Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-23 | Page 6 | Getting out "Knees" for Ships New Job

GETTING OUT OUT FOR SHIPS NE JOB BELLINGHAM Wash May 2 The war created a new industry in 10 Whatcom county that county that of getting out knees for ships In each of the vessels yeS ves sels being built at the tho Pacific American Amer Amerlean lean ican Fisheries shipyard about knees are required The knees must pass government specifications and must not he be less hess than eight Inches in thickness Only one knee Is produced by one tree a athe the root must grow so that it can be cut to a right angle In most cases the earth about the stump is lug dug away and the weight of the trees in falling fall falling ing pulls out the roots The root used in helping to win the tho war is cut cutoff cutoff off and hewed down with broadaxes a i somewhat slow undertaking to the toughness othe specimen All the knees are taken from second growth fir trees which are from eighteen to twenty inches in diameter