El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-02-10
BUILDING IS
ACTIVE IN
Ell PA5O
Pearson Mill Work Starts
and New Hotel Is Now
About. Ready to Begin.
MANY NEW HOMES
ARE UNDER WAY

/ work are even going rapidly. The
I carson mills contract has been let FOL
! the construction work and whatever
1 material to be bought is now being
/ purchased; final arrangements are now
/ complete for the PasO Del Norte hotel
( and the Plaza block is rapidly beins
! completed. In the residence section
/ about 10 houses have been started and
about that many completed this week
! With the approach OF spring, many
7 5irms are remOdenng their stree rooms
and sprucing up san Antonio street
| especially is changing A shoe store is
/ TO be put in the old Snyder Jewelry
] company store room, two saloons are
changing their fronts and before long
PeW's shoe store will be changed The
old building on the corner Of Kansas
+ and Missouri street is to be changed
into g rOom1ng house and a second
Z story added. About $3.50 Is being eX-
pended. A three story addition is be-
{ ing made to the building next TO the
Weils-FargO stables. which viii cost
Z approximately $1,000.
Contractors Jolly and Ware have
I the contract for all the construction
work on the first factory to be built BY
the e PasO Milling company. This Is
exclusive Of the foundations and foot
ing5, which have been let to the VIM
Jennings company, OF this city. The
roof OF the mill fill be practically all
glass, arranged IN saw tooth pattern.
The plans call for over 500 sash. each
sash containing nine lights Of heavy
IA inch wire glass mounted IN heavy
wooden frame. Each sash VIII weigh
approximately 500 pounds. over IL
carloads of glass viii be used in the
glazing. Already the concrete work
is being started and work IS to be
rushed 10 completion as fast as pos
Many New Houea.
Work was commenced this week on
a home for ". L SaWyerS, on the cor
ner Of Kansas and Hill streets. It viii
cost approximately $500 The house
is 10 be erected on a terrace which
gives IL a fine view Of the city. Il
viii contain six rooms and a large
basement In the rear VIII be two
large enclosed sleeping porches.
The PhoeniX-EI PasO Building COM
pany IS erecting three houses in north
east FL Psso, one for J. II. Cannon and
the other two for the company They
are located en- Bliss street in block 107.
Each viii contain six rooms and viii
cost about $500 each
Contractor Harry Corning has fin
ished q house for M. Thompson in
Golden Hill, on Arizona street, which
cost approximately 5000. He is
building eight other houses for the
Mountain Side Realty company, which
epresent an outlay of s35, 900.
The Perry Kirkpatrick Realty com
pany started q house this week for
n Ross Keister in block 40 in Grand
View. IT via be a five room bunga-
low occupying three lots and VIII cost
approximately $500. Red pressed
brick and Mount Franklin stone viii be
used in the outside construction
Contractor L. r Clark is building
three handsome bungalows for J. E
Bischoff at the end Of Epson avenue,
in Mundy Heights. They will contain
five. six and seven rooms. costing $1,000.
$4,000 and $4,000, respectively All viii
be succeed with q wood panel effect
The MREfield Realty company IS
building five room bungalow at l4lS
Arizona street. which will cost $1,000.
Jolly and Ware have started six
room house FOR Wm- A HOgarth on the
corner OF Brown and Nevada street,
which viii cost about $4,000. Tt viii be
cry detail
Sunday the first services viii be held
IN the new Austin Park Christian
church The lots on which the build
ing has been erected are on the corner
CT Cebada and Montana streets. facing
directly on the little triangular park
owned and taken care OF by the city
The new building has been erected
on the rear Of the lots and as soon as
the neighborhOOd is sufficiently set
tied, this will be converted into q
parsonage and more imposing and
suitable church edifice erected The
building has a basement which extends
under practically the entire structure,
which VIII be used as a Sunday school
room Four large class rooms can be
partitioned off
Upstairs one large room has been
provided for, which VIII have g seating
capacity Of approximately $50 chairs.
with ample room left for all the aisles.
When the building is to he converted
into parsonage. five large rooms
may be built with little trouble The
building was designed by frost and
frost and constructed by J. c. Hansen,
at an estimated cost Of $500.
New Apartment Houses.
me great Texas Realty company IS
Building a large apartment house on
West Rio Grande street. just at the
base OF the old Mesa Garden hill. It
Is built Of white brick. two stories
nigh. with a large circle arch OF brick
In the center OF the TOD Of the front
basement Is under most Of the build
ing Ihere VIII be nine three and
up IN the most approved manner. They
viii have hardwood floors. buiIt-in
cabinets, disappearing beds and
semi-conyeruble dining and living
room. Zach fiat has It's own private
bathroom 4 front and a rear porch
are features OF each apartment the
rear one being screened so that il
can be used as a sleeping porch. The
INSIDE VIII De finished with dark oak
stain. A hot air heating plant is to
be installed in the basement The
building VIII cost about $4,000 Ellis
Carlson is the contractor.
]. r. Fisk is planning to erect n
large apartment house adiofnfno his
present property on West Missouri IT
viii contain y three room apartments
all containing the latest Ideas in fbat
line OF construction. Work viii nrob-
ably be commenced next week
Unique Construction
Probably the most uniouaIv CON
structed house In this CITY IS re co1--
crete, fireproOf residence erecte5 Nv
Otto Kroeger at BIT CbffTab11s
street It was constructed as an ex-
pertinent to prove the success 81 fbe
portable concrete or K D. housa OIL
the windows. doors and screens of tI,fs
house are wood. At present he bss go
structed a four room house. a one ro,--,
dwelling and g chicken coon AM 90
made IN sections and put toee+be~
with only q little cement in the Lock
joints.
The working problem in this s4v1e
OF houses is to get a light. inexnen-
sive, weather-prOof slab or colnr,n
which will stand all kinds Of weather
and conditions, and which can be made