| Show SCARCITY Of BRICK DELAYS PROGRESS Of BUILDING IN CITY Contracts Not Let Because the Material Is N Not at atA A Available Does S Sat Salt it Lake City face a brick famine fam tarn lee ine It If on one has the wherewithal for building build build- In leg ing qan cUn he lie g get t the tho noces necessary ary material In the brick line lino Contractors say that thal bricks are aro at a 0 premium and If It the present scarcity continues the obI oblong on I pl pieces ces of ot burnt clay will ill bc be as rare and and valuable as Its It proverbial Egyptian an an- i I Structures going up In this dt city at present have hae had to come to a a. standstill while tho the contractors get set out and rustle tho the bricks necessary to their comple comple- I lion tion Prices remain the same Mme however howe and the on only I Inconvenience at present Is In tho the delay In many cas cases s the builders have to turn down contracts from sheer Inability to set got bricks The causes of or tho the brick famine are aro I man many In tho the first place tho the contractors declare that there thare are arc not enough active brick making plants In operation In or near noar Salt Lake CIt City Secondly the thc great greal rains of ot the late spring season destro destroyed ed millions of ot tho the cIa clay tribe besides makIng mak mak- ing It Il necessary for the tho plants plant to close closedown closedown down thereby getting behind In th supplyIng supply supply- In leg Ing the thc demand Imported bricks arc also lacking and tho the higher class article ul usually shipped from Illinois and Indiana tho the great brick pro producing regions can not be had at any price without considerable dela delay In having the order filled filed Bricks made at the tho Salt Lako Lake yards ards aro are contracted for Cor and sold long before the they have hwe an any Identity other than thana a part of ot the tho hill hilt side from which the they are arc taken Forces aro are working night and amI da day at many of tho the establishments In an effort to catch up with the demand J |
