The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-09-22
ECONOMIC SURVEY
PUTSN.D.N PAV|NG
And SCHOOLS GROUP
Chief Items In Improvement Ex-
penditures Are Roads and
Educational Plants
DATA FOR HO0vER'S PLAN
President Had Information COL
lected for Conference on
Unemployment

North Dakota 10 named in q sur
vey on national construction recent
" made public in Washington by the
committee on recent economic
changes of the presidents confer
ence on unemployment as one of a
group of neighboring states where
street paving and road building were
the main item Of public works con-
tracts awarded during the past IL
q School building stood second.
Within the area comprising Min
nesota, North Dakota, South Dakota
and Northern Michigan, out Of con-
tracts for all public improvements
a~ggregating 8 .976.0oo in the years
1919 to 1929 inclusive. the street
paving and road building item
amounted to $134,193,000, while
school construction was valued at
$113, 7O8, 1896. The school building
item included. however, private ecu-
cational construction.
Data for Sterilization Planning
The survey was begun in July OF
last year at the suggestion Of Presi-
dent Hoover for the purpose Of ap-
praising public construction activi-
ties throughout the country as a fac
tor in stabilizing business. The sur.
vey and an ~interpretative report
signed by the committee on recent
economic changes have been pub.
lished together by the National
Bureau Of Economic Research under
the title planning and Control OF
Public Works." The survey vas
prepared by DR.. Leo Wolman, Of the
National bureaus research staff,
with the assistance Of the U. s. De-
partment Of Commerce. The F. w.
Dodge corporation furnished the sta
tistics pertaining to public works
contracts in the area in question.
Roads and schools formed the bulk
Of construction in the area for the
period in question, the survey shows,
less than 80 per cent Of the contracts
for al public improvements being
represented by hospitals and institu-
tions, public buildings other than
schools. waterfront developments,
bridges, sewerage, lighting and water
supply systems. :
Hospitals in 81 p. C. Group
Contracts for hospitals and insti-
tutions in Minnesota, North and
South Dakota and northern Michigan
amounted to $33, 032, 900; for bridges
$28. 200, 900; for waterfront develop
ments, 1914 900; for sewerage sys-
TENS, $18, 703, 900; for public build
ings, SIG, 782, 900; for water supply,
$l1,590, 900, and for lighting. 3d.
677.00O.
Street paving and road ~construc-
ton vas the leading item, and school
building second in three other areas
covered by the Dodge corporation
statistics for the 11-year period, the
district comprising Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa. Wisconsin, South Michigan,
Missouri. Kansas. Oklahoma, and
Nebraska. another district compris.
ing Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky
and western Pennsylvania, and in q
third district comprising eastern
Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey,
Maryland. Delaware. District Of
Columbia and Virginia. z
School building, public and private,
was In the lead on the other hand
~ two areas..a section comprising
New York state and northern New
Jersey and another comprising the
New England states.
About $500, 00O, 900 annually is
now spent on public works through
out the United States. or from IS
to 40 per cent Of the total of all con-
struction: and the trend is rising, the
survey shows.