Imperial Valley press., 1909-01-02
MORE BUILDINGS
 FOR COUNTY SEAT Big Two-Story Block Going Up on North Side of
 Main Street
One Hundred Feet of Store Rooms to be Added in February-5each and 6lackinton Buildings Progressing RapidIy-other Building Projects for the Near Future.

Work was begun Wednesday morn ing on two story building on Main Street opposite the Press office. The building will be one hundred feet wide with an arcade in front and of attrac- i've design. J. l.. Travers has the con- tract and a syndicate of Redlands men including c. E. Taylor and w. T. Bill, owns the building. This is one of the most important building movements of the winter in Fl Centro as it adds another big two story building to the business section of Fl Centro and does much to fill up the gap on the north side of Main street. All the stores in the lower story have been leased, There will be tailor shop. a news and magazine store, a restaurant, two real estate offices and one other business. The upper story will be cut up for office rooms and will be comfortably and conveniently arranged.
 Contractor Travers has already made good start on the building and ex- poets to have it completed and occu- pied amout February IS. It is also probable that before this building is finished another one, two stories high and with a 25 foot frontage, will be erected on the same side of Main street.
 Work is now being pushed more rap idly on the First National Bank build. ing at the corner of Main and Sixth streets. A large quantity of tile has been brought to the spot and it is expected that there will be no fur ther delay in completing the building. This will be one of the handsomest and best buildings in Imperial Valley and is splendidly located. Nearly all the space has already been contracted for
 The new, two-story Blackinton build ing on Main street between Fourth and Fifth is almost completed. It is a big building, two stories high, fifty feet wide ard hundred feet deep and and it has taken a big force Of Workmen to erect it in so short a time. It Is understood that two more buildings are to be erected this spring in that part of Main street.
 Other building projects lHrS the near future include one or two two-SSttory buildings near the Court House, business building on Broadway and a number of dwelling houses. Brighton street, Olive Ave, and Commercial streets are getting the majority of the new residences and vacant lots on these streets are already becoming scarce.
 The two-story dwelling house re- gently completed by J. l.. Travers on Olive Ave. for c. F. Hayden is an ideally designed and constructed resi-. dence for the Imperial Valley climate. Only selected material was used and the quality of the work is equal to that put into high priced houses in Los Angeles. The upper story is so constructed that it can be entirely opened to the air on all four sides. The interior finish of the lower story is selected hard pine, finished to show the natural grain. The floors are of oak and the walls are plastered with hard Arden plaster. The front room is twenty feed wide with fireplace in the corner, and the room is finish ed in Mission style with tinted walls and ceiling. The dining room is also finished in Mission. The kitchen and dining room are in white enamel. A solar heater furnishes hot water. Torches eight feed wide and screened extend along all three sides of the house. the rear porch being arranged