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A house for sale by its owner. For sale by owner (FSBO) is the process of selling real estate without the representation of a broker or agent. This is where the homeowner sells directly to a new homeowner. Homeowners may still employ the services of marketing, online listing companies, but can also market their own property.
David Joyce came to Lyons, Iowa in 1861 and leased the Stumbaugh mill, purchasing his log stock in the raft and disposing of his lumber in a retail yard. In 1869 he went into partnership with S.I. Smith, and "Joyce & Smith" erected a sawmill on Ringwood slough, with a capacity of 50,000 board feet (100 m 3 ) of lumber and twenty-five thousand ...
The National Hardwood Lumber Association (NHLA) was founded on April 8, 1898 in Chicago, Illinois to establish uniformity of inspecting hardwood lumber.The NHLA is now a membership-based trade association that serves two main purposes: to stimulate economic activity and to provide a vehicle for the members to collectively strive for mutual benefit.
In the narrow sense of the terms, wood, forest, forestry and timber/lumber industry appear to point to different sectors, in the industrialized, internationalized world, there is a tendency toward huge integrated businesses that cover the complete spectrum from silviculture and forestry in private primary or secondary forests or plantations via the logging process up to wood processing and ...
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
The Weyerhaeuser Company (/ ˈ w ɛər h aʊ z ə r / WAIR-how-zər) is an American timberland company which owns nearly 12,400,000 acres (19,400 sq mi; 50,000 km 2) of timberlands in the U.S., and manages an additional 14,000,000 acres (22,000 sq mi; 57,000 km 2) of timberlands under long-term licenses in Canada. [4]
Musser Lumber Company was a US lumber company, and one of Iowa's pioneer lumber concerns. In its day, it was one of the most complete and modern lumber mills on the Mississippi River, employing about 400 men during the working season, and between 200 and 300 men in the logging end of the business. [1]
Gordon–Van Tine was incorporated as a subsidiary of the U.N. Roberts lumber company in 1907. Originally, they were located in several buildings in the 300 block of Harrison Street. [ 2 ] They began by selling construction materials to builders, but by 1910 they offered house plans and became one of the first companies in the United States to ...