Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-03-08
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Al WILLINGNESS TO TAKE ADVICE is SOMETIMES
BEING GREATER THAN HE WHO GIVES IT

IN another naoe will be found copy Of letter writ
ten by the John Schroeder Lumber Co. VINO nave tneH
sawmis at Ashland and maintain other large LABOR en-
no concerns in other places Wisconsin 1t was writ
ten directly to State Senator c. H Worden representing
the Ashland district and copies were sent 70 seVea
consin urnbermen one OF when was reCeyeu py S -
consin Michigan Lumber Company OF Eagle RIVER.
It represents the position Of umbermen VINO are ope
+no mills in this state while obtaining the raw material
or logs from outside the state 1t can be read1y seen Ce
with program of legislation in the matter Of taxation
prohbitive to profitable operation or what the mill men
oot consider was prohibitve it might prove very I'M
fortunate for towns where such mills are now running
It is possibility that might seriously affect the wei
fare and growth of Eagle River nasnuch as one Oh ls
main industries namely, the Wisconsin 1chlgan Co'
in precisely the situation spoken CT IN the letter TO ea
tor Worden AT the time the mill came to Eagle RIVER
it did so for the purpose Of getting closer to It's tract o.
Michigan timber and which and still IS, estimated
will take from fifteen to twenty years to cut 60
large degree of the prosperity OF Eagle River Tor
the three years can be directly laid to the operations
of that concern and in the event of anything transprng
which would cause removal into Michigan, it would be
disaster that anyone ought be able to appreciate at
every one who has felt any of the effect OF increased
rental real estate values would feel the loss OF the
plant most keeny, and that class mcludes praclcay
every property owner in the town.
we could never quite assnilate the very prevalent
idea that all large business concerns or corporations pc
long in the criminal class and should be treated as sucn
y the communities in which their industries are mann
tanned While it may be true that they are always anx
ous and even nsisten upon the matter OF keeping their
property valuation down as low as possible we douDt IL
the majority of them worse IN that respect IMAM
the wealthy individuals of all towns are ana any large
labor ennovng organization does more to induce general
prosperity in town through the wide spread BENEFITS OF
its labor ayro than can come from city full of resi-
dents whose money safely invested real estate bonds
or mortgages Every additional aborng man steadily
employed in town generally means another family ana
household for someone to furnish supplies to at profit
This is not intended in any way as blanket endorse
ment of the Observation-Disclosures Lbr. Co. 1t may for all
we know have business policies that conflict with the best
interests of it's employees. AS far patronage goes
there is hardly business place in town that receives less
than the Review office, although glad to say that
it has with all the rest of Eagle River derived consider
able increased property value that the company is almost
there is nothing that would drop real estate values much
faster than to have the go out that the mill would
be dismaned and moved away. Eagle River needs the
mill as long as it can find logs to cut and hope
state or local taxation will be the Of losing it. In
stead we would prefer that other numbering concerns
might find Eagle River logical and desirable point to
invest their money in.