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Timber material from the Douglas fir region in urgent demand for national defense is illustrated in this picture of Douglas fir spars up to 110 feet longand 32 inches in diameter, ready for shipment to New York. They will be used for "stiff leg" derricks in defense construction. No other forest region can supply such timbers, which take up steel shortages. Similar sizes of Douglas fir are urgently needed for boat building and shipyard construction. The region is also the only U.S.A. ,o.ril. of Sitka spruce, rvhich is a vital basic material in England's plane-building program.

Makes Timber Connector Method of Construction Standard

Washington, June 30-A plan that calls for the connector system of construction in the design of walks and handrails for both open deck and ballast deck type of timber trestles has been adopted as standard by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad.

The walks vary in size from 2', 7' in width to 2', 9', and use three types of connectors, the 4r/g" flat spike grid, thq Zft" shear plate and the 2/s" toothed ring. They are designed for Cooper's E-45, E-60 and E-72 loadings.

In the open deck trestle, toothed ring connectors are inserted between the vertical posts and the horizontal walk supports and between the horizontal supports and the trestle caps. The spike grids are applied between the vertical intermediate posts and the center horizontal railing while metal angles and shear plates are used to tie the walk to the stringers. This same tie is used between the caps and the horizontal supports under the walk. These connectors produce more rigid joints and add to the life of the connection.

The walk for the ballast deck is similar to that for the open deck trestle with the exception of the substitution of a horizontal metal channel for the metal angles in connecting the shear plates to the caps and beams carrying the walk.

The timber connector system of construction is finding increasing favor among railroads because of the strong and efficient joint it produces, the reduction in amount of hardware required, and the resulting economy and efficiency of design.

Among railroads, in addition to the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, using this method of construction are: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, Erie, Illinois Central, New York Central, Pennsylvania, Seaboard Air Line, Southern, Southern Pacific, Union Pacific and forty-one others.

Herb Klass, assistant to the president of Lumber Company, San Francisco, was back July 7 from two weeks' vacation spent at Springs, Calif.

Oscar Glick, Glick Brothers Lumber Co., and family, are spending their vacation Countv

Amos Geib, Geib Lumber has returned from a business home in Minnesota.

The Pacific D. at his desk geles, Richardson

Los Angeles, in Mendocino

Company, Huntington Park, and pleasure trip to his old

R. Philips, Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., Los Anand Mrs. Philips are in the Northrvest.

Ralph L. Barto, W. B. Jones is on a combined business and west and British Columbia.

Lumber Co., Los Angeles, pleasure trip in the North-

B. A. Cannon, Cutler-Orosi Lumber Co., Cutler, was recent Los Angeles vistor where he spent several days.

C. C. Bohnhoff and C. W. Bohnhoff, Bohnhoff Lumber Co., Los Angeles, are on a trip in Northern California and Oregon. They will call on the mills and spend a few days at Lake Tahoe.

S. M. Anderson, Jr., Indian Creek Lumber Calif., spent several days in Los Angeles. Co., Piercy,

Roy E. Hills of Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco, is playing a lot of golf on his favorite course while on his vacation at Wawona. Yosemite National Park.

Sam Hayward, Hayward Los Angeles, and family, are Lumber & Investment Co., on an auto trip to Idaho. ls

Henry M. Hink of Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco, is vacationing at Trinity Alps Resort, Trinity County.

Cecil A. Smith of Redding Lumber Co.. has returned from a trip with his family in Colorado and Nebraska.

Redding, Calif., to visit relatives

K. E. MacBeath of the sales department of Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland, is on vacation li'ith his wife and two boys in the High Sierra where they are fishing in a number of lakes. They have taken a kayak along to get out rvhere the big ones are.

Lu Green of Gamerston & Green, Oakland, is back from a business and vacation trip which included visits to Yosemite and Southern California.

O. B. Egland, Egland Lumber Company, Bakersfield, back on the job after a vacation at Lake Tahoe.

Don F. White of White Brothers, San Francisco, spent his vacation with his family at C. H. White's country place in the Santa Cruz Mountains, near Ben Lomond.

G. F. (Jerry) Bonnington of Lamon-Bonnington Co., San Francisco will return July 18 from an auto tour of the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia.

Gaston Ganahl, Seattle manager for Robert Dollar Co., is spending a two months'vacation in Southern California. The company does a big export business in China and India in West Coast lumber and Northern Hardwoods. Business is being handicapped by the shortage of vessels, he reports. Speaking of freight rates, he says they are now paying $4O per M on lumber to Shanghai that they formerly secured for $9, and the freight rate on lumber to Calcutta is now $50 as compared with $16 a year ago.

Ponderosa Pine Campaign to Help Wooden Ships Are Coming Back Lumber Dealers

Homeowners are being told of the use of stock doors and windows of Ponderosa Pine through a national advertising campaign and a 3?-page "idea" book produced by Ponderosa Pine Woodwork.

The advertisements, currently appearing in consumer magazines such as Better Homes & Gardens, American Home, House & Garden, tell a "spot" story on the use of doors and windows in some part of a home. In addition, architects and builders are being told about the campaign in their trade papers.

