Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-01-01

warehouse of L. Zeckendorf & Co.,, which will cost about $10,000.
 Wm. B. Hooper & Co.'s two ware houses cost $7000.
 Salazar's residence, on the Military Plaza, cost $950O.
 George Roskruge's residence, next to Salazar's, cost $2500.
 Judge Woods improvements foot up $2OOO.
 The Arizona and California Lumber Company has made Improvements amounting to 5000. J. N. Mason's franc residence was built for S25OO.
 John Maguire's saloon cost him s75O.
 MT. Hunts Sacramento Restaurant, frame building, is worth 5000.
 MT. Brickwedel's restaurant. ad- joining, $500.
 The Excelsior Restaurant, $500.
 D.. J. Bolyn has invested 5000 in a neat residence on Congress street and Military Plaza.
 The activity Tn building around the Military Plaza is not exceptional, for in every direction the sound of the hammer is heard. Old adobe houses are being repaired, new and better ones erected, and frame and brick houses seem destined h few years to drive the homely adobe out of the building line.
 Among other improvements we ob- served in our walk around town were the following: MT. Scholte's house, corner of Congress street and Maiden Lane, $500
 The building occupied by T. F. Ryan, the wholesale liquor merchant, owned by R. Fraser, $500; also, build Ing on Slone avenue, owned by the latter. S25O.
 O'Rourke's Lodging House, on Main street, remodeled, SlOO0. Union Saloon, changes in tho build ing. s9OO.
 Sinclair's Sample Rooms, improve ments. S200.
 Munich Beer Halle, on Mesilla street, s25O.
 L. NJ. Jacobs residence, 5000. B. Jacobs tenements, 15O feet long, corner of Meyer and Washington streets, s5OOO.
 Judge Morgan's neat residence, Fourth avenue, $2500.
 Mrs. Miller's house, corner of Main and Mccormick streets, 5000.
 The residence of W. A. Scott, Jr., on Cemetery street, $1200.
 The new houses of ex- Delegate Stevens, Washington and Main streets, 5000.
 The residence of s. Straus, S2OO0.
 $. Drachman's residence, $500.
 Mir. Mundeliu. new brewery, cost s2OOO.
 John Bruckner's new residence, cost 5000.
 Leopoldo Csrrillo has expende d s1O, ,OOO on improvements on bis prop erty.
 The County Hospital, erected at 6 cost of S15, 900, is one of the institu- | tions of Tucson, and a credit to the Catholic Church.
 Mr. O'DonnelPs foundry, cost 5000 is situated beyond the depot.
 R. G. Balcom has expended, for himself and others, in the neighbor- hood of Military Plaza, about $lO,OOO
 P. Abadie & Co. have invested S277S in improvements on their property.
 Col. James has improved the town to the extent of sSOOO.
 Albert H. Rosenstock has improved his barber shop, on Congress street opposite the Post Office, 5000.
 The Vienna Bakery has expended $500.
 We are under obligations to A. w Pattianni for valuable information furnished on these statistics, though of course, most of it had to be gath cred up. We estimate that there have been s1OO,OO of improvements o winch we could get no record. Thi' certainly makes a good showing. Al the improvements aggregate s50O, 900 which shows that Tucson is liv' town.
 In the above review of the building features of the past year, we do no claim to present full list of the i'm provements which have taken place The greatest advance in this regard l in the spirit of emulation which ha been created among our people. On ' year ago our people were content t live with very different surrounding than those of to-day or the future ! The general feeling that residence Tucson was only to be temporary that a home in another country was | be looked forward to-has given plac 10 a sentiment of greater content VII the conditions with which nature hi surrounded life sH shs frsntisr