Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1920 — BIG STEEL PAY BUYING HOMES [ARTICLE]

BIG STEEL PAY BUYING HOMES

Workers Are Not Wasting High Wages, Records 1n Pittsburgh District Show. Pittsburgh.—Highly paid steel workers and coal miners in Pittsburgh and Allegheny county are not spending all their money but are using a considerable part of It to buy homes, according to John D. Graham, recorder of deeds, whose report for 1919 has just been made public. . During the year the number of deeds and mortgages filed was 00.437, as compared with 81,395 tn 1915. For the first quarter of this year the number, was 16385. as compared with 7.980 in the first quarter of 1915. The majority of the properties are small houses.