The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1904-08-04

from Withee to Stanley passes Lombard,
Thorp and EnSvold, three small center7
for trade. and the evidences of aEri-
cultural thrift are all about to account
tor them.
Stanley and Its Railroad.
Stanley is city. 1t has 100 popula-
ton. with good schools, churches and 4
library, beautifully housed. of 1000 vol
umes This building and its books were
the gift of Mrs. Salie +. Moon, as Il
memorial to her husband, the late -. H.
Moon. formerly president OF the North
western Lumber company, whose larSe
numbering operations gave Stanley us
first real impetus. But am not writing
of cities and will dismiss this one, flour
shing as it is, with the remark that as
the center for radiatins rural and inter,
urban telephone lines, and rural man
routes, and the southern terminus of the
STANLEY. Merrill X Phillips railway, 1t Is
eXerting an important influence that eN-
tends far beyond its corporate bounda-
reS.
This railroad, started as a logging road,
now intcrSoctS. at Il new station called
Hannibal. in Taylor county, twenty,four
miles from here. with the Eau Claire,
Chippewa Fails x Northeastern, another
embryo trunk line that is already COM
, plctel some miles to the eastward Of that
junction. The Stanley road IS being
Strengthened, made permancnt and VIII
ho extended nurthward TO Glen Flora,
Gates county, this season. | mention
these details Of railway advancement 10
nmphasiZe striking contrasts with thirty
years ago.
Stanley is, rs l have remarked, q
thriving little city. It is The Second
City" Of chippewa county. All about
II are beautiful, thirty farms, W. i
stocked with cattle. There are many
in
farms and the creameritS and cheese
factories to the south, in Chippewa coun-
". and to the southeast. in Clark county,
are the monuments by which to read oi
the progressive. successful farmer ;ut
a few miles northeast of Stanley the new
railway enters Taylor county, aud the
settlements look newer The frame
house is succeeded by the tidy log house
n, YOU 20 on few miles further. but
even here there is a nice little frame
schnolhouse. set upon Il slightly hillside.
A few more miles and the train Is IN the
Wilderness among logging camps and
skidways. logs and hemlock bark. But
it is all good land
Telephoning Train Reports.
One little innovation in ralrOadinc
that I noticed here shows how these re
.ions pioneer i'll science, even while the
woodsman's axe is resoundng in the un
sublucd forest. Al Il Sldetrack junction
about half way to Hannibal. really the
midway station. and called "Ballinger'
on the map-for aught | know it may
some day be Il second Altoona-the traI
stopped, the conductor alighted. unlocked
box attached to a telephone pole an(
proceeded to report his train by telephone
to the general Office ut Stanley. | make
no lest There was scientific significance
in this proceeding. Some of the gren
railroads are making experiments il
sending train orders by word of moutl
over telephone wires. 1t perhaps for
bodies changes of great Importance es
pccially to the telegraph operator, VIII
can be dispensed with under this sys
tenn, and even il an operator Is require
it will be unnecessary to employ sklle'
labor
About HANNIBAL the land is very lovc
and the character of the timber indicate
good soil. as good as anything in Car
or Chippewa counties One can stand o
the station platform there and look t
I the west down an almost level rnilwa
, grade for eleven miles and eastward 10
( two or three, to n gentle rise that shut
of the view. Now, you must look eithe
way through aisles of serried tin
Der. Ia few years the yisitc
will be able to range his eyes fc
miles in all directions over improve
farms and thrifty farm house
!, About Stanley was shown some yer
! fno farms. There are some real sho
places in this neighborhood. owned an
= operated by agriculturists of state an