MASON SUPPLIES, Inc.

BUII.DING MATERTALS WHOLESALE

524 South Mission Rood, Los Angeles 33, Colif. ANgelus 9-O 657 its materials have increased lOlL in thc 12 mollths ending in August. For the most part, horvever, the increases are moderate, averaging out at 2o/o lor the 18 places reporting. In this District the increase over 1941 is sometvhat sharper as mcasured by the charrges in the 6 sampling cities r,vhich have lreen reporting regularly since 19'11, namely l42o/o increase. This gives the District building dollar of l94l a current purchasing power cif 41 ccnts.

Thc New York City building materials dollar is worth $1.0(r for the District as a unit, and this ranges frot'n a lor'v of 85 cents at Cheyer-rne, \\ryoming, to a $1.20 at Los Angeles. Iior labor, the 12 month incre:rse is 5/o, most of the city-br--city annuai increases averagiug ottt at Sa/o. For the 6 places 'ivhich have bcen reporting since 1941 the irrcrease is 128/., 'n'hich gives the ltearl Harbor-year wage clollar a ctlrrent purchasing power o{ 44 cents' Tl.re Nerv York rvage dollar is tvorth $1.19 for the area as a lvhole and this ranges from a lorv of $1.11 at Las Vegas to $1.32 at Boise. Of the average conrposite 4/o increase for the yearly pcriocl, 2/. of it accrue<l cluring the current half and 2/o during the earlier half year. With relation to 1941, the purchasing po\\rer of tlte District building clollar is '11 cents, ranging from 3.5 cents at San Rrancisco to 44 cents at Denver. The Nen' York overall building dollar has a purchitsing porver of $1.14 for the clistrict, ranging from $1'03 at Cheycr-rne, Wyoming to $1.23 at Phoenix, Arizona.

(Tell them \ou sa.w it in The California Lttntber Merchant)