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Show w UTAH'S BUILDING NEEDS ARE GREAT Buildings that would cost $22,-895,000 $22,-895,000 are needed to meet the housing hous-ing needs of Utah, according to a survey of the building situation through the country made by the "Building Age," a New York Trade publication. The total for Utah represents replies re-plies sent to the queries of the publication pub-lication from Salt Lake and Ogden. In Salt Lake the building needs are set down at 100 dwellings, five apartments, two office buildings, one municipal building, one hospital, the total cost of which is estimated at $548,500. .This, It is understood, does not include the plans for the structure to house the Salt Lake branch of the Federal Reserve bank of San Francisco. In Ogden the building needs, according ac-cording to the survey, are for 600 houses, ten apartment houses, two schools, one office building, one municipal mu-nicipal building,, one? hospital and one warehouse, the total estimated cost of which is $2,605,000. Nations Need Large The building needs for the rest of the state are reported to call for an expenditure of $19,741,500. The survey shows that the national nation-al need in cities of more than 25,,-000 25,,-000 population for 319.528 homes; cost $2,025,501,000; 25S2 apartment apart-ment houses, cost $64,200,000; 457 schools, cost $74,491,000; 200 office of-fice buildings, cost $52,S51,400 and miscellaneous buildings, such as hospitals, hos-pitals, hotels, factories, etc, 628, cost $71,867,692, or a grand total of new construction needed to cost $2,289,- 007,092. In cities under 25.000 the total needs exceed by far the total for the larger cities, reaching $5.795.97S.-340. $5.795.97S.-340. In the smaller towns of the country, S22.905 homes are needed, to cost $3,352,5SS.000. Apartment houses to the number of 18.967 must be built for adequate housing in the small cities and these would cost $644,878,000. Four thousand nine hundred and seventy schools are wanted, cost $ 69S.2 1 4.000 ; while 4412 office buildings are needed at! a cost of $4S0.90S.000. The miscel-1 laneous needs of the small towns are for 12.645 buildings costing $619-! 3S9.S40. ; Early Boom Predicted "One of the most interesting facts, revealed by the questionaire." says the report, "is the vastly greater amount of construction needed by towns of under 25.000 inhabitants than by the larger cities of the U. S. "Judging from the various chambers cham-bers of commerce, there is every indication in-dication to believe that the spring of 1922 will see the long-heralded building boom well under way. Not one of the answers received puts the i real building activity for any locality local-ity further off than April. 1 922. while many of them schedule it for the late fall, and some even earlier." |