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The Long-Bell Lumber Company branched out using balanced vertical integration to control all aspects of lumber from the sawmills to the retail lumber yard. As the company expanded it moved further south and eventually had holdings in Arkansas , Oklahoma Indian Territory , East Texas and Louisiana , before heading west to Washington .
The manor homes and city seats were designed by prominent architects of the day and decorated with antiquities, furniture, and works of art from the world over. Many of the wealthy had undertaken grand tours of Europe, during which they admired the estates of the nobility. Seeing themselves as their American equivalent, they wished to emulate ...
For tax purposes, his fortune was conservatively estimated at $72 million (equivalent to $2.44 billion in 2025 [31]), which he willed in its entirety to his family. [ 7 ] At the time of his death, Gould was a benefactor in the reconstruction of the Reformed Church of Roxbury, New York , now known as the Jay Gould Memorial Reformed Church. [ 32 ]
In 1949, Dantzler Lumber Company ended all company-owned logging and mill operations, entered the business of tree farming, and began selling their timber on a selective basis so as to yield a variety of wood products: poles, pilings, sawlogs, and pulpwood. [1]
Gray-Wood Buildings, also known as the Inglish, Kay & Cartwright Office Building and White Residence & Gallery, are four contiguous two-story commercial buildings located at California, Moniteau County, Missouri. They were built in 1869, and consist of a complex of four storefronts, constructed of brick with a stone foundation and a flat roof.
Glulam brace with plates used for connections Glulam frame of a roof structure. Glued laminated timber, commonly referred to as glulam, is a type of structural engineered wood product constituted by layers of dimensional lumber bonded together with durable, moisture-resistant structural adhesives so that all of the grain runs parallel to the longitudinal axis.
Former California Governor Ronald Reagan speaks to Republicans gathered for a $100-a-plate champagne brunch GOP fundraiser at The Manor in West Orange, N.J., on April 27, 1975.
In 1912 RRLC signed an agreement with the Southern Pacific Railroad giving them the right to build a line (the Fernley and Lassen Railway) and exclusive right to haul lumber. [4] RRLC may have owned 900,000 acres (3,642 km 2) of timberland in California, [3] or about 1% of the area of the state, by the time Walker retired c. 1912.