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THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS. 
 
 AIMISiUAl 
 
 IDITIOIM, IVIAY, 18S3. 
 
 A N I), -Garland City of the 
 Inland Seas," is in the heart 
 of the region described by 
 the poet Longfellow, in 
 Hiawatha. ''The scene of 
 my poem," says Longfel- 
 low, "is among the Ojib- 
 ways, (Cbippewas), on the 
 southern shore of Lake 
 Superior." The native 
 Ojibways still live on the 
 shores of Lake Superior, in primitive simplicity, as described 
 by the poem, several thousand of tbemjbeing under control 
 of the La Pointe Indian agency, at Ashland. To study Hia- 
 watha, one should without fail visit the scenes that inspired 
 the immortal poem of Longfellow. 
 Adjidaumo, the Squirrel. 
 
 Still does Adjidaumo, the 
 red squirrel, frisk and 
 chatter gaily in the forest, 
 ad 
 
 "i-^orth upon the Oltche Gumee. 
 On the shinlnf? Big-Seei-Water, 
 With his tlsbing-llne of cedar. 
 Forth to catch the sturgeon 
 
 Nahma, 
 Uisbe-Nabma, Kinff of Fishi-M. 
 In his birch canoe exultinp 
 All alone went Hiawatha. 
 
 ■'The birch canoe stood endwia*-. 
 Like a birch log in the water. 
 With the Hquirrel, Adjidaumo, 
 Perched and frlskinf^ on the 
 summit " 
 
 The simple Chippewas 
 still reverence the squirrel 
 which they call "jetamo," 
 or "a-jetaiuo," remember- 
 ing the words of Hiawatha. 
 "O my little friend, the siiuirrel. 
 Bravely havey on toiled to help me; 
 Take the thankH of Hiawatha, 
 And the name which now he gives 
 
 you: 
 For hereafter and forever 
 Bo.ys shall call you Adjidaumo, 
 Taii-ln-air the boys shall i;allyoo." 
 
 Adjidaumo is the king of 
 the Lake Superior forests. 
 His home is in the tall syca- 
 mores and pines. By summer, "In his fur the breeze of 
 morning, plays as in the prairie grass," He leaps from 
 bough to bough. He gathers nuts for the winter, saucily 
 gazing with bright eyes at the intruder. So much is he in 
 the tree tops, that he is almost bird-like in his nature, and a 
 stranger to the region has difficulty in distinguishing his 
 voice from that of a bird. By night, his cry foretells death. 
 Your Chippewa guide will shudder, as when paddling up 
 some lone stream he hears the ominous night sound, and will 
 say fearfully : "Jetamo has said it. Someone will see Pan 
 Guk," (Death,) 
 
 All winter long, .\djidaumo sleeps in hi j (9^ bed of bal- 
 
 
 HIAWATHA ON THE BIO-SEA WATER. 
 Ashland and the Indian Prophecy. 
 
 sam away up in the tree-top. The somber pines rock gent- 
 ly, like a cradle, and softly say, — "hush, bush,"— and Jetamo 
 sleeps 'till Peboan, the winter, has'gone, 
 
 Oltche Qumee, or Lake Superior. 
 
 "From the Great Lakes of the Northland, 
 From the land of the Ojibways, '* 
 
 the scenes of Hiawatha are taken. A familiar knowledge of 
 the Ashland-Lake Superior region lends new zest to a read- 
 ing of Hiawatha. 
 
 By the shores of Gltche Gumee, 
 iiy the shining Big-Sea-Water. 
 Stood the wigwam of Nokomis. 
 Daughter of the moon Nokomis. 
 Dark behind it rose the forest. 
 Rose the black and gloomyjpine trees, 
 Rose the firs with cones upon them: 
 Bright before it beat the water. 
 Beat the clear and ennny wat«r. 
 Beat the shining Lake Superior," 
 
 True to life, is this picture of scenes for many miles 
 about Ashland, on the shores of the great lake which Long- 
 fellow has termed Gitche Gumee, where Hiawatha 
 
 ' ^ "Bniit a wigwam in the forest. 
 
 By the shining Big-6ea-Wat«r, 
 In the biythe and shining spring- 
 time. 
 
 Who knows, but the lodge 
 of this mythical, and yet 
 real and wise teacher of the 
 Chippewas was erected 
 where Ashland now stands? 
 
 It was from this home, 
 that he went westward to 
 wed Minnehaha. It w a s 
 here that Chibiabos, the 
 sweet singer, went out upon 
 the lake to hunt the deer 
 when evil sjurits 
 
 "Drowned him In the deep abysses 
 Of the Lake of Gitche Gumee." 
 
 It was here that Pau-Puk- 
 Keewis slew the sea gulls, 
 and that Kwasind perished, 
 and here too, as pathetic- 
 ally described in the "Fam- 
 ine," Gitche Manito 
 failed to listen to Hiawa- 
 tha's cry of mercy to spare 
 Minnehaha. And here 
 finally Hiawatha disap- 
 peared in the purple mists 
 of evening. The closing 
 lines of the poem are es- 
 pecially impressive. 
 With the richness of Lake Superior legendry interwoven 
 in the immortal lines of Longfellow, Whittier and Whitman, 
 America's great poetical triumvirate, — we feel that there is 
 something more sublime than commercial supremacy. Here, 
 breathing the atmosphere that inspired the most luxuriant 
 thought of American literature, there is a realization of the 
 sublime ideals of mortal e.xistence. At Brooks farm, ideal 
 life was studied and tested. Traaflcendent.iiliHui was born. It 
 was a vanishing dream. .■Vmid the whisperings of the north- 
 ern |>iiu's and balsams, and the soft, gentle swish of the blue 
 waves of (Titche (rumee, .\scendentalism bursts forth a new 
 star, that marks an epoch in .Vraerican progress. 
 
 Ascendentalisin is the watchword of the New Northland. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 "TWs Is the cltj, and I am one ot the i-itizens. 
 
 ■Whatsoever interests the rest interests me— 
 politics, markets, newspapers, schools. 
 
 Benevolent societies, improvemeuls, banks, tar- 
 iffs, steamships, factories, stocks, stores, real 
 estate and personal estate.' 
 
 ALT WHITMAN, 
 tbe good gray poet, 
 struck the key-note 
 of Americanism 
 wbea he penned 
 these lines, after a 
 visit to Ashland and 
 '_ other thriying cities 
 _„on Lake Superior, a 
 *— few years before bis 
 ' death. His words 
 are a fitting preface 
 for a work like the 
 Daily Pkess "World's Fair Annual." 
 
 We feel like Rasselas in the "Happy 
 "Valley of Abysinia, " It is the best town 
 on earth. It was T. Corrin who proved 
 that his home was the center of the cf n- 
 ter ot the universe by showing "how 
 nicely the sky fits all around, " 
 
 Ashland is, to speak poetically, 
 bounded on the north by Aurora Bor- 
 ealis, on the south by tbe Equinox, on 
 the east by the rising sun and on the 
 west by eternal salvation. This may be 
 a trifle extravagant, but it is an index 
 to the fervent patriotism that pervades 
 the inhabitants of the New Nonh — not 
 only A-liland, but all of the many pros- 
 perous cities throughout Ncrthern Wis- 
 consin, incluiiing Washburn, Iron River, 
 Hayward, Bayfield, Brule and Butter- 
 
 nut. These towns all have the full tone 
 of success, and they are tbe homes of 
 h ippy, prosperous and energetic people. 
 
 The Record of a Year. 
 
 WHILE laya was uneqaalled 
 throughout the United States in 
 point of geueral prosperity, it seems 
 from a careful examination of the fig- 
 ures presented in this issue, that Ash- 
 land had something more than its share 
 of the tidal wave. Building and general 
 improvements aggregated nearly two 
 millions. The electric street car lines 
 were built; ore shipments increased 
 nearly a million tons. Lumber ship- 
 ments showed nearly twenty millions 
 of an increase. Lake tonnage figures 
 are simply beyond comprehension show- 
 ing an increase of over 2,00U arrivals 
 and clearances over 1S91 — a total 
 of sixty per cent, of the entire com- 
 merce of Lake Superior; numerous new 
 manufacturing institutions have located 
 here. A flourishing academy is already 
 located and a state normal echool 
 is next on the list. 
 
 The general volume of business was 
 very largely increased. Altogether iy93 
 marks an important epoch in the history 
 
 e 
 
 JOE M. CHAPPLE, 
 Editor and Prop, Daily Press. 
 
 Icoftea happens that we never 
 appreciate the value of our own 
 advantages, our own greatness as 
 a city, until the balance is 
 struck, and the figures added. The 
 Columbian year will be a memor- 
 able one for Ashland. Its ascend- 
 ancy in commerce is assured. 
 
 Retrospective and prospective! 
 Past and future ! There is a fas- 
 cination about it, that rivets at- 
 tention even in these busy days. 
 
 The specific object oftheDAiLY 
 Press annual edition is a stalls 
 tical, industrial and historical re- 
 view of the progress made e; ch 
 year. The records of the pas', 
 and the promises of the future 
 are the beacon lights that encircle 
 the ambitiins American cities 
 in their rapid growth. 
 
 The Press believes in Ashland 
 and the Lake Supeiior country. 
 
 GUY M. BDRNHAM, 
 City Editor Daily Pbebs. 
 
 WILL H, CHAPPLK, 
 Business Manager DiiLY Press. 
 
 of Asbland 
 cousin. 
 
 W. L. M'ARTHUR, 
 Cashier Daily Pbbss. 
 
 and the New Wis- 
 
 THE DAILY PRESS OFFICE, — FIFIELD BLOCK, 
 
 Prospective Record 1892. 
 
 NE.\RLY uU the two hundred 
 pages in this volume are de- 
 voted entirely to acsomplished 
 facts. The statistics and figures 
 represent what was done in 189:^, 
 The record for 1S93 promises even 
 to excel this marvelous showing 
 of '92. Three new railroad sys- 
 tems will build to Chequamegon 
 bay during the next twelve 
 months, Hundreds of new man- 
 ufacturing institutions will .locate 
 on Chequamegon bay in the next 
 year. The year will also see the 
 location of several large floniing 
 mills and elevators on Chequame- 
 gon bay. As trade seeks its nainr- 
 al channels, the northwest grain 
 trade must come to this harbor. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 SKances for ilnvestment. <(> 
 
 7k 
 
 /i\ 
 
 ^)ieiKM^*'^)feieK)ieiefeK^()KM( 
 
 made lo pay iu 
 of mantifactories in Ash- 
 land ? In answer the Press 
 wonld say : 
 
 A car factory. 
 
 A large tannery. 
 
 A fnraiture factory. 
 
 A barrd factory. 
 
 A iia'l and tnb factory. 
 
 A car wneel foundry. 
 
 An ex'ensiye wagon fac- 
 t)iy. 
 
 An extensive novelty iron 
 works. 
 
 A shipyard and dry dock. 
 
 A large shingle mill. 
 
 A picture frame factory. 
 
 A cracker factory, 
 
 A wholesale candy fac- 
 toiy. 
 
 An allnminum factory. 
 
 A file factory. 
 
 ANDIDLY there is 
 no city in the Unit- 
 ed States that is 
 riper for invest- 
 ment in mjnufac- 
 taring enterprises 
 than Ashland. Cor 
 r espon dents fre- 
 quently ask, "What 
 biiein ess can be 
 the line 
 
 Abut and shoe factory. 
 
 A wire nail factory. 
 
 A structural steel works. 
 
 Any factory in iron or wood work. 
 
 Outside of manufacturing there are 
 liuntlreds of profitable business chances 
 f ir capitalists and active business men. 
 The city has a fund of StSlOO.ildOO to aid 
 commerce and manufactures It is the 
 r'ght place for manufacturing interests. 
 
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 The New Electric Street Railway. 
 
 N samiuarizing tha marvel jus record 
 of improvements made in Ashtand 
 during the year 1893, we must make 
 special mention of the new electric 
 street railway, under the energetic man- 
 agement of Dr. G. W. Harrison, It 
 was largely through his eiforts that the 
 new hue was secured. He worked at it 
 unceasingly for several years pjst. 
 The Lighting Company and Street Rail- 
 way Company were cunsoliddted during 
 the past year under Mr. Harrison's 
 management and he has succeeded in 
 putting a losing business on a piying 
 basis. More than that, he mads a 
 special study of details, and the plmt is 
 acknowledged to be one of the most 
 thoroughly equipped in the state. It 
 has everything right up 
 to date, and the citizens 
 if Ashland owe much to 
 he enterprise of the gen- 
 tlemen who comprise 
 'tiis company, ard espe- 
 cially to Dr. Harrison 
 or untiring efforts to 
 ,'ive the city the very 
 <wit street car service 
 iJ03sibIe. Cars now run 
 iver every portion of the 
 line with intervals of 
 les.s than six minutes. 
 The speed and service 
 throughout is equal to 
 that of any in the 
 United States, and Dr. 
 Harrison take* j ast pride 
 in having is so. Tae line 
 will be extended ten 
 miles thij snmm'r. 
 
 Old nisslon and Cong. Church, Madeline Island, Built 1837. 
 
 Headquarters of John Jacob Astor, Madeline Island, iKjs. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAH^Y PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 X The (Chamber sf Commerce. || 
 
 NE of the leading 
 ^public institutinns of 
 Ashlanfl is its Cham- 
 ber of Commerce, 
 Sach an institntion is 
 necessary in any city 
 of enterprise. A body 
 of business men with 
 the sole object of 
 promoting the bnsiness interests of their 
 city can do more for the public welfare 
 than all other civic institutions com- 
 bined. 
 
 The Ashland Chamber of Commerce 
 was organized in 1S83, with abont sev- 
 enty-five members and the following 
 oflBcers: Sam S. Fifield, President; W. 
 R. Dnrfee, vice-president, S. S. Vaughn, 
 treasurer, and Angus Mackinnon, secre- 
 tary. The association has handsome 
 rooms in the First National Bank build- 
 ing. It holds meetings per call of the 
 president, and is foremost in securing 
 new enterprises for the city and in dis- 
 seminating information to would-be in- 
 vestors from other states. The present 
 officeisof this body are: Emil Garnich, 
 president; C. F. Latimer, vice-president: 
 George H. Hopper, treasurer; John H. 
 Burcb, secretary. The Ashland Cham- 
 ber of Commerce was represented at 
 the meeting of the National Board of 
 Trade at Washington last winter. 
 Col. John H. Knight, one of the most 
 active members of the Ashland body , 
 being ita representative. 
 
 The following tables show that Ash- 
 land has made sutetantial growth dur- 
 ing the last year, 
 
 COMPABATIVE LAKE EXI-OBTS. 
 
 Iron ore 1S92 2,227,407 
 
 Iron ore IWl l,2ri:!.4»H 
 
 Summary of Accomplishments. 
 
 Ashland is tbd shipping port of the 
 Gogebic Iron Range. It shipped 2,227,- 
 407 tons of ore in 1^93. 
 
 It is the shipping port of the Ashland 
 lumber distriol , which cut 505,000,000 
 feet of logs during the winter of 1892:i, 
 and employed lu.OOO men in the work, 
 
 Ashland is the center of the brown- 
 stone industry, shipping 46U,0U0 tons of 
 brownstone in 1892. This stone is found 
 nowhere else in the world and is the 
 most beautiful and valuable building 
 stone known. 
 
 Ashland has eight good sawmills run- 
 ning day and night, summer and win- 
 ter, employing over 2,000 men, with a 
 
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 Increase 1892.... 
 
 Lumber shipments 1892 2g5,000.(XJ0 
 
 Lamber uhlpments 1891 269,000,000 
 
 Increiiso 1892 16.000, 
 
 Brownstone HhlpraentH 1H9'2 1,320. 
 
 BrowDHtone sblpiientH 
 
 97.3194 "OI.. J H. KNICIIT. Vine Pres Natl Board of Trade. 
 
 1891.. 
 
 1.000.000 r 
 
 1,320.000 
 938.420 I 
 
 (;OV. SAM 8. FIFIELD. 
 First President liusitiess Mens Ass'u. 
 
 yearly cut of 285,000,000 feet. The 
 quality of this lumber is nnezcelled. 
 
 Ashland is the largest shipping port 
 on Lake Superior, as the following 
 ofBcial figures from the U. S. census re- 
 port of 1890 show: 
 
 ."■'hipmeiits 
 
 Ashland 1,750,S'<4 tons 
 
 Milwaukee, Duluth and Superiorl,Os6,045 tons 
 
 Ashland over all three..™ 673,s:e> tons 
 
 Vessels 
 
 Ashland 4.4.H9 
 
 Duluth and Superior 3,974 
 
 Ashland over Ijoih — 515 
 
 That is, Ashland has nearly twice as 
 much tonnage as all three of these ports. 
 
 Ashland has seven miles of double- 
 track electric street railway in opera- 
 tion. 
 
 It has four miles of cedar block pav- 
 ing and several miles more will be put 
 in this summer. 
 
 Its arrivals and departures of vessels 
 for 1892 aggregate 7,104. 
 
 L,00 CDT OP THK A8BL.AND DISTBICT. 
 
 1892 605 aw 000 
 
 1891... 
 
 .... 433.500 000 
 
 Increase 1892 717.50000 
 
 eilME (lENEBAI. STATISTICS. 
 
 Pieces of mail handled In post office 1 COS 108 
 
 McHsages at Western I'nlon office 27-* 40? 
 
 [Average increase In business. IS per cent.] 
 
 Our Industrial Army. 
 
 Increase 1V.I2 :M,risO 
 
 This includes shipments by rail as 
 well as by water. 
 
 KAII.BOAP 1IDBINB8S. 
 
 Grand Total 1892 8,101,371,170 lbs. 
 
 Grand Total 1891 5;99i'.954,591 Hi-. 
 
 Increase 1892 2.110,317.579 lbs. 
 
 BCAL ESTATE TBAHBPEBB. 
 
 Amount ot buBine8Sl892 $4,500,000 
 
 Amount ol business 1891 3.500.000 
 
 Inciease 1892 $1,000,000 
 
 BITII.DIIIO IMPB0VBMBNT8, 
 
 arand total 1.S92 $ l,9M,i'0O 
 
 Orand total 1891 1,378.;«)0 
 
 Increase 1892 * 605.700 
 
 OBAIN. 
 
 Shipments 189» 8.940 ,0O0 
 
 Shipments 1891 ^.581,817 
 
 Incr«a8els92 6.410,183 
 
 dumber mills, factories 
 
 Iron works and railroads.. 
 
 Hrownstone 
 
 IJocks 
 
 (irand total I.S9'.' 
 
 Urnnd total 1892 
 
 Increase. 
 
 . MEN. 
 
 3,200 
 1.472 
 1.120 
 1 410 
 
 7.202 
 5,089 
 
 2,112 
 
 WAUKS. 
 PER MO. 
 
 «lii0.000 
 8.S.320 
 56,000 
 112,.soo 
 
 417,120 
 300.349 
 
 1 lr,,7Sl 
 
 Ashland's Wholesale Trade. 
 
 TONS. 
 
 Kxports h.v lake lu 1,S92 3 942.120 
 
 Kxporls b\ lake In 1891 3.4rit;,4t55 
 
 Increase In 1892 4M.755 
 
 lni|iortB bv lake In 1892 675.420 
 
 Imports by lake In 1861 .560,380 
 
 Increase In 1S92 114,940 
 
 VALUE or COMUEBCE. 
 
 1892 «35 672 876 
 
 1.H91 31 74^000 
 
 BUSHELS ^ ; 
 
 Increase In 1892 t 3 824 876 
 
 VALUE OP WHOLB8AX.E TBADE. 
 
 Is9» «» .599 122 
 
 1891 8 4^7 600 
 
 Y.\RD3 OF PENOKEK LUMBER COMPANY— MORSE, WIS. 
 
 Increase Is 1892 f 1 111.52J 
 
THE^ ASHLAND DAILY PEESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 JNO. m'cann, 
 
 Aid, Ist ward. 
 
 HON. L. O. WILMARTH, 
 
 Supervisor, 2d ward 
 
 F. F HUBBKLL, 
 Aid. 3rd ward 
 
 J. R. HARMON, 
 Aid. 5th ward. 
 
 J, P. MURPHY. 
 Aid 6th ward. 
 
 HON. W. W. OKEEFE, MAYOR. 
 
 HON. W. K. DUKFEE, EX MAYOR. 
 
 SERGEANT JDK KENNEDY. 
 
 GUS SCHWARTZ, 
 Chiol of Pollip. 
 
 JAS. PHILLIPS, 
 City Treasurer. 
 
 M, SCHWEISTHiL, 
 Aid. Third Ward. 
 
 J. B. FITCH, 
 El-City Clerk. 
 
 P. DORMADY, 
 Ex-Chief of Police. 
 
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 .JOHN NECHTGES 
 
 Q. KUNTZ. 
 
 WM. WALSH. 
 
 JAS. KBEllAN, 
 
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THE ASHI.AND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDmoN, 1898. 
 
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 pool's wholesale and retail dry ooods stork. 
 
 pool's — DRESS GOODS DEPART1IE^T. 
 
 pool's — ;UBBON AND LACK DEPARTMENT 
 
 POOL'S — CLOAK AND \\*AP DEPABTKKNT. 
 
 pool's— CAHPRT AND RCO DEPARTMENT. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 3893. 
 
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 W. B. EEA.. 
 
 D. A. KENNEDY. 
 
 T.nmbppinftn. Afihland. 
 
 FRANK LORE, 
 Pioneer Iron River. 
 
 N WILLi-VT, 
 Photo j^rapher. 
 
 W E m'CORD, 
 Pres. Bank of Iron River. 
 
 LEA & INGRAM CO'ij SAW M LI , IRON RIVER, WIS. 
 
 EXTERIOR BOHN MANrFACrUBISQ CO., IRON RIVKR, Wie, 
 
 STXTT 4 CARTIRR'S RAILWAY HOLLWAT. 
 
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 ISTBRIOR LEA i INGRAM CO'S SAW MILL 
 
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 INTERIOR BHIIN M VNUPACTL'RIN'O C<J , lUO.N lil\ Ell, WIS, 
 
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 D. S. CLABK., K. O. STAPLES, 
 
 Sec. and Treas. L. A 1, Lnm (?o. Lnraberman. 
 
 
 J. A. PETTIWOILL, 
 Foander ol Iron River. 
 
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 D. DARWIN, 
 Real Estate. 
 
 BYRON FIPLBY, 
 
 Editor Iron Uivcr Time 
 
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 .irnOE W. R. CARR, T. F. MACKMILLEB, 
 
 Kf'nl Estate and Insurnnce. Meat Market. 
 
 D. MACDOKELL, 
 M'ltr Iron River Mer. Co. 
 
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 E. H. HUWTER, 
 Clotblnii;. 
 
 R. 8TECKBADER, 
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 AI-EX. LIKDBCRO, 
 Merchant Tailor. 
 
 J. H. DBUMMONP, 
 
 M'pr Druinmond'fl Addition. 
 
 FRED V. DITMAR, 
 Sharpe'8 Hardware. 
 
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 DR. O. W. MEBRII.l 
 
 DR. F. C. Wl>OD, 
 
 M. HYEBDALE, 
 
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 N. W. BARKKB, 
 
 l.nmbortnan. 
 
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 Barber. 
 
 A ©roup of Well l\nown Iron I^iver, Wis., Basiness /Aen, 
 
THE ASHLAND DAU^Y PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
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 MEAT MARKKT OFT. F. MACKMILLEB. 
 
 HOTEL THOMAS, IRON RIVER, WIS. 
 
 POWER HOUSE, IRON RIVER LIGHTING AND WATr R CO. 
 
 SEYMOUR HOTEL. 
 
 
 INTERIOR HESSEY A HATTON S— OENEBAL MBBCHANDISB. 
 
 INTBBIOR BANK OF IRON RIVER, 
 
 Views ^ai^en at Iron f^iver, Wis., Smee the pira. 
 
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 THE ASHLAND DAILY PKESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 OEO. H. HOPPKR, 
 Proprietor. 
 
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 OFFICE, HOTEL CHKQDAMEQON. 
 
 aRAND PARLOR, HCTBL CHEQUAMEOOS, 
 
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 Ashland's Famous Summer Resort Hotel==The Chequamegon. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNU.U. EDITION, 1893. 
 
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 REV. F. H. WKIG iT 
 First Mothodiet. 
 
 RKV. H. RESTIN. 
 German Latheran 
 
 REV. F. W. WHITE. 
 St Andrew's'Episcopal. 
 
 Rt V FAT H H K F A BIAN, 
 St, Agnes Catholic. 
 
 RKV. C. H. JOHNSOS. 
 Norwe(j:ian Danish M. E. 
 
 RF.V. J. B. PliUIlT, 
 First Baptist 
 
 y M. C. A. RECEPTION IK i05I. 
 
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 KKV. E. P. ■WHEELER, 
 Cong. A Pres. N. W. Academy. 
 
 RBV. J J. STECMPFla. 
 German Evanprelical. 
 
 REV. S. W. INGHAM, 
 First M E. Washbnm. 
 
 BEV. II. ^liEKSTAD, 
 Norweigan Lutheran. 
 
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 BXV. SAMUKL BROWN, 
 Flrat Pr«8byt«rlaD. 
 
 RBV. TH08. DOCOAN, 
 BetJiel Preabyterlan. 
 
 REV. J. D. NEL-SKNItrS, 
 SwedUli Latberan. 
 
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 III Hncient Athens tbe word chnrefa 
 desiguatfcd a ineeiin;; place of those 
 havini; high politit al )iower -iucludiDg 
 .inrid lal luiutioDS. It even was a ve- 
 fleilidii of gi-pat intellectual cf-nters. So 
 it will be observed lh.it no great city 
 has ever existed wiihout gieat catlie- 
 dr lis as (ilai es of public worship. In 
 these r almB of cacn d worship have 1 een 
 kept aflame the yri-at Demociatic sjiirit 
 which h;i8 crvstalized into American 
 Repiiblicanism. 
 
 Without churches a city is lost to its- 
 self ;ind tlie world. Closely a.'^sociated 
 witli tlie intensely romantic history of 
 early mission struggles, the (ity cf Ash- 
 l.ind has kept pace with its chuichfs of 
 which we | recent views on two ov three 
 different iiages of this edition. 
 
 The first rush in the growth of Ash- 
 1 ind did not include the building of 
 many new churches, but now that the 
 city has passed the critical period and 
 is toif^iiig forward into metropolitan 
 proportions, attention has been directed 
 toward building new churches. 
 
 Many handsome new churches have 
 been built in 1892. The St. Agnes 
 Catholic Church is of solid brownstone 
 and was commenced in 1887. The new 
 Presbytfrian church, also of brownstone, 
 will likely be commenced the present 
 year. The following is a brief sketch 
 of the diffirent churches in the city. 
 
 8T. ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL CHCECH. 
 
 One of the first missionaries to hold 
 regular services, was the Rev. H. B. St. 
 George, now canon of the cathedral at 
 Milwaukee. In August, 1886, the Rev. 
 
 Joseph Moran, Jr. was appointed mis- 
 sionary. He held his first service in 
 the Business Men's Association rooms, 
 and afterwards continued services in 
 the court house until November 'M, 1886. 
 He was succeeded by the Rev. H. H. 
 Barber. The present intmmbent, tUe 
 Rev. F. W. White took charge Nov. 30, 
 1890. The Rector has the assistance of 
 Mr. A. W. Collini?, organist and choir 
 master. 
 
 FIRST METHODIST CHURCH. 
 The First Methodist Episcopal church 
 was organized September 30th, 1872, by 
 Rev. W. D. Dennett, of the Minnesota 
 Conference, with fourteen member.s, 
 Rev W. G. Bancroft w. s the first n'si- 
 dent pastor —in fact, the first resident 
 
 has 300 sittings. J. B. Pruitt, pastor. 
 
 FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHDRCH. 
 This church was organized July 20th, 
 with eighteen members. Another year 
 will probably see a fine new cnurcU 
 erected in Ashland. Tliey have a mem- 
 bei ship of 200; Rev. Samuel Brown is 
 pastor. 
 
 FIRST COSaREGATIONAL CHt^RCH. 
 
 The first Congregational church was 
 organized Sept. 1, issr, with fouiteen 
 members Their church building was 
 completed in 188U. and is valued at 
 $(),OiMi, with a seating capacity of 300. 
 R^v. E. P. Wheel n- is the jiresent pastor. 
 
 GERMAN EVANGELICAL AS.SOCIATION. 
 
 This society ws^s organized iu 1890, 
 with ten members. Tliey have a noat 
 
 1 IK.sr liAI'Tl.sT (llLKCll. 
 
 liKsr I'itESIlVl'KlUAN CHURCH. 
 
 jiastor ot any denomina- 
 lion — and held that rela- 
 tion from October, 1872, 
 to 1875. 
 
 In 1883, the Methodist 
 society built where their 
 presentchuich now 
 stands. It is thought 
 I hat this society will be 
 able to build a more com- 
 modious edifice this year. 
 The membership is 150, 
 and the average congre- 
 gation 200, Rev. F. H. 
 Wright is pastor. 
 
 NORWEGIAN-DANISH M. E, 
 CHDRCH. 
 
 The society was organ- 
 zed iu 1886, and their 
 ImiMing was erected the 
 same year. They have a 
 membership of ihirty- 
 tivo and an average con- 
 gregation of seventy-five. 
 llev. O. H. Johnson is 
 the pastor. 
 FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. 
 
 This society was organ- 
 ized Nov. 15th. 1884, wit_li 
 si.\ members. In 1887, 
 I heir first churcli edifire 
 was built. In 1889, tliis 
 liuiUling was moved, re- 
 modeled and enlarged 
 and is now one of the 
 most beautiful houses of 
 worship in the city; it 
 IS v.ilued at f7,.500, and 
 
 church building, and a parsonage, both 
 of which were built in 189o, and are 
 valued at $3.0110. The seating cipacity 
 of the church is 140. Rev. Stumpfe ii 
 pastor. 
 
 GERMAN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN ZION. 
 
 Rev. O. H. Restin, who has been pas- 
 tor since 1SS9, is also, inspector of mis- 
 sions in the northwestern part ci the 
 state. 
 
 THE SWEDISH LUTHERAN CHURCH. 
 
 Rev. J. D. Nehenius, pastor, was or- 
 ganized in 1885, and a church building 
 was erected. The new church is built 
 on a stone foundation with sufficient 
 elevation for a well lighte 1 basement, 
 
 NIDAROS NORWEGIAN-DANISH LUTHERAN 
 CHURCH. 
 
 This society was organized in May, 
 
 1887, with thirty members. Their 
 church, valu.d at §4,500, was built in 
 
 1888, and has a seating capacity of 300. 
 
 SALEM SWEDISH BAPTIST 
 
 This society was organized in 1888, 
 and a church building was soon after 
 erected. A new church edifice was 
 started last year and is fast nearing 
 completion. This new church will have 
 a seating c ipacity of 500 The new 
 church home is worth $8,(I0J. Rev. 
 Gustaf Lundqiiist is pastor. 
 
 BETHEL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 
 
 Was dedicated Dec. 18. 189-,', and is 
 one of tlie neatest little church edifices 
 in the city. Rev. Tnos Dougan is pas- 
 tor, and the organiz it'on has a large and 
 increasing membership and property 
 worth nearly $1,000. 
 
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 BETHEL I'RESUYTERIAX CHURCH. 
 
 FIRST CONGREGATIdXAL CHURCH 
 
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 SWEDISH LI THERAX CHIRCH. 
 
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 S ^sKland and its TPostal Ser/ice. K 
 
 THROUGH the kindness of Governor 
 FifieUl, we herewith publish an ex- 
 hibit of tlie business transacted at the 
 Ashland postoflEica during the year 1S93. 
 It shows a gratifying increase of more 
 than twelve per cant, over the business 
 of 1891, with the exception of foreign 
 money order b'-siness, thus proving; that 
 our c'ty is making satisf ictory progress 
 in its soci il and business growth. The 
 administration of Mr, Fifield and his 
 efficient corps of clerks and carriers has 
 given our citiz -ns an excellent postal 
 service, eminently satisfactory to the 
 public. 
 
 TABLES. 
 
 On this page we present in a group the 
 postmister and his assis'anis from a 
 photograph by Bailey, Ashland's famous 
 artist. 
 
 FREE DELIVERY DIVISION 
 
 Reiaistered letters delivered l.S.'*? 
 
 Letters Delivered 546,6G5 
 
 Postal Cards delivered (ifi 00!) 
 
 Newspapers aad mdse delivered SSOllTO 
 
 Total. 1892 1.001 ,3»1 
 
 Total. 1891 974.1B9 
 
 Increase 1892 27.17.1 
 
 MATTER COLLECTED BY CARRIERS 
 
 City letters collected, pieces 98,134 
 
 Mail •• ■• •• 48>.04:i 
 
 City cards " •■ 51,620 
 
 Mail •■ •' ■• 54 3211 
 
 3rd and 4th class matter collect<!d pieces 12.040 
 
 Total. 1S92 098.763 
 
 To'al, 1891 517.728 
 
 Increase, 1892 79.037 
 
 SPECIAL DELIVERY DIVISION 
 
 Number letters mailed 005 
 
 " " delivered 749 
 
 ■ Total 1892 i.xnt 
 
 Total 1891 1.284 
 
 Increase, 1892 70 
 
 No. lock pouches and sacks 43,706 
 
 Grand Total. 1892 1,851.460 
 
 Grand Total, 1891 1,587.448 
 
 Increase]g92 267,012 
 
 MONEY ORDBR DKP.*RTMENT. 
 
 Number of domestic orders issued S.iiSl 
 
 *' of International orderHissued, :i07 
 
 " of postal notes issued 1.697 
 
 Total number Issued in 1892 5,585 
 
 Total number issued in 1891 5.4,86 
 
 Increase in number. 1892 99 
 
 Am't received for domestic orders isBued$36. 474.93 
 Am'trec'd torinternntional orders issued 6,721.45 
 
 Am't received for postal notes issued 3,005.10 
 
 Fees received for same 417.12 
 
 Total for money orders issued 1892. ..845.678. 60 
 Totalfor money orders issued. 1891.. 48,887.04 
 
 Decrease in business. 1892 $ 3,208.44 
 
 Number of domestic orders paid 1,364 
 
 Number of international orders puld ^ 7» 
 
 Number of Postal notes paid 628 
 
 Total number orders and notes paid 2,071 
 
 Am*t paid on (loine.stio orders ^19,461.38 
 
 Am't paid on international orders 903.46 
 
 Am't paid on Postal notes 2,706.16 
 
 Total am't paid on orders 1892 $2:1,071,00 
 
 Amount paid on orders, 1891 27,205.52 
 
 Decrease. 1S92 $ 3,134.52 
 
 POSTMASTKR FIFIELD AND HIS CORPS OF ASSISTANTS. 
 
 to 8 
 
 OFFICE HOURS. 
 
 General Delivery; Open from 7:30 i 
 p. m. 
 
 Office lobby oiien for convience of box holders 
 from 7 a. m. to9 p. m. 
 
 Mone.v Order Division, from 8 a. m. to 5-30 p. m . 
 
 Sunday General Delivery, from 11:30 a. m to 
 12:30 p. ni. 
 
 COJir.AItATIVK STATEMENT op BUSINESS 
 
 TRANSACrKL) AT ASIII.AND P.iBT- 
 
 OFFICK, 1,S',)2. 
 
 ROSTER: 
 
 Sam S. Fiiield. Postmaster: Francis R.Stradline: 
 Chief Clerk and Cashier; Fred M. Watters, Mail- 
 ing Clerk and Superintendent of Carriers: Miss 
 Elizabeth Bicksler, General Delivery Clerk. 
 
 LETTER CARRIERS 
 
 E. D. Rodgers. .Ir., H. Van Armon. Oscar Berj?- 
 gren, Eli ' 'ompo, Martin Kenned.v. Horace 
 <3rlmes; Substitute carrier. Alexander Zipperer. 
 
 POSTAOE STAMP AXD KSVELOPE SALES. 
 
 Am't receiveil. sale of Stamps. 1SU2 $ 10.37.5 IS 
 
 Am't received, sales. 1891 15.143 311 
 
 Increase, 1892 
 
 * 1,231 88 
 
 GENERAL DELIVERY BOXES 
 
 Registered letters 707 
 
 Letters 54-791 
 
 Postal cards 9,846 
 
 Newspapers and packages 48,408 
 
 Total. 1892 108.752 
 
 Total, 1891 1011.233 
 
 Increase. 1892.. 
 
 8.5H> 
 
 POUCHES AXD TIE S.VCK8 RECEIVED AND DISPATCHED. 
 
 Number lock pouches received 10.9."i0 
 
 ■• dispatched 10.090 
 
 tie sacks papers and p'k'gs reed. 12.'2-'« 
 
 diap. 9,540 
 
 Total. 1892.. 
 Total. 1891 .. 
 
 Increase. 1892 
 
 OENERALSUM.MARY 
 
 No pieces hnndledjiy carriers 
 
 " by iceneral delivery., 
 in reijistr.v ilivision.. 
 in speci.'ildeiivery.... 
 
 43,708 
 41,8)0 
 
 1,S9« 
 
 1.699.104 
 
 108.752 
 
 2..')44 
 
 1.3M 
 
 Am't received for money orders $45. 
 
 Am't paid on money orders 2.3. 
 
 G78.60 
 071.00 
 
 Total money order business 6,s, 749.60 
 
 Total money order bu.slues8 1801 76,092.56 
 
 Decrease $ 7,JM2.96 
 
 RKOI8TRY 
 No. oflettcrs and parcels regist^^red.... 
 No, of Reg. letters and parcels delivered . 
 
 Total 
 
 Registered and Delivered 1891 
 
 Increase. 1.S92 
 
 Registers handled in transit. 
 Total Registers handled 
 
 2.471 
 2.5)4 
 
 5.015 
 4.838 
 
 187 
 
 2.701 
 7,776 
 
 Note.— The decrease in money order busi- 
 ness is wholly in the foreign order <lepart- 
 ment. The domestic order sales show an ia- 
 crease over the transactions of 1801. 
 
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 ^ The Sreat TPrentice 3/LGrLGlith. <^ 
 
 N THE coming 
 months, when 
 >ii angers from all 
 qu irtere of the globe 
 )iiss into Jackson 
 Park, almost the first 
 thin;^ lo attract their 
 atteuiiuu will be the mainmoth brown- 
 stone mono'ith. Its gigantic form will 
 cast its shadow acros3 the towering elms 
 clos? by, ;ind stand out a silent sentry 
 bidiing defi mce to the onward march 
 of time. The huge form of this great 
 rock w iS lirok-'H f i mn its bed at the 
 
 FnEDEItlClv I'RENTICE. 
 
 quarries of the Pivutice Brownstoiie 
 company, at Houghton Point, Nov. 1«, 
 1892. It WIS ciiived out of a solid bed of 
 brown.stonc, as it lay there like a eluni- 
 beriii.1 giant, that beautiful autumn 
 aftenioon. 
 
 A liui.dred wedges were placed and a 
 hundred r.ltdges struck, blownpon blow, 
 scarcely a perceptible force, yet it soon 
 broke loose from the solid ledge. 
 
 A large party of Ashlanders and some 
 from Bayti 'Id witnessed the last act in 
 quarrying tlie monolith on the morning 
 of Nov. 18, upon invitation of Mr. Pren- 
 tice. 
 
 The steamer Plowboy took the party 
 over and at precisely 11:15 the first blow 
 was struck, under orders given by Mr. 
 Prentice, who stood upon the rock. The 
 iron wedges were placed about ten 
 inches apart on both sides of the stone, 
 which had been cut loose from the 
 walls. Then the men with sledges gave 
 blows on each wedge as they marched 
 along. It was like a volley of musketry 
 at first, and then the hammers began to 
 come down together, like the click of a 
 great engine. About four rounds on 
 each side loosened the great rock and 
 the work was pronounced completed. 
 
 Dr. Ellis was called upon and he 
 mounted the stone and delivered an elo- 
 quent address. 
 
 Dr. Ellis said: 
 
 "Ladies and Gentlemen— I will not 
 detaiu you long with the cold wiuds 
 blowing the way they are, but it is ap- 
 propriate that oil such occasions we give 
 expression to our feelings and senti- 
 ments. We come here to see this mighty 
 stone broken from its bed where ii has 
 lain a million, aye, millions of years. 
 
 "It is the largest single stone ever 
 quarried and is an event in modern 
 quarrying without a precedent. His- 
 tory tells us that a,O0U or 3,UUU years 
 ago, the Egyptians quarried out of solid 
 rock some famous obelibks. It wus 
 shortly before the christian era, in the 
 I).ilmy diys of the Roman empire, when 
 Cleopatra, the bewitching but bad 
 queen, had enticed Marc Antony from 
 Ills wife and family, had two great obe- 
 lisks quariidd in honor of her be.iuly. 
 They were called Cleopulra's needle's, 
 liut I am not sure she sewed with them. 
 [Laughter]. These obelisks were sev- 
 enty-five tcet in height, while this one 
 upon which we stand is forty-five feet 
 longer than those so famed in history. 
 
 '•Xhii monolith stands a monument 
 to the per.severauce and the energy of 
 Mr. Frederick Prentice. God bless nim. 
 [Here the workmen of the quarries, who 
 iiad assembled from their work, gave 
 tliiee rousing cheers for Mr. Prentice. 
 It was a cheer to the echo]. 
 
 Dr. Eilis continued: "Of these great 
 mauoliths, ona now stands on the banks 
 of the Thames; another 19 in New York; 
 another is at Home; the latter is over 
 105 feet in height, the largest ever quar- 
 ried except the one we now behold. It 
 rjmained for this new country and Mr. 
 Prentice to surpass and eclipse all 
 former attempts, and it marks an event 
 of which we are all proud. 
 
 "It is natural to desire to perpetuate 
 his memory. There is a natural human 
 craving for immortility, and this mono- 
 lith stands a monument that not only 
 brings back memories of this noble and 
 energetic projector, Mr. Prentice, but 
 the famous country and shores from 
 whence it came. 
 
 "These ancient obelisks were quarried 
 by monarchs — by slave labor. How 
 different the aspect today. Here we 
 have the product of well paid American 
 labor — free and independent, which can 
 come and go at no man's bidding. It 
 was not this way in the old times in 
 Egypt. 
 
 "Mr. Prentice conceived the idea some 
 five or six years ago of planting a monu- 
 ment on Houghton Point. Later he 
 changed his plan to have the monolith 
 at Chicago during the World's Fair, 
 when the whole world was assembled to 
 learn of the world. He has accom- 
 plished it and gives to the state of Wis- 
 consin this great stone. 
 
 "I desire to say that it is not one man 
 in a million who would have conceived 
 and had the courage to carry out this 
 undertaking as Mr. Prentice has done 
 it. Workmen, you will be proud of this 
 day's work when you see this great rock 
 raised on its pedestal 115 feet high in 
 Chicago, It will be a monument to you. 
 
 Every one of your children can say, 'my 
 father had a hand in this work. He 
 struck the wedge which liberated it 
 from its place where it has been for 
 centuries past.' Your descendants and 
 we mav all be proud of this day, Nov. 
 18, 1892. Without yon or men like 
 you, this work could never have been ac- 
 complished. 
 
 "Mr. Prentice is already at work on 
 four more monoliths twenty-five feet in 
 height, to go with this monster. As 
 we look around and see our Like Super- 
 ior brownstone in our public buildings 
 and handsome residences and tine busi- 
 ness blocks everywhere, we are all proud 
 to have had a part in this day's exer- 
 cises. This day has been a red-letter 
 day in the history of Lake Superior." 
 
 There were a large number of ladies 
 present, and they all walked to the " top 
 of the obelisk. " Mr. S. W. Bailey took 
 a number of handsome views as the men 
 took their positions to begin the work. 
 Mr. Darning and Mr. Powell, pho- 
 tographers, were also there. The party 
 was taken by Mr. Baiky in a large 
 group, as they stood at the bottom of 
 the great open quarry pit about the obe- 
 lisk, twenty feet below the surface of 
 the ground. It made a pretty scene and 
 one that will long be remembered by 
 those who witnessed it. 
 
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 The Beautiful Apostle ilslands. 
 
 IRST among the sum- 
 mer resorts of Amer- 
 ica are the Apostle 
 Ishinds, tweuty-four 
 in number, embracing 
 314 square miles of 
 land and water, meas- 
 ured from the outer- 
 most points of the 
 islands. The land area is about seventy- 
 seven square miles. As a whole, the 
 group trends in a nortneastly direction. 
 They were probably at one time a con- 
 tinuation of the Bayfield peninsula. 
 
 Sand Island is the m/)3t westerly, and 
 is a famous resort for summer camping 
 parties. For yeats past it has been used 
 
 ^'j*^^ 
 
 wide. On its western end is situated 
 the oldest settlement in the state, the 
 village of Li% Puinte. Among the 
 structures still standing are the chapel 
 built by Father Allowez in 1665, and 
 the oldest Protestant church in the state, 
 built in I83a. Tlie island is well settled 
 by homesteaders. It is a famous re- 
 sort for picnic parties, conventions and 
 tourists. 
 
 Michigan Island, lying just to the east 
 of Madeline, is three and a half miles 
 by one and a quarter. It has a light- 
 house, for the benefit of vessels going to 
 and from the "Soo" and Ashland. Gull 
 Island is a short reef a few rods in 
 length near Michigan Island. 
 
 Rocky, Willey's, Brownstone, Raspber- 
 ry, Bear, and York, constitute the re- 
 mainder of the group. 
 
 All the Apostle Islands are heavily 
 covered with timber. They are separ- 
 ated from each other and from the main 
 land (excepting Sand Island) by water 
 varying from sixty to 300 feet in depth. 
 Tliey are beautiful and picturesque be- 
 yond measure. Devil's Island, the most 
 northerly of the group, is about forty 
 miles from Ashland Excursion steamers 
 run from Ashland to this island or to 
 Outer Islan i, which is about the same 
 distance, once a week during navigation. 
 
 Tbe Apostle Islands lie lengthwise of 
 the coast for about thirty miles north of 
 Biyfield and except as a natural harbor 
 for boats in bad weather they have for 
 many years been a problem to the 
 owners. Of late years the brown sand- 
 stone, of whicli they are mainly com- 
 poispd. ha"* brought tliem into greater 
 
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 MV!J7 fi CN'tflcs 
 
 CHEQDAMEGON BAY AND THE APO.STLE ISLANDS. 
 
 by Governor Fifield for this purposj. 
 Shoal water to the south of it compels 
 vessels going to and from Duluth to 
 pass it on the north. Steamboat and 
 Eagle Islands are two small islands a 
 htindred feet to the wes: of Sand 
 Island. These three are the only ones 
 belonging to Bayfield county. Devil's 
 Island, which is farthest north, was 
 seized by the government in the sum- 
 mer of 1893, for lighthouse purposes. 
 
 About nineteen islands, composing 
 the rest of the group, belong to Ashland 
 county. Of these, Madeline, Oak,'Oater 
 and Presque Isle are by far the largest. 
 
 Madeline (Moniquanikang, Minis, or 
 Yellow Hammer Island), is thirteen 
 miles long, and three and a half miles 
 
 Bass Island has valuable brownstone 
 quarries, which are a commercial suc- 
 cess. It lies north of Madeline. Just to 
 the east of the latter lies Hermit or 
 Wilson's Island, which was the home of 
 the erratic Lake Superior hermit, Wil- 
 son. Frederick Prentice has valuable 
 quarries on this island. 
 
 Presque Isle is next in size to Made- 
 line, situated just northeast of it. It is 
 seven and a half miles by two and a 
 half miles in extent. Oaler Island is 
 the northeast outpost of the group. Its 
 area in miles is six and a fourth by two 
 and a half A lighthouse is situ, 
 ated on the eastern edge. 
 
 Oik Island is the highest of the group, 
 rising 41!!} feet above the lake. Manitou, 
 Ironwood, Cat or Hemlock, Otter, 
 
 prominence, aad should the northwest 
 take the same strides in the next twenty 
 years as during the last period of that 
 length, they will probably become the 
 great source of garden supplies for Wis- 
 consin and Minnesota, as they are 
 especially adapted for that purpose. 
 Their great drawback, however, is their 
 isolation from railroads. It is not, how- 
 ever, a mere fancy to suppose that with 
 the increase in population they will be 
 c innected with the main land by 
 bridges or railroad ferries. The sug- 
 gestion has been made by some who are 
 interested in their future, that with the 
 advent of railroad facilities they will be 
 used as transfer yards for cattle shipped 
 from east to west in transcontinental 
 traffic. 
 
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 I The 'Yaughn Free Tufclic i^ibrary. | 
 
 UNDER the inspiration of Demetrius^ 
 the Greek, Ptolemy Soter estab- 
 lished the first library known to history. 
 The Alexandrian library was the first 
 dawn of free'reading and free education 
 among the masses, and the spirit of 
 that day still lives. All strangers visit- 
 ing Alexandria were compelled to leave 
 a copy of some book — a sort of a literary 
 tithe or tax, but to read its rare volumes 
 was free to all. It crystalized a thought 
 center. The. city of Ashland, through 
 the generous gift of the late Hon. S. S. 
 
 THE LATE HON. S. S. VAl UHN. 
 
 Vaughn and Mrs. Euieline E. Vaughn, 
 already boasts of the best free public li- 
 brary in the state. Omar burned the 
 rare books of Alexandria in public baths 
 because he deemed them useless as long 
 as tae Koran existed. But in the twi- 
 
 MHS. EMELINE E. VAUGHN. 
 
 light of the Nineteenth century nothing 
 is more p/ized and more highly indica- 
 tive of a progressive and aggressive city 
 than a free public library. They have 
 become a necessity. The idea of estab- 
 lishing a free public library in Ashland 
 was conceived by the late Mr. Vaughn 
 
 years ago, when the city was but a ham- 
 let, and his ideal life work has been 
 more than accomplished by his wife, 
 Mrs. Emeline E.Vaughn. The library was 
 opened Nov. 16, 188y, with appropriate 
 
 building move th;in supports the lilira-v. 
 A<ldiiionHl books are pur^-hased every 
 month, giving the cream of current 
 literatnrp. The library now o^msigts of 
 nearly 5.000 volumes of tbf best works, 
 including all br inches of liternfui'H. his- 
 tory, art, science and bonks of refer- 
 ence. Thf" reading room is visited by 
 over 16.000 peo|>le during the year, 
 and is already a center for the be-<t 
 thought. It has resulted in the organ- 
 
 INTERIOB OF VAUOHN FREE LIBKAKY. 
 
 ceremonies, when Mrs. Vaughn, in a 
 scholarly address, outlined the future 
 work. During the present year the li- 
 brary, building and property intact was 
 deeded to the city. The income in 
 
 iz ition of a circle of numerous literary 
 clubs which brignten the intellectual 
 horizon. Altogether the Vaughn Library 
 is one of the things to wliich an 
 A'lhlander can always refer with a 
 
 rentals from the large and handsome i feeling of ju^t and p trdonablf pri'le. 
 
 THE VAUGHN LIBRARY BUILDING. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893 
 
 MAN'AGER'S riUVATE OFFICl-; 
 
 THE BUSINESS OFFICE 
 
 INTERIOR OF SAW MILL 
 
 LOGS I.N BOOJI AT BAD RIVliU. 
 
 flant of fenoi^ee I^amber Qomptmy, Morse, Wisconsin. 
 
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 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 
 I TPenokee Jj^^uinber Co., 3/Corse, 'Wis. \i^ 
 
 TjT Z^ ^ ^ ^ Zji *^ '^ '^'^^ 
 
 "V~* 'v* *'V* **/* ^V* *V* *V* *V"* 'v* 
 
 UST what an ileal 
 </£* fcai^ jll lumber inaiinfHctnv- 
 
 ^f^^ilK^'Awilli jn^, plant should be. 
 
 Tliis briefly ilefcnb-s 
 the plant of Penokee 
 Liiuibir Co., Mur^e, 
 \Vi!<. It indicates 
 the m(jviiig spirit 
 and an eiieriretie and 
 practical manager. This uentlemeu is 
 none otherthanMr. AuguatmW. Morse, 
 who although kept busy almost ni.;lit 
 and day locking alter large lumber in- 
 terests, is the active chairman tf the 
 
 shrewdest lumbermen of the country. 
 He is the picture of health, a bright 
 business man. able manager and good 
 citizen. 
 
 Penokee Lumber Company is org miz- 
 ed under the laws of the stare of New 
 York, with home office at Tonawanda, 
 and the following officers: Henry A. 
 Crane, president: Chas. W. P.irlee. sec- 
 retary and treasurer: Augustus W. 
 Morse, general manager. Tne above- 
 named gentlemen are also trustees to- 
 gether with Mr. Arthur il. Dodge and 
 Chas. H. Ackerly. 
 
 THE PLANT IS OPERATION. 
 
 '"I'^HE saw mills (band androtaryi. run 
 J. day and night dm i jg; the sawing 
 seHeon. and average an annual oat of 
 twenty million feet of handsome cork 
 pine. !Six fet-t nine guage circulars are 
 used by this company, and are said to 
 be the only ones of this size and guage 
 rnnning. 
 
 The planing mill has a capacity of 
 two millions p-r month, and twenty 
 cars can be loadtd at one time. 
 
 A useful invention is that of Penokee 
 Lumber Company employed to hoist 
 saw logs from water to cars. It is lo- 
 cated SIX miles north of the mills at the 
 confluence of Bad and Iron livers on 
 the Wisconsin Central line. Eight cars 
 an hour can be loadeil at a cost of less 
 than seven cents per M. This is a vast 
 iinnrovement on the old way, and 
 iiflnc-ts credit on the ingenuity and 
 energy of Mr. Morse and nis logging 
 
 oafmmmmmmfM 
 
 
 -^V 
 
 SAW M1I,I„ PENOKEK l.l'MHEK lOMPAN'i , 
 
 ■ii:. WIS. 
 
 World's Fair Commissioners for Ashland 
 County. He has been energetic in his 
 efforts to make a splendid shov^ing at 
 the Columbian exposition from Ashland 
 County. Mr. Augustus W. Morse is the 
 father of the now thriving village of 
 Morse, and a more practical lumbenuan 
 is hard to find: not a detail of the 
 business that he does not thoroughly un- 
 derstand. Mr. Morse is about thirty- 
 eight years of age, was born and self • 
 educated in New York state, and com- 
 menced as a common laborer in the 
 camps. His aptitude and energj' rapid- 
 ly placed him to the front in work con- 
 nected with logging operations, and 
 from thence to milling and .handling of 
 boards. As a buyer and inspector in 
 the Saginaw valley, he was successful, 
 brushing elbows with some of the 
 
 Mr. Morse spends his entire time at 
 Morse, and has a staff of energetic and 
 competent assistants. 
 
 A visit to this busy plant is indeed a 
 treat. There are eighteen neatly- 
 painted buildings, viz: saw mills, plan- 
 ing mills, dry kilns, lumber shed, picket 
 shed, machine shop, electric light, 
 blacksmitli and wood-working shops, 
 machinery warehouse, ice house, mill 
 stables, west side stables, camp equip- 
 ment warehouse, store, yard office, main 
 office, mill and firm boarding houses. 
 Comfortable homes for tne woringmen 
 are to be seen on every hand, anil one of 
 the finest school houses in Northern 
 Wisconsin lias just been completid.l 
 
 A tiip through the extensive yard is 
 intensely interesting, and every lumber 
 file speaks of precision. 
 
 sniierinteudent, Mr. ,J. H. Leasia. 
 Veiy extensive booming facilities have 
 been here provided, and large tjnanities 
 of logs are handled by this machine 
 every sawing season, same being put in 
 streams several miles distant, and V)y 
 use of dams, flooded to these hoisting 
 works, and from thence they go by rail 
 to the mills. 
 
 It would be a mistake not to mention 
 the very i>erfect system of electric 
 lighting. It is entirely separate from the 
 other machinery. Self-regulating Com- 
 pound Wound Dynamos are used, es- 
 pecially made for that work, and a 
 more perfect light is not to be found. 
 
 Penokee Lumber company is first in 
 the market with assorted and well sea- 
 soned lumler from the immediitu 
 vicinity, and their business in every 
 Way reflects credit upon tlie great lum- 
 ber industry of Nortl.ern Wisconsin, 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 81 
 
 wa\i;y board pine. 
 
 LOG HoisrrNi; machink at bad and ruoN rivkrs. 
 
 INTERIOR OF MACBINE SHOl'. 
 
 LOGS AT CAMP NO 1. 
 
 INTERIOR OF fLANING MILL. 
 
 LOADING WANKY PINE FOR EXPORT AT ASHLAND. 
 
 Peno^ee I^amber (Company flant, /vAorse, WisQonsin. 
 
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 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 r 
 
 iron I^iver, "The City of DyCiUs." I 
 
 Iron Biver boasts of two railroads, 
 tlie D., S. S. & A. and Northern Pacific, 
 both of which have a tremendous freight 
 trafiBc. The Great Northern and Wash- 
 burn & Nfrlh western are two new rail 
 
 RACING, growing, 
 jmshing town is Iron 
 River. Less than a 
 year ago the town of 
 Iron River was a 
 wilderness in the 
 wild woods of North 
 Wisconsin. In Feb- 
 riiarj' it was surveyed 
 and platted. Today 
 it is a tliiiving, well-built city of nearly 
 three thousand people. This, in 
 spite of tlie fact that a sweeping confla- 
 gration on July 24 nearly wiped the en- 
 tire city out of existence and left in 
 Hshes the results of several months of 
 vigorous town building. 
 
 It is a typical western and American 
 city. Its growth and elasticity has 
 about it that air of substantial enter- 
 prise characteristic of frontier pioneer- 
 ism which means, "here a city will be 
 built." 
 
 There is no other city in the state of 
 Wisconsin that can exhibit the wonder- 
 ful percentage of increase in population 
 
 vii;\v I KnM i.i.r'ir, i.hmkini; n(jrtii. 
 
 twelve months. Such substantial bncii 
 liuildings as the McCord block, Hessey 
 & Hatton block and Mr. Pettingill's 
 Masonic Temple shows the unswerving 
 faith its business men have in the fntnre 
 of the town. A fine system of Holly 
 water works has just been completed. 
 
 VIEW ON MILLS STREET. IRON PIVElt. 
 
 and improvements for the year 1892. 
 Six large sawmills keep the air hum- 
 ming with industry. Add to this the 
 buzz of three busy planing mills. We 
 summarize in brief the lumber manu- 
 facturing capacity of Iron River per 
 annum: 
 
 Lea & Ingram 25,000,000 
 
 Bohn MfK. Company. 25,000.000 
 
 .S.F. Staples Lumber Co. 10,000,000 
 
 Phillips & Murlitt ■ ■■,,,■ , 7.500.000 
 
 Lane & Co 5.000.000 
 
 Grand total 72,500,000 
 
 This capacity will likely be largely in- 
 creased during the coming year. Ac- 
 cording to careful estimates there is 
 2,450,000,000 feet of pine directly tribu- 
 tary to Iron Biver, which means many 
 years of activity in the lumber industry 
 which will gradually develop into other 
 manufacturing interests. 
 
 It seems almost impossible to realize 
 that this substantial little city has been 
 entirely built from a single log house in 
 
 A $7,500 school house, a handsome Con- 
 gregational and Catholic church have 
 also just been finished. 
 
 The town was founded by Mr. J. A. 
 Pettingill, who is oue of its most enter- 
 prising and active citizens. 
 
 roads expected during the coming j'ear. 
 Another interesting feature of this 
 young giant city is Half-moon lake, and 
 the trout streams in this vicinity have a 
 national reputation and even President 
 Hariison's cabinet ofBcsrs became vic- 
 tims to the allurements of angling in 
 Iron Biver. 
 
 Iron Biver also has a bright news- 
 paper, the Times, in which Editor Rip- 
 ley keeps sounding the city's greatness. 
 
 On this page we give views of the 
 city as it now is, and if another year 
 works the same amount of changes the 
 last season has, it will not be long be- 
 fore Iron Biver becomes one of the most 
 prosperous cities in the state. We also 
 give a group of business men, which is 
 indicative of the character of those who 
 are building up the picturesque little 
 city among the whispering pines of the 
 "New Wisconsin." 
 
 The improvements contemplated for 
 1893 are very extensive. At a rough 
 estimate over a half million dollars were 
 expended in improvement* during the 
 past year, public and private. 
 
 This amount will likely be increased 
 during the coming year, and Iron River 
 will outstrip all other cities of its class in 
 the state. 
 
 IRON KIVER, LOOKING NORTH 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 33 
 
 RESIDENCE OF CAPT. LEA. 
 
 CATHOLIC CHURCH. 
 
 CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. 
 
 8. F. STAPLES LUMBER CO.. SAWMILL. 
 
 IRONIKIVER IN 1891. IRON RIVER A TEAR AGO. 
 
 §eene.s at Iron PJvQ.r, Wisconsin. 
 
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 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 o7' 
 
 -SJjf^o.; 
 
 'TiJ^M?. 
 
 iron i\iY2r and its institutiorLS 
 
 
 IHERE 18 iiulhiii- 
 that so eiu|ilia!-izes 
 ^ the assurance of any 
 young town's future, 
 .'ilfi' as to reveal a solid, 
 a' if- financial backing. 
 '>>* Unite with this, typi- 
 cal western enterprise 
 and pluck, and the 
 result is almost as 
 precise as that of an arithmetical c ilcu- 
 latioii. Iron River is one of the youiii,' 
 towns in Northern Wisconsin which 
 not only enjoys the backing and sup- 
 port of' one large and stront; financial 
 corporation, but of several. And the best 
 feature of it all is, that all of these cor- 
 porations and individuals who have large 
 property interests, pull together, join 
 hands in anything and everything ihat 
 will advance the interests of the robust 
 young city. They have the right spirit 
 of enthusiasm, that is going to win. 
 
