Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-08-29
N0UNTAINA|R IS
ERECTING MANY
NE " BUILDINGS
Thriving Little City on the
Cutoff Goes Right Ahead
With Big Program in Spite
of High Prices.
tBy a Staff Correspondent


Mountainair, N. NJ. Aug. 2S.-
One of the thriftiest, classiest
growing and best business towns
OF ITS size in the state of New
Mexico is Mountainair. These facts
are in evidence on all sides as n
visitor enters.
OF business buildings now under
construction Notwithstanding pres
ent prices of material and labor
may be mentioned the two-story
stone Motel of twenty rooms with
basement under the entire build ng.
ms Is to be modern structure in
every respect, steam heat, electric
llght by private plant, baths, hot
and cold water and every conven-
fence, This building is being erect
ed by the owners, the brothers b.
b. and l.. L. Lory. It is expected to
open october Is with Mrs. Robert
Kay as proprietress, and when this
is said, all who know Mrs. Kay will
understand that the management
in every respect will be strictly
first class. This hotel and its ac-
commodations will certainly be APP
prec1ated by the travelling public.
G. T. McWhirter & Son, proprie-
tors of the Pinon Hardware com
pany, are building a large stone
salesroom and wareroom and will
enlarge their stock to fill same.
This building will have a fifty foot
plate-glass front.
DR.. G.. II. Buer has almost com
pleted handsome new drug store
which he will fill with a complete
stock within the next thirty days
| This will make two first-class drug
stores in Mountainair.
Sam Isenhart is erecting a com
modious barber shop which will be
fitted up in the best of style when
completed.
In addition to the Mountainair
State bank, which does a large bus
mess in this town and vicinity, an
other, the Citizens state bank, has
been organized and is doing bust
ness temporarily in a frame build
ing until their new two-story
brick is finished. This will be a
good-si2ed structure and the upper
story is to be office rooms Two of
the leaders in this new enterprise
are H. L. Andrews and II. L. Shaw.
Mrs. Belle Gentry has almost
finished a large roQming house.
The Mountainair warehouse and
Bean association Is just about com
pleting a one hundred and twenty
five carload warehouse, which will
be equipped with all machinery and
up-to- date conveyances for han
ding this product, This company
Is affiliated with the New Mexico |
Bean Growers association.
The Trinidad Bean and Elevator |
company is also enlarging its al |
ready capacious buildings to meet |
the growing needs of the locality. |
Other business buildings of lesser |
size are in process of construction, |
also residences in various parts of |
town. Two new churches, a Meth !
odist and a Baptist, are soon to be |
started.
This story would be incomplete |
should we fail to mention the Glen !
Shaffer Hardware company, which |
firm, although not doing any build |
ing at present, has one of the larg- |
est, most varied and most COM |
plete stocks of farm implements, |
machinery and vehicles to be seen
in New Mexico. Such an array of |
stock as this firm carries brings
forcibly to mind the fact that there |
is something doing in and around |
Mountainair. People from all parts |
are coming into this section buying |
land, accommodating property and
getting rich. Land is in great de-
mand and the price going up every |
day.