Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1928-04-13
Big BUILDING
YEAR IS AHEAD
VARIOUS CITIES REPORT CoNsTRUC-
TION PROGRAMS OF UNUSUAL
PROPORTIONS UNDER WAY

I~nOIOhlItN ANDIh WAY
Great Falls Leads With More Than $780,
600 i'm Projects Begun Since First OF
Year and With Million Dollar School
and Half Million Dollar Business Block
Taking advantage of what promises
to be an unusually early spring. con-
tractors have started work on building
and construction projects In many
parts of Montana, according to the
publicity division of the state depart
ment of agriculture. labor and indus
try. Railway construction. stopped last
winter by freezing temperatures, has
been resumed and highway crews, or
dered out by county commissioners,
have been busy for several weeks.
A few cities report building active
Great Falls, after closing the 1927 sea-
son with a higher record for building
permits than ever before, is setting q
new mark which promises to exceed last
years record. March building permits In
that city reached nearly $500, 200. The
first three months of the current year
have shown large increases over the same
months last year. The Great Falls Start
er and Battery company viii erect a $685.
900 building. A $500. 900 building for the
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decided upon. construction to begin. II
possible. this summer A 81 900 900 high
school and new home for the Paris Dry
Goods company also are planned for this
year.
Malta is experiencing a building boom
in business and residence districts
Among the larger projects is a $4,000
store building, and offices and yards fol-
a lumber firm to be built at a cost OF
$1,000
Glasgow schools W. a building pro-
gram Of $4,000 to include an element
airy school and additions valued at $780,
900 for the high school.
Concrete work for the 81, O00, 900 beet
sugar factory. which the Great Western
Sugar company is building at Missoula
is finished and steel equipment fol-
framework is on the grounds. Bid for
the new federal building at Missoula
have been opened.
A new brick building to house a clean
ing and tailoring establishment is being
erected on Main street at Kalispell.
Work has started on Bozeman's new
S225,0 900 hotel at h corner OF Wilson
and Main streets. 1t is expected the
building will be ready for occupancy Jan
l, 1929.
oNObtg pboAAlCSo lAOAtoNo hSot4OJGQ ny
fire within the last few wekse will be re
built his summer. They are those OF
the Battleson company and Shaich
brothers. Work is rapidly progressing or
a new building at Poison, being erected
by the Pend OfReille Building company
Railway Construction
Construction of the Northern Paci1c's
Redwater valley branch line from Glen
dive to Brockway is again going forward
The company reports the entire line will
be ready for use June /. The new branch
started last summer east of the Bitter
Root river, will be completed within 9
few weeks. Construction was abandoned
last December, when frozen ground made
grading impossible.
Work will begin at once on the gravel
plant which the Northern Pacific is
building near Miles City, at Horton
Thirty carloads of machinery have beer
shipped from Seattle and $50 men will
find employment during construction OF
the plant. Sixty men will be regularly
employed.
Within the next go days, the Great
Northern railway is expected to start
work on the 75-mile Saco-Turner branch
line. The project entails expenditure of
50, 000, 900.