St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-02
HAYWARD.
A Flourishing Young Village in
Northwest Wisconsin.
A Lumbering Point with Good Water
Power and Large Mill.
A Well Organized Community with Perma
nent Foundations.
A Village in the Forest Where There are
Trout Streams and Beauti-
full Lakes.

about hayward L lear IL HOuIu U"A 'AN
patience of those OF the readers of the GLOBE
who have no interest there to hear me out.
My experience on my recent trip there was
of very pleasant nature and although not
over-given to enthusiasm / found very much
to impress me and desire to share my pleasant
experience with the thousands who have
never seen the delightful village.
The 'Great Northwest is so full OF beau
tiful locations that when a new one is brought
to public notice but lite surprise
is created, and people are prepared to listen
to its merits as a matter of course. You can
sit in st. Paul with your railroad map be-
fore you and put your finger on hundred
places on the different lines Of road
centering there, each of which has its merits
and pleasant attractions, both from busl-
ness standpoint and as pleasure resorts.
IN THE FOREST LAND.
I had just come from the bleak south
western prairies, and had been experiencing
all the March wind with its unlimited sweep
that [ desired. ''Why not take run over
into Wisconsin," said Fred, Unto
one of those grand old forest
regions" Fred is crank on
the timber question and don't like the tree
less prairies of the Northwest. But where
shall go to, said 1? Go to Hayward, he re-
marked. Hayward! where and what is that!
said l. 1t lis a place on the North Wisconsin
division Of the Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapo-
lis & Omaha, one hundred and thirty miles
from here 1t is a numbering town and is a
Fred uses strong language sometimes,
but there is a ring of truth in what he says
and when he breaks out like that [ am GER
tain there is a reality in it. So L
caught my few worldly possessions
in both hands, shot them
across the room into the yawning mouth OF
my travel-stained grip and dropping my
note book, to which 1 had transferred a
memorandum of Fred's pamgyric upon
Hayward into my pocket, 1t boarded the
bounding street car and brought up in due
time at the Union depot.
Once upon the train [ passed into reverie
from which l did not awake until after l left
old familiar landmarks behind and began to
get up into a. to me, unfamiliar region The
fOASN
''CIear Lake, reused me. Looking out l saw
q village of a few hundreds population
evidently numbering point but upon no
stream. For miles about the town the pine
had been cut away and native told me they
were about moving the saw-mill at that point
back into the interior FrOIl this place on
ito Hayward, which we reached about four p.
m, it was a succession of little numbering
villages, most of which cluster around saw
mill in the midst of forest built upon the
edge of some little pond or lake or oft-times
remote from the faintest trace OF water
These villages must inevitably wane as soon
as the pine is consumed, as a timber region be-
comes an agricultural country slowly and the
cord wood and tie timber goes just about as
soon as the pine.
A PERMANENT TOWN.
As our train, however drew into the little
clearing upon which Hayward stands, l saw
at once there was a more substantial basis
here on which to build the future hopes of a
town. Here we have the Namakagon river,
branch of the st. Croix, which penetrates
the vast pine forest many miles beyond the
town.
l found Hayward situated in an open space
or clearing, in the midst of a forest Of pine.
On every side the dark emerald green Of the
somber old forests rose against the azure blue
of clear, cloudless sky, and the town with
its neat, new look, the long
lines of lumber piles, the
mills, barns and warehouses Of the North
a1l fO- ,D,JD
neat pretty picture as one could well imagine.
l was struck at once with the clean, tidy
healthy look of everything about the town. AS
l alighted from the cars found no mud wait
ing to receive me nor did on my walk to
the hotel find enough soil clinging to my
shoes to make me feel as if 1 was trotter
weighted for a race.
Very much to my surprise I found place
of over 1000 people, where 1 had hardly ex-
pected to find one-fourth of that number,
and from the life and stir manifested l con-
cIuded that there must be business enough
to support even a larger population.
When l was told that one year
ago last February not stake was driven nor
board cut on the present town site 1 was
residences, and general business places
which has sprung up as it were by magic in
one short year.
OF course Hayward is entirely numbering
town. Agriculture here, although quite pos
sible and very profitable, is as yet in a
backward state, as is usually the case in a
numbering town. An exclusive pine region
is not generally speaking a good farming
country. Where you find, however, heavy
hard wood timber, good farming lands are at
its roots, and while at the village the timber
is exclusively pine, one and one-half miles
distant are the finest belts of hard wood tim
Der and soil unequaled in its fertility by any
other section The settlement and deyel-
opment Of this hard wood region into farms
is of course slow operation but
when once ccomplished agricul-
ture becomes extremely profitable.
Every particle of farm produce stock, hay
and dairy products will find a most renumer-
ative home market and the problem of cheap
transportation which annoys the western
(prairie farmer would not enter into the case
( at all here.
! SUPPLY POINT.
The prosperity of Hayward depends at
J present npon two things, one of which is the
/ operations of the North Wisconsin Lumber
company and the other is the fact that it is
lgreat supply station and place of rendezvous
ifor the numbering operations of the Chippewa
J and tributaries of the st. Croix East from
[ Hayward twenty miles you reach the Chip
! newa and from this OOint suDnlies are
[ drawn to the numberless numbering camps,
J and here the men congregate fall and spring
Senroute for camp or returning home. This