Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-14
TRACTION AND POWER CO.
A New Organization With Readquar-
tiers in Wausau.

The Wisconsin River Traction and
Power Co. filed articles of ineorpora-
ton with the secretary of state on
Wednesday and they were returned to
the register of deeds on Thursday to be
placed on the records of this county.
The capital stock is 800, 900, divided into
9CO shares, and the incorporators are
Neal Brown, q. ID. Jones and Karl
Mathie. From the incorporation papers
we select the following paragraph,
which states the intended business of
the above company
The business and purpose of such
| corporation shall be to construc t,main-
tain, build and operate street railway
from the south boundary line of section
twenty-four ca township twenty eight
(2S) north, range seven ca east, in Mara
thon county, Wisconsin, to the city of
Merrill, Lincoln county, Wisconsin,
and through the cities of Wausau and
Merrill and intervening towns and vii,
lagos, to acquire the necessary fran
chises and licenses therefor, and to
purchase and acquire, operate and con-
duct the business OF electric lighting
and heating, and the creation, trans
mission and disposal of electric power
and to maintain and operate flour and
grist mills and other mills which may
be operated by water or electric power.
ut shall have the power to purchase
and acquire water powers, lands and
any other property, proper and neces-
sary for the enjoyment of its rights and
privileges and to lease, sell and dispose
OF power so acquired. 1t may exercise
the right of condemnation under power
of eminent domain given for any of the
above purposes by the statutes of Wis
consin and the power in excess of that
needed for the operation of said railway
may be sold, leased and disposed of bv
this corporation"
The headquarters and offices of the
corporation shall be located in Wausau
The incorporators, for business reasons,
are not prone to give out much infor-
nation relative to The company at pres
ent, but state that its organization is
preliminary step towards the accom-
plishment of plans for building an elec-
tric railway line which will extend from
Rothchilds to Merrill. Such companies
are always duly organized before the
elimination of minor details which
lead up to final action.
AS yet, they state, no definite action,
one way or the other, has been taken
with reference to building the above
line, but hope later on to be able to
make the announcement that work will
be commenced this coming summer 1t
is large undertaking and requires a
great deal of time to be spent in ar
rangement, thought and study of condi-
tons. The route has been selected, but
still some of the owners of lands
through which it will pass are holding
off, either being averse to the building
OF the line or waiting for an exhorbitant
price being paid them for a right of
way. But these difficulties can be over
come if it is determined to build the
road
If Marathon and Lincoln counties
were as thickly settled as are some of
the older sections, an electric line
would have been built before this, for
one thing understood by experienced
men is that the cost of operating line
in this section would be much cheaper
than in any other part of the state, for
the reason that the water power of the
Wisconsin river is practically unlimited.
North from Grand Rapids, nearly to the
source of the river, is series of falls
and rapids. In some of these there is a
fall, if we correctly remember the
| figures, of 200 feet to the mile. The
| Wisconsin as water power stream ex
ceeds in value that of the famed Fox
river, which is dotted with factories
along its banks for distance of fifty
miles.
An electric line, connecting Wausau
and Merrill, must come some time and
it is the wish of the public that the
plans of those men behind the present
movement in that direction will not
miscarry. 1t would mean the opening
up of vast possibilities, commercially,
in this section. When a franchise is
asked of the city council of Wausau it
will then be almost an assured fact that
the road will be built, so says Mr..
Brown.