The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-11
Factory Production
 And Zts Relation 60
 Ihe HOusing Problem
Architect Tappan Delivers Interesting Address at Open ing of Last Days Session of National Conference

ute and job to job. Behind these expert field craftsmen are thousands of others who also shift and vary their work to meet the demands of the home builder. My object this morning is to try to tell you how some of this vast machinery can be imphfied.
 stWood is basic building mater ial- In one form or another it en- ters every home. It is living, a growing @raw product, that requires only intelligent cultivation to con stantly replenish the earth's timber reserves. Lumber production is mo- toriously wasteful, and it's use. after production, is even more so. could give you endless illustrations to prove these facts, but do not need them. 'I wanted to interest some big lum-
 Der producer in manufacturing | wooden houses for me right where the trees grew. believed that many economics could be made in the pro- duction of lumber, scientifically I standardized to fulfill certain clearly defined purposes. It would exhaust your patience if I attempted to lead
 you again over all the trails that I
 have traversed in pursuing this idea. | Enough to say that the almost end- 1 less ramifcations of what seemed at
 first a simple enough plan have kept
 me hiking along many paths. some
 of them quite untrodden before. I j was tenderfoot, looking for infor- 1 mation and I got it-good.
 i t"The largest and finest growth of
 timber in the world is found on the i Pacific Coast. There, a single species, 1 known as Douglas Fir, composes more
 than 25 per cent. of the entire stand
 ing timber supply of the United l States, including both soft woods and | hard woods. Other varieties
 Western red cedar, Sitka spruce and Western hemlock. The timber stands | of Washington and Oregon is suffi-
 cient to guarantee permanent i source of supply of material that will
 serve any use for which wood is l adapted. The winter climate in this
 vast timber belt is very mild, en- abling the lumber camps and mills to
 operate continuously: Practically ali | long transportation is by water and l many of the mills are located on tide
 water. The conditions make possi- | ble the production of lumber at | minimum operating cost.
 l Lumber is produced on the Pacific l Coast by rapid fire methods. The
 most modern machinery is employed, | labor is skillfuI, wages are high. and l an eight hour day is the rule. There l is no cheaper lumber in the whole
 world than can be obtained today at l Portland or Sea attle.
 The Western lumberman has two | pressing problems. One is. how to I reduce waste and convert his products and by-products into more valuable
 material. The second is, how to meet 1 the competition of the other produc-
 CTS near the great buying centers. | Lumber, such as is used in ordi-
 nary house building, is standardized 1 by trade custom into certain definite
 sizes shapes lengths and grades. The | logs are carefully sorted and cut to
 meet current demands. An average
 days run produces 10 per cent. ot
 wa ,te and IS to 29 per cent. of low
 grade stock too hort to fit the reg
 u1ar standards. Lumbermen conser-
 vatively estimate that 10 per cent. of | the log, in the form of slabs and trin.-
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