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Show BUILDING CONSTRUCTION WORK STARTS WITH HAW DEMANDS FOR NEW HOUSES THIS YEAR Decline in Building Prices Has Stimulated Situation So That Structural Plans Under Way; Ogden Faces Demand for Hundreds of Homes, Part of Which Will Be Met This Year; Large Buildings Under Way and Public Work U Being Planned. ; Although Winter has barely ended 'tor Offden, building construction has started In every part of the erH'v ith Indications thai there will be moil structures started and completed this lyear than in any previous twelve I no. nth in the history of the city Such is the iew of contractors and! builders, as well as many Ogden real-j 'tors who haV'e been in close touch With the housing situation. More than fifty new homes are now being iniit. scattered throughout the1 i ii Material has been ordered fori that many more, according to lumtet men. Architects are preparing plans for others Home building Is expected to he one of the important features of t'ue year. It bus been clearly shown' bj citj officials and others interested; I Wl the study of the housing problem that there is a need for several bun-J il. .1 more homes in the city. At least,! part of this need will be offset by thel construction work done this year, aC- utordlns to the contractors. The fact tint building material! prices are down, with quotations of lumber companies and brick com-' panics at figures much below those ofj last year. ha9 had an important ef-J I fei t upon the building situation The I prices are considered to have become' stabilised. Lumber dealers say they! bave reduced their prices in many In-I In-I Stances below wholesale costs today, giving adv antage of any possible future i reduction to Ihe present purchasers. I Brick yards arc selling their products! at from 14 7 to 25 per cent reduction, from a year ago. Cement prices have I not adv anced to any extent even since ' ,the war hays. BIG Bl LLDIXGS 1 Ml RWAY. While home building will probably , be the chief feature oA construction work this year, construction companies do not consider that the only phase. Ogden's two new junior high school buildings bave not yet been completed. (The work oh them will employ a nuin-' bcr of people during the earlier months ; of the year. Construction work on tin arsenal will bo another leading f.n toj In the building situation for 1921. A number of these buildings have been completed but some have no' even Wen started, others are just underway, when Ho- present plans for the ar senai have been carried through it is presumed there will lie other work planned under an anticipated appropriation appro-priation b congress. That there will he Constant growth of thp arsenal Is considered a certainly, the war department depart-ment fai'orlng such steps Possibility of considerable city Improvement, especially If various phases of the bond issue are carried through. Is also foreseen by builders. PAVING WORK I i ST RT. Paving of the 'gden canyon road and also the stretch ol highway between be-tween Pleasant Vie and the Utah Ho1 Springs are the major road linpio.-ments linpio.-ments that are planned for the year both being tasks or cbnaiderable mag-nitude mag-nitude In the business district ( i igden ii ,i.i (111 ' .11 liniii- n.ni ,...ii III 1 linil'- 'chaligs than usual, a shifting of SSl lb-;lishments lb-;lishments that has broughl about Imuph remodelling work. This has tak-en tak-en the time of many builders and, though the work has not been on an expensive scale in any one Instance, it has added very materially to tii" total tor the season. 1 In lndustriul building there have jheen no announcements of new plahbl Ito be constructed, although it Is i know n thul several companies are , considering igden as the logical loca-tlon loca-tlon for their plants That there Will be industrial building added to the list during the year is considered a foregone conclusion. The one large industrial plant now underw i i the ice making iloni of the Pacific Prult :Exprcss company, which was started (last fall |