 THE B.\NK OF IRON RIVER. 
 
 PROMINENT and perhaps foremost 
 in the public welfare ol this young 
 city is the Bank of Iron River. Although 
 only organized Dec. 13, 189a,— less than 
 three mouths ago— it already gives 
 promise of very soon becoming one of 
 the strongest state banks in Wisconsin. 
 it was organized under the state laws 
 wilh a capital slock of |2r),0U0— and 
 already the need has been felt for in- 
 creasing this amount owing to the many 
 applications for stock. W. E. McCord, 
 one of the best known lumbermen in 
 Wisconsin, is president, and has started 
 the institution out under a careful, con- 
 servative and yet energetic policy which 
 will soon result in netting good div- 
 deiids. W. R. Hoover, cashier, is one 
 of the shrewdest and brightest young 
 bankers in the state, and thoroughly 
 understands all the details incident to 
 good banking, and his first two months, 
 showing deposits $30,0U0 and loans and 
 discounts at $120,0UO, are sufficient proof 
 as to his activity and ability. The per- 
 sonnel of the directorship is such as 
 Iron River may feel proud of. W. E. 
 McCord, president; Myron Reed, vice- 
 president: W. R. Hoover, cashier: D. 
 McLeod, C. C. Tennis, J. A. Pettingill, 
 W. a. Bohn, T. F. Mackniiller, N. C. 
 Kelley, D. S. Clark, J. K, Sharp, W. 
 W. Lea. The above constitutes tlie di- 
 rectory, and the encouraging feature 
 is that it includes all of the leading 
 property owners in Iron River. They 
 are reaily to endorse their faith in the 
 city by supporting its public institutions. 
 The large lumber operations in this 
 vicinity, covering a stumpage of over 
 two billion feet, necessarily calls for a 
 large and stibslantial banking institu- 
 tion, as the hub of a large financial 
 circumference. 
 
 The bank is now well established in 
 its new quarters in the McCord brick 
 block. The fixtures are elegant — solid 
 cherry, natural finish — and would 
 be a credit to any bank. The vaults are 
 secure, built four tier brick, with an 
 air space between and one other tier. 
 The Hall burglar-proof safe is used, and 
 the bank also carries a large amount of 
 
 -m^'j^- 
 
 45. 
 
 of 
 
 "Burglar Insurance,"' a new kind 
 surety company recently organiz>'d. 
 
 Altogether, the Bank of Iron River is 
 certain to become one of the must solid 
 and prosperous banking institutions in 
 Northern Wisconsin. It is thoroughly 
 equipped, well manned, and carries 
 olenty of ballast, and has a safe anchor. 
 Its future is brisht. 
 
 large nond which is at the mill of the 
 Lea & Ingram company. The works 
 have already been tested at one fire and 
 three streams can be thrown at one 
 tune 8') as to cover any of the principal 
 buildings. 
 
 M' 
 
 S' 
 
 IRON RIVEK WATER, LIGHT & POWER CO. 
 
 '(JUN after the disastrous fire of Jnly 
 2i, 1893, this company was organ- 
 ized, temporarily. Hardly had the 
 charred timbers of ruined homes and 
 business houses ceased to smouliier, 
 before the embers of public pluck gen- 
 erated in a spirit of energetic enterprise, 
 and a bond of unity that nothingshort of 
 a misfortune of this kind could have 
 accomplish, was established. There 
 were no differences then. Every citi- 
 zen took an active interest in seeing that 
 the best of fire protection was provid- 
 ed against a similar catastrophe in thi' 
 future. The articles of incorpoiatiou 
 were filed Oct. :j. 1803, with the followiim 
 officers: W. E McCord, president: S. F. 
 
 IRON river's MANl'FACTtJRI.NG INTERESTS 
 
 'ANUFACTURING interests soon 
 build thriving cities. Iron River 
 secured <iuring the pa-^t year three or 
 four plants that already give assurrance 
 of supporting a good town. 
 
 The Bohn Manufacturing Company 
 has alieady made a suiirising record 
 with its saw mill and planing mill 
 and has kept busy durinir the winter 
 in getting out orders, for bill stufl". 
 Its entire plant is thoroughly equipped 
 ihroughout It carries in all nf 
 
 its yards an assortment rarely 
 fcundi and is now at work on a large 
 order for new ore docks at the head of 
 tlie lake. Mr. W. Cx. Bohn the general 
 manager is one of-thb best known lum- 
 bermen in the west. 
 
 The Lea & Ingram company has a 
 plant that is interesting. Il is thorou'.'h 
 and complete in every detail. It 
 has a large steam chest and have con- 
 tinued sawing night and day during the 
 winter months getting out lumber that 
 car.not be excelled. They have exten- 
 sive yards and furnished several large 
 orders of din)ension t-tuff. The plai't 
 is entirely new throughout and not a 
 d. tail is lacking that should be found 
 
 M'CORD BLOCK— BANK OF IRON RIVER. 
 
 Staples,secretary ; N.C. Kelley, treasurer, 
 andCapt. W. W. Lea, general manager. 
 Contracts were let at once, although 
 it was then late in the fall, for three 
 miles of water mains. The work was soon 
 completed and now thirty-five hydrants 
 stand guard on different street corners, 
 ready to tight the flames. A volunteer 
 fire department has been organized. 
 
 The pumping station and power house 
 was completed in December and the 
 company spent nearly $35,000 in secur- 
 ing these improvements and has 
 already made arrangements for extend- 
 ing mains and furnishing nearly 300 
 different consumers during the coming 
 year. The pump house is equipped with 
 two of the latest improved Blake pumps. 
 One is used for the domestic water sup- 
 ply and the other in case of fire. 
 The domestic water supply is taken 
 from a large spiing of the purest water 
 on the bank* of Iron river. The Wiler 
 for fire purposes is pumped from the 
 
 in a first class mill. J. G. Ingram is 
 president: D. S. Clark, secretary and 
 treasurer and Capt. W. W. Lea, gen- 
 eral manager keeps the mill running 
 like a sewing machine. The engine and 
 boiler house are of brownstone and the 
 machinery throughout as good as 
 that found in any modern manufactur- 
 ing plant. 
 
 The S. F. Staples Lumber Co., has 
 made a surprising record with its mill 
 and it is rapidly developing into one of 
 the best plants in this section. Phillips 
 & Martell, and A. E. Lane & Co. , also 
 operate saw mills here so that altogether 
 Iron River is one of best inland lumber 
 centers in the New Wisconsin. 
 
 The Iron River Brownstone Co., is 
 another industry that is growing into 
 special prominence. 
 
 There is now talk of a telephone ex- 
 change being established at Iron River 
 and the Electric Lighting plant will be 
 put in this spring. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 OO 
 
 PETTINGILL BLOCK ANll HOSE HOUSE. 
 
 ■•TIMES" OFFICE AND STAPLKS ■ADD.' 
 
 
 HESbEV i llATTEN BLcji:K. 
 
 RKSIDEXCE K. (J. STAPLES. 
 
 Iron f^iver §inee the fire. 
 
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 THE ASHf-AND DAIT,Y PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 •THE OLD HOMESTKAD" TN WINrKlt. 
 
 HALF .MOON LAKE. 
 
 JOHN E. llOUKKTV. 
 Sec'y ami TreOH. 
 
 DAM NO. :!. BRULE RIVEK IMPROVEMENT CO. 
 
 CAPT. B. DOHERTY. 
 
 President. 
 
 DAM .NO. I'. liUI l.E RIVEU IMI'UOVEMENT (:(J. 
 
 AT THE MOUTH OF THE BRULE. 
 
 ON THE BBDLE TRAIL. 
 
 A J7ay with the Smle ^ivar Improve:me.nt (Company. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 37 
 
 . 1^ Brule I^iver ilmpreYement So. '^^ 
 
 M m m m m m '^ 
 
 •^iJJK'^'— 
 
 HE drive of thirty- 
 six miles through 
 the woods with the 
 thermometer 36 be- 
 low zero, is more 
 
 pleasant to contemplate beside a red-hot 
 stove, than to experience. 
 
 In company with Capt. Doherty, a 
 Press representative and Mr. Osborn, of 
 the firm of Bailey & Osborn, photograph- 
 ers, a trip was made along the famous 
 Brule from the Northern Pacific rail- 
 road to its mouth on Lake Superior — 
 making a drive of thirty-six miles alto- 
 gether, during the coldest weather 
 known to the "oldest settler", 
 
 A county road is built for a large part 
 uf the distance — running due north on 
 a section line, over a very hilly country 
 and what is known as the old "copper 
 range. " 
 
 through the woods looks like some an- 
 cient hall — stately and grand — and the 
 lithe, trim pines making gallant courte- 
 sies to each other across the road in the 
 soft, thirty-eix-below-zero breezes. 
 
 Dam No. 3 is 123 feet across from 
 bank to bank and located in a very pic- 
 turesque spot. It is 16 feet high, with a 
 ten-foot head of water. Each bank U 
 excavated from some distance back and 
 piling driven to make it absolutely im- 
 pregnable. A row of sheet piling was 
 driven at the water's edge — then heavy 
 sills bolted on. Back of this another 
 row of piling is driven— and in front 
 two other rows of ciling to support the 
 dam proper. The plank is very heavy 
 and corked as tight as the bottom of a 
 a vessel. Two large sixteen-foot gates 
 are raised when water is needed to 
 flood the river below. The logs shoot 
 through the sluices and the extra flow 
 of water drives them safely over the 
 rapids to other dams below — located 
 nearly at the mouth of thj river — where 
 
 HEADQUARTERS BRULE RIVER IMPROVEMENT COMPANY. 
 
 The object of the trip was to inspect 
 the extensive improvements being made 
 along the river by the Brule River Im- 
 provement Company, which was re- 
 cently organized, with Capt. B. Doherty 
 as president, Ed. Brown, vice-president; 
 and John E. Doherty, secretary and 
 treasurer. 
 
 Although they started late last fall, 
 they are pushing the work rapidly in 
 mid-winter, under many disadvan- 
 tages, so that at least sixty miles of 
 this stream hitherto unimproved will be 
 ready to drive and raft all the logs cut 
 on its banks this winter. 
 
 There are to be three dams in all. 
 Dam No. 3, located about thiee miles 
 from the town of Brule, is already com- 
 pleted. The drive into this location 
 through the towering pines, was in- 
 spiring. The pine is very thick and very 
 tall in this section and the broad road 
 
 it empties into Lake Superior. The 
 great difficulty heretofore met in driv- 
 ing logs on the Brule has been the logs 
 hanging up on the river. Over 3,000,000 
 are on the banks from last year. This 
 upper dam is calculated to cover about 
 fifty to sixty miles of the stream and 
 was completed the week before Christ- 
 mas, and built under supervision of 
 Mr. A. A. Arnold, one of the best dam 
 builders in the country. It was very 
 expensive work, but it was made to last 
 for years — as long as there is a log on 
 the river. 
 
 It was snowing very hard when 
 we struck camp. It seemed like a 
 very snug little frontier village. 
 It was Sunday and everyone about was 
 "taking it easy." The teamster was 
 mending his harness — a broken collar or 
 buckle— the men sewing up a torn mit, 
 or a parted seam in shirt or p^nts. 
 
 I he Brule river winds in and about 
 the mountains and in summer time the 
 scenery is superb. Near its mouth the 
 
 pine lumber is pretty well stripped and 
 the scene is desolate enough. It is said 
 that Superior and Dnluth were pretty 
 much built up in early days from tim- 
 ber cut at the mouth of the Brule. 
 There is hardly anything more desolate 
 and sad to contemplate than a heavy 
 pine country stripped of its towering 
 forest. It looks like a man who hadn't 
 shaved for several weeks. It is said 
 that some of the first lumbering opera- 
 tions on Lake Superior occurred at the 
 mouth of the Brule. In fact it was 
 once the scene of busy days. A sawmill 
 and small village was started by an En- 
 glish syndicate. A large numoer of 
 snug and pleasant cottages wer« built 
 and the town was platted in readiness 
 for a great loom. But some years ago 
 it was deserted and the little cottages 
 were inhabited by stray swallows. The 
 foreign syndicate did not seem to catch 
 on to American methods in building up 
 a new town over night. The reason 
 that the sawmill enterprise was a fail- 
 ure was because of a lack of flowage to 
 get dovTD the logs rapidly enough 
 to keep the mill going. This 
 is precisely the object of the Brule 
 River Improvement Company. With 
 these three dams there will never be 
 any lack of water to drive the logs over 
 the rapids. 
 
 Dam No. 2 is located near where the 
 Brule enters Lake Superior. It has four 
 fourteen-foot gates and one twelve-foot 
 gate — or sluice, where the logi shoot 
 through. Above this dam the sorting 
 works are located. There are six pockets 
 — one for each mark of logs. The boom 
 covers forty acres, and is canable of 
 holding over 12,000,000 of logs" at one 
 time. There is an eight foot head of 
 water at this dam and it is eleven feet 
 in height and 306 feet across from bank 
 to bank. Over 1,000 piles will be used 
 in the construction of this dam— making 
 it very strong. It is heavily rip-rapped 
 with stone. Nearly half of the piles in 
 this dam are driven in surface ground. 
 At the very mouth of the river dam No. 
 1 is to be located. It is calculated to 
 dredge and fit up a good harbor 
 at the mouth of the Brule for light 
 water craft. 
 
 The Brule River Improvement Co. de- 
 serve considerable credit for their pluck 
 and energy in pushing this enter- 
 prise. They will raft, sort and drive 
 logs on the river and guarantee their 
 safe delivery. There is about 500,000.- 
 000 feet of pine yet to cut on the river. 
 All of the dams are to be completed 
 this winter. Dam No, 1 is to be a pile 
 dam and is for the purpose of straight- 
 ening out the river at the mouth and 
 running it directly into Lake Superior 
 without the big bend. 
 
 The company's improvements will do 
 much to develop the logging interests of 
 the Brule. The men at work now oc- 
 cupy the deserted cabins built by the 
 English syndicate at Cleavedon — many 
 of the families returned to England. 
 Their failure was owing to a lack of 
 flowage to hold and store the logs at the 
 mouth. The Brule Co. — of American 
 enterprise and capital obviates all of 
 these difficulties, and makes it a great 
 deal less expensive and more safe to 
 operate on the river. The prospects now 
 are that Cleavedon, with its pretty little 
 bay window cottages, and in plain sight 
 of Dnluth — across the lase — will become 
 a prosperous and thriving little village. 
 The equipments and facilities for hand- 
 ling logs on the Brule aie seomd to 
 no other logging stream in the state, 
 and it cannot help but bring with it 
 a waye of prosperity. 
 
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 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 
 
 The Brule £umber Sompani], 
 
 And the Bustling Town of Brule. 
 
 O 
 
 T r e q u i r es aome- 
 Ihing more than or- 
 dinary pluck and 
 enterprise to plunge 
 into the primitive 
 forests and build up 
 successful industries 
 and at the same 
 time establish flour- 
 ishing and prosperous cities. But this 
 is just what the active, aggressive 
 owners of the Brule Lumber Company 
 have done. Located on the picturesque 
 Brule river — replete with the traditions 
 of Indian legendary lore— they have 
 hewn out the site of a thriving city, 
 Brule — and they have established a 
 plant and opened large lumber opera- 
 tions that give assurance of supporting 
 a lively little town. 
 
 A more favorable site for a city could 
 not have been chosen, and for a young 
 city, it is making rapid strides to the 
 foremost rank of Northern Wisconsin 
 lumbering towns. Millions of the finest 
 giant pines surround the city on every 
 side, and the river furnishes an excellent 
 
 After the death of Gen. Washburn, 
 Mr. Copeland purchased the estate in- 
 terest in the La Crosse Lumber Com- 
 pany and has been its president ever 
 since. He is also a stockholder of the 
 Batavian Bink, and is interested in 
 numerous other public enterprises in 
 and about La Crosse. Mr. Copeland is 
 very genial and popular wherever 
 known and is esteemed highly in busi- 
 ness and financial circles. 
 It is ii'deed fortunate that ] 
 his interests in Northern 
 Wisconsin identify him I 
 with this locality. 
 
 James H. Keddan, vice- 
 president of the company, 
 is a resident of Neilsville, 
 Wis., and has been in the 
 logging business for toe 
 past twenty years or more. 
 He is heavily interests in 
 pine and farming lands in 
 Clark county. Wis., and 
 also has large interests on 
 the Pacific coast. He is 
 well known as a hustling 
 and competent business 
 man, combining the two 
 safe features of conserva- 
 tism and energy. Mr. 
 
 to his lucrative and growing practice. 
 The success of the large roller flouring 
 mill, at Neilsville. is due largely to the 
 energetic labors of Mr. Youman, who is 
 one of the proprietors. It is supplied 
 with the very best machinery, and pays 
 excellent dividends to the proprietors. 
 Mr. Youman has a large circle of warm 
 friends and acquaintances. 
 
 James Hewitt, manager of the com- 
 pany, hails from Neilsville also, and is 
 probably the best known lumberman in 
 the country. He has been a resident of 
 Neilsville since the sixties, and has done 
 more for the advancement of Neilsville 
 than any other citizen. Mr. Hewitt 
 has made the lumber business a life- 
 long study, and is well ported in all its 
 details. Generous and kind-hearted, 
 he has helped many a poor fellow to his 
 feet, and deserves to be designated as 
 the philanthropist of Clark county, 
 
 Tfli^SiJpfcr'.J^^^^-j-- 
 
 
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 UENEKAL view of BliULE, THE NEW TuWN RECENTLY PLATTED. 
 
 waterway for the rafting of logs. With 
 every natural convenience of location 
 and abundant resources, the future is 
 indeed bright for the budding, booming 
 little city among the pines. 
 I |The selection ot such a site denotes 
 the business-sagacity of the members of 
 the Brule Lumber Company. Mr. Fred 
 A, Copeland, president of the company, 
 has been the honored mayor of La 
 Crosse, Wis., for the past two years, 
 and was connected with the late Gen. 
 Washburn's early lumbering operations 
 for many years, and had charge his ex- 
 tensive lumber business on Black river 
 as early as 1878 and 1879. 
 
 Brule 
 
 Redden gives the interests at 
 considerable personal attention. 
 
 Attorney C, A. Youman, secretary 
 and treasurer, is also a resident of Neils- 
 ville. He was a law partner of M. C. 
 Ring until a recent date and has been 
 closely identified with the interests of 
 Clark county for a number of years — 
 being at present quite largely interested 
 in farming and stock-raising. His stock 
 farm is said to be one of the finest in 
 the county. Mr. Youman has not given 
 up the practice of law by any means, 
 even though his interests are so diversi- 
 fied, but he still gives prompt attention 
 
 SAW .MILL PLANT AT BKULE, WIS. 
 
 With such men at the head, almost 
 any venture would be an assured success 
 from the start. With such abundant 
 natural resources, and the advantage of 
 location, the Brule Lumber Company 
 has only started upon a long career ot 
 prosperity, which will be turned into 
 rapidly widening channels of diversified 
 manufacturing interests by these ex- 
 perienced and energetic business men. 
 
 They are putting in nearly 10,000,000 
 feet this year and have established 
 camps within a half mile of the town 
 that will be used for several years to 
 come and are said to be the finest 
 modem logging camps in the state. 
 Capt. Withey, of Clark county, operates 
 the sawmill. The new town is platted 
 and is quite a center for tourists and 
 already has made a flourishing building 
 record in the few months of its exist- 
 ence. The property is rapidly advanc- 
 ing in value and the owners anticipate 
 an active season in Brule. The new 
 town will be a hummer and no mistake. 
 
 The company own an extensive tract 
 of pine in this immediate vicinity, and 
 the timber makes the finest showing of 
 any body of pine in Northern Wiscon- 
 sin. It is nearly all located convenient- 
 ly to Brule, and will be handled in their 
 yards there. 
 
 Duiing the coming year a large 
 number of new business blocks and 
 dwellings will be built and the new 
 town will assume quite a citified air. 
 The start is always the uncertain period, 
 with snch unlimited resources at its 
 command Brule will dtvelope like a 
 young giant. The town is the supply 
 center for a large area of logging opera- 
 tions, as well as the center of thelarjjeat 
 homestead district in the state, which 
 gives it no small amount of prestige as 
 a commercial center. 
 
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 ^£ aland and its I^ailroads 
 
 
 of 
 
 owes 
 
 im- 
 
 the 
 
 that Ashland 
 
 VERY city 
 , portance 
 
 stability of its growth 
 to commerce, either 
 by railroads or water. 
 There are many thriv- 
 ing commercial citieii 
 made such hy railroads alone. There 
 are others that owe their commercial 
 importance to the advantages of some 
 great harbor. Ashland is assured of 
 •uccess in either case for it has both. 
 Four great railroad systems center here, 
 and the shipping interests give Ashland 
 rank with the foremost. It was once 
 said, as a mark of the great commercial 
 supremacy of Chicago, that for every 
 day of the year, a train arrived or de- 
 parted from that city — during a day of 
 twenty-four hours This was not very 
 long ago either. To say 
 now occupies the ad- 
 vanced position Chicago 
 vacated a few years ago, 
 will prove a startling as- 
 sertion for many — but it 
 is a fact just the same. 
 When the ore business is 
 under full headway dur- 
 ing the shipping season, 
 there are at least B65 ar- 
 rivals and departures of 
 trains per day. This in- 
 cludes all pagsengeraad 
 freight trains, besides the 
 numerous ore trains that 
 thunder in and out every 
 few minutes. 
 
 The railroads runnin g 
 into the cityof Ashland, 
 are the Wisconsin Cen- 
 tral, Milwaukee, Lake 
 Shore & Western, the 
 Chicago, St. Paul, Minn- 
 apolis & Omaha and the 
 Northern Pacific. The 
 Duluth, South Shore & 
 Atlantic road will undoubtedly reach 
 the city sometime during the present 
 season. 
 
 The Wisconsin Central depot is a 
 beautiful structure, one of the finest 
 depots in the state, built entirely of 
 browustone. The Wisconsin Central 
 ore dock is one of the largest on Lake 
 Superior. The "Central" runs direct 
 from Ashland to Chicago, several trains 
 arriving and dejiarting each day. Good 
 connections are made at Abbotsford 
 with trains for Chippewa Falls, Eau 
 Claire, St. Paul and Minneapolis. The 
 Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western rail- 
 road is also a direct line to Chicago via 
 Milwaukee. Its line extends as the name 
 indicates, along the eastern or "Lake 
 Shore" route. For much of the distance 
 after leaving Ashland, the road runs di- 
 rectly along the western shore of Lake 
 Michigan. Sevsral trains arrive and 
 depart each day for Milwaukee and Chi- 
 cago. Good connections are made for 
 all places in the interior of the state. 
 
 The Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & 
 Omaha road is the direct route to the 
 "Twin Cities." Trains leave by day 
 
 and night for Minneapolis, St. Paul 
 Omaha, Spooner and other cities in 
 Wisconsin and Minnesota. A short line 
 extenils around Cheqnamegon bav, to 
 Washburn and Bayfield. 
 
 The Northern Pacific roaa has its 
 western terminus at Ashlan 1. From 
 thence it extends directly west through 
 Iron River, Superior, Duluth. Bismarck, 
 Helena, and ends at Portland, O.egon. 
 The termini of the road are Ashland, 
 and Portland. 
 
 This, concisely, shows the railroad 
 communication with Ashland. 
 
 Sliipments by lake from Ashland's 
 magnificent harbor are enormous, 
 while the railroads afford tha means of 
 more rapid transfer of freight and pas- 
 sengers to all parts of United States. 
 A peculiarity of the railroad traffic 
 that compares most favorably with that 
 of prairie states, is that snow blockades 
 are entirely unknown, owing to the 
 fact that the vast forests extending f > r 
 
 UNION PASiJENOER DEPOT OF THE WISCONSIN CENTRAL RAILROAD, 
 
 hundreds of miles upon all sides catch 
 the heaviest snowfall and prevents it 
 from blockading the tracks. 
 
 It is confidently expected that before 
 the close of 1893, a belt line will be ex- 
 tended around Aohland. By this means 
 all the different lines will be connected, 
 and a vast improvement will be made in 
 the matter of switching rates. The 
 " belt" will be about a dozen miles in 
 length. The preliminary steps to this 
 end were taken last season. 
 
 In speaking of Ashland and the Lake 
 Superior region, President J. J. Hill, of 
 the Great Northern railway, on Feb. 16 
 last, made these significant remarks: 
 
 "It is only a few years ago since it 
 was impossible to throw off the shack- 
 les that were placed upon the commerce 
 of Lake Superior. The head of Lake 
 Superior now has the same rate to the 
 Pacific coast as the Missouri river or 
 Omaha has to the same point. 
 
 "Map making is always attractive, 
 and it yon will take a map and a pair of 
 dividers, and put one leg of the dividers 
 on Lake Superior and the other on Flor- 
 ida, you will cover a country occupied 
 
 by a great many people and numerous 
 kinds of material interests. If you 
 would turn your dividers towards the 
 East you would almost reach New- 
 foundland, but to the West, you would 
 not reach the Pacific coast, and you 
 would fall far short of the territory 
 that is fairly and honestly tributary to 
 this region. 
 
 "Building a great railway means 
 much more than to lay down the ties 
 and rails. The tonnage of the world is 
 produced on the land, and if it is to be 
 carried by water, it must be brought to 
 a point where you can get it on board 
 the ships. Certainly yon feel the deep- 
 est interest in your harbor, and the 
 depth of water in your harbor and the 
 'Roo' canal, but your greatest harbor is 
 on land, the greatest harbor, the one 
 that must not only bring everything 
 that comes and goes by water, is the 
 terminal facilities. Now we are build- 
 ing and making good progress on our 
 steamers, which will carry passengers 
 from Ashland to Buffalo in forty hours. 
 It is an experiment. People have said 
 to me, 'Your experiments always prove 
 successful.' But this did not influence 
 the responsibility. We could have se- 
 cured the power for the ppeed desired 
 by increasing the size of the ships, but 
 this was not what was desired. After 
 many experiments, we have s-ncceeded 
 in securing boilers which will stand a 
 test of 850 pounds, and 
 which, by the cold wa- 
 ter test, will sustain &00 
 pounds to the square 
 inch. I know that by this 
 means we have secured 
 steamers which will run 
 all around the Teutonic 
 or any other ship which 
 plies on the Atlantic ev- 
 ery six hours out of the 
 twenty-four. We will 
 be disappointed if they 
 do not make the run to 
 the "8oo"in seven hours. 
 I see no reason why the 
 traveler landing in New 
 York with |1U0 in his 
 pocket should not come 
 west upon the fastest 
 line of steamers in the 
 world." 
 
 Following are tables 
 showing the freight traf- 
 fic of ABhland's railroads 
 in pounds for 189a: 
 
 WTSCONSIN CENTRAL. 
 
 f POUNDS 
 
 Freight received 942.336,841 
 
 Freight forwarded 99 487,9M 
 
 Ore received 2,24S, 960.000 
 
 Total. 1892 3,2»0,7S4.«06 
 
 C, ST. P., M. * O. 
 
 POUNDS 
 
 Freight received 101.946.521 
 
 Freight forwarded 74,825.961 
 
 Brownstone received 704.821.946 
 
 Total. 1892 881,694.428 
 
 MILWAUKEE, LAKESHOBE & WTISTERN. 
 
 POCSD8 
 
 Freight received 1,(W).S61.924 
 
 Freight forwarded 95.871.625 
 
 Ore received 2.205,854,000 
 
 Total, 1892 3,347.587.549 
 
 NORTHERN PACIFIC. 
 
 POFNDS 
 
 Freight received 44.687,921 
 
 Freight forwarded 64,841,726 
 
 Logs handled 671,874.741 
 
 Total, 18D2 781,4W,388 
 
 RECAPITULATION. 
 
 Orand Total, 1892 8,101,371.170 
 
 Grand Total, 1891 6,990,954,691 
 
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 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
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 Opera 
 
 p ny is 
 izeJ to 
 
 set liack 
 street to allow of 
 
 URING the coining 
 \ ear the opera house 
 aiid business block 
 which the Ashland 
 Block Cotu- 
 now organ- 
 build will be 
 tinished. Work has 
 begun 1 y laying in a 
 drainage pipe of wrought iron three 
 feet in diameter through and under- 
 neath the lote. The formal wurk will 
 commence as soon as the weather will 
 permit to sink the spUes and put in the 
 substructure of foundatii n work. It 
 has a frontage on Second street of 100 
 feet, with depth on Sixth avenue west of 
 150 feet. The building being 
 fonr feet from Second 
 areas and storage, 
 etc., makes a pro- 
 jection in the rear 
 on alley of four 
 feet. The appear- 
 ance of the build- 
 ing in the front 
 and on Sixth ave- 
 nue is a five-story 
 structute finished 
 in heavy brown- 
 Btone in the Ro- 
 manesque archi- 
 tecture. The rough 
 Ashlar woik cut in 
 bold relief and the 
 panels filled with 
 irregular jointtd 
 ranga work, giv- 
 ing to the facade 
 a rich, bold and 
 liberal treatment 
 of outline, carry- 
 ing with it the 
 character of 
 strength, durabil- 
 ity and pleasing 
 conception of out- 
 line. This stone 
 work along the 
 sides goes up to a 
 four feet. Above 
 is finished out along the opera house 
 proper with brick work. The openings 
 on first and second stories being tilled 
 with polished plate glass and the win- 
 dows above furnished with French sheet 
 glHSs and the grand entrance trimmed, 
 filled and relieved with jewels and 
 j^rouiid plate sections. The building 
 l)roper is divided into an auditorium for 
 general theatrical purposes and a busi- 
 ness block and an office building, where 
 is thirty-two feet taken off the front, 
 and twenty-eight feet taken off from 
 the sid^.i, which gives the store on the 
 cm ner •.i2x75 f eet, with two stores each 
 side of gland entrance 22x30 feet, and a 
 grand entrance thirty feet wide, with 
 a basement space underneath the entire 
 space of stores and grand entrance in 
 which the company contemplates put- 
 ting in a Turkish and tonsorial estab- 
 lishment. The water for this pnrpnse 
 being furnished from the noted mineral 
 
 springs. This basement has a large, 
 roomy entrance from the corner of 
 Sixth avenue and Second street, and is 
 well lit and perfectly ventilated. Above 
 these stores and grand entrance in the 
 second and third stories are placed 
 twenty-four beautifully arranged and 
 well-li^^hted offices, while on the fourth 
 and fifth stories will be placed a gym- 
 nasium for entertainment, education 
 and athletic purposes under the direct 
 control of the young men of the city of 
 Ashland. All of these offices and the 
 gymnasium being reached by wide, 
 roomy staircases and a rapid running 
 elevator communicating directly with 
 the outside vestibule in the grand en- 
 trance l)elow. All this front part being 
 finished up in oak with maple floor* and 
 marble and tile work in the lavatories, 
 there being a separate lavatory for 
 ladies. Entering throngh the grand en- 
 
 distance of twenty- 
 the street level it 
 
 trance thirty feet wide, as above de- 
 scribed, you come into an auditorium 
 of 1,600 capacity, provided with light, 
 perfect ventilntion and complete modes of 
 exit in every direction. In a word, everv 
 aisle, every stairway in every tier of the 
 auditorium leads to an outside exit, thus 
 carefully preparing for safety in case of 
 an alarm. Enterin;? through the grand 
 entrance, which will be paved with en- 
 caustic tile and provided with marble 
 wainscoting, you come directly into the 
 foyer or lower auditorium with stairway 
 leading in either direction right and 
 left to the grand balcony above. 
 
 The lower auditorium lias a capacity 
 of 560 and the balcony has a capacity of 
 400. with a capacity of 600 in the gal- 
 lery and about 60 in proscenium boxes. 
 The theatre is a full-fledged three-tier 
 theatre, complete in every detail, every 
 tier being so separated that the modes 
 of ingress and egress do not run into 
 another and form or make confusion in 
 the handling of the people. The stage 
 
 has a width of 75 feet, with a depth of 
 40 feet and a proscenium '65 feet wide 
 by 43 feet high and will have twenty 
 complete sets of scenery with all the 
 needed set pieces and draperies. 
 
 In the stage floor there will be placed 
 a star, a vampire, a center, a Macbeth, 
 a Hamlet, and a bridge trap of the most 
 modern construction. Above will be 
 placed fly galleries with double pin rails, 
 the lower tier being used for the extra 
 lie-offs with a suspended paini; bridge 
 connecting the same in the rear and a 
 rigging loft fifty feet wide on the lower 
 girder of trusses. This rigging loft be- 
 ing fifty feet above the floor with a dis- 
 tance of forty-four feet between the gal- 
 leries. To the right of the stage will be 
 placed twelve dressing rooms all ar- 
 ranged with hot and cold water and 
 every convenience of the profession. 
 
 They have a separate entrance through 
 an entryway on the prompt side, ttie 
 large property door being placed im- 
 mediately in the rear of the stage. This 
 entire auditorium and the stage will be 
 lighted with incandescent lights, using 
 jnst a sufficient amount of gas to make 
 the escape and exit secure, also the en- 
 tire business block will be lighted with 
 incandescent lights, and the auditorium 
 and business block will be heated by 
 steam. The plumbing will be of the 
 most substantial 
 and saniciry kind 
 possible to select. 
 The carpets, drap- 
 eries, uphostery 
 and brass work 
 being of a special- 
 Iv selected pattern. 
 The carpet on the 
 first floor will be 
 of a velvet maroon 
 plush, on the sec- 
 ond floor, five 
 frame body brus- 
 sels. In the boxes, 
 pile terry. The 
 draperies will be 
 of very fine velvet, 
 plush and velonr, 
 all artistically 
 hung in tiie high- 
 est art of decora- 
 tive relief up- 
 holstery. The 
 opera chairs will 
 be of extra width 
 and the rows so 
 sat that there will 
 be plenty of room 
 for people to paas 
 in front without tne party occupying 
 having to rise. The opera chairs m the 
 lower auditorium will have foot rests, 
 cane and umbrella racks, nickle-plated 
 numbers and will be upholstered in lav- 
 endar plush. The opera chairs in the 
 balcony will be neatly upholstered in 
 mohair plush and the gallery will be 
 filled with the usual line of benches set 
 in easy rows with perfect lines of sight. 
 The decorating will be entirely in har- 
 mony with the Romanesque, finished in 
 warm orange and buff and neatly sten- 
 ciled, the ornaments being brought out 
 with hand shading and relief work. 
 The proscenium front, under view of 
 balcony and grand entrance being a 
 special feature of this work. The audi- 
 torium is so constructed and arranged 
 that it can be used for theaters, lectures 
 and other purposes. The gas fixtures 
 will be finished in burnished copper and 
 will lie a combination with beautifully 
 enriched globes and opal essence hoods. 
 It will be a handsome structure. 
 
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 "Through the Northern Gulf and the Misty 
 
 screen, 
 Of the isles of Min^an and Madeline/' 
 
 I HUS said the poet 
 Wliittier, in bis "B;iy 
 of the Seven Isles " 
 ^'^iu speaking of Lake 
 '^ Superior and its beau- 
 tiful Apostle Islands. 
 
 _. But even the Great 
 
 "<ST^ — Quaker poet could^not 
 properly appreciate the wondrous beau- 
 ties of this great lake, of which Ashland 
 is the gateway. None but those who 
 have personally en joyed the beauties of 
 this great northern lake can speak 
 feelingly upon the subject. Fifteen 
 passenger trains enter Ashland every 
 twenty-four hours, and there is not a 
 day that passes during the summer 
 months that these trains do not contain 
 scores of visitors to the "Garland City," 
 Several passenger boats from Buffalo, 
 Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Toledo 
 and Duluth daily touch at the Ashland 
 docks, and every boat contains from 
 one to two hundred excursionists. 
 Ashland is just coming into prominence 
 as a summer resort, and the question of 
 the near future is to provide for addi- 
 tional accommodations. 
 
 Where is there a more delightful spot 
 in summer than in Ashland? There are 
 daily excursions on the steamer Plow- 
 boy to the historic churches on Made- 
 line Island, alluded to 1 y Whittier. 
 The famous painting, formerly the 
 property of Father Marquette, the old 
 chapel built by Marquette himself, and 
 the old church, all these are a part of 
 the tiip. The old Presbyterian church 
 on the island, built in 1882 — the oldest 
 church in Wisconsin — older by a tew 
 days than the first church built in Chi- 
 cago — this attiacts the eye of the his- 
 torian. The Harbor City, the red light 
 gleaming from the Chequ imegou Point 
 light house, a short stop at Houghton 
 Point to view the Ashland monolith, 
 greatest and most famed in history, a 
 twenty-mile journey back to Ashland on 
 the placid waters of Chequamegon bay, 
 with the dark pines picturesquely 
 mingling with the brownstone on the 
 water's edge, while forty miles away 
 the blue tips of the Gogebic range pierce 
 the horizon, all this makes a most de- 
 lightful day's recreation. 
 
 Those who desire to go further, visit 
 that wonder of nature, Dtvil's Island, 
 or thread the mazes of the ApostJe 
 Islands in sailboat or canoe. Verily, a 
 week in such a manner spent is worth 
 ten year's of one's life. 
 
 And then there are the famous hunt- 
 ing and fishing grounds adj icent to 
 Ashland. A hunter's hut in the wilder- 
 ness, a bed of boughs, a tishmgitJIouttit 
 
 and a gun, these are all that is required. 
 A week of forest life on the picturesque 
 Brule river. Pike lake or any other of 
 numerous streams or lakes adjacent to 
 Ashland, will restore to health the most 
 careworn and nervous dyspeptic that 
 ever lived. 
 
 Who that has "shot the rapids" of the 
 Brule, or stalked the deer that come 
 down to its waters at night to slike their 
 thirst, or ciu?ht the "speckled beauties" 
 that throng the ice-cold waters of that 
 stream, can say that his summer vaca- 
 tion was ever so happily sp nt ? Secre 
 
 AT THE FALLS OF BAD RlVl- U. 
 
 taiy Noble, who, with his invalid wife, 
 spent two weeks at Ashland and the 
 Brule, declares those days to be the 
 happiest of his life, and those who have 
 had a similar experience agree with him. 
 In addition to the regular tourists, 
 Ashland as a convention city is equally 
 noted. The Northern Pacific, Duluth, 
 South Shore & Atlantic, Milwaukee, 
 Lake Shore & Western, and Wisconsin 
 
 Central, not to speak of the lake passen- 
 ger line, brings Ashland into communi- 
 cation with the centers of population 
 throughout the whole country. 
 
 Two members of President Harrison's 
 cabinet were among the summer tour- 
 ists who secured a brief respite from 
 the cares of official life at Ashland last 
 summer, and when a person has visited 
 the region once, he always comes back. 
 Senator Blair, of Nebraska, writes a 
 personal letter, of which the following 
 are excerpts: 
 
 "I was grieved very much when I 
 came to my full senses to realize that 
 the grand forests of the Brule country 
 must go, and a city to be built at Brule. 
 Well, that is just what civilization will 
 do. 1 wish the sawmills might forever 
 stay away, or at least never be allowed 
 to throw their sawdust in the streams. 
 Such would be a calamity for the trout 
 that now frequent 
 the clear waters of 
 your river. I hope 
 that the Rev. Dr. 
 
 will confine 
 
 himself to sprink- 
 ling his converts, 
 anU will never im- 
 merse them. If 
 he undertakfs the 
 latter, it would 
 unquestionably ag- 
 itate the water to 
 the injury of the 
 finny tribe. I hope 
 that you will get 
 on your corner 
 lots, but I must 
 confess that I hate 
 to see the wilder- 
 ness laid waste. 
 The axe and cross- 
 cut have created 
 very sorry looking 
 ])laces north of 
 Brule. Give my 
 kind regards to. 
 
 Mr. . I have 
 
 camped with him 
 two years, and he 
 is the very best of 
 good men. What 
 he don't know 
 about giving cam- 
 pers comfort, is 
 not known by any- 
 one whom I ever 
 put up with. 
 
 Mourning still 
 over the glory of 
 the Brule country 
 that seems to be 
 (loomed to fade 
 away, I again sub- 
 scribe nryself." 
 The above letter is from Senator J. 
 H. Blair. This entire edition could be 
 filled with letters from those who have 
 cherished remembrances of a day with 
 rod and gun in the forests of Northern 
 Wisconsin, and a tramp along the trout 
 i-treams that already surpass the famous 
 nooks in the Adirondacks. The New 
 Wisconsin is verilv the Mecca of tourists. 
 
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 ^Slumber SKipmenls for 1SQ2. 
 
 jBE year 1S93 was 
 the beginning of a 
 new era in the ship- 
 ment of Ashland lum- 
 ber. Heretofore 
 shippers have de- 
 pended on chartering 
 vessels, but during 
 the past season the Shores Lumber Com- 
 pany set an example to other shippers 
 by purchasing two lumbar fleets. Other 
 Ashland lumber companies will do like- 
 
 rated at A 1 witb a star and is worth 
 $60,000. This makes the value of the 
 fleet $169,000. 
 
 The great riyal of the lumber carry- 
 ing trade is the wheat trade from Chi- 
 cago during the autumn months. The 
 demand for vessels is so great that it is 
 difficult to get boats during the busy 
 fall months. Hence the necessity of 
 Ashland fleets owned by Ashland lum- 
 ber shippers. Some idea of the magni- 
 tude of lumber shioments from Ash- 
 land may be obtained by reference to a 
 single day's shipments. By reference 
 to the files of the Datly Prrss it will 
 
 Prop W. H. Sawyer 860.000 
 
 Barp:e Taxbury 875.000 
 
 BarRe Redfern S75.000 
 
 Prop. C. U. Bradley 860.000 
 
 Barge Mary Woolsen 900.000 
 
 BarKe Brightie 750.000 
 
 Prop. .T. H. Prentice...; .'>-tO.0O# 
 
 Barge Middlesex 7.')0.000 
 
 Barge Halsted 675,000 
 
 Prop. F E Hpinnor .'•iiO.OOO 
 
 Barge .1. Godfrey .SOO.OOO 
 
 Barge Shawuee 75().000 
 
 Prop. Rob't Holland 476.000 
 
 Barges. M. tevenson 75U.000 
 
 Barge Annie Sherwood 700,000 
 
 Prop. Jay Gould 260.000 
 
 Prop. Hnrd 376,000 
 
 Sehr, George 900,000 
 
 Total .r2,676,00« 
 
 This is taken at random, and is a fair 
 sample of an average day's shipment of 
 lumber from the port of Ashland, 
 
 LUMBER CUT AND SH^PME^TS FOR 1893, 
 Cheiiuamegon Bay. 
 
 Shores Lbr Co 4.S.760.000 
 
 KeyHtone I,br Co 30.000,000 
 
 D. W. Mowatt 28.250.000 
 
 W. R. Sutherland 12.500.000 
 
 W. H, Dnrfee 9.000.000 
 
 B. Doherty 8,000.000 
 
 I. P. Newton 11,500.000 
 
 KEYSTONE LUMBEB COMPANY'S PLANT, ASHLAND, W IS. 
 
 wise during the coming season, and the 
 575,000,000 feet of lumber, which is the 
 product of the Ashland district, can be 
 shipped in fleets owned exclusively by 
 Ashland parties. In the near future a 
 shipyard will be established in Ashland, 
 when Ashland fleets will be built on 
 Chequamegon bay. A sample cargo of 
 lumber wbach the Shores fleet carried 
 from the docks of the Shores Lumber 
 company on September 21st last, will 
 give an idea of the capacity of this fleet: 
 
 Vessel. Feet 
 
 Str. J. H. Prentice :... 550.000 
 
 Barge Middlesex 900.000 
 
 Barge Halsted 720,000 
 
 Str. D. W. Powers 450,000 
 
 Barge Constitntion 620,000 
 
 Value. 
 
 t 6,325 
 10.360 
 8,640 
 5,175 
 7.440 
 
 3,241.1,000 835,920 
 
 While the E. A. Shores, Jr., is not 
 owned by the Shores Company, it is 
 under its control. The other five owned 
 entirely by them have the largest ca- 
 pacity of any fleet on the lake, with the 
 exception of the Charles Hebard fleet, of 
 Pequaming, which exceeds it by only a 
 few feet. A word as to the rating and 
 value of the vessels of the fleet. The 
 Prentice is officially rated at A 1 with a 
 star, and is worth |45,000. The next 
 four are rated at A 3 and are worth re- 
 spectively, 120,000, $17,000, $6,000 and 
 $11,UOO, while the E, A. Shores, Jr., is 
 
 be seen that on October 11, 1893, the 
 following vessels cleared from Ashland 
 for Chicago, with the number of feet of 
 lumber opposite: 
 
 D. A. Kennedy 
 
 A. A. Bigelow &Co 
 
 South Shore Lbr Co 
 
 C. C. Thompson LbrCo.. 
 R. D. Pike Lbr Co 
 
 i3.5oo.oeo 
 
 47,000,000 
 38.000.000 
 21,50»,00« 
 17.500,000 
 
 Total 285,500.000 
 
 LUMBER PLANT OF MAYOR W. R DCRFEE. 
 
44 
 
 THE ASHLAND DATLY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 ■■^^ 
 
 o;^sKLand and its £0$ (Int. 
 
 I 
 
 EN ihous.nd woods- 
 men, in gay-coloreii 
 Mackinaw suits of 
 moie colors than 
 were ever woven in 
 Jacob's coat, earn a 
 livelihood for them- 
 selves and families 
 during the four winter months of 
 Northern Wisconsin. The average wages 
 for these men is$2tf per month including 
 board, which makes the actual wages 
 per month, about $35. This is an aggre- 
 gate amount of wages paid in what is 
 known as the Ashland lumber district, 
 including the northern third of Wiscon- 
 sin, 1350,000, or $^60,000 in cash each 
 month. The actual amount of money 
 earned by the wage-earners of the Ash- 
 land lumber district, in logging camps 
 alone, is $1,400,000 duiing the winter 
 months, of which $1,040,000 is received 
 in cash. Formidable figures these, but 
 verified by the testimony of any e.xpert 
 woodsman or lumber inspector. 
 
 Five hundred million of feet repre- 
 sents the log cut in the Ashland district 
 during the present winter. Not less 
 than 300,000,000 feet of this is sawed in 
 the mills on Chequamegon bay, which 
 means that the lumber shipments for 
 1893, will be 345,000,00:} feet, or 15 per 
 cent more than the log cut. Here again, 
 the wage-earners find the summer 
 months busy ones. The lumber is 
 shipped by boat directlv to market, in 
 fleets which carry 1,500,000 to 2,500,000 
 feet. 
 
 For many years to come the vast for- 
 ests of the New Wisconsin will be one 
 of its chief resources, furnishing work 
 for thousands of men. What cotton is 
 to the south, what corn is to Illinois, 
 what silver is to Colorado, lumber is to 
 the New Wisconsin. The city of Ash- 
 land will be the great lumber center of 
 this vast region for the next twenty 
 years at least. Chicago buyers are 
 swarming north, for the reason that the 
 southern land craze is dying out, and 
 eastern buyers are picking up all the 
 
 iippers and better grades of lumber 
 through the old pineries. Ashland baa 
 more lumber inspectors and lumber 
 merchants than any other city on Lake 
 Superior, and in fact has always he'd 
 supremacy on Lake Superior. The 
 value of standing timber is as follows: 
 
 Hemlock $3,000,000 
 
 Birch 1.600,000 
 
 Maple 1.600,000 
 
 I'lne 17.340.000 
 
 Elm 10.000 
 
 Baaavrood 100,000 
 
 Spruce 30,000 
 
 Cedar 60,000 
 
 Poplar 15,000 
 
 Oak 20.000 
 
 Ash ao.ooo 
 
 Total *23,795 0]0 
 
 On this page we also give a ^iew of 
 waney board pine. This has developed 
 a large export trade within the past few 
 years. The Penokee Lumber Company 
 sends a large amount direct to Europe 
 by way of River St. Lawrence, and the 
 market was fonnd to be quite profitable. 
 The Cranberry Lumber Company also 
 shipped a large consignment direct to 
 the South American market, and under 
 the new Pan-American commercial 
 treaties, this trade is likely to be fol- 
 lowed up with satisfactory results 
 
 LOO CUT FOR 1893. 
 
 Chequame^oD Bov Feet. 
 
 Wright* Kelcham 7.000,000 
 
 Shores I.brCo 48.000.000 
 
 Keystone Lbr Co M.tiOO.OO) 
 
 W. K. Sotherlaod ll.OOO.OOO 
 
 W. U. Sawyer 12.000.000 
 
 B. Doherty 7.500.00 l 
 
 Sand River Lbr Co 15.000.000 
 
 Chas. Crogster 2.50O.00O 
 
 .1. T. Gregory 6.00O.00O 
 
 J. H. Knight 9.000.000 
 
 Boutin 4 Best 13.0 UOOO 
 
 Fred Fbcher 6.100.000 
 
 R. I>. Pike 6.000.000 
 
 A. A. Bigelow & Co .'iS.OOO.OOO 
 
 Bliss & Parsons 20.000,000 
 
 0. 0. Thompson Lbr Co 9.000 000 
 
 West Michigan Lbr Co 20,000,000 
 
 l;oLLW.\.Y WHERE LOOS ARE BANKED. 
 
 Lumbermen give the number of feet of 
 standing timber in the county of Ash- 
 land alone, about 10,000,OJO,000. A very 
 conservative estimate is as follows: 
 
 [The cedar and poplar in the table at 
 the foot of this page is given in cords in- 
 stead of feet.— Ed.I 
 
 Hemlock S.000,000.(]0() 
 
 Pine 4.:t:)5.n"(i.fHin 
 
 liirch SOO,(0(I,(IOIJ 
 
 Maple 80ll,l)(»l,liai 
 
 lOQ.OOCdlH) 
 1(),U00.C«) 
 ICIHXl.lXK) 
 10,01 0.0011 
 
 D. W. Mowatt .. 5.000.000 
 
 I. P. Newton 3.000.000 
 
 Hynes Lbr Co lO.OOO.OOO 
 
 Rogers 1.200,000 
 
 n. E. Peterson &Co 2,600.000 
 
 E.CLonK& Co ;i,000.000 
 
 Geo. Uyland 5,000,000 
 
 Ed Brown O.tCO.OOO 
 
 Miscellaneous 3,000,008 
 
 Total. 
 
 liasswood . 
 
 IClin 
 
 .■Spruce.. 
 dak 
 
 sh.. 
 
 lO.OOO.lKMI 
 
 Total »,O75.OCO.00O 
 
 This amount of timber ii 
 worth per thousand, as it 
 st.inds, as follows: 
 
 Hemlock, one dollar; birch, 
 two dollars; maple, two; pine 
 four; spruce and cedar, each 
 three dollars; elm, one dollar; 
 basswood, one dollar; poplar, 
 one and a half dollars, and oak 
 and ash, two dollars. 
 
 <edar 20 OOn.OtO 
 
 Poplar 10.000.001) 
 
 Ashland county niilis. 
 
 Mineral Lake Lbr Co 
 
 . Montreal Oliver Lbr Co - 
 
 Penokee Lbr Co 
 
 Van Buskirk I br ('o 
 
 Kimball & Clark Lbr Co.. 
 Wadleif.-h * Scott Lbr Co 
 
 Win. Hn/.zard Lbr Co 
 
 Miscellaneous 
 
 Total 
 
 Iron River Mills 
 
 hrule l.hrCo 
 
 .Mi...celIaneou3 
 
 Total 
 
 Recapitulation. 
 
 Cheiiuainegon Boy 
 
 County mills 
 
 Iron River and Brule.. 
 Miscellaneous 
 
 Total ao.noo.toa 
 
 Grand Total Ashland District. 
 
 305.250.000 
 
 l.").n0(1.0lX) 
 
 ir..i,o,i.oOi) 
 
 ■-'■-'.(liM 1.000 
 l."i,OOll.llOI) 
 II.CJOO.OOO 
 C.OOO.OOO 
 5,000,000 
 3,000,000 
 
 n.5.(X10,000 
 7f..('00,000 
 10.000,000 
 10,000,000 
 
 95,C0",0OO 
 
 .'!I>.-.2.tO.(\10 
 : ."i.noil.COl) 
 
 ;i."..ni(i.ooo 
 
 10.000.000 
 CC5,250,000 
 
 WANEY BOARD PINE FOR EXPORT TO EUROPE 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITEON, 1893. 
 
 45 
 
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 ijul^"^- ^v^"^^ -^ ^/^ '-^'^ '^> ■^■' ■- 'v^ '■^ "-J^ ^'^ *-■" 'T^ '- '■- '%-' ■^ A'J'^^v^ 'J'fU^ 
 
 INforlhern Dytanufaduring (Le. ^ 
 
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 NE of the thriving 
 local institntions 
 which have d e v e 1- 
 oped in Ashland,— 
 directly from Ash- 
 land's capital and 
 resource s — is the 
 Northern Manufac- 
 turing Co., located 
 on Eighth avenue west. It is a compar- 
 atively new plant, but has found no in- 
 convenience in keeping 
 its machinery humming 
 with business. The Nor- 
 them Manufacturing 
 Compnay is really a de- 
 velopment of the old Su- 
 perior Lumber Company 
 planing mill, in which 
 the chief employes of the 
 older institution have be- 
 come the proprietors and 
 stockholders of the new. 
 It was in March, 1893, 
 that the present company 
 was organized with the 
 following stockholders- 
 all of them practical 
 workmen, with the ex- 
 ception of the three last 
 named: Thomas Olson, 
 John Johnson, Ole John- 
 son, Jas. Moi, Ole Kars- 
 mo, Charley Fargsta, H. Palmquist, Ed- 
 ward Olson, John Erickson, Charles 
 Rood, Thomas Bardon, Dr. Edwin Ellis 
 and Scott Ellis. It is good assurance of 
 the success of an institu- 
 tion when competent 
 and skilled men in the 
 business have staked 
 their faith with it. 
 
 The factory is is kept 
 busy turning out orders 
 for mouldings, casing, 
 all kinds of inside fur- 
 nishings, sash, doors, 
 blinds, stair woik, shelv- 
 ing, etc. It Is manufac- 
 tured in every conceiv- 
 able variety, and of all 
 kinds of hardwood and 
 pine. A large stock of 
 mouldings and sash, 
 doors, blinds, etc., is car- 
 ried by the concern, so 
 that orders can ba filled 
 on the shortest notice. 
 
 A fair sample of what 
 the company is capable of turniag out, 
 will be the inside finishings of the new 
 Shores residence— a perfect bewilder- 
 ment of artistic carvings and moulding 
 
 *v- ^ ^ ^ ■^ *v^ Ar' -v^ ^v^~^' 
 
 ill oak, cLerry, birds-eje maple, birch, 
 syciniore, pine, red cedar and mahog- 
 any. 
 
 The interior work of the First Nation- 
 al bank. Security bank and Knight 
 block was turned out by the same 
 workmen who now compose the North- 
 ern Manufacturing Company. 
 
 The capital stock has been $G,OU(i, but 
 as an evidence of the growing success of 
 the inbtiiuti(n, it was increased to 
 
 iaiLL OF THE NORTHSRN MANUFACTUKISG CO , ASHLAND, WIS. 
 
 .$12,000 on Mirch 1. During the pat 
 month a side switch from the Omaha 
 railroad has been run up to the factory 
 to accommodate patrons who send lum- 
 
 INIERIOR OF THE NORTHERN MANUFACTURING CO. S MIl-L, 
 
 ber there to te dressed. It al.'o gives 
 them every convenience for bringing in 
 and shipping their own lumber. The 
 main factory building is at present 
 
 80x40 feet, and two stories high, but 
 this will be enlarged about one half, by 
 an addition early this spring, which will 
 increase the capacity of the factory 
 about fifty per cent. The dimensions 
 of the engine room, dry kiln and furnace 
 room, are 35x30 feet. 
 
 The interior work of [O. A. Lamo- 
 reux's residence, the Norwegian Luth- 
 eran church, and the facing of Thomas 
 Bardon's new ofiSce, were manufactured 
 at this plant. 
 
 An energetic roster of oflBcers was 
 elected by the company — all of them 
 thoroughly competent and experienced. 
 They are as follows: President, Thomas 
 Olson; Secretary and Vice-President, 
 James Moi; Treasurer, Ole Johnson. 
 The directors are as follows; Thomas 
 Olson, John Johnson, H. Palmquist, 
 John Erickson, James 
 Moi, Chas. Fargsta and 
 Chas. Rood. 
 
 The Northern Manu- 
 facturing Company is 
 one of the solid institu- 
 tions of Ashland. The 
 vast quantities of all 
 kinds of timber growing 
 up to the very outskirts 
 of Ashland, furnish an 
 abundance of material 
 which can be laid down 
 in the city with little 
 cost of transportation, 
 and this city is therefore 
 the natural location of 
 mills of this kind. . 
 
 The rapid growth ol 
 the institution is assured. 
 With the rapidly widen- 
 ing field to supply, and 
 the advanced position Ashland is taking 
 as a lumbering center — there is certainly 
 every indication that the future will 
 hold out many opportunities for devel- 
 ment — and the Northern 
 Manufacturing Company 
 is composed of just such 
 hustlers as will see that 
 every opportunity is well 
 improved. Their work 
 has already earned for 
 them a reputation that 
 it is the pride of the ins- 
 titution to hold. 
 
 Estimates for work in 
 their line are cheerfully 
 furnished and all out of 
 town orders receive 
 prompt attention. In 
 fact the cjmpany is 
 building up quite a large 
 trade in the numerous 
 towns in the neighbor- 
 hood of Ashland, and 
 ine recent addition of 
 shipping facilities, con- 
 venient to the mill, will undoubtedly 
 greatly enhanceT.the outside trade, as 
 goods can be shipped direct from the 
 mill to all points^of the country. 
 
46 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 '0i s^sKland's TPlaning Dylills. n 
 
 § Seotf, J I u hhell ^- Tnylor's ^Fa cfonj. ^ 
 
 ROMPTLY on the 
 
 tick of a watch, 
 Asliland's planing 
 mills and Bash, door 
 and blind factories 
 giveforth theirahrill 
 whiptles three times 
 a day. Planing mills 
 havd kep' pace with the rapid de- 
 velopment of the lumbering industy. 
 There are four of them at present — all 
 running to their fullest capacity — and 
 every one of them tontempl iting exteo- 
 sive improvements this summer, which 
 will increase the output for '93 by nearly 
 fifty per cent. A large amount of the 
 proJuct of Ashland's saw mills is manu- 
 factured into dressed lumber and worked 
 up for inside finisliings and fashioned 
 into aitistic designs by these planing 
 mills. 
 
 A 
 
 SCOTT, HDHBELL & TAYI.OU'S MILL. 
 
 N inelitutlon which has grown with 
 (■urpri'ing rapidity during the 
 past few years, 
 is Scott, Bub- 
 bell & Tayloi's 
 mill. Thirty 
 ni e n are em- 
 ployed at the 
 plant the whole 
 season through, 
 — there is never 
 a lull in the 
 busy hum of 
 machines. The 
 proprietors are 
 energetic and 
 JOHN F. SCOTT. enterprising, 
 
 and uot'a season has passed but some 
 
 valuable improvements have been adaed 
 
 to ihtir plant— which is evidence of the 
 
 success they have 
 
 earned. It is es 
 
 timated that at 
 
 least three 
 
 fourths of t h I 
 
 mill work turned 
 
 out in Ashland 
 
 for residences- 
 has been done at 
 
 this plant. 
 All kinds of 
 
 first-class inside 
 
 finishings for res- 
 
 i d e n c 6 8 and 
 
 stores, in both p. f. hubbell. 
 
 pine and hard wood are manufactured 
 
 and a large stock of sash, doors, blinds, 
 
 mouldings, etc., are carried constantly 
 
 on hand — or manufactured to order. 
 
 The main building, of which a cut is 
 
 presented on this pag->, is 55slOU feet 
 and two htoies high. It is provided 
 with till- latest and most improved ma- 
 chinery — and 
 the best skilled 
 workmen only 
 are employed 
 to han dl e it. 
 Besides this 
 main building, 
 the company 
 has a dry kiln 
 an X 50, with a 
 capacity of 45,- 
 000 feet of lum- 
 ber— a feature 
 which gives 
 J. H. TAYLOR. thi-i mill a val- 
 
 uable prestige. There are numerous 
 moulding sheds ami a large storage 
 building for sash, doors, blinds, etc., 
 also storage buildings for dressed lum- 
 
 ments of stock to Minnesota and Michi- 
 gan now make a very favorable show- 
 ing. 
 
 The firm has the contract to furnish 
 the mill work for the new sulphite mill, 
 and is at present completing the work 
 for the new North Wisconsin academy 
 building. The handsome inside finish- 
 ings of Qen. Fuller's residence at Bay- 
 field — in pine and hard wood — were 
 manufactured at this mill. 
 
 About a year ago the main building 
 was nearly destroyed by fire — but the 
 work of rebuilding was commenced by 
 the proprietoie immediately, and in a 
 short lime the hn in of industry was re- 
 sumed in far roomier quarters, and with 
 a fine addition of new machinery. 
 
