The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-09-15
GOOD IMPROVEMENTS
The Best Store and Hotel Build
ings i'm the PalOuse.
CoiIax Citizens Have Invested Over
100000 in improvements
This Year,

| While Cofax has not been making
much noise about it, she has been doing
a good deal in the way Of building this
year.
Julius Lippitt's new store building is
being pushed to completion as rapidly
| as possible. The brick work ia finished
and plumbers and steam filters have
been busy for the past two weeks.
Easum Bros. began the plasterng on
Thursday and if nothing miscarries
LiDpitt Bros. will move into their new
quarters about the 18th of next month.
Ihis will be by long odds the finest
store building in the Palouse country.
and reflects great credit on Mr.. Lippitt,
lor his enterprise, and shows his con-
hdence IN the town in which he has lived
ana conducted a business for more than
| quarter OF century,
On the ground floor Lippitt Bros. will
occupy 1890 feet for their store. and
there Will be an additional 25x90 foot
room which 1t ls Mr.. lippitt's intention
10 rent. There Is balcony running the
luil width OF the main store at the rear.
vi this 2Oxl4 feet will be used as ladies
retiring room, which will be fitted up
with wash stand, toilets. ETC.; 3Ox2O
feet will be used for the office and 30x2O
feet for the millinery department.
On the upper floor 5Ox75 feet will be
used for the carpet department. There
VIII also be l6 office rooms on this floor.
all roomy and we'll lighted; ladies and
gents toilets and janitors room.
The building will be lit by electricity
and heated throughout with steam, and
will have hot and cold water in every
room,
In the basement, which will have con-
crete floor and walls, 50x9O feet will be
used for stOrerOom, 25x90 for fuel and
boiler room and the additional 25x90
will go with the rented store. Teams
are now hauling gravel for the cement
walk, which will be built on two sides of
the building, 100 feet on Main and 80
feet on Spring street.
With the retaining wall which he has
had erected at the rear of his property,
and The fittings necessary for the interior
OF the store, the completed building will
cost Mr. Llppitt about $4,000
THE New CoIfax."
The Hotel Colfax, which Mr.. Living
stone has had entirely remOdeed, at a
cost of about $4,000, is having the
finishing touches added and will be com
peted about the 1stssof next month.
Chas. Ross, who has the contract for
the painting, has had force OF men at
work for the past two weeks, and has
that part of the work nearly finished.
The first floor is finished with q mission
oak stain, with the exception Of the,
dining room, which is in Flemish oak;
the second floor is in antique oak and
the third in medium oak, and the colors
give the interior a rich appearance
There are about 40 rooms IN the house;
IA bath rooms, hot and cold water in
every room; telephones in all front rooms
and calls in the others. The building is
heated throughout by steam and lit by
electricity.
Martin Maloney, who has leased the
building, has decided to call the hotel
The New Colfax" He says that the
furnishings will be of the best and
estimates the cost of furnishing the
building will be between fifteen and
eighteen thousand dollars. This will
give Colfax the best hotel in the Palouse
country, and one of the best in Eastern
Washington.
In addition to these two buildings
there are a number of residences in the
course OF construction, and the $50 feet
of rock wall along the South Palouse,
which, with the filing in necessary, will
cost nearly $4,000. Taking it all in all
Colfax is making very good showing
for herself