Glory days

|. I O LOOK at the transportation

I I of luurber and building materials, such as wc've been doing in this issue, can be truly complete without a glance backward to the glory days when lum' ber was carried in great wooden sailing ships.

While no match in terms ol-cargo carried with present day barges that transport loads approaching six million board fcct, the gracelll sailing ships nonetheless left a legend of beauty and exciternent that remains fresh to this day.

Shown herc is the Hogan Lumber Co. wharf in Oakland, Ca. The year is 1908. Seen arc no lcss than five of the lunrber ships, apparentiy all unloading at once.

In those days. it was nothing tbr a dock crew to spend five days unloading, as all lumber below decks was put into thc hold onc piecc at a tinle , alnrost like a jigsaw puzzle, until it was full. Additional lurnber was strapped