 The new addition to the plant would 
 have been started long before this time, 
 but the company has been so constantly 
 rushed with "short-time" orders, that 
 they could not give it the necessary at- 
 tention. They have decided on the 
 plans, however, and work will begin on 
 it early this spring. 
 
 For quality of workmanship and for 
 reasonable rates, no other concern 
 arouod can outdo this plant. It is in 
 the hands of experienced men, who 
 know the ins and outs of the business. 
 
 SCOTT, HUBBELL & TAYLOR'S SASH, DOOR AND BLIND FACTORY, ASHLAND. 
 
 ber. The new oflBce, recently completed, 
 is a model of neatness. It is finished 
 with work turned out at their mill. 
 
 Among the improvements contem- 
 plated for this year, is another large 
 work shop, which will be built on the 
 lots directly opposite the main building. 
 The dimensions are 40sl00 feet, two 
 stories. It will enable the company to 
 turn out much more work, and will re- 
 sult in an increase of the number of 
 men employed. With this new work 
 shop, this plant will be the largest and 
 most complete of its kind in Northern 
 Wisconsin. 
 
 The wholesale trade throughout the 
 state is rapidly increasing, and the ship- 
 
 The output of the mill for the year of 
 1893 will be greatly in excess of any pre- 
 vious year. The amount of money to be 
 expended in labor will add very materi- 
 ially to the grand total of wages paid 
 out to Asuland workmen, and it is the 
 money thus distributed that helps a city. 
 
 J. F. Scott is a prominent citizen and 
 has lived in Ashland since 1S83. F. F. 
 Hubbell came to Ashland in 1886, when 
 the firm was organized. He is at pres- 
 ent alderman from tke Third ward, and 
 commander of Q. A. R. Cnater Post. 
 Mr. Taylor, one of the most practical 
 mill men in the country, joined the firm 
 in 1887, perfecting a strong combination 
 of business tact in the euphonious firm 
 title of Scott, Hubbell & Taylor. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 47 
 
 
 ^ SUMMER OUTINGS ON LAKE SUPERIOR. } 
 
 U 
 
 For tbveral years past the Daily 
 Press h»a given medals and silver cups 
 for an annual yacht race. The regatta 
 this year promises to be of national, in- 
 terest and several new boats from the 
 lower lakes are expected to enter. 
 
 swallovrs 
 that can 
 
 into the 
 only be 
 
 PON the return of 
 the season when the 
 blue waves of 
 Gitchie G n m m e 
 glisten in the bright 
 summer sun, the 
 sportsmen who visit 
 our shores annually 
 return with the 
 balmy atmosphere, 
 fotmd here in our 
 
 Northland. The summer outing is the 
 dream of thousands who pass the long 
 winter months, slaves to their business 
 callings. 
 
 No cotmtry in the world affords better 
 facilities for gratifying the desire that 
 seems to be born in almost every hu- 
 man being, to enjoy a season with Na- 
 ture, than does our grand Lake Superior 
 country. Its wild and romantic shores, 
 its beautiful islands, its magnificent 
 bays and harbors, its crystal lakes and 
 streams — all bear a charm that to the 
 lover of manly sports is almost irresist- 
 able. For many years it has been a 
 favorite of thousands of tourists from 
 all parts of the country, until now it is 
 known far and wide. As a result, near- 
 ly every summer hundreds of its 
 "beauty spots" are dotted with the 
 white tents or occupied by the summer 
 cottages, and happy groups enjoy the 
 life and health-giving pleasures which 
 are only to be found in camp life. And 
 not only do the stranger tourists avail 
 themselves of the privileges, but many of 
 our own citizens have their "play spells" 
 and turn gypsies, and the number who 
 do this is rapidly increasing, as our 
 cities become more the centers 
 of society's fashionable conventionali- 
 ties. There is room to breathe in all 
 out-doors. There is that personal free- 
 dom from all restraint that expands 
 body and sonl, builds up and invigor- 
 ates the mind and gives renewed 
 strength to meet the trials and perplexi- 
 ties of life. The camp is the training 
 ground of the people and its benefits are 
 becoming better understood and appre- 
 ciated every year. 
 
 Yachting; on Chequamegon Bay. 
 
 CONSIDERABLE interest has been 
 taken in yachting and regattas the 
 past few years at Ashland. Chequam- 
 egon Bay is without a peer as a yacht- 
 ing course and the sport already rivals 
 that of Lake Cbamplain and other east- 
 em watering places. A large ntunber 
 of both steam and sailing yachts are 
 owned in Ashland, and a Fish and 
 Gteme Club was recently organized, 
 with a large memberebip. 
 
48 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 i 
 
 I ^sKland and its ©re bhipping. | 
 
 first ton was shipped. The shipments 
 of ore from Ashland for 1«92, together 
 with the figures fot each year since 
 Ashland became a shipping port follow: 
 
 l> 
 
 Tt' '^r'^r '^iT"T l'^-'*jT"""" "'^'' — .—- .— .^— ^— ^^ " ^^..-^i^/l 
 
 V- -v ■ ' /" ^/^ -\- '^' '-V' ^V- 'V^ ^ '^'r^ 'v- '~j~ S~- "V- -V- ^^ 'v^ 
 
 WLHCONSIN I KSTRAI,. 
 
 EAR afier 3-ear the 
 records of Ashland 
 ore shipments in- 
 crease until the ag- 
 gregate of all ether 
 Lake Superior ports 
 is outbalance 1. An 
 eminent Virginian has said of the Old 
 Dominion, "We are bounded on the 
 north by the aurora borealis, on the 
 south by tbe equinox, on the east by the 
 rising sun, and on the west by eternal 
 salvation." Ashland is more modest. 
 Its lake commerce extends on the north 
 and east over the entire territory tribu- 
 tary to the great lakes, while its south- 
 
 amount of 13,'.i69,-'U6 tons proluoed by 
 the Gotebic range, 10,210,5y.5 tons, or 80 
 per cmt has bten shipi ed Irom Ashlana 
 docks. These ( fficial figures tell the 
 story. This is tbe record of the iron 
 indn:-try in the New Wisconsin during 
 its infancy. The treasures of the earth 
 have barely been touched as yet. The 
 future for many years will bring forth 
 golden fruits. The Gogebic iron range 
 can supply the world with iron. Iron 
 is king, and Ashland is its capital. 
 There are three great iron regions of 
 the New World. One in Pennsylvania, 
 the second in Alabama, and the third is 
 on the shores of Lake Superior. Tbe 
 
 Mines. 
 
 Aitlilnnd 
 
 Anrurn 
 
 Colby N«. 2 
 
 RaiKl 
 
 Tildi'ii 
 
 Colby No. 1 
 
 Iron Bolt 
 
 Montrcftl. Hoiitli Velu. . 
 Montreal. North Vein.. 
 
 I'llllIIH 
 
 Sei:tion S.1, Sooth Vein.. 
 Section :|:i. North Vein. 
 
 Season. 
 
 1U6.97G 
 
 295.012 
 
 57.513 
 
 17,700 
 
 2:i.'l.;i55 
 
 ti.23! 
 
 lliO.OlS 
 
 3.S3 
 
 ■.Vt.Ku 
 
 lU0..-i50 
 
 10.4:i2 
 
 4 248 
 
 Total 1.124,480 
 
 MII.H'.VrKKR. I..1KR HIIORK Jt WRHTBRN. 
 
 Mines. 
 
 Anvil 
 
 Urol hen 1111 
 Cotuet. 
 f'lire.vn. 
 Imperial 
 .Newi i»rl 
 Norrie. , . 
 
 t^dannb 
 
 Pabst 
 
 Sunday l.Bl<e 
 
 WlndHor 
 
 .laek Tot. 
 
 Tol.ll 
 
 1.102.'J27 
 
 MILWAUKBE. LAKK SHORK 
 
 em boundary was formed by nature by 
 the long semi mountainous mass of 
 granite and ore known as the Gogebic 
 Iron Range, containing fifty iron mines, 
 of which twenty-four shipped ore in 
 18y2. London will be forever the great 
 mart of the world. New York is the 
 emporium of the new world. To Chi- 
 cago the devious channels of trade of 
 the Occident will ever flow. The Twin 
 Cities are the natural centers of the 
 grain and flour trade of the northwest. 
 And thus Ashland is the natural and 
 actual channel through which for gen- 
 erations to come, the unlimited wealth 
 of the richest iron ore range of the 
 world will flow. It is the port of the 
 Gogebio range. Ore was first shipped 
 from this range nine years ago. During 
 lh« last eight years Ashland has been 
 its natural shipping point. Of a total 
 
 1 AND •-!,a72 FEET IN LENUTH BESPgCnVBLY. 
 
 total shipments of all tbe Lake .Saperior 
 iron mines for the last thirty -seven 
 years are given in the following official 
 fignrrg: 
 
 L.tl^e Snperior Iron Unnffeg. Ton.s Sllipped^ 
 
 Maninetie Ranue 37,»17.5»l 
 
 Menoniiiiee. Kange ItJ. 779.2(11 
 
 (iojlebie Itanile 13.260.20« 
 
 Verniillioii KiuiKe ; 5,285,173 
 
 Menaba Kaniie ,, 4,246 
 
 Tolal shipn t» .sinee ls5i 7:i.21S.7'.iU 
 
 The Marquette range has shipped ore 
 since 18.5.'). The Menominee range be- 
 gan shipping in 1878, The Vermillion 
 range shipped its first ore in 1884. The 
 M'saba is an experiment, having shipped 
 but 4,24.5 tons in 18U3. The Gogebic 
 range is one of the newest of great iron 
 ranges of Lake Superior, and yet, be- 
 ginning only nine years ago, its ship- 
 mentu to date aggregate 20 per cent of 
 the entire iron shipments of the five 
 Lake Superior iron ranges since the 
 
 llKt-.\IMTl'l-ATIO.N. 
 
 Lake Shore 1.102.n27 
 
 Wiaeonsln Central 1.124.48il 
 
 tirand total of 1SB2 2.227.407 
 
 The record for foimer years tollows. 
 The first shipments were made in 1885, 
 and completed record by years is (iiven: 
 
 ■Sears. Tons shipjied, 
 
 ls,8,i 191,412 
 
 ISSli 7-.M,9Sl 
 
 1887 1,(HO,7.10 
 
 ISSS 1,018.414 
 
 18,811 l..W4.,802 
 
 1891) 2,174,566 
 
 1891 1,263,49,1 
 
 1892 2,227.407 
 
 Total cire shipped from Asliland 10,210,595 
 
 Ashland is the largest shipping port 
 for ore on Lake Superior. Esoanaba 
 and Gladstone are on Lake Michigan, 
 and through them passes much of the 
 ore from the Michigan mines. The 
 following table will show that Ashland 
 has Ihe largest shipments of any port on 
 Lake Superior, exceeding those of Mar- 
 quette by over two to one: 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 49 
 
 ORE SHIPMENTS, PORTS OF LAKE SUPERIOR. 
 
 Ports. 18S0. 1S91. 1692. 
 
 Ashland 2,174,566 1.26S.493 2 227.407 
 
 Marquette 1.307.395 1.0B6.027 993.113 
 
 Two Harbors... 826 063 890.299 155,490 
 
 Dnluth 4.245 
 
 Totals 4.308.014 3,199.810 ''.380,256 
 
 Over 1,300 ore vessels touched at the 
 Ashland docks from May to December 
 in 1«92. Most of the ore was taken di- 
 rectly to Cleveland. 
 
 Ashland Ore Docks. Ore Boats. 
 
 WiBCon.sin f'entral .^ 664 
 
 Milwaukee, Lake Shore tfe Western 652 
 
 Total ore boats I,3l6 
 
 The number of carloids of ore re- 
 ceived in Ashland during the shipping 
 
 season is 100,416, or an average of 27t) 
 cars for every day of the year. This is 
 an avpvage for the shipping season of 
 about 500 or 6 10 cars par day. 
 Ashland Ore Do<'ks. Ore Cars. 
 
 Wtsi-onsin Central 51.207 
 
 Milwaukee. Lake Shore & Western 49.209 
 
 Total ore care unloaded in Ashland in 
 
 1892 100,416 
 
 Toe average freij'ht rite ou ore from 
 Ashland to Ohio g irta for the last ei?ht 
 years is $1.30 contract rate, and$1.43 
 "wild" rate. The charge to vessel for 
 hatidline ore is 19J cents. The average 
 rates of freight on ore and coal presented 
 in the following table is taken from 
 tlip b^st possible sonrc s of informntion 
 
 The average is made up from the daily 
 charters of two or three brokers and 
 shippers doing most business from this 
 port. The figures represent the average 
 of rates ruling from day today through' 
 oat the season: 
 
 AVERAr.K rRRfRHT RATER IRON ORE TO OHIO PORTS. 
 
 Year. 
 1885... 
 1881... 
 1887... 
 1888... 
 1SS9... 
 189 I... 
 
 it^gi... 
 
 1,892... 
 
 ■Wild' 
 
 Bate. 
 
 ;i 25 
 
 1 7.-( 
 
 2 23 
 1 4!l 
 1 .34 
 
 1 17 
 \ II 
 1 15 
 
 Aver.ai;e ' shland rates $1 43 
 
 Contract Rate. 
 
 $1 16 
 1 2- 
 ■i 00 
 1 25 
 1 26 
 I 36 
 1 10 
 1 25 
 
 %\ 3') 
 
 THK WISfll.N.slN (.li.VIKAl. DHK DIKK. i.l'.MriH :i,42u 1£LT 
 
 Official Table of Tota 
 
 1 SiTipments from 
 
 the Gogebic Iron Range. 
 
 GOGEBIC. 
 
 1884 
 
 1886 
 
 1886 
 
 1887 
 
 1888 
 
 1889 
 
 1890 
 
 1891 
 
 1892 
 
 Total. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 19.386 
 47.000 
 248.101 
 
 'l96J32 
 
 
 
 
 19.386 
 
 Anvil 
 
 
 
 
 10.076 
 
 175.663 
 
 1.369 
 
 159.262 
 
 16,101 
 
 1,709 
 
 1,0' 4 
 
 21,721 
 
 24.676 
 164,144 
 
 179,937 
 
 45.690 
 435,949 
 
 "246,695 
 
 73 
 267.439 
 
 42,090 
 231.896 
 
 169,604 
 
 Aflhland ,. .. 
 
 
 6,741 
 
 74,015 
 
 1,603,848 
 
 
 
 1,369 
 
 
 
 4,249 
 
 94.553 
 
 4.788 
 
 83..554 
 
 319.482 
 
 1.284.454 
 
 
 
 20.889 
 
 
 
 
 40,639 
 
 "53.267 
 56.542 
 136.833 
 
 ""80.486 
 
 116.293 
 
 193.038 
 
 2.882 
 
 1.497 
 
 23.794 
 
 63.903 
 
 21.150 
 
 '46.574 
 
 121.186 
 
 38.034 
 
 10.144 
 
 i3!967 
 15.769 
 6.778 
 
 130,833 
 106.484 
 304.241 
 54.779 
 11.754 
 10.655 
 
 1.799 
 
 
 
 
 
 1.0O4 
 
 
 
 
 8.881' 
 
 382 400 
 
 
 
 
 400.415 
 
 Colby (C) 
 
 Comet 
 
 Davis 
 
 1,022 
 
 8i,302 
 
 257.432 
 
 238,518 
 
 285,880 
 
 1.550.3UO 
 67,805 
 23,261 
 48,356 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 28,721 
 
 38.798 
 
 147.181 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 27.928 
 
 
 
 
 
 l.W 
 61,714 
 
 
 103; i 69 
 9.814 
 
 
 1.897 
 
 
 
 5,468 
 
 19,734 
 
 ss.'sis 
 
 10,039 
 
 52.000 
 
 22.383 
 
 4.283 
 
 "'"8.516 
 161.636 
 
 322:669 
 
 Glob** 
 
 
 19.863 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 8.515 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 30,000 
 
 51.651 
 
 110.368 
 
 1.506 
 
 355.060 
 
 
 
 
 9,960 
 
 661 
 
 20.184 
 
 18,424 
 
 2.249 
 
 ■"74.6.W 
 24,762 
 
 12.199 
 
 
 
 
 69!i45 
 
 " "ii.ios 
 
 8,635 
 
 
 
 
 
 .578 
 
 
 
 
 175.090 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 51.S21 
 
 
 3.133 
 
 
 
 
 
 "■3.944 
 
 3.133 
 
 Jark Pot 
 
 
 
 "l8,4«7 
 
 ■52,179 
 
 1,228 
 
 3.944 
 71.904 
 
 Lowell 
 
 
 
 
 6.247 
 16.704 
 71.488 
 
 SOU 
 56,133 
 
 58,728 
 
 6.:i47 
 
 Montreal 
 
 Mt f1nnt> TBI 
 
 
 
 17.24 
 
 24,378 
 
 20.631 
 
 42,724 
 
 25,882 
 
 236.B3.'< 
 97.:!70 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 106.606 
 
 '758'..572 
 
 "l30!2'26 
 32.227 
 
 918 
 
 38,576 
 
 ' 64.902 
 10,710 
 
 165,962 
 
 '9s'5',2ie 
 
 6,711 
 118,246 
 102,.H82 
 
 ""iV.oiii 
 
 2.912 
 56.046 
 14.'277 
 
 271..568 
 
 
 
 
 4,105 
 
 124,844 
 
 13,714 
 
 17,979 
 
 23 217 
 
 237.2.54 
 
 30.475 
 
 19.906 
 
 1.414 
 
 1,313 
 
 412,106 
 .-..412 
 
 4:i.'.i76 
 9.725 
 
 26,6(t7 
 4,987 
 3,058 
 
 '67V.:)94 
 
 13,354 
 
 96.990 
 
 35,245 
 
 574 
 
 7.9'J7 
 
 9.472 
 
 73.370 
 
 "iibejjis 
 
 1.066 
 172.060 
 50.6U4 
 
 "iV.iili 
 12fi.'J63 
 
 28.635 
 
 Norrie 
 
 Odanah (D) 
 
 
 16,419 
 
 4.114..523 
 70.731 
 
 Pabst 
 
 Palms 
 
 
 1.103 
 
 601.485 
 
 231,597 
 
 27.2:14 
 
 Prout 
 
 
 
 
 
 12.984 
 
 
 
 
 16,388 
 
 46.000 
 
 8«..525 
 
 Section 3:1. 
 
 
 
 2.';3..590 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2.912 
 
 Sunday Lake 
 
 Superior 
 
 
 1,405 
 
 10,963 
 
 2,690 
 
 i8.i37 
 •27.763 
 
 
 '37.747 
 
 6,010 
 36,075 
 
 ' ib.683 
 
 "'37.210 
 
 157.463 
 92.115 
 :17.747 
 
 Trimble 
 
 
 
 10.780 
 
 12.764 
 
 2,887 
 
 25,931 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 10,683 
 
 Valley 
 
 Vanfihn 
 
 Windsor 
 
 
 ""iVira 
 
 1.878 
 
 
 
 "l'4'.570 
 
 97 
 
 "53,242 
 
 1,878 
 
 1,173 
 
 105,125 
 
 Total 
 
 1.022 
 
 119.860 
 
 747..';.S9 
 
 1.303.267 
 
 1 424.699 
 
 2 0I6..191 
 
 2 847.r8C 
 
 1 825..i99 
 
 2973.993 
 
 13.260.206 
 
 A— Iiichided in Pabst. B— Now iNewport. C— Include* Tildeu, D— 1891 shipments inC'ary. 
 
 The Ashland ore docks, cuts of which 
 are given on these pages, are among the 
 very finest in 1 he world. They are un- 
 equalled ill size by any on the Oreat 
 Lakes. The Lake Shore docks were 
 completed in 1885, and the first train 
 loud of ore arrived in Ashland July 14, 
 1885, from the Germania mine. No ore 
 was shipped until July 29, ls86, when 
 the barge Cormorant cleared for Cleve- 
 land with 1.300 tons of ore. The two 
 Luke Shore docks are parallel, and ex- 
 tend into Chequamegon Bay L',.5'.i4 nnd 
 a,'.i7a feet respectivelv. They cost $500,- 
 1.00 and are two hundred feet apart. 
 
 In 1887, the great miuing boom oc- 
 curred, and the Colby, Pewabic, Broth- 
 erton, Ashland and a half dozen 01 her 
 mines became shippers. The Wisconsin 
 Central ore dock was completed June 1, 
 1887. It is longer than either of the 
 Lake Shore docks and its cost is f 380,000 
 All three ore docks are forty-rive feet 
 high and they are constantly coverel 
 with ore trains night and day during 
 the shipping season. The oro is dumped 
 througn the bottom of the oars into the 
 "pockets" which hold about a dozen 
 car loads. The ore spouts on the sides 
 of the dock are lowered to the vessel's 
 hold, and, aided by the energetic efforts 
 of squads of "ore puncbers'' armed with 
 long iron-pointed poles, the \ essel is 
 soon loaded. In the hold a gang of ore 
 trimmers are kept busy tiimming the 
 ves-el as fast as the ore comes down. 
 
 On page 48 is a table showing the rel- 
 tive shipments from the-e docks for '92. 
 The three docks are 1 3-5 miles long. 
 
 They are lighted with hundreds 
 o" electric lights, and with red and blue 
 hignal lights plentifully intermi.\ed, 
 make a very prety picture from the 
 bay or from' any part of the c;ty. 
 
50 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAH^Y PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 <|> J^sKland and the 'Sog' Canal. <i 
 
 /i\ 
 
 ymTmmmem'^mi^^^^m^^ 
 
 ^^"^^\'\^^ VERY year the vol- 
 ^fc^^^ J L_ a nme of business 
 through the great 
 canal that is the ave- 
 nue of all the com- 
 merce of Lake Super 
 
 ^ ior increases until 
 
 '^'^'r _ - jH'^B "^o^ '*■ 'sr exceeds thf 
 ^";i*^^;- EftW Suez canal. In exact 
 
 ratio, Ashlaud's commerce increase?. 
 The "Soo" canal and the port of Ashland 
 are very intimately connected. What 
 the Thames is to London, the Mersey 
 to Liverpool, the Seine to Paris, the 
 Narrows to New York and the Missis- 
 iippi to New Orleans, the Sault Ste. 
 Marie is to Ashland. Ashland could not 
 exist without the "Soo." The "Soo" 
 would find itself, were it not for Ash- 
 land, like Othello — its occupation would 
 be gone. The ofiScial figures for 1«92 
 show that Chicago is the greatest ship 
 per on Lake Michigan, BnSalo on Lake 
 Erie, while Ashland leads all Lake Su- 
 perior ports in the grand total of 
 tons shipped throngh the great 
 canal. The "Soo" canal is about three 
 
 hundred miles from Ashland, as the 
 crow flies. It takes two days for a 
 heavily laden ore, lumber or coal boat 
 to make the trip. All excepting heavily 
 
 laden ore boats take the "short cut' 
 through the Portage canal, thereby 
 saving a hundred miles in rounding Ke- 
 weenaw Point. No vessels have been 
 lost for years on this route, excepting 
 the Lucerne, which went down off Mad- 
 eline Island in 1»H7, and the ill-fated 
 Western Keserve, which was engnlfed 
 between Keweenaw Point and the "Soo." 
 last fall. The latter was bound for 
 Ashland for a cargo of ore. 
 
 The scenery is the most beantiful to 
 be found anywhere on the great lakes. 
 
 LOCKS AT THE SAULT STE. MAlilE C.\NAL. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Statement of the Commerce Through St 
 
 Mary' 
 
 s Falls Canal Prom its Opening in 1855 to 1893. 
 
 
 
 
 t 
 
 3> 
 
 u 
 
 -A 
 
 si 
 
 i 
 
 
 ^ 
 
 
 
 
 
 = 
 
 1 » 
 a « 
 
 0^ 
 
 °S 
 
 Year 
 
 = s 
 
 a S 
 
 1 
 
 \l 
 
 a 
 
 ll 
 
 ^! 
 
 a 
 1 
 
 Coal. 
 
 
 fait. 
 
 Copper. 
 
 Irou Ore 
 
 L nmber B. M. 
 
 
 2^ 
 
 • 
 
 SI 
 
 »5 
 
 la 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tons. 
 
 TonH. 
 
 Barrle. 
 
 Tons. 
 
 Tons. 
 
 Feet. 
 
 Tons. 
 
 Tons. 
 
 
 
 1885 
 
 
 a 
 
 [al 
 
 b 
 
 
 a 
 
 
 (c) 
 
 4,270 
 
 1.414 
 
 1.040 
 
 687 
 
 3.196 
 
 1,447 
 
 120,000 
 
 d 
 
 e 
 
 June 18* 
 
 Nov 23 
 
 18M 
 
 
 a 
 
 laj 
 
 b 
 
 
 a 
 
 
 (c) 
 
 4,674 
 
 3.968 
 
 781 
 
 464 
 
 5.527 
 
 11,597 
 
 306,1 oe 
 
 d 
 
 e 
 
 May 4 
 
 .Nov. 28 
 
 1.S5- 
 
 
 a 
 
 laj 
 
 b 
 
 
 a 
 
 
 (c) 
 
 6.660 
 
 6.278 
 
 1.326 
 
 l.SOC 
 
 6.-, 60 
 
 26,184 
 
 672.000 
 
 d 
 
 e 
 
 May 9 
 
 
 1858 
 
 
 a 
 
 [a] 
 
 b 
 
 
 a 
 
 
 (c) 
 
 9,230 
 
 4.11S 
 
 2,607 
 
 950 
 
 6 744 
 
 31,036 
 
 186,000 
 
 d 
 
 
 
 . Apr. 18 
 
 "^ Nov. 2J 
 
 185! 
 
 
 H 
 
 [a] 
 
 b 
 
 a 
 
 
 (CI 
 
 
 
 
 »,737 
 
 7.247 
 9,000 
 7.645 
 
 65.760 
 120,000 
 44,836 
 
 
 
 
 S May 3 
 u May 11 
 a May 3 
 
 . Nov. 28 
 
 g Nov. 20 
 
 1860 
 
 
 a 
 
 [a] 
 
 b 
 
 (ai 
 
 (c) 
 
 ' 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1861 
 
 
 a 
 
 [a] 
 
 b 
 
 (a) 
 
 (c) 
 
 8,816 
 
 11,507 
 
 4,194 
 
 3,(114 
 
 394,00 
 
 d 
 
 e 
 
 1862 
 
 
 H 
 
 [a| 
 
 b 
 
 (a) 
 
 (c) 
 
 8,468 
 
 11.346 
 
 6.438 
 
 2,477 
 
 0.681 
 
 113,014 
 
 196.100 
 
 d 
 
 e 
 
 ■^ Apr. 27 
 
 ^- Nov. 27 
 
 1863 
 
 
 a 
 
 laj 
 
 b 
 
 (a) 
 
 (C) 
 
 18.281 
 
 7,.805 
 
 6,681 
 
 1,.'> 6 
 
 1.044 
 
 181.567 
 
 1.411.' 00 
 
 d 
 
 e 
 
 c-i" Apr. 28 
 
 
 1864 
 
 .045 
 
 366 
 
 b 
 
 1.411 
 
 «-•) 
 
 10.985 
 
 11,282 
 
 7,643 
 
 1,776 
 
 6.331 
 
 213.753 
 
 2.coi.roo 
 
 d 
 
 e 
 
 » May 2 
 
 - Oec. 4 
 
 1865 
 
 602 
 
 396 
 
 b 
 
 997 
 
 Ic) 
 
 19.777 
 
 
 7,346 
 
 3,176 
 
 9,935 
 
 147.459 
 
 822.( 00 
 
 d 
 
 e 
 
 Z May 1 
 
 Dec. 3 
 
 1866 
 
 B.'i.'i 
 
 463 
 
 b 
 
 1.008 
 
 Ic) 
 
 14.067 
 
 19.91.-, 
 
 13.235 
 
 4,454 
 
 0.55(1 
 
 1.52.102 
 
 144.000 
 
 d 
 
 e 
 
 Mav 6 
 
 - Deoi S 
 
 1867 
 
 .'(39 
 
 466 
 
 b 
 
 1..SU6 
 
 (CI 
 
 16,120 
 
 22,9-J7 
 
 20.602 
 
 6.316 
 
 \ ..585 
 
 222.861 
 
 39n,0OO 
 
 d 
 
 e 
 
 May 4 
 
 Dec S 
 
 1868 
 
 817 
 
 .•13S 
 
 b 
 
 1,156 
 
 (C) 
 
 10.690 
 
 26.814 
 
 22.786 
 
 4 624 
 
 12.222 
 
 191.930 
 
 1.119,0 
 
 d 
 
 e 
 
 S May 2 
 
 d Dec. a 
 
 1869 
 
 U39 
 
 399 
 
 b 
 
 1.333 
 
 (c) 
 
 17.6.17 
 
 27.850 
 
 23.861 
 
 5.010 
 
 18.662 
 
 230,.368 
 
 1.260.00C 
 
 d 
 
 e 
 
 g Mav 4 
 
 S Nov. 29 
 
 18T0 
 
 1.397 
 
 431 
 
 b 
 
 1.828 
 
 (c) 
 
 17.163 
 
 15.052 
 
 42.969 
 
 11,080 
 
 11.301 
 
 400,850 
 
 722,000 
 
 92 
 
 2.917 
 
 • Apr. 29 
 
 
 1871 
 
 1,064 
 
 673 
 
 b 
 
 1.637 
 
 (C) 
 
 15.860 
 
 46 798 
 
 .54.9.'« 
 
 86,199 
 
 14.502 
 
 327,401 
 
 1.072 000 
 
 404 
 
 B.22S 
 
 Mav 8 
 
 J Nov. 29 
 
 1872 
 
 1.212 
 
 702 
 
 b 
 
 2.004 
 
 IC) 
 
 26.830 
 
 80.815 
 
 f6.194 
 
 42,6911 
 
 14.501 
 
 383,106 
 
 1.742.000 
 
 396 
 
 6.213 
 
 » May 11 
 
 2 Nov 26 
 
 1873 
 
 1..519 
 
 908 
 
 b 
 
 2.517 
 
 (C) 
 
 30.966 
 
 96.78(1 
 
 44,920 
 
 29,336 
 
 16.927 
 
 604,121 
 
 1,162,000 
 
 580 
 
 2.218 
 
 
 ■3 Nov. 18 
 
 1874 
 
 S33 
 
 901 
 
 b 
 
 1.734 
 
 (c) 
 
 22.958 
 
 61.123 
 
 31.741 
 
 42,231 
 
 16.346 
 
 427 668 
 
 6.38.00J 
 
 443 
 
 401 
 
 ■5 Mav 12 
 
 Dec. 2 
 
 1875 
 
 .S69 
 
 1.464 
 
 b 
 
 2.033 
 
 (c) 
 
 19,685 
 
 101,260 
 
 51.381 
 
 43,089 
 
 18.396 
 
 493.408 
 
 5.391,000 
 
 847 
 
 2.978 
 
 Mav 12 
 
 ^ Dec. 2 
 
 1876 
 
 684 
 
 1.7.33 
 
 b 
 
 2.417 
 
 (c) 
 
 30,286 
 
 124,734 
 
 64.091 
 
 46.666 
 
 26.766 
 
 609.752 
 
 17,761,000 
 
 986 
 
 2.102 
 
 - Mav 8 
 
 S* Nov, 26 
 
 1877 
 
 1.401 
 
 1.051 
 
 b 
 
 2,451 
 
 (c) 
 
 21,800 
 
 91.976 
 
 39,971 
 
 03.1.88 
 
 16.707 
 
 568.082 
 
 4.14.3.000 
 
 987 
 
 2,600 
 
 = May 2 
 
 be Nov. 30 
 a Dec. 3 
 
 1878 
 
 1.091 
 
 1.476 
 
 b 
 
 2.567 
 
 (c) 
 
 20.394 
 
 91.8B6 
 
 14,882 
 
 63.520 
 
 22.529 
 
 666.7(0 
 
 24,119 000 
 
 650 
 
 2,754 
 
 tc Apr. 8 
 
 1S79 
 
 1.403 
 
 1.618 
 
 10( 
 
 3.121 
 
 (c) 
 
 18.979 
 
 110,7 4 
 
 39,-;i« 
 
 92. -245 
 
 22.309 
 
 640.075 
 
 35.698,0.10 
 
 324 
 
 2.526 
 
 = Mav 2 
 
 5 Dec. 3 
 
 1880 
 
 1.718 
 
 1.736 
 
 61 
 
 3.602 
 
 (c) 
 
 25.766 
 
 170,601 
 
 46.791 
 
 77.016 
 
 21.7.53 
 
 077.073 
 
 44,539,000 
 
 66 
 
 2,283 5 Aor. 28 
 
 - Nov. 16« 
 
 1881 
 
 1.706 
 
 2.117 
 
 181 
 
 4.004 
 
 1.667,741 
 
 24.671 
 
 295.647 
 
 S7.S30 
 
 06,897 
 
 29,488 
 
 748.131 
 
 68,877,000 
 
 
 1.400 
 
 g- May 7 
 
 " Dec. 6 
 
 1S,S2 
 
 1.663 
 
 2,7.S0 
 
 37L 
 
 4.774 
 
 2,029,521 
 
 20.256 
 
 43'J,1,84 
 
 92.870 
 
 170,01-,' 
 
 26,409 
 
 0S7.C0 1 
 
 82,783,1 OC 
 
 22 
 
 5.428 
 
 Z Apr. 21 
 
 ° Dec. 1 
 
 1883 
 
 1.4BS 
 
 2,020 
 
 237 
 
 4.316 
 
 2.267,106 
 
 .19.130 
 
 714,444 
 
 109,910 
 
 70,898 
 
 31,024 
 
 791.732 
 
 87,131,000 
 
 814 
 
 2.405 
 
 May 2 
 
 S Dec. 11 
 
 1^14 
 
 1.709 
 
 3,6011 
 
 371 
 
 6.689 
 
 2,874.657 
 
 54.214 
 
 706,379 
 
 72.428 
 
 144,804 
 
 36,062 
 
 1.1.36,071 
 
 122.389.0011 
 
 9.731 
 
 6,047 
 
 » Anr. 23 
 
 .2 Dec. 10 
 
 18SB 
 
 l,tl.S9 
 
 3.S64 
 
 337 
 
 6..3,S0 
 
 8,256,628 
 
 .36,147 
 
 894,991 
 
 00.842 
 
 1.3C.365 
 
 31,927 
 
 1.235.1-22 
 
 127,984.000 
 
 3.669 
 
 8,189 a May 6 
 
 Dec. 2 
 
 1S86 
 
 2.B.34 
 
 4..W4 
 
 306 
 
 7.424 
 
 4,527,769 
 
 27.008 
 
 1,009.999 
 
 11.5.208 
 
 158,677 
 
 38,627 
 
 2.087,809 
 
 138,688,000 
 
 2.009] 
 
 9,440 ^ Anr. 25 
 
 « Dec. 4 
 
 1,S87 
 
 2.562 .'i.96sl 
 
 825 
 
 9.355 
 
 6,491,649 
 
 32.668 
 
 1.362.9,87 
 
 74.919 
 
 2J4.90S 
 
 31,886 
 
 2.497,713 
 
 165.226.000 
 
 350 
 
 13,401 
 
 a May 1 
 
 S Dec. S 
 
 18SS 
 
 2.0U9 r,,:iiir, 
 
 489 
 
 7.808 
 
 6.4I1.42S 
 
 25.BS 
 
 2.10.5.041 
 
 63.703 
 
 210,4.13 
 
 28 060 
 
 2,670.517 
 
 240 372.0.* 
 
 3.3S6! 
 
 33,541 
 
 2 May 7 
 
 % Dec. 4 
 •U Dec. 4 
 
 1S88 
 
 2,6,'!5 6.601 
 
 443 
 
 9,679 
 
 7.516.022 
 
 2.5.712 
 
 1.629.197 
 
 57.661 
 
 IOS.2.50 
 
 33,4.50 
 
 4.095,^56 
 
 315.664,000 
 
 6.947 
 
 «8.688 
 
 • Apr. 15 
 
 18il0 
 
 2.872 7.2i;8 
 
 417 
 
 10.567 
 
 0,''41.213 
 
 24,.SS6 
 
 2.176.925 
 
 116.327 
 
 170,431 
 
 48.729 
 
 4.774.768 
 
 361.9-29,0 
 
 8.432 
 
 47.073 
 
 4< Apr. 20 
 
 Dec. 8 
 
 1801 
 
 2,406 7.339 
 
 447 10,1911 
 
 8.888,769 
 
 26.190 
 
 2.50? 532 
 
 60.741 
 
 2:i4,B28 
 
 60.190 
 
 8.660.213 
 
 806,305.000 
 
 1.731 
 
 44.080 
 
 Apr. 27 
 
 Dec. 7 
 
 1892 3.8241 8.7S7I 
 
 519 12.6801 
 
 11.314.333 
 
 25.896 
 
 2.901.266 
 
 101.520 
 
 275.740 
 
 01,993 
 
 4 901.132 
 
 612.844 000 
 
 I.9.I0I 
 
 39.698 
 
 Apr. 18 
 
 Dec. « 
 
 [a] No record kept until 1864. 
 
 [b] No record kept until 1870. 
 
 [cj No record kept until Juno, 1881 
 
 [d] None sliipped from Lake Superior until 1867 
 
 [e] None shipped from Lake Superior until 1870. 
 
 [f] No record kept until 1881. 
 
 " Excluded from calculation of average dates. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 51 
 
 BT. maby's falls Canal— view op locks fbom bblow, open. 
 
 T During late years the "Soo" has at- 
 tracted the attention of the world on ac- 
 count of the tremendouslonnage passing 
 through it, exceeding 
 that of any canal in 
 the world. Last sea- 
 son the attention of 
 Canada, England and 
 the United States 
 were more particular- 
 ly drawn to it by 
 President Harrison's 
 proclamation levying 
 a tax on all Canadian 
 
 A total of 25,896 tourists passed 
 through the "Soo" during the summer 
 of '92, as seen by the official figures. 
 
 commerce passing 
 through it, in retalia- 
 tion for discrimina- 
 tions in favor of Cana- 
 dian vessels passing 
 through the Welland 
 canal. In February, 
 Is9S, Canada receded 
 from its position, and 
 the "Soo" is open to 
 the commerce of both 
 countries. The Canadian government 
 is pushing forward to early completion 
 a canal of its own just east of the '"Soo," 
 and running parallel to it, through 
 which the commerce of the north shore 
 will soon pass. 
 
 The tonnage of the "Soo" canal is one- 
 fourth that of all the railroads of the 
 United States. This is shown by gov- 
 ernment statistics. Of every four tons 
 of freight that is locked through the 
 "Soo," nearly two are from the port of 
 Ashland. This tells the story. A com- 
 parison of the figures in the statement 
 on page 50. showing the commere 
 through St. Mary's Falls canal for each 
 year, from its openiug in 1855, shows an 
 enormous yearly increase. It must be 
 borae in mind that Ashland is the great 
 "feeder" of the canal. An increase in 
 the ore business always shows a corres- 
 ponding increase in the other. Figure 
 the yearly percentage of increase of bus- 
 iness at the canal and you have almost 
 the exact figures for Ashland. 
 
 VIEW or OLD FORT BRADY. 
 
 Nintty-five per cent of these oame from 
 or to Ashland. Of the lul,520 tons of 
 pig iron shipped through the "Soo" 
 
 nearly every ton was manufactured in 
 Ashland, of Ashland ore. Of 4,901,133 
 tons of iron ore, 2,327,407 tons were 
 shipped from the port of Ashland in '92. 
 Of the 512,844,000 feet of lumber, 28&,. 
 000,000 was shipped from Ashland. Of 
 coal and salt, it is sufficient to say that 
 Ashland has the largest coal and salt 
 docks on Lake Superior. The table 
 given, with the exception of flour, is 
 complete, of ■which there were 5,418,135 
 barrels shipped in '93, 40,994,780 bushels 
 of wheat and 1,666.690 bushels of other 
 grain. 
 
 The table on page 60 is official and 
 prepared by the Unitedj States govern- 
 ment officers. It was obtained through 
 the courtesy of Elitor C. S. Osborne, of 
 the bright and popular paper, the Sault 
 Ste. Marie News. Sault Ste. Marie is 
 one of the best towns on Lake Superior 
 ani is rapidly forging ahead in improve- 
 ments and industrial enterprises. Mr. 
 Osborne has been closely identified with 
 building up this promising city, and 
 through his), kindness 
 we are permitted to 
 publish a view of the 
 historic Fort Brady 
 and views of the locks 
 open and closed. 
 
 There is no place of 
 laore particular inter- 
 est to the people of 
 Lake Superior than 
 the famous "Soo" 
 canal. It is the great 
 a r t e r y of the com- 
 merce of the Inland 
 Seas. 
 
 The outlook for the 
 "Soo" in 1893, is that 
 it will surpass all pre- 
 vious records. The 
 D. S. S. & A. raib-oad 
 and the "Soo" lines 
 make Sault Ste, Ma- 
 rie their eastern terminus. Congress is 
 beginning to appreciate the magnitude 
 of the great Lake Superior commerce. 
 
 ST. MARY'S FALLS CANAL— VIEW OF LOCKS FBOM BELOW, CLOSED. 
 
52 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 
 cities c mpeting 
 
 OMETIME in the 
 near future Ashland 
 will have a State 
 Nortcal school. Th»- 
 legUlitnre now in 
 session will be asked 
 to make provision-i 
 for the location of a 
 state normal t-chool. 
 There are several 
 for the school and 
 there seems to 1 e an attempt on the 
 part of the board of normal reftente 
 to indaci) cities lo offer a bonus for 
 the locati >n of this school. The 
 school ou^'lit to be locrtied where it will 
 do tlie most rood, consideration al-o be- 
 ing had as to the immtdiate sum undines 
 where lociited. The state of Wi^cnsin 
 cannot afford to go into the market and 
 ask for bids after th« manner of bank- 
 rapt manufiicturing concerns. The 
 fund set aside for these normal schools 
 is ample to buy sites and bnild build- 
 ings, without any bonus from any city. 
 The s-chool ought to be located at the 
 point where it ivonld le most acce.-=8ibla 
 to those needing it. These schools, so 
 far as past experience is au indication, 
 take the place of academies and the uni- 
 versity, to a large extent, for the t>oorer 
 class of students, who cannot afford to 
 incur the expense of these other institu- 
 tions, and they have been a great factor 
 ill the preparing of young ladies for 
 school teachers. In other words, they 
 are schools patronized principally by 
 students who e.vpect to be obliged to 
 
 ^^iftfl«f 
 
 L 
 
 Him from Q iialcoiuj 
 
 earn their own living, and, in fact, are 
 often paying their own way throngh 
 the schools. Every mile travelled to 
 and from the school isan added expense. 
 The fui ther away from their home the 
 more difficult it is for them to attend 
 the school and the less likely are they to 
 get the benefit. 
 
 Such beine the case, it is absurd to 
 say that the'state will locate the school 
 
 at the place < fferiag the largest indnce- 
 u,ents. It might well be the place that 
 conld not afford to offer any bonus or 
 inducement would be the only suitab'.e 
 place for the school. 
 
 Ashland has not offered a bonns,"'and 
 prob ildv will iJOt. If the policy of the 
 regents is carried out it may offer a site. 
 A glance at the map of the state of Wis- 
 consin ought to convince any reasonable 
 person, that for Northern Wisconsin, 
 Ashland is the most central and most 
 accessible city at which the normal 
 school conld be located. 
 
 There is in Northern Wisconsin noth- 
 ing to take the place of a normal school. 
 Tiiere is no substitute, and students de- 
 sirous of obtaining an education better 
 than the hit;h school must travelseveral 
 hundred miles. 
 
 On the whole the Press fully believes 
 that there is no location for the normal 
 
 THE PROI^OSKD NORMVL SCHOOL 
 
 »**.• 
 
 ».... ...-. 
 
 
 - r'' 
 
 sihool, north of 
 Oshkosh and 
 Black River 
 Falls, equal to 
 Ashland in ac- 
 cessibility, and 
 beautv of Bcen- 
 e r y, healthful- 
 ness of climate, 
 and all the re- 
 quisites neces- 
 sary for a first- 
 class location. 
 Ashlind county 
 has contributed 
 since its organ- 
 ization, about 
 s;i75,00it from 
 the sale of 
 swamp lands 
 alone in the 
 countv, to the 
 fund from 
 which the mon- 
 ey is taken to 
 build these nor- 
 mal schools and 
 it would seem, 
 as » mere mat- 
 ter of simple 
 justice, it ought 
 to receive some 
 of the benefits 
 .if the moneys 
 thus paid, b y 
 the location of 
 
 e pGhool h 
 
THB ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 53 
 
 IKortK ^Wisconsin ^cademi]. 
 
 UCH has been said of 
 this institution which 
 lias become one of 
 tlie acquisitions of 
 the city of Ashland 
 during the past year. 
 As its name indicates, 
 it is a school of higher 
 learning. It was pro- 
 jecteu uy prominent philanthropists 
 and educators from all over the state 
 and from Minnesota, in connection with 
 an educational conference held at Pratt, 
 
 "Scoville Hall" of Beloit College, said 
 to be one of the best equipped in the 
 state. It will be a little larger than the 
 Beloit building and will cost |;W,000. 
 In addition to this building the trustees 
 are planning to erect during the sum- 
 mer a ladies' cottage and a boys' dor- 
 matory at a cost of about |10,UOO each. 
 It is also hoped that by the opening of 
 the fall term, provision can be made for 
 a power station with allied buildings for 
 industrial work, so that students can do 
 something in the industrial line while 
 
 THE NOKTH WISCONSIN ACADEMY, ASHLAND, WIS. 
 
 in l89l. It was bid in by Ashland in 
 competition with other towns in North 
 Wisconsin June 20, 1893. Its boBus 
 offer was about twenty acres for a site 
 in the most eligible and picturesque 
 part of the city, besides a subscription of 
 ^30,00U. Since the acceptance of the 
 Ashland offer, the management has 
 cleared the campus of the school, pre- 
 pared plans for a building to serve as 
 an assembly and recitation hall, and let 
 contracts for the erection of the same ,to 
 be completed by the opening of the 
 spring term early in April next. This 
 building is modeled after the beautiful 
 
 pursuing a course of study. The above 
 buildings in process of construction and 
 planned for, indicate somewhat the aim 
 of the institution, which is co-eduoa. 
 tional. It is to afford the young men 
 and young women of its constituency, 
 the most thorough mental and moral 
 training, with such practical studies as 
 will equip them for the practical re- 
 sponsibilities of life. It also seeks to 
 furnish such means of self-help as will 
 enable any person of earnest purpose to 
 avail himself or herself of its advantages. 
 The curriculum of study adopted shows 
 that it combines the virile elements of 
 
 old classical academies of New England, 
 with the musical and applied studies of 
 the present day. The courses of study 
 are distributed through three general 
 divisions, the college preparatory, the 
 academy course and the conservatory of 
 music. The college preparatory pre- 
 pares young men and young women for 
 the best colleges in the country. This 
 preparation includes both classical and 
 scientific studies. The academy course 
 is complete in itself and is designed for 
 those who cannot complete a college 
 course and yet who desire more than 
 the average training. By a system of 
 optional studies in this course, a student 
 may make prominent his business 
 preparation or his training for the work 
 of teaching or his musical culture. 
 
 SCHOOL OF MUSIC. 
 
 The School of Music teaches music as 
 11 science and as an art. Instruction is 
 given through lectures by com- 
 petent instructors and by private 
 lessons in tiie art of vocalization. 
 Besides teaching vocal music, 
 special instruction is given on the 
 pianoforte, violin, viola, violin- 
 cello, guitar, and mandolin. 
 
 Unlike many of its sister insti- 
 tutions, where music is an after- 
 thought, the Academy embraced 
 the science and art of music as a 
 part of its corporate life from the 
 very beginning of its career. 
 
 To this end music courses, the 
 equal in every particular of the 
 literary department, have been 
 provided. By means of these 
 courses a student may begin with 
 the rudiments of any brancli of 
 music, and progress to the zenith 
 of musical execution and litera- 
 ture. 
 
 Great care has been exercised 
 in the selection of the corps of in- 
 structors, to employ only those 
 thoroughly competent in their re- 
 spective departments.. 
 
 LOCATION. 
 
 f 
 
 For the present scholastic year 
 the School of Music will be located 
 in the Vaughn Library building, 
 corner of Vaughn avenue and 
 West Second street, Room 2a. 
 This is also the Director's office. 
 The following is a list of the ofHcers 
 and teachers of tlie school: 
 
 I.ITKIlMtV IlKTMnTMKST. 
 
 SamI'EI. 'I'. KlliliKll-HrllMlpiil. 
 
 Mlsn liRAi-K I.. OuiaON. V\\. B— bad.v Priiiclpiil. 
 
 CHA« L. Fkksi'ii. a. B.— Instniitor in Mntbe- 
 innti.aaud EliKlish StuJii-». 
 
 AioNzo T Mknoom— luslnirtor in RnsinesH 
 nrHiH-lies, 
 
 Mi8s Mauki. Thomson— Instructor in Miith»- 
 iiiiitiis and History. 
 
 SCHOOL OK MUSIC— A. W. COLLINS, DIKKOTOR. 
 
 Plnnotorio — A. W. Collins, Mrs. Mary Col- 
 lins. 
 
 Voire Coltur. — V. W. Collins. 
 
 Loetiirer and .Musiunl Advisor— Mr. W. M. 
 Cross. 
 
 Violin. Violini-ello. Viola nnJ Contra Bnas — 
 Herr Fbit?. Scrlaotbr 
 
 Banjo. Hultnr. .Mandolin and Zither— Miss 
 Ellen Uopb. 
 
 Harmony and Theory ot Music— A. W. Collins, 
 Mr. W. M. Cross. 
 
54 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 <i) ^sKland and its Schools. <{) 
 
 .CHOOLS are the best 
 findex to the general 
 j,tenor of any city's 
 "culture and jntelli- 
 H' gence. Ashland takes 
 ■^Vi special pride in its 
 v)V\ Echool9, — public and 
 private. Its public 
 sc'iool sysein is second to no other city 
 in the state. 
 
 The board of education, of wliich Dr. 
 Edwin Ellis is president, and Messrs. 
 Rev. J . D. Nelseniuf , Thomas Bardon, 
 John H. Knight, Dr. M. S. Hosmer, 
 Geo. F. Merrill and W. H. Hogan are 
 directors, has labored earnestly to se- 
 cure ample accommodations for the 
 rapidly increasing school popu- 
 lation. To this end, it has 
 within the year just closed 
 erected one new two-depart- 
 inent building near the Lake 
 Shore Junction and added four 
 departments to the school 
 building located on Ninth ave- 
 nue west, making in all an ad- 
 dition of six new department.s. 
 This, however, is only just suf- 
 ficient to accommodate the 
 number of pupils at present en- 
 rolled, and before another year 
 passes another eight-depart- 
 ment building will have to be 
 erected to accommodate the 
 pupils seeking admission to 
 the public schools. The board 
 of education engages none but 
 well-qualified, successful and 
 experienced teachers, pays liberal salar- 
 ies and thus secure the best talent in 
 the state. 
 
 has been in Ashland six years, and now 
 devotes his entire time to this work. 
 
 The teachers in the High school are: 
 Chas. Gleason, principal, and Miss 
 Tere.se Monaghan, Miss C. B. Stark- 
 weather, Miss M. D. Rodman assistants, 
 and Miss Carrie Field have charge of the 
 eighth grade and Miss Elvira Weaver, 
 the seventh. Mr. W. B. Phillips pre- 
 sides in the sixth grade and Misses Alice 
 Royca and Ellen Buchanan in the fifth, 
 a part of the latter grade being in the 
 Nmth avenue building. The above de- 
 partments are in the High school build- 
 ing which stands in the same block with 
 another building in which Miss Anna 
 White and Miss Terese Dolan have 
 
 In the High school department three 
 courses are offered. 
 
 A two years commercial course in- 
 tended to fit pupils for posi- 
 tions in any of the lines of commerce. 
 A four years English course and a four 
 years modern classical course, one 
 or the other of which will fit students 
 for any course, except the ancient class- 
 ical, at the State University. 
 
 I 111': II II. 1 1 -^rii 
 
 BriLDINGS. 
 
 BUILDINGS AND TEACHERS. 
 
 Tho school buildings are seven in 
 number, besides the High school, and so 
 situated as to afford the best possible 
 accommodation. 
 
 The schools 
 have grown 
 from a teach- 
 ing f orcje of 
 six in 1888 un- 
 til there are 
 M o v^ n. ore 
 tlian t h i r ty 
 t eachers e m- 
 liloyed. The 
 organiza t i o n 
 and super- 
 vision is under 
 t h e direction 
 of Mr. J. M. 
 Turner, who 
 
 CHAS. OI.EASON, PRIN. 
 
 fourth and third grade and Misses Anna 
 O'Connell, Hattie Eaton, Elsie Teunant 
 and May Simpkins the primary rooms. 
 
 At the Ninth avenue building Miss 
 Emma Buchanan is principal and second 
 grade teacher. Miss Ella Buchanan, 
 fifth grade. Miss Gertrude Emmerton, 
 fourth. Miss Minnie Southwick, third. 
 Miss Ada Forrest, second. Misses May 
 Robinson and Eugenia Rollins, primary, 
 are the other teachers in this building. 
 
 In the First ward school Miss Bessie 
 Pike and Miss May Hallett have second 
 and first grades respectively. 
 
 Miss Harriet B. Smith and Miss Mat- 
 tie Dockery have charge of the work in 
 the Third ward departments. 
 
 Miss Lizzie Clark is principal in "Bay 
 City" and is assisted by Misses Nellie 
 Kane, Millie Putnam and Lidah Doo- 
 little. 
 
 Miss Maggie Darling has charge of 
 the pupils of Parishville and Miss Mary 
 Dolan is located at the Lake Shore addi- 
 tion. 
 
 THE SENIOR CLASS. 
 
 The twelfth grade includes Ida Meyer, 
 Ella Brenimer, Marie Berg, Grace Mer- 
 rill and Arthur MacNolty. 
 
 THE ALUM.NI. 
 
 Since the organizition of the High 
 school five classes have been graduated. 
 CLASS OF 1888. 
 Robert Ritchie, clerk. Lake Shore 
 office: Wm. Romeson, Ashland; Cora 
 Dumez, Mrs. Ballard. Ashland. 
 CLASS OF 1S89. 
 Ida Pearce, Mrs. F. French, Ashland; 
 Lizzie Bicksler, postal clerk, Ashland; 
 Ida Holmes, teachT, Glidden; Grace 
 Sutherland, student, Laselle 
 Seminary, Anburndale, Mass.; 
 Chas. Gallagher, insurance 
 agent, Ashland: Willard Fish- 
 er, cashier, Wisconsin Central 
 office. 
 
 CLASS>F 1890. 
 Stella .Stewart, milliner. Ash- 
 land; Daisy Bailey, Ashland; 
 Ella Bardwell, cashier, A. P. 
 Conner's, Ashland; Faith 
 Prince, Ashland; Merton Pot- 
 ter, collector, Wisconsin Cen- 
 tral freight office; Wm. Bald- 
 win, librarian, Vaaghn Li- 
 brary; Bruce Harrison, class of 
 '!I6, Wisconsin University; 
 May Sargeant, Ashland. 
 CLASS OF 1891. 
 Evelyn Calef, student, Osh- 
 kosh Normal; Ma.\ Fisher, 
 clerk. First National Bank: Willie 
 Ritchie, clerk. Central freight office. 
 
 CITY SIPT. .T. JI. TDRNEK. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 55 
 
 CLASS OF 1S93. 
 
 Holton Scott, class of '9(5, Madison 
 University; Pearca Tomkins, class of 
 '96, Madison University; Mollie Jacka, 
 Ashland; Laura Wharton, Ashland; 
 Wm. Leahy, student, Ashland; Rob't 
 Barr, machinist, Chicago; Ellis Fisher, 
 clerk, Northern National Bank; Otto 
 Ihk, druggist, Milwaukee; Ida Schaeflfer 
 Ashland; Eunice Newland, Ashland. 
 
 St. Agnes Catholic Church and School. 
 
 IN the round of city interests, a glance 
 at St. Agnes schools and church tells 
 UB that there the hand of progress is 
 alive. 
 
 The spacious sanctuary of St. Agues 
 church, one year ago scarce seeking a 
 foundation, is now complete, paid and 
 furnished. To the uorth and sides 
 beautifully decorated windows give a 
 pleasing effect to the structure, while a 
 magnificent gothic altar 
 ascends its inner walls to i 
 the height of thirty-five 
 feet. New pulpit, con- 
 fessionals and statuary 
 are a late addition to the 
 church furnishings, with 
 handsome stations of 
 comparing style. 
 
 Annual reports state 
 that 1893 finds St. Agnes' 
 church almost free from 
 indebtedness and the 
 parish flourishing under 
 the skillful management 
 of their beloved and rev- 
 erend pastor, Eev. Fa- 
 bian Richstiene, O. S. F., 
 and the Franciscan 
 Fathers. 
 
 In the basement of the v 
 church it is found well 
 fitted and lighted, and in 
 use by the Polish speak- 
 ing people, who of late 
 enjoy the dignity of the 
 support of a Polish pastor. Rev. Father 
 Domian numbers the fourth Franciscan 
 Father laboring and permanently estab- 
 lished in our city. 
 
 BCHOOL. 
 
 In the schools is found the same live 
 energy throughout. Seven teachers are 
 co-workers in the educational instruc- 
 tion and about 400 or more children are 
 diligently climbing the ladder of "On- 
 ward and upward. " 
 
 In the lower rooms, first and second 
 primary, we find the basis founded on 
 latest approved methods with every es- 
 sential to aid the child in the much- 
 talked-of "object lessons," while in the 
 intermediate and grammar grades a 
 thoroughness of unrivalled principle 
 marks the feature of a classic education. 
 
 A little apart, in another building, is 
 the High school, youthful we learn, in 
 its origin, but surpassingly bright in in- 
 tellect. There wo find the preparatory 
 
 and junior classes ably covering arith- 
 metic, algebra, grammar, ancient and 
 modem history, physiology, constitu- 
 tion, physical geography, literature, 
 commercial law and bookkeeping, while 
 the seniors are making a special of 
 rhetoric, botany, zoology and geometry. 
 Besides this, they conduct a Literary 
 founded on parliametary principle and 
 connected with a Reading Branch, 
 which forms a most interesting part of 
 the Friday weekly exercise. The rooms 
 throughout are generously suppliei 
 with standard apparatus, and in the 
 High room is a rapidly growing library. 
 A World's Fair exhibit has just been 
 finished in the different grades, which, 
 according to examiners' estimate, "will 
 be hard to excel by any school of the 
 same grade in the northwest. " 
 
 CONVENT. 
 
 Opposite the school on Front street is 
 
 sixty-six. The increase after Eister will 
 be about 50 per cent. The school is sup- 
 ported solely by the congregation. The 
 primary books in German and English 
 are given gratis by the congregation. 
 The school house is a one-story frame 
 building, situated behind the new ca- 
 pacious church on Prentice avenue. 
 
 Gordon's Typewriting and Shorthand College. 
 
 AMONG the educational institutions 
 of Ashland is Gordon's Typewriting 
 Shorthand Businsss College. The school 
 was started^ about a year ago and now 
 has a large attendance. Prof, Gordo<\ 
 has instructed a large number of the 
 best stenographers and typewriters in the 
 city, and his class increased to such an 
 extent that he found it necessary to open 
 a colle;;e in room 4, new Garnich block. 
 Shorthand and typewriting work is also 
 done on short notice. There are few 
 new institutions that 
 give pron^ise of more 
 rapid growth than Gor- 
 don's business college. A 
 large number of students 
 from the high school 
 take a separate course, 
 
 •'g s.^j^J^iUH-u-iv-i -" ■ ■i - .V ' -^" • j^ ti~*r' 
 
 THE NINTH AVENUE PCBLIC SCHOOL BUILDING. 
 
 the new Sacred Heart Convent, erected 
 in lfc9'i by the Franciscan Sisters of La 
 Crosse for the puipose of accommodat- 
 ing those seeking special privileges of 
 education and instruction; it also affords 
 an opportunity for pupils seeking ad - 
 vancement in art and music. 
 
 The German Lutheran School. 
 
 THE teacher of the German Lutheran 
 school is Mr. Edward Gruett, the di- 
 rectors being Rev. H. Restin, Mr. Chas. 
 Ziehlsdorflf and Mr. Fr. Mueller. The 
 pupils in this school are instructed in 
 the English language, in spelling, read- 
 ing, writing, geography. United States 
 history and arithmetic, and in German 
 language in reading, writing, grammar, 
 and religion. Rev. H. Restin specially 
 instructing the elder children in re- 
 ligion. The school is attended by be- 
 tween seventy and seventy-five children, 
 the average attendance being about 
 
 Parsons' Business College. 
 
 THERE are perhaps 
 few men more wide- 
 ly known in connection 
 with the work of con- 
 ducting business college* 
 than Prof, Parsons. Par- 
 sons business colleges 
 are known far and wide. 
 A branch college has 
 been established in Ash- 
 land and has proven very 
 successful. Prof. P a r- 
 sons, who has charge of 
 the work here, conducted 
 a course in commercial 
 studies in the public 
 schools. The Parsons 
 Business College will open in rooms in 
 the First National Bank building for 
 work this year. 
 
