Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-21

which was sold by General John e. Gown /
for $4,000 to Garvin Bros. and Hastings |
& Heyden. This tract, which contains an |
apple orchard, Is to be plated by the buy |
ers and the width Of Lake street doubled |
Cement sidewalks adjoining the premises
will be built water, gas and sewer mains
will be laid and. with the improvements,
the finished lots ready for residence build
ing will be placed on the market.
A small acre in the choice West Farnam
district has been sold by the Simon c.
Sherwood estate, through the agency Of
the Byron Reed company to John w. Rob-
bins The lot is at the southeast corner of
Thirty-ninth street and Dewey avenue,
several feet below grade. and will be
graded and subdivided for immediate sale
as residence lots.
+ The vacant lot, 1S2 feet square, at the
northeast corner of Twenty-seventh and
chicago streets. which is owned by c. II.
Sheldon & Son, bankers at Columbus is to
be improved by the erection of six mod
ern cottages TO cost about $1,000 each. The
firm lie represented in Omaha by George G.
wallace.
Factory sites with ample traokage facili-
ties are becoming more scarce every day,
and a number OF new Industries will be To-
Gated in Omaha as soon as suitable sites
can be obtained. Sites are being sought by
the Bowman ranz Lumber company of
Sioux City for large central distributing
yard for its line of yards throughout Me-
braska, Iowa and Kansas, and several local
concerns are contemplating changes as soon
as new building sites can be secured.
he Tnhn ct
which was burned out last winter on it's
old site at Sixth and Jones streets, is en-
deavoring to find large site with traclSage
for a new mill OF two stories to be con-
9tructed of reinforced concrete. After the
obstructive fire of last winter when the
old mill OF the company was practically
ruined, temporary quarters were secured
in Council Bluffs, but the company will
remove to Omaha and build this summer ~
a site containing about $1,000 square feet
can be had upon which to build the new
mill and lumber sheds.
Another Arm desiring to secure a site
upon which to build a large factory is
the Omaha Mltten and Manufacturing
company. whose business has outgrown
its present quarters near Fourteenth and
Howard streets, where three floors are
crowded to their capacity with machinery
and stock, raw and finished product.
Several acres OF bottom land within the
enclosure Of the Union Pacific yards. which
have been OF little value TO the company,
are TO be reclaimed by a novel method
this summer The land in question extends
from lizard street. where two buildings are
to be built, to Seward street on the north,
and from Eighth TO Sixth streets, includ-
ing the famous "Murphy's hole at the
northern end OF the tract, which is about
Ave or six feet below level. 1t is planned
20 mi this large tract with sand pumped
from the river by means OF a centrifugal
pump and carried to the bottom lands In
large pipes, where the water and sand
will be confined by bikes until the silt has
settled, when the waste water will be re-
leased The method has met with great
success in other cities. notably in Chicago,
where the Illinois Central yards were re-
claimed with sand pumped from the ad-
Saeent Lake Michigan. About $4,000 cubic
yards OF earth win be required to com
plete the MI and It will result in the sal
wage OF much valuable land for future
building sites. The method 10 be employed
Is in direct contrast 10 that OF excavating
for the new Haarmann pickle factory at
Thirteenth and Marcy streets where a
ing machine and the dirt washed into the
river Both reclamation operations viii be
watched with interest this summer, as they
have never been employed before IN Omaha
After considering several sites for gen
eral offices and the main exchange build
ing, the Independent Telephone company
settled upon the east half OF the lot at the
northeast corner Of Twentieth and Harvey
streets which was used for a public play
ground, and bought the property for sll,
500 through the Byron Reed company from
the estate OF Alice Folsom. Construction
OF two-story and basement building e
cost about $1,000 will be begun within
few weeks on the newly acquired site al
soon as an architect is selected and specih
cations given 10 contractors. The lot hai
a frontage OF siXty-sN feet on Harnel
street, adjoining the alley on the east, and
r. ~ feet deep. The new building will b,
n &xiO5 feet. allowing for eleven feet OF ali
land light space ON the west. Considera
ton IL being given, to a building OF thre,
stories, but the two-story building meet
with more favor by the officials OF the com
pany
Another large lot on the west side o
Twenty-fourth street just north OF Cum
ing street, was bought by the telephone
company as a site for a subexchang
building, as Il a. planned 20 erect three
o. possibly five, suhstatians IN dlneren
parts OF the city. The Twenty-fourtl