Bisbee daily review., 1919-04-13
BUILDINGS IN 1919
 WILL EQUAL USUAL
 fIVE-YEAR PRUGRAM
Henry Teague. Field Labor Agent Estimates Public
 Works Set for Year

WASHINGTON, April 12.-A de cided revival of building all over the country, but particularly in the middle west, is reported by Henry N. Teague field agent for the U. $. department of labor, who has just completed a six weeks tour from coast to coast.
 There will be a great deal of pub lie building during the next six months" says Teague. "Tne pub lie improvements program for 1913, l am convinced, will equal that of ANY FIVE YEARS IN THE COUN- TRY'S HISTORY, and the road build ing activities from the Atlantic to the Pacific, once they are under way, will be tremendous.
 ''The scope of improvement work is much larger in the west than in the east.
 There is much criticism in the west of the governments failure to go ahead with it's own building oper- ations. In many localities federal buildings. for which sites, plans and appropriations were made before the war, are held up because the original appropriation is not high enough to cover the increased cost of construc- tion and additional money has not been granted.
 New Orleans Leading Country
 New Orleans, says MT. Teague shows more building activities than any city he visited. The city is spend ing $14,000,000 on the municipal docks, employing more than 10000 men.
 South Bend, Ind, is developing a model industrial residence section giving homes to 12,O00 new employees of the Studebaker corporation, which is to build a new SS,00O,0O0 factory.
 Other important building projects reported by Teague are:
 Newark, N. J.-s3,000,000 depart ment store by J. L. Bamberger.
 Kansas City, Mo.-S2, ,0O0, 900 inter ] urban station.
 Sioux City, Ia.-s2,0OO,OOO grain ele- vators for the Terminal Grain cor poration.
 Milwaukee-s1,O ,OOO,OOO apartment | hotel, $75O,OOO hotel and $25O,OO de- pertinent store.
 Allentown, Pa.-$5OO,OOO office building and theater. i
 Detroit, Mich.-sS5O,O0 department store.
 Cleveland. o.-s3O0,O0O store and theater building.
 New Haven, Conn.-$300,00O addi- tion to Grace hospital.
 Chicago 800, ,000 railway station.
 Portland, Ore.-S500,0O0 stadium and livestock pavilian.
 The Department of Labor's division of public works and construction de- velopment reports that approximately $100.000,000 in private building con tracts were reported to it in Febru- ary. The total of the January con- tracts was only half that sum.
 Each Week Shows Increase
 Nearly all the states showed an in- crease from week to week during the last month in private Construction work. The New England states, for instance, in the first week of February reported contracts awarded to the amount of $330,000; in the second week, S550,000, third week, $66,00O, and fourth week $700,O0O Of this construction 22 per cent was of an industrial character 32 per cent busi- ness, and 46 per cent residential.
 New England's showing, however, is far behind that of the western states. Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, In- diana, Michigan, Missouri and Kan sas shows a five-fold increase in Feb ruary over January In this district the figures are: First week in Febru- ary, $15,000,000 second week, S9,000,- 900; third week S46,OOO,OOO; fourth week $50, 100000.
 In the middle west 911k per cent of the construction contracts for Febru- are were for private construction, s per cent state and municipal work and hper cent governmental construction.
 New York and New Jersey also show important increases in February, and in these two states residential building made up only 10 per cent of the total. Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania also showed a slight i'm provement over the January figures, and 38 per cent of the total was for residences.
 Minnesota and the Dakotas reported contracts of about $1 900, 900 as against $50O.000 for January
 These facts show that the hesi- tancy about starting construction pro jects because of the high cost of ma terials is apparently being overcome AN