Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-09-14
NEW PROJECTS
ADDED To C|TY'S
BUILDING RECORD
Bismarck's 1916 improvements
Forging Nearer and Nearer
to Million Mark.
BIG DEMAND FOR
MODERN COTTAGES
More Than Two.Score Families
Looking for Every Available
House.

Bismarck's 1916 building record is
forging nearer and nearer the million
mark, reports the Commercial club.
Among projects commenced within
the past week are the foundation for
an eight-story addition to the Hotel
Mckenzie and a fourth story to the
Bismarck Wholesale Grocery Co.'S
plant on Main street. Work is pro-
crossing nicely on the large Tatley
building at the corner of Fifth and
Broadway; the lHaggart building,
which is being erected by y. A.
Hughes, at the corner of Broadway
and Third, is almost completed as re-
CARDS the exterior; excellent progress
is being made on the fhree-story dis
tributing and assembly plant of the
Missouri Valley Motor company, at
the corner of Main and Seventh, and
on the $4,000 addition to the Els
marck hospital, and only a simple
kink in the title prevents the begin
| ming Of work on a similar building
for the Bismarck Motor company, at
the corner of Broadway and Sixth.
The Strauss building on Main street
is practically completed, and, al
though the Rose apartments still
await the heating system, practically
every one of the eighteen apart
| ments is already taken. The Piersen
apartments soon will be ready for
| occupancy, and a full quota of ten
| ants is assured.
Biu Demand For Houses,
There is a demand right now for
so modern cottages, renting at $25
to $40 per month. If there is a sin.
gle modern, desirable dwelling vacant
in Bismarck, some two.score families
Who are 7Joking for nom haye
failed to locate it. The probabilities
are that ground will be broken with
in the next two weeks for number
of five to seven-room cottages, whose
builders hope to have them enclosed
before cold weather sets in. The de-
mand for skilled labor in the building
trades continues, and every man who
can spread mortar or tack a lath or
lay brick or shoulder hod or mix
mud" is assured job at good wages
for the next four months, at least.
| AdoItlon TO frcl9nt Rouse.
A hundred-foot, reinforced concrete,
fre-proof addition to the Northern
Pacific freight station has ben un-
der consideration for some time.
Business at this point has almost
doubled within the last year. Present
facilities have been found absolutely
inadequate. Better accommodations
for the dispatching of freight are i'm
perative. A conference between Nor
thern Pacific officials and local ship
pers will be held in the near future,
when the needs of Bismarck will be
ascertained. The 500 Line and the
Northern Pacific report that 1916 to
date has rendered by far the great
est business in the history of Bis
marck.
The addition of fourth story to
the Bismarck Grocery house will in
crease storage facilities about 20 per
cent and will relieve congestion
which during the last year has neces-
STATED the utilization of box car stor-
age. The Bismarck Grocery is one OF
Eismarck's distributing houses, which
has shown consistent, logical
growth from the date of it's establish
ment but whose development during
the past year has been especially rap
id. Three other Bismarck wholesale
houses stand in immediate need Of
increased facilities, which will be
supplied during the year.
Industries Seek Location.
The Commercial cluo has on it's
waiting list three desirable industrial
projects, whose location here depends
only on the provision of suitable
quarters Bismarck's need for an in
dustral and commercial incubator-a
large structure wherein space may
be procured by industrial and COM
mercial concerns not prepared to i'm
mediately erect their own buildings
is becoming daily more pressing.
Some Prospects.
Among other prospects for the fo!
lowing year are an important educa.
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