Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
$4,000 BANK
At OOLGEvILLE
EXTENSION OF ELECTRIC CAR
LINE BY H. E. HUNTINGTON
Growing Interest In Real Estate In
Manufacturing Town - Building
Aotivity-SaIes Of Valu-
able Acreage

Capitalists of Los Angeles are per-
fecting plans to establish bank at
Dolgeville that will occupy the build
ing which is being erected by the Dodge
Vile Land company. The structure
also will be used by the land company
for offices and store purposes and will
cost $4,000. occupying the northwest
corner of Main street and Raymond
avenue
In this connection the information is
officially given that II. e. Huntington
is extending his electric system to
Covina from Los Angeles, the graders
now being at work on the line. A line
running from the San Gabriel line on
Main street is to run through Dolgevile
on Palm avenue, connecting with the
Covina line south of the old Shorb sta
tion, and the running time between
Dolgeville and Los Angeles will Frless
than twenty minutes.
Building Activity
There Is quite an activity in build
ing operations in the way of residences.
Several nice two-story houses now are
under construction. The Alhambra
school district has voted bonds for
$4,000 school building to be erected on
the southwest corner of Main street
and Marengo avenue and it is to be
known as the Dolgevile school. Work
will begin in the very near future and
the building will be completed in time
for the next years term of school.
Interest is growing in lots around the
Dolgeville center and In the last few
weeks there have been several tracts
of acreage sold in that vicinity for sub
division; among the most prominent
is fifty-four acres of land sold by the
San Marino Land company to the Am
igo Art company. The plans of the
purchasers are to lay out this pictur-
esque property to conform with the
general topography of the land. The
Amigo Art company will create an
industry upon similar lines S the Roy
croft shops at East Aurora. N. Y.
Plans have so far developed that an art
studio will be erected in park to oc-
cupy a leading site, and near this a
large brick building that will house the
printing plant of the projectors. This
establishment will contain machinery
which will be devoted to the produc-
tion of the best art work i'm printing and
in color. introducing features which are
the results of experiments on the part
of the projectors.
$15o,ooo for Improvements
All of the homes that are to be erected
for the use Of the artists and the en-
ployes of the enterprises planned will
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used upon each will conform to gen
eral scheme that will blend in harmony
when viewed as whole Several years
will eapse to complete the project, and
the Amigo Art company announces that
fully $50 600 for improvements will be
expended in that time.
Another purchase Is by Mrs. Dorothea
Koppitz of San Francisco, who has ppr-
chased fifteen acres of land adjoining
the holdings of the Amigo Art COM
pany and is subdviding it to conform
with their plans and she expects in the
near future to erect home on portion
of the property. Another purchase is
twenty-seven and one-half acres ad
joining the above by Jonathan Dodge
and j. B. and d. 7. Althouse. who con-
template improving the property and
making it one of the show places in
the San Gabriel valley. These proper
ties all front on the Covina line and will
make choice subdivisions.