Show I 1 FRAME BUILDINGS STILL IN LEAD G governments overn ments efforts to encourage use of other building materials unsuccessful cement and teci steel and brick and stone ire not bet aged in quan quantities titie to encourage gumbei users to predict the time han the ton Is NN will III not be called upon to furnish the principal materials matern lb ti aed td lit in building operations anding inding the rem irl ible increate iner cise in the ue li e of cement and othor other hien roof mile nals the last rc of the building operations in forty nine of the leading cities of the unit cd stiles states for the acal collected b the Gc geological surae survey shuw thit that 50 59 for I 1 er cent abic etc ot of wooden construction even een it if the remaining forty one per cent ot of the buildings building 4 icie built of brief brick stow stone ind and concrete v vist it quant quantities of wood aie consumed both in the construction and lit in the fini finish 11 though in the litter latter form met il is biking the place of wood tu to 1 I large extent the amount of lumber given bixen above dries not take into consideration this item it at all while this flits percentage is tie of the building industry in united dealers point out tint that it does not include large quantities of lumber wed used for the construction of dwellings stores and other buildings in the thousands of small cities and towns scattered catter cd over the country and not included in the forty nine cities on which a reckon nine inix wis was made in towns and s small nall cities wood is ib usually the predominating building material and it safe to sav that if the statistics lad had included figures for all places of of whatever size the percentage 0 of v construction would ha have e been much greater these figu figures as a rule are only for the corporate limits and ahe suburbs of these cities have each very nery large amounts to be added the cost so is relatively higher in the these c cities than in towns nearer the base ase of supply in wooden buildings nex new york city is at the bottom of the list though it leads with as the average cost of buildings except at san Fran francisco ciRco ghere abnor abnormal al conid con id eions have prevailed since the fire boston shows the greatest increase ot any of the cities in the total cost of building operations the average cost f buildings is constantly increasing having risen over three hundred dollars during the last three years the average value ot of a building is given in the report as 2035 limber is by far the greatest grei test drain on the forests and the wonderful development ve of the country during the past decade has called for the use of nearly forty billion baird f feet cot a car the largest quantity ever reported for a single year vas for 1906 when thirty seven seen and one half billion feet ith a mill value of vois used including the value of the lath and shingles used with this amount the total value of wood used for build ings is brought up to the increasing trice of lumber and tile the rapidly use of fireproof stems of should have much to do in holding do down n the amount which the forests are called upon to yield each 3 5 ear lut but so fir far these more substantial materials hane hae not decreased the lumber cut of the nation |