Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-03-17

them plated and held at high prices
mer residents are securing the neigh
borhood every season for garden truck
poultry, eggs and small fruit for
which fabulous sums are sent out Of
the county which ought to be, but are
not, raised at home.
Strenuous Land Clearing Campaign
To improve this condition, and to
keep on improving it from now on,
Villas county is staging the most
/ strenuous land clearing campaign in
! her history headed by its energetic
county agent, o. e. Gibson, backed
| by the commercial interests of Eagle
River, Phelps and other communities,
and has set out to double the present
cleared acreage Of 5000 acres in a
single year. This is some job to UNI
dertake for county as sparsely set
tied as is Villas county, but the vim
and energy already shown in the cam
paign, and the readiness with which
the people everywhere fail to and or
| ganize for the work, promises well for
success. The campaign is helped along
wonderfully by the splendid offers
made by the local banks to supply
needed funds to any settler who will
go to work and add to his cleared
/ acreage This will furnish work to
many and will gradually add to the
earning power of the county until the
goal is reached when Villas county
farmers shall be able to grow and
pocket the proceeds for supplies for
which now untold thousands are re-
mitted elsewhere every season. No
other county in Wisconsin will be bet
| ter off in the way of a profitable local
market when Villas. gets her Mfld acre
age cleared and put in commission
The County Seat
Eagle River is the county seat of
Villas county. The place has been a
business site for over 40 years and
was for many years headquarters for
the biggest logging industry in north
eastern Wisconsin along the Michigan
/ border. For many years Eagle River
was a typical lumberjack and sawmill
town with hundreds of transient resi-
dents who disappeared when the saw
mill passed away. The population to-
day is probably about 800 or little
| better, while in the old sawmill days
it reached 1900 However, during the
last five years with the growth of
| farming, water power development
and other industrial enterprises the
town is coming to the front in solid
substantial way, that is there to stay
and grow apace.
| Schools and Hotels
The town has one of the finest loca-
tions in this or any other state, sur
rounded by lakes on all sides and
skirted by the river which gives the
/ town it's name. To begin with, the
schools measure up to the best in up
per Wisconsin and a new high school
! is to be started that will cost not far
from the hundred thousand mark
when equipped and ready for dedi-
cation Eagle River has several good
! hotels The Commercial under Ed
! Perreault's management for it's ctli-
sine The hotel has recently been sold
to Chicago parties who will remodel
! the place from cellar to garnet. The
austin is another hosiery, recently
/ purchased by A. O. Sorensen, who IS
rapidly making it favorite resort
for the travelling public. A. Budde's
new Riverside hotel is one Of the
favorite places with summer guests
/ during the season. It has recently
| been rebuilt within and without and
is now equipped to accommodate
guests at all seasons of the year in a
way that will bring them back. And
lastly there is the remodelled City
hotel with Mrs. M. Langill as landlady
handily situated from the railroad sta
ton and well equipped for the tran
silent and summer trade
The Banks
Eagle River has two banks, the
Farmers and Merchants and the old
Eagle River State bank, the latter