Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-02-22

as to individuals and as a community.
Let us pay our bills. That will
make money easier with the other
fellow, and enable him to pay his bills.
If we are truly prosperous we can do
this. Then if we have money left, let
us fix up our place of business, re-
paint our homes where they are in
need of it, see that the wife has a new
gown or suit, if we can afford it.
At the same time, let us look around
the city and see what we can do as
individuals, or collectively, to demon
strate our appreciation of the things
we have been overlooking, opportuni
ties that lie at our doors neglected,
and which if developed would favor
ably impress the stranger and force
home upon him without further eX
PLANTATION the fact that we are pros
porous, and which would be a real
step in this Prosperity game.
! The topography of the country i'm
mediately surrounding Wausau is as
people. That this is so, is largely our
own fault, and the result is that not
Iappreciating the possibilities of this
section of the country, large sums of
money which would otherwise be
spent here, are every year spent in
other communities.
Why not go at it and make Wausau
a summer resort town for our own
people at least, and if we succeed in
doing this, we will draw many others
here who will spend money with our
merchants and mechanics. Surely the
opportunities are here. All they need
is development.
Many of our citizens have summer
cottages on the banks of lakes far to
our north, places where at best they
can spend only a few days each year,
while if they had these places closer
to the city, they could enjoy them for
several months each summer, spend
ing the day in Wausau and the evenings
with their families. Besides this there
are many others who cannot afford
the expense of long journey to these
lakes, who cannot get away from
their places of business for a length
of time that will justify the eXpendi-
ture and whose families are unwilling
to go to the wilderness alone and with
out the head of the family.
Are the opportunities here?
They are.
Adjacent to the limits of the city
and within easy reaching distance of
the center of the city, are a number
of places that could be converted into
most attractive summer resorts, and
which in. almost any other city of
equal size and Importance with Wau-
sau would long since have been ap-
preciated and developed. Just north
of the city and along the banks of the
Wisconsin river are innumerable SITES
. sites that we have ignored for the rea-
son that up to within a few years the
river was not navigable on account
of the log booms and the logs. Now
that the river has ceased to be the
great highway over which the logs are
brought to the mills, the booms have
been removed from the river and there
is stretch of river five or six miles in
length where the boating is excellent
and along the shores of which are
sites for club houses, private homes
and bathing beaches. The scenery is
= more beautiful that anything that can
be found at the lakes.
Also along the Eau Claire river are
a number of places that are ideal for
boating, bathing and for summer
: homes. There is not only beautiful
scenery but the water is smooth and
safe and there are a number of bath
ing beaches which have been used for
years by a few of the knowing ones
Here we find also a few forties OF
white pine, beautiful groves that
should be preserved, but which will
not unless they fall into the hands
of some who appreciate their beauty
and will retain them for that. These
groves could be bought at a price
which would permit of their being cut
up into small lots and sold to home
builders, at reasonable figures.
Then we have Lake Wausau and Ril
= river where there are ideal location:
- for summer cottages.
All of these are within easy reacl
of the city. Business and professional
men could spend their evenings an'
Sundays here and be at their place
of business. The drawback is tina
one or two do not care TO make a nov
along this line, but if it was popular
: ized, if attractive resorts were con
10 structed along these rivers, the move
l. ment would be emulated and soon W
a = would have summering places o
which we would all be proud ant
NJ which would be shown to visitors, an
!" would be the means of attracting 9th
ers here.
r There is money in it more ways thai
- one.
There is Prosperity hidden ava
here.