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Show Building Inspector Notes Lag in Year's Construction Warren Cox, city building inspector, in-spector, announced this week that building permits Issued for the month of October exceed per-mlt per-mlt totals for the same month since 1949. Total building permits Issued for the month amounted to $167,. 000. That compares to SC4.405 for the same month in 1956. Major item was the commercial commer-cial building permits which amounted td a total of $119,000 for two buildings. The Southern Utah Clinic building on the corner cor-ner of Center and 300 West Streets, was valued at $110,000 and the Western Wood Excelsior Manufacturing Co. took out a permit for $9,000. Construction of three new dwellings was started during the month for a total of $29,000 and four permits for additions, alter-ations alter-ations and repairs amounted to $19,900. Nevertheless, 1957 has fallen far short of the past several years in total construction work, the inspector pointed out |