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Show II GREATEST BUILDING YEAR FOR I I OGOEN WITH CONSTRUCTION OF 1 M NEW HOIS ANTICIPATED Material Prices Take Great Decline, Permitting Work at Nearly Pre-war Levels; Necessity of Adequate Housing Facilities Pointed Out, While Many Other Structures Are Being Planned to Correspond With Ogden's Natural Growth: Schools. Factories and Stores Are to Be Added During Year. I j ngdcn is on tho threshold of its j (tea test building year.- according to the belief of contractors, achitcts I and building supply men who have, 3 v.n'.-h'd tho downward trend of ni.i-' ni.i-' l terlal prices and t tc increasing ds-jJ ds-jJ inand for homes, for apartments, forj ;j store buildings, offices and factor ;'j I structure. With the announcement I "j llrtsde at the Ogden Chamber of Com-j finerce meeting that 800 more homes i'J: are needed In Offden to u)ply thei i 1 present demand, there has come u '. I Ifendenc) prepare fo josi thin typo, of building, the modern four, five and ; 'six-room bungalows and i-muigi -jjjj Besides these there are plans un-' i.rj ili r way for apartment houses. eoni ,1 sldcred essential to Ogden becaust f i Jits growth. That construction ofi I'M '.uh buildings will !' the outgrowth i,l I ( the housing problem sludv is ex- I peeled, i Hill i i IRGJ mi:i i rUREfi ! Hut it will no! only be in the build-j lug of houses and apartment build-' j lings that Ogden will move forward j ff this year. Three educational struc-' Ijd lures are now under way and they1 j Will le completed, In all probability, j ;f. during 1921. They are the Wber M .Normal college gymnasium, the O u-;l u-;l 1 iml Junior High school and the Washing Wash-ing Junior High school. 'onsiruetlon I of a large hotel is expected, the an-! an-! ' nouneement that such an enterprise !has been arrangcd b I'ling Ogden, j men having becarrnade t the i igden Chamber of Commerce. Several new store building, t is b licved, will be j Ruining of tiie Ogden arsenal hast Ijfl only fairly Parted. It will take lh efforts of hundred of men to get I j all of Its large buildings finished during dur-ing the year. M. IR1 1 'Int. II 8 oMIM. ' Factories and other industries are eoming to Cgdcn. While announce-ment announce-ment is not made as to the nature ofi (those contemplating location here, it j Is known that com pa n i -s are looking, B i i 'to Ogden as the logleal distribution t . k'i tenter of the west, i Bsoh of these , industries well need new structures. , ' In addition, there is the constant ex-pansion ex-pansion of those Industries el pea d located here, ever increasing trad pi res i i I tOi ii I space n which to handle the busl-n busl-n riii-ine the past year the records ; were inarked h completion of a largo I addition to the Thoma D. I 'e Me- Imorlnl hostiitnl. tlil enlargement j making It one of the larger hospitals of the west. Bui even before this addition was i omplcted. there was , seen bj many ogoen people the ne- ressity for further hospital facilities. especially because of the many patients pa-tients who would be brought here because of Ogden's location us a railroad rail-road center. Because of thin there b in been started a movement for construction con-struction of St Mary's hospital, to ! he operated by Ihc Sifters of the Holy Cross. S I A I I M R Ml ROAD VKlis Ratlroad building In i 'gden has been pronounced. ., greal etnislon "( the t.-rmlnal ards being under wa. In connection with this change has come building of the great Pacific Krult Express company's Icing station, on the west side of the yards. The Sparry Flour company has completed: building of its initial .levator and mill .unit.-; the i;i,,b, tir.iln & Mill-' ing bompanj has bui(l Its gigantic ! structures and Is now equipping its mill; the KleckheTst Hox company I has finished and operated its factory All of n,es. arc ,,.4rt of the splendid I building record of past months. They are but Indications of Melons pros'-' pects for LS21, showing that there is certain to tome even greater com-merolaj com-merolaj ..nd industrial expansion Egon step in this direction has nrirant the development of igden ax the conwi of gigantic Industries so, h as i-jj- making, canning, fiour milling, mill-ing, grain handling, livestock marketing market-ing and ,,;,, packing. With this centralisation In '(pd-,, there ha developed de-veloped additional Interest in Its lo-IndIh lo-IndIh S!9a. 8ln,l-K"' '""in.-ss point 2h- w 'n,Tst can l(e expected to how its fruition in further building build-ing progress. Ogden's builders are preparing for this situation. anUdpatinghS d2' press, confident thai -he a.Kan. ew 1 MATIOKI LL l!tl( I s rXWSR Particularly do they expect this lie-, lie-, cause of the showing tha, ngden's prices for lumber, cement and brick "r" Uw Isvel oi practically- Svery other city in the l ulled States a Jonlng tha: th- ,,Kd..n ,,ulll,,rs hftUc me the Wtlo of building costs and me, it squarel) with rec-astoni to nosi r,;,r, ,,P,c,iir o be the' lowesl 8lb levels for the year. Tl.l has bpened the wa, fof the hombSIisSS n th.- investor to n,ake arrange-menta arrange-menta tor construction work at once Inquiries that are I,h,iK made at Z XcalisU!;h,,!n,ber rJ Srd ontooM 1 'irc h',nK for and . ," ,T ali Tt of matSrlal till n. , advun" 'leiiver.es to ;;, ';," 1 -f -an, , niUs Guilders declare that If ngden Is one of the firs, to start its active the e T SS0' " Wl" Win hea ' is tlero.. showing to I he res of th world that It has cbitfldence in Its evp:,or,h":",' r-;,: 7i Th"T sl" M confidence win |