Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1908-06-14
fine new QUARTERS
OF PRATT.6ILBERT 60.
Now Housed in Building of Five
i Floors with $500 Square Feet of
Floor Space.

The Pratt Gilbert company during
the past week occupied it's new and
enlarged quarters, the finishing car
penters having driven the last nail
on Friday and vacated the premises.
Though the company has not yet had
time to arrange and set all the stock
which will later be on display, one of
the largest hardware, implement and
vehicle houses in the southwest, one
of which a city ten times the size
of Phoenix would be proud to boast
is ready for any expansion of
trade that may come to the city dur
ing it's next ten years of certain
growth.
The Pratt Gilbert company now has
five floors, each 50x13O, or 1880
square feet of foolr space. The en-
tire building has $50 feet of plate
glass front, with metal awning, and
is two stories and a basement in
height. The interior of the rooms is
very light and conveniently arranged
for the display of an immense stock.
The floors are hard wood maple. and
the ceilings of beautiful design of
pressed steel, both on the first and
ways connect all departments and
upper and lower rooms are reached
by two elevators, one a 16-foot, the
other a 12-foot, modern construction,
capable of lifting the heavy loads of
machinery required.
The main office of the company
will be partitioned off in the new
south room on the north side. The
former office in the north room has
been made over into a large harness
room with glass enclosing it on all
sides. The doors which enter both
these departments are of unusual
width, besides which there is a big
side entrance on the south for the
delivery or storing of stock. To add
to the attractiveness of the rooms
from the steel ceilings are suspended
chandeliers of electric lights with
large frosted globes amounting to
1000 candle power.
In the south room is the vehicle
department, now filled with buggies.
carriages. stanhOpes and other light
conveyances. In the north room are
the farm wagons, farm machinery,
gasoline engines, machinery and re-
pairs, smaller implements and a stock
of general farm utilities. Both the
upper floors are devoted to an ex-
tensive and varied array of most ev-
cry kind of farm machinery and i'm
plements, some Grated, or knocked
down and stacked up to save room
and others set up. Among the list
is Columbia Autobuggy, one of the
latest type purchased some time ago
by a Phoenix party
On account of the distance from
manufacturers, machinery is purchas-
ed by the carload and stored with
out uncrating till needed in the dis
play stock. In the basement bug
gies, wagons, windmills, etc, are
stacked up in tiers and platoons till
it looks like there was enough of the
same to supply the valley for the
next half decade, which is of course
merely an impression and not a fact
for this quantity of wares is disposed
of and turned every little while There
is always enough of a certain article
on hand to supply the immediate de-
mand, so that no one needs to wait
on an order. 1t is for this reason
that the Pratt Gilbert company is
quarters. The company has just in
stalled in the way of fixtures a big
steel safe for its books and office
papers.
Speaking of the seasons business
Mr.. Gilbert, one of the firm. said
that it was unusually good and the
ranchers in the valley are better
equipping themselves with machinery
and other cOnveniences. The COM
pany is disposing of the last of eight
carloads of Mccormick goods sold
this spring. When the firm started
nine years ago it was in a part of
the room now occupied by a black
smith shop, later they moved to the
adobe room just north of their pres
ent quarters at the corner of First
street and jefferson, and on which
yet remains the old sign of former
days. The present business place is
in comparison a splendid edifice to
business progress in Phoenix.
The company has been to consid
cradle expense in fitting up and
the new rooms but the
members are amply assured by the
records of trade advancement in the
past of the futures abundant return
Of the investment MANIFOLD. They
have found printers ink one of the
most valuable trade bringers and
have made liberal, regular and intel
ligent use of space in The Republican
for a long time. making their ad
live wire of interest.