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Show TWIN FALLS BUILDING; GREAT RECORD MAKING Special to Tho Tribune. TWIN FALLS. Ida., Aug. 21. Tw'In Falls's building record this year Is surpassing sur-passing preceding seasons by far in both respect lo amount of capital invested and class of structures. Tho business area especially has expanded largely, there having been erected twelve quite largo-slzcd largo-slzcd buildings, most of which are designed de-signed for the accommodation of commercial com-mercial Institutions on the first and office of-fice and living and rooming quarters on tho second floors. The roof Is going on 1 the new Twin Falls county court house, which, when finished nnd furnished, will hove cost $150,000. and Is already being referred to by people competent to judge as tho prettiest court house In Idaho. The Twin Falls Bank fc Trust company building, two stories. Is being finished and tho bank Is to occupy ils new quarters quar-ters September 1. This structuro Is of Bedford stone finish, steel superstructure and rear walls of reinforced concrete. Foundation is in for a seven-story building, build-ing, the bank's officials having foreseen the day when Twin Falls might require as tall an office building as six or seven floors at the intersection of the two leading lead-ing thoroughfares. Tho counting room of this bank Is finished In marll'j paneling, has tile floors, marblo countc-Vs and separate sep-arate rooms for officers. On the. socond floor are fifteen apartments, fitted for offices and include every convenience, such as hot and cold water and fire-proof vaults, just abovo those which serve the banking requirements on tho floor below. be-low. The cost of this Improvement, which Is universally admired and referred to by visitors as one of the most conspicuous conspic-uous Indications of the confidence reposed In tho Twin Falls tract by financiers. Is estimated at $100,000. W. S. McCornick of Salt Lake Is president of tho Twin Falls Bank t Trust company; H. J. Falling, Fall-ing, vice-president; C J. Hahn. cashier; and It has been Identified with the Twin Falls tract almost since. the beginning of tho Irrigated era In this part of the state. People who have socn them all dcclaro the new counting room of this bank Is second to but one In all Idaho, that exception ex-ception being Boise. In point of elegance nnd size and general perfectly appointed facilities for transacting tho routine of the bnnklng business. Other buildings under finishing touches are owned by G. S. Johnson, cost ?30.-000; ?30.-000; M. B. Corcoran, cost J1S.000; W. II. Woaver, cost $30,000; R, D. Jones. A. PI1-gerrlm PI1-gerrlm nnd W. H. Weaver (partnership), cost $2-1,000: Swim & Aldrlch on Main avenue, cost $7000; same firm on Shoshone Sho-shone street $0000; Twin Falls Canal company, office (finished), $13,000; Addison Ad-dison T. Smith, cost $1S.000; Masonic temple, the cornerstono of which will be laid soon, cost $22,000; A. N. Smith, cost $13,000: McDcrmont apartments, cost $30,000. Smaller structures that have been finished fin-ished this summer swell the aggregate Investments In new construction here during the last year to moro limn half a million dollars. There have also been quite material advances made in the introduction of various Industrial enterprises, mostly of a minor but very serviceable character and chief of which Is an Ice and refrigeration refrigera-tion plant, with creamery adjunct, owned by the Lincoln Produce & Refrigerator company, of which Captain J. IT Woods is president and manager and Lcroy F. Washburn treasurer. This plant represents repre-sents an investment of $100,000 and is reported re-ported by the management to have been a success since the beginning of operations opera-tions last June. Twin Falls is also bo-ginning bo-ginning tho construction of a high school building, to cost $150,000. and the number num-ber of residences erected this summer Is remarked on as a most conspicuous feature of tho rapid growth of tho city during 1010. |