 GeneraJ Educational Matters. 
 
 THERE are a large number 02 lit- 
 erary clubs and musical organiza- 
 tions in Ashland which properly come 
 under this head, and mention must also 
 be made of the proposed summer school 
 to be held on Madeline Island. The 
 "Monday Club," consisting of ladies of 
 Ashland, is taking up advanced topics 
 in history and philosophy. The Chau- 
 tauqua Circle and scores of similar 
 organizations g^ve the ciky the tone of a 
 Western Athens in intellectual matters. 
 There is already a move on foot to 
 make the summer school a "Brooks 
 Farm" era in the intellectual develop- 
 ment of the "New Wisconsin." On one 
 of the ideal isles of Inland Sea there is 
 room for a "feast of reason and flow of 
 soul." 
 
56 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAH^Y PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 ©ne Gf ^sKlaud's 3(ome£. 
 
 Foster, a Daily 
 
 the first 
 stoiy 10 
 
 UMPAKED with 
 other new cities 
 Asliland is proud of 
 its many bandeome 
 residences. Through 
 the courtesy of 
 Architect John W. 
 Press representative 
 was shown the plans of the interior of 
 the new residence of Mr. E. A. Chores. 
 The exterior of the 
 bouse is fast nearing 
 completion, although 
 it is not eapected the 
 residence will be 
 ready for occupancy 
 before .1 uly. The to- 
 tal cost, exclusive of 
 the fnrnisliinge, will 
 be about .|:iO,OoO, and 
 it will easily take 
 rank of beicg the 
 finest resiJence in the 
 city. It is 04x7.j feet 
 and is three stories in 
 height. Th9 base- 
 ment is 9 feet high, 
 story V^ feet, second 
 and the third story !»i. 
 
 Tbe interior will be in the 
 simplest style, so much in fact 
 that it will be richness itself. 
 This is the idea which every- 
 thing ij based upon -rich sim- 
 plicity. All the rooms will bo 
 finished iu natural wood and 
 the work will be of the finest 
 kind. 
 
 A striking feature of the ex- 
 terior of the house, and one 
 that commands admiration, is 
 the wide piazza. It is built 
 upon the east and north sides 
 of the house, and has a very in- 
 viting aspect. The porch is 
 supported with brownstone 
 piers and has stone balustrades. 
 On the north side of the bouse 
 is the carriage entrance. The 
 entire building will be heated 
 with hot water, and will be lighted by 
 gas and electricity with automatic gas 
 lighters, and separate switches for each 
 room. 
 
 The first fl^or contaias the dining 
 room, reception hall, library, art room, 
 vestibule, reception rooms, conserva- 
 tory and other smaller rooms. The 
 dining room is 2t).\21 and will be finished 
 in mahogany, both the ceiling and the 
 wainscoting. The sideboard will be 
 placed in a circular bay with ornament- 
 al windows above. Serving rooms will 
 
 be connected with the dining room and 
 there will be a dumb waiter connection 
 with the kitchen. The reception hall 
 will be the crowning feature of the resi- 
 dence. It is 'j;i\2u and will be finished 
 
 RESIDENCE OF MR. K. A. SHORES, SEVENTH .WENDE WEST. 
 
 RECEPTION HALL. 
 
 in oak. There will bo an open well to 
 the second Hoor, with a balustrade 
 around it. The entrances and all the 
 main rooms on the first floor will open 
 into the reception hall. This will be a 
 very pleasing feature At the end of the 
 hall will be an old-fashioned fireplace 
 eight feet wide. The art room will be 
 finished in cherry and lighted through 
 an ornamental glass ceiliog. The re- 
 ception room will be finished in white 
 and gold. It can be entered from the 
 vestibule or reception hall. The library 
 will be finished in oak and entered from 
 the leception hall through a 
 beautiful arch. It is 19x18 and 
 will have book cases built on 
 one side. There will be a coat 
 room o& tbe front entrance. 
 
 The second floor will contain 
 seven rooms, four of which 
 will be a r- 
 ranged in 
 suites of two 
 rooms with 
 baths in con- 
 isss- -* nection. 
 
 ' "~''*^ The differ- 
 
 ent rooms 
 oa this floor 
 , will be fin- 
 ■"^^ i s h e d i n- 
 cherry, oak 
 and 8 y c a- 
 more. Every 
 bedroom will have a clothes 
 closet in connection, finished 
 in cedar aad there will be 
 linen closets off tbe main hall. 
 The third floor contains six 
 bedrooms and a bath room. 
 They will be finished in cherry, 
 birds-eye maple and oak. Sev- 
 eral of these rooms have a bed 
 alcove. The rear front of this 
 floor contains the servants' 
 rooms, which can be entirely 
 abut off from the main rooms 
 on the same floor. 
 
 The basement contains store 
 rooms, fuel rooms, laundry, 
 kitchen, pastry room, a cjld 
 storage aod vegetable rooms. 
 Every floor is arranged in 
 the most convenient manner, 
 and the residence is a beauty. 
 John H. Foster is the build- 
 ing contractor and P. J. Dal- 
 lanty has the plumbing. 
 
 A CORNER OF THE DINING ROOM 
 
THE ASHLAND DVILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 57 
 
 INTERIOR CLOTHING ESTABLISHMENT HEi.VEiNRICH & (^ O. 
 
 SALESROOM. ASHLANlJ Lll.Al; .\Mi iiM,\CCU (JO. 
 
 INTERIOR ASHLAND HAKDWAKE COMPANY S STORE 
 
 INTERIOR V It VV ul' 'Til K RAL KKT. ' SCllUTT BROS. 
 
 INTERIOR W. J. ARMSTRONG'S LIVERY. 
 
 CHAS. ORIFFITH'S COLBY HOUSE BAEBEB SHOP. 
 
58 
 
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 JO air. 
 
 EFORE many days 
 the people of Wis- 
 consia will pack up 
 their band boxes 
 and the dusty silk 
 tiles and visit their 
 cousins and aunts in 
 Chicago during the 
 Columbian Exposition. But in spite of 
 rather meagre appropriation, the Wis- 
 consin building and the Wisconsin ex- 
 hibit is going to make a handsome 
 
 the verandas which extend along the 
 entire width of the building en the east 
 and west. It has a total of 14,000 square 
 feet of floor space, and the main floor 
 has an area of 7,200 square feet. Be- 
 sides the big verand as on the east and 
 west sides of the building there 
 are semi-circular verandas on its 
 north and south sides. The visitor en- 
 tering from either of the verandas finds 
 himself in a public lobby 90 by 45 feet. 
 In this lobby, on either side of the etair- 
 
 this room will be hung with the oil por- 
 traits of the early pioneers, Indian war- 
 riors and prominent public men, such 
 as Gratiot, Juneau, Baird, Kemper, 
 Black Hawk, Oahkoeh, etc. The por- 
 traits, of coarse, will be taken from the 
 collection in Madison, On this floor 
 are also located the offices of the Wis- 
 consin World's Fair commissiontrs, and 
 the third floor is divided up into sleep- 
 ing apartments. The front and lear 
 gables which will be noticed on the cut 
 of the building, are alike, and give the 
 third floor two cosy balconies. The 
 front of the second story with its bay 
 windows and circular towers is nearly 
 all of glass, affording an abundance of 
 light for the display of the Historical 
 society. 
 
 The Wisconsin exhibit will be located 
 on the main aisle on the first floor, with 
 
 ViS4-f«siN State R'nuiiNr. . 
 
 WOHLO'S COLVMNAN FJf fTtirXHm. 
 
 showing. The building is now com- 
 pleted and was formally dedicated on 
 Oct. 21. 1892. Among the surrounding 
 state buildings finished in staff the Wis- 
 consin building looks like the only sub- 
 stantial structure. The first story is of 
 Lake Superior sandstone, and the upper 
 stories are finished in shingles of a still 
 darker red. It is pleasantly situated, 
 with a view of the Art bnilding and a 
 glimpse of the lagoon in front, South 
 of it is the Indiana bnilding and north is 
 the building of the state of Ohio. Wide 
 verandas, porticos, dormer windows, 
 etc, strengthen its appearance as a sum- 
 mer cottage, and when the Fair is 
 opened it will prove a charming stop- 
 ping place for Wisconsin people. The 
 structure has the appearance of being 
 square but it is really oblong, being ten 
 feet wider than it is long. Its ground 
 dimensions are 80x90 feet exclusive of 
 
 case, are two large fire places. On the 
 left of the lobby is a ladies' parlor and 
 toilet room, and on the right is a cloak 
 and parcel room, a bureau of informa- 
 tion, postoffice and closets. The stair- 
 way leading to the second story occu- 
 pies the center of the rear or west wall 
 and constitutes one of the leading fea. 
 tures of the interior. Broad stairs lead 
 up from the lobby to a landing, where 
 they divide, leading from the right and 
 left to the second floor. The interior 
 finish of the lobby is in Wisconsin 
 woods, set in artistically carved panels, 
 the work of Wisconsin mechanics. The 
 greatest part of the second floor is set 
 aside for a collection to be exhibited by 
 the Wisconsin State Historical society. 
 The collection will contain relics of 
 Wisconsin's pioneer diys so arranged 
 as to convey to strangers an idea of 
 what our £tate once was. The walls of 
 
 Michigau's exhibit adjoining it on the 
 east and Minnesota's on the west 
 West of Minnesota will be France, with 
 an agricultural school, at which young 
 French students will study the science 
 of agriculture and husbandry in gen- 
 eral. Directly opposite the Wisconsin 
 exhibit, on the south side of the aisle, 
 will be the agricultural exhibit of the 
 Argentine republic, and a little farther 
 east will be the exhibit of Germany, 
 Grain, cereals, tobacco, forage plants, 
 varieties of soil. etc.. will constitute the 
 Wisconsin exhibit. There is also space 
 set aside for Wisconsin in the wool ex- 
 hibit and in the honey row. It was the 
 intention of Wisconsin people to have 
 a logging camp in full operation, but no 
 space could be found. Prof. J. M, Tur- 
 ner, of Ashland, will furnish the photo- 
 graphs that adorn the bnilding, giving 
 glimpses of Wiseonsin scenery. 
 
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 59 
 
 VIEW OF W. R. SUTHERLAND'S LUMBER PLANT. 
 
 ^L-Jid 
 
 INTERIOR OF D. W. MOWATT S MILL. 
 
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 E. OARNICH. 
 
 Hnnlwaie. 
 
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 R. W PREN'CH. 
 
 Haiilwaie. 
 
 J A. WATSON. 
 
 Hiulware. 
 
 
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 O. W. DOPP. 
 
 Hardware. 
 
 liEO. W. MARSHALL. 
 
 Haidware. 
 
 LOUIS TOEPEL. 
 
 Agt. F. Millar Co. 
 
 K. F. SPE.\CEIi. 
 
 Harnfes. 
 
 a. L. SMITH. 
 
 Commission Merchant. 
 
 .1. H. YOUSKER. 
 
 A. N. W. Fuel Co. 
 
 D. .J. 8EYLER. 
 
 Novelty Iron Works. 
 
 M. EHRMANN 
 Boots :ind Shoes. 
 
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 .1. I. LEVY. 
 
 Ash. Cigar <Sr Tob. C'. 
 
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 £a 
 
 U. 11. (ilNSBlKU. 
 
 Ash. Ci^ar & Tob. Co. 
 
 •I. W. CL.^KKK. 
 
 Mnac and Stationery. 
 
 
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 C. B. EDWARDS. 
 
 Livery, 
 
 MAX FISCIIBINE. 
 
 Clothing, 
 
 ■ lOHS NELSOX, 
 
 Clothing, 
 
 I. C. SCHWAliER. 
 
 Clothing. 
 
 F. J. POOL. 
 
 Dry Goode. 
 
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 .lOHN BANNATYNE. 
 
 Dry Goods. 
 
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 USTLY regarded as 
 one of the important 
 factors in the moral 
 and spiritual advance- 
 ment of the city, is 
 the Ashland Y. M. C. 
 A. The association 
 was organized in the 
 autumn of '86, and 
 has steadily grown in strength and in- 
 fluence in spite of the many discourage- 
 ments, till it now numbers a member- 
 ship 189, possesses a property valued at 
 $9,000, and is receiving the hearty sup- 
 port of a large portion of the better ele- 
 ment in our midst. 
 
 Through the generosity of Dr. Edwin 
 Ellis, the association received as a gift 
 two valuable lots on the corner of Ellis 
 avenue and Third street, and in the fall 
 of '87 erected a modest two-story build- 
 ing, 26x86 feet. Subsequently twenty 
 feet more were added to provide bath 
 and gymnasium privileges. 
 
 More recently, to provide for a largely 
 increased membership, the interior of 
 tne building has been remodeled and 
 renovated at an expense of $1154, and ad- 
 ditional gymnasium appliances, in all 
 costin:j about $125. 
 
 The entire first floor is devoted to 
 gymnasium and bath rooms, which for 
 equipment and completeness of detail, 
 are surpassed by only a few associations 
 in the state, outside of Milwaukee. The 
 second floor is divided into four well- 
 lighted and neatly-furnished rooms of 
 commodious dimensions, and consist of 
 parlor, reading and correspondence 
 room, library, game and class room, 
 and an additional class and music room. 
 The reading room is generally sup- 
 plied with papers and periodicals, whicn, 
 with correspondence material, are free 
 to every visitor. The library contains 
 497 volumes of choicely selected book s, 
 also (largely) the gift of Dr. Ellis. The 
 use of library, games, etc., are reserved 
 to members of the association. 
 
 Dr. Edwin Ellis is the highly-esteemed 
 president of the association, and to whom 
 more than to any other one person is 
 due the credit of its success. The other 
 officers, J. F. Scott, vice-president; Jas. 
 Ritchie, secretary, and C. E. Street, 
 treasurer, are representative business 
 men, and their re-election is commenda- 
 tion enough in itself. The newly- 
 installed general secretary, L. E. Ma- 
 comber, has manifested his fauuliarity 
 with and adaptation for association 
 work, and under his energetic manage- 
 ment all departments are moving on 
 well. Mr. A. S. Amee, from the Madi- 
 son street department, Chicago, gives a 
 part of his time to the physical work of 
 the association and shows his judgment 
 in giving drills too difficult for none. 
 
 ASHLAND S Y MCA BUILDING 
 
 This (Ifpartmeiit is the most jopularin 
 tlip work. 
 
 The Liadies' Auxilliary, umier the di- 
 rection of Mrs. Boynton, and the Y. M. 
 C. A. Band, under the leadership of 
 Geo. Cole, each in their own way have 
 contributed not a little to the success of 
 the work and are deserving of .high 
 commendation. 
 
 The objects of the association 
 are too well known to re- 
 quire enumeration in this brief 
 Hrticle. It covers a field of activity dis- 
 tinctively its own, 
 and the vast amount 
 of good that has been 
 accomplished eternity 
 alone will reveal. The 
 faithful, zealous, con- 
 secrated efforts of its 
 loyal friends have not 
 gone unrewarded and 
 the future holds more 
 of promise than at any 
 time in the history of 
 the society. More 
 men and more money 
 would easily'render it 
 T)08sible for the asso- 
 ciation to rank among 
 the best in the state 
 in point of utility and 
 power. 
 
 Any young man, 
 regardless of religious 
 belief, is entitled to 
 become a member of 
 the association upon 
 the payment of $.5. 
 This admits him to 
 all the privileges of 
 the association, in- 
 cluding baths, for one 
 year. 
 
 The plans for the 
 coming year are ev- 
 en more e 1 a b o rate 
 than those of any 
 previous year. The 
 business men have 
 come to cjnsider the 
 Association a necessi- 
 ty for the city. 
 
 VIEW OF SECOND STREET, ASHLAND, LOOKING EAST, 
 
62 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 C. A. LAMOBEDX. E. F. QLEASON. 
 
 W. F. SHEA. 
 
 A. F. WBIOHT. 
 
 W. I,. WINDOM. 
 
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 3. Q. CX)PKMAN. W M. TOMKINS. 
 
 GEO. F. HERKILL. GEO P. ROSSMAN. 
 
 O. H. FOSTBB. 
 
 BEN S. SMITH. RICHAKD SLEIGHT 
 
 A. R. HEAD, 
 
 .1. F. DUF'UB. 
 
 A E. DIXON. 
 
 JOE COVER. 
 
 J. H. DOCKKRY. 
 
 JAS M Ci l.i.i . 
 
 OEO. H. M'CLorD. ED(1AR FOSTEK. 
 
 A ©roap of Ashland Attorneys. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNLfAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 63 
 
 
 
 'So -is V cr i 
 
 £alce SKcrc DVtacKine Shops. 
 
 
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 ^.INDNESS, courtesy 
 and just dealing on 
 the part of employ- 
 ers invariably re- 
 sults in efficiency on 
 the pnrt of the em- 
 ployes of any insti- 
 tation. XhJH has te-n the policy of the 
 Lake Shore r ad, and the result is seen 
 in the work done. The Milwaukee, 
 Lake Shore & Wtstern railroad shops 
 were the first erected in Ashland, hav- 
 ing been built in 1887. All the build- 
 ings are of brick, with elevated roof, 
 insuring perfect ventilation. The ma- 
 chine shop is ItiOxeO, the blacksmith 
 shop 91)k60, and the boiler house 26x40. 
 Fifty men are employed. Wm. H. 
 Hogan is superintendent of the machine 
 shops, which position he has held since 
 the erection of the shops. 
 
 The heads of the diflfareit da- 
 partments at Ashland are: C. H. Hart- 
 ley, superintendent of division; F. O. 
 Tarbox, trainmaster; E. F. Rjynolds, 
 superintendent of bridg€s; M. Shrank, 
 superintendent of ore docks; R. French, 
 T. Feeney andjE. Randall, roadmasters; 
 Wm. H. Hogan, superintendent of ma- 
 
 chine shops; Thos. Kennedy, jardmas- 
 ter; J. A. Cody, chief train dispatcher; 
 J. O. Bell, J. Fitzgerald and J. 
 Caughlin, train dispatcher^; J, Downie, 
 chief clerk superintendent's ofBce; J. P. 
 Murphy, head clerk, machine shops. 
 At that time he wa? but 28 years of 
 age, one of the youngest superintend- 
 
 ent* in ihe United S'^tes. He is re- 
 garded as without a pear in the state. 
 The new electric line entends past the 
 Lake Shore shops, so that employes 
 there are only a few minutes ride from 
 the central part of the city. The 
 region about the shops is quite a little 
 city in itself, being thickly settled with 
 employes of the shops and of the road. 
 Mr. Hogan is one of the most efficient 
 men in the employ of the company, hav- 
 ing been a locomotive engineer for nine 
 years, and has been in charge of the 
 round bouses at Kankanna and at An- 
 tigo. The shops form an important 
 pirt of the industries of Ashland, em- 
 ploying a large number of men. 
 
 GENEBAL VIEW OF MACHINE SH 'Pi, M , L. S. & W. 
 
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 C.H.HARTLEY. 
 Divisiou Superintei dent. 
 
 K. O. TAKBUX. 
 Train Master. 
 
 WILLIAM H. HO'iAN. 
 Supt. Machine Shops. 
 
 M. SHRANK. 
 Supt. Ore Docks. 
 
 F. C. HAZARD. 
 Station Agent. 
 
 IMbl'.li.iK M1.W 'If THE MAC Hl.NE SHi-rl',. 
 
 VIEW OF THE M., L, 8. & W. ROUNDHOUSE. 
 
64 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 !^- 
 
 The Superior Brov/nstone £o. 
 
 m 
 
 
 ITHIN the memory 
 of the present gen- 
 eratiun, the erecting 
 of stone buildings 
 was confined to 
 those with large 
 means. Tlie quar- 
 rying and shaping into the finished jiro- 
 duct ippiesented a large outlay, and 
 this narrowed its usefulness. Bnt rota- 
 tion is Natute's remedy. The pick as the 
 means of quarrying was discarded for 
 
 twenty-three j'ears ago, and it was 
 n3ed in the Milwaukee court 
 house. Before its acceptance by 
 the building committee it was 
 subjected to the most critical examin- 
 ation by the best geologisi and 
 architectural engineers — men of known 
 reputation and ability, and the result 
 was its adoption. This was the first 
 effort to place Lake Superior brown- 
 stone before the public, and determined 
 Its vi'lue as a building stone. The fol- 
 lowing is a report to the building com- 
 
 stone has developed a crushing test 
 7,800 pound;) per square inch.] 
 
 "The following table will show how 
 this stoiie compares with other sand- 
 stones used for building purposes, in 
 this coaatry and in England. 
 
 Pounds 
 
 AqiiinCreBk. Maryland 1,860 
 
 Senecu Sall«ist<)ne, Maryland 2,691 
 
 Bass Island I I.jike Superior) Wisconsin 6,426 
 
 York Kuuils. England 2,125 
 
 Withhy. Kngland 2,374 
 
 Portland. Lnglaud ___ 4,670 
 
 Humble. England 4.616 
 
 Cragleith, England 6,253 
 
 Yorkshire ^Crtnnwell stone) England... 8,826 
 
 [It will be seen that only two have 
 
 greater strengtii than onrs.] 
 
 "The strength of the Lake Superior 
 brown s^indstone being thus shown to 
 be ample, it remains to inquire whether 
 its porosily is such as to impair its dura- 
 bility. This was also tested in a very 
 careful manner by Mr. G. Bode, of this 
 city, in the method adopted by the com- 
 missioners appointed to examine the 
 stone to be used in the Parliament 
 
 A SECTION OP THE SDPEftlOR BROWNSTONE QUARRIES AT BASS ISLAND 
 
 the steam channeller and steam drill. 
 Saws, lathes and numberless other ma- 
 chines tor the shaping of stone were 
 brought forward, and the result was 
 the quarrying of stone as a business 
 venture in response to an increased and 
 reliable demand. It became as any 
 other commodity. It entered into the 
 daily needs of the masses. A machine 
 did the work of a score of men, but the 
 etone cutters' trade was still in the 
 ascendant. The demand increased, and 
 with it the demand for his services. 
 The first Lake Superior brown stone 
 shipped from this region was quarried 
 on Bass Island in the quarries now 
 owned and operated by the Superior 
 Brownstoue Company. This was over 
 
 mittee by the well known geologist and 
 engineer, Dr. Lapham: 
 
 "The Bass Island (Lake Superior) sand- 
 stone having now been fully tested as to 
 its power to resist crushing, its porosity, 
 and as to its chemical composition, I am 
 able to give a more correct and reliable 
 opinion as to its suitableness for the 
 facing of the walls of the new court 
 house than that expressed in my letter 
 to you of Januarj' 9th last. 
 
 "The strength of the stone is found to 
 be such as to require a pressure of 5,426 
 pounds per square inch to crush it — a 
 strength much more than is required for 
 the purpose of our court house. The 
 test was made under the direction of 
 Prof. Joseph Henry, Secretary of the 
 Smith<(Onian Institute, at tlie Navy 
 Yard, in Washington. 
 
 [Since the above report was made the 
 quarry has been worked deeper and the 
 
 House, London, in lti39. This method 
 and the results are explained in the ac- 
 companying paper, from which it ap- 
 pears that the Lake Superior sandstone 
 has only about the same absorptive 
 power, and in other respects com- 
 pares favorably with the Ohio sand- 
 stone, which is quite extensively used in 
 many of the larger cities in the north- 
 ern states and in Canada. 
 
 "The Bass Island stone, brought 
 here for the court house, has been anal- 
 yzed by Mr. Bode, with the following 
 result; 
 
 Silica 73.62 
 
 Lime - 10.78 
 
 Alumina . 
 
 Iron 
 
 Sulphur 
 
 Magnesia.. . 
 
 Manganese.. 
 
 Loss 
 
 8.81 
 3.77 
 2.00 
 .25 
 .63 
 .14 
 
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THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 65 
 
 In view of all the facts in the case, I 
 cannot but recommend that fhe contract 
 contemplating the use of the Lake Su- 
 perior sandstone be carried out, care 
 being taken to select the best of the 
 Btone, and to see that they are properly 
 dressed and placed in the wall. "Very 
 respectfully, I. A. Lapham." 
 
 In the same connection Prof. Hall, of 
 Albany, N. Y., submitted the following 
 report: 
 
 "I have examined the specimen of 
 brown freestone left at my rooms on the 
 6th inst. The rock is a reddish-brown 
 siliceous sandstone of uniform texture 
 and free from clay seams. For the pur- 
 pose of building or for ashlar facing, I 
 regard it as a valuable and durable 
 stone. The character of the weathered 
 
 keeping it before the public for several 
 years. 
 
 Architects and engineers are a con- 
 servative class. For this reason the 
 transition from granite and limestone to 
 its more attractive and more durable 
 sister, sandstone, has been slow. But it 
 is coming. Actual tests have denion- 
 strateJ its superiority and the next few 
 years will see this industry one of first 
 importance in Northern Wisconsin. 
 The Milwaukee court House whs the 
 first building erected from the product 
 of this quarry, tollowed by St. Paul's 
 Church in 1883, and the PlankiuKton 
 Bank three years later. All these build- 
 ings are in Milwaukee. 
 
 Among the later buiMings are the 
 First Methodist Church, Dulutb; Bristol 
 block, Ashland; Farewell Memorial 
 
 In the lower part of the quarry the 
 stone is remarkbly free from seams or 
 flaws of any kind and the ability to pro- 
 duce large bl cks is only limited by the 
 power of the machinery to handle them. 
 In the ordinary course of quarrying 
 blocks over eighty feet long have been 
 broken loose, and little difficulty would 
 be experienced in finding them 120 to 
 130 feet lon'4. 
 
 The company have docks in Ashland, 
 West Superior and Duluth where stocks 
 are carried the year around, and track 
 connection with all railroads touching 
 Lake Supeiior. They have equipped 
 the qnarry with the most improved ma- 
 chinery for bandhng their product, and 
 
 DOCKS OF THE SUPERIOR BROWNSTONE QUARRIES AT ASHLAKD WIS. 
 
 surface and the presence'of lichens show 
 the Blow disintegration in its natural 
 exposures. James Hall." 
 
 This was the origin of the brownstone 
 industry on Lake Superior, Its value 
 as an article of commerce was estab- 
 lished, and it only required the invention 
 and introduction of latx>r saving ma- 
 chines to cheapen the production, These 
 came in time and noted the beginning 
 of continued and active operations. For 
 several years following its adoption in 
 the Milwaukee court house, this was 
 the only quarry opened and worked. 
 But the demand increased as a reault of 
 cheapened production, and other quar- 
 ries were opened to meet it. But to 
 this one attaches the honor of establish- 
 ing tLe value of Ashland brownstone as 
 a building material, and of successfully 
 
 Parish House, Rockf ord. 111, ; M. L. S. 
 & W. Ry., depots at Ironwood, Mich., 
 Manitowoc, Wig. ; High School building, 
 Sheboygan, Wis,; Parker Block, Lincoln, 
 Neb. residences of J. H. Allen and Peter 
 Bowlen both on Summit avenue, St. 
 Paul, a block of residences on Vernon 
 avenue and another on Wa^hin^ton ave- 
 nue, St. Louis; the eiahth. ninth and 
 fifth ward schools, ana Waterman, Breu- 
 nig & Agen blocks, West Superior, Wis. 
 The present company was incorporated 
 three years ago, under the laws of Wis- 
 consin, W, H. Singer, late of the Sing- 
 er & Talcot Stone Co.. of Chicago, is 
 presiflent and general manager, and F. 
 C. Bailey is superintendant of quarries. 
 Both gentlemen have had an extensive 
 experience in the stone business, and 
 have a thorough knowledge of the needs 
 of the building public. 
 
 operate their own tugs and barges for 
 its transportation. Their aim has been 
 to establish a reputation for their stone 
 that will pass unquestioned among the 
 most critical, and not to produce an ex- 
 cessive amount of an inferior grade, and 
 force it on the market, for this would 
 only end in disaster for the industry. 
 A meritorious article means success. 
 But no amount of intelligence and 
 sagacity can place an inferior article 
 before the great world of consumers 
 well up in the details of their business, 
 and sustain a reputation for reliability 
 and business-lite methods. With this 
 end in view they ask the mo-t critical 
 examination of their capalilities and 
 metnods of grading. Architects, con- 
 tractors, engineers and builders gen- 
 erally who are interested in browstone 
 are cordially invited to call at any time. 
 
66 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAH^Y PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 T DyCineral ^alce i^umber do. Y 
 
 U.ST in proportion 
 as suchmannfactur- 
 inii institutions as 
 the Mineral Lake 
 Lumber Company 
 are developed, the 
 growth of Northern 
 
 Wibtontin pushes forward. To those 
 in older settled communities the mar- 
 velous growth of theee lumber plants 
 reads like a tale of magic. This phe- 
 nomenal development, however, does 
 something more than indicate the great 
 resources ol the country. The men who 
 have the active management in estab- 
 lishing these new plants, are men of 
 more than ordinary pluck and enter- 
 priEe. It rfquires a keen, level-headed 
 business ability to plunge into the 
 wilderness of the north. The history of 
 the Mineral Lake Lumber Company 
 would indeed be incomplete without 
 mention of the genial and popular man- 
 ager, Mr. C. M. Gardner. A few years 
 ago the task of establishing the new en- 
 terprise was assigned to him, and his 
 encceas is not alone in managing the 
 manufacturing interests, but he has 
 also handled a mammuth mercantile 
 business, and managed the West Range 
 railroad, which he has placed upon a 
 paying basis. Besides all this, be has 
 superintended very extensive logging 
 operations, having put In something 
 over 15,000,000 feet of logs this winter. 
 At times be has had charge of a small 
 army of over 500 men, and in every one 
 of the various interests he has managed, 
 he has made a success. He is very pop- 
 ular with his men, and has succeeded 
 to such an extent as to win the highest 
 esteem and confidence not only of those 
 interested in the Mineral Lake Lumber 
 Company, but also of all lumbermen 
 throughout the state. 
 
 The p^ant is one of the most complete 
 in Wisconsin, The company owns a 
 large tract of pine which is cutting to 
 good advantage. The stock is of excep- 
 tionally high grade — being the famous 
 cork pine — which is growing very scarce 
 and in great demand. The company 
 has large yards at Mineral Lake Junction 
 where it grades, sorts and seasons its 
 large stock of upper grades. During 
 the past year the bulk of its product 
 has been factory ttuS and deals. Oi.e 
 or two very large sales were made to 
 Buffalo parties and shipped via Ash- 
 land and the lakes. Mr. Gardner has 
 an able corps of assistants and bis 
 long experience in the lumber business 
 
 has peculiarly fitted him for successful- 
 ly managing extensive operations. He 
 thorontihly understands every detail of 
 the work and the prosperity of the Min- 
 eral Lake Lnmber Company in the past 
 few years is due largely to his able 
 management. 
 
 In Septem- 
 ber, 1890, the 
 Mineral Lake 
 Lumber Com- 
 pany was or- 
 ganized undei 
 the laws ot 
 Wisconsin. 
 Henry Sherry, 
 of Neenah, one 
 of the best 
 known and 
 largest single- 
 handed operat- 
 ors of lumlei- c. m. Gardner. 
 
 in tne United States, is president, J. W. 
 Cameron, vice-pre-iident, A. D. El- 
 dridge, spcretary ai d treasurer, and C. 
 M. Gardner, general manager. 
 
 nected with the work. He is every 
 inch a lumberman, having spent hU en- 
 tire life in Inmbering and the railroad 
 business. 
 
 Mr. Gardner hails from Ohio, and 
 spent a number of years in the best col- 
 leges in New York state, completing a 
 civil engineering course. He came to 
 Wisconsin in 1870 and followed his pro- 
 fession a number of years, surveying 
 and estimating throughout the Northern 
 pineries. He carried on large lumber 
 operations in Price county, and was 
 elected treasurer of Price county in 
 1887 by a nnanimoxu vote of the 
 county, and was one of the organizers 
 of the Price county bank at Fifield, and 
 was chosen cashier. He was engaged 
 by Henry Sherry in the Park Falls Lum- 
 ber & Pulp Company. In the fall of 
 1890 he was chosen general manager of 
 the Mineral Lake Lumber Company 
 and the West Range railroad. He car- 
 ried on the extensive business in so able 
 and elBcient a manner, that in May, 
 18y2, he was taken into partnership as 
 one of the company, and is now one of 
 the members of the corporation, whose 
 affairs he has so ably managed that it 
 now has a front rank in the commer- 
 cial records of the day. 
 
 The West Range Railroad. 
 
 OVER one year ago the West Range 
 railroad was completed. It is a 
 separate corporation from the lumber 
 
 £ 
 
 
 MILL OF .MINERAL LAKE LUMBER CO,, MINERAL LAKE, WIS. 
 
 Especial emphasis must be laid upon 
 the large cork pine logs and well manu- 
 factured lumber produced by this com- 
 pany. The grades are such as to at- 
 tract buyers, without any more being 
 known than the fact that Ashland cork 
 pine logs are used. 
 
 The company owns a large tract o^ 
 the very finest cork pine (which is now 
 becoming very scarce) to be found in 
 Northern Wieconsin. It is located in 
 the southwestern portion of the county. 
 
 C. M, Gardner, the general manager, 
 has had charge of the difficult task in 
 establishing the plant, and carried out 
 the enormona amount of detail con- 
 
 company and is bnilt broad guage, so 
 that connections are made with the 
 Central. The company now has ten 
 miles of track and are pushing the road 
 further west into the best lumbering 
 district in the f tate, every year. They 
 have good engines and rolling stock. 
 The company is incorporated with the 
 following officers: L. H. Cook, presi- 
 dent; A. D. Eldridge, sesretary; C. M. 
 Gardner, auperintendent and general 
 manager. They do a general freight 
 and passenger business, running regular 
 mail and express. The junction with 
 toe Wisconsin Central is located near 
 Penokee Gap, and the lumber company 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 67 
 
 has extensive yarda lof ated there. There 
 has been a good deal of prospecting on 
 the West Range for iron ore and it is 
 expected that in a few years the road 
 will tat) several good mines. At present, 
 logging and Inmber traffic is the bulk or 
 the work. 
 
 The explorations of the past few 
 months in gold and silver ore in terri- 
 tory reached by this railroad, promise 
 to build up several good towns on the 
 line of the road and the time is not far 
 distant when the road will be kept busy 
 carrying ore from numerous mines in 
 that vicinity. The earnings for the 
 past year show a handsome increase 
 over that of 1891, and the West Range 
 railroad has proven one of the most 
 Bucces^ful local railroads in the state. 
 The Village of Mineral Lake. 
 
 NORTHERN Wisconsin is dotted 
 with mwy thriving lumber vil- 
 lages, but there are none that are more 
 attractive than Mineral L^ke. The 
 lake itself is a beautiful sheet of water 
 and a paradise for soortsmen during the 
 sammermonths. The people at Mineral 
 Lake are always abreast of the 
 times, and have already maf!e adequate 
 provisions in the vcay of churches and 
 schools, and are building comfortable 
 homes. They are intelligent, thrifty and 
 energetic and will build up a thriving 
 little city. There are also a large num- 
 ber of homesteaders in the immediate 
 locality, and they are giving considera- 
 ble attention to the building of good, 
 substantial town and county roads. 
 Daring the coming summer it is ex. 
 pected that the building operations 
 will be quite extensive and in a few 
 years Mineral Lake will be a humming 
 little metropolis. 
 
 The views on these pages show some- 
 thing of the magnitude of the plant of 
 the Mineral Lake Lumber Company in 
 its various department?. It is the in- 
 tention during Ihe year to make exten- 
 sive improvements. The load of logs 
 drawn by two team? of horses is said 
 to have beea one of iheleiigest and finest 
 load of logs ever rnllea upjn bunkers. 
 
 INTEBliJR MINERAL LAKE LUMBER CO.'S STORE, MLNEBAL LAKE, WIS 
 
 YARDS OF MINERAL LAKE LUMBER CO. MINERAL LAKE, WIS. 
 
 "ON THE HAUL'" — MINERAL LAKE LUMBER CD. 
 
 LOGS AT THE BANK, 
 
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 L 
 
 ^■.jik 
 
 •«.rp 
 
 ijiy$i.i>u 
 
 Mr 
 
 RESIDENCE OF MBa. EMELINE E, VAUGHN. 
 
 RESIDENCE OF E P. GLEASON. 
 
 RESIDENCE OF F H FAYNK 
 
 EVERGREEN COTTAGE KESIDENCli Ul t,o\ . SAM S. FLFIELD, 
 
 RESIDENCE OF R. C. HEYDLAIKF. 
 
 RESIDENCE OF THOS. EDWARDS. 
 
 A ©roap of Ashland I^esidenQes. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 69 
 
 I 
 
 113 
 
 fore adding 
 
 bis 
 
 'HEN the Slate legis- 
 ts lature effected county 
 r/i^divifiion, and at the 
 moment Governor 
 Peck casually scrut- 
 inized the bill in bis 
 cosy state office, be- 
 name which should 
 make it law, and give Iron county legal 
 existence, — this vicinity was enduring 
 one of the most terrific snow storms 
 ever witnessed by the oldest citizens. 
 Iron county peopla will surely remem- 
 ber, by association of ideas, the exact 
 time when her parent county of Ash- 
 land gave her away, a new bride, to en- 
 ter the sisterhood of counties. 
 
 townships) or thirty milt-s in length by 
 six miles wide. Besides these five 
 townships, the town extends, at its east- 
 ern extremity north for six miles fur- 
 ther. The whole town contains 210 
 square miles. 
 
 THE TOWN OF JACOBS. 
 
 This town is exactly the shape of But- 
 ternut, excepting that it contains one 
 less township, owing to the peculiar 
 shape of the county. It lies .iust north 
 of Butternat. It contains four town- 
 ships extending east and west, with an 
 additional township running north of 
 the eastern extremity. The total area 
 is 180 square miles, 
 
 ASHLAND COUNTY POOR HOUSE NEAR HIGHBRIDGE, WIS. 
 
 Ashland county hardly knows itself 
 since county division. At its widest 
 point, that is on the southern boundary, 
 it is now but thirty miles wide, while 
 for the greater portion of its length, it 
 is eighteen miles wide. From the 
 southern boundary to the city of Ash- 
 land, is about forty miles. If the Apos- 
 tle Islands which belong to and are a 
 part of Ashland county are included, 
 the total distance from the southern 
 boundary to Devil's Island, which may 
 be regarded as the northern boundary, 
 is not less than eighty miles. No other 
 county in the state approaches it in 
 length by many miles. The present 
 county contains about twenty-seven 
 townships. The Apostle Islands con- 
 tain about two townships more, making 
 a total of twenty-nine townships or 
 1,044 square miles. 
 
 TOWN OF BUTTERNUT. 
 
 This town extends along the entire 
 Bonthern boundary of the county, (five 
 
 TOWN OF MORSE. 
 
 Morse remains unchanged by 
 division. It is exactly the size 
 
 county 
 of Ja- 
 
 cobs, and lies nearly north of it. It ex- 
 tends east for eighteen miles, north 
 twelve miles, west twelve miles, south 
 BIX miles, west six miles, thence south 
 for a distance of six miles. 
 
 TOWN OF ASHLAND, 
 
 This towu also remains unchanged by 
 county division. Beginning with the 
 city of Ashland, it extends soutli 
 twenty-four miles, thence east six miles, 
 north six miles, west twelve mile?, and 
 then north twelve miles to Chequame- 
 gon bay. It contains six townships 
 or yilj square miles. 
 
 TOWN OF SAXON. 
 
 The town of Saxon is cut in halves by 
 the new county division. It now forms 
 almost a square, situated in the north- 
 eastern part of the county. It contains 
 about five townships or ISO square niilep. 
 The Apostle Islands are also included 
 in this town, making its area 157 8(|uare 
 miles. 
 
 NEW COUNTY OF IRON. 
 
 The new law creating Iron county de- 
 ciibes the county and its three towns in 
 sections 5 and (J, which are published 
 in full: 
 
 Section 5. The county of Iron sliall, 
 until otherwise ordered oy the boarl of 
 supervisors of said county, consist of 
 three towns, to be known respectively 
 asthe town of Vaughn, town of Sa:<on 
 and town of Knight. The town of 
 Vauijhii shall retain the teiritorv naw 
 included in s^id town andalso townshi|i 
 No. 43 north, of range No. 2 east, town- 
 ship No. 43 nortti, of ranife ^.•Jo. 3 east, 
 township No. 42 north, of range No. 2 
 east, township No. 43 north, of range 
 No. 3 east, township No. 41 north, of 
 range No. 2 east, and township No. 41 
 north, of range No. 3 east. Tlie town of 
 Saxon shall include townships No. 46 
 north of range 1 west, 40 north, of range 1 
 east, and fractional townships No. 47 
 north, of range 1 east. All the remain- 
 ing portion of said county of Iron shall 
 be known as the town of Knight. 
 
 Section 6. The board of supervisors 
 of the said county of Iron shall at its 
 first meeting transact all business neces- 
 sary to perfect the complete organiza- 
 tion of the county, and determine upon 
 and make a suitable provision for a 
 place for holding the circuit court at.the 
 time to be appointed therefor. 
 
 ASBL.\ND COUNTY COURT HOUSE, ASHLAND, WIS. 
 
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 INTERIOR JOHN NELSONS CLOTHIMI STORE. 
 
 INTERIOR C. E BLUME's UHOtEKY .-TU*E. 
 
 INTIKIOH .r. .1. BOOTHS ASHL.\ND STEAM LAL'NKUY. 
 
 INTERIOR GUSTAFSON X PETERSON S I'ICTURE STORE. 
 
 INTERIOR S. FIELD & CO S MEAT MARKET. 
 
 INTERIOR K. W. FRENCH'S HARDWARE STORE. 
 
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 71 
 
 
 -Y "T 'T 
 
 
 Ashland's Street I^ailwau. 
 
 ^ 
 
 ! HE Ashland Electric 
 Street Railway is one 
 of the latest features 
 , ^ of Ashlaud, cars hav- 
 \]/^ i°8 been running 
 //'since February, IStCi. 
 /Four miles are com- 
 pleted now and cars 
 ought to bs running from Prentice 
 Park to Parishville, a distance of 7 miles 
 by July 1. Beginning at Seventeenth 
 avenue west the cars run to the round 
 house of the Milwaukee Lake Shore & 
 Western railroad, — a distance of thirty- 
 seven blocks, (over two and ahalf miles. ) 
 Nineteen blocks of this distance (one 
 and one-fourth miles) namely frim 
 Beaser to Stunt z avenue, is a double 
 track, making the total miles of track 
 now laid about four. 
 
 NORTHWEST GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY 
 
 The Northwest General Electric Com- 
 pany, of St. Paul, has put in the new 
 street railway under contract. This 
 compauy is a consolidation of the Edi- 
 son General Electric Company and the 
 Thompson, Houston Electric Company, 
 which has put in electric lines all over 
 the world. The territory ( f tlie St. 
 Paul branch t-xtends from Chicago to 
 the Pdcitic ocean. Its representatives 
 in Ashlnnd are Mr. J. S. Basi^ett, who 
 has charge of the track work, and Mr. 
 F. D. Siimpson, who has charge of the 
 electrical part, including overhead 
 work. The building of the power house 
 was sublet by thrs compauy. 
 
 THE POWER HOUSE. 
 
 From the big dynamos in the new 
 power hcu'e on the corner of Prentice 
 
 ELECTRIC POWER HOUSE — ASHLAND LKiHTlXG AND STREET R'Y CO. 
 
 The work to be completed on the 
 east end will be commenced in the 
 spring at Eighteenth avenue east. A 
 viaduct will be built over the Like 
 Shore tracks, and on this, electric cnrs 
 will run. Beginning at Eighteenth ave- 
 nue east, the line will run four blocks 
 directly east on Sixth street, four 
 blocks north to Second street, thence di- 
 rectly east twelve blrcks to Thirly- 
 foartb avenue east in Parishville. 
 
 When completed, the whole line of 
 track will run due east and west, on 
 Second street from Pi'entice Park to 
 Fourteenth avenue east, thence four 
 blocks south to Sixth street, eight 
 blocks west past the Lake Shore round- 
 house, thence north to Second street and 
 east to Parishville. 
 
 avenue and St. Claire street, the motive 
 power for the whole line is generated. 
 Four h'ghspeed emupound Id'eal engines 
 with a combined force of 600 horse- 
 power start the machinery moving. 
 Two railway dynamos eighty horse 
 power eacii are lelted directly to tlie 
 eiigini 3, These furnish power for the 
 cars. 
 
 The power house contains seven dyn- 
 amos. Two for the cars, three arc light 
 dynamos, fifty lamps capacity each, anel 
 two alternating incandescent machines, 
 of UtJU and 1,3U0 capacity respectively. 
 The smoke stack is 110 feet in height, 
 
 THE TROLLEY WIRES. 
 
 Tie electric company has strung up 
 over si.K and one third tons of O hard- 
 drawn copper wire, three-eights of an 
 
 DR. G W. HARRISON. 
 Pres. Ashland LiKhtiug & Street Railway Co. 
 
 inch thick. It weighs 1,800 pounds to 
 the uiiie. From Stuniz avenue east to 
 where the track is flnisbed, the wire is 
 double, to facilitate its capacity, and to 
 do away with the 'feeder." For the 
 whole distance, Octagonal poles for the 
 support of the wire have been set on 
 each side of the street, 125 feet apart. 
 A cross wire for the support of the trol- 
 ley wire extend from pole to pole across 
 the street and has a tensile strength of 
 one thousand pounds, and is strong 
 enough to support the weight of a horse. 
 Taking this fact in connection with the 
 support of the cross wires, it can easily 
 be seen that the chances for breaking 
 are very remote. It a bre ik should oc- 
 cur, an automatic arrangement at the 
 power house shuts oflE the current, and 
 there is no danger of coming in contact 
 with a "live wire." Should the cross 
 wires become loose at any time, they 
 can be tightened like the string of a 
 violin, at the poles. 
 
 THE RAILS AND TRACK. 
 
 There have been put in on Second 
 street Shanghai rails nix leches high and 
 sixty pounds to the yard. The rails are 
 tied together with the "tie-rods" every 
 six feet. Every joint is bonded with 
 galvanized wire which insures a contin- 
 uous circuit. Every other joint is tied 
 across the opposite rail in the same 
 manner, giving additional security. The 
 single track is laid with rails which 
 weigh 48 pounds to the yard. 
 
 The Street Railway compauy was re- 
 cently consolidated with the Lighting 
 compauy and it is efficiently and ener- 
 getically managed by the following of- 
 ficers and directors: 
 
 G. W. Harrison, president; Geo. F. 
 Merrill, secretary and treasurer. Di- 
 rectors: G. W. Harrison, Sam S. Fifield, 
 Geo. H. Hopper, Edwin Ellis, Thomas 
 Bardou and H. F. Balch. 
 
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 THE MREES HLOCK. 
 
 INTP-.HHiR ASm.AND KKSTAUKANT. W. S. 8UEA l'IU)l'. 
 
 ' ARMOUr 
 
 PACKING -CO. 
 
 DRESSED-BEEK 
 
 I B 
 
 THE ARMOUR I'AtKINll CO. 8 WAREHOUSE — EXTERIOR ANI> INTERIOK. 
 
 ASHLAND FOUNDRY & MACHINE CO. 
 
 INTERIOR OF CASTING ROOM. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, IHc^S. 
 
 73 
 
 ^V 
 
 i^isterical Ashland County. || 
 
 HERE is DO portion of 
 the state 80 rich in 
 historical associations 
 as Aslilaiul coumty. 
 The Jesuit priests, 
 Rayuibaut and Jo- 
 gues, reached the 
 v_>-v^ ■ falls of St. Mary in 
 -:^^^^3^2> 1641, and in 1658 two 
 daring traders penetrated the wilds as 
 far west as Keewenaw Point, but it was 
 not until 1665, that Father Claudius Al- 
 louez reached Chequaruegon, where he 
 found about 1,000 Indians gathered in 
 bands scattered along the shores of the 
 Day. On the shore near Pike's creek, or 
 as tradition will have it, on Madeline 
 Island, he built his rude chapel. Father 
 James Marquette arrived in 1069, and 
 remained at the LaPointe mission two 
 years. From 1671 to 1841, a period of 
 170 years, the country was deserted by 
 priests and traders and wholly given 
 over to the Indians. In 1841, Father 
 Baraga re-established the ujission at La 
 Pointe, closely followed by Rev. Samuel 
 Hall, who established the first Protestant 
 (Presbyterian) mission school. In 1845, 
 Rev. Leonard H. Wheeler removed the 
 Presbyterian mission to Odanah. 
 
 The territory of Northern Wisconsin 
 was purchased of the Chippewas in 1842 
 and by a further treaty with the govern- 
 ment in 185-1, the six reservations of the 
 (Ashland) LaPoinie Indian agency were 
 set off. 
 
 The scliooner Beaver was the first ves- 
 sel to navigate Lake Superior, anchor- 
 ing and wmtering at LaPointe in 1811. 
 Captaiu Bayfield of tlie British navy 
 made the first coast survey in 1821-25 in 
 the schooner Bullfrog, The American 
 Fur Company built the first sail vessel, 
 the schooner Siskowit in 183SI. 
 
 Ashland was Settled in 1854 by Aseph 
 Whittlesy and George Kilbuurne, fol- 
 lowed shortly after by Martin Beaser 
 and Edwin Ellis. Mr. Beaser was an 
 ardent admirer of Henry Clay, and 
 named the thriving young village Ash- 
 land, after the great Kentuckian's home. 
 In 1854 Edwin Bllis and others lail out 
 Bay City, now known as Ellis' division 
 ot Ashland. 
 
 Owing to the great financial crash in 
 1857, Ashland village was almost de- 
 serted, its citizens removing to Bayfield, 
 Ontonagon and other points alone the 
 Great Lake. 
 
 Honorable S. S. Vaughn arrived at 
 La Pointe in 1852, afterwards living at 
 Bayfield, and removing to Ashland in 
 1871. From 1859 to 187u, only one 
 family, that of Martin Roehm, re- 
 mained on the townsite of Ashland. The 
 btiilding of the Wisconsin Central rail- 
 road revived the drooping fortunes of 
 
 the young city, and by 1873, it contained 
 1,000 inhabitants. Ashland was made 
 the county seat during that year. 
 
 The present county of Ashland was a 
 part cf Michilnackinac county 
 from 1818 to 1826, of Chip- 
 pewa county from the latter date 
 to 1838, of Crawford county for 1838 to 
 1840 and of St. Croi.'c county for the 
 next five years. La Pointe county, 
 embracing the present counties of Iron 
 Ashland, Bayfield and Douglass was 
 formed in 1845. The county seat was 
 removed from La Pointe to Bayfield 
 which caused the La Pointers to become 
 disgruntled and largely by their efforts, 
 Ashland conntv was formed by an act 
 
 of the legislature, March 27th, 1860, 
 with La Pointe as the cipitol. By a 
 vote of the pt'ople. Ashlani was made 
 the county seat in the fall of the same 
 year. 
 
 The Ashland Press was established by 
 Sam S. and H. O. Fifield in 1872, and 
 it is therefore the pioneer paper of Nor- 
 thern Wisconsin. It was changed into 
 a daily in 1887. Schools were opened in 
 Ashland in 1872, with Thomas Bardon 
 and W. F. Kittridge as teachers. The 
 Wisconsin Central Railroad came to 
 Ashland four years later, also the 
 first telegraph line between Ashland 
 and Milwaukee was completed. The 
 Hotel Chequamegon was erected in 1877 
 and the piesent couit house was built 
 the same year. Ore shipments to Ash- 
 land began in 1885, the Milwaukee, 
 Lake Shore & Western railway having 
 been completed into Ashland this same 
 year. The great coal docks were built 
 in April 1887. The Ashland Iron and 
 Steel company's charcoal furnace was 
 finished the same year. 
 
 IK 
 
 LONE ROCK — ONE OF THE APOSTLE OROUP. 
 
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 BEN. O <.Vir,KINfi. C E. BLCME, 
 
 Mfrr. W. r. Telegriiph Co. (Jroceriee and Confeotioner.v. 
 
 J K VAN DDOSER. 
 Real KHtateniul I.omds. 
 
 A. B 
 
 Itpnl Kst.jite 
 
 NOBLR 
 and Insiiffinc 
 
 .riHN H UURCH, 
 lU-al Estate and luHiiraDce. 
 
 
 
 
 THOM.VS EDWARDS, 
 Ash. I-imc, Salt iV CiMiient Co. 
 
 H. D. WEED, 
 
 I>rag^8t. 
 
 ED BURTON. 
 Contractor. 
 
 JOHN C. ROKHM, MARTIN RDEIIM 
 
 Moat Market. OUleut Resident in AHhland. 
 
 N NKWMAN. 
 Ileavenrich & C".. Clothinii. 
 
 T C SMITH, 
 t'ndertaker. 
 
 TH0M.A8 TKLFORD, STEVIi H SMITH, 
 
 Groceries. 
 
 W. ,1. CONNER, 
 of A. P. Conner * Co. 
 
 N. 6. SOPEK, 
 Laundry & Carriage Works.. 
 
 W. S. SHEA, 
 Avbland Restaurant. 
 
 DR. N. BOOTH, 
 Snrgeott Dentist. 
 
 .1. H. LANG, 
 
 Mgr. Associated Ice Co's. 
 
 A. L. MORSIO, 
 Steam Heating & Plomblng 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 75 
 
 ^sKland's Tublic Buildino 
 
 '/K 
 
 ^HE city of Ashland 
 r has one of the most 
 > beautiful jublic 
 buildings in tlie state 
 of Wisconsin. Con. 
 ^1V<^>.-^ S^S= gress recognized the 
 ^'llhfc^isL— CJ . imp irtance ot the 
 •Uarland City of the 
 llnlaidSea" with an 
 ^aiJiTiipiiatiim of one 
 hunrireil tlumsaud dollars for the erec- 
 tion of a public liuildiiiL;- in Ashland. 
 Work was actually liegun Au^'ust 15, 
 1892. It must be entirely completed by 
 Noveuiber 15, 1898. According to the 
 specifications a-" iai 1 down by Uncle 
 Sam. all the materials are the Vest that 
 money can buy. 
 
 ¥7K¥ 
 
 tile. There are two entrances for the 
 pullic, one flora .Secon<l street and the 
 other from S xth avenue west. Tbe 
 first entrance leails into tl)e general de- 
 livery dtp rtuient, while tlie second 
 one leads to the money order and stamp 
 ilepartnient. The two moms cimmun- 
 cate by a ball. Everything is fire 
 proof. 
 
 signal station and in taking meieologi- 
 cal observations. 
 
 A BROWN3TONE STKUCTURE. 
 
 The new buildiug is built of native 
 broWMStoup, procured from rjuarries ad- 
 j icent to Ashland. Ttie steps are built 
 of St. Cloud granite. The basement 
 rests on a foundation of orick set in ce- 
 ment. The entire structure is backed 
 with brick and faced with brownstone. 
 
 COURT ROOM. 
 
 Thegovernuient has made no arrange- 
 ment for a Federal Court room 
 and it is more than probable 
 that an addition will have to be built in 
 a short time, as tliere is no doubt that 
 theFederal^Court will soon hold sessions 
 in Ashland. 
 
 The plans were drawn by Govtrn- 
 ment Architect E Idebrook and the con- 
 tract for construction was let to Forster 
 &Smith of SaultStB Marie. Thelocal 
 superintending architect was H. P. Pad- 
 ley, of the firm of Conover, Porter & 
 Padley of tbis city. 
 
 The site was purchased 
 of the county for a nominal 
 sum and the building pro- 
 per will cost nearly s9.">,000. 
 
 
 THE DIMENSIONS. 
 
 The distance from the basement to 
 tbe apex of the tower is exactly one 
 hundred feet. To the roof, the height 
 is fifty-eight feet. The first story is 
 eighteen feet in height, the second 
 story fifteen feet and the third story 
 eleven feet. 
 
 THE BASEMENT. 
 
 The basement contains the heating 
 apparatus, the lavatories and other ap- 
 paratus for the use of the post office 
 employes. The fioor is made of cement. 
 It is commodious and roomy, being the 
 exact size of the building. 
 
 THE POST OFFICE PROPER, 
 
 The first floor is entirely devoted to 
 ppst office purposes. None of the fix- 
 tures of tbe old post office will be used. 
 The government furnishes an entirely 
 new set of fixtures, of the latest im- 
 proved patterns. The floor is laid with 
 
 THE NEW GOVERNMENT BUILDINO AT ASHLAND. 
 THE SECOND FLOOR. 
 
 The second story contains seven 
 rooms, each about sixteen feet eight 
 inches by twenty-one feet ten inches. 
 These rooms will be occupied by the 
 Indian agency, the Register and Re- 
 ceiver's offices of the U. S. land office, 
 and by the collector of customs. This 
 story contains several vaults. The 
 floor is of hardwood. 
 
 THE THIRD FLOOR. 
 
 The third story contains five rooms, 
 each about 18Vx22. They are elegantly 
 furnished after the manner of the second 
 story. This will be occupied by such 
 other offices as the government may 
 decide upon. 
 
 THE TOWER, 
 
 A windiiig stair elaborately panelled 
 from the postoffice to the top of the 
 tower, one hundred feet above. A room 
 and balcony at the top will be used as a 
 
 A beautiful view of Chequamegon 
 bay and the Apostle Island is obtained 
 from the building. Tbe court house 
 square will be maile into a beautiful 
 park, with handsome shade trees and 
 siatuary. The park surrounds the new 
 liuilding on tliree sides. It is expected 
 to have the post office and all the federal 
 offices located in the new building be- 
 fore December of this year. An 
 additional appropriation is badly needed, 
 to make the building adequate 
 to even the presents demands, and it 
 is thought that our Congressman Hon. 
 Thos. Lynch will be successful in secnr- 
 tbe required an,ount at the next session 
 of Congress. The honor of securing 
 the building belongs to Hon. Myron H. 
 McCord, and Ex-Senators Spooner and 
 Sawyer who will be kindly remembered 
 by the patriotic citizens of Ashland for 
 their energetic efforts. 
 
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 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 liESlDENCE (U 1) \V MOWATT. 
 
 RES'DENCEOK DB. TNO. MAr)DEN. 
 
 INTERIOR DRUG STCiRE, HARRISON & CO, 
 
 INTERIOR J. W. CLARKE S BOOK AND MUSIC STORE. 
 
 RESIDENCE OF T. E. PCOH. 
 
 RESIDENCE OF HON. L. C. WILMAKTH. 
 
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 Tis ^*^^ ^^^ ^'$ ^^ ^v ^Av ?J^"v "^-^ °^^ 
 
 SHLAND can boast 
 of the largest dock 
 ' devoted exclusively to 
 Lime, Salt and Ce- 
 ment of any city on 
 Lake Superior. The 
 frontage owned by 
 the company is 150 
 feet bordering on the 
 91 foot slip on Sixth avenue west, next 
 to Keystone Lumber Company. The 
 main dock is located 2,000 feet from 
 
 Returning back to the shore we pass 
 a substantial wagon approach 700 feet 
 long, when we come to where the 
 Vaughn dock was located. This has 
 been entirely rebuilt, ■'JDxoOO, for the 
 storing of stone and is the most substan- 
 tial dock work ever put upon the bay, 
 the piling being on an average of joist 
 6x14, 10 inches apart and bnilt to hold 
 np a tremendous weight. 
 
 Fifty by a hundred feet of this part 
 has been leased for a term of five years 
 
 the very best of fire brick, costing $50 
 per thousand. There are four fire places 
 two built in on each side of the kiln 
 where the firing is done, and slabs are 
 nsed for fuel. The height of the 
 kiln proper is 37 feet, and an incline 
 track is used to take the stone to the 
 top of the kiln. As the stone is put in 
 at the top and the lime drawn out at 
 the bottom every six hours, the fires are 
 never put out except when repairs are 
 necessary. The oflBcers of the company 
 are: O. A. Qnam, president; Thomas 
 Edwards, secretary and treasurer; di- 
 rectors: C. A. Sheffield, O. A. Quam, 
 C. P. Christiansen and Thos. Edwards. 
 
 The company has two independent 
 railroad tracks, built and owned by 
 themselves, one to the main dock and 
 one to the lime and stone dock which 
 places them in position to deliver in 
 
 DOCKS OF THE ASHLAND LIME, SALT & OEUBNT CO., ASHLAND, WIS. 
 
 shore, being li!5 by 304 feet in size, with 
 a sunken railroad track running 45 feet 
 from the east line. 
 
 The section east of the railroad track 
 is covered by ware houses with fire 
 proof roofs, one 45 by 150 for the stor- 
 ing of pocked salt, cements, stuccos and 
 hair; and another salt shed, 46x154, for 
 the storing of salt, which enables the 
 company to ship nice, clean salt, at all 
 times of the year —a great improvement 
 over storing salt on open docks, and will 
 undoubtedly be a great help in obtain- 
 ing orders for the com pany. 
 
 The section of the dock west of the 
 railroad track, 80x304, is leased to the 
 Ohio Coal Company for a term of years 
 for the storing of coal. 
 
 to the Lake Superior Brownstone Co. 
 We then arrive at the part used for 
 storing Kelly Island Lime Stone shipped 
 from Kelly Island, in Lake Erie, and 
 find several cargos of bottom rock lime- 
 stone in stock, enough to carry them 
 over until navigation opens up this 
 year. 
 
 SHIPMENTS FOR 1892. 
 
