Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-02-17

i Town. OF EAGLE RIVERS
i WHEREAS. the town OF Eagle River,
Villas County, Wisconsin, is duly authorized by
| Chapter S3 of the General Laws of the State
of Wisconsin for the year 1908. to build and
maintain a dam across the Wisconsin River in
said town. for public uses and purposes and to
obtain hydraulic power for generating cleo
tricity for lighting the streets bridges and
i public Buildings of the unncorporeted Village
OF Eagle River in said town and to furnish
electric light TO the inhabitants thereof and
TO obtain hydraulic power for operating water
works for the purpose OF supplying the village
and the inhabitants thereof with W tier and to
obtain hydraulic power to be used for any
other lawful municipal purposes and
WHEREAS, the said Town of Eagle River is
in said Chapter 1873 of the General Laws of
the State of Wisconsin for the year 1905 fur
Their authorized in the said dam as so con-
Structed and maintained shall make available
for use any electrical power which shall not
be continuously needed and used for the pur-
poses aforementioned, the said towns author
lied and empowered TO let, lease or rent the
Esame for use for any lawful private purpose,
such lease. however, not to be for longer
; term than twenty years and
+ WHEREAS, S. S, Van Nostrand and John
j Klein have submitted to the Town Board of
the said Town Of Eagle River. and filed with
the Town Clerk of SAID town a proposition in
writing Of the following tenor, to-wit:
TO the Town Board of Supervisors of the
Town Of Eagle River, Villas County, Wiscon-
sin.
Gentlemen:-
The undersigned John j. Klein and s. s.
Van Nostrand, pursuant to requests of the
citizens of said Town of Eagle River. respect
fully submit the following proposition and re-
marks explanatory thereof:
AT the urgent requests of large number of
the citizens of the town of Eagle River and in
good faith relying upon the representations
made US by such citizens and upon the aSSur
anceS given us by your honorable body we
came to Eagle River the second day OF
October, 90S, for the purpose OF equipping
and operating IA factory for the manufacture
OF articles from aluminium tin and other
metals.
! .,f+ l,a b,ua cip
the second day of October. 1908, expended
for labor and material in arranging the upper
room OF the Eagle kiyer Light 4 Water Com
pany'S building for u factory the sum of more
than $2O0.uO; we have also purchased and in
stalled machinery and materials IN said build
ing which with the labor for the setting and
placing of said machinery, mas cost over the
sum OF So 90.
The above are facts which we can and will
be pleased to prove to the SatlSfaS ION OF any
person VINO is Interested and who Is willing To
come to the factory, inspect the machinery
and examine the vouchers
Among the representations maze and aSSur-
ances given by the citizens of Eagle River and
your honorable body was the assurance that
we could have sufficient power furnished by
the power plant of the town to run our factory
now and in the future the plant grew and
the business developed The time has come
when it is necessary that we know definitely
| what we are to have In the way OF power.
Until this is done we do not feel Justlhed IN
going to further expense in the matter. The
| time has also come when we feel that the
citizens should be fully informed as to what we
require and Tor such purposes we submit the
folio wing proposition:
TO make, execute and deliver in duplicate,
a contract with the said Town OF Eagle River,
whenever the town board of said town is duly
and legally authorized and directed so to do by
the electors of said town, at d special town
meeting and election, at which the question Of
the making or re jecting of said contract shall
have been duly andlegally submitted, said con
| tract to be OF the following tenor, to-w1t:
Memorandum OF Agreement made in dnpli-
cate this. day OF .-....., Is 900. by and be-
t1upk no W yrn ~ Ia Or
| Wisconsin, its SUCCESSORS and assigns party OF
the llst part, and ). ). Van Nostrand and
John j. Klein their heirs, executors. admins.
traitors ana assigns. parties OF the second part:
WIrNGoSfs fl. That the party Of the hrst
part, Tor and il consideration of the payment
20 il by Tie parties OF the second part or one
Dviar pc. Year, payaDie ON the List day OF
July III each Jear ald of he mutual covenants
ne einafter expressed. hereby leases To > ).
Van y oSurand and .lol4n j. Klein. their heirs.
executors, aIminiStra tors and assigns, Tor u
period OF fifteen years from and afterthe GATE
| or tnis agreement, sixty noise power OF tne
surplus electrical power now owned by said
| first party and generated at the Otter Rapids
dam Ia said town 70 be Delivered to the second
part from the power house OF first party III
the village of Eagle River, in said town.
1.-The surplus electrical power above men
ii ,neu Is s4nuSrstOod to medn that par. of the
electrical power now owned, generated anu
transmitted by the first party to its power
house in the village OF Eagle River, and being in
| excess or the amount required for its munici-
pal purposes or now under contract to other
parJleS.
| Inc parties OF lD6 second part, .. van
Nostrand and John j. Klein, for and in con-
sderation of the foregoing covenants, and OF
the mutual covenants herein contained, do
/ hereby agree and bind themselves to equip,
1 operate aud maintain in the Village of Eagle
| River. in said town. during the period of fifteen
years before mentioned a plant for the manu-
facture of articles from aluminium, tin and
other metals, and to use said power so furnish
ed by said irst party in the operation OF said
1 plant
.,1he parties OF the second part further
agree to furnish and install at their
pense, all appliances and machinery necessary
for the transmission Of said sixty horse power
from said place OF delivery to their plant; and
further agree and bind themselves to employ
IN the operation of said plant on an average,
not less than one person for every three horse
power used in operating the same.
1T is further mutually covenanted and
| agreed by and between the parties hereto that
| in case the said second parties shall at any
time after three months from the date hereof,
| and during the said period OF fifteen years, fail
to operate said plant and to employ said num-
Der OF persons as hereinbefOre set forth, for a
continuous period of ninety days or more.
then all the rights and privileges granted to said
second parties under the terms of this agree
ment shall Immediately become void and of no
effect, without notice from action on the
part of said Town of Eagle River Provided
that any delay or interruption in the operation
of said plant caused by fires, accidents. strikes
! injunctions, or other causes beyond the con-
troll OF said second parties, Shall not be COM
! puted as any part of said ninety day period.
1T is further covenanted and agreed by and
between the parties hereto that the said second
parties, S. ). Van NoStrand and John j. Klein
| shall have the option, at any time within three
! years from the date hereof to use, during said
period of fifteen years, and under the same
terms as the sixty horse power hereinbeforc
mentioned. additional electrical power to be
produced at sad Otter Rapids dam to the
amount of one hundred and ninety horse pow
er upon the express condition that said second
| parties. before becoming entitled TO said addi
tional power, shall install and equip one of the
wheel pits and the power house at said dam
with all necessary machinery and appliances
sufficient to develop and transmit to said vii
| lage of Eagle River power equal in amount to
that generated and transmitted bM said town
at the date OF this agreement, and shall so
transmit said power. All expense of develop
| ing and transmitting said additional power
| shall be borne by said second pal ties. and all
machinery and appliances SO installed by said
second parties shall, from the time of the in
stallation of the same be owned by and be the
| property of said Town of Eagle River.
| 1T is further mutually covenanted and