Iron County Record | 1953-07-09 | Page 12 | Building Permits Reveal Steady Growth of Cedar City

Building Permits Reveal Steady Growth of Cedar City Building permits issued by the city building Inspector during the first six month of 1953 reached reach-ed a total of nearly a million and a half dollars, according to Warren M. Cox, inspector. Three major buildings, two schools and a business block, were the principal items In the building program started during the first half of the year. These included the Northwest elementary elemen-tary school building, the College of Southern Utah (formerly Branch Agricultural college) library li-brary auditorium building, and the J. C. Penney and Woolworth store building on Main street. The latter is valued at about $180,000, while the elementary school buildina cost is set at better than half a million and the library and auditorium at the college, almost a half million. Trfe city, however, collects no building permit and does no inspecting in-specting of the two school buildings. build-ings. Permits were issued for the construction of 22 new homes at a cost of $207,900 during the six month period. Permits were issued is-sued for additions, alterations, and repairs on homes at a total cost of $42,800. The total permits issued in the first six months of 1952 was only $340,233. However, there were more new homes built In that period. From the forst of Jan uary to the end of June in 1952 permits were issued for 27 new homes as compared with 22 in the same period this year. The total cost of the 27 homes was set at $270,798 as compared to $207,900 for the 22 homes this year.