Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-12-20
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Observation-Disclosures Lumber Company Is
Biggest Factor in Towns Recent Progress
Location of Company In Eagle River Gave an
Added Impetus to Development of Every Kind

The H. STANCE Company pioneer lumber manufacturers
north eastern Wisconsin had been known the people Eagle
intimately by of the leading business and pro-
land and timber holdings northwest part Of the county
now mainly the town of State Line but for the
the county from the Observation-Disclosures
The many thousands Of held by this company
M to be very heavily covered with pine and hadwood and
virgin timber left in the state The STANCE company
land for than thirty nucleus fall back for their
should be depleted What people did know this
Elm d @ men nad a re a and
ogeb Michigan consisting of about 5000 mostly
cred with virgin growth of timber ideal to this territory
when the spring of 1920 nosed about that this vast
tract Of timber was about to be cut and and that
it's manufacture and that Eagle River with several other
porun for which they had long been waiting before them
Shortly after meeting called to meet with Mr. E.
anys plans and learn could be of assistance in bring
ing to head the final decision to locate the mill Eagle River
have fortunate being given the
location of plant of such magnitude and wonderful possibilities
socaes finally decided that this the most desirable location
~ ''''' Observation-Disclosures I'M LUMBER COMPANY
was born Not cent OF bonus was ASKED not even site All
company that people get behind him
with their support and assist him in securing the Morgan farm
formerly the site of the Gerry Lbr Co., which considered
of the most ideal sites for numbering plant in this other
What the people River did know, they
should know to fully appreciate the advantages of having the
plant here preference to building their town State
Line that in doing the made serious sac
fices and abandoned many benefits that they Id
have gained from operating there.
In the first place placed their plant than twenty-five
miles from their timber which lot of hardship
and that could have been eliminated by being
also that during the life of the present operations
secured that they hundreds thou
sands of dollars freight to transfer their logs the mill and
which would have been clear saving located State Line and
thirdly that by having their they would have had
force of who would have been steady the
around.
By locating Eagle the company added greatly
proud the institution definitely known
that the assured fact
property values began advance and whether he
property renter Immediately benefited The
property wh had he wanted SELL could have done
readily could his holdings over did he DESIRE at
profit More changed during 192O21 than probably
had for the ten years previous.
Work Immediately started the mill property and
rushed completion just the close of the and time
when labor and everything entering into building construction
high and Nevertheless nothing allowed
to stand the of completing the plant and January
1921, the first log sawed.
large of had been work State Line build
railroad and and the logging
start moving the logs toward the mill
the people at this end receive them During the
than miles of railway had been built two three times that
of logging roads, and secured to be ready
produce the logs when the mill ready Everything
schedule and notable event Eagle River when
the 4h day of January 1921 the first train of logs
ceived at the mill.
modest beginning, the company has broadened
until they have of the largest and best equipped of
in the country employing when completely filled $50
They have operation II miles of
produce this the neghborhood of Is
Continued
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