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Henry Clay Frick (December 19, 1849 – December 2, 1919) was an American industrialist, financier, and art patron.He founded the H. C. Frick & Company coke manufacturing company, was chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company and played a major role in the formation of the giant U.S. Steel manufacturing concern.
A sawmill (saw mill, saw-mill) or lumber mill is a facility where logs are cut into lumber. Modern sawmills use a motorized saw to cut logs lengthwise to make long pieces, and crosswise to length depending on standard or custom sizes (dimensional lumber). The "portable" sawmill is simple to operate. The log lies flat on a steel bed, and the ...
The Morewood strike began on February 10, 1891, when miners in the region, supported by the UMWA, stopped work in protest of pay and working conditions. Tensions rose as workers and their families were evicted from company-owned housing, and Frick, known for his tough stance against unions, resisted their demands.
In response, owners and operators of sawmills in the southern pine region threaten to cut wages by 20% and increase working hours. The poor working and living conditions on top of the unannounced pay cuts angered the sawmill workers, organized a large strike in response. The managers pulled back their threat after the full-scale strike.
The Great Southern Lumber Company sawmill was designed to process 1,000,000 board feet (2,400 m 3) of lumber per day and was the largest sawmill in the world, [4] spread over 160 acres (65 ha). [7] Once pines were felled, logs were dragged to railroad spurs by rail-mounted steam skidders with 1000-ft (300-m) draglines, loaded onto flatcars ...
North Carolina has lost almost half of its local sawmills in the last two decades.
The Sawkill mill was a sawmill and slave quarters established by the Dutch West India Company in 1626, as part of the construction of New Netherland, a colonial province in North America. The mill was located at the mouth of the Sawkill , a stream that originated in what is now Central Park in New York City , and flowed into the East River .
When it began sawmill operations, Brooks-Scanlon owned 250,000 acres (1,000 km 2) of timberland south and east of Bend, while Shevlin-Hixon owned 215,000 acres (870 km 2) including parcels along 70 miles (110 km) on both sides of the Deschutes River. Within a year of opening, the Brooks-Scanlon and Shevlin-Hixon sawmills were the two largest ...