The oasis., 1898-12-31

streets which crOss iJ The piers fo
 the bridges were finished some week
 ago, the iron for the superstructurei
 has been received and the bridges vii
 be completed early in 1899
 In May an annex to the building Uc
 cupied by Jos. PaschOly Co.,, on Nor. | ley avenue, was erected.
 The first of June property owners
 on the government reservation of six ! ty feet, along the lnterna innal
 boundary at NOgales, were notified tO
 vacate, and some of them did SO at
 once. Captain L. w. Mix being the first tO demulish building at the corner Of International street and So.
 nolta avenue By several extensions
 Of time granted by the authorities
 the strip wa. not all completely
 cleared until NOvem Der 25th.
 On June 9th Mir A. L. Peck com
 menced work on d two story adobe
 residence building on his property on SunOlta avenue. It was completed
 and occupied August lst. Part of the
 material used came from building owned by MT. Peck at the corner of
 International street and Nelson ave
 nue, which was within the strip or dered cleared by the general govern ment.
 In June MT. Theo. Gebler demol- ished building on International street, within the strip and used the material to erect a new building on his lot on SOnoita avende Another building belonging to the same owner, on Nelson avenue. which was partly upon the strip, was at the same time rem0deled to conform to the new law.
 1n July Mir. Juan BojOrquez began remOdeling operations upon his prop erty on Morley avenue. made neces sary by the order yacating the strip He had three buildings, occupied by the Casino, the sonora News Co. and Escalada Brothers. All of that Oc- cupied by the Casino and part of that Of the sonora News Go. were taken. Pending the refitting for tbeir use of the premises vacated by the inJerna- tional Bank, which had just moved into its new building, the Sonora News Co moved into the warehouse Of the Arizona Commercial O., which had bsen temporarily used as store by that company while their own inc building was in course of construction, into which it.mOved July l4th. What was left of the premises occupied by the Sonora News Co. and small part of the building occupied by Escalada Brothers were converted into a new structure, facing International street with narrow front on Morley ave- nue. When completed this new which has handsome brick | fronts, was occupied by the Casino, and all Of that portion of Mir. Bojor- quez's property on the strip was dem- l Olished
 In July Mayor W. K. Overton com menced construction of a handsome | Dne-story brick cottage of seven rooms, 1n his SonOita avenue property, near Canon street It was completed in | 
 Early in August that portion Of | THE OASIS building upon the strip | was removed. The office was moved nto the new International street front of the building and the Morley avenue front was rented to Wolf Behrendt & Co.,, who established new commercial house therein.
 In August Governor Ramon Corral erected a handsome one-stOry brick 2Sx42 feet in outside dimen- 'ions, upon his property in Nogales. Sonora, upon International street, adjacent to the Plaza Trece de Julio.
 In August the Sonora railway and New Mexico & Arizona railroad be- gan extensive improvements at No gales made necessary by the govern neut order clearing the strip. The iepot, which stood upon both sides of he line. was moved over into Sonora o distance sixty feet south of the boundary, and the large depot at East Benson for which there was no Il urther use, the station having been was moved to Nogaes and et up on the Arizona side of the line. md sixty feet away therefrom. All II hese improvements occupied a num- ,er of weeks in making and were com ,leted about December lst.
 In August Maurice Breen erected