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Gross Income, Net Profits, Production, and price index in the Lumber Industry 1920 -1934 [57] Year Gross Income (In Millions Dollar) Net Profit (In Millions Dollar) Production (In Board feet) (In Millions) Wholesale Price Index (1926=100) 1920 3,312 N/A 35,000 N/A 1922 2,402 167 35,250 N/A 1924 2,835 132 39,500 99.3 1926 3,069 117 39,750 100.0 1928
The town of Dierks, Arkansas was named for Hans Dierks, the oldest of the four Dierks brothers associated with the company. [11] The city of Broken Bow, Oklahoma started as a private development by a subsidiary of the Choctaw Lumber Company. [12] The Dierks sawmill in town was one of the largest mills in the United States. [12]
The King-Ryder Lumber Company in Bon Ami, Louisiana, was the first Long-Bell venture in Louisiana; it also owned mills at Thomasville in Indian Territory, Winthrop, Arkansas, and Hudson, Arkansas just south of Ashdown, Arkansas.
The economy of Arkansas produced $176.24 billion of gross domestic product in 2023. [1] Six Fortune 500 companies are based in Arkansas, including the world's #1 corporation by revenue, Walmart. [8] Arkansas's per capita income for 2023 was $54,347, and the median household income was $55,432, which ranked 47th among U.S. states. [2] [9]
Stumpage is the price a private firm pays for the right to harvest timber from a given land base. It is paid to the current owner of the land. Historically, the price was determined on a basis of the number of trees harvested, or "per stump". Currently it is dictated by more standard measurements such as cubic metres, board feet, or tons. To ...
The Arkansas Timberlands (sometimes also called Southern Arkansas or Southwest Arkansas) is a region of the U.S. state of Arkansas generally encompassing the area south of the Ouachita Mountains, south of Central Arkansas and west of the Arkansas Delta.
More than 1,300 of the company’s suppliers are now based in Northwest Arkansas. Beyond a growing network of bike paths funded by the Walton family, Bentonville’s housing has also grown by 150%.
There is some controversy over the management of Plum Creek's timberland, mostly from environmental groups who decry the recent move from Plum Creek as a timber management company into a developer of its land, taking advantage of the much more profitable land values that have occurred for undeveloped land in the late 1990s until the crash in real estate prices.