Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-18
A Trip to EFausau. The Bic
CITY OF the Northern Woods. =

| Agreeable to modern established Gus
tom in all regular and we'll governe,
printing establishments, impelling on
to 90 out from the smell of musty file
and ever recurring and accumulatin;
Exchanges, we threw ourself upol
the official mercy of Conductor Hib
bard last Friday, and in two hours b,
the watch we were safely deposited il
the beautiful city of Wausau~--a littl
Paradise planted amid the towerin:
pines and resting beside the rushing
waters of the angry Wisconsin. Nine
teen years in this "yale of tears,
west of Lake Michigan, and only nov
have we looked upon Wausau. Ii
our boyhood days we had read o
Thaddeus of Wausau," and "Thad.'
was our hero; for two decades, nearly
we have been hearing of the city where
'<Thaddeus'' aforetime, probably, pur-
sued the lumber business, though We
have only faint conception of the
occupation which engaged his youthful
attention, in those troublesome times
with the unyielding Poles However,
the Wausau. Of to-day is not the Wau-
sau Of that bygone period. Our Wau-
sau is beautiful city Of $500 souls,
active, energetic and alive to the fact
that when another century shall begin
to cast the twilight of its dawning up
on the threshold Of the old. it will
have grown to majestic proportions,
rich in all the contributions and accu-
mutations incident to an extended COM
merce, and justly proud of the position
it shall have achieved; as the foremost
inland city Of the Great Northwest
Only one year ago, the journey from
Grand Rapids to this city which is so
rapidly growing in importance, occu-
pied the larger portion of two days );
the great highway thither lying through
the city Of Stevens Point, thence north
ward through an unbroken waste of
forest FOR forty miles To-day the
denizens Of Milwaukee and Chicago
can reach this no longer remote section
Of the Wisconsin pinery in thirteen
and sixteen hours, ria. NJ. & St. p.
and ". V. Railroads, making the trans
fer st Tamah. Northern Wisconsin
with its wealth of possessions develop
cd and fast developing. is no longer an
region. The genius Of Pro-
eress coupled with Enterprise, and lay
inghold upon the lever of Capital have
removed the obstacles which for a pc
Rod seemed insurmountable and the
iron parallels have brought into com
munication, the great lumber and min
eral producing regions of the North
to make perpetual mutual fellowship
Of exchange with the cereal producing
acres of the great pralries Of the South
and West.
We reached Wausau at 2 ?. NJ.
We encountered at the depot such
rush as one meets at the great railway
centres, and after the excitement of
train arrival had subsidized seUeeteeR
hundred and eighty men preceded US
to the city some half mile west of
the depot:
WAUSAU.
IS located upon level plateau, slightly
elevated, upon the eastern bank of the
Wisconsin River which goes rushing
with fearful impetuoslty over prodig-
ious boulders and mammoth rocks OF
the first formation, upheayels of by
gone ages-the mute witnesses of those
volcanic transformation which so
clearly mark the cycles of a past eter-
nifty. Wausau IS a city ''beautiful for
situation Her streets are laid out
with a precision indicating the thought
of future for the city which promis-
es very soon to assert its right to be
ranked with those more pretentious,
and among whom she already assumes
to be competitor. They are wide
end consequently exceedingly pleasant,
running north and south, and east
and west. One naturally enquiries :
"How came a city to be builded here,
so remote from civilization = Like
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