Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 27, 1902, Winnipeg, Manitoba Cd Winnipeg saturday december 27, 1902. Twenty four pages. No. New buildings of the year in Western Canada William. Of during the ins operations have -.-k. And work on the in will be continued of months. J. Stin Wiiliam superin St part of the work a Ehi Teet Aylesworth the build Kollar Hospital. Con Dale. Ken 1 atch kindly fur i correspondent on the different build in town. The c. P. R. I Uin ething on a Large line and improve will see a still i. Season than expert _ past in the building i Many people advantage of buy Wiley addition and town with a View in to the Scarcity is the estimated Cost of the dil Terent build i r cd. N i and 11 pm t h r Brick a and door 5gi Brick -10 1-i-Lck Ink a v. Rick 1 -r.c-e. Brick i. Cd 7" Utica Irne House i Vick Brick by Anderson Ormond As Law offices and the second Storey As an apart ment Block. Newman bros., a Brick Block con Taining two stores one of which is used by the owners As a wholesale liquor and grocery store. The other is occupied by b. A. St. John jeweller. J. P. Rowe Brick Block containing two stores one occupied by g. W. Sparling photographer and the other by g. M. Hart tailor. T. W. Prout a two Storey Brick Block used for offices and warehouse in the implement business. Jas. Fairbain a Large Block in the Center of the business portion of the town to be used As a harness Manu factory on the ground floor and the second Flat for offices and private rooms. J. E. Brown have also completed one of the Best livery stables in the province. It will be used As a Breed ing and training stable for fast horses. The additions to the Portage Gen eral Hospital consisting of a new Wing and Brick veneer for the whole build ing makes it one of the finest buildings in town. The amount spent in improving it was in the Neich boyhood of s4.000. It is also expected that the skating rink which was started about three Weeka ago will be opened on monday night. This building is one of the Best of its kind in Canada. The Esti mated Cost is the above and other minor improvements completed in this town during the season will represent an expenditure of about Brandon. A review of operations outside the City by free press co resp Onden to House Rosser Avenue Alex. Allan Brick House t. Towers Frame House on Flats w. C. Taylor two Frame houses Johnson estate r. Sword Frame House a sword Frame House j. Bur Hill Brick House. Louise Avenue twelfth Street Peter Payne Brick House Victoria Avenue mrs. Frame House lome Avenue Jeri. Deitz Frame House thirteenth str to. Mrs. , Frame House Assiniboine Avenue 5300. M. Frame House . Rev. Tykes two Frame cottages s2.000. Walter Simpson Frame House 500. W. C. Taylor Brick Block Corner Rosser. C. R. Banting three Frame houses stables fourteenth Street s. E. Clement Frame House fifteenth Street r. Sword Frame House purchased by d. B. Niblock sixteenth Street a. A shelter Brick House seventeenth Street w. Lennox Brick House Twenty second Street or. Mcfad t. E. Anderson a. Lamb isolation Hospital o. Colbeck e. Brown a. Mcdougall r. Ferguson store g. Mich Lis. Store Farmers elevator j a k. Williams Smith Ferguson workshop the Standard office j. F. Hole a. E. Gibbons t. J. Little Frank Kish. Hotel c. Offices of. Mccarthy warehouse stables eleven cottages repairs and improvements Calgary. Calgary dec. Year just finished has been a record one for the contractors. Never before has so Siul a Mvi a much work been completed. This is inside lavatories have also been added despite the bad weather in the first i for the Comfort and convenience of the climate cannot be conveyed to those who demand and Are ready to pay for it because the c. P. R. Cannot or will not furnish transportation. List of completed buildings. Almost the first building to be noticed by the traveller on visiting Here is the new hotel its massive Brick Walls towering above the neighbouring blocks. The Enterprise displayed by the proprietors messes. Henderson and Downer in erecting such a. Large and costly building demonstrates the fact that rises conspicuously above All others and that is that the prospects looming up connected with what has already transpired Dur ing the year in Lethbridge is instilling into our citizens a Confidence never be fore experienced. The hotel building is three stories High with a frontage of seventy five feet and running along Ford Street 120 feet the Walls Are of Brick with a handsome steel front and Large plate Glass windows. The dining room is 25x40 feet and is situated to the right of the office with commodious Sample rooms in the rear. The building is equipped with electric Bells heated with hot air and lighted by electricity. Bouf1cart Arthur. Brandon dec. Problem of securing Homes or indeed accommodation of any sort in the past year for the numerous settlers and land Hunt ers who have thronged this prosperous Western land has been a diff cult one to solve. Brandon have never suffered particularly from Lack of buildings although of recent years it has been noticeable that accommodation has been slowly getting scarcer and harder to procure. As our Mer chants and business men gradually arose from hard and Earnest toilers to More affluent circumstances shacks and shanties gave