Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-08-09
MR.. SCHULTZ TELLS
OF ISLE OF PINES
BROTHER OF E. W. SCHULTZ
HAS JUST RETURNED.
Visited in WdtertoWn Yesterday
Has Large Assortment of Views
Says Prospects We're Never
Better-TreeS GrOdn With Fruit
Limbs PrOpped.

w. G.. Schultz, who recently re-
turned from the Isle of Pines, is a
visitor in Watertown, the guest of
his brother, Z. w. Schultz, who is
also Interested with him in extensive
land operations in that promising
country. The brother, who has just
returned came yesterday from Fond du
Lac, here his wife's people reside and
where they visit when in this coun-
try. A representative of The Leader
enjoyed visit with the gentlemen at
the down town Office of +. w. Schultz
Yesterday and was shown some Inter
esting views from the Isle of Pines.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. @. Schultz reached
Fond du Lac from the Isle of Pines
last Saturday, having been met at
Chicago by Mr.. and Mrs. E. w.
Schultz. They will spend some months
in this city and vicinity before return
ing to their island home. They are
both enjoying the best of health, and
seem better pleased than ever with
the Isle of Pines. where Mr.. Schultz
is regarded as both patriach and
pioneer, having been the first Wiscon-
sin man to set foot on the island and
mark it out as a fertile field for intel
ligent promotion, as we'll as an ideal
spot for home. That his foresight,
which some were inclined to question
at the time, was exceedingly good
succeeding events have born witness,
for the Isle of Pines proposition is
no longer ali experiment. 1t has been
known all along that it has an ideal
climate and good water, essentials to
a good residence place, and now 1T is
known that it has productive soil,
for fruits grown on trees planted
since the American INVASION" six
years ago, are already bearing fruit
and, in both quantity and quality, it
comes up to the claims advanced for
it.
A good many people who are inter-
ested in the Isle OF Pines, and who
have never been able to visit the
island, will find entertainment, as
we'll as information, in a collection
of unusually good photographs which
Mr.. Schultz has brought home with
him. and which he will be pleased to
show to any one who cares to see
them. These views tell more forcibly
than words can portray the progress
which has been made on the island
during the past five years. They show
stretches .of land in it's natural,
condition, as the settlers found it.
they show the first step IN orchard
planting, and then the various stages
OF development, in one, two, three
and four years, and then the ripened
fruit. These are not fanciful pictures,
either. They are actual photographs,
and it required twelve and half days
of time, besides a lot of travel, to
secure the views, some of which are
panoramic views six feet in length,
showing whole orchards. Then there
are the views showing the bank build
ing at Sante t'e, the post office and
various cottages scattered throughout
the island, including the attractive
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Schultz. They
were taken in various parts of the
island, and both interesting and in
stinct. One view shows the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Rudolph Hermann,
formerly of Rosendale, who formerly
resided near Fond du Lac. Mr.. Her
mann is a blacksmith, snd a good one,
too-the best on the island, ano people
come twenty miles to have work done
at his shop. He has been On the island
two years. during which he has built
a comfortable residence, blacksmith
shop and paint shop and barn.
Mr.. Schultz is in a very hopeful
frame of mind concerning the affairs
of the island and It's future prospects.
In the course of an interview he said:
''The prospects for the Isle OF. Pines
were never better than they are today.
People are arriving the from various
sections of the country to make their
home, and the work of setting out
orchards, building homes and develop