The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-12-22
GoLDFIELD's BUILDING RECORD
Reaches Close e the Million Mark for
the Year


But few cities in the United States
of 10000 people can show building i'm
provements of three-quarters of a mil
lion dollars in one year. Goldfeld is
one of those cities. At first blush this
statement seems almost extravagant,
but careful inquiry among the bust.
ness men, real estate dealers and build
ers, establishes the fact beyond any
controversy that, exclusive of the
mills, the aggregate building improve
ments will reach this enormous sum.
Indeed, several of the best author
tiles believe that the aggregate value
of new buildings constructed within the
current annual period ending one week
from Sunday, will approach very close
to one million dollars. The News,
however, in accordance with its well
established policy of being rather
within the limit than exaggerate the
facts, does not hesitate in saying that
three-quarters of a million dollars is a
conservative estimate of the building
improvements made in Goldfeld this
year.
Necessarily, chiefly because of the
fact that no official record is kept of
building, accurate and detailed data
upon this subject is somewhat difficult
to obtain. From the material at hanG,
however, a story of growth is recorde |
that would indeed be flattering to a
city of much larger size than Gold
field.
The years building record has he \
a notable one. Since the first of the
year the work of rebuilding the bust
ness blocks has gone steadily forward,
and to a great extent frame and adobe
houses have taken the places of print
tive tent houses, which served in tn
early days of the camp. The song of
the builders hammer has been heard
in every part of the city from the first
of the year until the present day. And
tlat is not all The year which we ;.e
about to enter holds more good things
in the way of improving the city, than
the one which is just closing. Many
new buildings are being projected and
the improvements in the residence
section of the city will be especially
nemerous as the tents and tent houses
which fringe the more densely settled
confines of the city, will rapidly dis
appear from view and in their stead
substantial frame and adobe cottages
will be built.
Among the buildings completed this
year is the Nixon block, one of the
hanasomest business blocks in Nevada
and a structure in which any thriving
city might take pardonable pride. The
structure cost in the neighborhood of
$780, 00, is built of stone three stories
high and is as up-to-date an office
building as may be found in any of the
larger cities of the country. Among
the other new business blocks of the
stone class built here this year is the
Palace block erected at a cost of $45,-
900; the State Bank and Trust com
pany building representing an outlay Of
almost 100000; and several others
ranging in cost from $4,000 to $4,000.
But the great bulk ~ the money is
tied up in frame buildings. These
structures are so numerous that Il
would be a difficult matter to compile
a statement of the money expended in
their construction. They include bust
ness blocks, residences, rooming
houses, cottages, warehouses and
buildings Of every class. 1t may be
said that particularly conspicuous in
the building record for 1905 is the
number Of new homes built in this city.
The impco yements in this direction,
however, have just commenced and an
other twelve months will see more of
them built, of a more substantial char
acter, and put up with a view to beauty
as well as comfort. A good start has
been made in this direction as a mum
Der of very handsome homes were put
up this year. This can be taken only
as an indication of what will come in
the future.