Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-10-30
RET URNED FROM PRINCE
ALBERT.

Mr. and Mrs. w. b. Scholfield re
turned home from Prince Albert, Cana
da, on Sunday morning, having beer
Obsent from the city about three weeks
They were called there by the sickness
of their son, William, who was down
with typhoid fever. They left him /;
week ago, and at that time he was able
to sit up and improving rapidly.
In a talk with Mr.. Scholfeld about
his trip, he says that that part of Cana.
da through which they passed is com
ing to the front very fast. Prince
Albert has about 5000 inhabitants and
| it is or the Saskatchewan river
| The Prince Albert Lumber company S
mills are located about two miles from
| the city. Charles j. Winton, of this
city; David Winton, of Thief River
Falls; j. ID. Ross and Jacob MOrtenson,
| of Chicago, are interested in this ex-
tensive lumber company. Their plant
is large one and up-todate in every
respect, and capable of manufacturing
100000 in one year, and which
! amount is expected will be manufac-
tured by the company next year. The
company's buildings are lighted up
with electricity and heated by steam.
Mr.. Scholfield says that logging is car
ried on differently than in Wisconsin.
There are no railroads over which to
haul the logs. The river contains no
booms or piers. The timber is about
| fifty miles further up the river, it is put
into the small streams and driven to
| the main river and there securely en-
| closed in bOoms and taken to the mills
by steamboats,. He thinks that rail-
roads will be built into the forests, and
within few years, the logs drawn to
mills by rail. The country is new and
the towns much like our lumber towns
in an early day.
The land in certain parts of Western
Canada is very fertile and produces
wonderful crops of an extra quality of
wheat, in fact, Mr.. Scholfield thinks, it
is to become the greatest wheat coun-
try of the world. These lands are being
taken up very rapidly by men from the
United States, many from the states of
Ohio and Indiana; men who have goLe
there with their sons to locate them on
claims. There were, also, many foreign
ers going in, the bulk being from Russia
and England.
The country abounds with game of
all kinds and is a paradise for the
sportsman. From the car window, one
day a herd of antelopes was seen travel
ing rapidly over the plains.
Those from Wausau, who are at
Prince Albert, besides W. r. Scholfeld,
are b: Arlye Book, Alvin Berg and Jas.
knutsOn, all of whom are enjoying
good health. Maynard Winton, brother
of C. j. Winton, is also at Prince al.
bert. He has just recovered from a
severe attack of typhoid fever and
while looking somewhat thin, he is fast
regaining his usual robust health.
On their way home, Mr.. and Mrs
Scholfield spent "A day in Winnipeg
AS the former was strolling about the
streets, he spied a figure that looked
very familiar to him. Getting closer
he found that it was BILLY" Allen, and
he fastened to rub up against him good
and hard. Billy" at first looked rath
er ugly and then recognizing his old
friend, he exclaimed, "where in heav
ems name did you come from ?" Mr.
Allen was on his way to Prince Albert
to look over lands and estimate the
standing timber on same for the Prince
Albert Lumber Co. Ellsworth Lille
and James Allen were also in Winnie
peg waiting for their train.
Mr.. and Mrs. Scholfeld spent day
on their return trip with MIR. and Mrs
Karl Mathie, at st. Cloud, Minn.