Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-03-06
Joseph Pilley Of BaraboO Makes
Trip to Michigan and Tells OF
Jaunt
SON ELMER FINDS
EMPLOYMENT THERE
Brother William Is Located In the
North; Many Here VIII Re-
member Him

Joseph Pilley has returned from 9
weeks visit at Iron Mountain, Mich,
with his brother William. Many OF
the "old timers" Of Baraboo will re
member Bill" PiHey who resided
here when a young man.
Mr. Pilley and his son left here
Tuesday morning and arrived at Iron
Mountain Wednesday morning. The
trip was made in good time regard
less of quit little snow north OF
Milwaukee.
It is some 20 years since Mr.. Pill
ley visited Iron Mountain and re-
ports a wonderful change from a
mere village to fast growing city
On the previous occasion the pOpu-
lation comprised about 1000 people
and most of the town was on one
side Of the main street with a few
scattering streets and dwellings. Mr.
Pulley was somewhat surprised to see
quite a number of houses before
pulling into the station, alighted from
the train to find quite real city,
and found the town had grown to be-
tween $4,000 and 10000 population with
the accompanying business houses
and dwellings and new additions to
the city
The great change, Mr.. Pilley says,
may be mostly attributed to the IL
cation of the Ford Motor companyS
big body plants at Iron Mountain. Mr..
Pilley made visit to the Ford work
,-4ings and geportsaa wonderful and efh-
Client system and organization TO
expediate the production of wooden
parts for the oliver. The company
mas three big body plants in opera
tlion at present, and plans are com
pleted for the erection Of three more
of the same capacity, with a predic-
ton that if these cannot supply the
demand, more will be built.
Wooden Parts Made
The plants now produce and ship
loads Of side stills and other small
wooden parts daily and two to three
carloads Of floor boards and sedan
floors. They also average two to
four carloads of floor boards and Sc
dan floors to several of the assembly
plants all over the United States
VTyh;1o M, D;11oxr ,,,oc +bora tho onrn.
pany had ready shipment two car
loads OF floor boards and ports for
the branch at Drills, New Jersey, one
carload for Los Angles. one for Min
neapohs, one carload for Memphis
Tennessee, one for Boston, Mass.
and one for Walkerville, Canada, be
sides four carloads being loaded fol
the Detroit plant. In addition the
Iron Mountain plant sends from
eight to twelve carloads of surfaced
lumber to Detroit daily to be used in
Grating finished psrts for shipping
and some of the lumber is used for
making parts at the Highland Park
plant.
The Ford company is building
new power house and chemical plant
the latter to be the largest in the
world, and where all the waste wood
wood will be worked up into different
by-products such as charcoal, wood
alcohol, benzol, acids and SO forth.
There is also under construction 6
big power dam located on the Men
ominee river about three miles wes
of the city, where the Stone & Web
ster Company OF New York are erect
ing one of the largest dams in thu
northwest When completed this
dam will furnish the electric powe
to operate the Ford motor company
workings at Iron Mountain.
Predictins are that Mr.. Ford in
tends erecting a blast furnace AM
pssibly a glass factory after the com
p1etion of the present building Pre-
gram.
Mr.. Pulley also saw the arrival @
two complete train loads of logs a
the plant, these coming from tn
Ford logging camps at Sidnaw, Mich
about 40 miles north Of Iron Mour
tain. Approximately between 100 an
200 carloads of logs arrive daily b.
tween January and May. These ar
stacked ready to be sawed up whe
the shipping rush Of logs is over, a