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In 1983, Payless Cashways purchased the Sacramento, California–based Lumberjack Stores Inc for $26.3 million (~$67.6 million in 2023). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In the following year, Payless Cashways purchased the Somerville, Massachusetts –based Somerville Lumber & Supply Company for $12 million in stock.
Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) is the second-largest lumber producer in the United States. [1] A privately held company, it was co-founded in 1949 by R. H. Emmerson and his son, A. A. "Red" Emmerson, the long-term CEO, and A. A. Emmerson's sons George and Mark are now president and CEO.
The county seat and only incorporated city is Susanville. [5] Lassen County comprises the Susanville, California, micropolitan statistical area. A former farming, mining, and lumber area, its economy now depends on employment at one federal and two state prisons; the former in Herlong and the latter two in Susanville. In 2007, half the adults ...
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The booming U.S. stock market will help keep the dollar expensive as global investors pour money into America, a foreign exchange strategist said. But the politics of any trade deals that the ...
In a new report on the massacre, the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said at least 134 men and 73 women, most of them elderly residents accused of witchcraft, were killed in ...
Westwood was built by T. B. Walker to be the operations center for the Red River Lumber Company in 1913, [3] [6] [7] and serviced by the Fernley and Lassen Railway built in 1912–14. The first post office opened in 1913. [3] The Red River Lumber Company is credited as being "the world's largest electrical sawmill of the times."
Susanville (formerly known as Rooptown) (Northeast Maidu: Pam Sewim K'odom, bush creek country) [5] is a city in and is the county seat of Lassen County, California, United States. [4] Susanville is located on the Susan River in the southern part of the county, [ 6 ] at an elevation of 4,186 feet (1,276 m). [ 4 ]