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The range of prices is typically between US$18 to US$30 per (wet)-ton delivered. [43] In 2006, prices were US$15 and US$30 per wet-ton in the northeast. [44] In the 20 years leading up to 2008, prices have fluctuated between US$60–70/oven-dry metric ton (odmt) in the southern states, and between US$60/odmt and US$160/odmt in the Northwest. [45]
1942: Ponderosa pine logs from the Hines tract in the Malheur National Forest. Adjacent to Burns, Hines built a company town, incorporated as the City of Hines in 1930. Edward Hines and his wife, Loretta, designed the city around an oval park surrounded by houses with individual features meant to prevent mill-town housing monotony.
The Act of 1704 encouraged the import of naval stores form New England, offering £4 per ton of tar or pitch, £3 per ton of resin of turpentine, and £1 per ton of masts and bowsprits (40 cubic feet). The Act of 1705 forbade the cutting of unfenced or small pitch pine and tar trees with a diameter less than twelve inches.
The little locomotives that ran the rails of the Michigan-California Lumber Co. were mostly Shays, small steamers usually weighing around 65,000 pounds, but built to pull the heaviest loads. There were other types of locomotives used, but the Shay was the workhorse of the Michigan-California Lumber Company.
Pine logs were shipped from Oregon by train. The structure is built on a steel frame resting on a 2-yard (1.8 m) thick concrete foundation. [3] As completed in 1923, the 26,000-square-foot (2,400 m 2) lodge cost US$5 million (equivalent to $70 million in 2016). [3]
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The Sugar Pine Lumber Company was an early 20th century logging operation and railroad in the Sierra Nevada. Unable to secure water rights to build a log flume, the company operated the “crookedest railroad ever built." [2] They later developed the Minarets-type locomotive, the largest and most powerful saddle tank locomotive ever made.
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