Lumber Industry Papers

In the 1800s the lumber industry was very big thing. A man named Frederick Weyerhaeuser and one of his business partners started investing money in the lumber industry. He started by buying up a lot of timberland in Wisconsin to harvest. Once all of the white pine in Wisconsin was gone, he moved his business to Minnesota, and the industry boomed!

Texas lumber was mainly in East Texas, which supplied up to five percent of the national market in 1907. A good amount of the sawmills were along the Gulf of Mexico and up the coast line but some were also inland as well. When lumber industries started in the early 1800’s most of the mills would cut in between seven hundred and fifty to fifteen hundred board a feet a day. Either by a blade powered by animals, water or eventually steam. Working in the lumber industries there were long hours and low paying with a high rate of accidents that possible could happen. In the early 1900’s the lumber industry grew rapidly. By the end of the 1920’s when the war ended and the great depression happened the lumber industries declined rapidly.

Until the late nineteenth century, the United States was still an agrarian community. As factories sprouted to process the products obtained from agriculture and to manufacture farm equipment, there rose

Back in the late 1800’s many things happened with the lumber industry. At one point there was more than four hundred lumber companies.

The town also became the end of a railroad line because of the lumber companies. Prostitution prospered with as many as fifty whorehouses in the downtown area. Prostitution was around until the late fifties when the police finally ended it. (Azerrad 12) The "lumber boom" slacked off a few years ago as "the economy fell and available lands were depleted." Now people are worried that the Northwestern logging industry will not be able to recover and Aberdeen "is marked for a slow ugly death." (Gilmore 44)

Two-year decrease of liquidity measures including current ratio and quick ratio reveals the problems concerning company’s short-term solvency and liquidity. Butler Lumber Company’s current ratio decreased to 145.05% in 1990 from the level of 180.00% in 1988. The same decrease happened to quick ratio (decreased from 88.08% in 1988 to 66.92% in 1990). As the short-term lender, Northrop National Bank should have noticed that Butler Lumber Company’s ability to pay its bills over the short run without undue press needs to be carefully examined. The decrease of current ratio also implies the decreasing level of company’s net working capital, which is another sign of lower level of liquidity.

Iron ore mining was very successful in the late 1800s, and it is still going today.

2.During the years 1860-1890, Michigan's commercial development was dominated by the sawing, harvesting, milling and marketing of timber. Michigan politicians (under the influence of the state's Lumber Barons) fought hard to stop a bill that would have allowed Canadian lumber to enter the U.S. duty free. The lumber was desperately needed to rebuild a major American city after what terrible disaster?

Lorman Lumber is a publicly traded company with widely held shares. Its Yamica location in rural Oregon is one of the company’s largest. The purpose of the plant is to process and treat wood, which it does through a number of facilities. The Sawmill began producing lumber products in 1947, which it does by peeling, milling, and chipping raw wood. Lorman has a known record of producing good profits, and will often pay out generous performance-based bonuses to executives. Although the Yamica plant is somewhat outdated, it is still considered to be efficient and profitable. Starting in 1968, the company began using new methods to condition and pressure-treat wood products through the

In such a unique nation where the average person is family oriented and running a family owned farm and/or business their was bound to be room for change. In 1793 Samuel Slater, a born European created the first cotton spinning factory in Pawtuckett. This is said to be one of the many things that sparked Industrial Development in America. This project alone sparked the need for more cotton to be produced at a faster rate which brought upon the creation of the cotton gin. New growth in any field brings more than what meets the eye. The cotton gin producing more cotton made it neccassary for a new form aof transport to be developed. Shortly after the country started to adapt textile mills started to pop up

In the 19th century, America saw major expansions and technological advances that paved way for the grand expansion of agriculture that boosted the nation’s economy. Regardless of the fact that Great Britain had tried to keep secrets regarding machinery and inventions, most of America’s advances were propelled by inventions such as the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1793, steel plow by John Deere, railway, steamboats, telegraph, and canals. In addition, technology’s profound effect on agriculture also led to the rise of the textile industry whereby factories produced materials such as cotton thread and cloth. Many of these initial factories are recognized in historical texts, but the Lowell factory system is one that is famous – precisely the

The Washington state journey book talks about a leading lumber industry in 1905 in Washington state. The lumber industry in the Washington State was the leading lumber industry. The lumber industry were helped by the Northern Pacific railroad. There were water ways to power and transport timber or logs from place to place. This is the story of the 1905 leading lumber industry in Washington state.

The mining industry was especially popular because it supplied coal, which heated the buildings. The railroads created a faster way for the tools to reach the mines and for coal to reach the people, which means the miners could work faster. Timber was valuable to the mining industry because after the tracks were built, large amounts of coal were needed because coal made the train engines run. Timber was also needed to support the walls of the mines, and hardwood timber made tools such as the long tom and the sluice box. The logging industry helped the mining industry grow tremendously because it made the mines safer and was able to speed up the

The gins later became horse-drawn and water-powered gins and cotton production increased, along with lowered costs. Cotton soon became the number one selling textile.

The work was difficult. Autumn rains and snows came early that year in 1847, many got sick and delayed the project of the sawmill. It seemed as if the project would never get finished. Despite the setbacks Marshall kept on working. He knew it would only work if the water was flowing the correct way.