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Show BUILDING ACTIVITIES SHOW LOCAL GAINS Build ins activity in Salt Lake during the month of May. just ended, as compared com-pared with that of May a year ago, shows a ijain of 27 per cent, a coord ins? to a comparative com-parative statement issued by the American Ameri-can Contractor of Chicago. Building work in Salt I-ake during the last May amounted to $420,850. while for the corresponding month of 1H17 it amounted to $329,410. Portland shows the highest increase, with a percentage of 6US ; Long Beach, Cal., second, with 401 per cent, and Tacoma, Ta-coma, third, with a percentage increase of 290. Los Angeles shows an increase of 6t! per cent. Oakland shows a loss of IS per cent, San Francisco of 72 per cent, Seattle of 14 per cent, and Spokane ot ST per cent. |