TACOMA, the industrial and commercial center of the Empire State of
the Coast, is an inviting field for enterprise and effort and offers
boundless opportunities for the profitable employment of capital in
manufactures, trade, commerce and transportation, and rich rewards for
the exercise of brains and well-directed energies.
[Illustration: Decorated for Tacoma’s Rose Carnival.]
BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED DURING THREE YEARS ENDING JUNE 30, 1904, BY
MONTHS.
+===========+=====================================+
| | 1901-02. |
| MONTHS. +------------------+------------------+
| | DWELLINGS. | TOTAL PERMITS. |
+-----------+------+-----------+------+-----------+
| | _No._| _Cost._ | _No._| _Cost._ |
| July | 29 | $ 35,040 | 66 | $ 66,845 |
| August | 23 | 29,990 | 47 | 59,540 |
| September | 38 | 52,200 | 63 | 137,741 |
| October | 30 | 21,125 | 61 | 36,941 |
| November | 22 | 21,290 | 34 | 24,520 |
| December | 17 | 15,800 | 25 | 31,200 |
| January | 33 | 34,900 | 55 | 53,340 |
| February | 37 | 46,650 | 60 | 68,900 |
| March | 55 | 57,075 | 84 | 109,050 |
| April | 55 | 57,415 | 96 | 104,320 |
| May | 72 | 73,460 | 122 | 100,280 |
| June | 36 | 46,060 | 66 | 76,815 |
+-----------+------+-----------+------+-----------+
| Totals | 447 | $491,005 | 779 | $869,492 |
+-----------+------+-----------+------+-----------+
+===========+=====================================+
| | 1902-03. |
| MONTHS. +------------------+------------------+
| | DWELLINGS. | TOTAL PERMITS. |
+-----------+------+-----------+------+-----------+
| | _No._| _Cost._ | _No._| _Cost._ |
| July | 38 | $ 43,955 | 73 | $ 76,945 |
| August | 42 | 42,850 | 70 | 150,880 |
| September | 39 | 48,660 | 69 | 113,555 |
| October | 45 | 43,252 | 81 | 120,700 |
| November | 42 | 39,140 | 77 | 54,095 |
| December | 20 | 22,075 | 43 | 70,695 |
| January | 49 | 51,130 | 77 | 84,785 |
| February | 60 | 75,410 | 100 | 116,725 |
| March | 71 | 72,505 | 106 | 306,012 |
| April | 78 | 76,660 | 131 | 190,990 |
| May | 62 | 67,595 | 99 | 111,743 |
| June | 74 | 82,463 | 117 | 146,630 |
+-----------+------+-----------+------+-----------+
| Totals | 620 | $665,695 | 1043 |$1,543,755 |
+-----------+------+-----------+------+-----------+
+===========+=====================================+
| | 1903-04. |
| MONTHS. +------------------+------------------+
| | DWELLINGS. | TOTAL PERMITS. |
+-----------+------+-----------+------+-----------+
| | _No._| _Cost._ | _No._| _Cost._ |
| July | 79 | $ 74,640 | 113 | $ 125,680 |
| August | 90 | 96,135 | 149 | 120,401 |
| September | 84 | 88,150 | 144 | 170,345 |
| October | 68 | 65,720 | 117 | 148,783 |
| November | 45 | 33,730 | 78 | 122,225 |
| December | 44 | 35,900 | 84 | 56,015 |
| January | 55 | 57,360 | 92 | 116,553 |
| February | 62 | 64,485 | 105 | 121,675 |
| March | 68 | 72,100 | 115 | 92,950 |
| April | 83 | 100,580 | 128 | 135,600 |
| May | 86 | 97,160 | 160 | 234,582 |
| June | 81 | 97,108 | 144 | 246,296 |
+-----------+------+-----------+------+-----------+
| Totals | 845 | $883,068 | 1429 |$1,691,105 |
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