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Wood slabs can also become warped as a result of insufficient support from underlying shelf hardware (commonly referred to as sagging or bowing). [2] The types of wood warping include: bow: a warp along the length of the face of the wood; crook: a warp along the length of the edge of the wood; kink: a localized crook, often due to a knot
Duties on lumber from Canada had already risen to 14.4% this summer after the expiration of a U.S.-Canada agreement on softwood lumber. And a review of anti-dumping could further double the duties ...
Mexican ironwood carving is a Mexican tradition of carving the wood of the Olneya tesota tree, a Sonora Desert tree commonly called ironwood (palo fierro in Spanish). Olneya tesota is a slow growing important shade tree in northwest Mexico and the southwest U.S. The wood it produces is very dense and sinks in water.
A sash and door factory was added to the mill complex by 1909, [2] and the company was reorganized as the Hammond Lumber Company in 1912. [3] Hammond Lumber Company built an emergency shipyard during World War I, and seven wooden steam-ships were built at Samoa between 1917 and 1919.[14] The 1921-22 Belcher Atlas of Humboldt County breaks down ...
The Madera Sugar Pine Company was a United States lumber company that operated in the Sierra Nevada region of California during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The company distinguished itself through the use of innovative technologies, including the southern Sierra's first log flume and logging railroad, along with the early adoption of the Steam Donkey engine.
Los Angeles Case no. 343, Southern District of California: Rancho Los Féliz: 1802 José Vicente Féliz: Spain 01.5 (1 1 ⁄ 2 Spanish leagues) 350 Juan Diego 6,647.46 acres (2,690.13 ha) April 8, 1871: 426 Personal name; initial grantee Los Angeles Case no. 133, Southern District of California: Rancho Guaspita 1822 Antonio Ygnacio Ávila: Mexico
Rancho San Antonio is a 29,513-acre (119.43 km 2) Spanish land grant in present-day Los Angeles County, California that was granted to Antonio Maria Lugo. The rancho included in some part the present-day cities of Bell , Bell Gardens , Maywood , Vernon , Huntington Park , Walnut Park , Cudahy , South Gate , Lynwood , Montebello and Commerce .
Perry was born on October 7, 1832, in Newark, Ohio, the son of John and Ann Perry.He went to school and learned a cabinetmaker's trade in Newark. [2] At the age of twenty-one he made his way with William Welles Hollister and a party of some fifty men and five women, with a collection of cattle, sheep and horses, from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to Los Angeles by way of Salt Lake City and San Bernardino.