Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-06
be sand paper mandatory, in sight of
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rhe Agricultural Growth.

be sand paper mandatory, in sight of
Wausau, and a big one.
The Agricultural Growth.
Agricultural pursuits took on an inn
petus last year that startled even the
most optimistic denizens of the valley
engaged in the sale of Wisconsin farm
ing lands. Even j NJ Smith, the veter-
an land holder, who built the st. Paul
railroad and took his pay in lands was
shocked almost daily by the require
ments of inquiries and-infiux of the set
tiers. More than $50 farms were sold
by his firm, the Wisconsin Valley Land
company, in Marathon county during
the year 1899. The widest enthusiasts
and believers in the future of this
country are willing to admit their ig-
noraace of its growth, and do so every
time they are called upon to make a
short trip into the country, few miles
from any of the cities The squatters
cabin of a few years ago is going the
way of the river boom. Instead of build
ing log hut now the settler finds TIM
Der enough standing upon almost any
purchase from which he cuts logs
enough to convert into lumber and shin
giles to build him a house and barn and
pay for the saving and hauling same to
and from the mill. In consequence of
this, new homes which dot the farming
country of Wisconsin valley from Ste
vens Point TO Eagle River, are of bet
ter class and more imposing. A birds
eye view of Lincoln and Marathon coun-
ties would hold up to sight panorama
beyond the vision and dreams of the
Oldest settler. d. l.. Plumer said to me
a few days since, 81 have just been out
to the town of Berlin and do you know
| was practically in ignorance of the
race this country is running in the mat
ter of development of its farming pur-
suits? There are any amount of new
and imposing residences with modern
barns and other buildings necessary to
successful farming, they have gone up
since | was over the road, less than
year ago"
| expressed pleasure but not surprise
at the statement and answered, THAT
is just what | have beea trying to instill
into the minds of Wausau's people for
more than a year You don't know
your growth and right down at the end
of this street, in the heart of the city of
Wausau, is a water power that can be
developed at a small cost that will add
10000 to the population of this city and
there are plenty of resources from
which manufacturing institutions can
gather their supply"
There, there! now you waitT replied
Mr.. Plumer He owns a great big
chunk of that water power himself, and
to tell the truth the Iron Chief is get
ting to be one of the biggest enthusiasts
on the subject of advancement and de-
velopement that we have in the valley
just you think of it, you Milwaukeans
who have been used to coming up here
and living in an odor of saw dust and
pine lumber, and hearing nothing else
but lumber talked, can now find this
valley an find such men as ID. L. Plum
er, Walter Alexander, Col Kreutzer,
M. A. Hurley, Judge Ryan, ex-Atty
Gen. Mylrea, Judge Silyerthorn, Aug
ust Kickbush, John Ringle, g. S. Curtis,
j. M. Smith, E. A. Foster, Neal Brown,
Charles and David Winton, G. f. Dun
Sar, H. E. McEachron the Wrights,
Eehland and the Heinemans of Merrill,
Brown, Bishop, and Barnes of Rhine
lander, Yawkey and Jenne of Hazel
hurst, Riordan and Coleman of Eagle
River, Theilman and Bradley of Tom
ahawk, Dessert and Thompson of Mo-
since, Parks and Weeks of Stevens
Point, Overlook of Centralia and Arpin
of Grand Rapids, and hundreds of 9TH
ers boasting of the great water powers,
the hardwood industries, the granite
quarrieS, the new electric railway, dairy
farming and potato raising, and every
mothers son of them ready to take off
their hat and hurrah for the Wisconsin
Valley. Why, if man comes up here
to talk pine lumber now he has got to
huntup lumberman, while year ago
they would meet him at a train with
tally-ho and four-in-hand. Pine is no
longer king, yet there will be half
billion feet of it out this year in the
Wisconsin valley.
Summer Resorts.
At the north end of the valley, clus-
tered around the cities of Eagle River
and Rhinelander, the summer resort
other locality. Like the Philippine
islands dot the Pacific ocean, so do the
lakes of Northern Wisconsin freckle
the forests, and tempt the disciples of
Isaac Walton with schools of bass, pike,
pickerel and muscalonge. The streams
tributary swarm with speckled beau
ties, due to the successful efforts of the
State Fish commission, which has
planted every ripping riyulet and per-
ennial brook with trout until the angler
can scarce go amiss of game fish. Fish
stories! Yes, regale you With go pound
catches of bass and muscalonge in a
day, or with a days sport netting a
couple of hundreds of brook trout
Around many of these lakes are cosy
and comfortable resorts, real rest places
with nothing to disturb ones slumbers
but the merry music made by the cool
breezes as they whistle through the pine
needles and hemlock boughs
In no other locality is there such a
climate. The aroma of pine and hem
lock permeates and purifies the atmos-
phere, indeed, it has been called by men
eminent in medics, the anti-microbe
air, ever pure, ever cool and refreshing
The Valley Association is preparing a
feast of fish and flow of-waters for
inspection, for the press of Wisconsin
after partaking OF which you will not
say, 'All men are liars"
LESTER A. ROSE.