 Salt, barrels 60.000 
 
 Cement, barrels 2,50) 
 
 Staeco. barrels BOO 
 
 Fire brink 125,000 
 
 Fire clay, pounds 300,000 
 
 We now arrive at the lime kiln, 
 which stands on 11)4 piles driven into 
 the ground from 12 to 14 feet, covering 
 a space 18x31 feet, then comes a 12 foot 
 solid wall of brownstone, and above 
 that the steel shells which are lined with 
 
 cars to the Omaha and the Wisconsin 
 Central railroads, free of switching 
 charges, which has been such a burden 
 to the shippers at this point. 
 
 The main dock has been completed, 
 and used all summer, and the company 
 has forwarded from seventy- five to one- 
 hnndred cars of salt and cement per 
 month, and now that the lime works 
 are completed, shipment will increase. 
 But it remains to be seen what the 
 railroads will do in the way of making 
 rates on manufactured products out of 
 Ashland. Of course looal trade will take 
 a large part of the lime turned out, as 
 it makes a much better and stronger 
 wall than the Wisconsin lime sold in 
 this market. 
 
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 i^ake Superior (Loal (Lompariy. J 
 
 
 I HERE is not another 
 coal dock on Lake 
 Superior, or any of 
 the Great Lakes, 
 more complete in de- 
 ^ tail than the Lake 
 ]^gj.^^ Superior Coal Com- 
 ^?~~"^ pany'B dock, at Ash- 
 land. The latest and most unproved 
 machinery for nnloading and handling 
 the large receipts of coal, extraordinary 
 shipping facilities, and ample capacity 
 for storage, are features which give this 
 dock considerable; prestige, in the whole- 
 
 dock is 400 feet deep at the widest 
 point. Two railroad tracks run its full 
 length, and are conveniently located for 
 the loading of cars fur shipments. 
 
 Hunt's improved machinery for un- 
 loading boats is in use, this automatic 
 system being the only one in use on 
 Lake Superior, with the exception of 
 that located at the Lehigh decks, at 
 West Superior. 
 
 Most of the coal received by the com- 
 pany is shipped to the Gogebic range, 
 where the great iron mines are supplied 
 A large portion is shipped to Minne- 
 
 J. S. Joue^, the president. Is also a 
 member of the firm of H. D. Turney & 
 Co , who own and operate the famous 
 Congo coal mine, in the Hocking valley. 
 It is one of the best equii pad coal 
 mines in existence. Electricity is used 
 in operating the mining machinery, as 
 well as in furnishing light. They also 
 cjeratethe "XX" mine, at Sliawnee, 
 Ohio, another famous mine of the Hock- 
 ing valley. Mr. Jones is aho president 
 of the Manitowoc Coal & Dock com- 
 pany. 
 
 One hundred and thirty-two vessels 
 were unloaded at .the dock here last 
 season,— discharging a total of nearly 
 200,000 tons of coal,— haid and soft. 
 The rapidity with which some of these 
 vessels was unloaded is surprising. 
 
 There are five nnloading towers 
 now in operation, and thirty tramways, 
 — ample equipment for giving the best 
 possible despatch. 
 
 C. W. ADAMS. 
 Manager, L. a. Coal Co, 
 
 sale coal trade throughout the north- 
 west. 
 
 It was in 1887 that the docks were 
 built, J, S. Jones, the present presi- 
 dent of the company, was then superin- 
 tendent of the northern division of the 
 Lake Shore railroad. In 1S88 a large 
 addition was built, and in 1803 anolher 
 addition was added, makine; the dock 
 one of the largest on the lake. There is 
 storage capacity for about 100,000 ti)n8 
 of coal, and two of the largest Inks) car- 
 tiers can unload at the dock at the same 
 time, there being an actual water Jr out- 
 age, for nnloading, of 617 feet. The 
 
 UNLOADINU COAL AT THE L. S. COAL CO.'S DOCKS. 
 
 sota, also South Dakoto, Nebraska and 
 Iowa. The Lake Shore railroad is also 
 supplied by this company. The large 
 retail trade in Ashland is increasing 
 rapidly, — in fact, the whole business of 
 the company has increased fifty per 
 cent during the past year, under the 
 new management. 
 
 The Lake Superior Coal company, 
 properly, is an Illinois corporation, 
 with the general office located at Chi- 
 cago. All the shipping interests of the 
 company, however, are confined to 
 Ashland, 
 
 The company handles Hocking valley 
 soft coal, also Pittsburg and Smithing 
 coal, and are sole agents, in territory 
 tributary to Ashland, for the Philadel- 
 phia & Reading company's hard coal. 
 The annual pay roll of the company 
 is $50,000. on average employing 45 men. 
 
 Mr. C, W. Adams, manager of the 
 Ashland interests and treasurer of the 
 company, is experienced and thorough- 
 ly conversant with the coal trade in all 
 its details, and is especially well known 
 to the coal trade throughout the north- 
 west. He haa been in the coal business 
 in Ashland for the past six yeara. 
 
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 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 W. R. SUTHKRLANB, 
 
 1 ,11 in I »t>f M H inlfa.-t 11 riT. 
 
 W R. DIRFEE 
 
 l.iimln.T Maniifartiirpr. 
 
 D. W. MOWATT, 
 
 l.iiiiibi-f MariiifHi-tiinT. 
 
 E. A. SHORES, .IK . OEO. H JOHNSON, 
 
 Shores I. iiiiibiT f'o. Shores l.nmbcrCo. 
 
 C M. K M'Cl.INTOCK 
 
 InsptM'tor ;iii<l .Shipppr 
 
 F. 8. STHrBLK. 
 ln>»|m<'lor and Shiitpor. 
 
 OHAS. CROOSTER. 
 
 .li)lit)i'-iiiHl Shipper. 
 
 .1 E. IRVINE A. K. OIFFORl). 
 
 ln«fientor. Wosht'iirii. Rep. T. H. SUe|pliard A Co., Chgo. 
 
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 A WEED, 
 
 .miibf'r Mannra*;tvirer. 
 
 N. BOUTIN K. \. M CORMK K 
 
 lla.vflelil. l.uniheniiaii. Mtrr. .Norl li Wit. I.. Co. Hayward. 
 
 D. L WIOOINS, 
 
 luspet-tor and Shipper. 
 
 C. P CLARK. 
 i)f Kimball * tiark. Kimball 
 
 P, W HARRIS. 
 
 Sotltli Shore I.. Co Waslibiira. 
 
 n. A. YOI'MANS, 
 Seiy Itrnio LmnberC'i 
 
 .TAMES HOCiHES, J. H. REDDKN. 
 
 .Mgr. Brule I,iiiiiber Cfj. \'ii-e PreM, Rnile Luuilier ( 'o 
 
 FKED A. COPELAND, 
 Pre^. Itrule I.iiinber Co, 
 
 Some of the Representative Lumbermen of Northern Wisconsin. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 81 
 
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 I^ecord of the ©uarries for 1S92 
 
 •!S^. 
 
 UILDING stone 
 that combines 
 strength, durability 
 and beauty is eagerly 
 sought for by contrac- 
 tors and builders. 
 -., Ashland brownstone 
 ' !\'>t;'".f is famed throughout 
 the United States. Its 
 like is found nowhere 
 Of a rich, 
 
 ^' 
 
 m^®f^)ip^ 
 
 else in Uncle Sam's domain. 
 
 Bay and on the Apostle Islands are 
 practically inexhaustible. Col. JohnH. 
 Knight expressed the matter concisely 
 io a speech before a committee of the 
 state legislature, in February, 1892. In 
 speaKing of the great brownstone mono- 
 lith lying in the quarry near Ashland 
 the Colonel remarked that never in the 
 history of the world, has such a tall, 
 perfectly flawless stone been quarried. 
 "It would be worth more to put that 
 
 The total product of the seven quar- 
 ries for the season was as follows: The 
 figures, in almost every instance, were 
 obtained from the books by the differ- 
 ent firms and are therefore reliable and 
 accurate: 
 
 SKASON OF 1892. 
 
 Cubic ft. 
 
 I'iviiiii'6 Prownatdlii' Co 750 000 
 
 Superior ItrownHtone Co .110 000 
 
 Asblniid Briiwnstoiii- Co 0»3 000 
 
 Smith A BalicMifk 1X5 000 
 
 Exrolsior ijuarry 150 000 
 
 Hartk'j Bros l:« OOO 
 
 It. I). Piki- 103 lOO 
 
 Totnl L' :;i:i fW 
 
 Granite in Ashland County. 
 
 THE Brownstone is a sand formation, 
 and while it is more plentiful than 
 any other variety, igneous rocks abound 
 south of Ashland. The forces that 
 formed the Gogebic iron range, depos- 
 ited large quantities of granite. Silver 
 
 BROW.N STONK SAW MILL, rRENTICE BROWN STONK CO., HOIOHTON, WIS. 
 
 brownish red color, indestructible and 
 unchangeable in all kinds of weather, 
 it has qualities for building purposes 
 possessed by no other stone. . Public 
 buildings in Brooklyn, New York, 
 Chicago, Milwaukee and other promi- 
 nent cities are evidences of the estima- 
 tion in which it is held, while the Ash- 
 land government building, the Knight 
 block, the Wisconsin Central depot and 
 other local buildings are standing mon- 
 uments of its popularity at home. The 
 quarries on the shores of Chequamegon 
 
 marvelous monolith on exhibition than 
 any other exhibit this state could have 
 at the Columbian exhibition. It would 
 be the greatest thing this legislature 
 could do to make the state known. Col. 
 Knight said that the Great Northern 
 railroad had sent an emissary to the 
 Ashland and Bayfield quarries to make 
 an estimate of the stone deposits, and he 
 represented that there was enough 
 brownstone to load four trains a day for 
 4,000 years. This is wealth without 
 limit. 
 
 and copper are found throughout var- 
 ious portions of the New Wisconsin. 
 Some of the finest granite ever pro- 
 duced has lately been quarried in Ash- 
 land county, and is on exhibition in 
 Ashland, Extensive granite quarries 
 may be looked for in the near future. 
 The brownstone is found nearly entirely 
 on the shores of the lake and Chequam- 
 egon Bay, while granite and other rock 
 are found all through the region of the 
 Gogebic iron range, extending nearly to 
 Ashland. 
 
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 THE ASHLAND DAH^Y PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 RESIDENCE OF J. W. OABR. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 83 
 
 $ >^sKland and its libraries 
 
 o^io^o)?;^ o^?l(o o)° fo^lo <o 7E<o °^ 
 
 and organized what is known as the 
 "Ashland Library Association." The 
 object ot this association as stated in 
 the preamble of the constitution was 
 " Mutual Intercourse and Improvement 
 Through the Collection of a Library, 
 the Establishing of a Reading Room, or 
 by any other means that may be found 
 Advantageous. " The first meeting of 
 the association was held on November 
 6, 1872, and at a subsequent meeting 
 the constitution and bylaws were 
 adopted and signed by the following 
 persons: S. S. Fifield, W. T. Kittredge, 
 Geo. H. Kennedy, ThosBardon, Nathan 
 W. Goodwin, Geo. White, D. R. Davis, 
 W. W. Rich, H. O. Fifield, W. P. 
 Preston, E. C. Davis, J. M. Davis; R. 
 Shoeland, B. F. Bicksler, A. C. Meigs, 
 C. H. Pratt, Chas. Hayes, S. O. Cundy, 
 Emanuel Aronstein, R. W. French, E. 
 F. Princ3, S. S. Vaughn, Chas. Fisher, 
 W. M. Tomkins, Edwin Ellis, M. J. 
 Hart, W. R. Davey, W. G. Bancroft, 
 Alexander Livingston and E. Garnich. 
 The association held regular weekly 
 meetings during the greater part of 
 three years, and each one was very in- 
 structive and entertaining. Debates 
 on the leading questions of the day, 
 music, essays, lectures, oration?, papers, 
 etc., were the order of the programs and 
 a great deal of interest was taken in 
 them. 
 
 The library and reading room were 
 not established until some time after 
 the organization of the association, for, 
 with the weekly programs, each one had 
 enough to do, and while the interest in 
 meetings was maintained there was no 
 pressing need for the other branch of 
 work. But as the town continued to 
 grow and business became more press- 
 ing, the association saw that tlie pro- 
 posed library and reading room would 
 be of more benefit and would reach a 
 Urger class of people than the weekly 
 meetings. 
 
 The first books were purchased by the 
 association, they appropriating about 
 one hundred dollars from the treasury 
 for that purpose. The library .vas kept 
 in the town clerk's office and W. M. 
 Tomkins was the first librarian. 
 
 From time to time books were do- 
 nated by members of the Association, 
 and the ladies also contributed towards 
 its support by giving suppers and enter- 
 tainments, so that tbe library, from the 
 start, was a very prosperous institution. 
 The membership fee was fixe 1 at $3 50. 
 the yearly dues at |1, and a life member- 
 ship cost the applicant ^35. The books 
 cover a wide range of literature; history, 
 biography, travels, science, philosophy, 
 tiction, etc., were well represented, and 
 the library was well patronized. 
 
 ISE men of all ages 
 have spoken of the 
 value of books. Shake ■ 
 speare says, "My li- 
 brary was dukedom 
 large enough." Whip 
 pie calls them "light- 
 houses erected in the sea of time. " In 
 olden times, before the art of printing 
 was invented, a book was a rare pos- 
 session, and was prized by its owner 
 above all else. All down the ages the 
 number and character of the books 
 possessed by a people has been the cri- 
 terion by which we judge of their civ- 
 ilization. "Knowledge is Power, " civi- 
 lization advances directly in proportion 
 to the increase of knowledge, and books 
 are the principal vehicles by which 
 knowledge is diffused throughout the 
 land. 
 
 Libraries are great store houses of 
 learning, — the preservation of all that is 
 valuable from the past ages as well as 
 from the present time, in a condensed 
 form for the use of the people of today. 
 The good a library does a community 
 can never be overestimated. Thousands 
 of people who have acquired a taste for 
 learning have been able to gratify their 
 desires through this source, and to make 
 noble men and women of themselves, 
 who otherwise would have been forced 
 to remain in ignorance. Succesjful busi- 
 ness men everywhere can trace their po- 
 sition directly to a taste for study grati- 
 fied by the public library and the ris- 
 ing generation of today is acquiring a 
 power frotn this source that is destined 
 to rule the affairs of the world in the 
 years to come. 
 
 Many people imagine that Ashland is 
 far behind the times in her library in- 
 terests, but a little careful investigation 
 will convince them that they are mis- 
 taken. Ashland is as well provided in 
 this respect as any city of its size in the 
 northern half of the state. Besides the 
 many private libraries owned by her 
 citizens, which are much too important 
 to be overlooked, Ashland has three 
 public libraries, well stocked with a 
 choice collection of books, and growing 
 larger year by year as the needs of the 
 public demand, These libraries are the 
 Vaughn, the Y. M. C. A., and the pub- 
 lic school library. 
 
 THE OLD TOWN LIBRiRY. 
 
 Ashland has never since its pioneer 
 days been without the beneficient in- 
 fluence of a library. Away back in the 
 '703, when the city was nothing but a 
 settlement, when the pine stump held 
 undisputed sway in the present main 
 street, and the forest primeval reigned 
 supreme where Third street now runs; 
 the citizens realizing the need of some 
 institution of this kind, held a meeting 
 
 In those days the people knew how to 
 appreciate goo i books, the country being 
 a new one, and but sparsely settled, the 
 social duties that demand so much of 
 the epiire time of those who live in cities 
 were almost wholly wanting, so these 
 early settlers found many of their even- 
 ings unoccupied, so they naturally 
 turned to books for entertainment. 
 This library proved a boon to them, 
 Many of the poorer classes were with- 
 out books and tbe means to get 
 them, who yet possessed as great a taste 
 for learning as anyone, If it had not 
 been for tnisinstitution they would have 
 been deprived of that great blessing, the 
 gratification of their desire for learning. 
 For about two years the library con- 
 tinued to circulate books, and during its 
 most prosperous days it numbered as 
 jiany as 600 volumes. But during the 
 year '76 the town started a library and 
 the Association after due deliberation 
 thought best to turn their library over 
 to the other one. This was accordingly 
 done, and as social and business cares 
 began to occupy more of the attention 
 of the members of the Association the 
 regular weekly meetings were also aban- 
 doned. 
 
 Many ot the members of the old As- 
 sociation have left the city for other 
 fields of usefulness, others still re- 
 main and compose the majority of our 
 most substantial citizens, and still an- 
 other portion of them have laid aside 
 their earthly cares, and have gone to 
 joiu the vast host beyond the river. 
 
 The new library, situated in the town 
 clerk's ofBce, was very prosperous, and 
 continued to grow steadily year by year 
 as the town increased in size. It was 
 very popular with all classes, its books 
 were in constant demand, and tliose that 
 are left of them today show this fact 
 very plainly by their worn and battered 
 condition. 
 
 This library continued in force until 
 about the time the Vaughn library 
 was opened, then as it was completely 
 overshadowed by the superior advantage 
 of the new library it gradually fell into 
 disuse and was soon after turned over 
 to the High school and forms the 
 nucleus of iheir present library. 
 
 The good the old library association 
 and afterwards the town library has 
 done this city can never be measured. 
 Hundreds of our citizsns might testify 
 to their beneficient influences and to the 
 valuable aid these institutions have 
 been to them. Books are powerful 
 agencies in the promotion ot good or 
 evil and when they are of the best olass, 
 as the books of these libraries were, the 
 whole community is made better and 
 each individual citizen grows nobler and 
 more useful. 
 
 The above interesti ug early history of 
 Ashland Libraries was written by Li- 
 brarian W. W. Baldwin, of the Vaughn 
 Library. It may not be amiss to add 
 that Mr. Baldwin is one of the most 
 thorough and systematic librarians in 
 the state, and that no city can boast of 
 as thoroughly equipped and well man- 
 aged institution as the Vaughn Library, 
 the heir of historical and pioneer inspira- 
 tion.— [Ed.] 
 
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 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS-ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 'tr 
 
 -o^eNj®^ 
 
 1 ^sKland's "WTater cupply. 
 
 F T H E R E is one 
 tliiug that isaJraw- 
 back to c o m lu e r- 
 cial atid and indus- 
 trial interests of any 
 city it is a meagre 
 supply of p o t a bl e 
 wattr to its people. 
 And, on the other 
 hand, nothing can contribute such sub- 
 stantial and progressive elements to the 
 growth of a city as an ample supply of 
 water. 
 
 The city of Ashland will never lack 
 for water, so long as there is any of that 
 necessaiy article in Chequamegon Bay 
 and Like Superior. Until the lake goes 
 dry, a water famine will never be ex- 
 perienced. Every lime the clock ticks, 
 ten gallons of pure, cool water are 
 drawn from the depths of the bay, a 
 mile out from the shore. Sis hundred 
 and twenty-five gallons per minute, 37,- 
 500 gallons per hour and '.100,000 gallons 
 per day. These are the figures that rep- 
 resent the amount of water used daily 
 in the city. But this is not the whole 
 capacity, for while less than a million 
 of gallons is used each day, over 4,OC0,- 
 000 can easily be supplied in case of es- 
 traoidinary demands, caused by file, or 
 for any other reason. 
 
 Ashland's water system was put in 
 18S3, local parties i-eing largely the 
 stockholders. Since that time, the 
 plant has grown wonderfully. The 
 property changed hands recently, being 
 now controlled by Boston capitalists. 
 Messrs. Wheeler and Parks, represent- 
 
 ing the Boston capitalists, made the 
 purchase of the plant in .Tnne, \S9\, and 
 since the change of ownership ^100,000 
 have teen put into the institution, some 
 fourteen miles of mains have been laid. 
 
 ly twenty-fonr and sixteen inches in 
 diameter, beginning a mile from shore, 
 and running into wells at the pump 
 house, from which the pumps take suc- 
 tion. 
 
 Here, at the foot of Twelfth avenue 
 east, the water flows through two great 
 distributing systems all over the city. 
 One twelve-inch artery carries the wat- 
 er east and west, and the other, a six- 
 teen-inch one, extends south to the cen- 
 ter of the city, and then turns west. 
 Thes9 two main arteries are connected 
 by eight, ten and twelva-iach distribut 
 
 PUMPIStl S.TATION' — ASBLAND WATER CO. 
 
 and the efficiency of the whole system 
 has been made more effective. Mr. 
 Sam Wheeler is superintendent, and is 
 a popular and energetic representative. 
 Ashland's water supply is taken from 
 the bay ly two intake pipes, lespective- 
 
 INTKUKiK ri liriNl.; :^TAT10N— ASHLAM> WATER (.\)' 
 
 ing pipes, interlaced by six-inch mains 
 through all the streets for use of con- 
 sumers and fire hydrants. No pains nor 
 expense has been spared in this connec- 
 tion. 
 
 The pumpirg engines are of the Gas- 
 kill compound condensing type manu- 
 factured by the Holly Manufacturing 
 company, of Lockport, N. Y. There 
 are no steam fire engines in the city, to 
 be heated up and dragged to a fire, but 
 in case of a fire, 100 pounds of water 
 pressure to the square inch is furnished 
 in one and a half minutes from the 
 sounding of the electric fire alarm gong 
 in the pumping station, and upon sig- 
 nal from the chief of the fire depart- 
 ment, this can be increased quickly to 
 120 and 150 pounds. 
 
 Under this system a sufficient pres- 
 sure to cope with any ordinary confla- 
 gration is ready for the firemen before 
 they can reach the locality of the fire, 
 and in ca;e of necessity the pressure can 
 Instantly be increased. 
 
 The water from Chequamegon bay is 
 remarkably pnre, and free from animal- 
 cnlre or bacteria, which has been proven 
 time and again by chemical analysis. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 85 
 
 INTERIOR I. P. NEWTON S SAW SOLL. 
 
 THE BAILEY BBQWN STO.VE BLOrK. 
 
 INTERIOR M. EHRMANN A CO S SHOE 8T0BE. 
 
 INTERIOR STEVE H. SMITH 8 QROCBRY STORK. 
 
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 <P Ashland's Building I^ecord. <5 
 
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 ^^^^idie^mmmi^m^me^T^ 
 
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 y 
 
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 -'■i 
 
 )atter balf of the 
 may p:opei]y be 
 termed the era of 
 town building. A 
 tree tora out by 
 its roots was the 
 incident that led 
 to t li e discovery 
 of iron ore on the 
 great Gogebic 
 range. This dis- 
 covery resulted in 
 establishing A s fa- 
 land as the great 
 est shipping port 
 and manufactur- 
 ing ct-nter on Lake 
 Superior. This 
 
 UILDING a city is 
 one of the modern 
 jicieiices. It is dis- 
 tinctively an Ameri- 
 can science. In a few 
 years thriving busi- 
 ness and commercial 
 centers spring up to 
 meet the demands of 
 new sections. The 
 nineteenth century 
 
 the I'niteil States can show amore 
 healthful growth in as many successive 
 years. The record for 1892 has been 
 obtained from authentic sources and 
 witn considerable care. It surpasses 
 that of any previous years; 
 Kesideiices Schools and Churches.. $ 890,420 
 
 Putilic Improvpmeiits 347,240 
 
 Factt»rit's and il(M*k iiiipr<»vinents 49(i.:M0 
 
 Public Bnildiiie and Business blocks 2.50,000 
 
 Grand Total Improvements 1892 $1,984,000 
 
 l>i early two millions of dollars invoai- 
 ed in improvements during one year is 
 a record to be proud of for 1»93. 
 
 The record for the past seven years 
 makes a splendid showing for the 'Gar- 
 land City of the Inland Sea." 
 
 IHS.'i % 2S3.500 
 
 188« 881.300 
 
 1887 1.220.-90 
 
 1»H8 921.356 
 
 188» 1.090.19J 
 
 I8»« 1.131.082 
 
 1891 1.378.300 
 
 1892 ». 1 «84.0(W 
 
 T. E. PCGH. 
 
 Contrailor nnd Builder. 
 
 J DILLANTV, 
 Pluiiilicr. 
 
 Total i !i.«8-.'.498 
 
 This makes a showing not equalled 
 by any city of the i^ame population and 
 ( f course it is not all builiing improve- 
 ments, but manufacturing, industrial 
 and public improvements. It has been 
 something of a laborious task to collect 
 these statistics but they are given with 
 autheniticity and the different branches 
 are specified. 
 
 , In anaylyzing 
 
 the improvements 
 for 1MI2 it will be 
 seen that the in- 
 crease over iy91, 
 —the largest pre- 
 vious recjtd — is 
 $(;u3,700. Of this 
 amount nearly 
 three fourths of it 
 IS represented in 
 homes. The fol- 
 lowing is a list of 
 Ashland contrac- 
 tors at present: 
 Egan & Callaghan, 
 T. E. Pugh. Sher- 
 man T. Murphy, 
 B. W. H a r p e r. 
 
 •JOHN W. CARK. 
 
 Contracrtor and Hiitlder. 
 
 
 
 DAN. EOAN, 
 (jODtractor, Egan & Callaban 
 
 was less than a 
 decade since. Year 
 after j'ear the 
 growth of Ashland 
 has been steady 
 and substantial as 
 well as marvelous. 
 Handsome b u s i- 
 ness blocks, schools 
 churches, acade- 
 mies and factories 
 have kept pace 
 with the demands. 
 The figures show- 
 i n g the increase 
 to be indeed marve- 
 lous. No city in 
 
 GKORQE CALI.AHAN, 
 Contractor, Kj?an Jc Callolian, 
 
 FKAXK TO.MLINSON, 
 Contractor. .\. Donald ,t Co 
 
 ( 
 
 .JOHN 
 Cont 
 
 II FOSTER, 
 ractor. 
 
 4kk 
 
 H. r. PADLEY, 
 .Architect 
 
 JOHN W. FOSTER, 
 A-ohitect. 
 
 AUCHIE DONAJ.U. 
 Contractor, .\. Donald ,^ Co. 
 
 Scott, Hubbell & 
 Taylor, R. J. Bur- 
 rowSjG. D. Brown, 
 A. J. Grant. Geo. 
 Charters, H Hur- 
 bert, D. Cmnell, 
 John W. Carr & 
 Co., masons and 
 contractor s and 
 dealers in brick. 
 Archie Djnald & 
 Cj.. a. H, Oakey, 
 stone contractors. 
 Architects, Con- 
 over, Porttjr & 
 Padley, John W. 
 Poster. Plumbers, 
 P. J. Dullanty, A. 
 L. Morse, Ashland 
 Pin m b in g Co., 
 Pdrrin & Corson. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 87 
 
 INTERIOR Y. M. C. A GYMNASini. 
 
 INTERIOR MILLINERY STORE GLEA80N & C<>. 
 
 RESIDENCE JAMES BREEN. 
 
 INTERIOR AMERICAN ESPitESS COMPANY'S OFFICE. 
 
 INTERIOR P. J nUl l.ANlY's PLUMBINO ESTABLISHMENT. 
 
 INTERIOR BEEMAN & BOWMAN'S MACHINE SHOPS. 
 
88 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 <p vC^shland's U 5. land ©ffice. <p 
 
 ■ '^., laud, which the 
 
 
 SHLAND'S land dis- 
 trict contains 400,000 
 , acres of unsettled 
 gov- 
 rnment offers for 
 practically nothing to 
 Mi^j^'w/^vTi^^ home-seekers. Well 
 "' "^ '-^r'^^k!^ watered, covered with 
 valuable limber, containing valuable 
 quarries of .building stone, with thou- 
 sands of acres of rich alluvial soil, this 
 district presents attractions for those 
 seeking land possessed by few regions 
 in the west. 
 
 The Ashland laud district extends 
 from the state of Michigan on the east 
 to Minnesota on the west, a distance of 
 ninety-six miles, and 
 from Lake Superior, on 
 the north, south for sev- 
 enty-eight miles. 
 
 and other game abound. A few trees 
 are cut down, a few stumps are dyna- 
 mited into fragments, a few seed pota- 
 toes are dropped into the pit where the 
 stumps were, and an enormous return is 
 assured. Farm life in Wisconsin woods 
 is not all pleasure, but it is far from 
 being ,ill drudgery. 
 
 The federal land oflBce was located in 
 Superior in 1856, being removed to Bay- 
 field three years later. In 1887, it was 
 removed from Bayfield to Ashland, 
 where it will remain as long as there is 
 any government land remaining in 
 Northern Wisconsin. 
 
 The registers of the land office, since 
 its removal to Ashland, have been A. 
 
 A line of 2UU men, headed by a woman, 
 stood night and day for over a week, 
 exposed to the winter snows, and when 
 the windows of the land office were 
 opened at nine o'clock on the morning 
 of the 27th, a rush was made, that beg- 
 gars description. Within a few days, 
 30,159 acres of land had been taken. 
 These scenes were repeated with inter- 
 est two months later when the forfeited 
 Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Oma- 
 ha lands were thrown open to settle- 
 ment. At this time, a line consisting at 
 first of about 100 men was formed ia 
 the rear of the land office. It rapidly 
 increased in numbers, until on the day 
 set for opening the lands to settlement, 
 there were no less than 1,000 men in 
 line. During these three weeks, the 
 line was unbroken night or day, Tents 
 were pitched on the grounds, but those 
 in line were forced to remain in place, 
 on pain of losing their cliances, — as 
 much as ^5 being paid for'the services 
 of a temporary substitute at times. 
 The excitement was so intense that a 
 special force of police 
 was sworn (in, and the 
 Governorjwas requested 
 to be ready to furnish 
 
 R. C 
 
 Ilt'ceiver, 
 
 This rt-gion, oiupris- 
 ing 7,488 square miles is 
 tributary to Ashland, 
 and is capable of fur- 
 ishing homes for 60,528 
 farmers, on the supposition that each 
 man would enter eighty acres of land. 
 Of the 4,792,320 acres in the Ashland 
 land district, the 400,000 acres now re- 
 maining open to settlement, will with- 
 in two or three years support 5,000 fam- 
 .ilies. Land hunters need not go to the 
 Dakotas, or other states of the west for 
 homes. In the Ashland district, every 
 section is well watered. Timber is only 
 too plentiful. The terrible droughts 
 which are the curse of the states of the 
 plains are unknown here, and the voice 
 of the grasshopper is unheard in the 
 land. It only needs eighteen dollars to 
 secure a homestead. A comfortable 
 house can be built for a song. The 
 streams that run by the door of nearly 
 every settler's house teem with 
 brook trout, black bass and pike. Deer 
 
 VIEW OF SECONU STKEET, LOOKINU WEST— SHOWING U. S. LAND OFFICK, 
 
 K. Osborne, G. W. Carrington and the 
 present incumbent, Henry Besse. Mr. L. 
 T. Boyd was receiver under President 
 Cleveland's administration. R. C. 
 Heydlauff holds the ofifije at present. 
 The present location of the office is on 
 the second floor of the First National 
 bank building, but it will be removed 
 to the second floor of the government 
 building in November, 1893, 
 
 LAND EXCITEMENT OP 1891. 
 
 The opening of the forfeited Wiscon- 
 sin Central lands to settlement in the 
 month of February, 1891, was a scene 
 of weeks of unparalleled excitement 
 in Ashland, 
 
 For three weeks before the date of the 
 opening, the city was thronged with 
 men and women from different parts of 
 WiBCOnsin, Minnesota and Michigan. 
 
 HENRY BBSSB. 
 Kpffistf-r. r. S. Land Oltiee. 
 
 1 loops if necessary. The 
 city authorities adopted 
 the novel expedient of 
 making arrangements 
 for turning the hose on 
 the mass of humanity should it change 
 into a mob. Several shooting scrapes 
 occurred. Two rival lines were formed, 
 and bloodshed was threatened, Abont 
 twelve hours before the time set for 
 opening the land office windows for re- 
 ceiving applications, a telegram was re- 
 ceived from Secretary Noble, ordering 
 the opening to settlement postponed in 
 order to avoid bloodshed. In Novem- 
 ber of the same year, the lands were 
 finally opened, 28,48t acres being dis- 
 posed of within a few days. 
 
 The following summarized table of 
 figure 8 gives some interesting facta re- 
 garding the Ashland district: 
 
 AHEA ASHLAND LAND DISTEIOT. 
 lenpth in nillea 78 
 
 Witlih in miles . 
 
 Sipiare nillen 
 
 A'TOfl in ihn liUtrlct.. 
 
 M 
 7.488 
 4.79:,3a) 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 89 
 
 Worf)Worf)MO(hb>c 
 
 ^sKland dountii Farms. 
 
 
 E C E N T develop- 
 ments indicate that 
 in addition to t h e 
 400,000 acres still 
 left in the Ashland 
 land dietiict, there 
 are at least two In- 
 d i a n reservations, 
 and possibly four, which will undoubt- 
 edly be thrown open to settlement with- 
 in the next fonr years. The prospects 
 
 unless that immediately at Bayfield be 
 excepted. Tuere are two deeply inden- 
 ted portions of the shore which are shel- 
 tered by the Apostle Islands and vfill 
 afford ample protection for vessels dur- 
 ing the moat violent storms. Aside 
 from this, the prominent pirta of the 
 shore line are noted for their brown- 
 stone cliflEs, 
 
 The Bad River reservation extends to 
 within a distance of six miles of Ash- 
 
 All these lands are rich in minerals 
 and pine timber, and when cleared off, 
 raise astonishingly large crops of pota- 
 tof 8, vcheat, oats and hay. The Indian 
 lands, when opened to settlement by 
 congress, will make a total of 672,000 
 acres, which may be acquired for prac- 
 tically nothing from the government. 
 The blithest price paid under the timber 
 and stone act, is |2.50 per acre. This 
 includes such lands,— as has been held 
 by the U. S. district court of Oregon, — 
 as are not valuable at the present time 
 for farming purposes on account of be- 
 ing covered with limber or stone. In 
 every case, the lands so acquired, con- 
 tain thousands of feet of valuable pine, 
 while the soil consists of a fertile loam 
 mixed with red clay, especially adapted 
 to wheat raising. To acquire a home- 
 
 HOMESTBAD NEAR IROS RIVER, WIS., OX U. S. INDEMNITY LANDS RECENTLY OPENED FOR SETTLEMENT, 
 
 are that they will be opened to settle, 
 ment when congress meets next Decem- 
 ber. The reservations referred to are 
 the Red Chft, Bad River, Lac Court 
 O'reilles and Lac du Flambeau, embrac- 
 ing an aggregate of271,750 acres. 
 
 The Red Cliff reservation is about 25 
 miles from Ashland and contains 11,4.')7 
 acres. There is some talk that this 
 reservation will be thrown open for en- 
 try during the present year. The part 
 forming the Shore line of Lake Superior 
 baa the best harbor on the south shore. 
 
 land. It contains 124,3.3iJ acres, which 
 will be opened for settlement at the 
 same time as the Red Cliff lands. The 
 Lac Court O'reilles reservation, with 
 06,136 acres, and the Lac du Flambeau 
 reservation, in Oneida county, contain- 
 ing 69,829 acres are expected to be 
 opened about the same time. These 
 four reservations contain 2,992 Indians. 
 They will bp allotted their portion, but 
 there will be many thousand acres left 
 over, upon which the white man has his 
 eye. 
 
 stead, the sum of $18 must be paid at 
 the government land office, and five 
 years' residence ia required. 
 
 The local land office officials have 
 made out papers for 1,174 homestead ap- 
 plications, in which 140,880 acres of land 
 have been entered, — within the past two 
 years. Not one homestead has been 
 abandoned after entry. There have 
 been H'63 cash entries, during the same 
 time, covering 39,660 acreB. During the 
 last two months 131 timber and stone en- 
 tries were made, covering 10,400 acres. 
 
90 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 C. O. PAIGE, 
 
 GrocerK*8. 
 
 WM. KBLLOGG, 
 
 Of Hardoti. Kpllojr^r A fo. 
 
 B. .a. BUCHANAN, 
 
 <;roivri*'K. 
 
 ALEXANDER E. PORTER. 
 
 Star (Jrocftry. 
 
 E M. KRPLEK, 
 
 Stiir <troc»T.v. 
 
 C. W. AD.\MS. 
 M>?r. Lnke Suporinr Timl c. 
 
 T. C. SCHriT, 
 Notions 
 
 A. SfHlTT. 
 Notions 
 
 CHA8, GRIFFITH*. 
 'olhy llouj"? Harber Shop. 
 
 CHAK. LiVY, 
 Model Clothinjc: House. 
 
 G. W. CABRINGTON. 
 Surve.vur. 
 
 .M. J. GRAMMONT. 
 Cifrar Mnnnra<turpr 
 
 .7 O. MARTIN, 
 Mirr N. W Mercant lie Co. 
 
 WALTER FITCH 
 0( N. W, MercsDtile Co. 
 
 GEO. W. MIARS. 
 Snpt. Ohio Coal Co.. Docks, 
 
 F. B. aODDARD, E. E. DAVIS, 
 
 Sec. Pre»tice BrowiistoiieC'ii. Siipt. Excelsior B. S. Quarry 
 
 A. QDINAND, 
 •loweler. 
 
 JOHN SPRING, 
 Hnbertlasber, 
 
 W. C. MORRIS, 
 Ashland Lighting Co. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRES&— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 91 
 
 £. £. TKompsoR dumber £o. 
 
 o)oM (»o(pt9 o(qP)o(c 0)o(a 
 
 F 
 
 ORTY-FIVE million 
 feet of lumber makes a 
 mammoth stock (one 
 not familiar with the 
 lumber business can 
 hardly conceive of its 
 magnitude) but snch 
 is the annual capacity of the C. C. 
 Thompson Lumber Company's plant at 
 Washburn. It is one of the most com- 
 plete lumber institutions on Chequame- 
 gon Bay^and its product has added^very 
 materially in increasing the total out- 
 put^of this'.distiict dur- 
 ing the past few years. 
 The saw-mill'proper con- 
 tains a ,band, gang and 
 cir cular saws, two 
 doable edgers, two trim- 
 mers, slashers, steam 
 niggers and steam-feeds 
 and in fact, has a thor- 
 oughly modern equip- 
 ment. Its daily capac- 
 ity, for a ten hour run, 
 is 175,000 ft. In connec- 
 tion with the saw-mill 
 is also a shingle and lath 
 mill. The entire plant 
 ia lighted with electric- 
 ity, the source of supply 
 being two dynamos of 
 Weston manafacture. 
 
 The company is com- 
 posed of.men who have 
 made the lumbering 
 business a life study in 
 all its departments, and 
 there are none more com- 
 petent or experienced. 
 The President of the 
 company, Mr. C. C. 
 Thompson, has been es- 
 tablished in the lumber- 
 ing business for the past 
 thirty years atd all its 
 secrets are as an open 
 book to him. The Sec- 
 retary and Treasurer, 
 Mr. C. F. Thompson, Jr., 
 has been connected with 
 the lumber trade for the 
 past twelve years, re- 
 ceiving his early educa- 
 tion in that line in Chi- 
 cago, where both officers 
 reside. 
 
 The company do their 
 own logging. The^past 
 season they gave em- 
 ployment to forty teams 
 and two hundred men, 
 
 making quite an army ia itself. They 
 own considerable stumpage and have 
 cut some of the finest cork pine timber 
 from their lands, ever brought to this 
 bay. 
 
 The mill is conveniently located at 
 Washburn, on Chequamegon bay, with 
 excellent facilities for shipping stock 
 either by water or rail. Their docks 
 have a capacity for ir>,000,000 feet of 
 lumber and the depth of water around 
 the docK is ample so that vessels can 
 lo d to their fullest capaui'y without 
 
 LOOS ON SKillS— C V IHOMPSOX LUiMBEK id. WaSHKI UN, WIS. 
 
 DOCKS OF THE C. C. THOMPSON LUMBER CO., WASHBl'KN, WIS 
 
 lightering. They have also > ard room 
 for piling 1"), 000, 010 feet, making the 
 total piliag room 30,000,000 feat. 
 
 The placing mill run in connfction 
 with ihe saw mill, has a daily capacity 
 of tiO,000 feet and it, also, is thoroughly 
 equipped and capable of doing all kinds 
 of work. Three million fast of lumber 
 was dressed and shipped by rail this 
 winter. 
 
 The Company also own the Schooner 
 "Jack Thompson" which runs on Lake 
 Michigan between Menominee and Chi- 
 cago. The Thompson Bros. Company, 
 of Chicago, is a connection of this com- 
 pany, handling part of the product of 
 the Washburn institution. Mr, C, Q, 
 Thompson and Mr. C. F. Thompson Jr. 
 being respectively the President and 
 Secretary of that company. 
 
 It was in January, 1889, that the C, C. 
 Thompson Lumber Company was or- 
 ganized, sncc3eding the 
 C. C. Thompson & Wal- 
 kup Company and it is 
 just such institutions 
 that have materially 
 assisted in building up 
 the large indcstrial in- 
 terests of the "New 
 Wisconsin." 
 
 On this page we give 
 views of the docks of 
 the C. C. Thompson 
 Lumber Company at 
 Washburn. A view of 
 logs from one of their 
 camps is also given, 
 showing that their pro- 
 duct ranks with the very 
 best in the market. The 
 mill has been thoroughly 
 overhauled this winter 
 and considerable new 
 machinery put in so 
 their facilities for man- 
 ufacturiug lumber ia un- 
 excelled. On one of the 
 pages devoted to Wash- 
 burn manufacturing in- 
 stitutions we give a view 
 of their mill. 
 
 The intention ia to 
 make their plant one of 
 the permauent institu- 
 tions of the "New Wis- 
 consin." The Company 
 is fortunate in having 
 au aggressive and ener- 
 getic management and 
 during the coming sea- 
 son will run night and 
 diy shifts and eclipse all 
 former records in the 
 amount and method o£ 
 their product. Their 
 facilities are thouroughly 
 modern in all their ap- 
 pointments. The water 
 and rail advantages for 
 shipment are unexcelled. 
 
92 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 NLY a few years a?o, 
 Ashland was alto- 
 gether a buyer in the 
 commercial world. 
 Now, over a hundred 
 commercihl traveling 
 men, with silk half, 
 sail out under Ash- 
 1 a n d colors. It has 
 become one of the most important 
 wholesale and jobbing centers in the 
 Lake Superior region. The rapid strides 
 made in this direction during the past 
 five years are truly marvelous. It was 
 Carlyle who remarked that a city's im- 
 Ijortance was measured by its com- 
 merce,— as a supply point, In this fea- 
 ture Ashland takes position as one of the 
 largest supply points for the great 
 northwestern commerce. The Great 
 Lakes have become the great avenue 
 through which the commodities pass. 
 Trade from the great northwest, being 
 constantly developed, converges as nat- 
 urally to the "Big Sea Water," as wa- 
 ter seeks its level. 
 
 The city now has something over fifly 
 wholesale jobbing houses, while as a 
 lumber market, Chequamegon bay is 
 the center of operations for the product 
 of over half a billion feet of lumber 
 every year. 
 
 During the past three years the fig- 
 ures show an astonishing increase. 
 Briefly summarized they are as follows: 
 
 Whole.sale and Hanufacturing 
 
 McatN 
 
 Lumber 
 
 IlrownHtone 
 
 Liiinurt) 
 
 Boer 
 
 SaHh, doors and Idlnds 
 WafToiiH. currijiKen. etr 
 
 ("iprarn and tobarco 
 
 Furniture 
 
 Salt, i.ime. Cement and bricks!!!!!.!!! 
 
 Coal 
 
 Marbinerv manufactured 
 
 OIIm. ete ;. 
 
 Hardware and iiunhiiiery 
 
 ProvlbioiiH. t-l 1 
 
 Flour '_ 
 
 Vig Iron . .' 
 
 Feed 
 
 (ieneral Uercbandlse 
 
 BottliDff Work.s 
 
 Miseellanlons 
 
 Trade. 
 
 * i.sio.onn 
 
 ■.'..■)(Jf,0(ii 
 
 :i:T,,(iO" 
 
 .MO,(i i> 
 .':.',';,i (Kl 
 :i'Hi.(f(io 
 
 IG.Oi) 
 -■oo.OOfl 
 
 .•|'.(C0 
 
 lUO.bOl 
 
 1.800.(00 
 
 425.«()0 
 
 SO.OOO 
 175,000 
 
 t:!.0(0 
 
 Sl'.400 
 7:',-..0 
 
 .'•..'•,.•.•00 
 X'!1,.V.':' 
 
 JO.OOO 
 
 ■-'(1.000 
 
 lirand Total. 1892 $ 9 599 12' 
 
 Crand Total, ISUl 8,487>.0« 
 
 Tnereaee , $ 1,111, .522 
 
 land as a wholesale point. Nearly all 
 of the supplies are received by way~f 
 water and shipped out by rail. 
 
 The Lake Superior Beef Company. 
 
 THERE are no more e.xtensive dis- 
 tributing centers for dressed meats 
 in the country than Ashland. Although 
 there »re no packing houses Iccated 
 here, the meats are sent to Ashland al- 
 most in solid trains of refrigreator cars 
 and disiributeJ throughout Northern 
 Wisconsin and the upper peninsula of 
 Michigan. Id July, 1888, Swift & Co., 
 of Chicago, located a branch house in 
 Ashland under the name of L^ke Super- 
 ior Beef Co. This firm of Swift & Co. 
 is too well known throughout the 
 Unite'! Stales to need aoy mention here, 
 but 81 ffice to say that their meats and 
 prcdnct.s are considered as standard 
 throiighdut the Lake Superior country, 
 88 a gold dollar. They give their trade 
 the very choicest of cuts direct from 
 their Omaha house. They have a stor- 
 age cnpacity of five cars, and do aa an- 
 
 WAREHOUSE OF LAKE SUPERIOR BEEF COMPANY. 
 
 The unexcelled dcckage fa- 
 cilities and the enormous oat- 
 put of iron, lumber and brown- 
 stone forms the basis for this 
 unparalleled growth. All of 
 the towns in Northern Wiscon- 
 sin are naturally supplied from 
 this point 
 
 With an increase in products 
 sold of over a million and a 
 grand ;total that has nearly 
 reached ten millions annually, 
 no further words are necessary 
 to establish Ashland's suprem- 
 acy, as a wholesale and manu- 
 facturing center for Northern 
 Wisconsin. 
 
 Another interesting feature 
 in this connection is the miles 
 of railroad tributary to Ash- 
 
 nual business out of Ashland of nearly 
 a half million of dollars. They handle 
 fresh beef, pork, veal, mutton, butter- 
 ine and provisions of all kinds, and on 
 the refrigerator line have fresh btef in 
 Ashland forty-eight hours after it is 
 killed in Omaha. 
 
 In November, 1889, Mr. R. V. Shep- 
 hard, the present manager, took charge, 
 and the mammoth trade he has built up 
 is not excelled. He is not only popular, 
 energetic, and experienced in his trade, 
 but sees to it that bis customers are 
 well cared for in every detail. They 
 keep a number of traveling men on the 
 road constantly, and cover a large 
 range of territory, working out over a 
 hundred miles on the four railroads ter- 
 minating at Ashland. Swift & Co. have 
 a well-deserved popularity here. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAU.Y PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 93 
 
 ^sKland "Wholesale Trade. 
 
 N OLD philosopher 
 once remarked: 
 '"Yonng men, glory- 
 in your strength." 
 This is true in a busi- 
 ness sense. Ashland's 
 wholesale dealers are 
 ^j^_^ . nearly all young men 
 
 — — ^^ i "• * — active, pushing and 
 energetic:. Competition is close and 
 keen, margins are small and it requires 
 an unusual amount of business ability, 
 and Ashland certainly possesses an ar- 
 ray of young wholesale business men 
 of which any city might feel proud. 
 
 The Livy R. Cochrane Company. 
 
 THERE is no better barometer of the 
 general trade of any commercial 
 center than its wholesale institutions. 
 Prominent among these is the Livy R. 
 Cochrane Co., wholesale fruits, produce, 
 
 
 
 
 
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 j^djfJI^^ 
 
 
 IMMBi 
 
 ^.: 
 
 ^^^mm^-^f^iU^ -^a«o8^u.*n^^^^5^^^^^^ 
 
 
 l^g 
 
 *r 
 
 
 
 PART OF WABEHOUSE— I.IVy R. COCHRANE CO. 
 
 consin, dealing directly with the grow- 
 ers in car load lots, and iu season handle 
 enormous quantities of Florida and Cali- 
 fornia products as well as imported fruits 
 Tliey have spacious warehouse and re- 
 frigerator capacity, havin? seven ware- 
 hnuses, including eltvators, and their 
 refrigerator capacity in Asliland is 
 about three to four cars. The keep sev- 
 eral traveling men on the 
 road constantly looking 
 aft«r the wants of their in- 
 creasing trade. 
 
 During 1893 their apgre- 
 i;ato business e.xceeded a 
 quarter million dollars and 
 this will be largely increased 
 this year. The company is 
 well managed in every de- 
 partment, and the aim is to 
 build up a substautial baai- 
 iiess, one that is a ci-edit to 
 the citv and one that will 
 in a short time branch out 
 into an extensive elevator 
 and grain trade. The com- 
 pany IS composed of young 
 and energetic business men 
 and their record and deal- 
 ings since they have been es- 
 tablished in this city are 
 
 ^t0^-^ 
 
 W' 
 
 IS,. 
 
 kJ 
 
 J. T. HANLEY, 
 Hanley & Holbrook. Com. 
 
 J. S. HOLBROOK, 
 Hanley & Holbrook, Com. 
 
 B. V. SHEPHERD, 
 Mgr, Lake Superior BeeJ Co. 
 
 LIVY R. Ct>CHRANE, 
 Livy B. Coohrane Co. Com. 
 
 T. HARRY COCHRANE, 
 Livy B. Cochrane Co. Com . 
 
 grain, flour etc., etc. The company es- 
 tablished their business in Ashland in 
 1891, and the firm consists of Livy R. 
 Cochrane and T. Harry Cochrane, the 
 former having charge of 
 the business in Ashland, 
 and the latter in charge 
 of a branch house at 
 Westfield. They also 
 have branch houses at 
 Coloma and Ormes, Wis- 
 consin. They do an ex- 
 tensive business in pota- 
 toes and farm products, 
 supplying the large 
 market incident to lum- 
 ber operations, having 
 handled something over 
 75,000 bnshels this year. 
 They are one of the 
 largest handlers of conn- 
 try eggs and beans in the 
 state. The brand of 
 
 er State Beans" is well known to 
 all branches of the jobbing trade all over 
 the United States. In fruits, they are 
 second to no other firm in Northern Wis- 
 
 INTERIOB OF COOLINQ BOOMS LAKE BUPEBIOR BEEF COMPANT. 
 
 such as to give confidence to their cus- 
 tomers and make them one of the moat 
 solid and substantial institutions of the 
 "New Wisconsin." ' 
 
 Hanley & Holbrook. 
 
 One ot the recent en- 
 ttrpijses launched 
 in Ashland is the 6rm of 
 Hanley & Holbrook 
 wholesale meats, provis- 
 ions, grain and livestock. 
 The firm is composed of 
 J. T. Hanley, well 
 known tbrought North- 
 ern Wisconsin and J. S. 
 Holbrook formerly man- 
 ager of the Armour 
 Packing Co. They have 
 elevators a t Roberts 
 Wis., and handle the 
 fresh and diessed beef 
 direct from the Minneo- 
 polis Packing Company. 
 
94 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 .1. H. M \THKWS. 
 
 L P. MA? HEWS. 
 
 '1. O. MATHEWS 
 
 M Ti'F.'V '. 
 
 Ellis Ave. Warehouse of J. B. Mathews & Co., Wholesale, Grocers, Ashland, Wis. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 95 
 
 <?) The ©hi 3 deal CorrLpanu. <5 
 
 ERY rapidly have 
 the interests of the 
 Ohio Coal Company 
 - I)een developed at 
 A'lhland, Wis,, Dn- 
 1 u tb. Minn., and 
 Q West Superior, Wis. 
 The company was organized in 1885, 
 and durinsT the first years of its exis- 
 tence were in possession of large stor- 
 age docks at Duluth. In 1888 they se- 
 cured a lease of what was then known 
 as the Wisconsin Central coal dock. 
 Ever since that time it has been a mat- 
 ter of rapid development. When they 
 
 ter|)ri8e of the Ohio Coal company, the 
 city of Ashland is indebted for on? of 
 the institutions which gives it promi- 
 nence as a commercial center. 
 
 The first addition to the dock was 
 built in 1887-88—400 x 200 feet being 
 comp'eted. The next was 285 x 200 feet, 
 completed in 1889-90. With these two 
 additions, and the dockage room leased 
 from the Ashland Lime, Salt & Cement 
 Company's dock, — the total storage ca- 
 pacity of the company has been increased 
 to about 100,000 tons. 
 
 The present dimensions of the dock 
 are 700 x 250 feet — four unloading 
 
 UNLOADING COAL AT THE OHIO COAL CO. DOCK, ASHLAND, WIS. 
 
 took control of the docks, there was 
 hardly a good retail capacity, now 
 there is capacity for an immense whole- 
 sale trade which has been increasing in 
 Tolume at a surprising rate. 
 
 This matter of increasing the capacity 
 oE the dock has been accomplished by a 
 savies of additions and improvements 
 tiDtil the dock has reached nearly twen- 
 ty times its original capacity, — and has 
 all the modern improvements of a mod- 
 ern coal dock. The business has large- 
 ly increased from year to year, necessi- 
 tating the investment of a large amount 
 of money for additional handling facili- 
 ties and storage capacity and to the en- 
 
 towers being operated. This company 
 have a portable pony engine for the pur- 
 pose of moving cars, — and it greatly in- 
 creases the facilities for shipping. Just 
 to give an idea of the immensity of the 
 shipping done at this dock, it might be 
 mentioned that 10,000 cars, in round 
 numbers, varying in capacity from ten 
 to thirty tons, — were loaded at the dock 
 during the past season, and shipped out 
 to sopply the vast wholesale trade. 
 
 The total coal receipts of the dock for 
 the season of 1892, inolndinf hard and 
 soft coal, was 175.000 tons, and tbii 
 brought over one hundred vessels to the 
 dock, coal laden. The coal is mostly 
 
 received from Ohio ports, — Bufifalo, Tol- 
 edo, Cleveland, Loraine, Sandusky, 
 Fairport and Ashtabula. 
 
 One original departure has been made 
 by the company, which gives them good 
 prestige in the anthracite coal trade. 
 They have constructed immense coal 
 sheds on the dock, at considerable cost, 
 in order to get their hard coal under 
 cover and thus avoid exposure to snow 
 and rain. One shed 220 feet long was 
 completed last season,— and it is the in- 
 tention of the company to extend their 
 sheds this season so as to cover their en- 
 tire stock of anthracite and smithing 
 coal. It insures the best quality of coal, 
 preserved in its original strength, for 
 the trade supplied by the Ohio Coal 
 Company. 
 
 The first boat which arrived at the 
 port last season, brought in a cargo of 
 coal for the Ohio company. It was the 
 steamer E. M. Peck, and she unloaded 
 2,200 tons as an initiative for the sea- 
 son's business. Great crowds of Ash- 
 landers gathered on the dock to watch 
 the arrival of the first boat. 
 
 The general office of the Ohio Coal 
 Company is located at St. Paul. 
 
 Besides the dock at Ashland the com- 
 pany have docks at West Superior and 
 Duluth. The coal shipped from Ash- 
 land goes'to supply the wholesale trade 
 in Northern Wiaconsin, which is rapidly 
 growing to immense proportions. A 
 large portion is also ehippei west. 
 
 The unloading, shipping and handling 
 of coal gives employment to quite a 
 large number of employes all the year 
 through, the number being often in- 
 creased to seventy five men, during the 
 rush of the summer season. 
 
 There is good depth of water around 
 the dock BO that the largest boats and 
 heaviest can touch there without the 
 slightest danger of "grounding." 
 
 The company mine their own coal 
 both in the Hocking Valley district of 
 Ohio and in the Pittsburg and Yongh- 
 iogheny district of Pennsylvania and 
 ihey are the exclusive Mgeuts on Lake 
 Superior of the Pennsylvania Coal Co. 
 and the Deleware and Hudson Canal 
 Co. — These two companies are miners 
 of Pittston and Lackawanna Coal re- 
 spectively, and the high standing of the 
 Ohio Coal Company m the Northwest is 
 greatly enhanced by the superior qual- 
 ity and condition of the coal they place 
 upon the market. 
 
 The half-tone cut on this page illus- 
 trates the unloading portion of the 
 dock. It was taken from a photograph 
 which was secured shortly after the 
 arrival of a schooner at the dock, with 
 coal from some Lake Erie port. 
 
 During the shipping season there isn't 
 a busier place on Ashland's long line of 
 water frontage than the Ohio Coal com- 
 pany dock. Coal can be loaded from 
 the boats into cars, all ready for ship- 
 ment, as well as being stored on the dook. 
 
96 
 
 THE ASHLAl^D DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 \:. 3v[. cf z 
 
 V E E among the 
 tbousandB of vessels 
 that make the port of 
 ^ Ashland during the 
 season of navigation, 
 there are none which 
 arrive and depart with 
 more regularity than 
 those that fly the "L. 
 M, & L. S. T. Co.," pennant at their 
 mastheads. The Lake Michigan & Lake 
 Superior Transportation Co. has a fleet of 
 boats regularly plying every port of in- 
 terest on the two lakes, and when the 
 new sf earner Manitou is completed will 
 have two distinct routes. One route will 
 be from Chicago to Milwaukee, thence 
 to Mackinac island, up the St. Mary's 
 river to Sault .Ste. Marie, and from that 
 point up the full length of Lake Super- 
 ior to Ashland and Dulnth. The other 
 route will be from Chicago to Harbor 
 Springs on the east shore of Lake Mich- 
 igan, thence to Mackinac islands and to 
 Sault Ste. Marie. 
 
 It is expected to have the handsome 
 new Manitou folly equipped and ready 
 for service by about the middle of June 
 next, and she will at once enter on her 
 deigned route between Chicago and 
 Sault Ste. Marie, stopping at Mackinac 
 Island and Harbor Springs, and making 
 two round trips each week. She will 
 be commanded by Captian Allan Mc- 
 Intyre, so well and favorably known to 
 the traveling public. The other steam- 
 ers of this company's fleet are the City 
 of Dulnth, City of Traverse, Peerless, 
 and Jay Gould, which will make as in 
 former seasons, semi-weekly trips be- 
 tween Chicago and Ashland, stopping 
 at Milwaukee, Mackinac island, Sault 
 Ste, Marie, Marquette, Hancock, Hough- 
 ton, Dulnth and Bayfield, 
 
 Any person who has enjoyed one of 
 these pleasurable trips during the tour- 
 ist season can vouch for their genuine 
 merit in every consideration. 
 
 There is every convenience at the com- 
 mand of passengers and the delightful 
 rest and quiet sight-seeing of some of 
 the most picturesque scenery in the 
 world, gives the trip every attraction 
 and inducement. 
 
 The new steamship, the Manitou now 
 building by the Chicago Ship Building 
 Company Is the result of plans that 
 were under discussion many months, 
 and will be one of the finest vessels ever 
 seen on (he lakes, presenting many nov- 
 el and agreeable features for the com- 
 fort, convenience and safety of the trav- 
 
 eling public. This ship is being built of 
 steel throughout, to the rules of the Bar- 
 ean Veritas of France, and under the 
 immediate supervison of Captain F, D. 
 Herriman, the chief inspector for the 
 lakes of that well known classifisation 
 society, and her rating will be the high- 
 est. The steel used is rigidly inspected 
 and tested both at the mill and at the 
 shipyard. 
 
 Specifications under which the vessel 
 is being built provide for materials that 
 are mora than equal to the standard, 
 and Captain Herriman says that if 
 built according to the specifications the 
 steamer will be given the highest rating 
 to which lake vessels will be entitled in 
 the recfirds of the Bart^au Veritas. 
 There is no doubt, of course, that both 
 owners and builders will see to it that 
 these rtqairements in construction are 
 fully compile i with, as the Veritas rat- 
 ing which tliey seek is especially valu- 
 able in a passenger boat. Not only is 
 this rating valuable from an insurance 
 standpoint, but also from the fact that 
 it gives to the patrons of the ci mpany 
 
 STEAMER MANITOC— L. M. & L. S. THANSPORTATMN CO. 
 
 assurance that the owners have com- 
 plied with every demand necessary to 
 securing for their ship a certificate 
 from one of the leading classification 
 societies of the world, guaranteeing the 
 best construction for the trade in which 
 she is to be engaged. 
 
 The ship has an overall length of 
 a69 feet, keel 275 feet, beam 42 feet and 
 depth to spar deck of 24} feet, or to hur- 
 ricane deck 82J feet. The water bot- 
 tom is SJ feet deep, extending the whole 
 length of the vessel and divided into 
 eight compartments, while seven water 
 tight bulkheads in the hull afford a de- 
 gree of subdivision and safety which 
 has never yet been introduced in vessels 
 of her class, It brings the danger of 
 
 !-ii<kiu/ down to a ujiDiuinuj; in fact it 
 luabtH it almost an impossibility. 
 
 The machinery being built by the 
 Cleveland Ship Building Company, con- 
 sists of a triple expansion engine with 
 cylinders 23. 'ii, abd 62 inches diameter 
 and 36 inclies stroke, and two steel gun- 
 boat boilers, 11 feet diameter by 21 feet 
 in length, placed in a seperate compart- 
 ment and connected to one oval smoke- 
 stack, and carrying IGOpDuads of steam. 
 The ship is txpected to msike from l.** to 
 16 miles an hour on natural draught. 
 