place to Frame and Brick houses and blocks thus vindicating the substantial Ity of Brandon s business men. This very natural de sire to own or reside in a building somewhat equal to the larger demands of More prosperous living has this year culminated in the expenditure in Brandon of Over a. Quarter of a Mills a of the erection of buildings which has had the effect of changing the appearance of the place from that of a provincial town _ to that of one More metropolitan. Sew i blocks of Brick and two or three stories in height have graced the. Ground that heretofore bore one Story shanties factories and stores have rendered productive non productive i excepting in taxes plots of land and Inary pretty residences have been eve cited. Giving pleasure to their own ers besides adding to the Beauty of the City All of which proves conclusively that the foundations of Brandon Prosperity and financial health Are Broad deep and lasting. List of completed buildings. The following is a list As near to completeness As possible of Tho Vari Ous buildings erected and improve ments carried out during the past Brick store Correct estimate of Cost or number no record being kept at the town Hall but they reach Between two and three Hundred in number and have been built chiefly by and for newcomers which Means a Large increase in the population now nearing the Mark. The More important works completed and under Way arc the waterworks and sewerage systems which is far from being completed although a Large amount work has been done in laying pipes and putting in the sewers. The orthodox Green hydrant now ornaments the main Street. A Fine solid Brick pumping station has been erected on the River Flats and expensive machinery installed. This building will to used both for water works and electric lighting tie latter system having been taken Over by the town and greatly improved and enlarged. One Hundred and forty thous and dollars was voted by the rate payers for these two works but this amount will probably not of sufficient to Complete them. A arched roof skating and hockey rink and an additional Curling rink has just been completed. The skating rink is Cue of the largest in Western Canada. The two buildings will Cost about . They Are built of Wood on Brick foundations. A solid Brick Public school will be opened after the Christmas holidays. This handsome Bui Ding has been two years under construction and will Cost about the can Adian Northern railway is now a operation Over the Spur to Strathcona where it forms a Junction with the Calgary and lid Monton rail Way and runs three regular trans a Day besides several specials. A temporary station has been erected in the lower town. A Largo covered Sta Tion in the Centre of the town is spoken of by the c. N. U. Officials. Edmonton is having her full share of railway projects and rumours if halt them materialize it will be a. Chicago. A solid Brick hotel 50x150 is Belna in Jas per Avenue Cost about Sio tli.10. It has a three Storey around the front and East Side and tha build my presents a Fine App Arauco. Another hotel has been greatly while a third will have extensive Niu voc ments made next summer. T to Venet blocks one solid Brick store one Brick warehouse and a s Jed Brick addition to a general score six Frame stores and three Olyce build Ings Many minor buildings and additions have been constructed. Build ing operations Are still Active Arm Promise to remain of All Winter. Trn blocks Are projected on the main Street next summer most of the . Brick. There has been a . Boom in real estate. The Bank or Montreal Rorr based a 50-foot Corner lot for . Where it is uni i 1-1 l .1 Fri build ii for the erection of a 100-barrel per Day Mill and several other industries Are under Way which include u Brick Yard and starch Mill. I list of buildings erected. The principal places of business and dwellings that have been erected this year Are As follows Farmers Eleva Tor Truesdell elevator Ogilvie s elevator Connell Clement s flax store House metropolitan hotel d. My Bachen livery barn con a. Logan Law office ?600 bicycle shop a. B. Cook real estate a. T. Davis general store addition to Hopper s Hall Connell Clement s implement War rooms. Union Bank Block e. methodist Church school House temporary d. Mceachen Dray barn mrs. Olmstead millinery skating and Curling Rinolt Uoo. The following list of dwellings has also been erected this season m. V. Morrison James Dwyer s600 j f. Kerr James Mcewen a j. Pipe w. C. Stev ens George Warner meth Odist parsonage Hartford Mills j. R. Mears presbyterian manse b. Amos r. E. Gordon j. W. White h. Merrick w. Thompson a group of German houses homesteaders temporary dwellings building will be put up for the Bank of Commerce. Land o l main Street is now being sold per foot. Arcola. New elevators at Arcola Assa. Three stories and basement 4s foot Den improvements and Brick veneer ing House Jas. Glass Frame House a total value of s2s3.000. Other new buildings. In addition to the above a. Large new rink Standard size for senior hookey dec. Perfect .r.