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Show HOME BUILDING IS INCREASING During the war period, build I ' Ing of all description was very I much curtailed but since the j signing of the armistice the 9 dawn of a new era has been usli u ered in the reconstruction pe riod has Impressed itself upon the people to the extent thaf the building of new homes has taken a decided advance movement move-ment in Ogden. The prosperity of a community commu-nity is based largely upon the activity of its people along the line of home building and the Improvement Im-provement of real property. Investments In-vestments in real estate are safe and sane speculations, besides I ill in e: a necessary want which makes for the general uplift and industrial progress of the country. coun-try. No city in the intermountaln country offers better opportunities opportuni-ties for the accomplishment of the highest ideals along industrial indus-trial lines than Ogden and it seems that the home people are determined to make the best of those opportunities. Big com merclal concerns are launching out in the building line and the spirt of that enterprise has tak en hold of the people. It is expected that in the course of a short time sufficient homes for the ever increasing population in the city and it is vet certain that within the next year more people of Ogden will own their own homes than ever before in the history of the city It is true that the cost of building build-ing at this time is exceptionally high but It is conceded that such will be the condition for considerable consid-erable length of time, so that Investment In-vestment in realty and in th building of residences is likely as safe on a high priced basis as it would be on a lower priced level. |