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Edward Steves (1829–90) was a San Antonio city alderman who had relocated to Texas from his native Germany. He and his wife Johanna maintained a family home on rural acreage in Kendall County. He ran the successful Steves Lumber Company [11] in San Antonio from 1866 to 1877. Steves was a civic leader in the San Antonio business community ...
Native ash species, including white ash (pictured), have been declining rapidly this century due to predation by the emerald ash borer. [1]Silvics of North America (1991), [2] [3] a forest inventory compiled and published by the United States Forest Service, includes many hardwood trees.
Lignum vitae is hard and durable, and is also the densest wood traded (average dried density: ~79 lb/ft 3 or ~1,260 kg/m 3); [4] it will easily sink in water. On the Janka scale of hardness, which measures hardness of woods, lignum vitae ranks highest of the trade woods, with a Janka hardness of 4,390 lbf (compared with Olneya at 3,260 lbf, [5] African blackwood at 2,940 lbf, hickory at 1,820 ...
The value of lumber products exceeded US$1.75 million annually (US$59.3 million in today's terms). [1] In Central Texas the forest lands became depleted much faster than in the East. Over the course of the mid-19th century oak lumber was becoming so scarce in many areas that masonry rapidly began to replace wood construction in many communities ...
The National Hardwood Lumber Association (NHLA) was founded on April 8, 1898 in Chicago, Illinois to establish uniformity of inspecting hardwood lumber.The NHLA is now a membership-based trade association that serves two main purposes: to stimulate economic activity and to provide a vehicle for the members to collectively strive for mutual benefit.