-. Is on the tapis for year. Besides an Jii pm Iii. Which or. D. No of he will make in Chr probability of ii station is now fifty. Trio j will be of a of i Bushe x i Are announced with the erection Art in Addi private to cad to build is advancing has not by any Faunl value. New 1, in both ill next year period. To Supply the i a priced property. Roncase by 90 feet Kink bros., has been projected and will be in 000 d c Mckinnon Imperial readiness for skating soon. It is Well ranks As one of the most modern and appointed with All conveniences and up to Date hostelries in the West will Cost the y. M. C. A. Directors Are also sore by i n. Kirchhoffer two i the advisability of putting Qto is and basement 24 feet frontage up their own building in the near fun he do s4000 iture and conversation with architects Birch la Howey 45 by so j and contractors shows that Many fee two stories and basement s1v j building the Brick Block by j. F. Higginbothan other Busy season is looked for k by a two stories and basement 2-4 by 60 Law Bros Mill and elevator installed with electric motors for driving the Mach in to s-10 000. In addition to the nurses Ward to. Moosomin. Moosomin dec. 2g.-the year now drawing to a close has been a very great development in the District and r Rentin 01 Ivicic inc i i warehouse Hanbury manufacturing evidences of Prosperity Are seen i cell oppt but. I to to o feet by company capacious factory 90. And an engine room Binder twine company rat Portage. Dec. New on main Street is .1. adds greatly to e of main . Two one and the other Rio or Are offices. Sonic order have their the third Storey. A Hall covers the in the Large store. Tho a new r tin River immediately Bridge. The a Law of Stone the new Bridge of the old one to carry the Mon i ifs which the com inadvisable to run Over tone. for the nurses a., Hospital is h by the Stu. Pretty appear am. Profs the Bay by 100 . Meet us two Frame and Brick Van be r de stores St Matthew s Church Brick veneer to Brandon Sun of Avenue and twelfth Street. Hop e. Of ol-uu11u----------- 1.200. And r r. Dowling Frame or. L. M. More Frame House. 53.500. Pro Emonts on h ms4 Street r. Sword Frame House in the Way of new buildings. In the town itself building operations were late in being commenced and As a consequence men and material were scarce and not As much was really done As was contemplated. Last Spring the great question of the town was whether the new Branch of the c p r would run North from town or not and those who thought our town would suffer if the Road did not go from Here were slow about begin Ning any new work. However though the Road gave us the go by the natural development of the District demanded that buildings be erected or improved and in the course of the Vear about has been expended in this Way in town. With the outline districts there was nothing backward and Many of the contracts for new houses and barns were let list Winter. The lumber dealers in town report the Sale of about one m on and a half feet of lumber mid the local Brick Yard sold All their outfit and Brick was brought in Winnipeg. The total value of build Itie a Erec de in the immediate Dis we probably be that figures will be exceeded next year is certain As already Many con tracts have been of the season and the two weeks of strike. It is estimated that with the work done upon the various blocks that the value of the building of 1002 is Over the principal build Ings other than Small residences arc p. Burns Block. Calgary milling company Block. Senator Lougheed s Block. The Alberta Block built by w. N. Hull. The moravian Church. Three Public schools. Parslow s warehouse. Buildings at agricultural store. Salvation army Van wart Bell s warehouses. W. Pitman s store. Gun club building. The German lutheran Church. Below is a partial list of the work by the contractors contractor Whit Loton s list contractor Jyh Peiu h list contractor j. R. Hunter s list contractor s list contractor s. Spafford s list contractor Uulrey s list contractor s list contractor Hom y s list contractor Rathvon s list contractor Becker s list. Other contractors Small buildings the Outlook for next year is Excel Lent. The Burns Block is nearly finished. A number of new stores will be put up and also some new office buildings. The Board of Trade May put up a Large new building. The methodist Church will put up a 000 building. The Church of England will Start on a pro Cathedral Church which will take three years to build. Many residences will be erected. 25.fw a is.0 o 7.5go postage la Prairie. U Prairie dec. for the year 1002 has the most successful in the he town. Large number of private ii have bin erected Dur have been Sev i a is added to the Busi it the town among which John Costigan a Brick Block to be used As l contains the latest in store fixtures Ana lighting appliances. And Ferris two Storey used on the ground floor Frame House Victoria Lethbridge. Reg1na. Street g. Glover Frame House Teit Mozart Frame House College w. A. Elliott Frame Regina dec. New buildings in the town of Regina during the last twelve months were As follows. Where not otherwise indicated the buildings Are residences Sebastien Welsh b. Kaiser Jacob Ehman Lethbridge dec. Year 1902 has been one of steady growth and Prosperity for Lethbridge and Vicinity. True in the town the number of Buiiding-3 erected Thijs year or their value is not so Large As last , when was spent in rearing various edifices but this is largely accounted for by the