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Show I Many to Build Homes Following Drop In Lumber I Decline ii prlcca of building materials materi-als has brought about :i renewed Inter-cst Inter-cst anong prospective home builders, iMToniinn to tgden (umber inen One dealer reported that he had convci -Atlon with fifty men soaking prices 'n various kinds of building umbei ill of whom expressed :i desire to begin be-gin construction of a homo in the spring Solution of t he cll.'s housing prob-letti prob-letti i not far off. providing building m-afts and industries "111 co-operate . i nri niiopi plans similar to those iii nun operation the leading lumber dealers of the city. It Is said. KITH I SI 1 iMi, lumber man, II. L. Taylor, man ager of the Kccles Lumber com pain, i i igdcn Is now at a critical point, i I II' says: i ' "It has reached a point whin the lav must advance or recede The !' -SBtl oi tho entire situation resolve I'si ir to the bousing problem. Ncartj 300 houses for Offden will answer pros-iii pros-iii needs temporarily. The strain up-01 up-01 hotel accommodations would be lessened Mn working In Ogden, , whoso families are elsewhere, eould establish households hero; material growth of tii- city would start Imme-diatoly. Imme-diatoly. - 'The mow of ths lumbermen In offering of-fering to soli hnildmg material .1' i radticed price la not a philanthropic 1 1 jSropOsition It Is a simple operafjon of SOvuiS loda .mil reaping lomi.rr.iu " j sMl. CONDITIO EVERYWHERE. "Throughout the i;nlted Stalfcs, prac-tically prac-tically every city Is experiencing dlf-lenities dlf-lenities because of the lack of hous-lug hous-lug accommodations. I'racl ically the -nine reason for the lack of building exists everywhere, namely, the high . i.t of materials. If the producer of GllUtling materials will stand a small portion of loss at present; If laborers HVi I will be willing to cast their lot with H; the others and lessen to a mil ill - Cent their remuneration for work, and Q 11 retailers Of building materials will "oil ai ii lower price, a forward step lo- H wards the reduction of materials ami IH ibi resumption of the building business on a pre-war basts will have been lak-rvn. lak-rvn. This plan of celling "mnieriaJs at reduced prices could be maintained ulih no serious inconvenience until a .stipulated number of houses had been instructed The loss to producers and ictaiiers would not i. a exorbitant in Hl ! fvent that co-operation wa-Smanifcst agpj all agreed to pocket temporary Hj losses. Normal times, with normal profits uc not far distant, and the Increased mio'int of business brought aboul bji Ogden's greater population and the benefits derived from this population would offset tenfold the losses of the lime. "Now is the time in which the gon-eral gon-eral public can. see and judge w heth-op heth-op men who rely on the city for their H dXtronage are willing to pull together H tow ard I ho development of a creator wty, or whether they look onl , iV.ll.l t ,., l.etlioulc .111.1 profit H. personally, while there Is yet time to profit, through abnormal conditions. 1 'Reports have been current about H the i-iiy thai reduced prices of lumber fl ' were dhuc to a quarrel among lumber- j men. People are welcome to their Opinion. The Inmhornien have laid their hands on the table and endeavi ored lo start a niovenii-nl which will "i.le the housing problem of the city It can be done. There is no question is to tho efficiency of tho idea Wheth-eh Wheth-eh or not It will succeed depends eh'- Itlrely upon ro-opera'l Ion of the lumbermen, lumber-men, the brickmen the plasterers, the earpenters. the- electricians, the plumbers plumb-ers and other men whose combined efforts are necessary in building. I l it PRH I v 'T-iimber is being offered by lumber lum-ber concerns who have entered into lh" solving of the housing situation at prices, which, taking present freight I rates into consideration, aro actually i lower than pre-war prices. For exam- j pie take shingles. Freight rates on Shingles In 1909, twelve years ago. was TO cents per thousand- Tho shingles Sor. marketed at $1 7 r. per thousand height on shingles at prrsen f II . amounts to $1.07 per thousaifd. Lum bermen wllu have entered into the I housing problem are offering the- shin-Iglos shin-Iglos at $S.7j per thousand. 'These flg-' flg-' tires go to show that lumbermen who have entered into the scheme are tl tually Joslng 16 cents on a price which was cur ront twelve yean Prior tu the reduction of shingle prie s, the uit. retailing at something over $5 per thousand, and at this figure the retail re-tail lunibei dealers were not making any more 'ban a nominal profit. The lumber dealers are willing and aPXlOU ,to pocket this loss, providing that the Other lilies of buslnosS connected with the liiillillnt Kami- al.n express wlll- Ingness, In the Interest nf tho civic development de-velopment of the city and with the ultimate ul-timate view of enjoying greater ael- .antages bocaiise the greater pop- J illation ' "The lumliernien hae expressed .themselves by announcing prices fOi their m.iN-ri.il Which are actually eon-slderabli eon-slderabli lower than the m.ukci. and hnlch cannot possibly be maintained I permanently " PIjASTEREKS k FIEtiP, H. A, Shupe. one of the leading plas. 'torers of the city, Voiced 'he opinion Itbal i lie busy plasterers would be in line with the proposed scheme for lowering low-ering building -osis He stated that the plasterers of tho city were pre-paring pre-paring to keep with the downward trend and were willing to stand a loss of from 15 to 20 per cent, rather than act as an obstruction to the wheels of . progress- |