Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-12

~, been built at the normal rate in the
1Sl last two years and that only $4,000
actually built. leaving a short
age that is estimated at fully 100000 homes.
That from 100000 TO $4,000 homes must be now
built yearly to make up the shortage and to get
back to the normal rate.
That 100000 feet of lumber board measure
will have to be cut yearly, instead of 100000
feet which is the normal rate.
That increase in the lumber output of TO-
100000 feet year will certainly make the lum-
berjack hustle
The experts do not agree to figures in all
cases. But It is evident that the shortage in
homes is very large At the recent real estate
convention in Atlantic City inadequate housing
facilities were reported from all parts of the
country and the shortage in homes was put at
100000
Again. it should be remembered that the or
binary demands Of manufacturers for lumber are
HlsO 20 be met.
That the demand of devastated Europe for
lumber will undoubtedly stimulate export from
this country.
While all the lumberjacks of the country will
have to hustle, it looks if the biggest activity
viii be demanded from the lumberiacks of the
Pacific coast, where most of the lumber comes
from nowadays.
The pictures show scenes in Idaho and Wash
ingtOn The mountain lumber camp is 1000 feet
up in northern Idaho and there is still snow on
She ground in June. The trainoad of logs is on
narrow-gar road in the idaho pine forests
near FcrnwOOd. The three magnificent yellow
pines are in a logging region near Spokane Eel
low pine Is. the principal source of lumber in
eastern Washington. The normal production of
yellow pine is about 160OO,OOOOO0 feet (board
measure) a year. It is figured that this output
will have to be increased to about 200OO.OO0O00
feet. Some of the white pine trees near Spokane
6Vpf feet in and foo oh
largest white pine belt left in the United States
Is in northern Idaho. Some of the largest and
heSt-edupped sawmills in the country are in this
Washlugton-Idaho district.
This housing problem is a big one-so big that
II may lead to action by the federal government
The department of labor. in announcing In jan
uary that 100000 new dwelling houses were need
ed, had this to say:
1.-TWO billion dollars available for loans to
home builders would go far in providing the
necessary capital for the building of these dwell
fngs. Securities of value approximating $1,000
100000 held by the Constituent organizations
in the United States League of Building and Loan
Associations. Labor conditions. manufa curing
and social needs clearly indicate the desirabiity
of an immediate acceleratiOn of building actvi-
ties throughout the country.
"By making available capital necessary to
building. tentative plan may materalfze in a
national system of home loan banks The plan
contemplateS the creation of bank In each fed
eral reserve district, similar to the land banks
created under the federal farm loan act with
which local building and loan association could
deposit collateral, receiving in exchange home
loan bonds"
The announcement has been made in Washing
ton by Louis X. Sherman president of the United
States Housing corporation that the land in vari-
cities which to have been utilized by the
government in its war emergency building pro-
h., sold
ton of private houses. The conditions governing
the sale OF such property are that there is a real
demand for houses In the community and that the
construction of homes viii be started Immediately
following the sale. The lots are to be sold pub
lcly. Complete sets of plans. prepared by arch
itects for the housing corporation Will be fur
nished with the various lots.
Grosvenor Attelbury has some interesting
things to say on this problem. He Is known as
an architect of International reputation He Is
member of the board of directors of the Ma
tiOnal Housing association. chairman of the war
time housing committee, member of the National
City Planning institute. member Of the French
Council of Architects and Engineers on the prob
lem Of reconstruction in the devastated regions
and a member of the New York tenement house
commission For Is years. under various appro-
priatiOns, beginning with the Henry Phipps en-
terpriseS and then with the Russell Sage founda-
.rion he has spent large part of his time in re-
search work and experiments In the possibilities
Of quantity production of the small house suit
able FOR workingren. These practical studieS
and demonstrations have involved the expend,-
ture of two or three hundred thousand dollars
He says among other things:
we Will make no substantial progress toward
the solution of the Industrial housing problem,
until we apply TO the production Of the small