New-York tribune., 1921-11-21
Construction
Market Shows
Spring Activity
Two Large Building Projects
Calling for Nearly l,4OO
Homes Revealed Last
Week, Lumber Advances

rurrsns Developments in the Eastern
,ArsIding construction market have an
.Ioouencs all their own. as they are
r.vealinz themselves 60 material, equip
uxnt and contracting firms seeking
.hem. according to the Dow Service
.nxIly Building Reports
n IA usually in the sprfngtirns or In
ana latter winter days that conspicu-
ans building projects come forth, yet
s,,ss week there were revealed two gi-
s,satic housing projects. One, by \
Great metropolitan district lumber dis
.sr;hutcr. involves the simultaneous
erection Of homes approaching thou
and IN number In Ave different cities
! ,rifhin committing distance of New
syark Another is being projected by
ss holding firm operating at present as
sshs Garden Land Company, which is to
seract 400 dwellings, two stories, frame,
sa.l feet by various dimensions. electric
ssI;yhted and steam heated, IN Brooklyn.
TO represent an expenditure OF $780,
! COO
shabitation building Institutional build
sings-like hospitals, Y. NJ. G.. A. build
g,ings, churches and similar endowed or
/ sofSerwfse privately financed projects
are coming out in fair volume, consider
ting the time of the year, although as
fisfa Seuterber. 1921, showed that of
! saso 600 GOO spent for building con-
,struction in about thirty states, $780,
saoD.oeo was represented by house build
s;no investment. AS far as building
construction projects in the Metropoi-
ian district are concerned, work coming
sahead for winter activity has not
shown any disposition to lower the
wears high peak OF building projection,
that above quoted covering September.
Advance in Lumber
! This building trend may be consid--
ered especially remarkable IN view or
: the fact that lumber during the months
: of October and November had advanced
in wholesale price so per cent. Retail
surices in many lumber items advanced
this week from. IS to $40 tnousano
feet. vet new projects are continually
: Gaming out. som etimes as frequently as
! twenty 8 day.
j The Bridge Builders and Structural
Society reports through its secretarv
! George E. Clifford, that during the
month Of October 81 500 tons of fab
I ricated structural steel had been con
| tracted for throughout the country
! equivalent to 81 per cent of the entire
capacity Of the bridge and structural
shops Of the country, as against $4,000
tons, or oSper cent, in September; 59,-
so2 tons, or S3 per cent, for August
In October, 1918, the total was 4S pei
cent.
! In the light OF such an unreasonable
current as we'll as prospective demand
for basic building materials, the rea-
sons for price stability and advances in
some lines may be found in such facts
as these:
On November II national lumber pro.
duction was 100000 feet that previ
Gus week as against shipments Of S3,-
. 100000 feet and orders of S1,000,00O
feet.
! On October from 1o4 brick manu-
featuring plants reporting there were
on hand in the country 205,00o, 900, ,o0'
! brick, with orders already on the book:
: for 1877 $4,000, 900.
Big Shipments of Cement
Nineteen cement manufacturers /!
! the Eastern states show that on Octo
Der 81 they had 1.s11,ooo barrels Of