Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-05-19
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.

The Northern Milling company OF
| Wausau will erect a new grain elevat-
or this summer, with a capacity OF
10000 bushels, costing $4,000.
The Appleton Pure Milk company
has been organized and incorporated
with capital stock of $4,000 A new
method of milk pasteurization, will
be employed. The concern will also
manufacture ice cream.
Municipal ownership of the gas
| plant has proven to be a profitable
undertaking at Manchester, England
| The city's profits since the works
were taken over, % years ago. have
been $6,750,307. The price of gas is
| 35 cents thousand cubic feet.
Strikers who rushed On board the
steamer Charles w. Kotcher at Buff
| alo to take off the crew We're met with
a volley of shots by the special men
on board. The strikers stuck to the
boat until the police reserves arrived.
| They then scattered and ran.
According to a report prepared by
State Forest Warden Pierce, the
| Michigan forest fires of last autumn
did damage amounting to $2,570,446.
A federal government report some
time ago estimated the Michigan
losses at $44,000,O00.
The 2,720-acre ranch of M. f. Cab
alan, four miles north of Rec Heights,
! S. D., has just been sold to Helti-
bride & Shuster for $6S,000 or s25 an
acre. This is the largest land sale
( made here this season. The place has
an artesian well and improvements.
"A periodical revision of our tar
if laws and the creation of a per-
manent bureau or commission for
this purpose were advocated by Theo-
dore P. Shonts, president of the In
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS railway sys
tenn of New York in an address before
the Economic club.
Jacobson & LIE Guere, architects in
Grand Rapids, have secured a large
contract from the Menasha Paper
company of Menasha to erect a
twenty-five ton sulphite plant. Also
an eight grinder pulp mill at Lady.
smith, Wis, where this company al
ready has large paper mill.
The Manitowoc Water company is
sinking test wells on the south side
lake front preparatory to increasing
the water supnl-- Three holes have
been put down and an excellent sup
ply OF aqua pura located. new sup
ply well will be sunk early this sum-
mer.
The new plant of the Fox River
Knitting Works company at Apple
ton is now in operation with a force
of 80 workers, which will be steadily
Increased until there are nearly 100.
Most of the hands now employed were
with the company at Menasha. Inc
buildings. formerly used as watch
factory, have been remodeled The
machinery is all new
Work on another big ditch or ca
nal which will redeem thousands OF
acres of farm lands in the western
end of Kenosha county has been COM
menced. The ditch will be eight
miles long, six feet deep and an aver
age and sixteen to twenty-four feet
wide. 1t will cost approximately
$4,000. Ninety thousand cubic yards
of earth are to be removed at 93-4
cents per yard
A crew of machinists are at work
overhauling the machinery and equip
ment of the Menominee River Sugar
company's plant at Marinette The
company this year will have a longer
run than in any previous ear. More
acreage has already been contracted
for. and new contracts are being made
every day An official OF the company
has been in ST. Louis several weeks
and expects 10 be able to get several
hundred families to come here to
work in the beet fields.