Arizona republican., 1910-04-03
WITHOUT WAITING
 FOR. THE LOT SALE
PARKER IS FORGING TO THE
 FRONT.
Tn. Great Recovery That Has Taken
 Place Since th. Fire.
,By Tom Shultz.l

V destroyed by fire At once the com pany erected ore-story frame struc- ture of modest dimensions. never. in fact. losing a day of business. and steadily enlarged the same as trade increased. until at the present time their store IS more than 140 feet in length
 Pending the opening of the town site. the company has had prepared the plans and specifications for its new store building, which will be erected on the site of the old store corner of Arizona and California ave nues Tuesday of this week the com pany received the plans from Earl I. Low. architect. of Los Angeles. which are complete in every detail The building is to be constructed of con crete blocks. first story 12x12x24. sec ond story SxSX24 in sizes. and will cover ground space of 5Ox120 feet two stories, with a basement in the rear of 50x5O feet The height of the ground floor to the ceiling will be I6 feet, and both floor and ceil- ing will be of cement. A reinforced concrete vault 6xlO feet in the clear will be constructed near the center within the south side of the room. where the office uf the establishment
 k to be located The main entrance will be through large folding doors from California avenue. Heavy plate glass windows of large dimensions will be placed on each side of the en- trance making as nearly as possible an entire glass front The upper story will be devoted to lodging and com prises twenty-siX rooms. single and in suits. with baths and toilet rooms; also living rooms for keeper. large guest chamber is located in the cen ter at the head of the stairs, the en- trance to which is from the south. or Arizona avenue. All of the rooms will be large and well ventilated. with every modern convenience that goes ,to make lodging house first-clas IL is to be furnished throughout with the very best material in every re- spect. From this floor stairway will lead to the roof. which will be converted into quarters for guests in summer evenings, when the rooms will likely be too warm for comfort. \ balcony porch extends the entire
 
 and rear: from the latter d second stairway will be provided. The struc- ture. according to it's design, will be plain Gothic in it's architecture, there by in a sense giving it q clean and substantial appearance, which it will be beyond question. The company, under the superintendency of R. P. Gililand. is completing it's quota of blocks for the erection of it's ware house. on California avenue just south of the depot This building is to be 40x1o0 feet in size, l6-foot ceiling. with two-foot fire wall. Work will he begun on both buildings just as soon as the government makes actual disposition of the townsite. The store building will cost approximately S2o.- o0O and the warehouse about sf5O0
 In conjunction with their large mer- Cantile interests, the Colorado River Supply company owns and operates telephone exchange. The system embraces 125 miles of wire and has about thirty phones listed. Long dis tance calls reach the Blythe estate Steece mine. Raypinco mine and Cal zona. on the California side of the river. and Quartz King and the busi- ness houses of Bert Hart and B. C. Hillman and the Ruby mine. up the river. in Arizona. IL is proposed to construct another line to Needles from whence direct connection can be made between Parker and San Der nardno
 The Parker Commercial company are reinforcing their main store build ing with concrete blocks This build ing is constructed of adobe. and when the work now being done is finished the same will appear as concrete. which will add both to the durability and looks of the structure The ice plant might be termed Parker Com mercial institution. as it is owned and operated by members of that com pany largely The plant was com pieted last october and has a freezing capacity of twelve tons daily No other one thing is as desirable to the people of Parker. for it not only pre- vents ice famines here. but the prod uct in price is less than one half of that of imported ice.
 An important mining deal took place Il few days ago. in the trans ferring of the McKiSSen and Burke Bros property of twelve claims. which was under bond to the Ray pinco Mining company. to Mir. A. w. Martin and associates for some fig ure over s100.000 cash Mir. Martin is a wealthy capitalist. who resides in Redlands Cal He has been the for the Raypinco Min ing company. and during the past eight months has completed, with what was formerly done. about 1500 feet of development We understand that it was the Knowledge gained through this development that nego- no information as to the importance of ore bodies encountered, further than unauthorized reports. which, how ever. were very flattering. The above property lies on the east base of Riverside peak. and on clear days the camp is plainly visible from Parker
 The importance of a town, either large or small. from a business stand point, can always be judged by the of it's postoffice. J. F. Raney is postmaster at Parker. and gave me the following information of the business of the office on the | of the 27th inst. which l makes the quarter ending March 31st | four days short For the two months 1 and twenty-seven days there have | been 51S pieces registered: money or iers issued S56; total receipts, s.90 1 Eourt In -claSS offices are only allowed l