The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1917-02-01
1ST NATIONAL
BANK TO HAVE
A NEW HOME
MARCH 18TH
WILL OCCUPY PART OF c. A.
a. sIGGs BUILDING, NOW occU-
PIED BY NOVELS STOCKTON
MERCANTILE COMPANY.

Alterations We're begun this morn
ing in the c. y Biggs building. cor
ner of Main and Sixtr streets, prelim-
mary to the occupancy of portion
of it by the First National bank Ten
tative arrangements for the removal
Jf the bank to the new location were
made a month or six weeks ago, altho
was not until Monday afternoon that
is board of directors met and signed
TIE lease for its new quarters, which
is TO run for period OF ten years.
The bank win occupy the room on
tie east side OF the structure and
viii have corner entrance 1t will
have frontage of thirty feet on Main
street and depth of seventy-three
feet. affording it ample space for the
transaction of its business. 1t viii
have superficial floor space OF 2I9O
square feet. which is in excess of that
now has for business purposes
All OF the remainder of the building
viii lhe used by the Nowels-Stockton
Mercantile company. which will leave
an area of 54e0 square feet on the
ground floor. in addition to all of the
second story. for commercial pur-
poses. 1t will have a frontage of
thirty-four feet and a center entrance.
The upper part of the partition be-
tween the bank and tie dry goods
room will be of glass, which will fur
nish plenty OF light for both compart-
meats. The entrance TO the dry goods
room has teen planned in such a way
as to provide it with capacious show
windows for the display of merchan-
disc and the interior of the room will
be conveniently arranged both for the
exhibit of goods and the comfort of
patrons.
TIE blue prints of the alterations
to be made in the building show that
both rooms will be attractive and will
combine every facility for carrying on
the business 10 which they will bs
dedicated. on the outside. at the
entrance to the bank, will be a hand
some marble column supporting the
corner walls of tie building. The tri-
angular space at its foot. as well as
e lobby. will have a tiled floor and
the Dashboard around all that portion
OF the bank set aside for the use OF
is customers will be OF highly polish
ed Italian marble. The lobby will be
twelve feet wide and will extend
across the front of the bank. There
will he rooms for the president. cash
ier and tsllers and tive apartments for
private consultation. which viii be
available to the customers of the
bank At the rear of the cages and
he special rooms set apart for the
officers and directors will be the main
working space for the bank. Back
Of them will be the vaults. safety de-
posit lockers. cloak rooms for EN-.
ployes lavatories. toilets. etc. The
preaelt sde entrance TO the Novels
Stockton Mercantile company store
on Sixth street. which will be back
of the room TO be used by the bank.
will not be disturbed.
TIE contract for the alterations To
the building has been awarded TO ..
Hawkey and he has a number OF
men at work on the undertaking. The
work viii be pushed TO completion as
-apidly as possible. as the bank is
DESTROYS of taking possession of It's
lew room by the 18th of March.
TIE expense of making the proposed
changes in the building will be in ex-
cess OF $4,000. This expenditure. with
e outlay the bank will have to make
N removing to its new quarters. will
bring the total up TO $4,000 or more.