Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-02-16
NEW PAMPHLET
IS PUBLISHED
INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION
TO BE PRESENTED
TO VISITORS

WduSau, Wisconsin. The Gateway
to the Playground of the North"
This information is printed on the
first page of small pamphlet issued
by the Wausau Chamber of Com
merce of Commerce for distribution
among strangers to advertise Wausau.
The several hundred credit men who
attended the Normaicy conference held
here yesterday, received copy of this
Informative circular.
One of the interesting paragraphs is
de voted to Industry" The number
of industries in Wausau is given as
sixty and the number of products as
forty five, including principally con-
crete products, lumber and building
materials, box shocks and wirebound
boxes, ce real beverages. canned vege-
tables, shoes, granite products, cleo
trio motors, meat, oyster and ice
cream pals, dairy products, candy,
woodenware, and childrens furniture,
sash and doors and interior finish, adj
vertising specialties, paper and pulp,
sawmill and paper mill machinery.
flour and feed, toothpicks, brooms,
raincoats and rubber clothing, excel
sior, heating and ventilating plants,
iron products, tools, mattresses, SAND
and gravel, leather and wood veneer.
Value of Output
The value Of the annual output is
liked at $25,000,000; normal employ
ment 1000; annual payroll $4,OO0,00O
and capitalization S15,O00,OOO.
From the date of erection of the
iirst house in 1899" says the pam
phlet, up through the stages of "a
frontier logging camp, to the pre- sent
modern and progressive city, Wau-
sau has had unique growth Twelve
per cent increase IN population during
the past decade, is but an indication of
the steady development that has been
made possible by the solid Industrial
conditions and general prosperity of
the community.
"Compactly built on the banks of
the beautiful Wisconsin river whose
enormous power has been harnesseu
TO supply white coal to turn the
wheels OF many factories. the city OF
Wausau affords to the prospective
business man or home owner, every
facility for pleasant and profitable
place in which to live and to do bust
ness.
"A city OF beautiful homes, eighty
per cent of which are occupied by
their owners. with excellent schools,
many large churches covering vari-
ETY. of thirty denominations, and a wide
diversity Of industry, combines to pro-
vide all that anyone can ask of his
home city,
Marathon county is also given its
share OF attention in this new pam
phlet, Forty townships make Mara
thon county by far the largest in the
state with an area of 1854 or 516
square miles larger than the state
of Rhode Island. Dimensions are fiji
ty-one miles east and west by thirty
miles north and south. The 1920 pop
ulation 65,259, shows an increase of
seventeen per cent over the 1910 cen
sus. There are $500 farms i'm the
county, $4,000 cattle, 167 miles OF rail-
road, 35 stations and 2,2O0 miles of ex-
ce lie mt highways.
From fertile fields thar nave been
under the plow for more than fifty
years to cut-over land that awaits the
settler to be broken, there is wide
range of valuable agricultural proper
ty available.
Dairy Products
Cheese and butter have been the
principal farm products in the past,
but pure bred live stock is ia pidly
coming to the front. Eight cow-test-
ing associations are helping the farm
er to elimbinate the boarder'. Twenty
per cent is under cultivation at the
presen time"
On the subject of Recreation" the
balletin says with more than 1000
lakes less than a days drive dis
tant, an abundance Of hunting. fish
ing, camping. swimming, skating, ski
ing, is assured at all seasons of the
year. Lovers of the great outdoors
will find some of the most beautiful
scenery in Wisconsin in Marathon
county" Referring to Rib Hill, the
fact is mentioned that II contains "the
purest deposit ofssilicon known In the
world today, which analyses 99.5 per
cent pure and which finds use In the
making of high class abrasiyes