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Show VARIATIONS IN THE COST OF STATE HOUSE In tho Fobruary Women's Home Companion, A. Raymond Ellis writes Mi artlclo entitled Whnt Is tho Ideal Small House? In tho course of tho artlclo ho makes the following a lu-slon lu-slon to the variations In building cost In different parts of tho country: Building In sections remote from labor and materials centers Is expensive expen-sive so much time Is consumed In carting car-ting and traveling before actual building build-ing can bo begun .Then ngaln In certain cer-tain sections of the country tho value of labor Is lower, mat' lal la loner, and the workmen work longer hours. I recently built a houso In no Vicrn Massachusetts complete for $5500 and the same Identical liouso was figured In a Connecticut town ono hundred miles away tit a cost of $8000 by contractors con-tractors doing the samo class of work a difference of $2500 In the cost of labor and material and proflt. Tho sumo house In North Carolina cost $4000. Detween the West and tho East there tiro still greater variances. |
