Show TREMENDOUS BUILDING SUMS The building operations of oC the United States suggest sug sug- pst gest a thought of another question W We e say Great Britain gets along with ith so 80 much mone money per capitali capita li does does France rance and does and go so so 80 Germany forget how much more n use the men of the United States have for money than an any other people because cause in England and France and Germany the building up of those ose states has bas occupied more than a thousand years and then they are limited in iu their area they area they do not nut all all combined cover coyer as us much area as two states dates of our union umon To fo show liaw one ue tte which the United States te ha hag for lor 1 money in immense sums Minis wt vt need hut but copy tIll the building build build- ing for fur a few weeks Thus ill in in March lluch in iii in in the United States thc they foot footed up 8 In the first quarter of the year those these pet permits ran van up II to Just think of it That is iH equal to all aU the gold and silver take from front our mines an au rhe stee trust closed in March larch with unfilled untilled un filled tilled orders oi-ders' means work wIk to be done for done for tons less than March and less than halt hall the unfilled orders two years ears ago But this year rear business s grew in April Tho The output has gone up tip 84 8 l per cent in a single ingle month and orders ar are coming in inno no now on ou the buildings planned In En consequence the stel trust has raised the price ice of steel sted bars bare plates ami auth shapes the shapes tho steel used in building building Si 1 per ton It i is the first rise in steel since the smash in O October tober 1907 and puts steel in line liue with cotton wool silk footwear rubber and aud cotton manufactures In the east eRst it is held as the precursor o of a m most t prosperous summer |