Mr. T. H. Moore is turning himself loose on building construction on the west side, and the plans he has now mapped out, upon which work has actually commenced, will prove a great boost for business in that part of town.
    Last week these columns told that he was to erect a 50x80, two-story brick building on lots he owns adjoining the White-Thomas building. At the time this mention was made arrangements were not advanced far enough to warrant a detailed account. At this time, however, we are prepared to state that this building will positively be erected, as before stated; that it will be 50x80 feet in size; that a 20x80-foot store building will be part of the new structure, and that a 30x80 livery stable office and carriage room will be the rest of it. The stables for horses will be at the rear of these buildings, upon lots which Mr. Moore recently purchased from G. W. Bashford. Excavation for the foundation of this building is now being made.
    These are not the only buildings Mr. Moore is going to erect. Across the alley from the building above mentioned he will put up a 42x70-foot building, three stories high. The first story will be used as a restaurant and office, while the two upper stories will be made into sleeping apartments. Work on this has already commenced. As a matter of fact this structure is but the commencement of what will eventually be a large three-story hotel on the corner where, in days agone, stood the old wooden structure, the "Clarendon" hotel. This hotel proposition, however, is not definitely determined upon, and Mr. Moore is not saying just when it will take shape, but that it will eventually be built, he says, there is no doubt. This much may be said, however, that when built it will be a structure which will do credit to the prominent corner which it will occupy--and there will be a space left at the front for a cool, shady lawn.
Medford Mail, August 4, 1905, page 1


    "Shorty" Hamilton:--"Well, I'll tell you. If anyone has purchased the Union Livery Stable property I do not know of it. Seems to me that I, a renter of the property, would have known if there had been a sale. Oh, you can hear any old thing you want to these days. Yes, I have rented the Moore livery stables on the west side and will move over just as soon as the buildings are completed. I will also keep the stables where I now am--going to use them for feed stables."
"Street Echoes," Medford Mail, January 26, 1906, page 4

    The brick buildings being erected by T. H. Moore on the West Side are slowly nearing completion, and by the first of July Mr. Moore expects to have the structures all completed. The work has not been done so fast as it possibly could have been done, but Mr. Moore believed, as he told a Mail representative, in "making haste slowly."
    "I promised myself," he said, "when I commenced this work that I wasn't going to worry about rapid progress. That I was just going to work along until I was through, and that when the buildings were completed they would be finished in every sense of the word. It takes a little bit of time to erect buildings the size of these and quite a lot of material, but I expect by the first of July to have them all completed."
    The buildings under construction include a three-story hotel building, 100 feet deep and fifty-foot front, the two store-rooms 25x100, with sleeping rooms in the second story, which rooms are connected with the main hotel building by a bridge across the alley between, and a brick livery stable 50x100, with the necessary corrals and sheds.
    The hotel will contain fifty-one sleeping rooms, with every modern convenience. They will be large, light and airy, and the hotel will be one of the largest and best finished in Southern Oregon. People are waiting now for the finishing of the store rooms in order to occupy them.
    The stable will be finished like a dwelling house, with a solid concrete floor through the center, and everything convenient for carrying on the business.
    "I don't care about saying a great deal at this time," said Mr. Moore in conclusion, "but I will say this much. When completed these buildings won't stand empty, if I am compelled to run the whole thing myself, and from the applications I have had I don't think that will be necessary."
Medford Mail, March 23, 1906, page 1


    T. H. Moore has broken ground on a lot which he owns opposite his new structures, on West Seventh Street. It is to be of brick and will be for business use, but further than that Mr. Moore is not saying a word. He is also preparing to erect a one-story brick addition east from the rear of his new hotel building to F Street. This is to be used as a store room for the hotel.
"City Happenings," Medford Mail, May 11, 1906, page 5


"Medford Leads All Other Coast Towns in Building Activity," Medford Daily Tribune, June 29, 1906, page 1


    T. H. Moore has commenced work on the kitchen annex to his hotel building, on the west side. One of the features will be a cement-lined cellar ten feet deep and twelve by fourteen feet in size.
"City Happenings," Medford Mail, June 29, 1906, page 5


    E. F. Hays and J. E. Deveny, lately of Grants Pass, have leased the new brick stable of T. H. Moore, on the west side, and will open a feed and sale stable therein. Later on they will perhaps branch out in the livery business. They have had much experience in the line of business they intend following, and are withal genial, pleasant gentlemen to meet.
    T. H. Moore has two of the store rooms in his brick on the west side fitted up for occupancy. One will be occupied by W. Stringer, the West Side grocer, and the other by the Waschau Brothers. Work is also being steadily pushed on the hotel part of the building, and it will not be long until the whole is completed.
"City Happenings," Medford Mail, August 31, 1906, page 5


    Another good-sized real estate sale was made on the west side this week, it being the sale of two lots on the corner of Seventh and G streets, opposite the Medford Hotel, by Young & Hall, to T. H. Moore for $5500. Mr. Moore isn't saying in language audible further than across a couple of blocks as to what he intends doing with this property, but the fact that he has joined with John F. White and the two are having a heavy brick partition wall built would seem to indicate that he intends putting up a substantial building and a reasonably high one. If Moore follows out the lines he has pursued in the construction of other buildings on that side this new one will be all right.
"City Happenings," Medford Mail, December 7, 1906, page 5


    T. H. Moore is, to all intent and purpose, endeavoring to become the possessor of all adjoining land on the west side, he having this week purchased from D. G. Karnes a tract of land, 50x100 feet in size, on South G Street, just north from the Karnes residence. The price paid was $500, and Mr. Moore will erect thereon a wooden structure 32x28 feet in size, to be used as a sample room for his hotel.
"City Happenings," Medford Mail, December 21, 1906, page 5


    T. H. Moore of the west side, who has built so many substantial buildings in West Medford, returned to our city this week from an extended trip throughout the East. While in Grand Rapids, Michigan he purchased furniture and fittings for his new hotel here. These will arrive about the first of April. He has secured the services of a Mr. Summerlin, of Carlton, Oregon, to take charge of the hotel when it is ready for occupancy. Mr. Moore has decided to delay work for a few weeks on the new building which he is putting up near Weeks & Baker's furniture store. He has decided to make it two stories high instead of one, as was first contemplated, and he is now having plans made.
"City Happenings," Medford Mail, March 1, 1907, page 5

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