Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-04-18
FORMER VERNON COUNTY PEOPLE WHO
ARE PROSPERING IN THE WEST.

} mia, to his daughter, Mrs C. H Trow
bridge, of this city:
So migratory have been the people
westward of recent years, that person
of even my limited acquaintance, viii
constantly meet with people who at one
time lived in Vernon county. | have
been pleased to meet and have received
many courtesies from Mr.. +. @. Finkle,
one of the most distinguished electric
and hydraulic engineers on the Pacific
coast. Mr. Fiakle's b0Yhood was spent
on farm not far north of ViroquR He
attended the Coon Prairie school; learn
ed well the lessons of the country school
twenty. five years ago, then entered the
Vircqua high school with determine
ton to obtalnan education. c. j. Smith
was principal and Mr. Finkle speaks of
his high appreciation of &C ]. and the
encouraging words to the Norwegian
boy from Coon Prairie. he completed
the Vircqua four year course, and be.
| lieving that but commencement, read
| law In Capt Carter's Office six months;
didn't like law, preferring mathematics,
borrowed money to go to Madison and
| take the Wisconsin university course of
classics and civil engin esring. He be-
| lieved that receiving diploma was but
a commencement and worh was before
/ him with the university parchment
| in his pocket, he saw the star OF empire
| was westward, and westward he travel
ed to California and found work WITH
| the Edison Electric Co in hydraulic er.
| oinesting With his instruments lie
spent much time in the canyons, en- The
mountain eide ard around the snow
| range finding power. He has now sSs-
| AaF of "a hing fhn X
| river from its own course where 1t has
| flowed fer ages and conducting it down
the mountain sides forty-iive miles in
| concrete and steel tubing, cutting TWEEN
| ty.oue tunnels, totaling eight ani a
| quarter miles of hard granite work. The
water is used Eve times in as many pow
or houses. This work is pronounced by
engineers to be the greatest work in hy-
| draulic development for electric pur-
pos.s now in use Ii was planned and
carrie,l ont by Mr.. Finkie, who alone
originated the idea of using power on
the eastern slope of the Sierras and us
ing the same water five times de plac-
ed machinery in position and July lst
will cpen the gates and from the nVe
power plants send an electric current of
g. 900 horse power by, 81 inch wire, an
hundred and twenty-five miles over the
mountains of STOW, through the storm
clouds. across canyons, over foe. hills,
by the poppy fields and towering cactus,
| along the highways, by the orange
groves to Los Angelica, where 1t illIlmi-
| mates business houses, residences, novels
and palaces. churches cathedra E, sypa-
| gogues, mosques, iss houses and China
| town. the Canine del Rey where the
5 AVIATION army is leading the way with
/ drum, cornet and song streets, alleys
and parks. 1t will eend cars lengthwise
and across the city, send cars by four
| lines TO the ocean at 80 miles an hour,
send cars to a dozen suburbs ten and
twenty miles away st the base Of the
| mountains eno one line running to Mt.
Wilson, tar mp in the blue heavens,
! wSere a panorama ~ granduer is before
one seldom seen on this continent. 1t
| will turn the wheels of many manufact-
uring plants and has already gwen new
| life, Industrial life, to d fruit and agri-
cultural country Mr.. Finkle went up
the mountain to study the coming pow
er that is inexhaustible, the storehouse
of the Sierras that seldom fail, for there
is the playground of the blizz ards stor-
ing the contents of the heavy clouds
rolling up the mountains, surgingin the
canyons and laundering when emptying
the frozen vapoT, and all for purpose.
| Without those white cherries peaks OF
SNOW. the stream would flow. 1 was
pleased to meet with Vernon county
youth who had meet with such trium-
| nhant success Mr.. Finkle and his
charming wife have entertained Us gen
erously. extended many courtesies of the
Climb and home for which we are truly
grateful Il was my pleasure to accom-
many him to the mountains to power
i plant and note mighty strides in har-
Messing the mountain brooks and make
them work
1t has been our pleasure TO meet Miss
Jane Butt, a Viroqua girl through to the
high school; teacher In Vircqua grad
uate of the university; good, hand.
some, we'll developed woman of culture
and high dramatic art She IL teaching
In dramatic school with the best Of
success and her future Is assured. an.
ticipate the energy che exhibits in her
chosen field. her love OF the work and
, artistic talents Will place her foremost
as an instructor and actor on the stage
DIR B5uffiaur of Chicago one of the
successful surgeons Of the north 6est is
here for a short course OF climate cure
ard resi-. 7 called to l1ind wren the
doctor can't 10 Vircqua 10 study medi-
Gine in the office Of the late DIR. Chase.
He wanted to be doctor, to know more
of the human system and how it works
how the ''appendix" could be removed
and life 90 on, the gall bladder taken
out and still have gall, how the system
} could work with one kidney, tie arter-
les, remove arms and legs. He worked
hard at his books, finished medical
course in Chicago, done some hospital
work around an Office and has made
name that stands high in the medical
, fraternity. He is an honor to Spring
VILE, wheTe his young life was spent, an
honor 10 his father and mother good
people who dwell in our city, The doc.
tor has delivered course of six legturea
before the LES Angeles and Pasadena
medical societies The doctors long use
OF the knife in the operating room ena-
bled him to tell the Story OF human ils
! and theit treatment Ills lectures were
listened 80 with much interest 10y the
Young and old, and ut the end Of each
lecture be was greeted with applause.
. It has been my pleasure tomeet JAsciuf
X Chaae, son Of Captain Chase, who
read law in the Office OF the late Judge
Graham in 1861. Capt. Chaee served hi,
country in the 18th Wisconsin and ut the
close of the war settled fer Il time In
Madison, where the boy, IN the shadow
of the university, FIRST saw tho light af
terwaIds the captain uuyed to Sioux