Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-03-20
BUILDING
IN NORTHWEST
Present Year Promises 10 be
Greatest In Construction
Work in History
Public Buildings, Residences,
Educational Institutions
Are to be Built

Building throughout the entire
northwest promises to be very active
this year. The new buildings which
will be erectedsih this city during the
course of 1913 will cost about half a
million dollars and the same activity
seems general over the entire esction.
Regarding conditions in this section,
The Improvement Bulletin, a builders
magazine published at Minneapolis,
has the following to say:
Reviewing building prospects in the
states Of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa,
the Dakotas, Montana, Washington
and the Canadian northwest, gives the
decided impression that 1913 has start.
ed out to be one of the greatest, il
not the greatest,year of construction
in this part of the country. The un.
usual activity includes all kinds OF
work, residences, plants, business
buildings, farm improvements, public
buildings, hotels, theatres, hospitals,
institutions railways and railway
structures. In every locality there
seems to be an unusual number Of
new dwellings,. Even the small cities
and towns report an extraordinary
number of new homes. The big crops
Of last year are causing a sort of
building boom on the farms of Mime
sofa, Dakotas and Montana in partic-
ular. In many instances the farmers
are building modern structures with
every improvement of the better class
Of city houses. A special feature of
farm construction this year is the silo.
A good deal of study combined with
experience, is being put on this new
est aid to the farmer by material men
and the owners. The result of this Is
that many silos are being built Of tile.
In the greater northwest, reports IN
dictate that the year starts out with
a marked increase of building permits.
The total of thetPaciic northwest is a
million, three hundred thousand dol
lars more in January, 1913, than in
January, 1912. In n city, Vancou.
yer, which seems to lead its competit-
ors by nearly "a million, it is stated
that nearly three times the new bust
ness was done in permits during Jan.
uary than a year ago..
There is an especially lively out
look in the educational budding field.
New, schools are being reported by
the score, from all sections of the
states mentioned above. In number,
in size and in cost, these new school
houses being built and to be built, in
the northwest, are remarkable. The
grade school, the high school, college
buildings, all are being provided by
the progressive people for the rising
generation with great liberality; moth
ing is too good for any community.
Some of the, best school buildings in
this state, both high and grade, will
be found in the iron range districts
Of northern Minnesota.
Court houses are being built in a
large number of. county. seats of Wis
c~onsin, the Dakotas. Montana and
! Washington. Many millions are being
spent for great government buildings
in northwest Canada, including the
new parliament buildings in Manitoba.
Hotels, such as the new two million
dollar Cleveland, at Spokane, and sim
liar structures in the large new cities
in western Canada are about to be
built. 1t is we'll known that an i'm
mense amount of railroad construction
is now started in the northwest by the
competing lines. This will result in
many e towns, probably hundreds
Of them. New stations, new buildings
at division points, new bridges and a
great deal of other construction that