Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-01-15
WHAT ONE MAN IS DOING
TOWARD A GREATER PHOENIX
THE OPERATIONS OF coNTAc.
TOR AMIRAULT.
He Has Good Reasons to Believe in
This City.

Everybody knows i'm general way
that there is great deal of building
going on in Phoenix. That has been
going on for some time, but few peo-
pie realize how much is i'm progress
or contemplated. That could be
learned only by interviewing all the
contractors. Here is what one of
| them has just finished doing. is do
ing now. or is intending to do right
away. This contractor is, of course.
one of the leading ones, but the list
by no means includes all of his re-
cent accomplishments or what is i'm
mediately in sight He is L. A Ami
rault
Mr.. Amirault has just completed
the large new building of the Hotel
Adams Annex. He has under way a
business building for John Gregg at
the corner of Second and Van Buren,
streets, which will cost IS 900 II will
be interesting to learn that Mr.. Ami
rault has just taken a contract for
the construction of the Redewiu man
| sion, at the corner of Second and Van
Buren, streets. Ii will occupy the
spacious grounds of the old Redewil
homestead and will front on Second
street 1t will be modern mission in
! style aid will cost $4,000
Then there is the Mohn business
block on First avenue between Mon
] roe and Adams streets. the substan-
tial foundation of which is already in.
This building will cost $4,000. and
! Mr.. Amrault will rush il To compile
/ ton. I'm addition To these. Mr. Ami
rault has several other smaller con
tracts.
Mr.. Amirault, knowing what he is
doing and what other contractors are
doing, feels that has faith i'm Phoenix
/ is justified. He always had good
deal of faith i'm it, He came here
twenty years ago and soon came To
J the front rank i'm the contracting
business. At the same time he in
vested heavily i'm city property. mostly
! close in. which he secured at the then
prevailing low prices. He made these
| investments out of the money he
/ made after coming here. for he came
/ with nothing or little Lots that he
| bought for 5000 or $3.50 then are
worth $4,000 each now.
He left the city for time. but
! he left his investments He came
/ back something more than year
! ago. for he had found nowhere else
/ a city with such a future. and he
I resumed his business. building houses
for others and also for himself one
house after another has gone up on
| his various lots. until now he has
| eleven, whose aggregate value is not
less than 100000.
| Meanwhile there is no man in
| Phoenix getting more out Of life. In
one of his houses. on Van Buren,
| street. near Second. he has prepared
J the most luxurious quarters for him
! self and in the preparation no eN-
/ pense has been spared. There is. per-
| haps, no club i'm the country more
/ richly furnished with costly rugs.
| furniture. decorations and buffet. The
! floors are of the finest hardwood
| The mantel is the work of himself
and the walls have been prepared by
a skillful artist There is not a bath
| i'm Phoenix i'm the fitting of which
| there has been so little regard of the
| cost of equipment
The decorations. such as pictures
| and statuary. are comparatively few
! Yet, but they are To- be selected with
the greatest care. and the same care
| in the selection will apply to the IL
/ brary. The quarters of Mr. Amirault
are such as would be the dream of
every single man. which Mr. AmirauI
is.