Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-02-24
PROSPECTS BRIGHT
FOR A BUSY SEASON
Mills Will Soon Start and Build
ing Operations Begin With
Promise of More Results
Than Last Year

Nearly every town in the country
last year suffered more or less from
the general business depression exist
ing, due to the reaction that inyaria-
bly, follows a period of inflated bust
ness activity. Eagle River was lucky
enough not to be in that class. The
expenditure of more money for build
ing improvements than was ever
known before in the history of the
town, made work more plentiful than
the labor supply, at good wages, and
where that is the case, conditions
are always good for all residents Of
any place.
The present winter has given Eagle
River q slight acquaintance with the
dull times previously felt by other
communities and there has been more
or less unemployed which is naturally
felt by workmen and the business
firms dealing in household supplies of
any kind.
With the coming of spring that con-
dition will cease to exist and Eagle
River will embark upon another pros
porous season for everyone.
The new lath mill of the Radcliffe
Manufacturing Co., will open the ball
about March 1, giving employment to
about twenty men and will operate
unit late in the summer, having an
immense lot of timber already on the
ground for manufacture.
The Michigan Lumber
Co., expects to start its sawmill on
April i, and as soon as possible will
add complete working force to the
planning mill and box factory. Their
payroll will cover not less than seven
ty-five men, and it is said that when
the mill proper starts it will never
shut down except for the purpose of
making repairs. 1t seems probable,
as the company has cut estimated
to last twenty years and will not be
likely to close down for anything but
emergencies.
The Eagle River Lumber Co, as
usual will start its saWmill about
April LIST, and run until time to take
its crew into the woods again. This
conSern Ives. employment to forty or
fifty men the year round, fact that
its men appreciate as shown by the
number who have worked there steadi-
ly without change.
The Krefl Manufacturing Co., now
operating with a small force are plan
ming to run to capacity as soon as they
get things thoroughly under way and
will employ twenty or more men
steadily then.
Building operations will again be on
a large scale, the new high school
building, probably the largest indivi-
dual job and will keep a large crew
busy from as soon as work can be
started until it freezes up. A number
of expensive residences are certain to
be built and at least two modern
business buildings will be erected be-
fore fall. With the minor changes and
repairs that VIII naturally follow, this
will cause the 1922 building program
to be as good if not better than last
year when more than forty different
jobs were completed.
Summed up as whole, the assur-
ance that Eagle River residents will
enjoy a repetition of last years activ-
ity is certain, and also, that work of
all kinds will be plentiful thereafter,
so that no one can justly complain,
but instead they should feel thankful
their connection with the return to
normally has been brief one.
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