SAGINAW AND MANISTEE; MECHANIZED OPERATIONS 1928-1941
SAGINAW AND MANISTEE; MECHANIZED OPERATIONS 1928-1941 COPYRIGHT; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED (5/10/22) The Saginaw and Manistee Lumber Company was no foreigner to the idea of modernizing operations. Throughout their history, the Company strove to improve and modernize the mill and logging operations whenever it meant additional profit and greater efficiencies. Auditors continually monitored and made recommendations, while the superintendents introduced the new innovations in the woods or at the mill. A major technological shift was taking hold across the the United States. The age of the Industrial Revolution was giving way, or more appropriately evolving, into the Mechanized Revolution (so ascribed by the author.) Horses and wagons were soon to be replaced by the automobile for passengers, and the truck for transporting goods. For the logging operations in the high country, the adoption of the truck would spell the beginning of the end to the reign of the iron hors