Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-01-26
GRANTS PASS HAVING
A BUILDING BOOM
South Sixth Street Ra pidly Build.
ins Up-Main Business Street
Over One Half Mile Long.

10 watch Grants Pass grow is some.
thing of task now for it is good
hard days walk for one to visit all
sections of the city and note the build.
ings that are being erected and the
other improvements that are being
made, this early in 1906. which prom.
ises TO be the banner year iu the
growth of Grants Pass
South Sixth street and the adjuin.
ing streets are building up at rate
that is quite keeping pace with the
growth of the other sections of the
o'ty. The business district is steadily
extending down Sixth street until
now .ne last store is but two blocks
from, the nd of the street at Rogue
river bridge The business district
extends for an equal distance on
North Sixth street from the railroad,
giving for this street continuous
line of buildings devoted to business
of 5-S OF a mile long.
The furthest new store down Sixth
street is that now being erected by Il.
|. Harrington and Il. II, Cole for A.
L. Swain, ON lot, purchased by Mr..
Swain from j. ID. Drake. This build
ing is frame structure 20x32 feet,
two stories. 1t will be completed in
10 days and will be occupied by Mr..
Swain either with stock of groceries
or of bicycles and wheel fixtures.
Across the street little above large
two-story rooming house is being
built by Chas. Parker and VIM. OFT
for MIR. and Mrs. Joseph Kerrick, re-
cent arrivals from Arlington in East
ern Oregon. This building is also
frame, for it is beyond the fire limits.
and is 22x55 feet. The lots were
bought of Willis York, an AppleRate
farmer, and Mr.. and Mrs. Kerrick ex-
pect to have their building completed
and to be ready to receive roomers by
the middle Of February. Gu Fifth
and l. streets fine eight room res
idonce will be finished this week by
the contractor, @. Il. McManus, for
Mrs. Annie Allen Mrs. Allen ex-
poets to move next week from the
house she has heretofore occupied and
owned by her brother, Supt. l..
Savage, ON Eighth and l. streets, to
her new home and she will then keep
few roomers.
Harry Smith, ST., the we'll known
saw mill man, has the lumber ON the
ground and will begin work next
week TO erect residence on Sixth
near NJ street. The house will be
32xIS two full stories and will be one
of the finest and best appointed resi-
dences in that part of the city. Mr..
Smith as recently completed we'll
appearing stable for his driving team
on the rear Of his lots. On the op.
Iosite side of the block aud facing
Seventh street IL the residence OF his
son, Harry Smith, Jr., TO which they
are now building an addition l2x?4
feet TO be used for kitchen and wash
and store room.
Another two.story frame business
building is likely TO be erected III tho
near future still further down Sixth
street, but the party is not yet in q
position to make the matter public.
Fred Wickman, who owns lot on
Sixth between j and X streets, ex-
poets to begin work early in the
spring on a two story brick building.
The lower floor will be for store
and the upper for rooms. II is
quite probable that Edward Lister will
replace the woodei structures now oo-
oupied by Heck's livery stable and
by restaurant on the half block on
Sixth street from to the alley. with
fine brick structures, 10 be erected
this Summer. There Is every likeli-
hood that several other brick build
ings will be built on South Sixth
street during the present year.