacinto street, oppo-