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Francis Beidler was born in Chicago in 1854. [2] With partner Benjamin F. Ferguson, he was the co-founder and owner of the Santee River Cypress Lumber Company.Starting in 1881, the Santee Cypress Company purchased 165,000 acres (67,000 ha) of land in central South Carolina. [3]
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Lumber prices Presently there is a healthy lumber economy in the United States, directly employing about 500,000 people in three industries: Logging , Sawmill , and Panel . [ 62 ] Annual production in the U.S. is more than 30 billion board feet making the U.S. the largest producer and consumer of lumber. [ 62 ]
Lumber’s price drop has been particularly dramatic in just the last 90 days in the futures market, with contract prices for July falling 28% to $466 per thousand board feet (futures prices are ...
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In just one year, the price of lumber has increased a whopping 377%. A boom in home renovations, combined with an increase in disposable income stemming from the coronavirus pandemic, caused ...
The co-CEOs founded the Santee River Cypress Lumber Company in 1881 for the purpose of harvesting old-growth timber from blackwater river wetlands in central South Carolina. The firm, which controlled 165,000 acres (67,000 ha) of land, concentrated its efforts on bald cypress timber.
Benjamin Franklin Ferguson (died 1905) was an American lumber merchant and co-founder of the Santee River Cypress Lumber Company.The firm specialized in the harvesting of old-growth timber from the blackwater river bottomlands of central South Carolina, in and around the Santee River watershed.