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  2. History of the lumber industry in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Lumber prices. Presently there is a healthy lumber economy in the United States, directly employing about 500,000 people in three industries: Logging, Sawmill, and Panel. [62] Annual production in the U.S. is more than 30 billion board feet making the U.S. the largest producer and consumer of lumber. [62]

  3. Edward Hines Lumber Company - Wikipedia

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    www.hinessupply.com. Edward Hines (1863–1931) circa 1901. Hines Supply (originally the Edward Hines Lumber Company), based in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, in the United States, is a company which manufactures lumber, plywood and other wood products. [1] It also sells related services such as consultations and cost estimates for building projects.

  4. Menards - Wikipedia

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    Menards sold the Menard Building Division in 1994, racking up 36 years in the pole building industry. Menards was founded as Menard Cashway Lumber. In the mid-1980s, the "Cashway Lumber" name was dropped and the business became simply known to this day as Menards. In 2000, the company opened its 150th store.

  5. Wickes Companies - Wikipedia

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    Brothers Henry Dunn Wickes and Edward Noyes Wickes moved to Flint, Michigan, from New York in 1854, becoming involved in the area's lumber industry.The brothers, along with partner H.W. Wood, later established Genesee Iron Works, a foundry and machine shop; after buying out Wood, the business was renamed Wickes Bros. Iron Works and moved to Saginaw, Michigan, to be closer to a source of pig iron.

  6. Long-Bell Lumber Company - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Sheaffer - Wikipedia

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    Sheaffer Pen Corporation (IPA: [ʃeɪfɜːr]) is an American manufacturing company of writing instruments, particularly luxury fountain pens. The company was founded by Walter A. Sheaffer in Fort Madison, Iowa , and incorporated in 1913 [ 4 ] to exploit his invention of a lever-filling fountain pen.

  8. Beaver Lumber - Wikipedia

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    Beaver Lumber, once Canada's leading supplier of lumber, building materials and related products and services, began in 1883 as the Banbury Bros. Lumber Company in Wolseley, Saskatchewan. [1] Banbury Bros. Lumber Company bought its local rival, Gibson Lumber , in 1904 and two years later joined with the Regina Lumber and Supply Co. , creating a ...

  9. Perry & Co. - Wikipedia

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    Perry & Co. produced a large variety of models for different purposes, most of them designed to produce fine lines (such as Nº 25 or 341, which is still easy to find in stores of Argentina). Other models were also popular by their names, like the "Queen Mary" [ 7 ] or the "Quill Pen" (Nº 230-231-232) [ 8 ] Perry & Co. also produced different ...