Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Great Southern Group, Weyerhaeuser, Pacific Lumber Company, Gunns, Georgia-Pacific, Willamette Industries, Ozan Lumber Company, the Collins Companies, Cmkc Group, Simpson Investment Company, Meadow River Lumber Company, Rayonier, Juken Nissho, Sino-Forest Corporation, Crane Creek Lumber Company, Columbia Forest Products, Rimbunan Hijau, Mendocino Redwood Company, Tolko, Forest Products Association of Canada, Diamond Match Company, Potlatch Corp., Eddy Match Company, Atlantic Coast Lumber Company, Great Southern Lumber Company, China Grand Forestry Green Resources Group, Border Timbers, Wier Longleaf Lumber Company, Babcock Lumber Company, Roseburg Forest Products, Embrun Forestry Corporation, Embrun Lumber Company, Bluelinx Holdings. Excerpt: The company was formed in 1899 when the potential value of the vast amounts of standing timber in the Pee Dee River watershed was discovered by a group of Northern lumbermen. Options were taken by the company on this timber and that of surrounding counties. A large sawmill was built west of the city of Georgetown and production began. In 1903, the company was incorporated with a capital of one million dollars.The mill was expanded through the years, and included three separate sawmills, two shipping wharves, several warehouses, and numerous other buildings, including workers' houses, stores, a hotel, a church, etc. The company owned all of these buildings, making the area immediately surrounding the mill a veritable "company town ", (see photo below). In 1913, a disastrous fire destroyed two of the sawmills. A new steel and concrete mill was erected within ten months. At peak production, the company could produce 600,000 board feet (1,400 m³) of lumber per day and was properly proclaimed "the largest lumber manufacturing plant on the Atlan...
Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Great Southern Group, Weyerhaeuser, Pacific Lumber Company, Gunns, Georgia-Pacific, Willamette Industries, Ozan Lumber Company, the Collins Companies, Cmkc Group, Simpson Investment Company, Meadow River Lumber Company, Rayonier, Juken Nissho, Sino-Forest Corporation, Crane Creek Lumber Company, Columbia Forest Products, Rimbunan Hijau, Mendocino Redwood Company, Tolko, Forest Products Association of Canada, Diamond Match Company, Potlatch Corp., Eddy Match Company, Atlantic Coast Lumber Company, Great Southern Lumber Company, China Grand Forestry Green Resources Group, Border Timbers, Wier Longleaf Lumber Company, Babcock Lumber Company, Roseburg Forest Products, Embrun Forestry Corporation, Embrun Lumber Company, Bluelinx Holdings. Excerpt: The company was formed in 1899 when the potential value of the vast amounts of standing timber in the Pee Dee River watershed was discovered by a group of Northern lumbermen. Options were taken by the company on this timber and that of surrounding counties. A large sawmill was built west of the city of Georgetown and production began. In 1903, the company was incorporated with a capital of one million dollars.The mill was expanded through the years, and included three separate sawmills, two shipping wharves, several warehouses, and numerous other buildings, including workers' houses, stores, a hotel, a church, etc. The company owned all of these buildings, making the area immediately surrounding the mill a veritable "company town ", (see photo below). In 1913, a disastrous fire destroyed two of the sawmills. A new steel and concrete mill was erected within ten months. At peak production, the company could produce 600,000 board feet (1,400 m³) of lumber per day and was properly proclaimed "the largest lumber manufacturing plant on the Atlan...
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781618913111 |
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| Publisher: | Bellwether Media |
| Publication date: | 01/01/2018 |
| Series: | Incredible Sports Records Series |
| Pages: | 32 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.50(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |
| Age Range: | 9 - 10 Years |