Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1893-09-28

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preston in financial and business
circles, which has been upon our
entire country for the past months
of the summer, Mesa has been making
a steady, solid growth. This shows
that the owners of property have an
abiding faith in the future of our
growing city. and that they are en-
terprising and public spirited. Nearly
or quite all of the improvements that
have boon made, too, are of the most
solid and substantial kind, and would
do credit to any city. Among these
improvements it gives us pleasure to
refer to the new brick hotel building
of w. A. Kimball, which is just now
in course of completion. 1t is three
story fronting forty feet on Main
Street, by eighty feet deep. Its arch
itecture is modern, the front is a
double octagon and constructed of
pressed brick, A twelve foot hall
extends through the center of the
building OH both the first and second
floors and in the arrangement of the
rooms special reference was. had to
convenience, comfort and thorough
ventilation. The first floor contains
a number of elegant rooms en- suite,
and dining room and kitchen, etc,
besides large bath room supplied
with hot and cold water. The two
large front rooms in suite, each with
double bay windows have already
been engaged by letter for the winter
by eastern parties. On the second
floor are the large elegant parlars
occupying the front Of the building
and ON this floor in addition are four
teen large thoroughly ventilated bed
rooms and bath room, also supplied
with hot and cold water. The third
floor contains ten bed rooms, while
surmounting the building is an OBJ
servatory from which visitors and
guests may obtain a magnificent view
of far away mountain and wide ex
tending plain, a landscape such as for
beauty and grandeur cannot be sur
passed on the continent. Old Super
stitian. enveloped in an atmosphere of
wild, wierd mystery by the beautiful
Pima tradition of the lost Toltec race,
magnificent and awe inspiring in rug
ged solitude, together with Catalina
one hundred miles away near Tucson,
Four Peaks, Mcdowell and Mount
Reno rise up, ard while often th cir
rocky SUBMITS are bathed in a food
of warm sunlight. the thunder and
lightning of the storm king play
around their inaccessible sides.
These together with view Of rlain and
other peaks, ranges and lesser buttes
form a landscape that charms and
enraptures every beho!der, and pre-
sents a panorama unsurpassed and
indispensable, embracing al points
of the compass when viewed from the
observatory of the new Kimball House.
A AZ foot veranda extends along
the front and west side of the building,
on the first and second story.
The building is hard finished
throughout and finished in the very
best manner. The furnishing will be
of the very best, and we can endorse
the declaration of one who lately WIS.,
tied the building when he said, "Some
buildings in the territory are larger,
but none are equal to it. in design,
arrangement, architecture or finish
and from no other is presented such
overwhelmingly beautiful landscapes.
Mr.. Kimball informs us that he
re ,eives letters almost every day from
California and eastern parties en-
gaging rooms. Mesa ought to be
proud of such building and of the
enterprise which prompts it's con-
tructioa.