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]