Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-09-18
BUILDING wave
FOR NORTHWEST
Over -Four Thousand Contract
eFs Secure Building Sup
pills From Cities
More Than Thousand Menat
Work On Structures This
Side Of the Coast

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. ia hun
dred thousand masos, carpenters,
plumbers, painters, timers, roofers
and day laborers are digging holes or
driving nails or saving boards, or
laying brick or pouring concrete in
the big crop country between Mime
apOlis and the Pacific coast, and more
than 1000 contractors or contracting
firms whose crews are at work are
buying their supplies in Minneapolis.
"A building period that is bringing
the heaviest volume of business for
years to the membership Of the Build
ers' Exchange has opened, and it is
predicted that it will increase rapidly
from now on. H. NJ. Gardner, presi-
dent of the Builders Exchange, says
there has been no such good outlook
at this time of the year since the big
building season OF 1906, and that the
collective business OF the members of
the exchange promises, in the twelve
month period that lies ahead, to pass
that OF 1906 and every other big year.
Nothing Like II Since 1906.
"The outside contracts OF some OF
NAC HiAAIO lAul dIC CACuul6C HtCINJClo
extend to the Pacific coast" Mr.. Gard
ner said. Grain elevators are being
put up in great number at country
stations along the railroads in North
Dakota and Montana. Minnesota and
South Dakota and northern Wisconsin
and Northern Iowa towns are building
houses and business blocks, and there
is much public building going on. The
big crop has started it and it looks as
if it is going to get bigger as we go
along. There has been no such gener-
al building activity as is now on since
the big year of 1906.
mo more striking illustration of the
growth an1 development of the coun-
try could be found than its legitimate
building operations. In view of the
recent period of hesitation that the
country has been through and the fact
that this is a presidential election
year. I think the situation is remark
able"
Varied Plans IN File.
8iPlans on file at the Builders Elk
change for which bids were opened
Sept. 8, include the sewer system at
Willmar and heating for the school
building at Breckenridge. Bids for
which the exchange has plans were
opened Sept. 10 for a school building
at Deering, N. D., and remodeling a
hotel at Mankato, and a school at
Mohall, N. d. Plans are on file, and
bids will be opened between now and
Sept. % for a hospital at Fergus
Falls, Mimi; a heating plant for the
Indian school at Rapid City, S. D.;
a boys dormitory at Faribault, Mimi;
the postoffice at Livingston, Mont; a
school building at olivia, Mimi; the
Elks' lodge building at st. Cloud,
Mimi; and state work at Willmar,
Mimi, Plans are also on file for an
Indian school for the Fort Peck res
ervation in Montana.
Other plans representing work or
Importance include a library for Can.
ton, IS. d.; mechanical equipment for
the boys college at Winona; . store
building at Watertown, 8. D., and the
Barr building in the same town; the
Odd Fellows lodge building at Gus.
ter, s. D.; residences at Aberdeen,
8. D.. and Ada, MINI; %remodeling OF
a store building at Crookston, Mimi;
heating the city mill at Willmar, and
painting and Dlastering the library
building at Madison, Wis.
Many plans for local work are on
lie or will be filed soon. Among the
more important ones now on file are
those for the Prospect Park M. %.
church, for which bids will be opened
Stpt. 49, and the new pharmacy build
ing OF the University Of Minnesota,
for which bids will be opened Sept.
20.
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