Number of employees
70-99
Edward Steves first established his pioneer lumber business in San Antonio, a small Mexican-style adobe village. Steves recognized the need for lumber as a building material for this burgeoning community outpost on the edge of a growing frontier. As early as 1871, Steves brought in cypress from Louisiana and long-leaf pine from Florida. By 1879, Steves stocked an average of 3,000,000 board feet of lumber and covered a market area extending through western Texas and northern Mexico.