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In 1927, Bond-Wold Lumber Company bought the shay. The unit was then sold to the Little River Lumber Company in 1932. Put up for sale in 1939 after the closure of the Little River Railroad. On July 31, 1940, the shay was sold to John J. Craig Company of Friendsville, Tennessee. In July 1960, the engine went to the Conasauga Lumber Company.
A dredge was built to maintain a channel and, coupled with the railway and the river system, the lumber business flourished. Mills sprang up almost overnight. Mills sprang up almost overnight. The Atlantic Coast Lumber Company was the largest in the world with its 5,000,000 board foot (12,000 m³) dock and shed.
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."
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This last-named company had been chartered July 2, 1904, to acquire at a receiver's sale the railroad, sawmill and planing-mill property of the Gay Lumber Company, the original builder. The railroad had been opened to commercial business about 1900-1901, under the business name of the Kinston and Carolina Railroad, by the Gay Lumber Company.
Hines Supply (originally the Edward Hines Lumber Company), based in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, in the United States, is a company which manufactures lumber, plywood and other wood products. [1] It also sells related services such as consultations and cost estimates for building projects.