Lumber dealers everywhere stand to gain by the public's increased knowledge of standard door and window types, designs, and applications rvhich this campaign is bound to produce. The book, for example, is profusely illustrated with photographs. Many of these photographs are accompanied by plans or isometric drawings, and all carry descriptive captions. In addition, there are "catalog pages" showing a representative number of doors and windows which are offered as stock items in Ponderosa Pine. Another section of the book tells the advantage of storm sash. Care of woodwork is covered in another section; there is a page devoted to decoration of doors, another devoted to decoration of windows. The suggestion that homeowners refer to their local lumber dealer for advice and assistance is frequently made.

Emphasis is given in the book to a current trend in home planning which seems destined to be more than temporary-that of maximum utilization of available space. People want bright, cheerful rooms and maximum convenience. The book helps to explain how good use of doors and windows can give them the advantages they want.

The fact that every house has doors and windows makes it easy for the "trade" to assume that the men and women who are building, buying, and modernizing homes, know all about these items. This Ponderosa Pine Woodwork campaign is of particular value because it is based on the idea that doors and windows deserve special attention because the homeowner must live with them as long as he lives in the house itself. The enduring beauty of Ponderosa Pine, its ability to take and hold any finish, the ease with rvhich it may be worked by hand or machine and its abundance, combine to make it a material builders and architects can recommend.

It is repeatedly stated that doors and windows in sizes. types and designs appropriate to homes of every architectural style and in every price range are available at low cost from lumber dealers almost everl'where.

Washington, June Z4th.-"Wood and Sail Ah'i'ays Come Back," says John F. Coggswell to headline an article in the June 7th issue of "The Saturday Evening Post" that every lumberman should read with interest and pride.

Wooden ships are coming back stronger than ever; builders promise to have 75 ways ready by fall. In 1939 only two yards were building seagoing ships of wood along the Maine coast. This year the record of 185'l-Mai.ne's biggest year-is in a fair way of being broken. Right now they are building the most unusual fleet that Maine has ever launched mine sweepers, swift submarine chasers, and trawlers ina combination of wood and Diesel po\'r'er.

The Yankee shipbuilders will need all the speed they can muster, for the United States Navy alone is demanding 280 vesselsJ40,000,000 worth of auxiliary craftduring the next 12 months, and the fishing industry and others are turning to wooden bottoms.

"Every war has put wood and sail back on the salt waters," says the Post article. "Every man in the business feels that he'll be building windjammers again before this war is ovef." .

"Builders of steel ships are frantically putting in building slips, but they aren't keeping pace. Today, they can't pause to look at a new order; they're plugged to capacity for years to come. They can't even touch the smaller ships."

Of the rvooden ships built in the 1917 emergency, which were later burned: "If afloat today, they'd be worth close to the $200,000 apiece that they cost. For wood bottoms last nearly tvvice as long as steel. They are good for fortyyears."...

"But the wooden vessel will cost a lot less maintenance over a twenty-year period . . The wooden vessel will be sound at the end of twenty years, and good for twice that long a life, but the bottom will be gone out of a steel one."

Moves Yard To New Location

Blue Star Lumber Co. has announced the removal of its yard to 3204 Tweedv Boulevard, Lynwood. The old location was at 9530 Long Beach Boulevard, South Gate.

Enlarges Office And Display Room

Diablo Lumber Company, Antioch, Calif., recently completed the work of enlarging and remodeling the office and display room. E. V. McClintock is manager of this yard.

The Last Parade

The huge debris dam at the Narrows-Nevada and Yuba Counties, California-has been completed and behind it the impounded waters of the Yuba Rivers have formed a lake, which is norv eight miles in length. This will permit the resumption of hydraulic mining along the Yuba rvatersheds, but it will necessitate the razing of the old covered bridge at Bridgeport.

The covered bridge was built in the early sixties of sugar pine hauled from the forests of Sierra County and aside from repairs to its floor and roof has weathered the storms of lr'inter and the heat of summer. We are u'atching its passing with regret.

We are saying good-bye to the old covered bridgeIts long years of service are done; The era that reared it and cherished its fame Is gone and a new one begun;

But the lingering shadows are haunted tonight By dreams of our own pioneersTheir virile adventures, successes. defeats, And the changes they wrought through the vears.

We're saying good-bye to the old covered bridge fn tremulous tones of regret, And the Yuba is singing a plaintive refrain As its waters the worn timbers fret; And the heroes who conquered the turbulent West Ifave come in the semblance of old, To pass once again through the long duskv span 'Ere its years of existence are told.

They come from the valleys. the forests and mines, And down by the long winding grade, Lumberjacks, prospectors, muleteers, To join in the last parade. The pack trains are patiently forming in line, There's a stage coach leading the van, And the hiss of a black snake is echoing now With the voices of beast and of man.

The mule teams draw near with their tinkling bells And now, passing by in review, Are sights and sounds from the later vearsFaces and forms that we knew. Then the vision fades as the mists of dau'n Fade on the pine fringed gradeWas it only a dream tl-ren after all, This colorful last parade ?

Good-bye old bridge, you played your part In the years we can never forget, And you'll stand unchanged in the lancl of dreams Where the past is our heritage yet.

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