Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-06-18

ceSSeS In the '7O'S made the lOcat1OnS
peculiarly adapted to the manufao
ture of paper. Industry after industry,
based upon this manufacture and oper
ated by water power, became estab
Illshed on the river. In fact, it is not
unfair to say that the firm foundation
of the paper industry in Wisconsin,
is creditable to the water-power pos
sibilities of the Fox RIVER system,
Upwards of $4,000 actual horse power
is produced from water-turned wheels
in the 35 miles of it's length, from
Lake Winnebago to Green Bay, the
fall of the river in that distance being
'167 feet, over which the water drain.
ing $500 miles of the area of Eastern
Wisconsin is endlessly falling.
The extent to which this power Is
used in paper making is apparent from
the installations along the river. At
INeenah the Kimberly-C Paper Co.
use 1000 horse power, the Neenah
Paper company nearly 900, and the
Winnebago Paper Mills like amount,
At Menasha the George A. Whiting
company uses 500 horse power, the
Gilbert Paper company half as much,
and the Howard & John Strange Paper
mills about 500 horse power between
them. At Appleton the Kimberly &c
Clark company, the Vulcan, Tioga, At
las and Riverside Paper mills use over
5000 horse power from the upper
dam. The middle dam furnishes the
Fox River Paper Co., the Patton Paper
Co., and the Patton and Telulah Pulp
companies, total of 1900 horse
power. A third or lower dam furnishes
the Telulah Paper company with 1853
horse power.
Farther down the river at Adars
Dam, Kimberley G Clarke are again
users of 1920 horse power, and at
Little Chute, mile belaw Adars, the
Little Chute Paper company consumes
5000 horse power. A mile further the
plant of the Combined Locks Paper
Co. is hooked up to 4,438 horse power.
AT Kaukauna the Badger Paper com.
pany, the Kaukauna Fibre Co., the
Thllmany Pulp Co., the Western Paper
Bag Co., the Outagamie Paper Co., and
the Lindauer and Reese Pulp mills
use up nearly 5000 horse power be-
tween them.
At De Pere, the American Writing
Paper company uses 1000 horse
power.
The Fox River locations were the
beginning Of the paper industry in
Wisconsin. AS the value of the wa
ter powers close to the timber sup
plies became apparent, other water
powers were taken up for paper MAX
ing. On the Menominee, at Little
Quinnesec Falls, the Kimberly &
Clarke company are grinding pulp
and making paper with $500 horse
power. At Marinette, the Marinette
& Menominee Paper company is us,
ing 1900 horse power. At Crivitz,
on the Peshtigo, the Crivitz Pulp &
Paper company has 500 horse power
installed.
On the Oconto the Falls Manufac-
turing company and the Union Mfg.
Co. have 1880 horse power used in
running their paper and pulp mills.
On the Wisconsin at Nekoosa the
Nekoosa Paper Co. has 1850 horse
power operating it's pulp and sulphite
mill. At Port Edwards, the John Ed
wards paper mill is using $500 horse
power, and at South Centralia 1,460
horse power are used by the Cen
tralia Pulp & Water Power Co. At
Grand Rapids the Consolidate Paper
& Power Co. has $500 horse power;
the Pioneer Wood & Pulp company,
500 horse power, and at Biron the
Grand Rapids Pulp & Paper Co. has
800 horse power.
At Stevens Point the Plover Paper
Co. uses 1870 horse power and the
Wisconsin River Paper & Pulp Co.,
1850. At Brokaw dam, near Wau-
sau, the Wausau Paper Mills Co. has
10 wheels producing $500 horse
power. At Merrill the Lindauer Pulp
& Mfg. Co. has $500 horse power;
installed. The new paper mill at
Merrill gets 1000 horse power from
Grandfather Rapids below Merrill. !
AZ IluluSIdAuOA, ZIG
Paper & Pulp Co. has 800 horse
power at Hat Rapids.
On the Chippewa river the Del1s
Paper e Pulp company devote 6,314
horse power to paper and pulp manu-
facture. Away up the Flambeau, at
Ladysmith, the Menasha Paper Co.
has 5000 horse power hooked up. At
Park Falls, on the Flambeau, the
Flambeau Paper Co. has LOO horse
power in the lower dam and 1900 in
the upper dam.
The total horse power from falling
water used in Wisconsin for paper
making amounts. to more than no.
900 in all. Besides this, there are
about 5000 horse power used in
grinding grain into flour and meal,
nearly 5000 horsepower connected
with saw, planning and lumber dress
ing mills, and about 1000 horse
power running wooden and knitting
mills. :
These constitute the developments
of industry based upon the waterfalls
before electricity began to be made
nv waterturned machinery Tho later