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Show ttensive Building W1 Program For 1923 J cat Wlnchestor Dealer says that all no construction records will be On i broken. stc Some Figures To Study mi 'When tho curtain Is drnwn on tho W; ir 1923 I havo overy reason to bo la) vo that wo will discover that ovory be :ord mado for construction in tho mc Ited Statos has boon brokon." go rhls Btatomont was mado yostor- ho v by L. D. Hacker, tho local Win po ostor doalor, who makes it a part th( his buslnoss to koop well posted pa building conditions not only In this wl :tlon but throughout tho country. Inf Continuing his oponlng statement, ; L. D. Rackor said: 'Nothing donotes tho return of in no atrial prosperitywhich also moans ttii ) prosperity of tho nation any moro up in tho continuation and onlargo on mt of tho building program begun ho 3 yoar ago. Tho housing shortago Inl isod by tho curtallmont of building Is arntlons during tho war still oxlsts I dosplto tho fact that building a orations in 1922 excoedod thoso of v othor yoar by moro than 91,000,-1,000 91,000,-1,000 oxporloncod observors aro of ) opinion that tho Ilguros this yoar II bo considerably nbovo thoso of lo t yoar. 0vi 'Thoro is ono llttlo hitch In this tin )gram, however. Tho building con pa; notion Industry hns roachod a point doi toro it can go no fnstor than men th i bo suppllod to nssomblo matorials thi it go to mako up a building. In the iw York and othor Important cen thl a tho shortago of laborers and by lllod mechanics Is of considerable eh, portanco. This condition may work ca olt out and ovoryono hopes that It bo ' th, 'Wo notice now buildings going up mi around us but vory few poople bu ro a thought to tho outlay In do noy of this construction work, so fr Dso llguroB will provo startling to BOl uiy. Consorvatlvo ilguros of 1922 ico tho construction activities at bo ,541,055,000, of which moro than ono 9t, lllon dollars was for homos. In 1919 fU tlonal building construction figures tj oraged $19,013,000 each wook of tho ar. In 1920 tho avorago was f 48,- tj 0,000. Tho wookly average for tho st quarter in 1921 was $29,000,000; qi o aocond qunrtor, $53,000,000; tho Ird, $52,0000,000 and tho fourth 8,000,000. Then camo tho boom. 10 wookly avorago for tho first quar qc r, In 1922 was $50,000,000; tho sec id.quartor,$82,opo,000; tho third quar r $70,000,00 and the fourth quartor ound $G9.000,000. Tho final quartor usually tho poorost for tho building t idos. Eighty thousand (80,000) 80 lldlngs wero constructed in 1920; til D.000 buildings In 1921 aqd 160,000 1922. "In Los Angeles, Calif., a houso was ,e lahod ovory 20 minutes. Tho build ! 58 completed In that city In 1922, if icod on G0-foot lota would make a oot 190 miles long built solid on , th sides. Ono hundred forty-five ausand (145,000) persons aro era c yed In this work in Los Angeles, the lis will glvo one an Idea of the In sat number of persons who nro en wn god In nqtual construction work, oso mon requiro a lot of Win ostor hammors, chisels and Buch J ior tools. You can figure it out as jC 11 as, r can, tho vast numbor of De s, bolts and other linos of build i hardware, that aro neodod In the Ished product It looks like a big year." and J the |