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They went south through the Sacramento Valley, bought oxen, and returned to Humboldt Bay by August 1852, where Carson, alone, went into the lumber business permanently. [5] In 1854, he shipped the first loads of redwood timber to San Francisco. Previously, only fir and spruce had been logged. [citation needed]
Lumber was the nation's largest industry in 1850, and second in 1860 behind textiles. As Frederick Starr emphasized in 1865, forests were integral to the four key necessities for prosperity: "cheap bread, cheap houses, cheap fuel, and cheap transportation for passengers and freights."
The 1880s Southern California real estate boom, also the boom of the eighties, sometimes just called the 1887 real estate boom, was the first big settlement push into Los Angeles County (including what is now Orange County), San Diego County (including what is now Imperial County), San Bernardino County (including what is now Riverside County ...
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The retired NBA legend's sprawling Highland Park estate has been on the market on and off since 2012 Reuters 1 month ago Realtors group forecasts US 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaging 6% in 2025
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.
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