Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1924-07-16 | Page 10 | Utah Building Totals Steady

UTAH BUILDING TOTALS STEADY STEAD Ogden Among Few Pew Cities s In West Showing Advances Building permits to the tho number r ot of and calling tor for In construction cost costs coats were Issued In 79 cities of the se en ei r P coast coat states during the first six months month of ot 1924 as shown by a special semi annual building S W Straus Strai un surey ey Just Issued by S Co Although this volume of con con- con col amounts to te more than II a billion o of dollars It re ro- ro In build build- building fleets a a slight Blight recession ing from last car ear be- be lug 4 per leer cent les Ies lc s than tho total for tor the first halt half ot of o 1923 but Is ls 30 per Lent cent greater than Ihan that ot of the tue comparative 0 period of ot 1112 1922 1 Z This slow slowing In do down don n of ot building program l in keeping wit with h general throughout the c business Iness polle particularly evident In countr I Is clUes clUe com coin where here 56 66 r In the S W Straus Stratis Co report a total o of cent the tho total 9 0 per for 1923 9 3 but hut 27 21 per pr cent greatel I than tor for the first halt half of the pre pre- pro pr lous ious lous ear sear Washington Oregon and Art Art- 0 o eboth er substantial gains ho show ona both 1923 and azz 1022 while 1 ada and Idaho show reductions from rom both pre pre previous lous lou totals and Utah tah a aI I 1923 but a cent loss from tron 73 13 15 I S per cent ln ga-ln over 1922 The ThemO per building activity Is most mO l stable where three of the that ot of Oregon four cities Included show gain gatos over 1923 and all gained over the pre previous lous year to with permits Salt Lake half hal cost for tor the tho first ot of the year shows a a 16 per cent reduction from 1923 but a 66 per percent percent cent gain over 1922 Ogden total Is 19 per cent over or of ot of that for tor the first six lx months cent over and 91 per last lear ear that ot of o the previous year oo- oo 00