page_title: Long-Bell Lumber Company
section_title: Sawmills in Louisiana
hierarchical_section_title: Long-Bell Lumber Company / History / Sawmills in Louisiana
caption_attribution_description: English: This piece of pine hardwood flooring was milled by the Long-Bell Lumber Company, likely by its sawmill in Bon Ami, Louisiana around 1907. It was recovered from a house in Beaumont, Texas in 2012.
context_page_description: In 1887, Robert A. Long and Victor Bell formed the Long-Bell Lumber Company in Columbus, Kansas. The Long-Bell Lumber Company branched out using balanced vertical integration to control all aspects of lumber from the sawmills to the retail lumber yard. As the company expanded it moved further south and eventually had holdings in Arkansas, Oklahoma Indian Territory, and Louisiana, before heading west to Washington.
  The company grew into one of the largest conglomerates of wood products of the era, with holdings in many states and under many subsidiary names, and sold out to International Paper in 1956.
context_section_description: Some of the sawmills in Louisiana and their year of startup were: Bon Ami, (King-Ryder Lumber Company) in 1902, DeRidder (Hudson River Lumber Company) in 1903, Merryville in 1904, Carson in 1904/05, Longville (reportedly the largest in Louisiana) in 1906/07, Ragley in 1907, Ludington in 1911, plus smaller mills.
  The Calcasieu Lumber Company began operating in 1884 and became the Bradley-Ramsey Lumber Company in 1886. On March 16, 1906, Long-Bell Lumber Company    purchased the Bradley-Ramsey Lumber Company, that included two sawmills,    105,000 acres of timberlands, the Lake Charles and Leesville Railroad, and    the Lake Charles Chemical Company. This was the largest transaction of sawmill property in Southwest Louisiana prior to 1906, and increased the Long-Bell's daily production of lumber, at all five plants, to about 800,000    feet daily.
caption: Back of a piece of hardwood flooring from a Long-Bell sawmill in Louisiana
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