Miffions of Feet of Lumber Can Be Salvaged From Abandon ed Buildings

A lumber dealer in the Middle West ran out of 2x4,s and boards early last spring right at the time when he needed them most. He still had a good many bins filled with different kinds of lumber but, in order to make maximum use of his broken stock, he had to have some staple items which he couldn't get. Even if he had been fortunate enough to be able to use priority ratings high enough to obtain shipments, they would have been of little use since he needed the lumber at once for portable farm buildings which he was constructing in his yard-brooder houses, poultry houses, grain storage bins and other lumber-built farm accessories designed.to help farmers save labor, reduce waste and increase production. Also for repairs and maintenance of other structures in town and on the farm.

On the way home that evening he found the lumberthick, dry 2x4s, 2x6s and 2x8s and some fine wide boards that were exactly what he needed. For several years he had been driving past an abandoned building that was an eyesore to the community. During the evening he bought it for a song by agreeing to tear it down. Within a few days the usable lumber was in his yard where it was trimmed up, neatly piled and quickly sold. Even the nails were salvaged and the unusable material sold for fuel.

In the meantime, the lumber dealer made a thorough canvass of his entire trade area in searcir of other old buildings and was delighted to find a surprisingly large number of structures ideally suited for his purpose. He had grown so used to seeing them that he didn,t realize thev were

Port Orford Cedar

(Also Lnown cg White Cedcn or Lcmron Cyprerg)