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price. Here in the East, all good
houses are covered, first with matched
sheeting, $20.00 per thousand, then covered with
tar or rosen paper. Then they put
on lapped siding. So you see,
that makes a good warm house.
The contractor figured on 70 days
on any house, but he had a
lot of men working for him
&, out of that time, I guess, there
was wks. that there was not
anything done on the house at
all. He is building his 16th house
for this summer & has turned down
lots of work, as he had more
than he could do.
I had all my floors scraped
downstairs, (but kitchen & that I
covered with linolium,) & the hall
upstairs & two front bedrooms,
a boarder of 2 ft. all around the