View of the Foster City sawmill

The Morgan Lumber & Cedar Company Sawmill, Foster City, Dickinson County, Michigan, ca. 1905: The Morgan Lumber & Cedar Company made extensive alterations at its Foster City sawmill in the early spring of 1905. A 40x50-foot addition housed the shingle mill equipped with two double block machines and ten knot saws capable of producing 160,000 shingles per day. The main building, 50x120 feet, contained a bandsaw, resaw, edger, trimmer, tie machine and shingle bolt saw. The mill had the capacity of 45,000 feet of lumber per day. A planing mill and electric light plant completed the Foster City sawmill complex, pictured here at about the time the improvements were made. Note the cone-shaped sawdust burner at the left, the lumber carts on the wooden tramways and the horse-drawn slab carts below. A large number of the mill’s employees posed for the photographer. [Lola (Wickman) Hallenbeck], Item also published with caption in: Dickinson County, Michigan : from earliest times through the Twenties / compiled and edited by William John Cummings. Iron Mountain, Mich. : Dickinson County Board of Commissioners, 1991. 432 p. : ill, maps, ports. ; 3
Abstract/Description: The Morgan Lumber & Cedar Company Sawmill, Foster City, Dickinson County, Michigan, ca. 1905: The Morgan Lumber & Cedar Company made extensive alterations at its Foster City sawmill in the early spring of 1905. A 40x50-foot addition housed the shingle mill equipped with two double block machines and ten knot saws capable of producing 160,000 shingles per day. The main building, 50x120 feet, contained a bandsaw, resaw, edger, trimmer, tie machine and shingle bolt saw. The mill had the capacity of 45,000 feet of lumber per day. A planing mill and electric light plant completed the Foster City sawmill complex, pictured here at about the time the improvements were made. Note the cone-shaped sawdust burner at the left, the lumber carts on the wooden tramways and the horse-drawn slab carts below. A large number of the mill’s employees posed for the photographer. [Lola (Wickman) Hallenbeck]
Subject(s): Sawmills
Lumbering
Log transportation
Foster City (Mich.)
Date Created: 1905 (approximate)
Title: View of the Foster City sawmill.
Name(s): Dickinson County Library, contributor
Cummings, William John, contributor
Hallenbeck, Lola (Wickman), contributor
Superiorland Library Cooperative, contributor
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1905 (approximate)
Physical Form: photographs
Extent: 1 item
Abstract/Description: The Morgan Lumber & Cedar Company Sawmill, Foster City, Dickinson County, Michigan, ca. 1905: The Morgan Lumber & Cedar Company made extensive alterations at its Foster City sawmill in the early spring of 1905. A 40x50-foot addition housed the shingle mill equipped with two double block machines and ten knot saws capable of producing 160,000 shingles per day. The main building, 50x120 feet, contained a bandsaw, resaw, edger, trimmer, tie machine and shingle bolt saw. The mill had the capacity of 45,000 feet of lumber per day. A planing mill and electric light plant completed the Foster City sawmill complex, pictured here at about the time the improvements were made. Note the cone-shaped sawdust burner at the left, the lumber carts on the wooden tramways and the horse-drawn slab carts below. A large number of the mill’s employees posed for the photographer. [Lola (Wickman) Hallenbeck]
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Item also published with caption in: Dickinson County, Michigan : from earliest times through the Twenties / compiled and edited by William John Cummings. Iron Mountain, Mich. : Dickinson County Board of Commissioners, 1991. 432 p. : ill, maps, ports. ; 3
Subject(s): Sawmills
Lumbering
Log transportation
Foster City (Mich.)
Held by: Dickinson County Library
Restrictions on Access: No Copyright (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
Is Part Of: Dickinson County Library photographs. Identifier: SLC-005
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