Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-11-30

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Total value Of MI property 1896, 49,, 90
II will be noted that in the town of
Arbor Vitae especially they have
very poor class Of horses as they are
only worth a trifle over I've dollars each
This looks like a rather small price for
hols IS used in the lumber woods and
around the mills and it would pay any
one in need of q team to go there and
buy one and while there it would be we'll
to buy wagon and sleigh as they APP
pear to be worth less than two dollars
each. It would be useless to try and
buy any pianos, organs or melodions-
as there is not musical instrument
in tie whole town OF Arbor Vitae.
At the present price of lumber both the
Ross Lumber TO. and the Star Lake
company which is in the same town
must have been very fortunate in sell
ing their lumber and got their stock re-
dnced down to nothing as the entire
value OF merchants and manufactured
stock in the town was only one thousand
four hundred and fifty dollars and there
are two stores, one at Arbor Vitae and
the other at Star Lake each OF which
usally carries q larger stock than all
Of the stores in the village combined.
That their valuation Of logs, timber,
lumber, tiles, poles and posts. not man
ufactured stock" OF S48, 1929, 48 is not to
high is shown from the fact that the
Star Lake company, during the past
season cut in the neighborhood of fifteen
million feet IF logs in the town of Eagle
River which were taken into the town
Of Arbor Vitae and should have been
assessed there. These logs alone were
worth more than three times the whole
assessed value oflogs. timber etc. in the
town of Arbor Vitae.
The total value of all real estate in
each town as fixed BY the assessors is:
Arbor Vitae, 1896, s54 90; Eagle River,
S416, 1915; Minocqua. s212, 250,00
This includes village lots in the towns
of Eagle River and MinocQna Tits a
we'll known fact that more than one
half of all the standing pine in Villas
county is In the town Of Arbor Vitae.
There are also twovillages III That town
,Arbor Vitae and Star Lake and althoug
they are not plated it is a we'll known
fact that each Of these villages contain
nearly asmany dwelling houses as either
Eagle River or Minocqua Besides each
OF them has a fine large saw mill plant
complete with saw mill. planning mill.
dry kiln and box factory which neither
Eagle River or Minocqua has. The
two governlneu lots on which the Ross
Lumber Co.'S entire mill plant, dwell
ing houses etc. are situated was hi last
years tax roll At 100000. Arbor Vitae
is one man town. Mr.. Bissell is the
whole thing and it is difficult to recon-
Gle the valuation givenin by him to the
assessor with statement made by him
whilehere last week that the Ross Llln
Der Co. carried $500, 200, 90 Of insurance
on their plant and stock; Either fraud
has been practiced on the insurance
companies or else that plant and the one
ut Star Lake, which is fully as large,
should have been assessed at over $780,
10000
It was the duty Of the county board to |
these assessments and
they did raise the valuation Of Arbor
Vitae s316. 373, s., .labont the amount OF
Insurance which the Ross Lumber CO. |
il carryingl but they also raised the