Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-22

production OF artificial flies
/ for fishing purposes. Other
interesting facts of Wiscon-
Il sins great manufacturing in
II dustry are told in this ninth
issue of the Know Wiscon-
sin Better" series.
next you see any powerful machine
doing the work Of thousands of
horses, look at the makers plate,
and the chances are very good that
you will find his address is Mil
waukee.
Milwaukee Leather FamuOs.
The product of the tanneries of
Milwaukee puts her in second place
among the cities of the country
Philadelphia being first. With her
great leather output she is natur-
ally leader in the production of
leather goods. The only producer
Of gloves and leather mittens that
exceeds Milwaukee are the twin
cities of Gloversville and Johns
town, New York. Of greater value
than the gloves and mittens is the
product of the shoe factories.
The smaller cities along the
shores Of Lake Michigan and Su-
perior have also developed large in
dustries. Kenosha boasts of the
biggest bed factory and is the
home of a large automobile plant.
Sheboygan is chair manufacture
ing center and claims that the en-
tire population of Wisconsin could
be seated in the chairs made in
that city every year.
A Model for the Country.
Kohler, a suburb of Sheboygan,
has attracted nationwide attention
as model manufacturing city,
having been planned and laid out
by city planning experts. Knowing
the type of the average manufac-
turing city, a visit to Kohler is a
revelation. Instead of slovenly
looking, smoke-begrimed homes, we
find the homes Of Kohler artistic
and attractive. There is commun-
ity club house for the working
men, a great stadium where band
concerts are given and other fes-
tive occasions staged, and every
effort has been made to develop a
happy community life amidst sur
roundings of beauty and comfort.
Manitowoc has aluminium plants
and ship yards. Ashland has i'm
mense ore docks and Superior, in
addition to her ore docks, has huge
coal docks and is an important
grain shipping port. In the south
ern part of the state, Beloit and
GAINESVILLE are the homes of num-
Der Of large manufacturing plants.
Lacrosse Has the Buttons.
The state has some unique and
unusual industries, among which
may be mentioned the pearl button
industry on the Mississippi River,
centralized at Lacrosse. The but
tons are made from the mussel
shells secured from the Mississippi
and tributary streams. The pearl
button output is valued at S9,0OO,-
900 year and in 1918 single fac
tory produced 100000 gross of
buttons.
In Oshkosh are two grass rug
manufacturing establishments US
ing the tough wire grass from the
marshes. The supply of the local
marshes is not sufficient and the
grasses are shipped in from as far
as northern Minnesota.
The only factory in America de
voted to the large scale manufac-
turing of artificial flies for fishing
purposes is located at Stevens
Point. In one year 100000 peacock
feathers, tons of hackles Chickens
neck feathers the entire output of
certain Spanish gut factories as
we'll as quantities of the feathers
of wild geese, are used in this fac
tory. 1t has an annual production
of 3O,0O0,000 flies and 50,OO0,-
900 steel hooks, in the manufac-
ture of which over 300 girls are
employed.
Wisconsin Power Best.
= One of the factors in the recent
development of manufacturing in
Wisconsin has been the availability
of waterpower. The city of Mil
waukee receives large part of it's
electric current from plants on the
Wisconsin River a hundred miles |
away, and numerous smaller cities