St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-05-31

corn and vegetables, produce excellent crops
and the home market afforded for every atom
of agricultural products, as for any and all
stock raised makes farming especially
profitable.
ITS INDUSTRIES.
OF course the two leading industries here
are agriculture and numbering. The vast
forests of pine which cover so much of the
surface of the country here in northern Wis
consin, first induced settlement The Me-
nomonee (red cedar) two miles away, the
Chetek river six miles long, and tributary,
the Chetek lake, and the whole system of
lakes and small streams connected with it,
were all at one time bordered with valuable
Tor five or six miles from
the bank of lake and river, and the Chippe
wa twenty miles off and its branches pene-
trating all the intervening space also cover
ed with pine rendered this section desirable
twenty years ago.
The difficulty and expense of transporting
supplies from the settled country away to the
south, induced the development of the agri-
cultural resources of this region so that when
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but a well settled, thriving, prosperous
country. The large number of men neces
sary in the winter season to cut and draw to
bank the mammoth pine trees, and the force
required to float them out to the main rivers
gives employment to any one who desiret
work and the wages paid them finds its way
due course of time into the hands of the
merchants and business men.
MANUFACTURES.
These consist principally of the milling
interests. The Knapp, Stout and company
mills are at present the only ones. These
consist of a saw mill with planning MILL lath
mill and shingle mill attached, and a large
and very fine Touring mill. The Touring
mill has capacity of 100 barrels per day
and is kept busy the year round in supplying
the home demand and the numbering camps
adjacent. The saw mill was also built to
supply the home demand for the different
lumber products, and has a capacity for
about fifteen or twenty thousand feet per
day. 1t could easily be made to cut thirty or
thirty-fve thousand if desired, and the -four
ing mill to one of q 800 barrel capacity if the
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who own most of the pine which is tributary to
this water system annually cut 10000 900
feet of logs which are RATED or doomed and
towed across the lake and sluiced through the
fine dam at its outlet into the Chetck river
and thence into the Menomonie, after which
there is no further trouble. The dam which
furnishes the power for the Touring mill was
built nv ba IN oil 10
of their logs, saving the surplus water in
times of plenty for those of need. As be-
fore remarked, it raises the water over a sur
face of twenty square miles and retains
vast volume within its gates.
The other manufacturing interests of
Chetck are as yet in their infancy. A foun-
dry and machine shop owned and operated
by Glaze & Trulson is very successful in
stitution and does business for people for
long distance off. They do most excellent
work.
A Joint stock company with a capital of
$1,000 has just been organized to manu-
facture tanning mill and cookie extractor
which bids fair to develop into a large con-
cern.
TIMBER.
Besides the vast forests of pine there is a
large amount of the best hard wood timber
to be found anywhere in this vicinity.
Black, red and white oak, black and white
ash, hard, soft and rock maple, red, white
and rock elm, bitternut, butternut, basswood
and poplar are the principal varieties The
establishment of a large, or of several large,
general wood manufacturing establishments
at Chetek seems to be but a matter of time
as the best place to manufacture, all things
else being equal, is where the material ex-
lists.
And now as the solid business interests as
they came under my observation have
received their share of atten-
ton I turn to the beautiful lake,
which is theme of great promise.
LAKE CHETEK
is one mile by one and one-half in extent
and the word lovely only half expresses its
beauty. Its banks are high and slope to the
waters edge, covered with timber and are
fndented by numberless little bays or project
into The water in romantic capes and head
lands. 1t forms, as it lies basking in the
sun or bathed in the moonlight, most be
witching and lovely appearance.
AS A SUMNER RESORT.
The beautiful lake, fine hunting and fish
ing and comfortable hotel accommodations
cannot fail to make Chetek q popular sum-
mer resort. The locality is a remarkably
healthy one and the pure water,
inVigorating air and delightful
scenery are well calculated to
win favor from all who visit it. 1t is a
regular ''sportsman's paradise'' where hunt
ing, fishing and boating may be enjoyed to
ones hearts content. Duck and other water
fowl in their season, prairie chicken and
patrdges in theirs, in the most prolific
abundance, are always awaiting the hunters
skill, while deer and bear, more noble game,
can be tracked in the first light snow and are
yearly killed in great numbers. The beauti-
full Chetek lake rs well as the rest of the
water system which are connected with it are
well stocked with the choicest varieties of fish
while the creeks and brooks are sYarming q
with the beautiful speckled trout Besides the
large fleet OF row and sail boats with which
Chetek is provided the building of
a steam pleasure yacht forty-five feet long
and fifteen feet beam, has been commenced
which, when completed, will always be at
the disposal of pleasure seekers and ex-
cursionists, and which will make regular
daily trips to all places of interest upon the
chain of lakes which are easily accessible
from Chetek.
CLUB HOUSES.
The two cities of Menomonie and Chippe-
wa Falls have already discovered the at
tractiveness of lovely Chetek, and a club
from each city has been formed which has
erected a summer house each, for the use of
the club and their friends, each one provid-