Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1912-02-09
dous advantage to the community.

QOuS advantage TO the community.
Another advantage. scarcely less
important altho as yet not realized, IS
the wealth of water power waiting to
be used The town OF Eagle River
owns and operates dam across the
Wisconsin River four miles from the
village from which power is derived
for the electric light plant and the
water works. within few years the
town will also own aud operate these
plants, thus furnishing these conyen-
fences at the lowest cost as well as pro-
viding adequate fire protection; and
besides viii have thousands of horse
power to give to manufacturing
plants as an inducement for locating
here. This viii eventually guarantee
steady employment TO scores and hum
dreds OF persons, One plant has
already started here.
No better statement of the true con-
ditions in Villas county can be made
than that of Henry Wallace, founder
and publisher of Wallace's Farmer,
farm journal of Des Moines, Iowa who
visited this section few months ago
and although before coming was pred
udiced against the ''cut over lands OF
the north, went back most favorably
impressed Mr.. Wallace is one of the
most prominent authorities on agri-
culture in the United States, is :
dent of the National Conservation
Congress and was appointed by Roose-
welt as a member of the country Life
Commission. He wrote for his journal
in part as follows.
And why not more settlers?
Simply because OF the work clearing it
up. The sight of field of pine stumps
which have been lifted up out of the
ground by dynamite, or OF the log
heaps Of down stuff, will make the
sweat ooZe out of every pore of the
prairie farmer He is used to blowing
long burrows without ston or stumpand
SO he goes, in preference, to the semi
arid west and takes chances on rain
fall. and that the rain will follow the
pillow; or to Canada, and takes chances
OF long distance, high rate transporta-
tion, and chance of frost at harvest,
Villas county is the Mecca for the
farmer with Drawn. Northern Wis
consin is no longer, strictly speaking,
a poor mans country, inasmuch as
poor man with unlimited energy is as
wealthy and can do as we'll as one
worth millions of coin. 1t takes less
"a pltesi W secure d nome III this cut.over
country than in either the irrigated or
country is the nearest to poor mans
country that now remains. It is not
country for the city-bred poor man or
the man who wants to get rich quick,
nor the man who lacks patience, nor
the man who is afraid of work.
On the other hand it must be said
markets for potatoes, butter, eggs,
poultry and everything that man
ought to try to grow in this section are
the very best, and always will be so, as
long as there are great iron mines
north and great cities south.
Wisconsin has never as yet produced |
a crop failure and the man with little
money, or much money, will find it a
guaranteed producer if be has the es-
sentials to make it such energy, pa
thence and confidence that what he |
puts into the ground is bound to bring
him four-fold it properly taken care of. |
Strikers will never make success of
farming, be it in Wisconsin, Iowa or
any other state in the Union"
If any reader OF this paper desires
further or more specific information
in regard to conditions in Villas coun-
ty or desires to communicate with land
owners, an inquiry addressed to the
editor OF this paper will receive
DrOf11Dt attention