Show J. J iT Li lAI E CITY l LAS ADS TH THE COUNTRY IN N CRAP R CITY I IL ILY Y DISTANCES IL ii l' l Value lne of Building Permits Last h I Over Same Month Last Year per Per Cent 2 25 i I New Residences Being Ing Erected 1 al Lake City is growing owing by leaps and bounds y the e reports of building that is going on in ini ernes i les of the Unit United d States In June Salt Lake o d a a. a marvelous increase in her building and ex- ex ext t Ii on oi any any other city in the Uni Union Union Union-by n by more than I ase last mouth month over aver the cOrI corresponding a I It qiU 0 o was per cent ican t-an t Contractor which collected the sta- sta declares that Salt Lake City led the I Mr ed States tates for the month as a city o of new build- build II SEVERAL LARGE I IgEE EEE gEE GIVEN PERMITS BUILDING INSPECT- INSPECT THE NUMBER HAT HAVE THUS HIED IN SALT LAKE LABS DJ THOSE OF LAST LAST fHE AMOUNT OP OF- GOING ON IN THIS TInS winCH WHICH PERMITS PERMITS' GRANTED FOR THE THEW THE W 1 o OF F THE YEAR aj EQUAL TO THAT Z t YEAR OF OP 1906 X Sinew 1 new residences are in traction in in Salt Lake era is now upon ree The only hin hin- rapid is is lack of id or r cIty comes anywhere ie 16 gigantic increase of wealth That ire re boom sent the in inar in- in rn- rn er ar cent er cent for the month ties show a slight deone de- de 1 which one would na na- wo ul d be beat at Salt Lake increase of only per wing wind statement is pub pub- C Contractor of it Hp liEg ling g reports from some fifty of the le leading din cities of of- the country coun conn- try received by the American Contractor Contractor Contractor Con Con- tractor compiled and tabulated show in in in the a aggregate e ate value of building permits permits per per- mits granted in June 1907 as compared compared compared com com- pared with those for the corresponding month of last year Jear very nearly nearly equal equal equa the losses slightly predominating ff Some mo cities show astonishing gains and others ethers equally astonishing in loss losses s. s This is largely due to 10 the issuance of large single permits during J June rie 1906 For the most part the construction business busi busi- ness Bess of the country Is m moving vf gf forward in an In orderly conservative and highly satisfactory mann manner r the total reported I loss s being a a very sma small 1 fraction fr of f 1 per percent cen cent cent- t Gains of Cities ites When When the immense amount of building building building build build- ing ing done last year gear is taken into account this must be regarded as indicating that our present l large rge operations are quite norm normal J and may well be expected to continue since the freely predicted reaction reaction reaction re re- re- re action has not materialized materialised ed The following fol fol- fol- fol lowing figures sh show I the percentage of gains in leading cities 68 Bridgeport 76 Chicago 9 Chattanooga 9 Denver 7 Detroit 5 58 58 Evansville 57 Harrisburg 41 j Indianapolis Louisville 17 Minneapolis 45 Nashville le 37 Omaha 18 Pittsburg 11 Spokane Spokane 42 Salt Lake Lako City Topeka Tacoma Washington 13 Losses are indicated indicated indi indi- by the following figures Buffalo 34 Cleveland 16 Dallas 33 Duluth 39 Grand Rapids 36 Hartford 9 Kansas City 46 Los Angeles 36 Milwaukee Milwaukee Milwaukee Mil Mil- Mil Mil- waukee 47 Mobile 73 New Haven 39 Newark 10 Greater New York 9 Philadelphia 11 St. St Louis 33 St. St Paul 29 Syracuse 34 Toledo 9 9 A gain in of 9 ner fler cent in Chicago an and and 1 a loss Joss of only 9 per cent in New York shows the great regularity of building operations June 1907 PC PC PO City Cost Gain Loss Atlanta 37 Birmingham 68 68 Bridgeport 76 Buffalo 34 Chicago t. t 3 9 I Cleveland Cleveland- 16 15 16 Chattanooga Da Davenport 33 Dallas DalIas 33 Denver 7 7 Detroit 58 Duluth 33 39 Evansville n 57 51 Grand Rapids 36 Harrisburg 41 Hartford 3 3 I Indianapolis Kansas City 46 Louisville Louisville 17 Los Angeles 36 Milwaukee 47 M Minneapolis 5 45 Memphis l 2 Mobile 73 Nashville j. j 73 New Haven 39 Newark 10 New Orleans Orlean Manhattan X 23 Brooklyn 0 31 Bronx 34 34 New York 9 Omaha 18 Philadelphia 11 Pittsburg 11 11 Pueblo X 7 7 St St. Joseph 56 St. St Louis LouM 33 St St. Paul 29 Scranton 0 35 Spokane 1 2225 4 44 South Bend 15 15 Syracuse f 34 Salt Lake Lake City City Tope Topeka a 0 2 23 4 5 Toledo 9 9 Terre Haute 75 Tacoma m Washington 1 2252 13 IS Worcester J l 11 11 51 61 Winnipeg 25 26 Total 5 1 Dallas issued one permit June 1906 fO for R Duluth Kansas City Mobile Building operations at Rochester N N. Y for June were showing a decrease of 17 per cent cant compared with June 1906 Building statistics from San Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco Cal Gal for June show a gain of per cent ent over June of 1900 the fi figures res presenting an outlay of 3 I 1 |