Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-04-14
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.

! Practically every lumber and saw
mill Of Marinette and vicinity will b.
in full operation within the next few
days.
Tie Manitowoc Church and School
Supply company has taken over the
factory buildings of the old Mantle
voc Toy company.
NJ c. Weimer, a former newspaper
man Of Sbeboygan, has been appoint
ed eastern manage Of the Badger
state Tanning company with head
quarters at Boston, Mass.
The acreage Of beets under con-
tract in Crawford county is on the
increase. Over six hundred acres are
now secured and more probably will
be added.
The fishing season on Lake Pepin
Is drawing to & close. Fishermen are
beginning to take up their nets.
Sixty carloads Of fish have been
shipped from here.
The first gas manufactured in the
Mexican republic will be furnished
for the capital of that republic by Dec.
by the Mexican National Gas com.
pany, a s2,5e0.0O0 Delaware corpora.
ton.
The Pierce Motor company has
been Incorporated with a capital
stock OF 100000 by men identified
with the J. l. Case Threshing Ma
chine company at Racine. The plant
viii be enlarge
With the exception Of he Norfolk
e. Western all railroads In the state
put into effect the new 2 10 cont pas
senger rate The Norfolk & Weston
found It impossible to arrange mat
ters go soon.
The Fox River Paper company is
planning t. establish central
power plant at Appleton for its
three mills with an equipment of
battery of four boilers of $50 horse
power each.
Patents have been granted to A. J.
OBrien of Beloit on a gas generating
oil burner TO be used in heating
stoves. II is claimed that the inyen-
burning oil for heating purposes.
After sinking two drill holes to a
depth of almoft 300 feet and spend
ing $1,000 In the work, operations on
! the artesian we'll project at New
/ London, Wis, have been stopped A
hydraulic engineer will now be hired
to look into the lob.
| The la Crosse Brick company has
| been organized to manufacture a new
style of cement brick Plans for the
proposed factory are completed and
orders for brick have already been
booked Ernest j wege is the invent
Or Of the process.
! ]. p. MeAnulty. secretary of the
Eau Claire Commercial association.
has received a letter from a big soap
manufacturer of Christiana, Norway
who states that he may sell out In in
terests in the old country and estab,
fish big factory in that city.
Efforts TO consolidate about seventy
five OF the Independent fertilizer
companies In the south into a $50
100000 corporation have been virtu.
| ally completed, 1t is understood
! that J p Morgan \ Co. will act as
hacal agent for the company
Nearly 81 900. 600 worth of pulpwood
has been distributed among the mills
in the Fox river valley from the rar-
road yards In the last twelve months.
The majority OF this goes to the mills
At Combined Locks. Little Chutes.
kimberly Appleton. Menasha and
| NaenAh.
Beating the United States Steel
corporation, which. 1t is said. had
been intending to secure the prop
erty. deal was closed by independ.
ent steel concerns for 100000 acres
of the Pi'tsburg Coking company. ly.
Ing in c. Gene, Fayette anA washing.
ton counties. PennsylvaI Ia, NJ a
price OF 1000. 600