 Steamers cf this line are thorougaly 
 equipped for the handling of freight with 
 Matisfactory results. The steamers are 
 provided with steam freight elevators, 
 mereby doing away with tlie old cus- 
 tom of lowering and hoisting freight 
 turough .-lings. The freight is now 
 lowered and hoisted by means of these 
 elevators, and reduces the breakage and 
 damage down to a minimum. During 
 the early spring months, and fall mouths 
 the attentiJu of the company is almost 
 entirely devoted to freight business. 
 The tonnage has steadily Increased with- 
 in the past few years, and the company 
 is now making great eftorts to secure a 
 goodly share of business, destined to 
 north-western points as far as the Paci- 
 fic coast; such business being trans- 
 ferred to the two freight lines now op- 
 erating direct from Dalnth, The freight 
 rates are of course, lower than all rail 
 rates, and while it is always advisable 
 t o cuver a 1 1 
 Bhipu,ent3 b y 
 Lake lines, by 
 marine insur- 
 ance, the ex- 
 pense attached 
 thereto is but a 
 nominal one, 
 being from one- 
 half cent to one 
 cent per 100 lbs. 
 OflScers of the 
 Lake Michigan 
 andLake Super- 
 ior Transporta- 
 tion Company 
 Samuel F. 
 Leopold, presi- 
 dent; Albert T. Spencer, vice-president 
 Charles F. A. Spencar, secretary and 
 treasurer; Joseph Austriau, general 
 manager; Joseph Berolzheim, general 
 passenger agent. General ofiBces of the 
 company are in Chicago at Eush and 
 North Water streets. 
 
 Mr. Austrian is also largely interested 
 in Ashland and was one of the early 
 pioneers of the Lake Suparior Country. 
 The company is ably represented in 
 Ashland by C. M. E. McClintock, and 
 merchants are this season giving a large 
 amount of their freight to^the L. M. & 
 L. S. T. Co., and taking advantage of 
 reduced freight rates. 
 
 The finest trip in the world is a voy- 
 age on the Great Lakes via this line. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 97 
 
 ^o^ojS^oJS^o^olj:^ 
 
 ^sKland's pleasure Fleet, 
 
 considerable pride in the Daisy and^well 
 he may. The history of navigation on 
 Ch. qui'^pgon Bay would indeed be in- 
 complete without prominent mention of 
 the Daisy. 
 
 Durins; the paf.t winter Capt. F. R. 
 Brower has put in a large and Ittest im- 
 proved fire pump on the steamer Fashion 
 80 that this boat now virtually repre- 
 sents the fire patrol of Cheqnamego 
 
 ^^^ J INCE the earliest 
 ll L-i.-i^'^ days one of the pleas- 
 liii"?!^b^iJ» ures of a summer in 
 ''*' " Ashland is the boat- 
 
 ing excursions on 
 Cbequamegon Bay. 
 The regattas and 
 moonlight excursions of past summers 
 bring back pleasant memories and a 
 cruise among the famous Apostle islands 
 is a delightful trip. It takes about a 
 day to make the trip and the fleet of 
 pleasure steamers on Chequamegon Bay 
 is not excelled in the Great Lakes. 
 
 The fleet of excursion Do^ts con- 
 sists of the steamer Plowboy. Capt. F. 
 A. Bishofif, and the steamers Daisy and 
 Fashion, Capt. F. R. Brower. The two 
 
 lar as clockwork and al- 
 ways on time. She is 
 roomy and famishes 
 plenty of room for the 
 delightful moonlight 
 excursions, which are 
 quite a feature of sum- 
 mer society in Ashland 
 Capt. Bishoff has had the 
 Plowboy on Chequame- 
 gon Bay for several 
 years past and she has 
 proven a very valuable 
 boat. 
 
 The steamer Daisy is 
 one of the best little 
 boats on the lakes. Capt. 
 Brower feels naturally a 
 
 THE STEAMER FASHION. 
 
 CAPr. F. A. BISHOFF, 
 Master Steamer Plowboy. 
 gentlemen have estab- 
 lished a regular ferry line 
 between Ashland, Wash- 
 burn and Bayfield , every 
 half hour. 
 
 The Plowboy is a 
 Staunch little craft and 
 makes her trips as regu- 
 
 *%*i"^ 
 
 rs 
 
 '- -J,-, :J^'^yJM''' 
 
 STEAMER PLOWBOY. 
 
 OAPT. F. R. BROWER, 
 Fashion and Dai^' 
 
 1 lay and furnishes ample 
 tire protection for the 
 miles of dockage, which 
 is constantly kept under 
 ^urveillance. The Fash- 
 ion is altogether one of 
 the finest steamers on 
 bay for excursion parties. 
 
 jfeit-i: 
 
 THE STEAMER D.VISY. 
 
 PICNIC OaOCNDS AT HOUGHTON POINT— OWNED BY P. PRENTICE. 
 
98 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 ONE < F IHK SUFKKIUK HKoW NSToNK, «_'i > S V^IaHHIKS ON B \S^ ISLaMi 
 
 WiscoNsiM HiMERftL Exhibit. 
 
 j^TTriE W0R1.D6 f^n'f\ ^'flK^^OO 
 
 rfi 
 
 INTESRIOR OF SCO'Pr & PRINCE'S FURNITURE ETORE. 
 
 RBSLDBNCS C. H. B. M CUNTOOK. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANN [^AL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 99 
 
 ED. BKOWN, 
 
 T^iimberman. 
 
 H. R. ROSE, 
 
 Lnm . Inspector A Hbipper. 
 
 A. E. CARTIBR, 
 Lumberman. 
 
 COL. GRO. P. HYLAND, 
 I.nroberman. 
 
 W. W RICHAHDSOir, 
 I-nm. Inspertor & Shipper. 
 
 PAUL NORDSTROM, 
 Ashland Foundry Co. 
 
 .JOHN O. NOBLE, 
 r'ourt Reporter. 
 
 ADOLPH WINCKLBR, 
 
 Milwaukee. Wis. 
 
 8 W BAILBY, 
 F'hotoprrapher. 
 
 1 P. NBWTON, 
 Lumber Manufacturer. 
 
 D. S, MACKJa. 
 
 CHAS. nSHER. 
 
 SAM ANOVK7K, 
 FurnlturA Dealer. 
 
 ^U^M HBbsS-a-i;^ 
 
 SHERMAN MUBPHY, 
 Contractor. 
 
 A. H. OAKKT, 
 Contractor. 
 
 ' ^^L "^-^ W 
 
 
 THOS. OLEfON. 
 Prea.. Nor. Mfg. fAi. 
 
 OLB JOHNSON, 
 Trea». Nor. Mfg. Co. 
 
 CHAS. ROOD, 
 Gen; Man Nor. Ufg. Co 
 
 WM. M'ASKIIX. 
 
 Merchant. <;llddeD. Wis. 
 
 JAMBS DONALD, 
 Fins of A. Donald i Co. 
 
 L.cfC. 
 
100 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 i^a TPoiate Radian 
 
 ANY years will have 
 elapsed before the In- 
 dians of the United 
 ^/Slates cease to be in a 
 sense, wards of the 
 nation. The Indian 
 campaigns against the 
 Sioax, the Apaches 
 , I ■ and other western 
 ^ ' Vj) tribes, are the means 
 of keeping Uncle Sam's troops bn-y, and 
 afford about al) the actual experience 
 obtained by army officers. The Chip- 
 pewa Indians of L^ke Superior are an 
 exception. In- 
 telligent, pro- 
 gressive and 
 largely self- 
 sustaining, they 
 are little care 
 to the govern- 
 ment, although 
 under the 
 charge of an of- 
 ficer of the reg- 
 ular army. 
 
 The LaPolnte 
 Indian agency 
 is located at 
 Ashland, being 
 now under the 
 
 LIEUT. W. 4.. MERCER, 
 Indian Agent at Asbland. 
 
 charge of Lieutenant W. A. Mercer, of 
 the United States regular army, with R. 
 G. Rodman as clerk. The agency con- 
 sists of seven reservations, four of which 
 are found in the state of Wisconsin, and 
 three in the state of Minnesota. The 
 following table gives the name of each 
 of the seven reservations: 
 
 Reservation. Acreage. 
 
 Red Cliif. Bayfield county, Wis 11.457 
 
 Bad River, Ashland do 124,333 
 
 Lac Courte Orreilles, .'^awye^ county, 
 
 Wis. ..__ _ 66,138 
 
 Lac du Flamlieau, Oneida county, 
 
 Wis - 69,824 
 
 Fond du Lac, Carlton county, Minn.... 92.340 
 Vermillion Lake, St. Louis, Itasca 
 
 county, Minn 131,629 
 
 Grand Portage, Cook county, Minn... 51,840 
 
 Total acres in La Pointe agency.. 647,565 
 The Red Cliff reservation is located 
 five miles from Bayfield, and is con- 
 nected with the city by a good wagon 
 road. It Is situated on Buffalo Bay, on 
 the opposite side of the channel from 
 Bass Island, directly on the route of all 
 vessels to and from Dnluthand Ashland. 
 The Bad River reservation lies a few 
 miles east of Ashland. The principal 
 settlement is at Odanab, eight miles 
 from Asbland on the Milwaukee, Lake 
 Shore & Western road. 
 
 The Lac Conrte Oreilles reservation is 
 situated near Hay ward nn the C, St, P., 
 M. & O. road. The Indian village, Lac 
 
 Courte Oreilles and Pahquahming are 
 about twenty miles from Hiyward. 
 
 Of the Lac du Flambeau reservation, 
 the principal village is located at the 
 foot of the lake bearing the same name, 
 twenty miles from Manocyne, on the C. 
 M. & St. P. road. 
 
 The Indian village of Fond du Lac is 
 sitnated two miles from Cloquet, Minn., 
 a station on the line of the D. & W. and 
 D. & St. P. railways. Another Indian 
 village U sitnated ten miles west from 
 Cloquet. 
 
 The Vermillion Lake reservation is 
 situated abont 
 three miles 
 from Tower , 
 Minn., on the 
 D. & I. R. rhil 
 road. The Boi.^ 
 Forte Indians 
 have a number 
 o f settlements 
 in St. Louis 
 and Itasca 
 counties. 
 
 The Grand 
 Portage iteser- 
 vatiou is situ- 
 ated about 200 
 miles from 
 Ashland, on the north shore of Lake Su- 
 perior. The village is built about ten 
 miles west of Pigeon i iver, the bnnndary 
 line between Minnesota and Canada. A 
 branch ot the tribe resides at Grand 
 Marais, about forty miles southwest of 
 Grand Portage. 
 
 The census of La Pointe Indian reser- 
 vation of '92 shows 1,410 males and 1,588 
 females between the age of 6 and 12. 
 
 M A. LEAHY, 
 Ex-Indian Ag't. at Asbland. 
 
 The total population is 4.IS16, as follows. 
 
 ited ''liU r,o() 
 
 Bad River ii(,9 
 
 Lac Courte Orreilles 1.214 
 
 l.ac du Flambeau 669 
 
 Kond du Lac 735 
 
 Vermillion Lake 774 
 
 • Jrand Portage _ 315 
 
 Total 4,816 
 
 There are 6^7 children of school age 
 in the several reservation^, of which 
 number 305 attended school during the 
 last year. On sis of the reservations 
 the Catholic church has erected chapels. 
 The Presbyterian church has three 
 missions. Thirteen Indian policemen 
 are employed in the different reserva- 
 tions. The rights of the Indians are de- 
 termined by state and national laws. 
 Blanket Indians are a rarity, the dress 
 of the white man being universally 
 adopted. A larire majority live in log 
 nouses, while a few live in wigwams 
 covered with cedar bark. 
 
 When the white man first set foot in 
 the territory of Wisconsin, he found it 
 occu[jied by the Sioux and Algonquin 
 tribes of Indians' Wi.en Father Al- 
 io u e z established the ' Mission 
 of the Holy Ghost" at Hough- 
 ton Point or Madelioe Island, (authori- 
 ties differ which,) Oct. Ist., ie65, he 
 found 8U0 Indians collected from seven 
 different branches of the Algonquin 
 ribe on Chfquamegon Bay. These 
 were Chippewas (Ojibewas) Hurons and 
 Ottowas, S iC3 and Foxes, Pottowotam- 
 es and Menominies, 
 
 Du Luth, a French tradesmjn, traded 
 with the Indians of Chequamegon Bay 
 in 1693, and from that li'se until 1854 
 Indian supremancy was unquestioned. 
 
 There is no qaestion that the Hurons 
 and the Ottowas were the first to settle 
 on the inv.ting shores of Chequamegon 
 Bay. Driven westward by the fierce 
 Iroquois they left Ontario and found a 
 safe shelter on the bay of Szha-qu-wa- 
 mick-koong (the bay ot shallow water. 
 Shortly after Allouez visited the Bay, 
 the number of Indians increased to 
 4,000. 
 
 (^^_:«|ip)lil^^ 
 
 VIEW AT LA POINTS, THK FIRST INDIAM AOBNCY ON LAKE SUPKRIOB. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 101 
 
 E. A. HAYES. 
 GeQ'lMan. Asbland Mine. 
 
 VIEW OF THE ASHLAND MINE. 
 
 J. O. HAYE^. 
 Gen't Man. GermaniaMlne. 
 
 GENERAL VIEW OF OERMANIA MINE, HTTbLEY, WIS. 
 
 D. A. BEN.VENT, 
 Snpt. AdvU Mine 
 
 VIEW OF THE NOBRIE MINE, IRONWOOD, MICH. 
 
 D. D. SMITH, 
 Sapt. Qurmsnia Mine. 
 
102 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
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THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 3893. 
 
 103 
 
 The IKev.' E}npland Store. 
 
 Wo^MoAwoAWOffiD)o<pWo<p0)O(hD)oAdJ^^ 
 
 N this era of busi- 
 ness activity and 
 thrift, among grow- 
 ing American cities 
 there is nothing more 
 essential to commer- 
 cial prestige than a 
 first class dry goods 
 establishment. Of 
 late years it has become a necessity to 
 any prosperous young city and almost 
 fills the niche of a public institution. 
 Shopping is an art among American 
 ladies, and at the New England Store in 
 Ashland ladies have the same oppor- 
 
 bnsiness — nor real- 
 ize the business capacity 
 and judgment required 
 to look after the intri- 
 cate management of its 
 affairs. The New Eng- 
 land was establiahed sev- 
 eral years ago, and it 
 has grown apace with 
 the general development 
 of the city. John Ban- 
 natyne, the proprietor, 
 has personal supervison 
 of every department of 
 the extensive store. The 
 
 
 
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 ■XTERIOR NEW EMGLAND DRY GOODS STORE. 
 
 tunities in prices and goods to exercise 
 their shrewd judgment as in metropoli- 
 ton stores. Each nationality seems to 
 have its peculiar branch of basiness and 
 for the dry goods trade, nothing excels 
 the sturdy Scotchmen. The New Eng- 
 land has the Scotch emblem, the thistle, 
 for a trademark and no merchant has the 
 confidence of 
 Ashland peo- 
 ple more 
 complet e 1 y 
 than John 
 Bannatyne. 
 Few per- 
 Eons realize 
 the magni- 
 tude of busi- 
 ness done by 
 a large dry 
 goods es- 
 tablishment 
 and all of the 
 various and 
 minute de- 
 tails of 
 its enormous 
 
 storeroom is the largest 
 in the Knight block. 
 Three floors are utilized 
 to display the stock. 
 
 Such establishments 
 are the pride of Ashland 
 and attract a large 
 amount of outside trade. 
 
 RIBBON DEPARTMENT. 
 
 GLOTE AND HOSIERY DEPARTMS^T. 
 
 DRESS GOODS AND LACE DEPARTMENT, 
 
 UNDEBWBAK AND l.iNK.'* DKl'Ali i MEImT. 
 
 CARPET AND BUG DBPARTMEKT. 
 
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 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS -ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 DR EDWIN HLLIR, 
 Pres. First National Bank. 
 
 THOMAS BARDON. 
 Pres. ABhIaDd Naliunal Hank. 
 
 O. C. LORAtJOFR. 
 Cashier Security Bank. 
 
 C. F. LATIMER, 
 
 CaHhier Nor Nat I Bank. 
 
 C R 'TREIfT, 
 Cashier First Nat'l Bank. 
 
 N I WILLEY. 
 Cashier Ashland Nat'l Bank. 
 
 intSkjor first national bank. 
 
 J. SCOTT K1,U8, 
 Ppes. Security Bank. 
 
 INTEKIOK ASHI A.M> ^ATI()N.^L B\NK, 
 
 interior security savikos bank. 
 
 INTBRIOR NORTHERN NATIONAL BANK. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 105 
 
 INTERIOB HAEDWARE STORE — OOC'HRAN & MARSHALL. 
 
 STOVE AND RA>aE DEPARTMENT — COOHKAN A MARSHALL, 
 
 
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 SECOND HAND STORE — ANUVICK BEOS. 
 
 HAEDWARE WARE HOUSE— E. GARNICH. 
 
 VIKW OF TIMBEB— BHULE LUMBBR CO. 
 
 LOaiNQ CAMP — BIIUL£ LUUBBB CO. 
 
106 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAH^Y PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 
 Ashland's "Wholesale Trade 
 
 »\\ys(^\ ]ysf<£S)\ ^/a^axiN t/«^>aaN tx<:\2^N ^/<^ 
 
 
 ;/i\c 
 
 HEN a city attains 
 the prestige that 
 Ashland already en- 
 joys as a wholesale 
 center, it is interest- 
 ing to review the 
 current of events, 
 that has led to it. 
 The most important consideration in a 
 jobbing center is accessible trade that 
 flows towards it. 
 
 The territory tributary to Ashland 
 consists chiefly of the lumbering and 
 mining industries, which form the basis 
 of a cash system. Supplies are sold in 
 bulk and in larger quantities than in 
 farming commuciticB, and the demand 
 is more diversified. 
 
 The country made tributary to Ash- 
 land by the diflferent railroads, is as 
 follows : 
 
 R.MI.IiOAIiS. MILES. 
 
 C.St. P.M. * 150 
 
 Northern Pacflc l.BCO 
 
 "Wisconsin Cenlral 220 
 
 D. S. S. *A 180 
 
 M. L. S. & W : 290 
 
 •Great Northern 1.560 
 
 •0. M. &St. P 1S5 
 
 •Chippewa Falls & Ashlaod 100 
 
 •Illnois Central 256 
 
 Total .'. 3.301 
 
 • Roads proposed. 
 
 Leading Wlioiesaie-Grocery House of Astiland. 
 
 THERE are few cities in the United 
 States that; can boast of as enter- 
 prising and aggressive a wholesale firm 
 as J. B. Matthews & Co. Tliey were 
 first ill the field and already have a bus- 
 iness that would be a credit to many 
 larger commercial cities than Ashland. 
 
 The Press takes pride in presenting 
 on another page the portraits of the four 
 brothers who compose the firm of J. B. 
 Mathews & Co., wholesale grocers. 
 They came to Ashland in IBSB and es- 
 tablished the present business, The 
 firm now consists of J. B., L. F., G. O. 
 and 8. E. Mathews. Their efforts were 
 attended with success from the start. 
 At first their business was confined 
 mostly to the city trade, but the enter- 
 prising natnie which has marked their 
 Buccees, prompted them to posh out un- 
 til they have an extensive trade, extend- 
 ing down the M. L. S. & W. and Wis- 
 consin Central railroad to the Gogebic 
 iron range, the C. St. P., M. & O. and 
 Northern Pacific railways, also on the 
 Dnlnth, South Shore & Atlantic to the 
 upper peninsula, of Michigan, in fact, 
 the entire Lake Superior country. 
 
 In 1887, the quarters they then occu- 
 pied became inadequate and they built 
 a warehouse on each of the two princi- 
 pal trunk' lines entering Ashland. An 
 
 OHIO COAL go's wholesale dock 
 
 INTERIOR ASH BROS. CONFECTIONERY STORE. 
 
 INTERIOR A. L, M3BSE A GO'S — PLITUBEBS. 
 
 exterior view of warehouse No. 1 ia 
 given on another page with interior 
 view showing a few of the different 
 departments of their wholesale estab- 
 lishment, including the cigar and to- 
 bacco room, boi and canned goods de- 
 partment, woodenware, sugar room and 
 the ofiSce. In conversation with Mr. 
 Mathews he said : "By reference to our 
 sugar account we find 
 that Ashland alone con- 
 sumed 1,500,000 pounds 
 or about fifty car loads 
 in 1892." 
 
 This is a small Item in 
 the business, but it will 
 give an idea that Ash- 
 land cuts no small figure 
 in the commercial world. 
 They have now two 
 large warehouses and 
 have an extensive grcc- 
 ery trade; also handle 
 hay and grain in car-load 
 lots, forwarded to all 
 points in the Lake Sup- 
 erior territory. In fact, 
 the quartette who com- 
 pose this firm are practi- 
 cal and active young 
 businessmen and are al- 
 ways on the alert to meet 
 the keenest competition 
 with the farther advan- 
 tage of giving their trad© 
 prompt shipments and 
 the advantage of lake 
 freights which 19 a valu- 
 able consideration to all 
 merchants doing busi- 
 ness on and tributary to 
 the Lake Superior coun- 
 try. They are rapidly 
 transplanting the Chica- 
 g o and Milwaukee 
 wholesale houses in thia 
 section and are doing 
 mnch toward building 
 up the substantial busi- 
 ness interests of Ashland 
 in fact, the entire Lake 
 Superior country. 
 
 Ash Bros.' Cough Drops. 
 
 THERE are few mor- 
 tals who have not 
 h a d at one time or an- 
 other in their life a weak- 
 ness for "'cough drops," 
 Not long since, two 
 young men in Ashland 
 commenced the manu- 
 facture of the famous 
 "A. B. C. D." These 
 primary letters of the al- 
 phabet mean Ash Broth- 
 ers Cough Drops. They 
 have built up a large 
 trade and now it is al- 
 most as essential to have 
 Ash Bros. cDugh drops 
 as Cathartic pills, in a 
 drug store. 
 
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 107 
 
 1 Ashland I^ifles(Ie.£.^.:K.S. 
 
 ? ARS, the god of war, 
 conld look down from 
 his seat of power in 
 ^^ t he clouds and behold 
 ~ tie flower of chivalry 
 Ml Ht Ashland. Soldiery- 
 Ay has by no means been 
 neglected in the gen- 
 'eral development of 
 if,D the "Garland City," 
 and Ashland loday has one of the finest 
 and best drilled compameg in the state 
 militia. It is Co. "L" of the Secondreg- 
 iment, Fourth battalion, Wisconsin na- 
 tional guards. 
 
 Spasmodic efforts bad been made for 
 the organization of a military company 
 at Ashland many years before the final 
 organization was accomplished. It was 
 September 24, 1«89, that Co. "L" 
 was mustered in, and was assigned to 
 the 4th battalion, Dec. 20, 1892, Adj. 
 General Geo. W. Burchard, of Gov. 
 
 
 Hoard's administration was present and 
 attended to the formalities of muster. 
 
 The company is now composed of 
 sixty men. Drills are held every Tues- 
 day evening in the armory which was 
 formerly the Academy of music. It is 
 large and roomy and one of the finest 
 armories in the state being larger than 
 any other hall in Ashland. It is directly 
 in charge of Co. '-L." Non-commis- 
 sioned oflSoers are schooled Thursday 
 nights. 
 
 Co. "L" has one of the finest camping 
 grounds in the state — romantic Madeline 
 Island. The routine of camp life has 
 been pacticed there upon two occasions, 
 in 1890 and '91. The boys went out 
 during the heat of summer and re- 
 mained for a week each time. They 
 left the city oflBces, banks and stores 
 in a rather tender condition, but came 
 back hardened and brown-visaged sons 
 
 of chivalry. Tkere is nothing like the 
 real camp life of the soldiers to thrill 
 the being with the glow of health, and 
 i t has many 
 pleasurable 
 features and 
 iiperiences 
 which live 
 afterward a s 
 pleasure spots 
 n the memory. 
 [t is quite for- 
 -.unate that Co, 
 'L" is located 
 t Ashland — 
 lear to Made- 
 i n e Island: — 
 for a short trip 
 CAPT. N. I. wiLLitY. over the blue 
 waters of Chequamegon bay transfers 
 them from the heat and dust of the city 
 to the charming green of one of Nature's 
 famous beauty spots. 
 
 This year Co. "L" will probably gotP 
 Camp Douglas, the state camp ground. 
 The entire 2nd regiment will be there, 
 and the boys will for the first time real- 
 ize the routine life of a general encamp- 
 ment. 
 
 Ashland is proud of her Co. ''L" The 
 martial spirit of the citizens is quickened 
 by the soldiery appearance of the boys. 
 
 Cor J Mars, Cor. C. Gallagher. Ist.Serg-tE.E.Tennant, ColorSerg't L.F.DarJee. Q.M.SerR't G.Ree»e. Serg't D. J.Mowatt. Serg'tR. A. Warner. 
 Cor. Henry Ferminlch. 1st Lleot. H. P. I'adley. Capt. N. I. Willey. •.■nd Ueat. Peter Lam al. Cor. Fred Tannebnrg. 
 
108 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAH^Y PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 i TKe domino Summer Eesort. IS 
 
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 ' NTIL a company of 
 enterprising men, 
 with means,recently 
 developed a tangible 
 scheme for making 
 Madeline Island the 
 home of hundreds of 
 summer cottagers— 
 s n c b a movement 
 has not had money 
 enough back of it to meet with success- 
 ful results. Such an idea has long been 
 held in a way by a number of in- 
 dividuals, but nothing 
 has ever developed. A 
 ■visit to Madeline Island 
 Inepires one with the 
 idea that it is an ideal 
 spot on which to build a 
 resort. 
 
 Perhaps no man has 
 ever visited the quaint, 
 quiet nooks of the old 
 island without being im- 
 pressed to a certain ex- 
 tent, with this fetling. 
 The only drawback has 
 been life and energy to 
 back the scheme and 
 make a definite step for- 
 ward in the matter, and 
 this has at last been 
 done. Madeline is to be 
 converted into an island 
 of summer homes — it has 
 been so long invitingly 
 awaiting. 
 
 Mr. Sol. S. Carry, 
 president of the Norrie, 
 one of the greatest iron 
 mines on earth, C. WtMc- 
 Mahon, Sam L. Jacques 
 and J. A. McLeod, are 
 back of the enterprise, 
 and when such men as 
 these are interested in a 
 scheme, it may be de- 
 pended upon that there 
 is every certainty that it 
 is to be made a iiuccess. 
 "Madeline," that word 
 sycouymous in itself of 
 peace and qaiet, is to be 
 preserved as the title of 
 the village they have platted and es- 
 tablished. Men and teams are busy 
 laying out a romantic portion of the 
 island into streets, with proper grading. 
 Choice lots are being surveyed — await- 
 ing only the musical ring of carpenters 
 tools — to convert them into the grassy 
 plats of Bummer cottages. Along the 
 pebbly beach — now receding in a white 
 
 tableland of sand, far out into the clear, 
 blue waters of Chequamegon bay — now 
 ending abruptly in the rocky cliffs — 
 this is the pleasing contour of shore 
 which gracc-s the water frontage of the 
 new village. A beach for the cool, re- 
 freshing strolls of refugees from the 
 heat of southern cities in the delightful 
 evecings; a grassj' slope leading back to 
 the alluring groves, where countless 
 dells and recesses invite one during the 
 heat of the day. It is an ideal spot — 
 this that has been chosen for "Made- 
 
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 line." The island has many quiet nooks, 
 but none more appropriate for the pur- 
 poses designed than this one. There are 
 two miles of beach, and not far distant 
 the old Indian clearing where the game 
 of LaCrosse used to entertain thousands 
 of Chippewas on festal days in years 
 gone by. The quiet Indians gather 
 there now occasionally and revive the 
 
 old-time ardor lor the exciting sport, by 
 playing exhibition games. 
 
 And there is the old church looming 
 np in the hazy distance; the ancient 
 town of LaPointe, the first seat of gov- 
 ernment of this Lake Saperior region, — 
 and the crumbling remains of the old 
 Protestant mission, built at a time when 
 historical LaPointe was at the height of 
 its importance and prosperity as a trad- 
 ing post, which for many years made it 
 the metropolis of the Great Lakes, 
 
 The first eettlement of the great nor- 
 thern wilderness of Wisconsin was here. 
 It was here that over 200 years ago the 
 Jesuit missionary raised his cross and 
 learned the savage hordes who occupied 
 all the vast region of the cliain of lakes. 
 their first lessons in Christianity. 
 
 Clustered around tbis old village 
 there hangs a web of romance that gives- 
 interest to all who read about it or pay 
 it and its "shrine of wor- 
 ship" a visit. Here 
 stands the oldest church 
 mission left upon onr 
 frontier. It is surround- 
 ed with the dead of three 
 centuries, in old ceme- 
 teries where the head- 
 stones are even crumb- 
 ling to dust. 
 
 Ii is a romantic as well 
 as most beautiful place. 
 If there is a spot where 
 the spirits of thagood re- 
 turn to guide and cheer 
 the living, it ought to be 
 this evergreen-covered 
 island, the gem of the 
 Apostle group. 
 
 Already a large num- 
 ber of prominent Chi- 
 cago capitalists have 
 purchased beautiful sites 
 at the new town of Mad- 
 eline, for summer cot- 
 tages. Its beauties have 
 been sung by Ameiica'a 
 most renowned poets — 
 Whittier and Longfel- 
 low. The old church 
 and old mission are per- 
 haps two of the most in- 
 teresting historical spots 
 in the Lake Saperior 
 country. The old paint- 
 ing which still bangs in 
 the old church has an in- 
 teresting history and is 
 still the object of curi- 
 osity among hundreds of 
 tourists. 
 
 The new town of Madeline is located 
 on the most beautiful portion of the 
 island. It is the site of the famous old 
 Grant farm. A large portion of the 
 site has been under cultivation for many 
 years past and has a commanding view 
 of Chequamegon bay at its best. The 
 location means "rest." The murmup 
 of the waves is restful to tired nerves. 
 
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 109 
 
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 readily accessible from the east as well 
 aa the west side of the island. Their 
 lands will be sub-divided we are in- 
 formed and sold in lots to people who 
 visit the resort every summer. They can 
 reach people who come to the World's 
 Fair and through their paper ' 'American 
 Climates and Resorts" interest a large 
 number of physicians. There is not a 
 finer place on the lakes than this section 
 and with a little efifort and co-operation 
 
 UNE and July are 
 the great months for 
 Madeline Island, the 
 "Plymouth Rock of 
 , Wisconsin." This 
 beautiful island 
 
 which is about as 
 
 large as Manhattan island on which New 
 York City is situated, is being taken up 
 by societies and religious bodies, for the 
 purpose of making it their permanent 
 
 CEDAR BARK COTTAGE — WILSON ISLAND. 
 
 summer headquarters. But three miles 
 from Bayfield and seventeen miles from 
 Ashland, by boat over the most beauti- 
 ful body of water on earth, it is the 
 ideal resort for summer homes. The 
 Milwaukee Resort and Improvement 
 company owns a large tract of land on 
 Big bay. and will make use of the same 
 in the near future. The details of the 
 platting of the new city Madeline can be 
 found on page HJ8 of this "annual," and 
 nothing more may need be said of it in 
 this place. 
 
 AMERICAN HEALTH RESORT ASSOCIATION. 
 
 DR. T. C. Duncan, President of the 
 American Health Resort Associa- 
 tion, is so impressed with Madeline 
 Island, that he has formed a company 
 for the purpose of making Madeline 
 island a permanent health resort. Land 
 was bought last yaar, and buildings 
 will be erected therean. 
 
 The Resort Co. with headquarters in 
 Chicago have purchased a large tract of 
 land on Madeline island and we believe 
 that it is their design to make a popular 
 resort of it. This tract is on the high- 
 est ground on the island and has a fine 
 growth of timber all over it and will be 
 
 Mackanaw and Isle Royal may be 
 eclipsed. The fact that the American 
 Health Resort Association selects this 
 section as one of the best resorts for hay 
 fever su ff erers should receive more atten- 
 tion than it has hitherto even with 
 Ashland people. There is no finer bay 
 iu the world for boating, and regattas 
 
 should be arranged for. Boat races 
 like horse races will draw people from 
 all about here as well as from Cliicago 
 and other large cities. Madeline'.islatid 
 is the famous picnic resort. What is a 
 picnic without a ride on the water ? 
 With the start already made Madeline 
 island will come to be the famous assem- 
 bly grounds. A summer school might 
 be arranged. The fact that scientific 
 and influential men have become inter- 
 ested in our islands promises much for 
 the future. We advise our friends to bny 
 lands now while the prices are moderate 
 There is only one Madeline Island. 
 
 We expect to see the day soon when 
 picturesque cottages, and palatial sum- 
 mer homes will be discovered among our 
 beautiful islands, as they now delight 
 and surprise the tourist among the 1,000 
 islands of the St. Lawrence. 
 
 THR KDDOATIONAL CONFERENCE. 
 
 ONE of the largest gatherings on 
 Madeline Island last summer, was 
 that of the Northwest educational con- 
 ference. The confere.iCe listed two 
 days, July 12th and lyth. Delegates 
 were present from Chicago, Milwaukee 
 St. Paul and from all parts of the state 
 to the number of two thousand. 
 Among the notable men who took part, 
 were A. H. Pearson of Northfleld Minn., 
 Rev. Geo. P. Merrill, D. D. of Minnea- 
 polis, Prof. E. H. Merrill of Ripon, 
 Prof. J. J. Blaisdell, professor of men- 
 tal and moral philosophy of Beloit 
 college; F. D. Humphery D. D. of 
 Chicago, district secretary of the Amer- 
 ican Board of Missions; J. C. Roy, D. 
 D., of Chicago, western secretary of 
 the American Missionary Society, and 
 many others. The old Presbyterian 
 church the Ply moutn Rock of Wisconsin, 
 was formally dedicated. The daily ses- 
 sions were held at Ashland and at La 
 Pointe. Definite arrangements were 
 made to establish a permanent summer 
 school on Madeline Island. Yearly 
 meetings will be held at the same place. 
 
 8CENR AT HOCQHTON POINT. 
 
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 T HAS been only since the 
 last year or two, that the 
 citizens of Wisconsin have 
 begun to awaken lo the de- 
 sirability of securing sum- 
 mer homes on Madeline 
 island. Land is very cheap, 
 and a summer home can be established 
 at email cost. A few weeks absolute 
 rest with a balsam bough bed under the 
 saving pines, or fishing on the bay, or 
 viewing tlie interfsting historical curi- 
 osities in the Father Marquette chapel, 
 tht) old Presbyterian church, the old 
 fort of the American Fur Co., or idling 
 on the beach watching the stream of 
 
 commeroe flowing by through the 
 various channels that lead to the "Gitche 
 Qumee," such a life is better than all 
 the medicine that can be given by 
 doctors. 
 
 GOOD TEMPLARS SUMMER HOMB. 
 
 THE first District L.dge of Good 
 Ten-plars purchased on March 27th, 
 1893, five acres of land on Madeline 
 Island, to be used as summer camp 
 grounds. 
 
 The property is about a mile from La 
 Pointe, on the Big bay road, and has a 
 water frontage of about 400 feet on the 
 Bayfield and Bass Island side of the 
 island. 
 
 VIEW OF PRKSQUE 1SLB FROM HADELIHE 
 
 A more beautiful spot for such a pur- 
 pose could cot be desired. The first 
 district comprises the counties of Ash- 
 land, DouglfiS, Bayfield. Barron, Wash- 
 bum, Bninette, St. Croix, Pierce, Saw- 
 yer and Polk and has a lodge member- 
 ship of about 2,000. The gronod will be 
 cleared this coming enmmer, and a rus- 
 tic lodge will be built; it is also the in- 
 tention to erect an open assembly hall 
 or tabernacle, similar to the one used by 
 Monona Lake Assembly at Madison in 
 which large public meetings can be held 
 and addresses delivered under the aus- 
 pices of the order. All desirable land 
 in that vicinity is being rapidly secured 
 by various societies and the time is not 
 far distant when all that portion of the 
 island will be one vast camping ground 
 during the summer season. The trus- 
 tees who have the matter in charge are 
 Thos. Edwards and C. H. Gallagher, of 
 this city, and C. D. Hawn, of Rock Elm, 
 Pierce county. 
 
 THE CATHOLIC KNIGHTS. 
 
 THE Catholic Knights of Wisconsin, 
 several hundred strong, held a thi-ee 
 days session in Ashland, July 19, 20, 21, 
 last season. The convention wound up 
 with a monster excursion to Madeline 
 Island, 16C0 strong. A session was held 
 at La Pointe. The Knights were enthu- 
 siastic over Ashland, the beantifnl bay 
 of Cheqnamegon, and Madeline Island. 
 
 MAMMOTH SUNDAY SCHOOL EXCURSION. 
 
 Perhaps the largest meeting on Mad- 
 eline island last summer was 
 that of August 3rd, when 2,000 Sunday 
 School children from all parts of North- 
 ern Wisconsin met at Ashland, and 
 were conveyed by boat to the island. 
 A permanent organization was effected, 
 and all the Sunday Schools of the Prot- 
 estant faith will hold their sunmer 
 meetings at La Pointe. 
 
 THE CHATAUQUA SUMMER SCHOOL. 
 
 ONE of the most important results of 
 the summer meetings at Ashland 
 last summer, was the establishment of a 
 summer school on Madeline island. A 
 joint stock company was formed, land 
 purchased, and buildings will be erected 
 this spring. The site will be on the Bay- 
 field shore. The whole subject was ex- 
 haustively disonssed last summer and 
 an executive committee composed of 
 Rev, James Edmnndson, of West Sup- 
 erior; H. P. flaylitt, of West Superior; 
 and H. W. Bushnell, of Bayfield, was 
 appointed to report on the subject. The 
 committee met last fall. The site most 
 favored for the school is between the 
 old Catholic church and the beaoh on 
 the Bayfield shore. 
 
 Steamers touch at the island several 
 times each day. Tourists from every 
 portion of the United States make it a 
 point to go through the historio 
 churches, to view the old Indian grave- 
 yard, and to view the] other scenes of 
 great historic interest. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 Ill 
 
 ^EkMJH 
 
 A. A. MACDONEl,, 
 Ex-Clty Treasurer 
 
 JAMES MOE, 
 Sec, Nor, Mf'g Co. 
 
 OHA". GaLLAOHER, 
 Life Insurance Agent. 
 
 WILL H BAliDWIN, 
 Librarian, Vaughn Library 
 
 E. R. SUTHERLAND, 
 Lumbernaan. 
 
 
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 W. Q. WALKER, J, H. LEASIA, 
 
 Indian Farmer. Odana, Wis. Chairman. Town of Morse. 
 
 B. B GORDON, 
 Morse, Wis. 
 
 GBO OOBB, 
 Merchant Tailor. 
 
 J. A. COBB. 
 Merchant Tailor 
 
 JUDGE 0HA8. BRISLEY. 
 
 B. B. LELAND, 
 
 Prop, Leland House 
 
 NELB ROEN, 
 Ashland Foundry, 
 
 LOOTS OABTIBK. 
 
 Mg'r Stitt & Cartier. 
 
 V H AI4>ERS0N, 
 U gt Vaughn Estate 
 
 W. H. CLAY, 
 U'gr Hotel Veteran, Chicago. 
 
 B. W. HARFEB, 
 
 Contractor. 
 
 0. B. OORMBLL. 
 Contractor. 
 
 
 JOB ASH, 
 Ash Bros, 
 
 JOHN ASH, 
 Aah Broa, 
 
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 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 MILL OF SHOBBS LUMBBB CO. 
 
 INTBBIOE MILL— SHORES LUMBKK CO. 
 
 ROLLWAV— 8TITT & CABfflBE'S LOQOINO RY. 
 
 FILING ROOM— SHORES LUMBEE CO. 
 
 POZISKt'8 PAPER HILL WAItEHOUSB. 
 
 INTBBIOR W. R. SUTHERLAND'S IIILL. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 113 
 
 RE 
 
 INTERIUR THOMAS BAB DON S OFFfCE. 
 
 HOTEL KNIGHT OFFICE. 
 
 ASHLAND ELECTBIO STREET RAILWAY. 
 
 POWER HOUSE — ASH. STREET BY. CO. 
 
 OBOOEBY STOBB OF BERG & DANIKL80N. 
 
 MEAT MARKET OF JOHN C. BOEHH, 
 
114 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 .J^sKland's Blast Furnace 
 
 ITHIN the last 
 three years, Ashland 
 has become known 
 as the possessor of 
 the largest and most 
 famous charcoal 
 iron blast furnace 
 .in the world. Since 
 -^the furnace was 
 '- started on its pres- 
 ent hearth, Dec. 28, 
 1890, it has pro- 
 duced, in a period of 
 119 weeks, 84,629 tons of pig iron. From 
 the time the furnace was first blown in 
 — April, 1888 — it has been operated con- 
 tinuously with the exception of stops to 
 make necessary repairs, and has made 
 to date, a total of 155,615 tons cf pig 
 iron. 
 
 The three re- 
 quisites for a 
 successful oper- 
 ation of a char- 
 coal furnace — 
 an abundant 
 •upply of rich 
 ores, forests of 
 hardwood tim- 
 ber and cheap 
 transportation, 
 are to be found 
 at Ashland. 
 The Ashland 
 Iron & Steel Co. 
 could have se- 
 ctired no better 
 
 frontage, cannot be ex- 
 celled. It has direct 
 connection with the 
 Wieconein Central; the 
 Milwaukee, Lake Shore 
 & Western; the Northern 
 Pacific and the Chicago, 
 St. Paul, Minneapolis & 
 Omaha railroads, and 
 possesses besides, the ad- 
 vantages of chf ap water 
 transportation to any 
 city on the chain of 
 Great Lakes. The 
 buildings are substan- 
 tially built, fire proof, 
 with Lake Superior 
 brownstone foundation, 
 brick superstructure and 
 
 uniform results. As a further precau- 
 tion, each cast of iron is also anaylzed, 
 and this result compared with the grad- 
 ing which has previously been done by 
 the regular grader on the old principle 
 of fracture. The analysis is carefully 
 tagged on each carload of iron on the 
 yard, thus giving the manager a record 
 more complete and sure than can poss- 
 
 LABORATORY— ASHLAND IRON AND STEEL CO. 
 
 VIEW OF THE HINKLE FtJRNACE— ASHLAND IRON AND STEEL CO. 
 
 CASTI.NG HOUSK— ASHLAND IRON AND STEEL CO. 
 
 site. The shipping books of the com- 
 pany show that shipments are made to 
 nearly every state in the union. 
 
 The site of the plant which covers 
 four blocks in the western par* 
 of the city, vrith an extensive water 
 
 iron tru83 roofs. The 
 stack is an iron shell 60 
 feet high and 12 feet in 
 diameter. 
 
 This company has 
 made a notable depar- 
 ture in the establishment 
 of an extensive chemical 
 laboratory; it occupies 
 the upper floor of the 
 office bniiding. A thor- 
 ough analysis of all the 
 products entering into 
 and coming out of the 
 furnace, is made. Each 
 carload of ore is sampled 
 and analyzed and the ore 
 dumped in accordance 
 with the report of the 
 chemist, so that the 
 manager has absolute knowledge of the 
 chemical analysis of all the ore in his 
 yard. By this method the furnace bur- 
 den can be closely and eoientifically 
 made up. This with the careful selection 
 of the ore for each charge, insures very 
 
 ibly be secured 
 by the old meth- 
 od of grading 
 by fracture. It 
 enables the 
 company to 
 make absolute- 
 ly uniform ship- 
 ments to their 
 customers, 
 which can at 
 any time be 
 duplicated o r 
 varied to suit 
 the require- 
 ments of the 
 customer. 
 The officers 
 
 of the Ashland Iron & Steel Company 
 are as follows: A. H. Hinkle, president 
 Cincinnati; W. H. Hinkle, secretary and 
 treasurer, Minneapolis, Minn., where 
 the general offices and sales department 
 of the company are located. 
 
 The Hinkle brand of charcoal iron made 
 by Ashland's furnace is admitted to be a 
 leader in the markets of this country. 
 
 The Hinkle furnace was the first one 
 to make, among other specialties, a 
 very soft fonndy iron from all Lake 
 Superior ores with charcoal fuel. This 
 iron is noted for its great strength; is 
 fluid and soft and is easily worked 
 under machine tools, and has taken 
 front rank in the foundries of the north- 
 west as a superb, soft, strong foundry 
 iron. The operating force at Ashland is 
 made up as follows: Manager, Noah W. 
 Qray;»Assistant Manager, L. E. Dun- 
 ham; Cashier, James Conzeus; Chemist, 
 E. E. Johnston; Founder, John Burn- 
 side;;Chief Engineer, Samuel D. Wood; 
 Yard Superintendent, S. M. Armstrong. 
 
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 115 
 
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 The New Bristol Block. 
 
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 HERE is not a city 
 in the state that has a 
 jewelry store which 
 will equal E. J. Born 
 & Co. '3 at Ashland. 
 The quarters in the 
 Bristol block were 
 especially planned 
 and built for this 
 firm, and the arrange- 
 ment of every little detail has been per- 
 fect. The tile floor glistens like a gem 
 itself, while the mahogany and rose- 
 wood-trimmed show cases which line 
 both sides of the store, are resplendent 
 with dazzling gold and silverware. The 
 stock is by far the largest carried by 
 any store in Ashland county. 
 
 In the rear of the store is located an 
 elegant vault with steel safe weighing 
 five tons. The mantel in the rear of the 
 stor« near the optical department is 
 
 artistically designed with onyx tile, and 
 large French plate glass mirror. 
 
 It was in 1885 that the present firm of 
 E. J. Bjrn & Co. was organized, and 
 the business of Joiin W. Bell purchased. 
 In the years that have followed the 
 business of the firm has been largely 
 extended, and for reliability it is 
 becoming known quite generally 
 throughout the "New Wisconsin." 
 
 The Bristol block, erected by Mr. 
 Bristol, who has a half interest in the 
 firm, is an elegant brownstone business 
 block of the modern type. It is fitted 
 up with all the latest conveniences and 
 has some of the finest ofiices on the 
 second floor to be found in the city. 
 The building has added very much to 
 architectural appearance of Ashland. 
 
 Mr. E. J. Born could properly be 
 called a pioneer of Ashland. He ar- 
 rived from Colon, Mich., in 1882, and 
 
 accepted a position with John W. Bell, 
 the jewelryman. 
 
 Mr. Bristol was given the following 
 mention in tlie Keystone, of a recent 
 date. It is published at Philadelphia, 
 and is an acceptei authority for 
 jewelrymen everywhere: 
 
 "Thos. J. Bristol, is anativeof New 
 York stite, who came west in early 
 manhood, and like many other bright 
 boys from the "Empire State," came to 
 CLieago and by din; of hard work and 
 economy has prospered. He farly 
 drifted in the jewelry line, and for over 
 twelve years he has represented one of 
 the leading jobbing houses of the 
 World's Fair City. (We refer to C. H. 
 Knights & Co.) Personsilly, Tom is fine 
 looking and a b.ichelor, with an inter- 
 esting, j jlly face, clearly-cut features, 
 and eyes that snap with good nat ire." 
 
 The firm is a happy combination of 
 business tact and enterprise. Both 
 men are thoroughly versed in the busi- 
 ness and have a practical knowledge of 
 the intricate work performed at a first- 
 cla?R jewelry establishment. All the in- 
 ducements of the largest jewelry stores 
 of Chicago and the east, are offered 
 right here in Ashland by E. J. Born & 
 Company. 
 
 IMTBRIOR E. J. BORN ,* Co's JSWELRY STORX. 
 
 THE BRISTOL BLOCK ASHLAND, WIS. 
 
116 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 Ashland dounti] Topo 
 
 grapay. 
 
 'fo°)°,('o'>J^°(c'i>o(o'>J°/'o°i°(oyi 
 
 rooA?fo«;oir oOofo Vo(o 
 
 S.NUGLY esconsed on 
 the sonthern i-hore of 
 Cheqnamegon Bay, 's 
 Ashland, the "Gar- 
 land City of the In- 
 land Sea." The bay 
 18 twelve miU'8 long. 
 Six miles of its shore 
 line is covered by the 
 city. The city limits extend from the 
 blast furnace on the west, one mile froui 
 the western extremity, to the Parishville 
 Iron Works on the east. One mile far- 
 ther is the government breakwater. 
 The Bay is about six miles across in its 
 widest part but narrows to a width of 
 three miles between Long Island and 
 the Bayfield coast. The depth of water 
 in the channel is from four to eleven 
 fathoms. The bay, as may be seen by 
 the accompanyinsT map. is sheltered 
 from the fierce storms of the lake by the 
 Apostle Islands on the iioith-sast, by 
 the dense forests on the south, snd by 
 the Baytield ridge on the northwest, the 
 latter rising to a height of 500 feet. 
 
 The grade of Chequnmegon Bay, is 
 twelve feet above Lake Superior. The 
 Ashland shore is low and level but not 
 ewampy, the Wisconsin Central Depot 
 for instance being thirty feet above Lake 
 Superior. 
 
 The city of course, is the great empor- 
 ium for lake commerce, and is well con- 
 nected by railroads with every point in 
 the state, and with Chicago and the 
 Twin Cities. It is the eastera terminus 
 of the Northern Pacific Ry., and the 
 Northern terminus of the Wisconsin 
 Central and the M. L. S. & W. roads. 
 The Light house on P.gton Island, or 
 Devils Island as it is called, which may 
 be seen on the map, is the most north- 
 erly point of the state, being about 
 forty-seven degrees and twenty minutes 
 north latitude. According to the re- 
 port of the state geologist, the point 
 where the Wisconsin Central crosses 
 the Penokee Range in Ashland county, 
 is 94S feet higher than Ashland. The 
 greater portion of tbo county is from 
 luO to 200 feet above the lake. The 
 whole county is covered with valuable 
 timber, statistic! of which may be found 
 on the "Logging Page" of this annual. 
 The city of Ashland is on the same 
 latitude as Bismark, N. D., Helena, 
 Montana, the mouth of the Columbia 
 river in Oregon, Quebec, Canada, Nan- 
 tee, P'rance, the northern bonndry of 
 Italy and of Buda Pesth in Austria. 
 Vienna is a hundred miles further north, 
 Paris is 200 miles further north, while 
 
 the city of London is nearly 300 miles 
 nearer the north pole than Ashland. 
 
 pKTHOuJC 
 
 .IV W. 
 
 Like all pi ices near a l.irge holy of 
 water, the climate is never very hot or 
 very cold, 
 
 Undernea'h the soil in the northern 
 part of the county, and skirting all -■■ides 
 of Chequamegon biy, are the deposits 
 which geologists have termed "Lake 
 Superior sandstone." 
 
 It lies a? a horizmtal sandstone, vary- 
 ing from a deep red lish brown, through 
 various tinges of red to fawn color, red 
 being the most 
 common color. 
 in fact red is 
 color of the 
 soil of Ashland 
 county, ana all 
 of the s il near 
 the city of Ash- 
 land. The red 
 color is due to 
 iron in the soil. 
 Next in or- 
 der, geological- 
 ly speaking, af- 
 ter t h e red 
 sandstone 
 skirting the 
 bay, 18 what 
 geologists term 
 the Keweenan 
 series of rooks. 
 They form an 
 unbroken layer 
 from the month 
 of the Montreal 
 river and the 
 Michigan bona- 
 dary, sweeping 
 west across the 
 state. The 
 soathern three- 
 quarters of 
 Ashland county 
 ia underlaid by 
 this system. 
 The Keweenan 
 pystem also 
 forms the back- 
 bone of the 
 Bayfield penin- 
 sula north of 
 Ashland, and 
 extending 
 south -west, 
 joins the south 
 branch of the 
 same system 
 spoken of, just 
 west of Fish 
 Creek. The 
 
 southern por- 
 t i o n of the 
 strip has a large 
 number of ernp- 
 tive rocks, 
 while, in the 
 greater part of 
 the county, an 
 alluvial soil 
 overlaps the 
 rocks. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 117 
 
 4 #5^ -^ 
 
 TKe Sreat IKorrie ilroa D/l^ine. 
 
 ORE like a tale of 
 magic it reads. A 
 few ypara ago the 
 geit Gogebic iron 
 laiige was uuknown 
 — now It boasts of 
 tbe largest iron mine in the world. Tbe 
 great Norrie mine at Iionwood, M'ch., 
 stands without an eqnal in the history 
 of the world. Of late years "Noiiie" 
 has come to mean "greatest.." Nearly 
 a million tons were shipped from tbe 
 mine during 1892. To be more exact we 
 give the exact amount shipped since the 
 mine was opened. 
 
 The record is a concise history of the 
 Gogebic ran?e. Although the Norrie 
 
 did not ship any ore until the second 
 year after the mine was opened, it soon 
 surpassed all rivals. 
 
 TOS8 
 
 1S« 1.^1,419 
 
 IXSS 124,fa4 
 
 1»87 sn.2.T4 
 
 1S88 412.1% 
 
 1889 (>74.:i94 
 
 189(1 906,728 
 
 1891 7SM.752 
 
 1892 980,211; 
 
 Total eight years 4.114,52:) 
 
 The figures show that last year the 
 Norrie shipped nearly 80,C0D tons more 
 than for any previous year. But it is 
 not the past record of the Norrie mine 
 that is 80 interestine as the fKt< re- 
 
 vealed by receot (xploratory work, 
 having sunk a diamond drill in one shaft 
 which shows that the supply of 
 ore is simj ly nnliujited. In fact the 
 Norrie can boa=t of more ore in sight 
 — and the veins seem to have grown be- 
 yond all sc'entific comprehension. 
 Another s^igoificant fact in relation to 
 Gogebic ore, and fspecially the product 
 of the Norrie mine, is that no matter 
 how stagnant the iron market may be 
 there is always a demanl for the Besse- 
 mer ores from the Gogebic. 
 
 The Metropolitan Iron and Land Com- 
 pany's officers ar« as follows: S. S, 
 Curry, president; L. J. Petit, treasurer; 
 H. S. Haselton, secretary; ,T. D. Day, 
 superintendent. The company own 
 
 and operatfi the Norrie, E ist Norrie 
 Pab?t, Davis and Ruby mints. Tbe 
 views on this page were taken on the 
 eighth Uvel-600 feet underground. The 
 new shaft "A" will be sntk 1 i5C0 feet 
 to reach w^at is called the A<hland vein, 
 and will lak-i three years to coujp ete it 
 working night and day. 
 
 There are now twentv million tons of 
 ore in sight in the mines op rated by 
 this company. The capital stick is 
 |2.5U0.()0U, in sbares to the number of 
 100.00 p. 
 
 Tram car on fifth level, 
 
 TarD Table 460 feet ondergroand. 
 
 !• S<:eoe 5£0 feet undergroand near shaft. 
 2. Cave-in at Anrora Mine. 
 1^. OIHcc of the Norrie mine. 
 
 1. Incline ebaft, depth 600 feet. 
 
 2. Pump 600 (e«t nndergronnd at 
 
 Norrie mine. 
 
 Views in the Great Norrie Iron Mine, Ironwood, Mich. 
 
118 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAILY PHEl-S— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893 
 
 s^sKland and its TPKijsicians 
 
 DR. W. T. RINEHART. 
 
 T is said that Escula- 
 p us, son of the god 
 Apollo aod of t li e 
 nyuiph Coronis. was 
 ji --»^ j;p-|tps=«i! t h e first celebrated 
 '/^*UV-i'J I •• physician. He was so 
 /|| jj, / -e skillful that he could 
 i" 'u'' / restore the dead to 
 life, and Zeus slew 
 him for his Ifmerity. Since the untimely 
 end of this mythological healer, no phy- 
 sician has discovered the "Elixir of 
 Life," Dr. 
 Brown- Sequard 
 to the contrary 
 notwithstand- 
 ing. But while 
 the ordinary 
 physician i s 
 not expected to 
 rival the record 
 of fabled Eacul- 
 apius, or of a 
 Hippocrates, he 
 is expected to 
 be both a spec- 
 ialist and a 
 general practi- 
 tioner, ready 
 and callable of 
 vanq n i s h i n g 
 any form o f 
 dieease that 
 may asaail frail 
 mankind . 
 Every locality 
 has its pecnliar 
 diseases. Nor- 
 thern Wiscon- 
 sin for instance, 
 is not subject 
 to Yellow fever, 
 fever and ague 
 and many other 
 diseases preval- 
 ent in less fav- 
 ored localities. 
 Ashland is a 
 famous resort 
 for hay fever 
 sufferers and 
 for those sniler- 
 eriog from 
 asthma and 
 lung c o m- 
 plaints. But 
 the most fav- 
 ored lands have 
 their ills, and a 
 residence i n 
 Ashland dods 
 notJnsuTfa per- 
 petual life. 
 
 The Sister.s' Hospital. 
 
 ONE of the beet known hospitals in 
 Northern Wifconsin is the sisters 
 hospital established in lb87. 
 
 At the first glance as one steps into 
 the main hall, he is 83mewhat startled. 
 Here comes a woa-be-gone individual 
 with his head tied up in bandages. 
 Over yonder is a man on crutches, there 
 is one with his arm in a sling, and in 
 the private room lies a man who is 
 near death's door. A sister sits by his 
 
 DR. A. J. HOSMER DR. M. S. UOSMER. 
 
 ST. JOSEPH S HOSPITAL, 
 
 DR. JNO. M.ADDEN. 
 
 DR. A. P. ANDRUS. DR. J. A. MARCHKSSAULT. DR. E. D. PERKINS. 
 
 side, ministering to bis comfort. There 
 in the wsrd at the end of the hall, liesa 
 man with his leg in a plaster cast, and 
 bruises visible on his person, incnned 
 in some accident. Some tbirty-eight 
 patients in the smoking room, the wards 
 and tlie private rooms at present, but 
 at times the nnmber is seventy or 
 eighty. Sisters Dominica, Winefrieda, 
 Tobia, Theresia, Magdalen, Isadora, 
 Jnsteua and Amalia besides the Sister 
 Superior, assisted by two or three dom- 
 estics, do the nursing. 
 
 The first floor contains a chapel, a 
 s!ck ward at the further end of the 
 building from it, a reception room, 
 smoking room and several private rooms 
 and the operating room. The second 
 floor contains two wards which will 
 hold thirty patients, a ditting room, nine 
 private rooms and a smoking room. 
 
 The third 
 floor contains 
 two wards cap- 
 able of contain- 
 ing twenty-five 
 patients. I t 
 also contains 
 three private 
 ro jms. 
 
 Below all is 
 the basement 
 where the en- 
 giue room is lo- 
 cated.the build- 
 1 ng being 
 heated through- 
 out by steam. 
 No doctor is 
 kept at the hos- 
 pital. The ser- 
 vices of some 
 nine physicians 
 are obtainable. 
 They are called 
 in by telephone 
 wheo n cess- 
 ary, and make 
 regular calls at 
 the hospital. 
 
 The hospital 
 is a three-story 
 brick strctuure 
 i n a central 
 
 part of the city 
 and two blocks 
 only from the 
 pOstoffice, d e- 
 pots, etc. It is 
 si tna t e d on 
 Front street. 
 
 The patients 
 who have re- 
 ceived care at 
 this institution 
 speak in terms 
 of the highest 
 praise of their 
 treatment, as 
 well as of the 
 kindness they 
 have received. 
 
 DR. C. RICHTER. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PKKSS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 119 
 
 The I^ineKart iKospital. g 
 
 VERY ciiy has its 
 hospitals. They are 
 88 mnch of a necess- 
 ity as schools and 
 churches. As the 
 latter testify to tbe 
 intellectual and 
 moral training of the people, the for- 
 Eoer indicate the -wise provis'ons of 
 science for alleviating sickness and Bhy- 
 sicial suffering:. Ashland is peculiarly 
 fortunate in having one of the best hos- 
 pitals of the state, conducttd and 
 ovpned by Doctor W. T. 
 Binehart and G. B. 
 Rinehart, who is general 
 manager of the hospital. 
 J. M. Dodd is assistant. 
 Under the control of no 
 corporation, but entirely 
 in charge of these skilled 
 physicians, its success 
 has been instantaneous 
 and continuous. 
 
 accouimcdation of surgical 
 cases, and it is supplied with 
 electricial apparatus, surgic il 
 instruments and appllancej of 
 nearly every description. The 
 building is heated by the hot 
 water system and lighted by 
 electricity, and is provided 
 with the latest electric call 
 bell system. There is an elec- 
 tric bell in every room, placed 
 conveniently for the use of patients. 
 
 Just 1259 patients have been treated 
 at the hospital in eighteen months end- 
 
 Rinehart's hospital is 
 situated on Third street, 
 which was pavtd last 
 fall. It was erected in 
 1«91, at a cost of $16,000. 
 It is a four story struc- 
 ture, containing thirty 
 rooms, including three 
 wards and three bath 
 rooms, and a chemical 
 and microjcopal labora- 
 tory. There are pri- 
 vate rooms for both 
 ladies and gentlemen, entirely seperate 
 quarters being assigned for each. The 
 nurses' department is under the charge 
 of trained nurses. The hospital has been 
 arranged with special reference to the 
 
 UINEHART HOSPITAL. 
 
