Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-08-12 | Page 3 | Pocatello Enjoying a Building Boom of Large Proportions

IPocatello Enjoying a Building Boom of Large Proportions POCATERLO, Idaho. Aug 11. Building activity here is raining mo mentum, and indications point to a fah-lv good year In this respect. In Lhe wholesale district a number of large wholesale houses are under ;onrse of construe! ion These -will be Bne brick structures and modern in iverv respect. On the west side a lumber of residences are being erect-sd. erect-sd. W. H. Schneider of the Pocatello lealty company has under course of lonstruction two residences on South Jneoln. and another fino residnc' rill be erected on West Lewis just as loon as an old hour is removed from Jhe lot. C)n West Fremont street two residences have ju;-; been eompleted. .one a double apartment, and on .North I Johm-on and Clark slreet another mod-1 :ern residence is ready for occupancy. . The E C White company has placed a contract for the erection of twelve modern houses of the bungalow type Ninth and Tnth avenues. -which will be five nd six rooms each, and costing around ?30on each. Buildings that are now being completed in' lude a large modern, brick garage on iIih east side, the addition of two stories to the Perkins hotel, East Center, and a three-story apartment or rooming 'house or, Wesi Center street, with Brty rooms. Homes are being built In other part'- of the city. ' Among the big building projects in the city are the quarter million dollar addition to the Bannock hotel, for which excavating is now in progress, the Carlson building, a four-story' office building being eroded on the corner of Broadway and West Center street. James Chcsebro of Salt Lake is the ar Chitect. and ihe contract was awarded to the Larson Sampson company of I San Francisco. School buildings to be I erected this vear will cost an acgre gate of 5160,000. oo