San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-20
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AMERICA ON
LARGE SCA|
Repets Indicate Little F
ing Off From Heavy
Construction.
CEMENT in DEMAI
Demand for Road Build
and Repairs Taxes |
Producers. |

Copyright by The San Antonio i
New York, April 18.-Latest
ports on building construction
every section of the country sioJ
tie falling off from record-br
levels. More construction wor'
pending than ever before at this
of the year in the population eel
OF the United States. Cities il
sections except the Midwest shI
increases as compared with
which year was remarkable OF
this line.
Permits calling for nearly ST.
100000 worth of building conH
ton were issued in the first aud
Some of the abnormal gains madel
ing March, however, were due I!
forts by prospective builders to
advantage of tax exemptions gri
in some sections on operation, pe'
for which were issued before An
The amount of work in prospJ
being faithfully indicated by tn;
pansions and heavy operations O,
cement mills. There are apr.
mately $4,000 to 10000 barrels q.
ment used in the constructor
some of the modern hotels and
ness buildings and while this
modify has come to be used on nj
all building operations to som1
tent, the amount needed for
work, bridges and dams is fast
passing that going into building
struction.
U. s. Requires Much Cemen!
Warren Brothers of Boston, fo.
ample, laid II. 900, 900 square var
paving in 1928 but today, at the 4
ing of the 1924 season. they han
their books already contracts for
than 5.500,000 square yards.
state of PENNSYLVANIA will build
proximately 1000 miles of roads
year for three years and apr
mately 100000 barrels of ell
will 60 into this construction
Hually.
The government improvement
along the rivers will require d
mendous tonnage in cement. DAD
the Monongahela river alone
call for some 100000 barrels i'll
next few years and the goyern|
dam at Ellsworth. Pa. will takA
900 barrels. Power plants are sd
ing up all through the West and |
die West and these also will de
a terrific output from the &C
plants. New plants are being
at Philadelphia, Chesnick.
Springdale, Pa, Wheeling, w.
Toronto, Ontario. and n score of |
localities, to say nothing of deyI
ments in mountain states and il
Pacific coast.
Working at Capacity.
Cement plants are working a
pacity in many districts and
makers are expanding their q
ment to permit additional produX
Just how long the tremendous
sure of building activity can be q
ed on to continue is problematica
cording to experts. They assert
the shortage, which exists at pr|
requires expenditure of over So
100000 at current costs to fill.
of the shortage, however, is id
cities. Country districts are ID
little lack of housing facilities
great lack of farm labor. The
demand also, according to SONG
tisticians, is not an unlimited
mand, but a demand at a price
That is, there is a deman(
dwelling places which will rent
certain sum. If, under present
houses cannot be erected to re
that sum and still be attractive
vestors, the demand, accordiII
housing specialists, becomes
and ceases to exist. Thus. if
come down, the demand will
but investors will not be attract
build, while if rents rise the de
will cease to exist for certain G
of housing. 1t is known that the
age amount paid for rent b.
population of this country toda
exceeds the 20 per cent of the
vidual income which was standaI
fore the war years.