Bisbee daily review., 1905-11-29
WONDERFUL SEASON
 0F ACTIVITY AHEAD
CITY IS TO BE TRANSFORMED IN
 APPEARANCE NExT'VEAR.
Main Street Will Be Rebuilt From End to End-Great Improvements Ahead for Depot and O. K. St. Quarters. Question of Room Uppermost.

Building activity at hand and in the immediate future for Bisbee indicates growth and improvement of almost startling magnitude for the city dur ing the next several months.
 While labor available here has been employed to the limit during the last six months in the making of improve ments and many men have been brought in by contractors who have been forced to go outside of the city to secure necessary help, the activity of the months gone-by appears as noth ing in comparison with the work that is immediately ahead. It assures la bor for all the men who are here now, and for many more if they will come in. during the large part of next year. The latter, from the present outlook. will exceed in building activity and general improvements in the city the record of any two previous years com bined.
 On Main street alone there is to be a large amount of money expended in new buildings, and the delay that has attended the making of improvements there in keeping with the great growth of business in the city is to give away ali at once to tremendous steps for ward. From the bank of Blsbee cor ner to the head of the street changes are planned. This time next year will undoubtedly see the street com pletely altered in appearance. Build ing plans now entertained take away every shack on the street and trans form it into a thoroughfare of hand some, modern business structures of substantial character
 In connection with these improve
 nents the floor space now available to separate business concerns will neces- sarily be greatly reduced. and as a re- suit number of people are going to be crowded further np the canyon or into new buildings in other parts of the city. The new buildings on Main street will. of course, have just as much floor space as there is now af- forded, but it will be occupied by few CT concerns. Fine, big store rooms on the ground floors, instead of being taken up by two, three and four sepa- rate establishments as now will be oc- cupied by single firms As with the lodges that will shortly be thrown out Of home. Dy erection of a new library building devoted entirely to library purposes. the question arises. where are these business people suddenly be- eft of quarters going to go?
 The lower end of Main street. or the quarter iR the vicinity of the depot and along Q. h- street. will undergo as great 8 transformation as is ahead for Main street proper. A proposal which has lately been made by the owners of the buildings of the o. K. stables and those back of 1t on O. K. street looks to a great change there for the better This proposal, which has been accepted. it is stated. is that if the own CTS of property on the hill side of O.. k- street will give ground for it's wid- enlng the property owners on the other side will give an equal amount They will also tear away the present shacks and build substantial business blocks. This latter proposal includes the erec- ton of fine block on the site of the present o. K. Stables. Property own CTS on the hill side of O. K. street some time ago announced intention of replacing their present buildings with hne new business blocks, for some of which structural iron is now being de- livered.