Show BUILDING COSTS I ITO TO REMAIN HIGH i So Declare Decare Experts as Needs of Nation Are Disclosed by Survey With Hh a need for tor new structures structures tures In the thc United States at the tho present present pres pres- ent time there is little likelihood that commodity prices or wages will be bo lowered in the thc opinion of ot construction experts here It would wO bo be a mistake tho they point out for persons to delay delar building In anticipation of or such a re re- re J I The structural needs of or the country were disclosed in a a. survey sur which has Just be been n completed of oC largo large cities cilles Of Ot these municipalities 84 re reported reported re- re ported marked shortage of ot residences I 50 O need more schools 31 needed more business and office orrica buildings 30 0 0 needed moro more factories and all required miscellaneous construction Looking at It in a broad general wn way declared F. F S. S Murphy a Salt Lake lumberman and construction authority It seems quite certain that the United States will continue to bean bean be bo boan an extremely bus busy nation nallon in relation to world needs for sonic some time to come It will vili need not only more business II plants but more mora housing plants to carry carn on this thin business effectively This means that there Is going to bo be an I active building campaign during the next tow few years cars Tho The prospective e builder who vho thinks I ho can build more moro cheap cheaply a a. year ear or orao orso orso I so ao froni now no Is likely to bo be mistaken its As 9 President Wilson ha has pointed I out In his recent statements s. s It Is In Is YC very Important that the development Ol 01 public works and work of or O Cl every sort should be bo promptly resumed e an 0 n. n patriotic dut duty to give sho employment for skilled and unskilled labor during the period of or demobilization It is 15 a far cr cry from the ab absolute ban upon practically practically all building In effect only a afew afew afew few ago to tho the urgent appeals that now nos' come from 1 Washington lon to build every e sort of ot ofa a n. hon coop to a skyscraper and do It now It represents represents and the difference between war pence peace It Is estimated by br construction exports ex ec- ports porta that tho the decrease e In building during tho the past four tou years car In fn the tho United States has to nearly nearl 1918 alone construction con con- During of or residences was short i as c compared with a normal norma year ear before the th war |