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3 unusual facts about Finkbine-Guild Lumber Company


Finkbine-Guild Lumber Company

When the local timber supply dwindled, the company tried to utilize redwood trees from California, but that operation failed because of high transportation costs.

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As their timberlands were being exhausted in Mississippi, the Finkbine-Guild Lumber Company planned to keep their Mississippi mills as re-manufacturing and finishing plants and feed them with California redwood.

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In 1925, Finkbine-Guild bought the Cottoneva Lumber Company of Rockport, California near the Pacific Ocean.



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