October Was Big Building Month; California Cities in Lead

October was one of the best building n-ronths history of the country, accordin,g to ,compilations American Contractor of Chic4go, and California a correspondingly healthy state of building affairs.

The value of building permits issued in tthe California cities in October showed a substantial increase both over Septer.nber and over October of last year.

But the California lumberman is further interested in 'the fact tha,t cities in all parts of the coun,try are continuing their building activities, r'r'hich rleans that the demand for lum,ber outside the state rvill keep uo and that there is not likely to be a surplus for use *ithin the state.

Following is the report on thirteen of the principal California cities for October, giving the number of permits and the valuation, together with a comparison for ,the same month of 1921:

The s,ame authority gives 'the aggregate value of new buildings in several California cities for the first ten months of the year as follows: Los Anigeles, $100,895,48O; San Francisco, $40,26,777; Oakland, $19,812,899; San Diego, $9,013,590; Long Beach, $12,146,693; Pasadena, $8,105,688; Sacramento, $8,155,023.

Portland, for ten months, had $20,067,325; Seattle, s16.731.540.