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The men working at the end of the boom would sort the logs according to their corresponding brand and float them into the correct holding pond along the bank of the river. During the height of the lumber industry in Lycoming County, 1861–1891, the various mills produced 5,500,000,000 board feet (13,000,000 m 3) of lumber. Williamsport became ...
A lumber yard sorting table in Falls City, Oregon Frank A. Jagger loads his boat full of lumber at the Albany Lumber District in Albany, New York in the 1870s. A lumber yard is a location where lumber and wood-related products used in construction and/or home improvement projects are processed or stored.
A history of the lumber industry in the state of New York (US Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Forestry, 1902) online; Fries, R. J. Empire in Pine. The Story of Lumbering in Wisconsin, 1830-1900 (1951); Irland, Lloyd C. "Maine Lumber Production, 1839-1997: A Statistical Overview." Maine History 38.1 (1998): 36–49. online
Lumberjacks in front of logging camp building. A logging camp (or lumber camp) is a transitory work site used in the logging industry.Before the second half of the 20th century, these camps were the primary place where lumberjacks would live and work to fell trees in a particular area.
The development and completion of that specific log boom in 1851 made Williamsport the "Lumber Capital of the World". [1] As the logs proceeded downstream, they encountered these booms in a manner that allowed log drivers to control their progress, eventually guiding them to the river mouth or sawmills. Most importantly, the booms could be ...
In the narrow sense of the terms, wood, forest, forestry and timber/lumber industry appear to point to different sectors, in the industrialized, internationalized world, there is a tendency toward huge integrated businesses that cover the complete spectrum from silviculture and forestry in private primary or secondary forests or plantations via the logging process up to wood processing and ...
In 1891, the capital stock was increased to $500,000. The Long-Bell Lumber Company was vertically integrated from the forest to the lumber yard and became the world's largest lumber company in the early 20th century.
The Babcock Lumber Company was founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1887 and conducted logging operations in the eastern United States. In 1951 the company diversified into building material distribution. Today the company has two main divisions: hardwood lumber manufacturing and wholesale building material distribution.