California Building Mark $199,1 51'000 In Half Year

Here are the values of building permits for the first half of. 1924 in all California cities reporting more than $500,000, with 1923 comparisons.

Aggregate value of permits for fifty-six reporting cities in California for the half-yearwas $199,151,007, as compared with $219,109,455 for the first half of 1923. The total of trvelve San Francisco bay cities for six months of' 1924 was $51,055;348, against $45,659,169 in I9?3, a gain of $5,396,179, The total fm twelve Los Angeles district cities this year was $114,881,84, against $132,483,207 last year, a decrease of $17,6O1,387. '

The figures for thirty-three California cities, scoring more than $5m,000 fo,r the first half of. 1924.

L. R. GAYNOR, JR, A SAN FRANCTSCO VTSTTOR

L R. Gaynor, of S€rattle, vie'president of the Nettleto'n Lumber Co., was a recent San Francisco visitor where he spent a few days attending to business matters with O. F. Folsom. Mr. -Folsom re[resents the Nettleton Lumber Co. in the San Francisco Bay District and in Ncthern California.

R. T. CHAPMAN CALLS ON CALIFORNIA TRADE

R. E Chapman, the well known Portland wholesaler, has returned north after spending two weeks in California calling on lumber trade and miking a survey of the lumber mirket in Los Angeles, San Francisco 'and the Sacramento Valley. Mr. Chapman stat€s that the lumber market throu'ghout the Northwest is showing much improvement