most untoward combination of circumstances which hampered if it did not entirely pre vent much of the building operations projected for 1002. These were As Fol lows viz., 1 the unusually wet sea son 2 Scarcity of skilled and other labourers 3 shortage of Brick 4 the j Peacy Legi Stive Assembly. Enlargement John Fisher d. Moore store Jacob Meier is Holland livery stable enlarged the misses Williamson f. Jackson lumber famine caused by Lack of transportation facilities from the Mountain sawmills. Yet notwithstanding these handicaps no less than 000 was expended. Lack of transportation facilities. In View of the a Palling and far reaching effects of the great Coal strike in Pennsylvania this summer is i should have been the Best in the Nis i too i tory of Coal mining in the West but Soo i it is a sad reflection upon the utter Inadequacy of the c. P. Railway to handle the transportation problem when we know that millions of tons of excellent Coal Are Here and thous ands of Consumers crying out. For it m Manitoba and the territories. Yet the vital necessity to life in a. Rigorous guests. When completed the building will Cost Complete the Alberta big wins co. A e adding to their present promises a in Fri malt ins House and War Mouso combined. The Structure is of Brick three stories High 22x72 feet hours of ing maae Cement the Cost when com plete will be about soon. Amongst the additions to the residential portion May be . D the pretty Homes of or. J. L. l. Mrs. Champness. Or. W. H. Robson and or. S. Dunbar. Another Enterprise of considerable which has Boon Carrie-1 Well nigh to completion is the widening of the gauge of the Alberta railway and Coal company from to distance of Over by Xiv Miles there connecting Wilh Road of the great Northern railway who fun pc standardized the line recently by them from the great palls Canada railway co., ankh runs from Coutts on the International Boundary to great Falls Montana a distance of Over 140 Miles. Along the canal. The towns along the irrigation canal have More than kept Paco with the Prosperity of the great Wesr in fact they Are setting a Pace for others to follow. For example last year Bay i had an assessment of 51 9. This year it was increase Over s100 000. Business and residential lots have increased in value Over 100 per cent and in order to Cope with the demand the present Tow site is being almost doubled. The new Mill and ele Vator which Cost Over will be ready in about two weeks for Busi Ness and materials Are being Laid on the ground including to Date Twenty cars machinery and Twenty five cars of lumber for the new sugar re finery which will Cost in the neighbor Hood of a concert Hall is 1 being built costing , and i s10000 Worth of debentures were re 1 Cen try sold at 6 per cent Premium for the erection of a school. At Stirling also a s school is almost ready for occupation and other building operations Are reported brisk. New ranching enterprises. Three Large ranching concerns have been launched this year in this immediate Vicinity Viz 1 the Knight ranching company with a capital 01. They have at present on their Range of acres sheep and by Spring will have cattle. C2 the Alberta land and Stock company whose capital is 000 and who have on their property 5.000 steers and sheep. 3 the Stock company with a capital of up. This latter con 2.000 2.500 1.200 9m 1.400 a. Cern has acres of land All fenced and paid for and will have steers ready for Market next year. Edmonton. Edmonton dec. Building operations this year have been the largest in the history of the town. So Many dwelling houses have been erected All Over the town More especially in the North and East ends that it would be difficult to give a Arcola Assa., dec. Attempt to write up the Prosperity of the a cola District along the substantial line of building for the Yeav 1902 is a big undertaking. The products of the crop of Lijole have been spent mostly in More land under cultivation. The i Vren of the land under cultivation is now double what it was a year ago. However the District is certainly read in no something substantial from the of rail it of its soil in the Way of in buildings Large granaries Anc. Mammoth barns. The old log Cabins Are Givins place to Bright new Frame Homes and the Sod stable to the mod Ern barn. When estimating the value of the done on the farms in the past season we do not take into consideration the varied Homes of hundreds homesteaders who have come into the District the past season though the total would certainly be Many thousands of dollars. The Prosperity of the resident Farmers can easily be imagined when it is said that nearly Worth of buildings have Boen erected in the Vicinity of Arcola. This past season. Among the Prin Cipal of these May be mentioned w. A Hislop barn t. J. Bull s House j. Lee House and stable j is 500 j. Ballantyne granary Andrew Hiiop barn James l. Thompson granary n. Bremmer House John Mceach i Ern House p. Baragar of Chou Tom Lee House c. Hildebrand House Wilmar school House Archie Hislop House John Johnston stable. S meth Odist Church at Coteau Hilde Brand school House. W Laird House e. Whew Ili House new Hope school House h. Cad Well House r. Kerr Gran Ary Sijoon j. Warden House Ana 1 stable w. B. Empey stable 1 John Henderson granary if