Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-04-10
TEN MILLIONS
FOR BUILDINGS
THAT WAS TOTAL OF MONTANA'S
NEW CONSTRUCTION IN 1929,
STATE RECORDS REVEAL
Great Falls Lead Other Cities With
Nearly $500, 900, According to De-
partment of Publicity; Butte and
MissouIa Over Half Million Each.

More than $500 900 was expend-
ed upon building construction for
housing, disqualification, educational,
commercial and industrial purposes
in Montana during 1929, according
to an estimate by the state division
of publicity based upon figures OBJ
tanned from city engineers and town
clerks of % of the municipalities Of
Montana. Figures of actual building
permits from cities which regulate
building construction together with
estimates furnished by clerks of other
towns show S7,18l,532 was expended
within such municipalities.
With construction work in the many
other towns and in the rural sections,
for which figures are not ~Obtainable,
it is estimated the whole will aggregate
more than $40, 0 900, not including
probably an equivalent investment in
dams, power plants, irrigation works
and other industrial structures outside
of towns and cities.
Cost of municipal improvements, such
as water works, sewers, lighting facili-
ties, paving and other forms Of public
works, not included in the building
figures, aggregate more than 100000
for 1929. Estimates of anticipated con-
struction for 1880 for both building
operations and municipal Improvements
rank well with the known expendi-
lures for last year.
Figures showing actual building per-
NIT totals for the cities, with estimates
by town clerks in other towns for 1929,
as compiled by the division Of publ
city, follow:
Great Falls, s3,483, 538; Billings, $685.
TOO; Butte, $539,177; Missoula, $685.
TAO: Havre, s379,O00: Kalispell, $685.
600; Miles City, 100000; Glendive,
$228.830; Helena, s222,417; Bozeman,
S175,770; P~lentywood, $3.50, 1000; Hamil-
ton, SIP, 500; Cascade, $4,000; Box
Elder, $4,000; Circle, $25, 900; Harlow
ton, $4,000; Whitefish, S16,460; Roman.
S12, 900; Froid, sl0,400; Townsend, Sl0,-
600; Malta, $4,000; Wibaux, $4,000;
Nashua, $4,000. Total, S7,181, $50.
the street, the Office Of the daily and
weekly Herald, in the building now
occupied by the Montana Record-Her-
aid; the Journal Publishing company
in the building now the Elks' club, and
II. M. Parchen's drug store on the cor
ner. Across from the Herald Office
was that of the Daily and Weekly In
dependent.
KesslervilIe Thriving
Other illustrations show the First
National bank in what is now the
Commercial club offices, c.. S. AShby
and company in what is now Mont
gomery Ward and company's store at
Sixth and Main, Kesslerville, three
miles west of Helena; Heiber and
Schenk's resort at Alhambre; the
Grand Central hotel, fronting on Main
and Edwards streets, with the corner
now occupied by the Union Bank and
Trust company a vacant lot.
And just to show that Helena was o
desirable place to live, the volume
quoted prices of foodstuffs as retailed
in 1883. Some of the items mentioned
are flour, $2.25 to $3.50 per hundred
pounds; cornmeal, SO per hundred;
oatmeal, SIS per hundred; potatoes, rs
cents to Sits per hundred; corn per
can 16 to 20 cents; tomatoes per can,
16 to 20 cents: cheese per pound, 20
cents; butter, 80 to 40 cents; eggs, Is
to 40 cents; lard, IL cents; sugar, eight
pounds for 81; beef. 10 cents to 20 cents
per pound; mutton, 10 to Is cents:
pork, 10 to Is cents; sugar cured hams,
IL to Is cents; fresh fish, 10 to Is
cents q pound; wood per cord, IS to s.:
rooms per month, S. to $50; tenement
houses, $40 to $50; board at hotels by
the day, 81 to $50; board at hotels
per week, $3.50 to 50: board at private
homes per week, IS to 81.