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The concern also owned and operated a large and modern lumber mill at Pittsburg, California, and owned a portion of the Mendocino Lumber Company, acquired during Krebs-Wilkins' administration. [ 4 ] The railroad was incorporated as the Caspar, South Fork and Eastern in 1903 with authorization to build to a connection with the Northwestern ...
Carson & Colorado would become part of the Southern Pacific in 1900, and narrow gauge would be operated as the Keeler Branch by the company until being fully abandoned in 1960. [ 36 ] California's independent 3 ft ( 914 mm ) lines included the Pacific Coast Railway serving the Santa Maria Valley, the North Pacific Coast Railroad and South ...
The Calcasieu Lumber Company began operating in 1884 [7] and became the Bradley-Ramsey Lumber Company in 1886. On March 16, 1906, Long-Bell Lumber Company purchased the Bradley-Ramsey Lumber Company, that included two sawmills, 105,000 acres of timberlands, the Lake Charles and Leesville Railroad, and the Lake Charles Chemical Company.
A 1975 New York Times profile traced the company's origins to a lumber business started in Newark in 1922 by two Russian Jewish Americans, Abraham Levy and Morris Charin (1887–1963). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A 1990 article in the same publication, and other company releases, however, have put the founding date at 1908. [ 3 ]
H.K. Porter: 0-4-0 ST: Sold to the Sierra and San Francisco Power Company's Schoettgen Pass railroad [9] Star: H.K. Porter: 0-4-0 ST: ex-Ferries and Cliff House Railroad, San Francisco: 1 Heisler: Two Truck 1899 1028 Sold to the Swayne Lumber Company; scrapped 1940 2 Heisler Two Truck 1899 1040 Placed in West Side Memorial Park, Tuolumne, Ca ...
Built as Hammond Lumber Company #5 for service in Mill City, Oregon; moved to Samoa and renumbered in 1931; sold to Crown Willamette in 1937 [7] 15 Baldwin Locomotive Works: 2-8-2: 1916 originally Humbird Lumber Company #4 of Sandpoint, Idaho; became Hammond Lumber Company #15 in 1941; put on display in Eureka, California's Sequoia Park in 1960 ...
Aagaard Lumber Company operated here from as early as 1919. [7] It processed around 60,000 board ft. daily [8] and may have expanded with more mills. It operated until around 1922 when it was acquired by Big Creek Logging Company a subsidiary of Crossett-Western Lumber Co, which then formed the Gales Creek Logging Company. [6]
In 1900, the Long-Bell Lumber Company organized the King-Ryder Lumber Company at Bon Ami, Louisiana. By 1904 the mill was producing 300,000 board feet of lumber daily which made it the largest in the area at the time. In 1903, Long-Bell organized the Hudson River Lumber Company in DeRidder and built a sprawling mill across the tracks from ...