Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1918 — Beams Made of Redwood. [ARTICLE]

Beams Made of Redwood.

Wood is now rapidly supplanting steel beams in industrial plant construction, as may be seen in a large paper pulp mill which is now being 'erected. What are known a? laminated, wooden trusses are being put in by Chicago construction company havIngjthe contract for the mill. The largehk trusses use 4 are 96 feet long, there, six off these, and the material is a There are 21 50foot trusses and seven 64-foot trusses. Twenty thousand feet of the material is redwood and the remainder southern pine. The redwood is u?ed in the part of the cut work that is directly above the big vats |n the mill, this wood being considered more adaptable to stand the action of the steam from the vats.