United labor bulletin., 1911-03-02

Ing company. 1t will cost $4,000. The
announcement was made by John Good,
Jr., on behalf of his father. He said that
his father had fully determined to erect
the building as soon as plans for it could
| be drawn. The money necessary is in
hand and construction will be begun
early in the spring. 1t will be erected
where now stands the building occupied
/ by the Western Dry Goods company.
| DENVER-Walter L. Rice has awarded
G.. G. Newman the contract for plaster
| ing the Birney hotel and electric wiring
to the Silver State Electric Co.
DENvER-F e. Mountjoy has awarded
J contracts on the c. S. Card Iron Works
| Co. factory on West Seventeenth avenue
and Alcott as follows: Carpenter work
to Hanson Bros. 1921 South Pennsyl-
vania; brick work to Nick Potter.
bold.
DENvER-John Fitzgerald, superin-
tendent of the National Pixies Peak
forest reserve said that the government
would use pinion wood for the manufac-
ture of paper. He says experiments of
the department of agriculture proves
pinion wood suitable for wood pulp.
There is an immense lot of pinion in
Colorado and New Mexico.
DENvER-Buildings on boulevard
from Colfax avenue to Blake street will
be torn down as soon as weather per-
mits in order to begin work on new road
way.
DENvER-The G. w. Huntington
Architect Co. have awarded contracts on
the Albert Wickersham residence at 2021
Albion as follows: Carpenter work to
c. P. Keener; brick work to Watts Bros;
plumbing to Chris Irving; heating to J..
c. Kiefer: electric wiring to the Denver
Electrical Co.
DENvER-John J. Stein is preparing
the plans for a residence on Race be-
tween Sixth and Seventh, for Oscar
Johnson, who himself has begun taking
bids.
DENvER-Denver is now assured of
a postofice costing s2.6OO.0O0 instead of
s1.60O.O0O, as originally planned The
sundry civil appropriation bill carrying
an additional appropriation of s1,OOO.0OO
for the completion of the building, has
passed the national house of representa-
tives. Denver gets the additional mil
lion because Secretary of the Treasurer
Mcveagh asked for it.
4 DENvER-F E. Mountjoy has awarded
F. X Baerreson the contract for the Mrs.
C. F. Fisher residence on Ivanhoe be-
tween Twenty-third and Twenty-fifth.
Try Principe de Lees cigar for an
after-dinner smoke.
DENvER-The trustees of the STRAIT
ton estate have executed a 50-year lease
on the property at Seventeenth and Wei
ton streets to Godfrey Schirmer, P. J..
Frederick and John a. Keefe. The terms
of the lease provide that the lessees shall
erect building of not less than ten
stories within ten years and shall erect
a two-story building at once. The prop
erty includes eleven lots and the ten
story building will occupy five of these.
A two-story building will be erected at
once.
Il FORT coLLINS-March 15 the Union
Pacific will begin laying track on new
branch line from Dent to Fort Collins.
1t proposes to complete 25 miles of track
in 25 days. 1t will have new terminals
in Fort Collins opened and line ready for
Operation by July l.
MILLIKEN-A 5oO-barrel Hour mill is
TO be built at once at Milliken on the
Denver. Laramie * Northwestern rail-
road for the Royal Milling * Elevator
company The cost will be S250,0Oo-
Work of construction of the 81 100000
STANDBY Lake dam viii begin by the
last of this week, it is said.
DENvER-Demmie P. Cooke has
brought another action in the courts
against Building Inspector Robert Will
son because of his refusal to issue per-
nit for the erection of a store building
at Colfax and Williams streets to cost
$4,000 This time the demand is made
for an alternative writ of mandamus.
Some time ago, when the permit was re-
fused work was begun on the excava-
ton. A. II. Rookey. the contractor. and
S. c. Adams. agent for the property,
were arrested charged with violating the
building ordinance. Rookey was fined
$50.
OENvER-J. NJ Schreiner of $50
South Pearl street has purchased two
city blocks facing on Colorado boulevard
land Harrison street. and will build S2
residences. costing an average of SS,SOO
Mr. Schreiner thinks Denver real es-
tate and homes are as good an invest
ment as he can secure anywhere IN the
country. He recently purchased several
tracts of land south of the Park Hill dis
! trict and erected seven modern houses
The outcome of this venture has led him
Into the larger investment. Most of the
50 homes to be built by Mr.. Schreiner
will have six or more rooms. They Will
be equipped with all modern convent
: ences. Each house will have an ample
, lawn. The plans for the structures vary
widely so that the buildings will not
have a sameness of appearance. The
entire investment. including the iand.
! will amount to nearly 100000