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Show SPRING MEANS 1 NUMEROUS JOBS , Half Million Men Going to Work on Roads and Buildings. B HARDEN COLFAX. Special orreopondcni e.f The Standard-Examiner. CoppriKht, in.':', by Tho Standard-Examiner. Standard-Examiner. WASHINGTON'. March 18. "hon tho r00.0oo union coal minors lay down their tools on Rfiiko 13 days hence na they arc confluent ly expect - 1 ed to do. they will not InCreaM the army of tho unemployed by 500,000. According to reliable reports, other groups of workers, of a total which Is bolloved to approximate tho strength of th striking miners, will bo polnp to work at about the same time, most of them In two major Industries. Those two Industries arc road building build-ing and building- construction. The department of agriculture Is eomplK-Inp eomplK-Inp a survey of tha road building activity ac-tivity of the coming months, to be announced an-nounced shortly, which Indicates thit from J500.000.000 to $700,000,000 will he spent hf ginning Immediately, in ..instructing highways This vast cn-K cn-K tpriso will give ompoymonl t many thousand, possibly more than a quarter quar-ter of a million, who have been idle or on part time through the winter. Its effect on Industry its expected to bo tonic, lt vlll be folt at once; and the work will lust until cold weather stopta It. 1 ()N n; 1 S PI ICED In the building construction Industry, Indus-try, the prospect Is regarded as most promising. The amount of contrin tfl let during February In 27 northeastern northeast-ern states totalled $177,305,000, an Increase of 7 per com over January, according to the V. W. Dodge com- ! pany's compilation. For the first two I months of the year th- total i near- I ly $350,000,000. This is an Increase of 60 per cent over the 1921 figure. lu addition contemplated now work reported re-ported la placed at more than $80u,- 000.000. The magnitude of tho bulldinflBre-vlval, bulldinflBre-vlval, therefore, exceeds the expectations expecta-tions of the Industry itself Progressively, Progres-sively, also, it Is Increasing, the figures fig-ures Tor February Showing 8 Ti per cent excess over those of February. 1991 Bl II MM, 1GES llK.il March, li Is thought, will oven bet-ti bet-ti 1 results and April, when the spring season brings greater work, probably prob-ably Will be a banner month. It Is Uifficult now. in many sections lu employ sufficient skilled workers In uildlng trades, Wages have gone down, but labor department returns show that a carpenter still can earn' a dollar an hour or more, a bricklayer up iu $1 a dav, a plumber Slightly less and other workers In pro- I pi rtlOil, Indications are that w ithin I tWb months there will be a real scar- I city of skilled workmen in ;he build-1 ing tra.de.-. flic .:oal situation remains. this 1 Week, the only cloud on the horlron. There has been no change, in the fore-cast fore-cast .1 suiki- regarued as inevitable. inevit-able. Neither minors nor operators expect the government to bring about an adjustment in time to prevent It, The country continues to stock up und Will go intu April with a record-bi ea k - Ing coal pile. There probably will bo some inconvenience, but no one here expects Scarcltj of o.,l flurlnc April. B UIiR IAD DUFPICULTY. Railroad labor troubles are expect - ed to approach a climax within th.i next few weeks " A proposal that tin! railroad labor board be abolished Is recoiving careful consideration of members of the Joint committee on! agricultural Inquiry, the recommenda- ' tiOn icflug contained In a tentative draft of the commission's report 1 I . h probably will bo made publl. soon., it ls i-kci that the proposal will stand and will bo made the rec-' ominendutiofi of the commission. As the, 'tentatiVe report stands, the: commission favors a plan whereby one federal bqard will deal with "both wages and rates. D ' Niv MONEY IDLE, Payment ..t income taxes on March 15 is reflected In tho tomnorury with- 1 drawal ..1 a considerable sum from I the monej markets. However, accord-! ing to the weekly ntatement of the I federal reserv board, hundreds of i miliums are idle in the banks await- ing Investment. N'ew York Is com- ' pi rig with London for honor as tho world center of finance. Foreign bor-rowcrn bor-rowcrn aro coming to this country in ' Increasing numbers. They obtained I loout S 100. 000, 000 last year; this year, I the :,ur.i will be much large-. Plans aro progressing now for the flotation ' of nr. Ic? than 22 foroign loans, some as high us S J5.ij00.000. Ins of tho most onco-.n-aging indications indi-cations of tae 1 vend of events Is Been 1 In tho flguren covering Febiniary ex-! " Iniports. announced by the department of commorcw "Tho 'drop I for February Ii ho slight, measured in I dollars rind cents, S to leave llttlo doubt -.hat 1 ho volume Of exports has rl -.-I bottom and an Increase Is expected ex-pected in March. ... FOREKIN tXCHANGE 7. F, 1 i.'RK, March 16. Foreign ex-chanKH ex-chanKH strong. Qreai Britain: Demand $4 40. cabies tl 60 day bills on hanks S4 87 r ranee: Demand i'.06c; cable? B 06M Ital: Ia-mand 5 15e. cables 5. UK,C Belgium.: Demand 8 B0c; cables 8 5ie Germany: Iieinand .35ic; cables 86Ur l-iolLaixJ J emand T.rifto; rabies 37 Ml Norway; ismanJ i?.46e. Sweden! Demand 88 80i Jjtnmtrk: Dematui 21 lac. Bwltaerlandi r'erninii 1? 51. Spain: Demand 15 68c. Greece: Demand 1 4fl- Poland: l.'emand .02?o. I'l'lio-MiAdul.i' D'.-i'iinH 7 Arynniliie- Demand Bfl 75c Braail; Demand 14 isc Montreal 98e, BUTTER AND EQQS CHICAGO, T.irch 18. -Butter higher-oream.-rj extras 6Sc; firsts 8088c seconds sec-onds 31ff33c; nL-indarda 3'2. F.Kftu higher .receipts lb.aoi? raflen-flrstH raflen-flrstH -'So nrdlnsry firsts 2i!2lKc mis-csllaneoij.1 mis-csllaneoij.1 8802Zc, Poultr yallve lowsr; fowls higher; Tr!n;;a 26c; roosters 18c. POTATO MARKET CrnCAOr' March IS Potatoes stcadv recelpix 58 cars: t o i i 1 l a. phlhrnr-i; ; I 980 earn. Wisconsin round vhlifi su. k -J , ILHOiTrl 70 poorly traded SLOnfil B bulk $1 7049 h0. Minnesota round whites sacked II BOfrl 65, Idaho rurals sacked ll.T501.8i. LONOON RATES LONDON, March 18 Bar silver 33V1 pwr oun. I Arone-j- .ifr cent. Dlsc-oiin. rKt.'t; Short hills 3Va per cent; three month bills 3 7-16 rer cent. CONDITION OF BANKS. VEtV YORK. March IS.- Tr,o s 1 rendition of the clearing bouse t.a.,'-.-Anl truft ccmpartss for the week shows i that they hold $49,760 82u in exceas ".' 1 legal requirements This ll an Increase I , of $18,650,670 from last week NEW YORK SILVER. NBW YORK, March 18. Kurt-lcu bar sliver 64 c Mexican dollars 49llic. |