Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-09
TIMELY REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
Hot Weather shrivels Business in
Omaha During Last Week.
DEALERS PLAN DENVER TRIP
Woodmen Decide 90 Use Texas
Granite I'm Foundation OF New
Building, siember-hip being
Large In that state.

Large In that state.
Ordinary matters OF the trade. such as
selling lots and figuring on transferring
buildings from one ownership to another
are not occupying the attention Of real
estate men just now. For one reason the
record-breaking heat Of the last week made
All business duh, and IN that connection
the members OF the. trade are counting upon
visit 70 Denver next week when they viii
attend the National Association OF Real
Estate Echanges convention, which viii be
in progress in that city for seven days.
starting July. Il. .-........
Omaha will send a delegation OF eighteen
or twenty members The delegations from
the large cities east OF Omaha VIII meet in
Chicago next sunday night. leaving there
at that time, and arriving in Omaha on
Monday morning. The delegates will be en-
tertained during the dag by the Omaha ex-
change. The Omaha delegates will accom-
pany the fasteners TO Denver, on a spe-
eial train leaving here Monday evening.
The week just passed vas featured by no
deals Of large consequence. In the building
line the things OF most interest which
came TO pass were the awarding OF two
public school contracts and the announce
ment that the work on the excavation OF
the woodmen Of the World building prob
ably Will be Started this week.
Supreme officers Of the woodmen Of the
World who returned from the national con
Neution in Rochester. after a conference
with the contractors and the architects
in Chicago declared that peculiar recogni-
tion OF one OF the states will be embodied
IN the new building. The contractors. si-
preme officers and architects could not
decide as to what kind Of granite would be
used In the foundations Of the skyscraper
Now It happens that OF the 10000 members
OF the order in the United States So oC
Of them live In Texas. Nothing could be
more Appropriate under this condition thar
that Texas granite he used IN the founda-
tion work OF the building. IT was decided
This substance is a hard. fiInty stone. some
thing like Colorado granite in color. II Is
exceptionally hard and difficult to work
Further details regarding the inner con-
struetion Of the building were solved. Re
frigerated air will be used in ventilatinp
the building during the summer months
a mammoth vacuum cleaner viii be in
stalled in the basement
Within the last week subcontracts FOR
steel and terra Gotta were made. More thar
5000 tons OF steel will be used in the frame
This will cost about $4,000. The North
western Terra Gotta company of Chicagc
was the successful bidder for the terra
Gotta
The company is represented in Omaha by
F. r Mcconnell. White and green mingIek
with modified tints will be the color
scheme in the walls.
Contracts for public school buildings wer,
awarded as follows:
Castellar-Bridges & Hoye, $50, 619.
Central Park-Rahm & Behrman. sTO,069.
These buildings are planned to be com.
pleted by the time the school term opens
next fall.
Bids for the five-story office building
Of Seventeenth and Harvey streets to BE-
erected for the Thomas Realty company. Of
which W. H. Thomas is president will bs
opened within two weeks. John Latensel
is the architect. This building will be fol
offices on the upper floors. with the grount
floor for retail shops. 1t win be of stee
and reinforced concrete construct pm.
Among real estate men and contractor
much interest has been expressed within
the last few days in a booklet showing tn,
building properties OF the Union Pacifi
In Omaha. This book was issued recent,
The point OF interest was the number o.
structures that have gone up since A L
Mohler became vice president and genera
manager OF the road in April, 1901.
Including the new office building at FIT
teenth and Dodge streets. fifteen struc