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Forest Products Offices

Merchants Exchange Bldg.

465 California Street

San Francisco 4

Phone YUkon 6-3969

Los Angeles Building Permits

Building operations took an upward turn for the mc.rnth of July, with an increase in valuations of more than $5,700,000 over June, according to the permits issued by the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety.

During Jdy,1947,5137 permits were issued with a valuation of $22,178,8& as compared to 4993 permits in June with a valuation of $16,432,!81, according to the figures of G. E. Morris, superintendent of building. In July, 1946, there were 43€ permits with a valuation of $21,690,508.

For the first seven months of the present year,34,802 permits were issued, the valuation being $ll9,374,69L During the corresponding period in 1946, 32,419 permits were issued, but the valuation reached $150,556,615.