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Show A FORM OF HOLD-UP. Men who handle building material in this city and the skilled workmen who erect buildings should keep in mind that when the news goes out that it requires from 25 per cent to 40 per cent F r j more to erect a building in this city than in any Sk other principal city of the country, the accounce- ment will be the loss of many a fine building ! that otherwise would have been built in this II city. That a structure costs more here than In I Butte or Spokane is criminal. That it requires I I just about 50 per cent more to build a house here than the same house would have cost Ave years ago, is when reduced down to an exact description, descrip-tion, simply robbery. Brick should cost no more, lime no more, stone no more, cement much less, j)JI and labor no more. When the goose that laid the golden egg was killed there were no more eggs. V History is prone to repeat itself and hold-ups are not respected in any country. |