Show I Wall Street Briefs Briefs' NEW YORK TORK March 12 AP- AP Building and engineering work coi cOn cOn- for in Ill the 37 states east t of tile tho Rocky Mountains during tl the week ending March 7 7 amounted l to F. F W. W Dodge corpora corpora- lion reports This compares wll with for contracts let In til tile preceding week which was an un unusually Unusually Un- Un usually heavy construction The Tho total for the correspondIng week of last year was Contracts awarded since tile the first firs of tho year total 71 a adaily dally daily average rate of about 18 per percent cent below the rate of ot activity during dur dur- lug ing the samo sanio period of 1329 i i Stocks of refined copper In North and South America on March 1 1 were tons an ai increase o Of tons tolls over the amount recorded rt- rt corded for February 1 and paring with tons on March J 1 1323 1929 according to the American America bureau of metal statistics Total stocks of refined and blister copper on March 1 1 were tons tonI a as against tons on February 1 1 and tons oh January 1 1 Tim Tho First Detroit company ha has been formed by the Detroit company and the First National company to take o er active operation of the bond departments of tile the Detroit Security Trust company its af affiliate a- a the Detroit company and tile tho First National company The new company will become the in ln investment vestment unit of the Detroit Bankers Bank Bank- ers company Tie Tho Standard Oil company of California has advanced the price Df of crude oil 23 25 cents a barrel for ho higher gravity oil The Tho prices for or lower gravity also aio have ilave been advanced the 1 11 1 gravity i I ii being Increased S cents a a A |