El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-06-12
$4,000 MORE BUSINESS HOUSES;
TOTAL OF $500, 900 UNDER WAY
Haymon Krupp Starts $4,000 Business Block on South
FL Paso Street; Excavating For the Commercial Ma
tiOnal; New Providence Hospital Site; Many
Bungalows Erected W. K Mari Sells Home.

~onstruction work on business
blocks aggregating $4,000 was be-
~ gun during the week. Including the
buildings started this week, an invest
ment Of more than 100000 is repre-
scented in business bundings alone that
are now being constructed. The work
is going on all over the business dis
trict and, according to local contrac-
tors, represents the largest amount Of
building OF this class that has been
going on at one time in many years.
Buildings started this week include
large warehouse on South Fl Paso,
near Third street, that is being built
BY v. E Ware for HaymOn Krupp at
q cost OF $4,000 and the 80 apartment
and store building that is being erect
co b ythe Perry kirkpatrick Co. for
L Z. Booker at the northwest corner
OF West san Antonio and Chihuahua
streets, which will cost about S35, 600.
Buildings now under construction in
clude the Zelman and American Fur
niture company buildings at the corner
Of Stanton and Overland streets, on
which the work Of excavation is well
under way which represent q COM
bined cost Of $4,000, and the Com
mercial National Bank building, cor
ner Of Mesa avenue and Mills street,
which will also cost $4,000. What is
equal to a new office building will be
the completion OF the top four floors
Of the Mills buildings, which is sched
uled for June 90 This will add about
100 offices to the building.
New Paved Drive
With the paving Of Grant avenue
through TO Cotton avenue, which will
be completed within the next week,
another main paved driveway leading
east and west across the city, thus
relieving the congestion Of traffic On
Montana street, will be provided.
Grant avenue runs parallel with Mon
tana street and lies two blocks to the
passing through Cotton Addition, Ala
mo Heights and into Manhattan
Heights. then to the Country club. The
boulevard plan has been followed in
laying out the street The. paved
driveway is 80 feet in width leaving
side.
Development along this new street
has already started. The firm Of Lea
veil & Sherman announce the sale to
". H. Hanford for $4,000 Of an entire
block described as block IA Alamo
Heights, fronting north on Grant ave-
nue. at the corner Of Elm street. The
full block viii be built up with homes.
Mr.. HanfOrd, who is contractor and
builder, formerly Of Detroit, Mich, viii
erect bungalows on an up-to-date plan
following different ideas than have be-
fore been introduced here
He will build five houses at once
costing a total OF $4,000. In block
's4." also fronting on Grant avenue
Ieavell & Sherman have sold for the
Alamo Heights company lots II, IS,
10 and 20 to F. H. Terrell and F. c.
Kroeger for $500. Both Mr.. Kroeger
and Mr.. Terrell viii erect homes at
once. The Alamo Heights company has
recently finished tlree modern bung-
allows on Grant avenue, costing $500
each.
Site for Providence Hospital
The Border City Realty Co has sold
TO Mrs n P. Schuster block 134, Alex
ander addition The block IS bound
ed by Blacker. St Vrain. Ange and
Blanchard streets and was sold Tor
$3.50. It is on the mesa It Is under
stood. that the new Providence hos
pital. TO cost $4,000, viii be erected
on this site, and the present building
replaced with an apartment building
seven New Bungalows.
Plans have been drawn by the Perry
Co. for seven modern bung-
allows to be built on Mckinley avenue.
The homes will be OF brick cOnstruc-
ton and viii each contain five roms-
They viii be built at a cost Of $4,000
each. The same firm started work
this week on two bungalows on Idalia
street, IN the Grandview addition, for