Arizona republican., 1910-06-27

Southern Pacific across the city. It is, in fact, hardly completed yet, al- though considerable grain is stored in
 it, for the last of the cement floor was
 laid as recently as Friday night and
 lacks little of being finished. This ware
 house is perhaps the largest in the
 city. At any rate, it is built over q
 solid cement floor which is the largest
 single cement floor in Phoenix. being
 100 feet wide and 137H feet long, or
 the size of two city lots. he cOnstruc-
 ton is of the best, the walls being of brick, 16 feet high in the clear above the floor with a AZ foot fire
 wall above the roof The roof is sup
 ported by wooden trusses and is cov-
 cred with iron. The building was planned by Cisney & Cisney, who su- pervised its construction and who take special pride in the roof, the valleys of which are capacious and built at such an angle as to insure perfect drainage. They will accommodate a veritable flood of water and there can be no such thing as the roof leak ing until the metal has rusted through
 The floor is a thick concrete ma terial above three feet of a dirt fill and topped with a solid cement pave ment. There will be no fire under that floor, and in fact there is nothing about the building to burn except it's expected contents and little lumber under the iron roof In the floor is set a pair of big scales opposite one of the doors at the south end and an other pair will be set opposite the ath ;r. dry. At a desirable place in the building also has been laid the foun- dation for a barley roller when the owners get ready to install it. The cement work was done by Tossing & Woodward and the brick work by Val entine & Perry. The warehouse con- tains 13,750 square feet of floor space and its capacity is 7O,OOO sacks of grain.
 Just as soon as the Southern Pa cific main line track is laid through town, which will eliminate the curves in the track now used. the road will pass twenty-five feet from the ware house, which is as close as it can get, and a sidetrack will be constructed to a platform to be built from a side door near the north end of the build ing, just where the owners desire it, for the greatest facility in shipping The company owns the property ad- joining the warehouse on the east and plans another year to build an addition to the warehosue, of like construction, no by 150 feet in size, more than doubling its present large capacity
 The Capital Warehouse Company is a.r.l Ef If fl. brother. D. l.. S-urges. Each has other business which he runs separately and will continue to do, but they have combined their capital in this third project. C.M Sturges is proprietor of the Golden Eagle stable, which he has conducted for many years, and is one of the well known and dependable citizens of Phoenix, having lived here since 1885. D. l.. Sturges is more of as he did not come to PhOe- nix till 1886. He has been variOusly in- terested in business pursuits, but is at present conducting the Wharton Hay and Grain store, to the ownership of which business he succeeded some time ago. It is the intention of the gen tlemen to dip into the grain business 1 this year to a considerable extent, do- | ing both a buying and a storage busi- | ness. Even now they have quite a l quantity of it stored elsewhere. Next | year they plan to enlarge and handle | grain extensively. Both are in the | prime of life, having come here in l their earliest manhood, having grown | up with the business interests of the | city and having made a record for sue ceeding in their enterprises.