Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-10-21
Former Baraboo Folk Write Very
Interesting Letter From Home
In Los Angeles
COMPANY TO ERECT NEW
ELEVEN STORY BUILDING
City to Face Serious Shortage of
Homes This Winter, 1t Is Re-
ported

Back again to the country we love
so we'll We were lucky IN going east
this summer, as we escaped one OF
the hottest summers Los Angeles ex-
perienced in good many years. and
OF course we missed, the quakes be-
sides. They tell us the quakes are
all over; let us pray. The largest
single building permit ever issued in
Los Angeles was granted a few days
ago for the new structure Of the Pa
Cific Mutual Life Insurance Co. The
company will erect building Of steel
frame and concrete eleven stories to
cost $2,470,000. 1t will be $50 feet
high the limit set for building con-
struction in Los Angeles. Greater New
York with it's population of 6,000,O0O
alCne leads Los Angeles in the ma
tion's building activities. The cham
Der of Commerce reports that people
are coming here to live faster than
The builders have been able to supply
homes for them Los Angeles will
face another shortage Of houses next
winter, the mos acute III its history.
Many who will come in scared Of
winter quarters will be disappointed
Los Angeles is Cne of this ten great
elt industrial Centers i'll toe country
and the demand for homes is increas-
ing enormously. $500. s---~
Rent Situation Serious
The rent sitlatiCn grows more ser
ious everyday. Houses, flats and apart
n e1ts become scarcAr and rhe posi-
bic places are 20 be had only at i'm
possible prices J. B. WOodside spent
two months searching for suitable
place in which to house his family.
He decided to go to a former abode
and see if he could again rent it for
$42 a month The landlady said, | am
getting $135 a month now and the
man leased it for a year. Can you beat
it? Paper houses are urged in this cri-
sis as a paper cottage of or rooms,
a bath and two closets can be built
for $1,000 and a larger one with two
bedrooms for $500. The plan calls
for a concrete foundation and wood
en- frame, building paper is fastened
to the wooden uprights and cross
pieces. and to protect inmates from
the elements, coating of liquid as
phaltum paint is put on. AfterWard,
if desirable, the paper can be covered
over by lumber when lumber is cheap
3r.
increase in Development
Acting on statistics that the only
thing which can hold back the de-
velopment of southern California in
10 counties would be the lack of pow
er for irrigation and manufacturing
and believing that if the necessary
power is furnished, the population will
doublein Is years. The southern Cal
ifornia Eddison Co. has completed
plans for developing 100000 addition
al hydro electric horse power before
1885. This colossal development, the
greatest thing of it's kind ever attem-
pied in the southland, will cost $780,
900.
The citrus crop of southern Cali
fornia amounts to $110.000,00 in val
ue for the year just closing; the total
shipment of oranges this last year
was $500 carloads. $130,000 900 is the
value of the grape crop for 1920 in
California an increase Of $54,000,000
over last year Prices are more than
double. Despite the fact that the
country went dry, they can sell all
the wine. jam and mash they can
make. Long Beach has a remarkable
record of growth; great forward stri-
des which have been taken by the
city during the past decades place her
among the foremost OF the southwest
From city of $4,000 in 1910. Long
Beach has expanded into a thriving
community with a population OF
more than $1,000 This is gain OF
212 per cent in 10 years.
lightning recently struck the house
OF c r. Williams of Bakersfield and
tore portion of the roof away. A maid
ironing on the porch was unhurt
This is the first instance of lightning
striking in this section of the coun
try.
Plans For Going East
Now that it costs about 5000. for z
railroad ticket to go to the far east
some of those who would visit the ole
home for one more look are wonder
ing If it really is worth while. I
they go, they figure on making tht
trip pay for itself One advertise,
that he will be glad to transact an.