El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-05-29

BUILDING permits for the month Of
X May viii total more than 100000.
IL making this month, except for the
month during which the Mills building
permit was taken out the largest IN
the history Of the building department
The large total represents permits Tor
stores, apartment buildings, the Com
mercial National bank building, a large
addition TO the FL PasO Ice and Re
frigeratOr company plant and many
bungalows.
The record Of May is the climax of q
steady increase, shown. with the ex-
ceptiOn Of February, in every month Of
1915. Permits for January tOtaled
S229 900. There was a falling off IN
February to $4,000, accounted for by
the fact that there was but p business
days in that month In March the total
was S2120O0 and in April, 1888, 600.
Nearly all Of these months show de-
cided increases over the corresponding
mOEths for 1915
ZeIman Building Started.
Actual construction work began this
week on the Zelman and American
Furniture company buildings, located
on the plot at the corner Of Stanton and
Overland streets The buildings Will
each be three stories in height and viii
be built Of brick and concrete. There
viii be four stores in the Zelman build
Ing and one in the furniture company
structure II. Brettler has secured the
contract for the erection OF the build
ings and expects TO have them cDm-
Tler7d IN four months. The Eelman
building viii cost about $4,000 and -he
furniture company structure $4,000.
Plans for both were drawn by o. H
Thorman- Foundation construction has
also started on the $4,000 Commerciai
National Bank building.
New School.
During the week the Fisk-Ramsey
Realty company transferred TO the
trustees Of ConcOrdia school district
No. , a block of land fronting on Mar
tineZ street The property is TO be used
During the week work was started on
clearing the property Of a number u
small buildings. J r Fisk, Of the FISK
Ramsey Realty company has purchased
four lots and a five room house at
1900 Arizona street from jay Turley-
Work was begun this week on the Rob-
lnsOn apartments. which is to be
three story structure at the corner Of
san Antonio and St Nrain streets.
Hart Apartments Under Way.
Work began this week on an apart
ment house in the $500 block on Mon
tana street which is being built by the
Phoenix-El Paso BH5lding company for
H l. Hart The four apartments will
be Of four rooms each The building is
10 be two stories in height finished in
FL PasO Brick company buff brick, with
tail colonial columns in the front It
will cost about $4,000 The same firm
is building q five room bungalow,
equipped with heating plant, in the $500
block on Rio Grande street, which VIII
cost $500
Business Building Sold.
A total of SS5.50O worth of city and
valley property was sold Friday by W
H Glenn. OF the Kern Place Realty
company He arranged for the sale OF
the Valley Implement company store
on san Francisco street TO John n
Wyatt for $4,000. This property has a
frontage of Il feet on san Francisco
street and was sold for the Valley I'm
plement company to J. n Wyatt
The J. c McDaniels tract Of land
near Fabens was also sold by M Glenn
10 n l. Cadwallader. J. A Smith and
A G. Foster for $4,000. The White
ranch near Fabens. was also sold TO
H D. Camp by J. n Wyatt for s11,500-
There are Il acres in this tract. These
two ranches were all sold BY ". H
Glenn.
L z. Booker to Build.
Plans for a three story store and
apartment building at the corner Of
West san Antonio and Chihuahua, to be
built for L E Booker. were completed
during the week by the Perry irkpat-
rick company. The building. which will
be Of brick and steel construction. win
contain three stores on the ground floor
and 80 two room apartments on the