$25,000,000 in rural building

Originally published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 6, 1943

Paced by a wartime boom in the South End, new construction in rural King County totaled $25,428,507 during 1942, according to a report compiled by Archie Phelps, south district commissioner.

Rural King County construction far exceeded the figure of approximately nineteen million dollars in the city of Seattle during the same period.

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