Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-24
lis RICH AGRICULTURAL SECTION.
Fifty Thousand Acres of Farming Lands Close to This
City, Which Are Being Rapidly Settled Up-New Roads
Being Opened Reasons Why Not Sooner Settled

the county and they have begun open
ing up roads for the settlers.
The range line road between ranges
seven and eight, has recently been
opened up from the old Priest place
north as far as the town line, distance
of over two miles, there TO connect
with the range line road being opened
up by the town of Weston. This has
been cut out for over two miles, and
next summer will be graded up and a
bridge will undoubtedly be built across
| the Bull Junior creek Innumera5le
cross roads are also being opened up
and more will be as the settlers go in.
This system of roadways notonly makes
Wausau accessible TO a large and fer
tile area of farming lands, heretofore
practically cut off from communication
with the county seat, but they give
promise of shorter and better route to
| Mosinee than we have ever bad.
The chairman of the town board.
! Henry KrOnenwetter, aud the side
/ supervisors appear to Re fully awake TO
the possibilities the development of this
section of their town holds in store and
| they are pursuing no narrow policy in
| aiding the growth and development of
what they undoubtedly realize TO be
one of the richest parts of the county.
! Ten years from now this somew hat
barren appearing ard little known
portion of the county will be one of the
most thickly populated and prosperous
| farming regions in Marathon county
and will be devoted largely IL dairying
and cattle raising, and the lands which
are today being sold at merely nominal
prices will advance rapidly in value.
Small sawmills and dairies and
creameries will quickly follow and the
projected Scheduled Berlin branch of
the St. Paul road will undoubtedly
traverse this section.
| While a small portion of the land is
sanGy-, the greater portion is a good,
clay loan, upon which clover and all
kinds of grain and vegetables grow
luxuriantly. 1t is traversed by many
small streams and creeks, good well
water can be had anywhere at depth
of from fifteen to thirty feet, and on
almost every forty there is firewood
enough to last for years In the open
places where there is a large amount of
| down" timber, great trees which have
lain there for years, the farmers are
| beginning to find that there is still
much sound timber. The outer coat
ing of these logs, or the sap as it is
| called, shows every evidence of decay,
but it is no infrequent thing for these
farmers to find logs two feet in thick
ness as sound beneath this coating of
decay as the day they fell, and in many
instances practically clear These they
have cut up at one or the other of the
sawmills during the winter months,
selling the lumber at good price or
using it themselves in the construction
of farm buildings. Some even in this
manner secure enough clear lumber
for siding and finishing purposes, All
in all, those farmers who are settling
here are having an easier and more en-
couraging time than those who have
| populated any other section of this
county, and the chief wonder is that
this land has lain so long idle. Several
| this city, have already purchased tracts
there and are having them cleared off,
one young man owning 400 acres which
he intends to convert into a stock farm
and upon the development of which he
| devotes all his surplus time and money
| 1t is in this section OF the county that
the Mullen Cattle company of whose
, organization an extended notice was
made in the Pilot last week, has pur-
chased whole section of land. This
company is capitalized for $4,000 and
| will at once commence the clearing of
| the land, fencing it and getting it in
readiness to turn out several hundred
head of young stock next spring. The
town will open up new road into this
farm and in doing SO will pass through
several voluable tracts of lands not
heretofore titled and which will I'M
doubleday be taken up as soon as
the road is opened. Some of the
organizers of this company are from
Outagamie county and they are sur
prised that such rich and fertile lands,
so close to the city, can still be obtained
at such low prices, and predict that this
, whole section will be settled up very
rapidly.
In addition to this there is another
stock fern in this vicinity, the one
started several years ago by the late
John Gray, in successful operation,
and from which the owners have
annually made large profit in addition
! to what will come to them from the
, natural increase in the value of their
holdings.
1t is understood that after the Mullen
company gets fairly started an effort
will be made to have the owners of this
other farm join with them in the
erection of a large creamery, for by
that time there will be enough mich
cattle in this district to more than
support such an institution.