The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-10-01

ST. cRoLr FALLS, WISCONSIN

SErrElBER, 1S5s.--It is generally supposed at Ia.
East that rythng at the West dead but this Is not
but the West only sleepeth it will rise from s Fest
with renewed vgor. This place (St. Crox Falls) is a.
other place is still sleeping you can judge from the build
ing going whether il Il not waking in earnest and in
less than year many Of the busy workshops OF tho
East will he transferred TO this point for why should the
manufacture of Concord wagons stages wagons &C.
which sold in the West, be made ut the East when
the manufacturer at this point purchase the wood
necessary at onefourh the cost he at the East and
save the immense cost OF transportation, while labor and
living are no more expensives Every kind of wood
abounds here that enters into the manufacture of necs
sites, and the West is the great field The manufactures
can BIO shipped daily by steamboats, to all points tho
Mississippi and the unsurpassed water power be OBJ
tanned on the most favorable terms Woodland within
few miles BIO obtained at So to SIS per acre. and be
worth much more when cleared thus the manufacturer
not only obtains his supply for nothing but reaps
profit from it, will state to you what is going on
in the way of improvements, designating localities SO
you, who have been here will know their position
On the mill reservation the grocery store is completed
and Mr. zoe, the miller, has built fine house On
Washington street. next Gaylord store two stores or
buildings about completed. Opposite the hotel
Mr.. Dover Is building store. The large livery stable
in the of the hotel is completed On Adams street
Mr. Bartlett is building really handsome house. which
in eastern CITY, would cost ten thousand dollars and
another fine Jefferson street Back Of jefferson
street there three houses completed and on JEFF
ferson street Button and Rogers each building
building excellent house Fiske three-story house
and Harris, Emory, and Black each dwellings, Tho
large warehouse was completed before you left The
grist mill does not require than five hundred
dollars work to complete it. 1t is five stories high
has four of stone, and will be capable Of turning
out two hundred barrels Of flour per day The magni-
cent dam raceways and steamboat landing are all com
pleted the immense saw-mill running, and the hotel
open Now, do You think dead II you do
next summer you will find dead noa, compared 10
what will be doing then. Let the road be open to Bay
field and Superior, when will transport goods at four
teen dollars per ton and passengers at eight dollars pr
head less than any other route to the Northwest You
will then where the business Of tho Northwest will
be DONE and where the manufactures will thrive AL
ready the great lumber and other trade with ST. Louis
and other river towns is large but what will it be when
this new eastern route via bayfield, and Superior, d
opened
Manufacturers Of wagons, cars, agricultural mple-
ment in fact anything that be made of wood who
have little capital, should come here and by the spring
they could be ready to supply the great demand OF tho
West at lower prices than the eastern manufacturer and
double the profit