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Show HOMES BUT COST Ml LLPS Construction Records for Ogden, in Number of Buildings, Are Broken More buildings were constructed in ; Ogden during the past year than In previous twelve months since the cl i was founded, the total reachinx ; 553. according to the city building In-spector's In-spector's record-;. There was expend- I ed on these buildings, acrording to the estimates filed $i.i77.t72. ffow- . I! I generally estimated that the to il construction coat passed thai ; figure and was about $1,500,000. the prolimlmii estimates on which per-i per-i mlts were issued being very conserva-I conserva-I live. Of the newly constructed buildings for 1921. 37 wore of iron or concrete 199 were of brick and 268 were frame rprty-two buildings were remodelled ind 17 were moved, j Tho estimated cost of the 436 resl- ncea and eight apartment houses i Imilt was $1.001 650 Besides these j : there were r.l business buildings con-- con-- ructed or altered, four Industrial buildlngg and 50 other structures Tne number of permits and estimat- 1 ed cost of construction for buildings during the past ten vears follows I . )'f ar- No. Est. Cost. 1 256 J670.819 I 262 894.311 1 'I ' 279 840. 6S0 1 240 572.160 I 1317 167 567.1 18 I 108 246.035 . J1 316 1.562.560 323 1,011.915 , 663 1.177.072 ! Thomas H. Iavls building inspector. I ropivrts that thero are manv inquiries' about construction work at the pres- j ent time. As the records for January. 1 11)22, showed an increase over tlis I corresponding month in 1921 and It is i expected that February will stiow a Similar Increase when totallid. records, are already being established for this I year. Tho belief Is that the construe-1 tl-n work for 1922 will even exceed that of 1921. |