 April 1, 1893— that being the time 
 
 the 
 
 new buildiug has been occupied. Of the 
 above, nearly 800 were surgical cases — 
 including a great number of the mo3t 
 serious nature. At present there are 
 
 PARLOR— RI5EHABT HOSPITAL 
 
 40 cases in the hospital, that being the 
 full capacity. Patients are now t)eing 
 treated at the hospital from Eagle River, 
 Watersmeet, State Line, 
 Prentice, Iron River, 
 B>-ule, Hurley, Bayfield. 
 Mason, Drummond and 
 Pifield. 
 
 One of the features of 
 the add tion to be built 
 this summer will be a 
 new operating room, 
 with tile floor, glass cov- 
 ered tables, and in fact 
 everv convenience with 
 which the best operating 
 rcoms are supplied. It 
 will be one of tbe most 
 complete in the country. 
 An electric elevator will 
 connect the different 
 floors of the institution. 
 Consulting Physicians. 
 
 THE con -ul ting physi- 
 cians of tie hoBpi'al 
 are Drs, Marchessanlt. 
 Richter, Andrus and 
 Madden, and Dr. Oviatt, 
 of Oshkosh. 
 
 Rates. 
 OOMS, $10 to $25 
 per week, wards 
 $8 per week. These rates iaclule 
 board, nursing, medicine and medical at- 
 tendance. No extra charges except for 
 surgical operations and f<>r cases requir- 
 ing constant attention of special nurse. 
 
 R' 
 
 MAI.V HALL— RINEHART HOSPITAL. 
 
 OPEKATIKa BOOM— KINEHABT HOSPITAL. 
 
120 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 P 'Wisconsin's S. ^. I^. 
 
 V^^^y^^9°^^'^^7'*^^'''^^'*^'^^y^x^^'^^^^^'^^y^x7'^v^^vA^^°^^'^^° 
 
 month 
 
 March, 
 
 M U N G Ibe distibc- 
 ioD8 of wliich Ash- 
 land may feel justly 
 prond, is the fact that 
 it is now the head- 
 f^^^T^ quarters of the De- 
 "-""'> partment of Wiscon- 
 sin G. A. R. At the 
 last state encamp- 
 ui e n t , held at La 
 Crosse dnriojj the 
 Capt. E. A. Shores 
 was chosen department commander. 
 Mr. D. G. Sampson, also of Ashland, 
 was appointed assistant aijutant 
 general, and the hea'qmrters were 
 reiui ved frou Madison to Asliland. 
 
 The selection of Mr. S'lores as state 
 commander 
 w a s a happy 
 choice, as he is 
 one of A sh- 
 land's most in- 
 ergetic citizec-i 
 and possess! s 
 splendi ' execu- 
 tive ability ;ni i 
 will give I lie 
 depiirtment Ins 
 undivided at- 
 tention thus 
 keeping every 
 post in the state 
 in close touch 
 and active co- 
 operation with 
 
 the headquarters. He will no doubt 
 strengt . en the membership and organ- 
 ization throughout the state. 
 
 Handsome and spacious headquarters 
 were opened in the Shores block. The 
 office is a busy scene; the click of the 
 typewriter .takes the place of the clank- 
 ing of arm?, and active preparations are 
 already being made to have Wisconsin 
 well represented at the next national 
 encampment, which is to be held at Ind- 
 ianapolis. 
 
 Mr. Shores has a magnificent war 
 record. He enlisted when a mere boy — 
 at Valparaiso, Ind., in June, ia61,— and 
 was sworn into service August 17, at 
 Indianapolis, at the age of J 6 years, 
 where he is to attend a national en- 
 campment as department commander. 
 He was fifer in Company 1, 20th Indiana. 
 He afterwards entered the ranks and 
 went to Hatteras and Fortress Monroe 
 later in the same year. He served 
 through nearly all of the campaigns of 
 the army of the Patomac, joining it 
 after the battle of Fair Oaks, or Seven 
 
 Pines, and remainiug until after Lee's 
 surrender. He was at Hampton Roads 
 during the great naval battle between 
 the Merrimac and Monitor. He joined 
 Wool's division at the capture of York- 
 town. He was with the regiment of 
 700 soldiers that quelled the mob of 
 7000 in New York city, and when less 
 than 17 years of age commanded a troop 
 of men on several important expeditions 
 He was honorably discharged from ser- 
 vice in June, 1865. A. portrait taken 
 
 COMMANDBR SHORES, 
 When he enlisted, age lOyrs 
 
 K. A. SHORES. 
 Department Commander, G. A. R.. Wisconsin. 
 
 from a negative accidentally picked up 
 at Washington is presented on this page. 
 
 There are now 276 G, A. R. Posts 
 in the state of Wisconsin with a mem- 
 bership of 13,y00 men. No other or- 
 ganizition has a warmer spot in the 
 hearts of the people than the G. A. R. 
 
 Several new posts will be organized 
 shortly and the membership largely in- 
 creased. The work is being given Mr. 
 Shores' individual attention, and he 
 will make the year memorable on the 
 records, as the one when the state head- 
 quarters weie located at Ashland. 
 
 Commander Shores has announced 
 the list of his appointments for depart- 
 ment offices, as follows: 
 
 Assistant Adjutant General, D. G. 
 Sampson, post 140, Ashland; judge 
 advocate, C. K. Erwin, post 4'<S, Tomah; 
 board of trnsttes of Wisconsin Vete- 
 rans' home, Waupaca, J. H. Marston, 
 
 president, Appleton; J. H, Woodnorth, 
 secietary, Waupaca; A. O. Wright, 
 Madisim; A. J. Smith, Amherst; Otis 
 F. Chase, Oshkosh; E. A. Siores, (-i- 
 officio), Ashland; R. W. Roberts, trea?- 
 urer, Waupaca; senior aide-de camp 
 and cbief of stafiE, J. H. Hinckley, West 
 Superior; assistant quartermaster gen- 
 eral, Richard Carter, Dodgeville; 
 Dept. Inspt. H. H. Heath, Milwaukee; 
 chief muRtericg officer, F. F. Hublell, 
 Ashland; visiting committee to Wiscon- 
 sin Veteran's home, Wanpica, E. I. 
 Kidd, Prairie du Chien; Thos. H. Price, 
 Lake Geneva; George Sprat, Sheboy- 
 gan. 
 
 The following department officers 
 were elected in March at the LaCrosse 
 encampment: Department commander, 
 E. A, Shores, Ashland; seaior vice com- 
 mander, W. T. Symons, LaCrosse; 
 ianior vice commander, Theodore Reil, 
 Jurlington; medical director, H. B. 
 Jole, Black River Falls; chaplain, J. E. 
 Vebster, Black Earth; council of admin- 
 ■itrat'on, O. W. Carlson, Milwaukee; J. 
 ] Jones, Kilbourn; Charles H. Russell; 
 Berlin; E. M. 
 Baitlett, Eau 
 Claire; R. B. 
 Sh owal t e r , 
 Lancaster. 
 
 The honor of 
 i)eing the first 
 post organized 
 n Wisconsin, is 
 ^till claimed by 
 b th Berlin and 
 -Madison. 
 
 The original 
 G. A. R. post 
 
 o. U. SAMPSON, f y ^ 
 
 Adjt. General ol Wis „, 
 
 States was or- 
 • m zed by Dr. Stevenson, in Illinois, 
 ■1 1S65. . 
 
 The Geo. A. Caster post, of Ashland, 
 was organized in 1884. The charter 
 was dated Feb. 11, with sixteen mem- 
 bers. W. W. Paddock, D. G. Sampson, 
 E. A. Shores, John J. Miles and F. F. 
 Hubbell have been commanders of the 
 local post. There are now eighty mem- 
 bers of the post. The officers for 
 1893 are as follows: 
 
 F. F. Hubbell, commander; Geo. H. 
 Downie, senior vice commander; John 
 Adiey, junior vice commander; W. G. 
 Bancroft, chaplain; John Ehner, adju- 
 tant; C. L. Judd, quartermaster; Miles 
 Semple, officer of the day; Si Hewitt, sur- 
 geon; Wm. Seagar, officer of theguard; 
 John K. Shephard, quartermaster ser- 
 geant; John McCarthy, sergeant major. 
 
 The Geo. A. Custer post has three 
 members who are also sons of veterans 
 and take an active part in both organi- 
 zations. We refer to Messrs. Miles 
 Semple, John Adley and D. G. 
 Weaver. 
 
THB ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 121 
 
 ^WiscoRsiri Sons of Veterans. 
 
 LONG life to the sol- 
 diers who preserved 
 our union I Their 
 heroism and valor 
 will live long in the 
 hearts of loyal citi- 
 zens, — as long as the 
 world is,— 'though 
 the gradual thinning • 
 of their ranks by the inevitable 
 fate imposed by Time, eventually sum- 
 mon them all. The sentiment of their 
 hearts will live after them. They have 
 reared brave soup, whose manhood is 
 kindled wiih the same spiiit of loyalty 
 that their fathers hid. The prominence 
 now held by the G. A. R. will soon fall 
 to its legitimate heir, the S. of V., and 
 the grand old causa of 'Fraternity, 
 Charity and Loyalty" will be pre-erveJ 
 and guarded with all the ardent fervor 
 of youth. It is simply a natuial 
 sequence of events. Father gives way 
 to son; but in the transition, nothing 
 of the ardor and love of loyally will be 
 lost. 
 
 It is with a feeling of deepest satis- 
 faction that the old soldier watches tho 
 growth of this comparatively new or- 
 ganization. 
 
 The interest in the Sons of Veteran's 
 organization is steadly growing more 
 general, and the day is not far distant 
 when it will be one of the strongest cr- 
 ganizations of its kind in existence. 
 
 Tho W. W. Paddock Camp, No. 21, 
 Sons of Veteraus, of Ashland, was or- 
 ganized November 21, 1887. Geo. W. 
 Marshall was the first captain. 
 
 Captain Bert Wood left for Michigan 
 a short time ago, and the vacancy 
 caused by his resignation has not yet 
 Veen filled. The officers are as follows: 
 F.rst lieutenant, J. C. O'Dale; second 
 lieutenant, Harry Adley; first sergeant. 
 Grant Babcock; quarter-master ser- 
 geant. El. Stevens; color sergeant, 
 Leonard Weaver; council, Miles Semple, 
 John Adley and George Pierce. 
 
 The division commaLder, t, ol. R. L. 
 McCormick, of Hayward, has made one 
 of the best oflBcials that the state organ- 
 izatioa has ever had, He is not only 
 enthusiastic and thorough io his work, 
 but has a faculty of inspiring others 
 with the same spirit. He is already 
 mentioned by the Wisconsin members 
 as the next national commander. Mr. 
 McCormick has had a long and success- 
 fnl public career. He was a member 
 of the Minnesota state senate and occu- 
 pied a prominent position as one of the 
 
 leading lejiislators of the state. But bis 
 active bisiuHss training soon brought 
 him to the front as one of the most suc- 
 cessful managers of extensive lumber 
 plants in the west. He is now secretary 
 <f t^e North Wisconsin Lumler Co., 
 which employs over 300 men, and it has 
 the reputation of luing one of the b?st 
 
 regarded as one of the best in the state. 
 It is uniformed and thoroughly 
 drilled and will undnuble lly occupy a 
 position as Guard of Honor, at the state 
 encampment to be h-'ld at A-bland dur- 
 ing June. The state now has 45 camps 
 with a membersaip exceeiiin^ 1,093. 
 The records 
 show a most 
 promising 
 growth and at 
 the eighth en- 
 campment the 
 fortlicomingre- 
 
 '-J**! 
 
 ^^BL^W 
 
 a F. OLAPP, 
 
 Adjutaut Gen^rat. 
 
 COL. K. h. M'CORMICK. 
 Division Commmander. Sona of Veteraufl. 
 
 managed institutions if the kind in the 
 state. 
 
 The Haywaid camp, under he direc- 
 tion of Col. McCornii k hj^s lome to be 
 
 HEADQUARTERS OF W. W. PADDOCK CAMP, 
 
 rorls willli!{ely 
 place the Div- 
 ision of Wiscon- 
 sin at the 
 front, Col. 
 McCormick is a 
 pleasant and 
 genial officer 
 and intensely 
 popular with 
 the boys. He has a sympathy for young 
 men and for the noble purposes of the 
 order, that asserts itself in active deeds. 
 We take pleasure in givir g his portrait 
 on this pa ga together wi h that of his 
 active and energetic adjutant general, 
 Mr, G. F. Clapp, of Hayward. 
 
 The state encampment, which is to be 
 held in Ashland during Juno, is an- 
 other evidence of Ashland's p >pnlaiity 
 as a convention city, and establishes its 
 pre-eminence as a general summer meet- 
 ing place — not only for Noithern Wis- 
 consin, but for the entire state as well. 
 The coming S. of V. encampment prom- 
 ises to be the mo^t elaborate of the 
 kind ever held in the state. 
 
 The local camp was estiblished in 
 1887 and has a membership of over 
 twenty. The camp has headquarters in 
 the new Scandinavian hall blocs and is 
 altogether in a most flourishing condi- 
 tion. They are now talking of securing 
 uniforms and making 
 a good showing 
 for the state encamp- 
 ment. 
 
 There is now con- 
 siderable talk of the 
 Paddock camp erect- 
 ing a mammoth moa- 
 irmejt on Cnequa- 
 uiegon bay sometime 
 during the present 
 >e:ir. It will ba of 
 brownstone and one 
 of the largest in the 
 United States, Bay- 
 field has one of the 
 finest soldiers' monu- 
 ment in the state* The 
 order was established 
 in 1881 by M.jor A. 
 P Davis at Pittsburgh 
 and now has a total 
 membership of 48,978 
 and c /er 1853 camps. 
 
 OF v. 
 
122 
 
 TBE ASHLAND DAILY PBESS- ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 3{ard-/.'ood dumber iadustry. 
 
 IMBALL & Clark, 
 I of Kimball, Wi?., 
 [will be f xtensive 
 lumber exhibitors 
 at the World's Fair. 
 At their mill locate I 
 at Kimball there is 
 more hardwood 
 Imnber macnfactnnd than at any 
 other mill in this district, and it is for 
 the display of this unexcelled product 
 that they utilize so much space in tbe 
 great exhibit of nations. The best 
 hardwood flooring to be found in the 
 market is manufactured by this firm at 
 their Kimball Siding mill It has given 
 the bfst of satisfaction wherever used 
 and its merits are becoming quite gen- 
 erally known among builders. The 
 style jf matching which they have con- 
 trived for their flooring is something 
 original, and is far superior to the old 
 style. The firm has alss made a special- 
 ty of long timber, something that every 
 mill does not saw, and they have manu- 
 factured some excellent stock. The 
 hardwood lumber they turn out is of 
 the finest quality, consisting of birch, 
 maple, oak, ash, in fact every variety of 
 hardwood that is obtainable in Northern 
 
 assemblyman, state senator and United 
 States congressman, holding the latter 
 position in 1886 and 1887. 
 
 Mr. C. R. Clark, the junior member 
 of the firm, is tbe superintendent and 
 general manager of the mill. 
 
 and the St. Croix waters. They have 
 put in five or six million during the 
 past season. The Bohn Manufacturing 
 company and W. R. Sutherland recent- 
 ly purchased a large tract of them, and 
 they have made several other large 
 sales during the winter. Their stump- 
 age seems to be in especially good de- 
 mand, as it is very heavy and the logs 
 run large particularly on tracts in this 
 vicinity. Their lands are so located 
 that they can easily log their own lum- 
 ber, and it is thought they may eventu- 
 ally buila a mill of their own at Ash- 
 land. Tney formerly owned the fine 
 
 KUIBALL & CLA.RK'8 MILL, KIMBALL, WIS. 
 
 PLANT OP THE ASHLAND 
 
 Wisconsin. In their boat building.'de- 
 partment skilled workmen are em- 
 ployed and they take orders for turning 
 out anything from a hunting canoe to a 
 steam yacht. All the boats they build 
 are strong and light and of a most beau- 
 tiful model, 
 
 Hon. A. M. Kimball, the senior mem- 
 ber ot the firm is quite generally known, 
 not only in lumbering circles, but also 
 in a polit!cil w^y. He has b.eu a state 
 
 BREWERY, — ASHLAND, WIS, 
 
 Col. George Hyland, the Lumberman. 
 One of the best known lumbermen in 
 Northern Wisconsin is Col. Geo. Hy- 
 land, who has made his headquarters at 
 Ashland for a year or so past and has 
 been prominently identified in develop- 
 ing the lumber interests of this district. 
 He is associated with his brother, John 
 Hyland, of Dansville, N. Y., and they 
 own about 200,000,000 feet of standing 
 piae in Bayfield :ind Ashland counties 
 
 tracts ( f pine around Iron Rivor, in 
 fact the first purchae made by the Lea 
 "& Ingram Lumbar company. Col. 
 George Hyland is the active manager 
 of the firm. His portrait is given on an- 
 other page. He was born in Living- 
 stone county. New York, fifty-three 
 years ago. He enlisted at the beginning 
 of tiie Civil war, as a volunteer in Co. 
 B., 13th New York volunteers, 
 known as the famous Rochester regi- 
 ment, the first tT leave that city. At 
 the early age of 19 years he commanded 
 a regiment at the second Bull Run 
 fight, when he was severely wounded. 
 He was mentioned for bravery in the 
 field. Col. Hyland served all through 
 the war with special distinction and is 
 quite prominent among Grand Army 
 circles. 
 
 The vast amount of stumpage which 
 they now own in this district was pur- 
 chased between 1881 and 1883, and they 
 have made many sales, — but have with- 
 drawn a large amount of their Bayfield 
 lauds from the market. 
 
 Col. Hyland is one of Ashland's most 
 enterprising lumbermen and be has 
 plenty of faith in Ashland as the great 
 lumber center of the Northwest. He 
 has been a resident of Ashland for the 
 p3st three years, and has opened per- 
 manent heaquarters in this city. 
 
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 123 
 
 o 5o T^ a lo (^ olo ^ 1 o (fo o> o (^ 
 
 % '^asKburn, the IVtenelitK ditu. |S 
 
 OofoO>ofoOofoO^{oO>o(^oO)°.(ro0^o(oO^{oO/or^^ 
 
 7ITIE3, like individ- 
 uals, have their 
 striking characteris- 
 tics. The city of 
 Wsshburn's distin- 
 guishing feature is 
 Ihatitatcends strictly 
 to business. "While 
 other cities of the 
 New North are Bum- 
 mer resorts, Washburn is noted as a 
 business city and yet, it is beautifully 
 situated on the north shore of Cheqna- 
 megon Bay, and is a picturesque spot. 
 It is called the MonoliihCity, the fam- 
 ous brownstone monolith being quar- 
 ried but three miles east of Washburn 
 at Houghton Point. The streets are 
 lighted by electricity, one of the most 
 complete and modern pUnts in the state 
 having been put in in 1891. Three of 
 the largest saw mills on Chequamegon 
 Bay are located at this place. Besides 
 
 these the largest grain elevator on Lake 
 Superior, east of the city of Superior, 
 the mammoth C, St. P., M. & O. ele- 
 vator, which annually ships 2,500,000 
 bushels of grain, the Northwestern 
 Fuel Company's dock— the large com- 
 mercial dock — these are gome of the 
 features of Washburn. 
 
 Washburn was made the county seat 
 of Bayfield county by vote of the people 
 in the fall of 18 92. It is the largest city 
 in the county, having a population cf 
 about 5,000 souls. Although much 
 younger than Ashland, it has risen in 
 importance during the last few years, 
 until it ranks next to Ashland in popu- 
 lation. Nearly ten million bushels of 
 grain, including oats, wheat, corn, rye 
 flax and barley, were received by lail 
 last season, and shipped by water tj 
 Buffalo and other lake ports. 
 
 The shipments of the three mills of 
 Washburn for the season of 1892, are 
 
 as shown in the following table: 
 
 LUMBER LATH SHINGLaa 
 
 A. A. Bigelow Co. 47,000,000 7,000,000 12.000.000 
 Thompson L'br Co. 31 500,000 3,000,000 600,000 
 South Shore" Co. 38,000.000 8.0O0.0O0 2,000,00 
 
 Total 116,600,00018,000,000 14,600,000 
 
 This is an increase over 1891, of 34,0U0,- 
 COO feet cf lumber, 6,000,000 feet of lath 
 and 4,000,0JO of shingles. Among the 
 logging companies, in addition to those 
 named in the table, are Nolan & Nolan, 
 Stitt & Cartier, Simp on & Co., Wey- 
 erhanser, and others. 
 
 There are no other ports on Lake 
 Superior that cffer better facilities for 
 shipping and handling. In proportion 
 to its population, Washburn is the 
 largest lumber manufacturing and ship- 
 ping port on Lake Superior. And its 
 lumber interests are rapidly developing 
 into substantial manufacturing indus- 
 tries, and it also has the largest coal 
 dock and ships the only grain cargoes 
 sent out of Chequamegon biy. The 
 future of the city is assured. Its re- 
 sources in lumber and brownstone are 
 something substantial. 
 
 The statistical summary for 1892 make 
 a very flattering showing for the "Mon- 
 olith c.ty'' and tha present year promis- 
 es to be one of the most prosperous 
 in its history. 
 
 / 
 
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 1 i' 
 
 hi 
 
 \ 
 
 DOCKS OF THE N. W. PDEL CO , WASHBURN, WIS, 
 
 NEW BROWNSTONE PUBLIC SCHOOL BtJILDlNO 
 
 TROUT FISHING NEAR WABHBOHiN WLs. 
 
 6CEM-: NEAh >^ A-Iiiil. K.^ ^^l:^. 
 
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 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 O. C. THOMPSON, C. F. THOMPSON, JB., 
 
 I'reBident. Sec'j and Trpas. 
 
 The C. C. Thompson Lumber Co., Washburn, Wis. 
 
 MILL OF C. O. THOMPSON LUMBER Co., WASHBURN, WJS. 
 
 E. K. BXRAOEB, 
 Editor Washburn Iterolzer. 
 
 P. T. YATES, 
 Editor Wasbbum News. 
 
 *■•— ~*^'^- 
 
 BANK OF WASHBURN, WASHBURN, WIS. 
 
 JOHN AVnERSON, HOWARD BBKTON 
 
 Shf'riff rierk or thft rirciiit Court. 
 
 Two Well Known Bayfield County Officials. 
 
 JOSEPH PRUDHOMME, F. J. COLIONON, 
 
 Mgr. Prudhomuie Shoe Co. Dist. Atty. Bayfleld Conuty. 
 Washburn Business Men. 
 
 THE BIO QBAIN ELEVATOR, WASHBURN, W18. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 125 
 
 g> *^asKbura's ©eep 3( arbor. <g 
 
 bHILE Washburn is 
 by far the youngest 
 city at the western 
 terminus of the great 
 chain of lakes it has 
 some very important 
 advantages over all 
 other places vphich 
 are destined in the 
 not far distant future 
 to place the city in lead of all others in 
 point of population, amount of business 
 done yearly and commercial importance. 
 The chief of these advantages is her 
 excellent harbor. While the govern- 
 ment of the United States is at work 
 deepening the Soo locks and the various 
 channels connecting the great chain of 
 lakes to the end that boats drawing 
 twenty feet of water can enter Lake 
 Superior, the question may very properly 
 be asked: What are these boats going 
 to do after they get to Lake Sapeiior? 
 Are they going to Duluth, Superior and 
 Ashland, when at the present time 
 crafts drawing ten and twelve feet of 
 water are aground daily ia these har- 
 bors during the season of navigation? 
 No, they are not going to these places 
 for the reason that they cannot get there. 
 True it is that dredging will be at- 
 tempted and an tffort made to get to 
 these now commercial centers but it 
 must be remembered that constant work 
 must now be done on these other har- 
 bors to accommodate in a very poor 
 way the present traflfic, and when eight 
 or ten feet extra depth of water is re- 
 quired, our neighbors will find that they 
 cannot hold the trade. Washburn's 
 harbor is not an artificial one, made by 
 man; but is a natural harbor, well pro- 
 
 tected by the Apostle Islands and re- 
 ported by the U. S. Government en- 
 gineers as being beyond the power of 
 man to improve it. It is a harbor where 
 substantial docks may be built at a 
 reasonabls cost and where twenty feet 
 of water may be obtained at a distance 
 of from sixty to one hundred feet from 
 the shore. Washburn waits with pa- 
 tience the completion of the twenty-foot 
 water-way, knowing she has the harbor 
 to accommodate the boats when they 
 reach the lake, while Duluth, Ashland 
 
 and Superior are kept busy irying to 
 keep enough mud scratched from the 
 bottom of their harbors to admit boats 
 drawing ten or twelve f(et. 
 
 As a lumber center Washburn stands 
 second to no town en Cheqnamegcn 
 bay. Three saw mlll.o, with a cutting 
 capacity of over six hundred thousand 
 feet per day of ten hours are run day 
 and night throughout the entire season. 
 Two planing mills, two shingle mills, 
 three lath mills, a trunk box factory em- 
 p'oying fifty hands and a sash door and 
 blind and general wood working factory 
 employing a like number of men are 
 among the wood working establish- 
 ments of the city. Upwards of a billion 
 feet of standing pine besides an almost 
 inexhaustible supply of hard woods are 
 tributary to this city. The logging 
 railroads traverse the town in various 
 directions and the business is carried on 
 the year round. 
 
 OWEN & FROST, CITY DRDQ STORK, WASHBURN. 
 
 RESIDKNCE OF E. S. OWX>r. 
 
 INTERIOR HARDWARE STORK, BEN DNGBOTT. 
 
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 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 WASBBURN PUBLIC t CHOOL BDILDINO. 
 
 * II 
 
 CLOTHIKO ft DRY GOODS STORK ( F F. J. MEGHAN. 
 
 UU W. T I.KONAIIIi. WASHIllHS. UKOnnK FOX. JEHKLKH. 
 
 K. II. l-Aliltlli. Itin li ."^TditK. .lOHN .lAIOItM. TOW.N CI.KBK. 
 
 WHST END PHARMACY, OWEN 4 PR08T, PKOPRIffTCRS. 
 
 .\.MEH1C A.N H91SE, WASHBL'B.V, WIS 
 
 RESIDI NCE or l•'K,i^K 11. HAUTSHORS. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 127 
 
 'vS'Co *yS'^ "JS*^ ®JS*^o *vA'(o ^}$<\^ ^ 
 
 l^^] 
 
 * vA'C* vA'\° vS*^ *v5K^ v^C^ vA\" 
 
 ^Washburn's ^dYantapes. 
 
 (J o*0 u 0*0 (5 o^ U oN3 (a o X3 (i crO / 
 
 >HE city of Washburn 
 did not exist less than 
 ten years ago. The 
 site upon which it now 
 stands was then a 
 howling wilderness. 
 Today it is a city of 
 five thousand people 
 and the county seat 
 of Bayfield county. It has a splen- 
 did eystem of waterworks, giving a 
 steady pressure of 90 pounds to the inch 
 and the entire city is well protected 
 
 * vA\o 'vS'Co °j9t^ vSv> v^^ v^'ofo 
 
 A'hland it has been about four per 
 cent, and in Superior it has even ex- 
 ceeded this amount on what might very 
 properly be terme I a ficticious valua 
 ion. Thus it will be noticed that on a 
 plant valued at one thousand dollars 
 the tax in Washburn would be|l,7G0, in 
 Ashland it would be $4,000, and in 
 Superior would be still higher. Oar ex- 
 cellent system of waterworks makes the 
 rate of insurance fully aa low here as in 
 other places. 
 In the fall of 18S8 the business por- 
 
 our own quanlfs. Tue contraco tor the 
 erection of a new |30,000 school houBe 
 is about to \)3 let, and work on a county 
 jail to cost .$30,000 will be begun at an 
 eariy day, the Panlly Jail company, of 
 St. Louis, having been awarded the 
 contract. Washburn, at this writing, 
 has nine churches— all having buildings 
 of their own— two ten thousand-dollar 
 school houses, a fifteen thousand- dollar 
 city hall, a free public library and read- 
 ing room, with a builJing erected for 
 its exclusive use costing $5,000, a brew- 
 ery costing $50,000, three stone quarries 
 with over half a million of dollars in- 
 vfsted in ma'::hinery, etc., two banks, 
 three newspapers, and its full quota of 
 business houses in the various branches 
 of trade. What the city most needs is 
 capital to develop its wouderful re- 
 sources, and to the mw who will here 
 invest his dollars, rich returns are to be 
 
 
 NORWEGIAN LUTHERAN CHURCH WASHBDRN. 
 
 from the ravages of fire. A complete 
 system of the Thomson-Honston arc and 
 incandescent electric lighting was pnt 
 in by a home company dnrlng the sum- 
 mer of 1891 and is second to none in the 
 country. The street lamps are of two 
 thousand candle power and are located 
 so that the entire city is lighted. 
 The initiatory move for a system 
 of sewers has already been made 
 and the present year will see the 
 same under good headway. The 
 question of taxes is one of 
 vast importance to the manufact- 
 nrer as well as the poor men and 
 is in fact a question of more than 
 usual importance in this section 
 for the reason that in some cities 
 in Northern Wisconsin taxes are 
 so high that investments are ren- 
 dered extremely unprofitable, 
 which would under a moderate 
 rate of taxation be reasonably 
 profitable. The rate in Washburn 
 has been for the past three years 
 abont one and three-quarters per 
 cent of fair valuation, while in 
 
 OOUKT HOaSE AND TOWN HALL. 
 
 tion of the city was nearly wiped out 
 by fire, and in snch time the faith of 
 the people in their city manifests itself 
 moie than any other. Buildings of 
 wood were rapidly replace! by brick 
 and stone, and today the principal busi- 
 ness blocks are of the brownstone f r )m 
 
 OONaREOATIONAL OHCECH. 
 
 ST. JOHN'S KPISOOPAL CHURCH „WASHBURN. 
 
 be had. Any kind of wood-working es- 
 tablishments, a tannery, a fljnr imill, a 
 saw mill, a furniture factory, and in 
 fact any kind of an institution 
 using almost any kind of wood can 
 here find a free site, and if operated the 
 year round, cue hundred dollars per 
 man will be given for each man 
 employed the first year. 
 
 Washburn is the trans-shipping 
 point of the Chicago, St. Paul, 
 Minneapolis & Omaha Railway. 
 Here are located its merchandise 
 and coal docks, its warehouse, el- 
 evator, etc. The amount of grain, 
 merchandise and other stuff han- 
 dled during 1893, will be over five 
 times the amount handled any 
 previous season. Two crews are 
 employed at our docks and three 
 crews at our elevator. The coal 
 receipts by boat and shipments by 
 rail for the present year wiU 
 crowd 300,000 tons. The lumber 
 shipments are no small factor in 
 this connection. The Bigelow 
 Lumber Co., the South Shore, and 
 the Thompson Lumber Co., ship 
 enough to engage twenty vessels. 
 
128 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 OPERA HOUSE BLOCK, AUNE A OVERBY. 
 
 MEBBAN's block, lower town, WASHBURN, WIS. 
 
 H. J. FINSTAD, 
 Postmaster Washburn. 
 
 VIEW LUMBER PLANT. SOUTH SH RE LUMBER CO. WASHBURN ,WI8. 
 
 BBSIDENCi:: REV. JACOB QROTHBIM, WASHBURN, WIS. 
 
 RESIDKSCE WM. WAGQERLY, WASHBURN, WDB. 
 
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 129 
 
 ■ ' ■ ' ^H 1 H fl WM H HI 
 
 M^^:^''^.!^! 
 
 X fli' 
 
 ^. 
 
 '■ ;l - i 
 
 INTERIOB P. J. MBEHAN 8 STORE— DRY OOODS DEP T. 
 
 LOMBER DOCK, A. A BIOELOW A CO. 
 
 tAILBOAD AND BEOKIVINQ YARD, A. A. BIGELOW 4 CO. 
 
 INTERIOB F. J. MEEHANS STORE— CLOTHING DEPARTMENT. 
 
 INIERIOR RESIDENCE, LYMAN WALKER. 
 
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 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 TKe 3{sTne of the 3/ConolitK m 
 
 ISrORY records (he 
 
 ,'P' ^ ' auDual marriage of 
 
 npi j Venice to tbe sea, the 
 
 X^lk ^oge of Venice act- 
 
 ^J'VT'^ ing as master of cer- 
 
 i'','-k 
 
 J ,' emonies, but there is 
 Qfeft °° subliiuer event 
 'P>'L^- recorded, than the 
 }Xi^y^i breakins; loose from 
 -^ ' Its bed the great 
 browostone monolith on November 19th 
 1892. 
 
 The famoas quarries of the Lake 
 Superior Brownstone are principally 
 located at Washbnrn. WhiU there are 
 quarries in other places, over four fifths 
 of the stone shipped comes from tbe 
 Washburn quarries. Tde Prentice 
 Qaarries, frons whici the new World's 
 
 Fair Monolith is taken, are located in 
 the town of Washburn, two miles north 
 of tbe city. The huge stone is lift feet 
 long and is tbe largest stone ever quar- 
 ried in the world, but Mr. Prentice is 
 not satisfied with beating the world 
 and now claims he can from tbe same 
 quarry take a stone ten or even twenty 
 feet longer. The monster lies in its 
 
 natural bed at this writing waiting 
 patiently the raising of funds necessary 
 to move it. The brown sandstone taken 
 from these quarries is of a rich color, 
 and when quarried is soft and easily 
 worked, but when exposed to tbe 
 weather it becomes hardened and is pro- 
 nounced by experts very durable. The 
 gradually increasing di-mand for the 
 stone is the best eviJence of its quali- 
 ties for building pui poses and for tbe 
 past three years the s ipments have 
 doubled each year. The present season 
 promises to do even better than this as 
 inquiries from all quarters are being re- 
 ceived. The supply is practicilly inex- 
 haustible and the s'one becomes of a 
 better quality as t>:e qu«ry is worked. 
 
 
 LUMBER PLiNT, A. A. BIQELOW ,t OO., WASUBOR"", WIS. 
 
 POSTOFFICE BLOCK, H J. FINiTAD. 
 
 INTERIOR JEWELRY STORE, GEO. FOX 
 
 INTERIOR DRUG STORE. E. B. FABRIQ. 
 
 WASHBURN BREWERY. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 i:jl 
 
 DINING ROOM HOTEL WASHBUBN. 
 
 HOTEL WASHBURN. 
 
 L. N. CLAUSEN, 
 
 Cashier Bayfield Co. Bank 
 
 and Ch'n Town Board. 
 
 BAYFIELD COUNTY BANK. WASHBURN. 
 
 INTERIOR BAYFIELD COUNTY BANK. 
 
 ELECTRIC LIOHTINO 00. POWER HOUBE. 
 
 INTEBIOR ELECTRIC LIGHTING CO. POWER HOUSE. ^^ 
 
132 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 "Washburn and its Banks. 
 
 man "Walker, and A. P. Mataon. Mr. 
 Halloran is qirte prominf nt in politics, 
 forinerlv beiog »beriflE of Biyfield county. 
 He mos a shop and baa several large 
 
 A.PID as has been the 
 I .'rowth of the New 
 'North, the city of 
 ] Washburn has grown 
 I at a rate that has snr- 
 Jprised its sister cities 
 in the Lake Superior 
 region. In reviewing 
 the rapid growth of 
 the "Monolith City," 
 it would be an injustice not to make 
 prominent mention of the man who has 
 done so mnch single-handed in building 
 np Washburn, Mr, A. C. Probert is 
 president of the Bank of Washburn, and 
 also of banks at Shell Lake and Pres- 
 
 means of giving the "New Wisconsin'' 
 the flittering growth and prosperity 
 which it now enjoys. 
 
 Bayfield County Bank. 
 
 THE Bayfield Connty Bank was re- 
 cently organized in Washburn and 
 has already taken rank as one of Wash- 
 burn's best institutions. W. G. Maxcy 
 is president and D. M. Maxcy is vice- 
 president and resident manager, with 
 L. N. Clausen, cashier. The capital 
 stock win likely be increased daring 
 the coming year. Messrs. Maxcy'are 
 also largely interested in the Washburn 
 Water Works company. 
 
 MR. A. C. PBOBERT, 
 
 Pres. Bank of Washburn, M'er Bay Land and 
 
 Improvement Co 
 
 INTEBIOR OF THE BANK OF WASHBURN. 
 
 contracts ready this year. Mr, HiUoran 
 is also a mem t>er of the town board of 
 supervisorsjand a public-spirited citizen. 
 
 cott, Wisconsin, besides being pres- 
 ident of a dbzen prominent ma'ju'actur- 
 ing institations in Washburn. He is 
 one of the most liberal and shrewd 
 business men in Wisconsin, and is al- 
 ways wi le awake to the interests of his 
 town and the establishment of new en- 
 terprises. Besides being president of 
 the Washburn Basineas Men's Associa- 
 tion, ho is also manager of the Bay Land 
 & Improvement Company and is ever on 
 the alert for interests of the town which 
 he helped to build up. There is scarcely 
 a new industry that has been started 
 within the past few years that he has 
 not helped, either directly or indirectly. 
 Mr. Probert is still a young man and 
 very active in all his numerous busi- 
 ness enterprises. Such men are indeed 
 a credit to a town, and have been the 
 
 John Halloran, Contractor. 
 
 ONE of the best known building con- 
 tractors in Washbnrn is John 
 Halloran, formerly sheriff of Bavfie'd 
 county. In fact he has built nearly 
 every building of prominence in the 
 thriving city of Washburn. The town 
 hall was constructed under his 8up3r- 
 vision in 1886, and the schoclhcuse which 
 was burned during the big fire several 
 years ago. Mr Halloran has con- 
 structed many fine residences and 
 bu-itess blocks in Washburn, amorg 
 which are the Bayfield Connty Bank, 
 store of John A. Jacobs, Bauer Drug 
 store, N. W. Meat Market, Aune & 
 Overby opera house block, Ov^n & 
 Frcst's drug store, Citholic cbnich and 
 Sisters' residence, tl:e new lower echojl 
 house, rf^sidence of Tnomas Rowlands, 
 store of W. H. Lemke, residence of Ly- 
 
 HB. F J. HEEHAH, 
 Dry Goods and Clothing Merchant, 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 133 
 
 <h Bayfield The 3(arbor Situ. <h 
 
 M^N,) 
 
 i,m 
 
 *J EW cities in the 
 United States are as 
 picturfsqne as the 
 city of Bayfield. Sit- 
 uated on a beautiful 
 tide hill overlooking 
 the finest harbor on Lake Superior, it 
 can be seen for a distance of many 
 miles from vessels entering from the 
 Oreat Lake. From its peculiar situation 
 every street can be seen, like a giant 
 checker board fringed with green. Few 
 people will forget the first impiession 
 as obtained from the bay, and a closer 
 inspection does not dispel the illusion. 
 
 The pride of Bayfield, is] its harbor. 
 With such a harbsr, the [future; com- 
 mercial prosperity of the city is assured. 
 The report of U. S. engineer ".Henry 
 M. Roberts, Dec. 13, 1879, says on this 
 point: "Thi^ harbor was reported on 
 by me Nov. 30, 1876, when I could not 
 find anything requiring improvements, 
 I have the same report;;to make now. " 
 Report of L. G. Shermerhorn, Nov. 8, 
 1879: "This harbor liea^directly on the 
 route between the shore, ports and the 
 steamers regularly touch at ^Bayfield 
 dock. 
 
 "The harbor is directly under' the lee 
 of the Apostle Islands and is at all timed 
 easy and safe of access and does^not re- 
 quire artificial protection, Bayfield is 
 the great natural harbor of Lake Sup- 
 erior, and in its deep water and closely 
 clustering islands nature seems to |have 
 left nothing for the engineer to do." 
 
 Bayfield harbor is usually open^abont 
 April 15tb, and many seasons is not 
 closed by the ice until January first. It 
 Is not at all an unusual event toj^ta'je a 
 New Year's sail in Biyfield harbor. 
 During the winter months, dog trains 
 carry the mail from historic La Pointe 
 on Madeline, three miles away. Dur- 
 ing the summer months, Bayfield is per- 
 s the most beautiful summer resort 
 
 in Wisconsin— and that means the most 
 beautiful of any resort in America. The 
 slope on which the site is situated so 
 gently declines to the water's edge, that 
 there is not a houseliolder who can not 
 sit by liis door after the 
 day's work is done, and 
 see Nature's panorama 
 spread before his feet — 
 the blue hills of the 
 Gogebic range, forty 
 miles Hvvay — the dark 
 pines that skirt the far- 
 ther shore of Chequa- 
 megon Bay— the isles 
 that dot the placid wat- 
 ers here and there — the 
 whaleback and ore boats 
 and passenger steamers 
 slipping by — while the 
 red light from Chequa- 
 megon point looms up 
 from the distance like 
 the planet Mars. 
 The H irbor city is 
 
 indeed an ideal spot. No wonder that 
 Bayfield is a summer resort. Many 
 prominent people, among them Judge 
 Pinney of the Supreme Court, make 
 Bayfield their summer home. 
 
 A few miles north of the city is sit- 
 uated the Bed Cliff Indian Reservation. 
 The country aronnd, abounds in roman- 
 tic picnic grounds, and "speckled beau- 
 ties" swarm in every stream. 
 
 The sanitary conditions of the city are 
 perfect. Pure water is piped to every 
 hou?e, and thenatural drainage is such 
 th»t sickness is very uncommon. 
 
 kES^IDEME, E. K, BhJUHAW, BAVFIEI 1) WIS 
 
 GENERAL VIEW OF BAYFIELD PHOWIXG ISLAND VIEW HOTEL 
 
 Strect.Sccnes'^a the "Harbor City", Bayfield Wisconsin; 
 
134 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 field's ilsland IHev; 3(ete't. 1 
 
 tality. Being in direct railroad com- 
 mnaication with Cljicago and the Twin 
 Cities, Bayfield does not depend upon 
 
 Bay 
 
 ^^4i^4%^^^ii4%^^4ihii 
 
 ATERING to the 
 I wants of th? modern 
 public app tite, with 
 (lelicaciea in and oat 
 of season, has been 
 I'c daced to a science. 
 Every city of any 
 prtten^ions lias its 
 large ai.d fBsliionable hotel, fnrcished 
 with all the modern conveLiences and 
 equipiieil with skilled caterers. Chfqua- 
 megoa bay, Bayfield htrboraud the 
 Apostle Islands tre undoubtedly the 
 most beautiful summer retreats in the 
 United States. Thousands of tourists 
 from all portions of tlie union visit this 
 region every summer. Twenty-six thou- 
 sand tourists pasEed through the "Soo" 
 canal during the last season, as may be 
 seen by referring to 
 the official table on 
 J age fifty, of this an- 
 nual. The large 
 steamships with these 
 passengers touch at 
 tlie port of Bayfield, 
 giving tlie tourists an 
 opportunity to stop at 
 the Harbor City for a 
 few days. Some of 
 the '.interesting feat- 
 ures near the city, . 
 are the historic chapel 
 of Marquette and Al- 
 lou' z, built on Made- 
 line Island in IOCS, 
 only three miles from 
 Bayfield; the Red 
 Cliflf Indian Reserva- 
 tion, six miles from 
 Bayflelfi ; the giant 
 browDstone monolith 
 a halt dozen miles 
 
 west of the city, etc., etc. Excur- 
 sion steamers run from the city 
 to the government lighthouses and 
 other points of interest on the Apostle 
 Islands, and fine trout fisting and tne 
 banting of large game can be indulged 
 in within three or four miles of the 
 city. What more ideal plac9 could be 
 sought, then, than Bayfield as a sum- 
 mer resort? The spacious Island View 
 hotel, a cut of which is prodnctd upon 
 this page, is filled with guests from all 
 over the country during the summer 
 months. It is one of the finest hotels in 
 the state. Situated on a side hill, the 
 view from the balcony extends for forty 
 or fifty miles on the bay and lake. 
 The" Island View "is known to thousands 
 of tourists who have e:ijoyed its hospi- 
 
 '^\ 
 
 ISLAUD VIEW HOTEL, BATFIBLD. 
 
 NOKWEOIAN I.UrHBRAN CHURCH. 
 
 the Idke steamers to 
 bring itsguests. Tak- 
 it all in all, there is 
 no more beautiful 
 summer resort in 
 America. 
 
 We give views of 
 the interior of the 
 dining room and par- 
 lor on this page, and 
 an exterior view of 
 the bailding. The 
 hotel is able to ac- 
 commodate over 200 
 guests, and furnishes 
 every convenience 
 found i n modem 
 hostelry. The hotel 
 will be opened this 
 season . under ^ew 
 management and one 
 of the best hotel men 
 in the state will have 
 charge. 
 
 
 PARLOR OF THE ISLAHD VIEW HOTEL. 
 
 DININQROOM OF THE ISLAND VIEW HOTEL. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 135 
 
 NKLSON BACHAND, 
 Supervisor. 
 
 ROB'T INOLIS, 
 Town Treiisiirer, 
 
 O, FI.A.NDER8. 
 Ch'n TownlBoard, 
 
 H. J. CONLIN, 
 Supervisor. 
 
 J. C. BOUTIN. 
 Town Clerk; 
 
 WM, KNIGHT, COL J. D. CRDTTENDKN. 
 
 Pres. Lumbermen's Bank. 
 
 ANDHE V TATE, 
 Druggist. 
 
 CURBIE a. BRLL, 
 Editor Bayfield Press. 
 
 COL. C. P. RUDD. 
 
 J. S. MCINTOSH, 
 Gash'r Lumbermeu^s'Bank. 
 
 JOHN>IEGE, 
 Cigar Mfgr, 
 
 HENRY FIEGE, 
 Cigar Mfgr. 
 
 GEO. H. QCAYLE, 
 Of R, D. Pike Lumber Co. 
 
 B. H. WATERMAN, 
 Fish Company. 
 
 JUDGE JOS. M -LOUD, ED. FISCHER, 
 
 Bayfield's First Postmaster, Buyfield Pharmacy. 
 
 FRANK BOUTl.s'.' JR , 
 Lumberman. 
 
 UEN, A, O. FCLLEB, 
 
 A. B, DKLAN'EY, 
 Photographer. 
 
136 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 
 
 ^ 
 
 O Bayfield's i^umber ]\ecord. <5 
 
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 OW mn.Hical tbe 
 tuzzng of the cir 
 tular saw ns heard 
 Ht Bayfield, many 
 years before the ma- 
 jotily of the saw 
 mill towns in the 
 New WiscousiQ weie even dreamed of. 
 Bayfield can justly lay claim to the title 
 ot ."Pioneer Hnrbor City" in the great 
 lumbering industry that his ojieiied, iis 
 if by luagi^,, in theLahe Superior region, 
 hs well as beiug first in the Qeld in 
 other industries that have given this 
 country such unbounded prosperity. 
 
 The individuality and enterprise of 
 Capt. R. D. Pike has been a potent fac- 
 
 trict. It is now 
 operated by 
 stock company, 
 with Capt. R. 
 D. Pike at the 
 he id as presi- 
 dent. T. S. 
 To luk i n 8/ is 
 treasurer and 
 Geo. H. Qaayle 
 secretary and 
 head book- 
 keeper. Over 
 115 000 was 
 spent last year 
 in improve- 
 ment on the 
 
 a r 
 
 
 '^^9^' 
 
 The Log Cut For 1892-93. 
 
 BAYFIELD'S log cut the past winter 
 was a large cne. The following 
 list gives the names of the different op- 
 erators Hcd their ontpnt: 
 
 NAME. FEBT. 
 
 McKenOD A Please 13,000,000 
 
 Kfyaionc Lnmber CompaDy ll.UOO.OOO 
 
 H. H. StocltiiiK& I ompaDy 3.nooio00 
 
 Merrill & KiDg 6,000,000 
 
 C. C. Ibonipson 1 amber I'ompany 4 0lO,000 
 
 Sand Hiver Ltiaiber Cumps'.y 10,000,000 
 
 i- 1-. 'i"'8ht 8,000.000 
 
 F. Fischer 5.000,000 
 
 II. I), (.happen l,aOU.O0O 
 
 Wright A Ketcbam 2.000,000 
 
 G. L. Kodgers 3,O0o!O0O 
 
 OaDberry Lumber ('ompaoy 20,000000 
 
 Pat llyoes 7,000!000 
 
 Bust A Hdutin 10,000 000 
 
 Oeo B'st *.000!000 
 
 Fruulc IlouflQ ''500000 
 
 •;■ fv ,""'''' ■"■•' rioooiooo 
 
 ' P: '''"« „ „ 1000,000 
 
 brlgbain & Massell 1,000,000 
 
 CAPT. R. D, PIKB, 
 Pres. t,( the Pike Lumber Co. 
 
 Total 108,000,000 
 
 The Bayfield Box Factory. 
 
 THE Bayfield box fdC Oiy ij a com- 
 paratively new iustitution, but it 
 has already [roved to be very paying 
 property, and baa adde 1 much to the 
 commercial imporiance of the Harbor 
 City, It is the first box factory to oper- 
 
 QENEU.tL VIBW 
 
 tor in establishing Bayfield's lumbering 
 business. In fact his mill was the fir.-t 
 to be constrnc'ed on Cheqnamegon bay, 
 which is now becoming known far and 
 wide, as one of the most important lum- 
 bering institutions ou Lake Superior. 
 At the time 
 Capt, Pike took 
 tbe initial step, 
 _,^ it required 
 
 ^^k>3^ wonderful 
 
 Hi pnsh and bust- 
 
 ^* ^ ling ability to 
 
 make a success 
 ^^^^' \^ of a Northeru 
 
 'm^^^J^j^t^lf^"- Wisconsin saw 
 
 ^^^^^^^ mill. But in 
 
 this the Cap- 
 I tain was never 
 
 ^ found wanting 
 
 K. K BKIOHAM, ^°" *' ^° *'" 
 
 Of Brlgimm L. & s. Co. surance of his 
 business tact, there stands at Bayfield, 
 one of the busiest saw mills in this dis- 
 
 r* 
 
 OF THE PLA.^T OF TH« PIKE LUMBER OOMPANV. 
 
 mill. A fine stowing was madd by the 
 mill last year -a total of 18,000,000 feet 
 of lumber being sawed, from May 1 to 
 Nov. 18. There were no saw culls in 
 the season's output. 
 
 Dock building has been a special 
 "hobby" of the R. D. Pike Company, 
 and it is certain that no other mill in 
 existence is better equipped with dock- 
 age and deep water for vessel shipments 
 The entire dock 
 room owned by 
 the company 
 is 9,943 lioedr 
 feet. 
 
 E. K. Brig- 
 ham, the active 
 proprietor of 
 the Lumber & 
 Supply Co., has 
 leased thepl-iij- 
 ing mill of the 
 Pike Lumber 
 Company. 
 
 bayfiklu, Wle. 
 ate successfully in this lumber district, 
 whxh speaks well for the management, 
 M. Downey, of Kansas City, Mo., pur- 
 cha=ed the property last year. J. S. 
 Mcintosh, cashier of the Lumbermen's 
 bank, is now quite extensively inter- 
 ested in the enterprise. Both gentle- 
 men are tfcorough business men, and 
 will give a great impetus to the business 
 of the factory this year. 
 
 O.XE OK THE B.VYI'IELD LI MlilCR FLEET, 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 137 
 
 RESIDENCE, WM. KNIGHT, BAYFIELD WIS. 
 
 INTERIOR BAYFIELD PHARMACY. 
 
 FARM ON CHEQCAMEaON BAY. 
 
 PICNIC SCENE NEAR BAYFIELD. 
 
 THE Br'LL BLOCK AND BAYFIELD PHARMACY. 
 
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 RESIDENCE, DR. H, HANNUM. 
 
 RESIDENCE, C. O. BELL EDITOR BAYFIELD PRESS. 
 
138 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAH^Y PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 >^joXo^Jo\o^ 
 
 The Tov/R of Bayfield. 
 
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 >o lojoopofo*: 
 
 ISCON.S1N hai few 
 towns that can boast 
 of more farming tlian 
 the town of Bayfield 
 a map of which ap- 
 pears on another page. 
 There are townships 
 pretty well settled 
 with farmers and set- 
 tling fast. A view on another page is 
 given of a stock farm on Chequamegon 
 bay, near Bayfield, The town of Bay- 
 field contains about 288 square miles and 
 and has some of the best pine to be 
 found in northern Wisconsin* 
 
 Col. Isaac H. Wing is one of the early 
 pioneers of Bayfield, who has perhaps, 
 done as much for Bayfield and this part 
 of the Lake Superior country, as any 
 other one pereon. He came here at an 
 early day and served during the civil 
 war with special distinction. He was a 
 member of Gov. Hoard's stafi, with 
 rank of colonel. Mr. Wing is always 
 aggressive, and is inter- 
 ested in nearly every 
 public enterprise in Bay- 
 field, including the Island 
 View Hotel, Hydraulic 
 Company, Lighting 
 Company, etc. He is 
 liberal in all public un- 
 dertakings, and a history 
 of Bayfield would indeed 
 be incomplete without 
 allusion to the long and 
 and useful career of Col. 
 I. H. Wing. 
 
 As a Summer Resort. 
 
 EVERY fcummer there 
 are thousands of 
 celebrated summer tonr- 
 iats who visit Bayfield. 
 Its beauty and quiet and 
 picturesque scenery are 
 unsurpassed. The Island 
 View hotel is unexcelled as a fashion- 
 able hostelry, while there are plenty of 
 other accommodations. A sail on the 
 harbor or a day's trout fishing leaves a 
 memorytthat lasts a lifetime. 
 
 Trout Fishing In Bayfield. 
 
 FAMOUS among sportsmen all over 
 the United States are the trout 
 streams in and about Bayfield, Capt. 
 R. D. Pike has recently established a 
 fish hatchery near Bayfield in the his- 
 toric Pike creek, which is one of the 
 most picturesque little mountain brooks 
 to be found anywhere, and reminds one 
 very much of the famous ecenes among 
 the Adirondacs. 
 
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 CML ISAAC)!. WLN.,, HaVHII,! 
 
 FIK8T STREET LOOKINO SOUTH — BAYFIELD. 
 Bayfield Box Factory. 
 
 IT IS often that out of small begin- 
 nings large and prosperous enter- 
 prises are developed. Such has been 
 the history of the Bayfield box factory. 
 It begun to supply the surplus trade of 
 the M. Downey box factory, of Kansas 
 City. It has grown to such proportions 
 that now its trade is enviable in itself 
 and its shipments cover a wide range, 
 reaching from Chicago to Salt Lake 
 City, and from Wisconsin to Mexico, 
 The manufacture of boxes is the nucleus 
 round which the other lines are centered. 
 They are made in all descriptions. In 
 fact every form of box called for is sup- 
 
 plied on short notice. Iq their other 
 line J the trade is advancing finely. In 
 headings they manufacture all kinds 
 from stock carefully prapared in their 
 dry kiln, A large trade has been en- 
 joyed in sawed staves and this year the 
 factory has put in ma'jhinery for cut- 
 ting flour staves, which is being oper- 
 ated successfully at the rate of mann- 
 facturing twenty cords of bolts per day. 
 
 A high grade of cedar fishing floats is 
 also produced and a ready sale found 
 for the same at points along the lakes. 
 
 Having superior machinery, they turn 
 out as fine a line of mouldings as any 
 concern in Northern Wisconsin. In lo- 
 cation the factory is fortunate, being In 
 a district of good hard and soft timber, 
 and having most excellent dock facili- 
 ties. 
 
 The aim of the management is prompt 
 attention to every order, large or small, 
 and first-class gocds. Parties desiring 
 the articles of their manufacturing will 
 do well to correspond with the Bayfield 
 Box Factory, of Bayfield Wis. 
 
 The Brlgham Lumber and Supply Co. 
 
 THE E. K. Brigbam Lumber and 
 Supply Company, of Bayfield, are 
 manufacturers and dealers in rough 
 and dressed lumber, shingles and lath, 
 and also handle brick, lime and cement, 
 in fact all kinds of building materials. 
 Mr. Brigham has leased 
 the planing mill of the 
 Pike Lumber Company 
 for a term of years, and 
 it has a capacity of 75-, 
 OUO feet per day. Mr. 
 Brigham is also a mem- 
 ber of the firm of Brig- 
 ham & Mnssell, one of 
 the largest logging 
 firms on the bay. 
 
 Mr, Brigham also op- 
 erates a shingle mill and 
 has secured a lease of a 
 coal dock near the R. D. 
 Pike Lumber Co. and 
 has carried on quite an 
 extensive coal bnsinees 
 vluring the past year. 
 The Supply Co., al- 
 though less than a year 
 in existence, is one of 
 the most flourishing institutions in the 
 Harbor city. Mr. Brigbam is a pusher 
 aggressive and popular and just the sort 
 of a business man that is a credit to 
 any town. 
 
 The Lumbermen's Bank. 
 
 BAYFIELD enjoys the distinction 
 of having a first-class bank. It 
 was organized in 1889, by Mr. Wm. 
 Knight, who is well known as a finan- 
 cier. He has made a pronounced suc- 
 cess of the bank, and it is today one of 
 the soundest financial institutions in the 
 state. Not the lea?t among Bayfield's 
 institutions is the Lumberman's Bank. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 139 
 
 N iDstitntion that 
 never closes its 
 doors, can truly be 
 said of the Chicago 
 Herald. The latch 
 btriag of its magni- 
 ficent new building 
 is ever out. This simple fact has still a 
 deeper significance. Its columns are al- 
 ways open for Wisconsin news and Wis- 
 consin enterprises, and especially is this 
 true in reference to the Lake Superior 
 country. No other Chicago newspaper 
 has shown as earnest and active interest 
 in the development of the "New Wis- 
 consin." Consequently the Herald is 
 considered almost as necessary at a Wis- 
 consin hearthstone as the old family al- 
 manac used tc be in the quaint old days 
 of long ago. 
 
 Then, too, the Herald is considered 
 the great newspaper model in the United 
 States today for the stiuggling country 
 editor. Its pages fairly glisten with 
 bright ideas and the typographical ap- 
 pearance is net excelled by that of any 
 other newspaper in the w^rld. The 
 unique, antique dreas, every letter of 
 which was designed by the enterprising 
 publisher, has almost a hypnotic fascin- 
 ation, 80 that the Herald always brings 
 the nickle out of the pocket, when a 
 Chicago newspaper is wanted. And in 
 these times a Chicago newspaper is as 
 necessary as air itself. 
 
 The strong bold that the Herald has 
 Tipon its constituency is net difficult to 
 understand. Its enthusi- 
 astic allies all over the 
 country are the rural edi- 
 tors. The publisher, Mr. 
 James W. Scott, who has 
 made the Herald what it is 
 to-day, has been a country 
 editor, and his sympathy 
 with them is more than the 
 usual superficial and pat- 
 ronizing smile of metropol- 
 itan publishers. 
 
 A feature of the Herald 
 that has attracted consid- 
 erable attention with its 
 country constituency of 
 late, has been the " want 
 columns, " They are now 
 becoming essential to 
 those outside of Chicago as 
 well as those who reside 
 within the annexed city 
 limit?. A small expendi- 
 ture for a Herald w^a n t 
 reaches thousands of read- 
 
 ers almost as quickly as a direct tele- 
 graph message. 
 
 It is rumored that a special newspa- 
 per train will run out of Chicago to the 
 Lake Superior region, so that papers 
 will reach Ashland the same day of pub- 
 lication. It is unnecessary to add that 
 the Herald is foremost in this enterprise 
 to furnish the news quick — even to the 
 most remote quarte'rs, and a special 
 fast mail would add still more to its 
 
 J \MES W SCOTT, 
 I'Qbllsher ChlcaKO Herald. 
 
 distinction. The Chicago Herald is con- 
 sidered a home enterpiiae In Northern 
 Wisconsin. It has been a medium 
 through which attention has been 
 called to the wonderful resources of this 
 section and the people are quick to ap- 
 preciate it. In reviewing the record 
 of 1893, the annals would be incom- 
 plete without due acknowiedgement. 
 
 During the coming year, the un- 
 daunted "Herald," with its resounding 
 trumpet will more than ever prove its 
 right to lead in the onward industrial 
 crusade for the great northwest. We 
 are pleased to give on this page a por. 
 trait of tha Her-ild's popular publisher, 
 Mr. James W. Scott. 
 
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 ,^,i''W^:V''^ 
 
 THE OLD CATHOLIC CHURCH, AT LA POINTE, NEAR ASHLAND. 
 Built in 1G65. by Father Marquette. 
 
 Paved Two And One-Half Hiles. 
 
 THE city of Ashland has put in ex- 
 actly two and a half miles of paving 
 during the past season at a total cost 
 o( $27,704.46. Property owners along 
 the streets paved will pny in addition 
 $7s,362.4a. Six blocks each have been 
 paved on fourteenth avenue east, and 
 Ninth avenue west, sixteen blocks on 
 Third street and nine intervening blocks 
 between Second and Third Streets. 
 Counting 36B feet from the middle of 
 one stn et crossitig to the next one, the 
 thirty-seven blocks will aggregate 13,- 
 541 feet, or two and a half miles. 
 
 The contract for all the paving was 
 let to A. J. Grant, excepting the six 
 blocks on Fourteenth avenue east, 
 which was let to Hugh Steele. Details 
 of the work and its cost follow: 
 
 Sixteen blocks on Third street, and 
 nine intervening blocks between Second 
 and Third streets, a distance of twenty- 
 five blocks, or one and seven-tenths 
 miles. Cost to abutting property, $48,- 
 367.17. In addition to this, the cost to 
 the city is $18,467.10. 
 
