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Great Increase of Building-in Cities of Pacific Coast

With a grand total of $492,449,908 in building permits issued during 1923 in fifty-four cities of the Pacific Coast States, an increase of more than' thirty-eight per cent in building activities was shown for the year just ended over the total figures of these cities for 1922, says "The Architect and Engineer."

Utah, with four cities reporting, showed the greatest relative annual gain-fifty-three per cent-while California with thirty-five cities reporting, came second with a gain of forty-two per cent, over 1922. Washington gained twenty per cent, Oregon seventeen per cent and Arizona fourteen per cent over the previous year. Annual gains of the larger cities are: Los Angeles, fifty-six per cent; San Francisco, three per cent; Portland, eleven per cent; Seattle, sixteen per cent; Salt Lake City, thirty-four per cent; Long Beach, sixty-eight per cent; Oakland, twelve per cent, and Sah Diego, twenty-one per cent. California's total, $414,887,500 is eighty-four per cent of the whole. Of the first twenty-five cities in the United States showing greatest volume of permits during the year 1923, six cities are lo'cated on the Pacific Coast.

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J. V. O'DONNELL JOINS CHAS. R, McCORMICK & CO. STAFF

J. V. O'Donnell, forrnerly of Bonner, Montana, is now associated with Chas. R. McCormick & Co. and is acting as assistant to sales manager, J. Walter Kelly. Mr. O'Donnell has been associated with the lurnber business for a good many years and prior to his coming to San Francisco, he was with the lumber department of the Anaconda Copper Company.

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