Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-07-27
NEWS OF THE WORLD
ARoR AND INDUSTRY.

The addition which is being built
by the Menominee & Marinette Box
company is nearly completed at Mar
ineue. The new building will cover
almost as much space as the old fac
tory and large number of extra
men VIII be employed.
While the Starke Dredge company
was digging a channel in Root river,
at Racine, a copper cable, weighing
over 1000 pounds, was picked up.
How the cable came to be at the
bottom of the river is not known.
1t was sold at II cents a pound.
The Hurley Gas company has com
Dleted its plant and began making
gas and both Hurley and Ironwood
are being supplied with gas. The
gas franchise was granted to H. M.
Wallace, Detroit, and Andrew Fyfe,
Grand Rapids, who have financed and
installed gas plants in Ludington and
Iron Mountain, Mich, and Stoughton,
Wis
w. E. Hallenbeck, Wausaukee,
George P. Eisman, formerly of Me
nominee, Wesley Wells, KallaspelI,
Mont, are looking over a timber pro
position at Glendale, Ore, with a
view of forming a business partner
snip. The deal, if closed, will in
clude the purchase of 1O0,0O0000
feet Of standing timber, a logging
railroad and a large sawmilI.
Four hundred of the 10000 corpor-
attons of Wisconsin have not filed
annual reports with the secretary OF
state. Secretary Frear is sending
out lists of delinQuents. TIE penalty
for failure to file reports ON or be-
fore March l is a fine of $40 Revo-
cation of the charter follows after q
lapse of a year. By paying the fine
a company is permitted to retain its
charter.
Are the numerous lakes that com
pose. the great stretch of water
thirty miles north of Chippewa Falls,
known as Lake Chetek, drying up?
That question is being asked, as the
surface of the Chetek lakes has been
lowered two and one-half feet this
summer The water is the lowest
zhat 1t has been in years, as the re-
sulr of the light rainfall and evap-
0ratiOn by the universal heat.
State Supt. of Fisheries James |
NeVin said that during the last eight |
cen years the value of fish caught |
by Wisconsin fishermen in the great :
fakes had increased from $2O8,85O to
1928 658, about 300 per cent. The !
number of pounds had increased from
9,766.934 to 2O,658,776. The superin-
tendent said that the prevailing inn
preston that the quantity of fish in
the great lakes was decreasing was
erroneous.
Discovery of the existence of a
new counterfeit $40 gold certificate
ms been announced by John E. Will
gle, chief Of the secret service div1-
sion at Washington. The certificate
is represented of the act of July Il,
1882, series of 1901, and bears the
check letter ID" plate number 15U,
Che signatures of w. T. Vernon, reg
ISTer of the treasury; Lee McClung,
of the United States, and
The portrait of Hilligas.
The largest tissue paper machine
is now in operation at the plant of
the John Hoberg company at Green
Bay. 1t is operated by electric
power furnished by the Green Bay
Traction company, and when the
Northern Hydro Electric Power com.
pany is in position to bring current
from High Falls, the Hoberg COM
pany will run all of it's machinery
by electric power. A number of dy-
namos will be used in the mill The
capacity of the Hoberg mill will be
Increased about one-half when the
big tissue machine is running at top
speed.