Sheulin Pine Sales Gompany

Construction in L. A. County Shows Gain Furniture Output Highest Since 1929

Building operations in the unincorporated area of Los Angeles county during the past month made a gain of 406 permits and $616,993 worth of improvements over the month of March of last year.

William Fox, chief engineer of the county building department, states that a tot-al of 1493 permits were issued by his office for new, remodeling and repair jobs aggregating an investment of. $1,866,752.

Construction of. 499 new homes to cost a total of $1,123,925 begun during March, was the outstanding feature of the month's building activity.

Seven apartment houses added $n7,ffi to the building total; 506 remodeling and repair jobs added another $233,349, and 36 mer'cantile and industrial buildings accounted for outlay of $128,559 during the month of March.

New York, April 7.-Produ,ction of furniture in 1936, accelerated by the expansion of home building, rose to the highest level since 1929, a survey by Dunn & Bradstreet, Inc., revealed today.

Output was estimated at $6n,726,m, an increase of 40 per cent from the 1936 figure and compared with $948,116,UJO ]n 1926.

Figures for the first two months of the current year indicate continued improvement. Unfi1led orders for January and February were more than double bookings for the same period a year ago, and factory operations gained 36 per cent. Retail sales averaged 10 to 39 per cent higher in January and February than in the two-month period of 1936, while wholesale volume was 30 to 40 per cent larger.