Building & engineering news . reased 9 cents a ton in 1915 fromthat ot 1914. There were 77 activemines or quarries and 69 plants. ? THE EGYPTIAN SAW. .ne saw appears to be the earliesttool that has been traced in Egyptianhistory. It was found first in the formof a notched bronze knife in the thirddynasty, or about 5,000 years beforethe Christian era, and was followed inthe fourth and fifth dynasties by largertoothed saws, which were used by car-penters, but there are no dated speci-mens until the seventh century before |the Christian era, when the Assyrians :used iron saws. The first knives on
Building & engineering news . reased 9 cents a ton in 1915 fromthat ot 1914. There were 77 activemines or quarries and 69 plants. ? THE EGYPTIAN SAW. .ne saw appears to be the earliesttool that has been traced in Egyptianhistory. It was found first in the formof a notched bronze knife in the thirddynasty, or about 5,000 years beforethe Christian era, and was followed inthe fourth and fifth dynasties by largertoothed saws, which were used by car-penters, but there are no dated speci-mens until the seventh century before |the Christian era, when the Assyrians :used iron saws. The first knives on]ec<ird were made out ot flint and jwere, in fact, saws with minute teeth. ? Benicia Investment Company is per-mitted by the State Corporation De-partment to sell 500 shares at par, $10?per share, net to the company, the to be used for the construction Iof a cluli building. • j ?9t6[ 8C sunr .^BpsoupoAV BUILDLNG AND E3NGINBERING NKWS Yosemite MEANS THE BEST IN AMERICA Desmond MEANS THE BEST IN YOSEMITE. Type of Canvas Cottages Used in Desmond El Capitan Camp Sentinel Hotel, $4 - $5 a Day. Yosemite Falls Camp, the Bungalow Camp de Luxe. $ $ a Capitan Camp, Colored Canvas Cottages. $ a Day--$l5jOO a week. All Rates American Plan Fulp Camping Equipment lor Rent and Supplies lor Saleat Rates Which will Reduce Cost of Your Vacation to; a Dollar a Day Ticket Office 656 Market Street TELEPHONE SUTTER 4981 BUILDING AND ENGINEERING NEWS Wednesday. June 21, 1916. LUMBER INDtlSTRY. WASHINGTON, D. C—Pleading forgovernmental assistance in placing thelumber industry, the second in im-portance in the nation, in a state of in-dustrial preparedness, and of achievingthat high plane of efficient operationfor which every American industry isstriving, L. C. Boyle of Kansas City,has filed with the federal trade com-mission the first volume of his brief inthe first important general investiga-tion by this commission. This commission has spent monthsstudyi
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