The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-01
FIGURES LIE IN
BUILDING RECORD
Sum of Permits Indicate Con-
Struction LuII That Does
Not Exist.
PUTTING UP DWELLINGS
SALT LAKERS ARE DISCIPLES
OF "OWN YOUR HOME" IDEA.

Almost q 40 per cent loss is shown
IN the cost o. building permits issued
Curing the month just closed, as
against the total for April, 1909, and
me record Of Salt Lake viii suffer
accordingly. The aggregate cost of
permits issued during April, 1903, were
$5s5.0e0. and the books Of Building In
spector A 3. Hirth show that for this
April the total was only $S5O,650. But
even with this decrease, and a decrease
Tor March over the record Of a year
ago, there is still a gain of something
like $4,000 for the first four months
OF 1910 over the corresponding period
of 1909. For at the close Of March
the record OF Salt Lake showed almost
100000 increase over the first three
months of the previous year
Throughout the april Just passed
permits have been issued for many
dwellings, but II takes a large num-
Der of permits for homes to make up
than $4,000. The average for homes
IN Salt Lake, as shown by the books
Of the building Inspector. IS between
$4,000 and $4,000, mostly for five-room
brick cottages.
The chief cause Of the decrease this
month over the responding month
or 1903 was that few permits were is
sued for big business structures, apart
2.
in excess Of $4,000. There Is a lot
OF building and Improvement work be-
ing done in the business part of the
city, but permits for all Of this were
taken out some time ago and figured
in the permits of other months. For
the four months of the year Salt Lakes
building record Will show a slight in
crease over the same period of 1909
something like 10 per cent-but unless
May shows big increase the showing of
this city will fall far down in the col
umn among the large cities of the
United States. instead Of being one of
the leaders.
For many months last year Salt Lake
stood at the head of the list in a COM
parative growth over any city IN the
country, and always stood near the
top. For the year 1903. this city was
third in the list for increase. N Feb
ruary Of this year Salt Lake was again
at the head Of the column. but since
then she has fallen down badly, with
decreases for both March and April
number of large permits are ex-
pected to be issued during the month
Just starting, and II IS believed that
the building OF homes will contribute
its share to the record for the month
of May Among the permits likely to
be taken out this month is one Tor
the Newhouse theatre, to cost in the
neighborhood OF s25O,00O and the Auer-
bach store at State and Third South
streets, to cost in the neighborhOOd of
100000
the week luHI Closed the
ing permits aggregated s216,45O, shown
in the issuance of IS permits, and had
this squirt been started earlier in the
month the record of last year would
have been passed. There were eight
permits issued yesterday. showing a
total estimated cost of $4,000, as fol-
lows:
Ernest Bamberger, 524 East South
Temple street, alterations -...S 50, 900
Annie NJ. Flowers, 1927 Ninth
East street fiVe-rOOm brick
home -. ....-....,.......... $500
nue.. four-room BRICK home :. 1900
W. G. Van Hoorelke, rear 92S
race -. ...................... 5000
z. Jeff. 437 North Grant street,
four-room brick home 1900. 1,6e0 4
Robert T. Simpson. 10 North
Ninth West street, five-rOOm
brick home 1,6O0 I
E. G. Carlson, 226 West Bailey
avenue, alterations 80. $500. 500 /
r. G. WooIeym, rear ESQ Tenth
East street, fOur-roOm brick
nome ls0OU /!
Now that the stream Of permits has 1
started rolling in, it is felt by Build !
ing Inspector Hirth that there will be /
slight interruption and that May Will /
exceed the record for the correspond |
ing month Of last year, which amount /
ed TO $4,000.