The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1916-03-08
new BUSINESS BLOCKS IN
COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION
Fallon Is Enjoying a Building Boom
With Several Projects Still
Pending


now in course of construction in
Fallon, it is fair to say that this city
is enjoying building boom.
The new O'Connor block, under
the supervision of Contractor Hen
Iiksen, is now rooted over and
workmen are now engaged in finish
ing the front. The structure is OF
cement blocks with front in cement
brick laid in colored mortar and
will be finished in tiling with full
modern plate glass show windows
making it one of the handsomest
and most thoroughly fire proof bus
mess blocks in a town of this size
in the State.
]. w. Flood is going ahead with
the construction of his new building
which will be the home of the Rex
Theatre. This work is also under
the supervision of Mr., Henriksen.
The construction will be of mono
lithic concrete and the forms for
the walls are now in place and the
pouring of the mixture will be COM
rnenced within a short time. AS de-
signed the building will be two stor-
les in height at the front, with ample
lobby and box office. The auditori-
um will have a sloping floor and es-
rectal attention has been paid to the
problems of heat and ventilation.
The rooms on the second floor will
he occupied by Mr.. Flood as resi-
dence. The encouragement received
by the high class of pictures shown
at the Rex theatre during the past
few months has warranted Mr..
Flood In believing that Fallon will
support a moving picture theatre of
the better class and he has deter
mined to give them an opportunity.
Work on the new Gray, Reid &
Co. building is fast approaching the
finishing stages. On Monday the
plate glass in the extensive show
windows was placed in position by
vorkmen from the Cobbledick-Kib-
lie Glass Co of Oakland. The store
will be exceptionally well lighted,
as the entire north front of the
building, one hundred feet, is of
plate glass. in addition to the large
window on the Main street frontage.
Plasterers are now engaged in the
finishing work In the interior and il
Is expected that the firm will remove
to their new quarters on or about
the first of April.
The Fallon Flour mill is now
completed, insofar as the carpenter
ing work is concerned, and now on
" awaits the arrival of the machin-
cry which has been ordered and is
now being made to order.
In addition to the business blocks
mentioned above, there are num-
Der of cottages now in course of
construction or finished in various
sections of the town.
II is more than probable that the
nresent season will witness the erec-
ton of a modern hotel, so long, so
much talked of and which now, ap-
parently. only awaits the organiza-
ton of an association or corpora
ton to take the matter in hand. Lo-
cal financiers have tentatively offer-
ed contributions toward the project
that warrants the belief that there
will be no lack of capital to finance
the enterprise once a hotel company
is organized.
Neither does there seem to be any
question but that it would be pay
ing investment from the start. Fal-
lon enjoys the unenviable reputation
of having the poorest hotel accom-
modations of any town of its size in
the State. 1t has become a truism
that no traveller will stay over in
Fallon whose business does not
make 1t imperative With the State
Fair here this fall and the immense
travel that is certain to come over
the Lincoln Highway following the
road Improvements that are to be
made in this county during the com
ing season, the need of modern
hotel becomes more and more appar'
ent, and will certainly not go long