Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-06-19

upon the demand, but from present
| prospects will be twenty-five or thirty.
Mr.. Beidleman is also experimenting
| the building of two fine residences Of
five rooms each, for l. f. Megargel, Of
Scranton, Pa. Mr.. Megargel came to
was so well pleased with the little city
and it's prospects that before leaving for
his eastern home he purchased a num-
Der of lots and let contracts for the
small dwellings, on Ninth street which
are finished and rented, and the two
now under construction are spoken for.
Valentine & Grain have just complet-
ed a neat cottage on Michigan avenue,
four blocks from Hotel Alamogordo.
S. e. Pelphrey has sold his residence
on Florida avenue and purchased a lot
on Ohio avenue, where he will build a
large brick dwelling. The plans for the
building have been drawn, and work
is expected to begin next week.
w. B. Snodgrass' small dwelling on
Twelfth street is not ready to be occu-
pied.
J. L. O'Shea has a beautiful dwelling
almost completed on the corner of
Tenth street and Virginia enu II, is
a model residence of seven rooms, and
is an ornament to the city.
Broyle & Patterson have finished
their building, and are engaged in the
manufacture and w~holesaling of soda
waters.
The depot should not be overlooked in
this brief description of AlamogOrdo's
building operations, since it is larger
and more complete than the one in Ell
Paso. Nothing speaks so well for the
future Of this city as does the work be-
ing done by the Ell Paso and Northeast
ern Railway. The largest and most ar
tistic depot to be built along the line of
road is located here, and When it is fin
ished the offices of the president, gen.
eral manager, superintendent, attorney,
purchasing agent and a number of the
other officials will be moved from Ell
Paso to handsome quarters on the up
per floor. Here will be located the
round house and machine shops; here
the company will spend large sums of
money in improving it's property and
making the best town in New Mexico.
In the southern part of the city, below
the business portion, the Alamogordo
T n ~, hnr Gam nnnu 10 aracfino a nIlnhal'
of cottages, thirty in all, to be sold or
rented to the men employed in the saw
mills. Three are completed, and seven
others are in course of construction.
The entire number will be finished by
the time the new mill is ready to begin
operations.
Several individuals are also building.
Among them D. c. Campbell has a two
story, six-room house rapidly approach
ing completion. 1t is in the hands of the
painters, and Mr.. Campbell will take
possession and move his family in the
last of the month. 1t faces east on New
York avenue, and is three blocks from
R.. H. Pierce & Co.'s large mercantile
house.
Joseph Seeger has a six-room, two
story dwelling about ready for occu-
pancy.
M. Whiteman has finished a business
house on the site of his store building,
which was burned last month. 1t is
rented and occupied.
The Pennsylvania House, which was
burned at the same time as the White
nan store, is being rebuilt. 1t will be a
two-story abode building, 25x6O feet,
and will be used for hotel purposes.
S. Laughlin is putting the finishing
touches to a ten-room lodging house on
the corner of Ninth street and Mary
land avenue
The Texas restaurant has completed
an addition 1920 feet to the dining hall.
The addition was made necessary by
the constantly increasing business done
by the place.
Aside from the buildings mentioned,
many others are being arranged for,
and before the season closes Alamogor-
do will contain more new structures
than any other town in the territory
Alamogordo News.