Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-04-24

of the Town of Eagle River Villas County Wis
cOnsin on the 3rd day OF April. 1903. duly passed
and adopted the following resolution:
STATE OF WISCONSIN
County of Villas Town of Eagle River
Special meeting OF the Board of Supervisors
Of said town, held at the village of Eagle River
in said town. at the town hail. in said village,
on the Bird day of April, 1905, at 3 O'Clock III
the afternoon.
WHEREAS the said town of Eagle River
contains and has contained since January 1st,
1895, an unincorporate ed village, having popu-
latiOn of more than 1000 inhabitants, being the
village of Eagle River in said town; and
WHEREAS, the annual town meeting Of said
town. held on the first Tuesday of April, 1897
duly passed d resolution. comforting upon said
town all powers relating to villages which are
conferred upon village boards by Chapter
Forty (40) OF the Wisconsin Statutes Sxcept-
ing these the exercise Of which would conflict
with the STATUTES relating to Town and Town
Boards. and said resolution has been duly re-
corded in the records of said town. and was
duly passed and adopted by the electors and
legal voters OF said town: and
WHEREAS, there is conferred upon said
town by virtue of Subdivision Thirteen OBJ of
Section TIC, Subdivisions Ten l1ol, Twenty
two % and Twenty-six 1851 of Section 1913.
and Section 942 and 943 Of the Wisconsin
Statutes for 1893. and by Chapter 3I2 Of the
General Laws of Wisconsin for 1903 and the act.
amendatory thereof and the General Laws Of
the State of " iScOnSin; the power to install
water works for fire protection. and further
to purchase all necessary apparatus for the
extingu |hment of fires the erection Of engine
houses for the protection from fire. and to
erect lamp posts and lamps and provide for tho
lighting of any portion of the village or streets
thereof by gas or otherwise and to issue the
bonds of said town for the purpose of meeting
the expense thereof; and
WHEREAS, the Eagle River Light & Water
Company is the owner of electrct light
plant consisting of one and two story solid
brick building, with boilers. engines and
dynamOs and a system of poles and wires for
lighting the streets of the said village of Eagle
River by electricity, and also machinery for
generating power to pump water through the
mains OF said village OF Eagle River for fire
prot ectiOn, and has entered into a contract
with said Town of Eagle River for lighting by
electricity the streets OF said village of Eagle
RIVER and pumping water through mains in the
| streets of the said village of Eagle Ril er for
fire protection; and
WHEREAS. the said Eagle Riverl Light &
Water Company has submitted to the Town
Board of the town of Eagle River, and filed
with the Town Clerk OF said town, a PROPOSE
ton in WritiLg Of the following tenor to-wit
To the Town Board of Supervisors Of the
Town of Eagle River, Villas County, Wisconsin:
Gentlemen: The undersigned, EAGLE RIVER
! LIGHT AND WATER COMPANY, a corporation duly
organized under the laws of the State of Wis
consin, and the owner Of an electric light fran
| ch1se fer the planting OF poles and stretching
| thereon wires in the village of Eagle River in
! Sid town of Eagle River. and the owner of al
electric light plant in the said village of Eagle
River which is being operated under con
tract with the said town of Eagle River for
the furnishing of electric ghts for lighting the
streets in the said village of Eagle River and al
sowith the permission of the said town of Eagle
! River furnishing electric light for private use
said contract being entered into and said fran
chise granted by the said town of Eagle River
pursuant to authority vested in said town by
| a resolution duly passed and adopted at an an
nual town meeting by the e.ectors of said
town of Eagle River, comforting upon the said
! town of Eagle River and the Town Board Of
said town pursuant to Subdivision Thirtaer
(l3) of Section 776 of the Wisconsin Statutes for
! 1898, all Of the powers of the village boards as
| OO J11C EO7atxr rNP lot
utes. does hereby. pursuant to a request OF
many of the taxpayers of said town of Eagle
River submit the following propositions First
| to sell and convey by good and sufficient deed
! OF conveyance with covenants of warranty and
against 1ncum brances, with abstract showing
title, IN fee simple, in the undersigned. Eagle
River Light and Water Company. the follow
ing described piece or parcels of land, situated
in said town of Eagle River, described as fol
lows, tO-Wit
The certain piece or parcel of land bounded
as follows: Commencing at the Northwest
corner of Lot numbered Four a. in Block NUM-
bered Two ~ of Fingers Addition to the vii
lage of Eagle River, Villas County, Wisconsin:
running thence North along the west line of
said lot numbered four a. in said block extend
ed to the south bank of the Eagle River: run
ming thence northeasterly along the south
bank of said Eagle River to the right of way of
the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Com
papy; running thence sOutherly along the west
boz ndary line of said right of way of the Chi
cago & Northwestern Railway Company to the
point where the north line of lot four IA in
block seven % of Dickinson, Cook and Tam
blngs Addition to the village of Eagle River
extended, crosses said west boundary line of
said Chicago & Northwestern Hallway Com
pany right OF way; thence westerly along said
extension Of said north boundary line Of said
northwest corner of said lot four (D block
seven o. thence south, along the west line
Addition aforesaid to the northeast corner
of lot numbered two ri in said block
numbered two III in said Fingers Addition.
running thence west along the north line Of
lots numbered two III, three L3l, and four al
in said block numbered two ri in said Fingers
Addition to the place of beginning, together
with the one two-story solid brick building used
as power house and electric light plant stu
aGed thereon also,
The certain piece or parcel of land bounded
as follows: Commencing at the northwest cor
ner Of lot numbered four AZ in block numbered
two (2) of Fl lgers Addition to the village of
Eagls river: running thence north along the
west line of said lot numbered four a. in said
block extended to the southern bank of the
Eagle river: running thence southwesterly
along the south bank of siad river to the point
where the north line of said lot numbered four
"a in said block numbered two (D of Fix gers