Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-07-13

be regulated as agreed upon Oy the
said hydralic interests, the Town of
Eagle River and ourselves. The water
to be handled according to such agree
ment, under the direction of the COM
mission to be made up substantially as
follows:
One person to be appointed by the
Town of Eagle River, one person to be
appointed by the hydraic corporation
taking such conveyance, and in case of
their failure to agree the third arbiter
shall be selected by said two, and in
case of their failure to agree. by the
Circuit Court of Villas County. The
consideration to US, for such convey
ance, TO be the sum of, nine thousand
dollars, $4,000 00) in cash.
We will fnrther add that we are will
ing to cooperate with you in bringing
together at such convenient place, at
the earliest possible date, a meeting
of Representatives of all the hydralio
interests on the Wisconsin River,
with view to agreeing upon some
plan, herein outlined, and TO reduce
the same to writing.
Respectfully yours.
| Alexander Stewart Lumber Co.
/ BY Walter Alexander, Sec'y.
| Brown Brothers Lumber Co.
By A. W. Brown, Pres.
The meeting reterre1 to sai6
proposition was called and held at
Wausau on July 9th and was at
tended by practically all of the
water power interests on the Wis
consln river from Eagle River to
Plover, Portage Co. 1t is the
opinion of both Mr.. Hirzel and
Mr.. R;ordan that the discussion
which took place at said meeting
is the direct cause of the town
acquireing the title of the dam
site by warranty deed from the
owners without c. nditions and
limitations, for the reason that, as
the result of suck conference prac-
tically all of the representatives OF
tie water power present at said
meeting expressed themselves in
favor of the Town of Eagle River
building a dam at Otter Rapids
and developing the power and
treating the people of Ragle River
thereafter as possessing interests
in the water power in the Wiscon-
sin river, rather than treating them
and the Eagle waters as reservoir
interests only. In view of the
sentiment so unanimously ex
pressed, the owners of the dam
site at Otter Rapids, the Stewart
and Brown Bros. Lbr. Co.'s, sold
direct to the town as stated and
the deeds are now on record in
the office of the Register of Deeds,
Mr.. Hirzel causing them to be re-
corded on his return from Wausau
Wednesday.
The plans and specifications for
the dam and machinery are being
prepared by Jacobson & Degueir,
hydralic engineers of Grand Rap
/ ids, Wis, and Mr.. Hirzel expects
them to be ready early next week
and Immediately thereafter the
Town Board will advertise for
bids for the construction of the
dam and the installing of the
necessary machinery to provide
for lighting the streets and pump
Ing water for public use.
The plans will also provide for
dam with wheel pits, sufficient
to develope from 600 20 500 horse
power, which will be disposed to
manufacturers desiring to locate
in Eagle River.
The manner in which this pow
er will be disposed Of, is the next
important matter for the citizens
of Eagle River to consider, and
doubtless the town BOARD and the
citizens committee will in the near
future provide fer public meet
ing to discuss this question and in
the meantime, THE REVIEW will
be pleased to publish the views of
any of our citizens on the subject.
That the dam site has been Sc
cured without any legal resorts, is
more than gratifying to all CT our
citizens, and they should also be
grateful to Messrs. d. E. Riordan
and Mart Hirzel, who have for the
past several months devoted much
of their time in accomplishing the
desired wants and needs of our
town and citizens-a dam site at
Otter Rapids. Now that the site
has been secured each and every
citizen should do all in their pow