The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-02
ACTIVITY N Bu|LDIle.
Many improvements New Going on
and New Enterprises That
Will Follow.
4 New Grand Opera House. Com
bined With . Hotsl Pro-
jected


The building season IN Helena - very 90
tive, and before snow hies Some costly edi-
fioss will be under way. Contracts are be-
ing let for the construction Of nearly q
dozen private residences in the new Lenox
addition which will cost all the way from
$4,000 to $1,000 each. Contracts are also
being let for work ON the new High school
building, and yesterday the contract fol
furnishing tho granite was let to tho Mon
tana Granite company. An idea Of what
this building will BE- may 30 cleaned from
the statement that It will require ninety
four carloads Of cut stone. Work on the
Granite block is progressing rapidly, and
when completed this building will be one Of
the imposing business edi6ces of Helsna'a
principal thoroughfares. The Montana
National bank building 10 undergoing 4
change Of front that for architectural
beauty will have no equal in this north
western country. Work on the Chamber Of
Commerce building will have to begin be-
fore long, in accordance with the agree
ment BY which the site was secured free
of cost. Work on the Jewish temple
will also begin soon. and no
less than two hundred attractive houses
are going up in the east and west sides.
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quois building, including. very pretty
front of panel work, while the interior
Of his saloon has been similarly improved
and the whole will be set off by tile floor.
But what will be one of the biggest enter
prises of the year is now under serious con.
sideration, and all citizens Of Helena will
hope that it will be carried to successful
completion. This is the erection of mann
moth hotel and opera house, one having a
.rontage ON Main street and the other on
Sixth avenue. A. N. Hotter, one of Hell
ena's wealthiest and most enterprising citi-
Gems, is the principal mover in the scheme,
az he owns the land, while in the construc
derstood that the veteran theatrical mana
ger. John Mcguire, will be associated with
him. This would be most commendabte
undertaking, and than the location spoken
of, there is none in the city more suitable
or better adapted for the purposes. The
the Bailey and Gold blocks, and will
extend back to the rear of
VIII ba Joined fom the opera bouss
covering the site Of the recent fire and ex-
tending northward to Sixth avenue ad join
ing the Power block. The cost Of the opera
house alone. it is estimated, will be about
$100, 600. 1t will be not only an ornament
to that neighborhood Of palatial business
blocks, but an amusement temple that will
last for all time. The hotel will be first
class travelers' resort and in every way met
ropolitan. The necessity for an opera
house is continually growing as the city ex-
pands and no more central location for
such house than the one proposed, could
be suggested. Every citizen Of Helena will
join in the hops that this enterprise will
not be permitted to 60 by default, as il
would not only rebound to the credit of its
projectors and the good Of the community
but would prove an everlasting monument
to the men who carried it out.
The electric light company has begun
work on its new building, whore it il pro.
posed to establish an immense electrical
plant, which, beside furnishing light will
supply power for industrial purposes.
The Second National bank will soon ex-
tend its quarters BY occupying the rooms
formerly nsed BY Porter, Muth d Cog, and
will introduce mortgage and loan Office in
+. H. Kleinschmidt q Co. will, it is under
stood, establish DAlk in the Granite
ing built, and this withthp Helena National
and American National, eoon to start bust
ness, and for which their quarters in the
Power block are being fitted up, will give
Helena total of nine banks.
The Missouri River Power company's en-
terprise of creating an immense electrical
power at the Missouri, for manufacturing
purposes, is progressing favorably and the
work of constructing q big dam will I'M
doubleday begin this year. Helena is in
the throes Of prosperity and an uninter-
'rupted period Of increased activity in every
branch OF business and trade has already
begun.