THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

there until he began looking for them-an old grandstand, warehouse, lumber shed, part of an ex-livery barn. Side streets, back alleys, railroad yards yielded truck load after truck load of usable material that served the purpose a.s well as new lumber.

In the country he {ound several sets of old farm buildings; also innumerable sheds and outbuildings that had long since been replaced with modern structures. Farmers were glad to sell or exchange them for other items sold by the dealer.

His "wrecking crew" consisted of an elderly handy man and three or four husky high school boys. His yard man headed another crew at times. Smaller buildings were dragged to the yard intact. Larger sheds were loaded onto the truck in sections. Some structures had to be demolished on the job. He made no pretense of going into the "house wrecking business" on a big scale but simply picked up those frame buildings which could be knocked to pieces easily and which yielded the largest amount of framing and boards.

At the lumber yard nails were removed and the lumber trimmed up and sorted into piles. Straight nails went into one keg, crooked nails into another and everything sold readily. The dealer is still picking up an old building here and there and estimates that, by the close of the year, he will have salvaged approximately six carloads of dimen' sion and boards which, in turn, have enabled him to sell a large amount of other lumber which he would otherwise not have been able to move.

In this connection it is interesting to observe that if onehalf the dealers in the .United States did equally well the salvage would total 60,000 carloads or approximately 2,000,000,000 feet of dimension stock and boards-items now in greatest demand and practically unobtainable by lumber dealers for civilian use.

In no other nation in the world would so much valuable material be allowed to go to waste in peace-time to say nothing of a situation like the piesent emergency when its utilization can be made to play such an important part in the war effort.

Ernie Pieper In War Work

Ernie Pieper, former State amateur golf champion, who was associated with the Cheim Lumber Co., San Jose, for some years, is now with the Joshua Hendy Iron Works, Sunnyvale, Calif.

Times Do Ghange

Pictured cbove cre six 77'trusses, with TECO Timber Connectors ct cll ioints, labricated ct cr central fcbriccting plcnt cnd hauled by truck to the iob sitethree miles distcntrecdy for erection.

For litercrture or consulting sewices oa TECO Tirnber Connectors get in toucb with