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Show I FRIDAY NOT 11 HOODOO I FOB BIMi PERMITS H Six Arc Issued in One Day, Call- Iiiig for a Total Expenditure Expendi-ture of $212,300. It's nl off now. "No hoodoo attaches to Friday. If you don't bolicvo it,rik A, B. Hirth, Ihe genial and eflicicnl building inspector oi! Salt Lake City. IMr. Hirth issued six buihling permits Friday that, sent the current month's building permit record to .$249,200, which is $1 7,400 in excess of the record for the -whole of last .Tunc, $194,000. Kover again. 'will jI r. Hirth attempt to discredit Friday or the thirteenth or twenty-third of the month with the on--trntion that there is anyhiug unlucky about any one of these dates. The six permits issued Friday call for a total expenditure of $212,300 and raise the total number of permits for the first, our das of the month to nineteen, nine-teen, the thirteen previous permits amounting to only $8(5.900. One of the six permits issued Friday amounted to $1S5X)00 alone and sent the figures for the still infant month into tho sk3-lights. This was the permit of the Knox-JIolmcs Building companr for the erection of a four-story brick storeroom store-room building and hotel at State and Second South streets. Tho other permits, per-mits, while much smaller in comparison, were for handsome sums and helped materially ma-terially to boost the record along. With the permits for the first four days of tho current June $17,400 in excess ex-cess of the whole of lust . I unc and the building permits for the first five mouths of this year approximated a half million mil-lion ahead of t he record" for the corresponding cor-responding period of 190S. and several handsome permits in sight. Mr. Ilirth oxpeets the remaining twenty -six days of tho current mouth' to bring the excess ex-cess for the first half of this year to something -like $750,000 over the first six months oC last year. |