boo s Clark House and barn Geo. Vav oozes stable j. H. Elliott granary Chas. Clark House is 000 Bert Hicks granary Coteau parsonage Soo Kitchener school c. Bennett granary Sjoo Walter Craig House p. Quick House Jos. Craig House buildings at Arcola. In the Centre the Moose Mountain Valley situated at the terminus of the Arcola Branch of the Canadian Paci fic railway stands the thriving town of Arcola. It is Little wonder that All visitors and Home seekers Are m pressed with the Beauty and Fertility i of this part of the country. To the North about five Miles Rise the Moose i mountains fro which can be Survey j de the Long level Valley that makes the District famous. From this Valley in the season of 1001 bushels of wheat were marketed and this sea son already Over bushels have been marketed and More than that amount is still held Back in the Gran Aries of the Farmers owing to the blockade. With the Revenue from this and also from the Bis flax crop the town of Arcola though Only two years old has had More substantial Progress than almost any other town in the Canadian West. Last year two Eleva tors were in operation. Now we have five Large Standard elevators together with a flax store House with a combined capacity of bushels. About have been expended in the erection of business blocks and dwellings this season and the town now has a. Group of Over sixty places of business and about seven Hundred inhabitants. A Stock company is now being formed with a capital of Dauphin. Dauphin dec. In Dauphin the past season has been satisfactory on the whole although the wet period of the Early Spring greatly delayed work. In town the buildings erected have been largely confined to business blocks. These include the Leach and Mackenzie blocks. The Bank of Commerce building and tha Mackenzie Mann residence Tow site farm. The railway company has built a Large Coal Dock fitted up with Modem improvements. The flour Mill has undergone extensive improvements and put in an electric lighting Plant. The town itself has made considerable additions to the sidewalks and improved the Bridges leading to the corporation. The municipalities closely adjoining the town have advanced along the line of building and general improvement very noticeably. These include the Rural municipalities Dauphin ochre River Ste. Rose Gilbert Plains and grand View. The buildings erect of. Ilav almost Dences and in most cases these Are of a commodious kind. A great Many new school houses have been built Duit the year in the Rural districts. 1 these new buildings Are a great i movement on the old ones. One of the most important advances made during the year has been in the direction of Bridge building. The new Bridges Are of the truss variety and structures which have been built to stand the Strain of heavy traffic Ami avoid the havoc caused by the Spring floods with the old style or pile Bridge. During the summer the railway com Pany has also built Many new Bridges along its system in this District. Just what the expenditure has been this year in building and improve ments is a Little hard to get at from the data obtainable but a conserva Tive estimate places Tho figures at a very satisfactory state of affairs when it is taken into consideration the delay caused by the backward Spring. Macleod alta., dec. Expended in buildings in 1002 new Public courthouse. I Tenn no stores Etc. Dwelling houses. throughout the summer and Early autumn the hotels were crowded and accommodation extremely limited i i to the Large number of new settlers arriving by every train. There is no doubt that in the shrine there will be a further and greater influx of Muni Grants. The cattle Industry of a. Berta while increasing is gradually changing in character. The Large leased cattle ranges being slowly Broten up into homesteads for the advancing settlers thus aiding the development of the resources of the land As a farming As Well As a grazing District. Carberry. Carberry dec. Review of the building operations in Carberry and its tributary District evidences the fact that the past season has been one of substantial Progress though of improvement rather than Extension. Lumber dealers and contractors Esti mate that the season s expenditure will exceed if anything this is a conservative estimate. In Carberry the principal structures Are the handsome new St. Agnes English Church and rectory built at a Cost of the other congregations Are following suit. The methodists have the excavations for their new edifice completed and the will be immediately next Spring kid i is not improbable that a new Church and manse will be erected next sum Mer by Knox Church congregation. Or Ben a. Huckell has built a sub Stantial Brick residence and messes. W. A. Perrin and j. Fowler have enlarged and improved their Resi Dences at considerable expense. On the big Plain. On the Plain the building has been More Active. At Mckenzie s City two Large elevators have been built by Ogilvie s and g. B. Murphy spec Tive Lyt and at Brookdale another elevator has been erected by the Lake of the Woods milling co. And a Large Ware House by d. Mcnaughton. Two stores and a Large boarding House have also been built at the latter place this All. We Wood has added to its Grain Stor age capacity by a Large warehouse ;