Evening Star Newspaper, June 12, 1926, Page 17

REAL BUILDING SURVEY INDICATES DROP ESTATE. Milwaukee Pittsburgh Cincinnati . Rochester. . Newark, N. Boston Buffalo Houston . Seattle Miami Mt. Vernon THE EVENING Softwood Mills Blame Holiday for Drop—Hardwood Production About Steady. f STAR, ments in the face of a. lower volume of_reported business operations. Hardwood operations expanded, but were hardly comparable, as 28 more mills reported for last week than for the week earlier. The unfilled orders of 238 Southern pine and West Coast mills at the end of last week amounted to 690, 53 feet, as against 693,891,107 feet WASHINGTON, D. C, LUMBER OPERATIONS |}iisnmmon of arger tumber shin i B | | DECLINE DURING WEEK SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1926. REAL ESTATE. 17 37 mills the previous week. The Nation as Whole Shows De- Minneapolis, . cline From Apl‘ll it Many San Francisco The National Lumber Manufactur- the group showed unfilled orders of " 5 Kansas City ers’ Assoclation received telegraphic 000 feet last week, as against C:ties Gain Over May, 1925. reports today of the status of the 380 feet for the week before. e induetrs for the week ended| For the 107 West Coast mills, the un- J‘““ bar Ir“ Y li\l'\i& ‘"‘l “‘0 e e"d; filled orders were 413,090,553 feet, as une 5 from of the larger soft-|against 410,894,727 feet for the 106 1N1 Y City Mortgages Gain. i\\ood and 155 of the chief hardwood | mills o week earlier. o Real estate mortgages recorded in : ogether the comparably re- mills of the country. On account of| \ BUSEC RN CUq i Tad shipments the holiday included in this week, the| 102 per cent, and orders 89 per cent, 00 | 3883 comparably reporting vood | of actual production. For. the South- $500,000,000 over 1924, or s | mills showed considerable decr ern pite LI LHESO P eRtCy Iy 1 . Seapociively 108 and. 7; er:‘ehmfi:otx?p s i i g ot g e Wit Coust mills, 110 mm“sr.’,d ke 11 per cent, | slight decrease in shipments, when| Of the reporting mills, the 347 with : y vear of 3% per — compared with reports for the pre-|an established normal production for cent. !n_.surm( that insured | vious week from 374 mills. In com-|the week of 235,779,483 feet, gave "Mhe reports. which were made public | against rain on Memorial day in New | parison with reports for the same|actual production 99 per cent, ship in the national monthly buldi k estimate their aggregate loss at | period last year, when 370 mills re- s, 104 per cent, and orders, 92 ,000. ported, S in all three items 131 identical Southern pine mills in jons of a stowing down in suilding activities were re- | n the official reports | Here’s How We Figure It nd towns throughout These places reported i tended quite generally over the coun- . try with the exception of the South. the metropolitan zone of New York City, and a few important Northern and Eastern cities. The 23 leading building centet a loss of per cent per cent . The May show- the largest ever d in these cities excepting 1 to May losses this year are considerably greater than the nottal downward trend ~between these 2 months, which is about 5 per cent. You will be much happier if you browse around and see what is being offered—and then come back here and actually compare. Gain Over Last Year. New York and immediate vicinity continued the mnation’s leading ty. The 5 boroughs re- ported in plans filed com- pared with § 504 last *May, a gain of 10 per In Yonkers 2 a gain uf ‘more than $2, (he month’s volume belng A Great Value! Art Bungalows Two Glorious Locations CASH 100,000 | Texas was revealed as_one of the | most active States in the country. I Easy Monthly THouston led the Southern cities with a little over $3,000.000, an §3 per cent galn over ) ar. Large build- ing activities were of the other leading T notably San Antonio, Ama Fort Worth. On Blair Road For instance: Will rooms and ceilings stand the test of a tape measure like these newest homes at Fort Stevens Ridge? Or is there a twilight zone of dim values in “quaint designs and novelty features”? Compare them with our sturdy Georgian architecture, which solvesthe problem of economy and convenience in a modern way—by better interior ar- rangements. Semi-detached withlightand ventilation on three sides; here is a house built so well that it will from year to year cost practically nothing for upkeep. sains. according to the “0. reports, were feveland, Provi- Chicago 10ss near- Angeles $6.000,000, 5 Boston $2.- Sample Bungclows Open and Lighted Until 9 P.M. Shows Gain. The 113 ern States T over last Ma) (r(\alh Augmer\[vd activities were reported in Atlanta, Jacksonville, \[(‘mphh Coral Orlando, Pensacola. some citles of Less specy r increases were ghown in Ilorida. Tn the 41 princl- pal citles of that State, May permits of $17,241,680 were filed, a gain of 4 per cent over last May. The reports showed that building Opé‘rauons on a large scale are anticipated in all the larger Florida cities during the en- suing months. 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