Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-08-11


at Baraboo. a subsidiary of the Unit
ed States Steel corporation, has COM
msnced the erection of plant at
North Freedom to cost $250,OOO.
| The Fairbanks-Morse company will
erect an addition 100 feet long TO
the erecting shop at Racine, an ad-
dition 100 feet long to the paint
shop; an addition rs feet long to
the warehouses.
The first step toward improving
La Crosse county roads has been
taken by the county board by the
appropriation of $4,000. Many OF
the improvements will be made this
fall
The Northern Milling company OF
Wausau, is contemplating the opera
ton of its entire plant by electric
ity. The mill has been shut down
for two weeks to permit the MAX
/ ing OF connections with the elevator
in course of construction.
] The embargo against the landing
OF hay and straw from Pennsyl-
vania, New Jersey, New York. Mary.
land and Delaware in Great Britain
has been removed by the British
board of agriculture. 1t was de-
clared originally because of foot and
mouth disease.
Business men and farmers of
Schleisingerville and vicinity. organ
lied the Farmers Supply company
with a capital stock of $4,000. The
object of the company is to deal in
grain, -four and feed, lumber, wire,
lime, tile, coal, cement and all kinds
LOT building material.
Directors of the Diamond Lumber
company at Green Bay announce that
they have decided to erect a steel
and concrete sawmill which VIII cost
over 100000, it is believed, to re-
place the mill destroyed by fire a
month ago. The capacity of the plant
will reach 10000 feet per day.
Charles R. Crane of Chicago, min
lister to China, who has returned to
New York, announces that American
manufacturers are already planning
an energetic commercial campaign
throughout the treaty port districts
OF China. 1--WE shall need strong
banking institutions in China" he
added
Otto Green of the Green Stone and
Quarrying company of Sturgeon Bav
| reports that the shipments of stone
from their quarries this season av-
erage about $4,000 week. Most of
the shipments consists of stone or
crib and rip-rap work and is CON.
signed to Kenosha, ST. Joe, Holland
and Waukegan
A crew OF surveyors is laying out
plans for the construction of large
glass factory and general manufac.
turing plant to be built at Menasha by
the onward Manufacturing company
Mr. Little, president of the company.
states that the entire plant, in which
the sliding furniture shoe is mann
featured, will be moved to the new
location
There are two places for every
dollar available for reclamation work
curing 1910, said F. H. Newell d.
rector of the reclamation service
who has reached Portland, Oregon
That is the reason why a confer
ence has been arranged between the
supervising engineers of the entire
reclamation field and Secretary of the
Interior Ballinger"
Barron county farmers who have
raised peas for the Waukesha Can.
ming company this season have real
lied from $38 to SAT per acre after
paying for the seed Sugar beets
net them from $3S to $40 per acre
The best tobacco in the state is
raised in Barron county and brings
the farmer from 500 to $125 per.
acre. The Barron Cooperative Cream
cry company paid out $4,000 for
butter fat last month, paying rs
cents per pound. The hay crop is
large Oats, corn and potatoes look
promising. Many farmers have in
from ten to twenty acres of pota-
toes