After B.F. Ferguson died in 1905, Francis Beidler I bought his partner's interest in Santee River Cypress Lumber Company. When he began to go blind, Beidler turned over operations to M.B. Cross and loaned the company $621,000 to keep the saws turning, but in 1914, he closed it down.

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