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of 12 per day. The houses will be trucked to the Bay District where they will be erected and made ready for use.

Central Lumber Company is considered a pioneer in prefabricated homes and has constructed some 400 houses to date. Last summer the firm was instrumental in negotiating a contract with the Federal Works Agency Lor 992 houses in Vallejo. The contractors on the Vallejo project 'u/ere Barrett & Hilp of San Francisco. The Central Lumber Company produced 200 units of the Vallejo project in its Stockton plant, at the rate of 8 houses a day, and assisted in setting up an Oakland plant which prefabricated the remainder of these houses.

The new contracts are based on cost plus a fixed fee, in accordance with the government's latest method of letting