The herald., 1897-12-23
brick with pressed brick front and plate

, brick with pressed brick front and plate
glass windows; composition roof, plumb
ing, etc.
Fred r. Dorm is preparing plans, for
A. w. Rhodes and M. N. Ruddock, joint
| owners, of three-story and basement
brick building, 79x1O2 feet, with pressed
brick and terra Gotta front, to be erected
on the west side of Broadway, between
First and Second streets; it will contain
four store rooms on the first floor; the
two upper floors will be divided into
offices and will contain fifty-two rooms
besides lavatories, etc.; the inside finish
will be of oak.
Austin & SHILLING have prepared plans
of building for the. California hospital; ;
1t is to be erected on Hope street, near
the corner of Fifteenth, and will cover a
floor space of 72x9S feet; 1t will contain
| sixty-eight rooms, including two operat-
ing rooms, having marble floors and
wainscoting. The building will be of
frame, three stories and attic, and of
French Renaissance style of architec-
ture. The inside finish will be of Oregon
pine; the floors in all the halls and rooms
will be polished, the halls to be wains-
coted with Alpine hard plaster to imi-
tate marble; gas and electric lighting
will be employed, and the building will
be heated by hot air, with forced system
| Of ventilation; roofs to be partially of
shingles and gravel
The Mcdonald Company of this city
is about to erect a Touring mill here.
The intention is to erect plant with a
capacity of 200 bbls. per day, and for
1,tta1 will htrf div,tr fixr.
stories in height, with warehouses, etc,
Is to be erected. The buildings will oc-
cupy ground space of about f0x3O0 feet
the floors of the warehouse will be of
concrete. 1t is expected that the plant
will be located near the Spreckles ware
house on East Second street.
A two-story brick store building, for
Mrs. c. B. Hickey, on South Broadway,
between Fourth and Fifth, is to be put
up at cost of about $4,000
Edward T. Earl is building a fine resi-
dence on Wiltshire boulevard near
Carondelet.
Flower street, between Tenth and
Eleventh, is to have a cement sidewalk
Quite number of contracts have been
let for the erection OF dwelling houses
during the past week.
The foundation of q new Methodist
church is being laid at North Ontario.
The board of supervisors has adver-
tised for sealed bids for the grading of
Ocean avenue, from top of bluff to road
in old Santa Monica canon
j. G. Elliott of this city has petitioned
the board of trustees of Santa Monica
for a franchise to construct wharf, for
pleasure, fishing and commercial pur-
poses. to be built at Railroad avenue and
extend out into the ocean from 800 to
1900 feet.
A franchise has been granted A..
Campbell-Johnson to build a bridge
across the Arroyo Seco, near the foot of
Columbia street, Pasadena, and main
tain q toll road through the San Rafael
ranch. This will form quite cutoff be-
tween Pasadena and Los Angeles.
The new Bradbury building, now un-
der way at the corner of First and Board
way, will have two additional stories
added to it, making it a seven-story
building, provided the public library will
rent the proposed extra floor space.
1t is expected that the board of trus-
tees of San Diego normal school will ad-
vertise for plans and specifications of
primary building to cost $4,000 in a
few days. The amount has been curtailed
to enable them to pay the running ex-
penses of it. for the first year and at
the same time come within the limit of
the appropriation available-$5O,00O.
Bids for the completion of the unfin-
ished portion of the Long Beach high
school buildings are called for.
Bids for the construction of building
for women nurses at Soldiers Home are
also called for.
Excavations for the beet sugar fac
tory at Ventura are progressing rap
idly. 1t Is estimated that there will be
5000 tons of machinery and about 1000
carloads of stone, cement, etc., re-
quired for the building.
The Arizona Sandstone company's
quarries at Flagstaff are idle at this
season Of the year. The product of the
quarries is seen in Los Angeles and San
Francisco; in Portland, Oregon, in the
Oregonian building, and in far-off Kan
sas, to say nothing of all over Arizona.
1t is rumored there are parties in Tue
son. from California, who are there for
the special purpose of making an inves-
tigation Of the marble resources of Ari-
zona. 1t is feared that the California
supply of marble will not be sufficient
to build the San Francisco postoffice.
The supply of marble in this territory
is inexhaustible and it's quality is equal
If not superior to the Italian or Vermont
marble.