Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-04-08

be continued 10 pack on his BACK from
Wausau. | know one OF these old sett-
Iers who came, with his wife, from their
farm ten miles To Wausau after -four
There WAS mono to be had there, so they
walked forty miles further to Stevens
Point and from there packed the flour
To their home. Ii was rich farmer
who had more stock than "A COW and a
yoke of steers Ok teams were in gen
eral use, until after the Wisconsin, Val
| ley Railroad was built into WauSau in
| 1876 AT that time, aud until recent
years. there were no mills saving hard
wood and all the timber downed in
clearing had to be piled up and burned.
All the work of clearing was done with
the AK, instead of he saw, as it is now
done, and the old country Germans
were anything but expert axemen. An
other thing which made the wcik of
clearing move slowly and which still
operates to some extent. was the high
demand for the settlers services in the
| lumber camps
| As said before, these farmers and
their children now have fine farms,
most ct them have money and they are
all prosperous. Seven hundred thou
sand dollars deposited in the Wausau
banks belongs to farmers. They are
at least 100 per cent better off than the
men who left the Fatherland with them
and east their lot in cities and villages.
La lS16 when the first settlers came
into the northwestern part of Marathon
county south of where the village of
Athens now stands, they came by team
from Wauseu to Rib Falls From that
point, w n Allen of Wausau, and Fred
Rietbrock of Milwaukee, guided them
through the forest six miles where they
picked OUT sheil farms. Their supplies
were packed on their backs To-Day
their clearings, free from stumps, are
nearly as large as those in the old set
Elements.
PRESENT CONDITIONS.
What are the conditions which CON
front the settler of today in this part
of the state? Three great systems of
railroads, with their branch lines, put
the settler down within few miles of
home; good wagon roads lead to the
farm and good bridges span the streams
which the eariy settler forded There
is not township in the most remote
part of this district without settlers.
/ The home seeker has the benefit of
neighbors schools and churches
| There are hundreds of s;twmills where
he can sell the logs which he cuts 10
lclearing his land; he can also market
the Eastwood bolts, tie timber, pulp
wood bark and cord wood, which the
pioneer had to burn The saw has
taken the place OF the AK, and stump
pullers and other modern machinery
have come into use, making the work
OF clearing much easiei'i aud when
not employed on ms own Iarm, tne set
TIER mus work az go9e wages ia tne
country saW'nl,ls anu "a gelIlng OUT
r;es rH NV sra is w;,bio reeh eae IN ns,
nlaces Tba rtim.,ta TOD bss eh.n,yad
a. tbc ccnntrv bas bee,a onanad M
and the ,.;nt,,s nm M, nna,.lx r.
| LONG ar se,ere
GREAT DAIRY AND STOCK COUNTRY
This mart of Tho state l. destined 70
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nav IL she a,,fe i tbe r,,le whsra tba
| f.,n',, has ,ae.,.;,,nJ or.l;naf'v ,.ara Arr.
J This ,i,np i in fine second cron of
cloye. is cnt and sood naStorage at
80 s,,.;,ors m ,,-,,ba,., ,h.s 80,
| be,. haI hs..n f,,,t rin,..,3',..,n h., s.,ya
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All Kinds of small graias have been
staple crops for ys..rs. oats aud barley
being most general grown. Wheat
has 4 fun kernel but ii soft. While
ever farmer gtows :norsi or less wheat,
| think time VIII prove II the least
profitable croil he can plant
Roor crops. peas. beans. squashes
pumpl,inS and in fact Mi Kinds of yeg.
Ietabies do wei.
Pin, corn bas alwavs baan a rood
erin bnf for v,,s,s ,bsre Was ,..snsr'
~ i,tes thai AIM ,.,,.,, ,,.oi,lJ n,t 1;nan
| Exn.sr;;.s,,r,. bss shou.n :hs, ,b;s g !,
/ n,iI,.t,.r ;dae Anv fs,.n,,,. VII, 90
si,S,af,s his sssd sna Sraws IN. srS,
| ,ssdimant III srrnysinv c,trn can rs;ss
It,o9d crops III dent corn. n s heino
ggrwu more generally each year and
MI soon rank as one If the leading
.erops.
The advent Of the ereafneries marked
4 new era in taiS districts In lS9S only
four Years ago, the hrs, co-operaiion
lereamerieS we're Put IN. think there
were one ar Two prlNsI ones before
that, bat am not Sare- Today there
arc anout his'en eo,opeF's'iNe eressaer