New-York tribune., 1920-02-02
Resumption of
Construction Is
Expected Soon
Manufacturers Say Materi.
ais i'm Abundance Will
Flow Into the Market
in the Next Six Weeks
Adjusting g Delay Problems
interests Look to Relief
Of the Car Shortage for
Shipments in Near Future

Projectors Of now building opera
.ions or alterations to existing build
,nrs are being urged by all disintcr-
ested analysts TO waste no time is get
ling their material specifications into
manufacturers hands if they contem-
Mate getting their work under way
end well toward completion by the
soring Of 1921, according to The Dow
Service Daily Building Reports to-day.
Developments favoring such counsel
featured the week just closed, and un-
ouestionahly point the way to prompt
adjustment OF many of the problems
that have made the outlook for building
construction dubious. In the matter
10 bear upon the Railroad Administra-
zion at Washington by powerful com
mercial interests of New York and
elsewhere. and the result was the i'm
parting OF q general feeling that the
presen. government control would au-
tomaticaly cease in about four weeks.
when independent railroad competition
would solve in great measure the diff
fculties now making for car shortage.
This matter has direct bearing upon
the 5rcS distribution in New York now
and II affects the great shipments of
uDper Hudson brick that is being sent
ly vail into the New England markets.
lmrortart brick interests have COM
psined OF unequal car distribution, but
the inference is that this will be one
a. the quickest points of adjustment
within another six weeks.
To Push manufacturing
Co. J -, y.
in almost every department promise q
gradual change in the famine condi-
tons pertaining TO building material
supply II another six weeks. at the
outside, they sar, the flow of mate
rials to this market will begin to ap-
proximate the maximum known in 1912
II IS certainty that efforts to produce
building materials IN greater quanti-
ties than have ever before been known,
At least 4 a quarter of q century, are
already being made. Common labor
supply in building material industry
Is greatly improved, permanency of
employment and assurance of long
period Of prosperity in the building in
dustrF being the dominant reasons for
the change in labor supply.
Capacity that has not been employed
in generation is being feverishlv
made availahle for market needs while
the price peak is present, the feeling
being general that imitation in raw
building material values has about
reached IS maximum. II does not now
seem probable that common brick will
80 above S25 Wholesale which with
tho usgai charge for handling, hauling
and + per cent makes the present price
Of this comm odity delivered below
llo-h street about S31 thousand.
There are about l50,O0O,000 still
avaiia'.le in the Hudson Valley for New
YORK umption, which are ample for
irmeNate requirement. The cement
mil are extremely active in producing
Timber cuts in the West are break
.ng all previous records, and the same
IS true OF Canada. From forty-two
250o9 GOO fee. viii be cut this sea-
son, which exceeds the record made
in November is TO December Is last,
when 100000 COO feet were cut. There
IS now only l5 per cent Of the country's
available structural steel shop capacity
left. The next FIRE Of the glass mills
wlll schedule greater volume Of pro-
duction than probably ever has been
made.
Price Boosts Unlikely
The big problem is to book the
Years potential business as quickly as
possible There IS no longer any need
. fear further general price boosts.
and neither is there anything TO be
gained by waiting for price recessions