 Fourteenth avenue from St. Clair to 
 
 Sixth street, six blocks, or nearly a half 
 
 mile, costing the abutting 
 
 properly $15,141.12, while 
 
 the city pays $5,981,96. 
 
 Ninth avenue west, from 
 Fourth to Tenth street, 
 same distance as above, cost 
 to abutting property holder, 
 $9,534.14,— city's share, 
 $3,255.40. 
 
 Last season ten blocks 
 were paved on Seventh ave- 
 nue West, namely from 
 Fifth to Tenth street. Six 
 blocks, from Seventh ave- 
 nue west to Ellis avenue; 
 were also paved last season. 
 This makes a total of fifty - 
 three blocks paved in Ash- 
 land, or three and three- 
 fifths miles. This season 
 the work will begin early. 
 Third street will be paved 
 from the Beaser Hose house, 
 where the work stopped, to 
 Fifteenth avenue west. 
 
140 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— AN >JUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 Bayfield and ills ScKeols. 
 
 roxD '.^^Ss Q'^oxC (5oSs SoNs wTonS G>oX5 yToxS GToXS O^^ 
 
 RIDE in schools and 
 publicinstitntions is 
 one of the noted ft a- 
 tnresof all lesidents 
 of the Harbor City. 
 When it comes to a 
 consi deration of 
 public enterprises it 
 will be fouud th*t 
 Bayfield has established a record not ex- 
 celled by any city of its size in the state. 
 Its chnrches schools and public build- 
 ings wonld do justice to a city twice its 
 proportions. Bayfield has had a grad- 
 ual steady growth dniing its entire ex- 
 istence with no suddea expansive in- 
 flations. What the Harbor City has ac- 
 complished, it has accomplislied well, 
 and the outlook was never bri^^hter for 
 its general prosperity than at the pres- 
 ent time. The institutions alieady 
 located there are ircreasing with very 
 flitttring success. But it is the gen- 
 eral public spirit in the pushing for- 
 ward of public enterprises, for which 
 Bayfield citizens have always bjen 
 noted, that speaks for the city. 
 
 Public and Parochial Schools. 
 The Bayfi>-ld High School building is 
 a handsome structure, a cut of which 
 is presented on this page. It was built 
 with all the mcdein conveniences for 
 students. The corps of teachers who 
 are employed are second to none in pro- 
 ficiency. The members of t he schoolboard 
 are Messrs. Fred. Fischer, Robt Inglis 
 and F. Herrick, Especial attention is 
 given to kindergarten work. Pending 
 
 is guaged by the number and prosperity . 
 of its schools and churches. Judging 
 from this standpoint, as well as from 
 the general air of prosperity and happi- 
 ness that is everywhere apparent, the 
 csndition of Bayfield is satisfactory. 
 
 No city in Wisconsin, has mere eflS- 
 cient schools than Bayfield, the Harbor 
 City. 
 
 PROl'OSED NORMAL SCHOOL, FORMERLY COURT HOUSE 
 
 HIQH fcCIluOL. 
 
 the erection of additional school build- 
 ings, temporary headquarters have been 
 secured in the town hall. The Catholic 
 Parochial school is one of the features 
 of the city and is doing excell- 
 ent work. 
 
 Bayfield Churches. 
 
 BaySeldis well supplied with 
 churches. The Methodist, 
 Catholic, Presbyterian,' Swed- 
 ish Lutheran, Episcopalian, 
 {Scandinavian Con- 
 gvegationalists, all 
 have good chnrch- 
 esjjprosperous and 
 growing congrega- 
 tions. Each church 
 contains 1 a d i e e' 
 auxiliaries and 
 young peoples' so- 
 cieties which na 
 turally add to the 
 efficiency o f 
 church work in 
 general. The mor- 
 al and intellectual 
 growth of any city 
 
 BAYFIELD, WH. 
 
 Among the secret societies which 
 have strong lodges in Bayfield are the 
 
 F. & A. M., I. O. 0. F., Modern Wood- 
 men. American Legion of Honor, A. O. 
 U. W., Good Templars and others. The 
 
 G. A. R., S. ofV., Catholic Knights and 
 similar organizations are all prosperous. 
 
 T here are few cities taking it alto- 
 gether, that enjoy the historical and 
 educational influence that Bayfield does. 
 It is primarily a city of culture. 
 
 CATHOLIC CHURCH AND SISTER S SCHOOL, BAYFIELD. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAH.Y PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 141 
 
 ^Ofotn 
 
 
 Co °vSCo °J2,Cc o J 
 
 Bayfield's Famous jKarbor 
 
 Co'vS< 
 
 Co vS<^ "/Si's 
 
 ro °ioi; oojoro o>o(o <v 
 
 oflScials for the carrent year, portraits 
 of which are given in this issue, O. 
 Flanders, chairman, H. C. Conlin 
 and Nelson BacbaT:d supervisor. 
 J. C. Bintin, clerk; Robert Inglis, 
 treasurer. One feature which the 
 town of Bayfield can rightfully boast < f 
 is its splendid road} and bridgis. The 
 Dalrjmple boulevard, over 100 feet 
 
 E C E N T d e V e 1 op- 
 ments show that dur- 
 the coming year Bay- 
 ifien\viU undoubted- 
 ..„, -^.^-^ ly be li^ade the east- 
 
 *«- /■■" ■! 1 » l| I 
 
 "■*^"^- L.^=;. 'f- eily and Lake Superior 
 ;('^n^)-^-^'-'j terminus of the Great 
 
 ■>* \;-, )^;«r5^^- Northern system. 
 
 VlicS^^^v ~' -^ The Baj field Harbor 
 & Great Western R lilroad which was 
 surveyed last year will be built this 
 year, and will undoabledly be a lart 
 of th9 Great Nortliern fystem. This 
 road is one of the eaterpris^s that has 
 be;n attracted by the fici ities ofifered 
 by the Biyfield Lirbir, which is un- 
 doubtedly the finest harbor on earth, 
 Const mtinople excepted. It extends 
 fifteen m\\e% in length, from three to 
 five miles in width, with a depth of wa- 
 ter of 18) feet. Tae front ige of fifteen 
 miles far dockage will unloubtedly ba 
 covered with elevators and manufactur- 
 ing institutions. The grrat northwest 
 will ship itagriinby way of Like Super- 
 ior, Hud when the deep waterway chan- 
 nel to the sea is CDmpleted Bayfield har- 
 bor must be used as there is 
 no other harbor that has a 
 sufficient depth of water to 
 accommodate ths class of vessels that 
 will then be in service. Thirty feet of 
 water can be secnred at almost any 
 point along the shore of Bayfield from 
 Redcliffe to Bayfield by goiag out 250 
 feet and in some places 100 feet of 
 water can be secured by going out 
 twenty feet, so that the Qraat Eastern 
 could tie up to trees in game places and 
 load. 
 
 It has always been a progressive 
 town. The following are the town 
 
 UKKEKAL VIEW Oi- BaVHSLL) 
 
 TOWN OF BAYFIELD AND BAYFIELD HABBOH. 
 
 wid^, lunning from Bay- 
 field, no Ih to Red Cliff, U 
 one (jf the most beautiful 
 drives on the shores cf Like 
 Superior. It is almost f qual 
 to a drii e in Jackson Park 
 itself. The soil is sandy, 
 warm and especially adapt- 
 ed to raising small grain, 
 — hay especially, and when 
 the pine is gone, Bayfield 
 county will have some of 
 the finest dairy farms in 
 the state. 
 
 The first giint pine trej 
 was felled on the present 
 site of Bayfield Mirch 24, 
 1856. 
 
 The county board set ofif 
 the town of Bayfield , Oct. 
 25. 1858, and the first town 
 election was held in April 
 1859, when 
 the first 
 town officers 
 were el-^cted 
 A. J. Day, 
 Chair man, 
 W m . S . 
 Warren and 
 Thos. Davis, 
 Supervisors; 
 A. .J. Stead- 
 man, clerk, 
 T. L. Pit 
 terson.treas- 
 u r e r and 
 Andre w 
 Tate, super- 
 intendent of 
 the schools. 
 
 CATHOLIC MOXASTEHT, BAYFIELD WIS. 
 
142 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAH,Y PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
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 Bayfield's Stone Quarries. 
 
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 REAT as liave teen 
 the strides in the 
 biownstone industry 
 (luring the last few 
 years, the Bayfield 
 quarries have more 
 than held their own. 
 Mr. R. D P.ke op-ntd up the Bayfit-ld 
 brownstone qnarry in the season of l8?-i, 
 it being the pioneer qu;irr/ on Che- 
 quainegon bay, ns no other quarries 
 were oj^ened on the main land until 
 ab lut one or two years later. 
 
 The first shipment of stone made 
 was to St. P.nl for the German .Ameri- 
 can Bank building and the next for 
 Minnesota Club House at S^. Piul. 
 
 hours with the fire pouring out of all 
 the doors and windows until the entird 
 inside was consumed. The morning 
 after tbe fire the building resembled a 
 hiiuh iceberg, ami after going tlirough 
 this trying ordeal of fiie and ice the 
 building was handsomely refitted the 
 next season without removing 
 one s one of the original wall, 
 and had this building been 
 constructed of lime, granite or any 
 other mate ial than Lake Sip-rior 
 brownstone, it would certainlv have 
 had to be rebuilt from the foundi- 
 ticm up. 
 
 During 1 he operations of the Bayfield 
 Brown tone Company large quantities 
 of stone have bten .shipp d to Chicago, 
 St. Paul, Minna ipolis, Omiha, Sioux 
 City, etc. In Chicago many of thn 
 hand-orae private resi lences on Michi- 
 
 \ lEW NEAR pike's QUARRIES — BAYFIELD IN THE DISTANCE. 
 
 Col. E. F. Drake, of St. Paul, now de- 
 ceased, in May, 1885, bought one-half 
 interest in the property, and from that 
 time or, run it as a firm, under the 
 name of the Bayfield Brownstone Com- 
 pany, and continued to operate it as 
 such until the fall of 1892, when a stock 
 company was formed under the laws of 
 the state of Wisconsin as the Bayfield 
 Brownstone Development Company, 
 with A. M. Drake, president; H. T, 
 Drake, secretary and treasurer; and R. 
 D. Pike vice-president and ;geneial 
 manager. 
 
 In the season of 188.5 the Bayfield 
 Brownstone company fu'nirhed all the 
 stone for the Lumbermen's Exchange in 
 Minneapolis, a building twelve stories 
 high, which at tnat tim» was the high- 
 ebt and hamlsomest building in the city 
 and nothing up to the present writing 
 has superceded it. In March, 18S)1, the 
 building took fire, with the thermome- 
 ter between 20° and 3 1° below 
 zero and streams of water were 
 pla}ing on it for over eix 
 
 gan boulevard are built of this stone. 
 Th-j Central Pre.sbyterian church near 
 the capitol building in St. Paul, is built 
 of this stone. The company also fur- 
 nished S. G-. Cook, of Minneapolis, 
 owner of the L'lmbermen's Ex- 
 change, all thf stone for his 
 handsome private residence, 
 one of the fine.st in the city. 
 
 The quarry has two chan- 
 nellers, four steam derricks 
 and all the nece.-^sary machi- 
 nery belonging thereto. 
 
 The Pishine Interests. 
 
 AMONG the fish companies 
 operating on Luke Supe- 
 rior, in handling the fam<ius 
 lake trout and whitefish, Mr. 
 B H. Waterman, of Bayfield, 
 has bpilt up an extensive trade 
 durirg the past two years. He 
 receijtly leased a dork at Bay- 
 field and will build quite an 
 ext^nsive warehouse during 
 the summ>-r and will give hi« 
 entire attention to the whole- 
 sale trade in supplying the 
 
 market.s with tue tin>^st ami freshest lake 
 fish obtainabl" ami also insuring prompt 
 shipments. He also liandles salt white- 
 fish, tront and herri->g, and has an ex- 
 tensive trade in this line. 
 
 (APT. R. D. PIKE, 
 I'ns. I'lke Brownstone Co.. BaTfleld. Wis. 
 THE BVVFIELD LIGHTINO COMPANY. 
 
 THREE years ago Capt. R. D. Pike, 
 with his usual enterprise, organized 
 he BayfieM Lighting C impauy, and 
 hit city now has ona of the best plant* 
 n tie lake. 
 
 T. W. Denuison is also secretary of 
 his cf'inpanv, and has made it a success 
 )a-ides attending numerous otherMuties. 
 
 n; 
 
 THE BVYFIELD HYDRAULIC COMPANY. 
 
 O city in the woild has a tetter 
 water service than Bayfield. It was 
 
 rganiz^d twenty yens ago, and has a 
 franchise for piping lines within a radius 
 
 f ten miles of the city. They will this 
 year build a power house, and pump 
 from the lake, as well as using gravity 
 Dressure from the two reservoirs, which 
 
 10 w supply f-prin? water. T. W. Den- 
 
 lison is the energetic secretary of this 
 company, and no. e can excell him in 
 the management of such corporations. 
 
 BAYFIELD IMPR0VMENT8 FOR 1893. 
 
 ACCORDING to accurals figures ob- 
 tained by the Bayfield Press, the 
 improvements for 1893 aggregate |ltiO,- 
 000, and the amount of business done in 
 Biyfield amounts to $3, OOj, 000 annually. 
 
 RESIDENCE OF A. J. MlvSKI.L HAVFIELD. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 143 
 
 -g-f. — ^ 
 
 Ashland and its Courts. 
 
 ' HE Federal Govern- 
 icent has erected aa 
 elegant public build- 
 ing in the city of 
 Ashland at a cost of 
 IllO.CCO. and has ex- 
 pended twice that 
 amount on the government breakwater 
 in Ashland harbor. It maintains one of 
 the three United States land oflBces of 
 the state of Wifconsin in Ashland, as 
 well as the La Pointe Indian agency, 
 embracing the northern portion of Wis- 
 consin and the northeastern portion of 
 M nnesota to the Canadian boundary. 
 The citizens of the New "Wisconsin ask 
 but two more things of the Government. 
 One of these is, that Ashland be made « 
 full port of entry, instead of being made 
 a Eub-port as it now is. Secondly, it 
 should be 
 placed in the 
 eastern Judi- 
 cial Circuit of 
 the etute of 
 Wis. , with 
 terms of 
 court held in 
 Ashland. The 
 govern m e n t 
 would not have 
 to go to the ex- 
 pense of erect- 
 ing a building. 
 The new public 
 baildins; obvi- 
 ates thit. The 
 question then 
 resolves itself 
 into one of pos- 
 itive necessity. 
 
 To state it 
 concisely, three 
 things are ur- 
 gently needed: 
 
 First,— Tw J 
 terms a year 
 of federal 
 court at Ash- 
 laud. 
 
 Second.— A 
 deputy clerk 
 to issue pro - 
 cess. 
 
 Third. — Deputy marshal to execute 
 prccass. 
 
 Now the reasons why this should be 
 done are not mere random shots, but 
 based upon the requirements asked far. 
 
 First.— The United Statas census, of 
 layo, -hows that Ashland is the third 
 larjjest shipinug port on the Great Lakes 
 — Cnicago and Buffalo, hold ng first and 
 
 E. J. DOCKERY. 
 
 J. T. KINGSTON, 
 State Senator from^Aehland, 
 
 secrni place respectively on the list. 
 Second. — Weekly, during the naviga- 
 tion season, applications are mide for lit- 
 igation for demurrage chargef, seamen's 
 liens, furniture liens, coal liens, e'c. 
 But no chance, no relief, owing to the 
 proper officials being 500 miles away. 
 And there are no means whatever for 
 immediate ai,tion for procedure. All 
 we can do is to take preliminary meas- 
 ures. The litigation, which ought to te 
 carried on here is taken elsewhere at 
 treble the expense necessary. 
 
 CIBCUIT JIDGB, H J.\ .1 K I'ARISH. 
 
 MUNICIPAL JUDOE, HON. L. A, OALEUNd. 
 
 Thikd. — Frequent claims for protest 
 for damage, for delay, hard weather. 
 running on reefs, etc., all could be car- 
 ried on in Ashland, but no means, no 
 court, no officers are at band. 
 
 Fourth. — Re;ervatiune all contigu- 
 oas to Ashland result in f reqaent cases 
 arising which can only be tried in United 
 States courts in this state originating 
 north of a line running east and west 
 midway between LaCrosse and Madison. 
 That is to say tlie new p irt of the state 
 produces most of the litigation in federal 
 courts. 
 
 Sixth. — The railroads run from Ash- 
 land direct, reaching all parts of the 
 state and especially the northern part 
 much more conveniently than Madison. 
 
 EECOBD IN THB CIRCUIT COURT, 
 
 THERE have been over 2,200 cases 
 tried in the circuit court in this dia- 
 ttict daring the past five years, of which 
 1,700 were trie! in Ashland. The aver- 
 age number of days thit court was in 
 session was about 75, and the litigation 
 iu the circuit has included some of the 
 most interetting cases evtrput on a cir- 
 cuit court ca'ender. Judge Parish has 
 had an unu-ually good record on the 
 bench as his overwhelming majority 
 for re-election in April, would indicate. 
 The Ashlana County Bar Association 
 has about I hirty members. The 15th 
 Judicial district, in which the city of 
 _ Ashland i s 
 
 situated, com- 
 prises the six 
 counties o f 
 Bayfield, Saw- 
 yer, Ashland , 
 Iron, Taylor 
 and Price. It 
 i s presided 
 over by Hon. 
 J. K. Parish, 
 who has serv- 
 ed since Jan- 
 uary 1st, 1888, 
 and who was 
 reele t'd Apri 1 
 4th, 1893, re- 
 ceiving 4,000 
 votes out of a 
 t )tal of 9253. 
 3e had five 
 competit o r s. 
 His second 
 term as judge 
 I'xpires Janu- 
 ary Ist 1900. 
 
 Edgar Fos- 
 ter is the new- 
 ly elected 
 muu i c i p a 1 
 judge and will 
 succeed the 
 present iucuiubent Jan, Ist, 1894. The 
 jurisdiction of the court covers l)oth the 
 city and the entire county. 
 
 Taken altogether Ashland is well 
 supplied with courts. It is a legal center 
 a" Well as a commercial center and some 
 of the most noted trials held in the state 
 have been tri^d here. 
 
 O i page 63 we give a group of por- 
 traits of Ashlaud attorneys and on this 
 pags the judges and other attorneys. 
 
 
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144 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAHiY PBESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 Ashland's Grain Trade. 
 
 m: IBIfOW irresUtible lias 
 
 jA- HI ai ''®''° "^® onwaid pro- 
 
 stress of the New 
 i-'?<^ Wisconsin and the 
 ' "^ J. "Garland City of the 
 i-^rsN Inland Sei." Ten 
 ' i^ « years ago, it was a 
 wilderness. Now it is tilled wiih then 
 sands of happy home?. Afhland has 
 developed into a city of 16,00J perple 
 and is now the metropolis of ti e north- 
 em portion of the state. Among the ad- 
 vantages which Ashland's matcbless lo- 
 cation ha? secured, is thit of a mauu- 
 facturing centir. Lake Snperi:)r cities 
 are the ODming floor mill centers of the 
 world. Although Ashland's flonr indus- 
 try is yet in its infancy, the following 
 figures of the flour atd grain business 
 of this city for 1892, will give an idea of 
 the progress made: 
 
 AGGBEOATE FOR TEAR. 
 
 Flour iiiaiiufactured bl)l8... 162. ."jOd 
 
 Fe«d inannfac-turi'd. tous 13 ^^(KI 
 
 Feed and coarBn grain aa es $St)*.i,ri(K» 
 
 Floor salea »69t).(XJIJ 
 
 The flour mill •<( ihf Northern 
 
 Grain Co., a cut of which is reprodnred 
 up in this page, has a capacity of 500 
 barrels per day. Thegrain el-vator has 
 
 WABBH0U8E NOkTHEBN GRAIN FLOURING HILL. 
 
 a capacity of 150,01)0 bushels. The an- 
 nual business of the company is over 
 11,000,000. The officers are O. W. 
 
 Mosher, president; J. G. Martin, vice- 
 president, and R. L. McCormick, treas- 
 urer. Walter J. Fitch is traveling sales- 
 man. The local fl jur trade of the com- 
 pany extends all over the states of Wis- 
 cousin, Michigan and portions of Minne- 
 sota. Millions of bushels of hard wheat 
 from the great northwest, the largest 
 wheat producing country in the world, 
 comes direct to the head of navigation 
 for export and is taken from cars into 
 mills, manufactured into flour, leaded 
 direct into boats for ex- 
 port, saving the expense 
 of stopping enr^u'e and 
 mannfactuiing into floor 
 and reloading into cars 
 and re-shifping by rail 
 to Like Suferior and 
 into vessels. 
 
 The difference in trans- 
 portation and cost of 
 fuel, etc., to inland 
 towns as compared with 
 l/.'.ke Superior citie-, 
 iiiabesa p:ofit of itself 
 if no smiU importance. 
 Two years ago the first 
 car of wheat arrived in 
 Ashland to be manufac- 
 tured into flour. A com- 
 pany of enterprising 
 men crganiz?d at that time whatsis 
 known as the Northern Grain Company, 
 with a capital of $200,000. 
 
 VIBW OF THE NORTHERN GRAIN COMPANY'S ELEVATOR AND FLOURING MILL. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 145 
 
 The Evening Wisconsin. 
 
 OR yeara it has held 
 the field. Foryears 
 it will hold 1 he field 
 With Milwaukee 
 just twelve hours 
 distant from all 
 points in Northern 
 Wisconsin the Evening Wisconsia has 
 come to be regarded tlironghoat the 
 Lake Superior country, as a local morn- 
 ing paper. Its circula'ion exceeds ttiat 
 of all other ouiside papers combined, 
 and its state news service is better and 
 more relied upon than any other metro- 
 politan newspaper. The "Wisconsin 
 comes in close touch with the people 
 and is intimately connected with the 
 development of the "New Wisconsin." 
 
 A. J. AIKEN, 
 Business Mauager, Evening Wisconsin. 
 Every important event is cbronideil. 
 and the Wisconsin is always alive to 
 the interests of its constituency, as is 
 shown by the recent campaign in favor 
 of removing the monolith; in the estab 
 lishment of new industries, — in fact in 
 everything that apperiains to the gener- 
 al welfare of this part of the state. 
 
 The Wisconsin is the oldest paper in 
 the state, running continuously under 
 one management. It is looked upon by 
 every country publisher as a great 
 source of news supply or news exchange 
 and its place at the family fireside 
 throughout the state has been pre- 
 eminent for years past. The country 
 patrons have even began to rely upon 
 its advertising columns as a source of 
 information, and its want columns are 
 now used quite extensively by out-of- 
 town folks, — in expressing the general 
 "wants" of humanity. 
 
 The history of the Evening Wis^on 
 sin is almost a complete history of the 
 state. Its venerable editor, Wm. E' 
 Cramer, has been actively eagagei in 
 public affairs for over half a century, 
 In the superb sunset of a long and bean- 
 tiful life, he enjoys the veneration of all. 
 
 Mr. A. J. Aikens, the g--nial and pop- 
 ular businf ss manager, has grown grey 
 in the service, and it is not siying any- 
 thing too mrch to say that the Wiscon- 
 sin has enjoyed the shrewdest, safest 
 and most successful business manage- 
 ment of any newspaper in the stite. 
 The Evening Wisconsin's stronghold is 
 its close touch with the peop'e — even in 
 remote parts of the state. Always 
 ready to assist in any landable public 
 
 HON. WM E. CPAMER, 
 Veteran Editor of the Evening Wisconsin, 
 
 enterprise, it has won friends who are 
 intensely loyal, and if "the Wisconsin 
 
 says 80," that is sufBcient at all events. 
 But the Wisconsin enjoys especial dis- 
 tinction in always securing important 
 news first. Mr. Hermann Blyer, the 
 active and energetic m-maging editor, 
 has few equals. He knows just how to 
 get news and every one of his army of 
 country correspondents have often felt 
 the influence of his encouragement in 
 ferreting out good news, which the 
 Wisconsin publishes every day almost 
 exclusively, Mr. Blyer is fsisted by 
 Mr. Wm. Bowdish and his twin broth- 
 er, and altogether the pip?r has the best 
 staff of newspaper workers that can be 
 secured 
 
 The Wisconsin's ciiculation reaches 
 into the thousands, in all of the towns 
 throughout the northern part of the 
 state. It is the messenger th.it keeps 
 up the current of information from the 
 outs de world. It is character as well 
 as the amount of their ciiculatim that 
 counts. 
 
 Toe Press isglidof this opportunity- 
 to express honest appreciation of the 
 Wisconsin's work in assisting the 
 northern part of the state, to attr ict at- 
 
 HFKMAN BLYER, 
 Managing Edit<ir. Evening Wisconsin. 
 
 tention of capitili-ta to its wonderful' 
 resources. The Wisconsin is one of us,. 
 
 SCESB I.V THE COLBY Ml.SE, — OPBS PIT MI.NIVQ. 
 
146 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAHiY PBESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
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 O^ V9 £^0x0 U 0^5 (io^b (5*0x5 QT^^ 
 
 M The ^ake of Butternut. I 
 
 ^yoh'iPa(o'>y^lfi'Ji°lo'Oo(o°) 
 
 K'^, 
 
 
 O O L, seqneslered 
 and r(autiful ! Such 
 Butieruui Lake in 
 toe southern pait of 
 AshUnd county. Tiiis 
 I.eautit'aUakeisabont 
 six ujiles long by one 
 mile wide, lying one 
 and a half miles aoath 
 of Buueiuut. It is the heme of the 
 niuekallouge, of the pike and of bass, 
 and every brook running into or out of 
 it contains an abundance of fish. 
 
 Fine hunting Rronnds eurrcucd the 
 lake. Good hotel accommodations are 
 availalle, with boats and fcverythinj; 
 tnat comprises the outfit of a hunter 
 or fislieiiiuin. What finer place for an 
 ideal summer resorl? Buf.einut was 
 first settled by a colony of t Id soldiers, 
 who hit upon this spot as the one in 
 which to pasj the remainder of their 
 lives in peace and quietness. The town 
 of Butternut GOV* rs 253 square m?les, 
 running east and wtst along the south- 
 ern part of Abhlanil county. Its loca- 
 tion can be seen by reference to the map 
 on page 116 of this Annuil. The town 
 has lUO miles of good turnpike and 
 graveled loads, and is cross d from north 
 to south by the Wiscon.'-in Central road. 
 Iron has been discovered, good hard 
 ore, on the Michigan Mining company's 
 property. The whole town is adapted 
 to farming and rich farming lands can 
 be procured from ihe Wiiconsin Rail- 
 road company, at $5 per acre. H. L. 
 Besse is agent for the land.s. The tim- 
 ber is largely hardwood. However, 
 there is plenty of pine and hemlock, and 
 thousands of cedar posts and ties are 
 turned out every winter. The Ashland 
 Iron & Steel company's kilns in Butter- 
 nut use up about 10,000 cords of hard 
 wood for charcoal every year. TLe 
 
 village of Butternut contains about SCO 
 people at present. It posseases a 
 $'J0,000 public school building and has 
 a German Lutheran school, a $5,000 
 town hall, and three churches, namely, 
 Catholic, Lutheran and Presbyterian, 
 and many other fine buildings. There 
 are ten schools in the town. The But- 
 ternut Water Power company has a fine 
 flouring mill. Butternut has the diB- 
 tinctioii of having the first thresh- 
 ing machine ever brought into Ashland 
 county. The town is splendidly adapted 
 for wheat raising. A cheese factory 
 aid creamery are in operation, which 
 shows the yariety of farming operations. 
 Butterriut has three good hotels, 
 thn Buttemut House, the Commer- 
 cial House and the Cream City House. 
 The town cfficers for 1693, are, Theodore 
 R. Yankee, chairman; Michael Bauer, 
 
 and Alien Marth. Mr. Yaiikte is an 
 enterpris.ng young buslnths man who 
 is serving hie second lerm on the county 
 board. Mr. R. F. Goelner i« town 
 clerk, Charles Kieinstiber, treasurer, 
 and Juhn Russell is assessor. The mem- 
 bers of the School board, are, Charles 
 Bluedorn. presideni; H. Hanhn, vice- 
 preisdent, and John Merkle, secretary. 
 
 The eawmill of Nohl, Yankee & Co., 
 has a capacity of between three andfour 
 million feet yearly. Among the leading 
 merchants and business men, are, 
 Herman Lnebke, L. J. Bloom, 
 Herman Zoestch, Nohl & Yankee, R. 
 Goellner, Henry L. Besse, FreJ Ziestch, 
 Geo. W'eber, F. Luellwitz, D. Spillecy. 
 
 The two cuts on this page give a faint 
 idea of the beautiful ButterLut Lake, 
 The Chippewa, Turtle and Flambeau 
 rivers, and seven cr eight lakes within 
 a half dozen miles of this lake, present 
 the same features. For de.-r, partridge 
 and other game, there is no finer retreat. 
 
 H. L. Besse and others will put an- 
 other new steam launch oj the lake this 
 summer, and everything will be ar- 
 ranged to accommodate parties of any 
 size. Butternut Lake is a great place 
 for picnics and private camping parties. 
 
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 W, G. NOBL. 
 
 HENRY BB8SE, SR. cTitaS TUBODORE YANKEK. 
 
 
 
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 Scenes on Butternut l_aUce, Bcitternut, WIsconsI 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 147 
 
 E.G. WILLES, 
 Real Estate. 
 
 T. P. W«NTWOETH, 
 Prop. Tremont House. 
 
 A. J. MUSSEL, 
 Lumberman, Bayfield. 
 
 DK. H. HAN.nUM 
 Bayfield. 
 
 W. w. DO.VN8. 
 Attorney. Bayfield. 
 
 J. P. SULLIVAN, 
 Sheriff Iron County. 
 
 H. H BEASER. 
 Counjy Treasurer. 
 
 HEVRY DUFFY, 
 Register of Deeds. 
 
 R C MURRAY 
 Clerk of Court 
 
 J. W, CLOSE, 
 Mgr. Grand Opera Honse. 
 
 C. C. DEMING, 
 
 F. W. FBEXCH, 
 
 GEO. SEL'., 
 
 W. J. WaTTERS. 
 Couaty Clerk. 
 
 L B ROWLEY. 
 
 BESIDENCE OF C. H. HARTLEY 
 
 RtSlOE-NCK OF UK. J. B. WILLIAM 1. 
 
148 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAH^Y PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 sS^shXa.nd, a 3(ealtK I^esorl. ^ 
 
 'OWI see the secret 
 of tte making cf the 
 best persons," says 
 ■>J the poet. "It is to 
 grow in the open air, 
 and eat and sleep 
 wilh the earth." It 
 .needs not a nccro- 
 tnancer.or a Meg Mer- 
 riliea with fortune 
 telling cards to foretell "long life and 
 happiness" in (he piney air of Ihi Lake 
 Superior region. Fittingly has Ashland 
 the Garland City of the Inland Sfa, 
 been termed, "the b?autiful cily— the 
 city of hurried and fparkling waters, 
 — the city of spires and masts — ihe 
 city nested in bays." 
 
 "There is not in this wide world 
 
 A valley ao eweet. 
 As that vnle in whose boaom 
 
 The briHht wnters meet. 
 Oh ! ^ he last rays ot feeling 
 
 And llf(' mnst depart 
 Ere tlie l>'<> -m of that valley 
 
 fehall fade from my heart. 
 
 Tbe Ashland Casino. 
 
 AMONG the new enterprises which 
 are assured for Ashland is a Casino, 
 which will be built by Thomas Bardon 
 daring the present season. Architects 
 Marshall, Rider & Stnckert, of Caicago, 
 have completed the plans fcr a new 
 casino building at Ashland. The cas- 
 ino will cover 80x120 feet of s^rouud, be 
 built of frame with ttone foundation, 
 have opera chairs, rolling partitious, 
 stage decorations and furnace heat 
 The seating capacity of the maiu flior 
 and gallery is to be about 2,5U0. De- 
 tails of another new theater building 
 are given on page 40 of this annual. 
 
 Some of the best opera companies and 
 theatrical troupes on the road take in 
 Ashland with Dulnth and Superior, and 
 tbe new opera house and casino are re- 
 garded as positive necessities. 
 
 The Song of Chequamegon. 
 
 Wi( boot, tbe ir arles shiver Id tbe blfst. 
 The tortured cf dars writhe like souls in pain, 
 
 Loud roars tbe wind, tbe night is failing fast, 
 Ihe snow's white fingers beat agalnstlbepane. 
 
 I close my eyes the dnikness drifln away, 
 The clouds dlpperfie, the wearj- strife Is done; 
 
 I seentiain tbe hunoy, placid bay 
 And breath thy balmy air, Cheqnamegon. 
 
 I greet tby bills whose rocky armsenfold, 
 
 T he solemn woodsf-ncrowningpolnt and height; 
 
 The lair isles draped in summer's green and gold, 
 Tbe waves that dimple in tbe changing light. 
 
 I bear the merry laugh, the sweep of oars, 
 Tbe Usher-children sltiglng at their play. 
 
 The ripples' beat upon the sandy shores. 
 The birds that caroled that summer day. 
 
 Kind voices breath their praises In my ear. 
 True hearts btat for me. loyal eyes meet mine. 
 
 And gentle bands bring offerings, sweet and dear. 
 Of trailing arbutus, and the creeping vine. 
 
 Yet through tbe laugh and glee and music's flow, 
 
 I hear ttie walling minor of the sea 
 Ringing its knell. Oh. bluewave.noneroay know 
 
 The secret thou hast shared with mel 
 
 As to Population. 
 
 The present population is estimated to 
 be about ly.OuO. The city is subject 
 toveryfewdiseaifs. Wintercolera which 
 was widespread throughout the state, 
 has not spared the city, but not a single 
 death occurred, A portrait is given on 
 this page, of a fine trio bcrn in the city 
 this winter. It is an suspicions omen of 
 Ashland's future size and population. 
 
 THBBEOFA KIND — BETTER THAN TWO PAIR. 
 Prize triplets born In Ashland In 1S93. 
 
 IKIKRIOB ASHLAND OPERA HODBE— OSCAR CuBB, ARCHITECT. 
 
 INTERIOR PHOTO BTCBIO, S. W. BAlUtT. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893 
 
 149 
 
 The City of Hay ward 
 
 m 
 
 .^ AKE SUPERIOR 
 
 •* cities 
 
 are noted for 
 
 tbeir hustling prcclivi- 
 
 ■TTijtits. Thecity of Hay- 
 
 > ward is no exception. 
 
 Sit la ted about forty 
 
 miles to the southwest 
 
 Cf^ of Ashland on the C. 
 
 on 
 St. P. M. & O. rail- 
 road, Hayward has good railroad con- 
 nections with Ashland as a shipping port, 
 and with the Twin Cities further west 
 and south. It is the county seat of Saw 
 yer county, with some of the finest lim- 
 
 ber in the statesurrounding it. Hayward 
 is essentially a lumbering city. Among 
 its leading institutions is the North Wis- 
 consin Lumber company which owns 
 vast tracts of pine land in the north part 
 of this state. Frederick Weyerhauser, 
 the famous Reck Island lumber king is 
 president, W. G. Norton of Winona, 
 vice president, and R. L. McCormick, 
 one of the best known and most prom- 
 inent citizens of Hayward is manager. 
 To Mr. McCormick has been left the 
 task of building up an industry in a 
 hitherto undeveloped region, and right 
 
 well has he accomplished his task. The 
 company was organized in 1882, and 
 once in operation, employed over 3U0 
 men, and now has an annaal cut of 
 40,000,000 feet of lumber, 10,000,000 feet 
 of lath and 12,0J0,000 shingles. The 
 yards and mills, band and circular saw 
 mill and planing mill cover forty acres. 
 The entire plant is lighted by incandes- 
 cant electricity. In winter the company 
 runs a half dozen logging camps. 
 
 Among other institutions in this city, 
 is one of the largest hospitals in the 
 state. Tbe city has fine public schools. 
 The Sawyer county bank, of which R. L. 
 McCormick is president and J. H. Cole 
 is cashier, is rated very high. And last 
 Hawyard has a newspaper, edited and 
 controlled by Scott & Bunker, who are 
 among the brightest young men of their 
 profession. 
 
 Mr. McCormick is division command- 
 er of the Sons of V eterans for ttie state 
 and is very popular in other orders. 
 
 PLANING HILL, NORTH WISCONSIN LUMBER 00. 
 
 LATH 8BKD AND TABD OF NORTH WISCONSIN LUMBEB CO. 
 
 MILL AND ENGINE HOUSE, NORTH WISCONSIN LUMBER CO. 
 
 COURT HOUSE SAWTER COUNTY, HAYWARD, W18. 
 
 INTERIOR SAW MILL, NORTH WISCONSIN LUMBER CO. 
 
 PART OF YARD, HORTH WISCONSIN LUHBEX CO, 
 
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 2ridI^egimentU]^,. Xef T?. 
 
 HE " Uniform 
 Rack" i 8 t h e 
 higbeet rank at- 
 Itainnble in the order 
 i K ighloot Pythi 
 ' a^; »nd WdS estab- 
 lish >-d by pr clama 
 lion of D B. Wood- 
 ruff, S. C, at the 
 10 Annu li bes-iou of tlie SnpremeLodge 
 held at Indiaaapolie, August 28, 1878 
 
 The R^nk 's < omposed of Divisions, 
 Battaliors, Regiinents, ard Brigadep; 
 all cf which c(i)8titute tfe Pythian 
 Army, under command of a Major Gen- 
 eral, and the Supreme ChancclJor, who 
 is during bis term of ofBce Commander- 
 in-CLi-f. 
 
 M. J. HART, 
 
 Col. Commatidiii^ 2nd. Reg^iment 
 
 IHAUGCRA7I0N OF THE VmiOKU. BANK 
 
 IN WlSCONflN. 
 
 Upon the 22nd day of June. 1883, the 
 issuing of a Warrant for a Division to 
 be instituted in the state of Wisconsin, 
 was aathotized. Upon the 16th day of 
 the following Angutt this said warrant 
 was issued, and upon the Ist day of 
 October, 1883, Racine Division No. 1, 
 located at Racine, Wis., was duly in- 
 stituted; this was the first division, in 
 Wisconsin, and the birth of the U. R, 
 in this state. 
 
 PROGRESS OF THE BINK. 
 
 Not-with-standing that the institut- 
 ing of Division No. 1 took place in the 
 last quarter of the year (1883), Mil- 
 waukee soon followed. Milwaukee 
 
 Division No 3 was instituted December 
 8, 18'a. Four new divisions were insti- 
 tuted in 1884, two in 1885. From 1885 
 to the middle of 1888 the Rink was 
 practically dead in Wisconsin ,atid we are 
 proud to say that young Ashland wa.s 
 the first to come to the rejcn->, upon 
 July 2(>, 1888, G-o. B. Shaw Division, 
 No. 9 located at Af-hland, wasinstituted 
 and three more divisions followed in 
 less than ss many monihs: Two were 
 instituted in 1889 aiid nine followed in 
 1891). This brings ns up to the forma- 
 tion of the Wisconsin Brigade, but be- 
 fore we commence on the Brigade w- 
 would like to saj' a few words about 
 our local division. Oar h( me division 
 was instituted July 26 1888, by Majo - 
 General Carnabam in person, afsisted 
 I'y GrO. B. Shaw, P. S. C, and although 
 it started out under the mcst favorabl 
 auspices, its life was very brief, and for 
 about a year and one-half was consid- 
 ered a dead division, but the Sir 
 Knights of Ashland could not allow a 
 slur to be thrown upon either their own 
 state or city, and when the Supreme 
 Lodge K. of P. of the world was to mer i 
 for the first time within the borders of 
 our state, they got together once more, 
 and agreeably snrpristd tlie Wiscons n 
 Brigade by tbeir appearance as a full 
 division; and from ttat time to the pns- 
 entdiy it has been steadily increasing-, 
 ai d now it includes among its member^ 
 some of the best business and profession- 
 al men in our city. The report for year 
 ending Febnrary 19. 1893, presents a 
 very s iti-factory showing, during which 
 time the division was under the com- 
 mand of S. K. Capt. C. A. Lamorenx 
 At the last annual meetiig the fol- 
 lowing oflScers were elected: S. K. 
 Captain, T. C. Smith; S. K., Fiist 
 L^ent. H H. Ginsburg; S. K. Secon.l 
 Lient., F. W. French. The division 
 meets for drill every Saturday at 4 p. m. 
 
 ORGANIZATION OF WISCONSIN BRiaADK. 
 
 It was not until May 21st, 1890, th t 
 this state could boast of a Brigade organ- 
 ization. Up to that date, every Sir 
 Knight in Wisconsin belonged to tl e 
 Fit st regiment, which included twenty - 
 three divisions, and to no man more than 
 Col. H. A. George is the credit of its 
 formation due. He spared neithtr 
 pains nor money to accomplish tlis 
 praiseworthy object, nor did he rest i n- 
 til he was able to wire the Sir Knigl.ts 
 at Superior, who were anxiously awai- 
 ing his message from Milwaukee. "You 
 now belong to the Second battalion." 
 
 The twenty-three divisions were divided 
 into the First regiment, and the second 
 and third bittalions. 
 
 The following were the first elective 
 of&cers of the new battalion : 
 
 H. A. George, of Sui eii t. Lient. Col.; 
 M. J. Hart, of Ashland, Majir; John 
 Mudden, of A->hland, Snr.'e n; Rev. C. 
 S, Stukwrather, of Sup-rior, Chaplain. 
 
 Col. George again saw a field for his 
 labor, and at once commtncid the res- 
 urrection of the dead divisions and the 
 adding of new ones to bis btttali n, and 
 he succeeded so well that in a short 
 lime, -he restored two fnd added three 
 new ones, thus entitling the Battalion 
 to become a regiment, which was duly 
 inst'tntedas such, by Brigadier General 
 Halsey, a'^si.-ted by his stsiff. on July 30, 
 1892, when Lieutenant Colonel George 
 and Major Hart were elec'ed colonel 
 and lieutenant colonel rrspectively 
 Capt. E. B. Mo ley, of Rhinelander, 
 was elected major. 
 
 Owing to a pressure of private busi- 
 ness. Col. George, (who is also Grand 
 Chancellor of Wisconsin) resigned the 
 colonelcy, and at a special meeting 
 
 C M. GAPDNFR, 
 Adjutant Second Regiment, 
 
 called for the purpose of filling the va- 
 cancy. Lieutenant Colonel Hart was 
 elected to that office, and Major Morley 
 and Capt. J, J. Atkinson were elected 
 lieutenant colonel and major respect- 
 ively. Col. Hart made only one change 
 in his staff. Adjutant L. D. Newton 
 having resigned his position, he ap- 
 pointei Sir Knight C. M. Gardner, of 
 Ashland, as adjutant of the regiment. 
 The Colonel and Adjutant have trans- 
 fered all the property of the regiment 
 from Superior to Ashland, its new 
 headquarters. Adjutant Gardner has 
 taken hold with his usual energy, and 
 he says that if the Second regiment U. 
 R. K. of P. will not prove the best ia 
 the state, it will not be his fault. 
 
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 151 
 
 
 71^ 
 
 i viT^shland, the City of 3(ome£. i 
 
 j-V.v' f 
 
 HERE are few cities 
 
 nin the United States 
 better equipped with 
 the necessary facili- 
 ties for making homes 
 com for table and 
 pleasant. Our grand 
 system of waterworks 
 afl[ord an endless sup- 
 ply of water; our elegant system of 
 street railway is equal to any electric 
 system in the world ; and our lighting 
 plant, both electric and gas, is extensive 
 and equipped with the best meihods 
 and latest improvements. These and 
 other public conveniences peimit our 
 citizens to enjoy all the comforts of 
 modern homes. There is no reason why 
 Ashland should not be one of the 
 most ^beautiful and healthy, as 
 well as most prosperous cities in 
 the northwest. Although the 
 biownstone industry has become 
 one ;ot leading importance to 
 this pait of Wisconsin, it i- still 
 in its infancy. The time will 
 come when our quarries will give 
 employment to thousands of la- 
 borers, and require the use of 
 immense capital. It is one of the 
 many industries that will gain 
 in importance rapidly, as the beau- 
 tiful building mateiial gains favor 
 with the people. Brownstone leads 
 all other stone in richness and 
 durability. 
 
 J. A. PettiDKlll, of Iron River. 
 
 AEESUME of Iron River 
 would not be complete with- 
 out a reference to the active ef- 
 forts of Mr. J. A. Pettingill the 
 original owner of the townsite. 
 A year ago he waB the single rep- 
 resentative of Iron River in the 
 Daily Press annual. The town 
 was then not platted or sur- 
 veyed. Now he devotes his entire 
 time to his real estate and property in- 
 terests, and in building up the city. He 
 is selling every day a large amount of 
 property, and always makes every sale 
 ■with a view of helping the interest of 
 the town. 
 
 Drummond's Addition to Iron River. 
 
 THIS addition contains some of the 
 most desirable residence lots in the 
 town of Iron River, being located north 
 of the Lea & Ingram company's large 
 saw mill, and only twenty rods from the 
 Northern Pacific railroad depot, it is 
 sure to to attract the attention of people 
 coming to Iron River in search of a 
 home in this thriving inland city, 
 as it already ha-j some who now live 
 here and have bought lots intending to 
 build fine residences on them the com- 
 ing season. The Iron River runs 
 through this property, going in a north- 
 erly direction down past the S. F. 
 
 Staples Lumber company's mill, which 
 is but a short distance away, in a north- 
 erly direction. Near the point where 
 the river crosses the northeast corner of 
 this addition, there is a splendid place 
 to put in a dam with little outlay, and 
 sufficient flowapre above to make a first- 
 class mill pond, with an excellent site 
 for a mill on the west side of the river 
 just north of this addition, and there is 
 no doubt that in the near future there 
 will ba a large saw mill located on this 
 site, as it is the only available mill site 
 on the west side of the Iron River, and 
 at this time there is over one hundred 
 million feet of standing pine timber 
 tributary to this point, owned by home- 
 steaders and speculators, not one foot of 
 
 INTSRIOB I, O. SOHWAOEH'S CLOTHmO STOEE 
 
 it being owned by any mill company. 
 Sooner or later this timber will all be 
 cut and brought here to be sawed into 
 lumber, piled and shipped all over the 
 country, giving hundreds of men em- 
 ployment and means to support their 
 families. It means increased prosperity 
 and an increase in the population of the 
 town of Iron River, with a doubling 
 and trebling of the value of property in 
 Drammond addition, which is certain 
 to follow this result. Besides, there is 
 plenty of room and excellent opportuni- 
 ties for numerous other industries, such 
 as machine shops, box and chair factor- 
 iers, pulp mills, etc. On the west side of 
 the river the land is very level and dry 
 and commands a splendid view of the 
 town. All along the banks of the river 
 are springs from which pure water flows 
 continuously, cold and clear as crystal. 
 A great deal will be done during the 
 next season to improve this property, 
 and all persons desiring a really beauti- 
 ful location on which to build a good 
 residence, will do well to take a look at 
 
 DruiuiMonii ad liiion, ami satisfy them- 
 selves. They will never regret it. 
 
 Val Blatz Brewing Company. 
 
 OF all the beverages that are manu- 
 factured in the northwest, there are 
 none better known or more popular than 
 the fine table beers of the celebrated 
 Val Blatz Brewing company, of Mil- 
 waukee, Wisconsin. This company 
 has found such sa extensive sale for ita 
 superior beverages that agencies have 
 been eatablished at convenient centers 
 of trade from which the demand may 
 be supplied. The a^jeucy for this seo- 
 lion of the country is controlled by Mr. 
 Hans Vogel, who is well and popularly 
 known as a business man and cit zen of 
 the highest sttnding. His office, cooler 
 and storage house are near the union 
 depot, on the Wisconsin Central rail- 
 road. Here a very large business ia 
 done. The cooler has a capacity of 
 three carloads, and an average of two 
 carloads of keg and bottled goods are 
 received weekly from the breweries in 
 Milwaukee. A specialty is made of the 
 b ittled goods trade, which is very ex- 
 tensive in such well known and popular 
 brands as Val Blatz's "Tivoli," "Im- 
 perial," " Weiner," "Private Stuck," and 
 "Munchener." Mr. Vogel has a 
 large trade in Ironwoou. Mich- 
 igan. This agency was estab- 
 lished in 1888. 
 
 Hans Vogel is a young 
 and progressive business man 
 of great activity and highest 
 standing. He was born in Ger- 
 many and has been with this com- 
 pany eight years. He started 
 the agencies at Duluth, West 
 Superior and Bessemer, and is 
 very popular with uU who know 
 him. 
 
 During the year 1892 the Ash- 
 land branch of the Val Blatz 
 Brewing company sold 35,193 
 bariels and 19 5la cases of beer, 
 making a business of over $250,- 
 000 tor the twelve months prior 
 to Jan. 1, 1893. 
 
 ' From this office the business 
 is managed as far south as Colby, 
 and northwest to West Superior 
 and Duluth, and throughout the 
 Mesaba and Gogebic ranges. 
 
 Asbland Foundry Company, Ashland, WU. 
 
 THIS company ^was organized the 
 25th of April, 1893, by Messrs. Pan! 
 Nordstrom and Nels E. Roen, the pro- 
 prietors. This shop is a very fine one, 
 laid out economically and with great 
 convenience, roomy, well lighted and 
 with its own water supply. When fully 
 completed in detail, it will be the best 
 shop in the city. The foundry has a 
 fljor space of 2,500 square feet; the 
 smelting room, where the cupola, brass 
 furnace and boiler as placed, have 950 
 square feet; the cupola has a capacity of 
 smelting sis tons of iron in ninety min- 
 utes; the machine shop has 1,200 square 
 feet and the pi)ttern shop 640 square 
 feet; a store room, 18x20, atd the office, 
 14x20, all under one roof. It has a 
 splendid location between the ^Milwau- 
 k. e. Lake Shore & Western and Wis- 
 consin Central Railroad companies' ore 
 docks, on the corner of St. Clair street 
 and Fourteenth avenue east, with their 
 tracks in front of the shop. 
 
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 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 oioCT)io(^a\oyi^o(^^^^^ 
 
 vj^^sKland's Bo:c Factories. 
 
 o^vofoSo^5'°(oi5o|°$A<°x^^(°9°'vfy^ 
 
 season is over the business will be so en- 
 larged that it will have the largest pro- 
 
 USTLE and energy 
 is the cl aracteriitic 
 of the New North. 
 Ashland's 16,000 
 peu] le at e impressed 
 with this idea— 
 thoroui^hlyso. With 
 oceans of hardwood timber, of pine, 
 spruce, hemlock and all the evergreen 
 varieties, what better location than 
 Ashland for a box factory? An enter- 
 prising New York company has seen 
 the advantages of this location and in 
 March, 1893, located a plant at Ashland. 
 The E. H. Barnes Co., of New York, 
 established a large box factory in Ash- 
 and in March 1893. The company is one 
 of the largest corporations in the busi- 
 nesg. Besides the Ashland factory the 
 companv has factories at Rouse's 
 Point. New York City, on Lake 
 Champlain, at Pottsdain. N. Y 
 and other places. The company 
 has leased the Doberty plant. Al I 
 kinds of box "sliooks" will he 
 made in the city of Ashland. F, 
 E. Rogers is manager and W. H. 
 
 P 
 
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 9k± 
 
 IS. It, Barnec. Prea. Ha- ne8 Box Co. 
 
 F. E. ROGERS 
 Mgr. Ash. Box Factory. 
 
 Barrows superintendent at Afli 
 land. Eighty men will be fur 
 nished constant employment tbi 
 
 year 'ror.Ed. About 80, OH' 
 
 feet of lumber will be used per 
 day. This company is a branch 
 of one of the largest box factories in the 
 United States. The men in charge 
 were favorably impressed with Ashland 
 and without doing any unnecessary 
 talking, made the deal with Capt. 
 Doherty. Ashlaud is considered 
 one of the finest locations in the 
 United States for a box factory, and 
 the gentlemen interested consider them- 
 Belves fortunate in securing the site. 
 The site chosen has good dockage facili^ 
 ties, and it is expected that before the 
 
 It is intended to build an addition 
 during the coming enmmer, so as to be 
 able to handle bnsinecs for Eeveral Jot 
 the largest shippers in ^ChicaKO. The 
 "shooks" are found to be the mo^t con- 
 venient method of inanufactnrlng boxes. 
 Mr. E. H. Barnes is the pioneer in the 
 box ''Shook" busicess.'having first es- 
 tablished the industry some twenty 
 years ago. He thoroughly understands 
 all the details of the trade on a big 
 scale. The "shooks" are the ends, sides, 
 tops and bottoms of the hoses, ready to 
 put together. The Barnes company's 
 extensive ibusiness thorough the east, 
 will make it an ea^^y matter to dispose of 
 their product as rapidly as it can be 
 turned out. Mr. F. E. Rogers the man- 
 ager has also had many years exp< rienc© 
 in the busiaees, an I they eav they will 
 ship out from three to four cars a day 
 and use all the box material that can be 
 furnished on the Cheqaamegou bay and 
 this immediate vicinity. Mr. Barrows the 
 superintendant is one of the most practi- 
 cal men in the business and will make 
 the factory a paying institution from 
 the start. The plant has all the latest 
 machinery and will run bcth night and 
 day during the sumoier season, 
 and will be in operation twelve 
 months in the year. Having the 
 advantage of cheap material and 
 low lake and rail rates to the 
 eastern market, they will undoubt- 
 idly have the largest product of 
 any box factory in this district. 
 
 (^ Tne Cower House 
 
 A-HLAND BOX FACTORY. 
 
 duclion of any box factory in the coun- 
 try. Messrs. Rogers and Barrows are 
 located in the city. 
 
 The industry is a new one in Ashland, 
 but it promises to be very profitable. 
 It utilizes what has heretofore been 
 almost waste material and developes 
 into a flourishing tr^de what has hind- 
 rance to the lumbering trade. The new 
 factory is located upon the belt line and 
 has every facility at hand for prompt 
 shipments. 
 
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 W. H. BARROWS. 
 Supt. ABliIand Box Factory. 
 
 The^^lumber is growing so scarce 
 and expeneive in the east that 
 most of the factories will have to 
 move weft. 
 
 Another Box Factory to be Established. 
 NE iudustry brings another. 
 In a fcw weeks another box 
 factory will be in operation in Ashland. 
 Me3sr8 Jacques & McMahon have com- 
 pleted arrangements for putting in a 
 large plant .here. They are to manu- 
 facture boxes by a new patent — stamp- 
 ing Ihem out by a dovetail or mortise 
 process which does away with all waste, 
 and they can make small boxes almost 
 cheaper than the same sizes can be fur- 
 nished in paste board. The new factory 
 already has orders enough to run them 
 for some time and it will be a success. 
 
THE APHI.ANI) DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDFTTON, 1893. 
 
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 JOHN FRIEND, JOHV WALL. ED. CLEARY, HBNRY J. FRICK. J. B. CABLIN, 
 
 Confluctor M. L. S. & W. Ry. Conduotor M. b. S. & W. Ry. Condactor M. L. S. & W. Ry, Conductor U. L. S. * W. Ry, Grand Chiel Con., Ash. O. K. C 
 
 WM. A. RFDNBR, JOHN MCKIE, CHAS. H. FAKUER, W. W. WOLCOTT, WM. HITTRa, 
 
 Condnctor Central Line. Conduotor Central Linr. Conductor N. F. R. R. Condnetor Central Line. Condactor Central Line. 
 
 
 J. E, KELLOGQ, 
 Traiomaater, Central Line. 
 
 S. E, HOLSTO*, NOAH W. GRAY. J. W. CORIA, 
 
 Ticket Agt.. Central Line Manager Ash. Iron & Steel Co. Sapt. Central ore dock. 
 
 JAY P. HCDERMOTT, 
 Real Estate & Insarance. 
 
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 EtJ 
 
 CAPT. J. F. PATRICK, 
 
 W. J. AKMSTRONO, 
 Livery , 
 
 T. L. KENNAS. BEN 8. LUCAS, 
 
 Owner Kennan'a Addition. Manager Commercial Hotel. 
 
 
 N. C. ROONBY, 
 Wholnale Uqaora. 
 
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 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 
 yi.-'S^ 
 
 Ashland and its Commerce. I 
 
 m 
 
 hiV 
 
 
 '^MsMmMsmM^Mm&^:^M!mM^^m 
 
 \ST years ai e a safe 
 k criterion of the fu- 
 are. Ashland has 
 ,MW| rr^ 'grown from nothing 
 '•]Jf j ijS^jf!, to a city of 18,000 
 people in ten ysars. 
 ,, With the growth of 
 ^ population, Afhland's 
 comoierce has in- 
 created in a correi-ponding proportion. 
 The record of Ashland in regard to the 
 commerce of the Great Lakes is one 
 that gives it rank with the npper ten of 
 commercial cities. The grand total for 
 1802 is stnpendaons. The vast increase 
 is more easily comprehetded when given 
 in comparison with the totals of pre- 
 vious seasons: In value it is as follows: 
 
 1892 $.'!5 J72>7i; 
 
 1»91 al 74.S «»] 
 
 1890 29 •£» SKI 
 
 1889 21 257 t)7« 
 
 The value of commerce, it will be 
 seen, has nearly doubled in three years. 
 
 The number of arrivals and dtpiit- 
 ures fcr Ashland for 1892, gives one a 
 very good idea of the great magnitude 
 of the commerce. 
 
 ASBIVALB AND DEPABTDBEB. 
 
 take Shore Docka 1020 
 
 WldUDiiain Central Or«i Docks IIMO 
 
 Lumber VeBBels lOTG 
 
 Merchandise and line boats 2615 
 
 Miscellaneous (relglit ,. 142:1 
 
 Grand Total 7104 
 
 This is an increase of 2,10.^ arrivals at 
 the port of Ashland over 1891, 
 
 On Pages 48 and 49 of this book are 
 found the oflBcial figures fur the ore 
 shipping. Besides the regular ore, lum- 
 ber, and ordinary merchandise vestals, 
 four regular lines of passenger vessels 
 make Ashland. They are the Lake 
 Michigan and Lake Soptrior Trans- 
 
 portation Co., the Lake Superior Transit 
 Co., the Ward Line and the Sjuth 
 Shore Transit Co. In addition, a large 
 number of other vessels touch at this 
 port, often remaining a few days, snch 
 as the revenue cutter, Andj Johnson 
 and others. Bocka ft- Iter's steam yacht 
 Peerless, one of the finest vessels to be 
 found on salt or fresh water was at 
 Ashland several days last year, coming 
 direct from New York, 
 
 LAKE SHIPMENTS FOR 1892. 
 
 Iron Ore. tons 2 227.407 
 
 Lumlier. feet 285,000.000 
 
 Brownstone. tons 46O.000 
 
 Pig Iron, tone 40.000 
 
 Grain and Hour, bbls 2U0.C00 
 
 General Mdse., tons 10,000 
 
 Brick 1,500,000 
 
 This is a gam on the average of 75 
 per cent over 1891. By comparison of the 
 government official figures of the past 
 with those of other lake cities, it will be 
 seen that Buffalo ranks first on Lake 
 Erie. Detroit on Lake Huron, Chicago 
 on Lake Michigan, and Ashland on 
 Lake Superior. As for tonnage, this 
 city ranks seventh among the shipping 
 maritime ports of the world. 
 
 BECEIPTf BT LASI. 
 
 Coal, tons 575.000 
 
 Salt and Cement, bbls 70,000 
 
 Stucco. Fire-clay, etc., pounds 4Co!ooO 
 
 Oil. bbls „ 30,000 
 
 By comparison with the official figures 
 of passages at the St. Mary's Falls can- 
 al, page 50 it show that out of a total 
 nnmber of 12 .^tjO passages, Ashland bad 
 7,1(^4— about sixty per cent of the total 
 bnsine-is of Lake Superior. 
 
 According to the United States official 
 census of 1890, Ashlaod is the third 
 largest shipping port on Lake Superior. 
 This means cDmmerce, and as Thos. 
 Carlyle says, "It is Commerce that 
 makes cities," 
 
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 hUbT-OWEH LCMBKR COMPANY, DBCMHOND, WIS., SCENE AT NOONTIME. 
 
 JUPOE J. W. C"CHR<N. 
 President Keystone Lumber Company. 
 
 TUO KRVSTCiNE. 
 Owned b; Keystone Lumber Company. 
 
 H'iN. A M. KIMB.\I,I,. 
 Firm oJ Kimball A Clark, 
 
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 TBEO. H. BUNKER, 
 Hayward Journal-News 
 
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 OTTO BLANDER, 
 Ashland Frihet. 
 
 E. J- SCOIT, 
 HaywardtJournal-News. 
 
 bYKuN J. PKlOli, Of HO^ouN, Wis., 
 President National Editorial Association. 
 
 F. W. SACKKTT, 
 i;Phillips Times. 
 
 J. W, 6ACKETT, 
 fifield Advocatei 
 
 
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 Pres. Wis. Editorial Ass'n. 
 
 0. S. OSBORN, "SOO" NEWS. 
 
 DAVID OOrDY, 
 Hurley Miner. 
 
 8. D. GOODELL, 
 Hurley Miner, 
 
 F. B. HAND. 
 Hurley Tribune. 
 
 CLARENCE SNTDEE. ^ 
 Ashland News. 
 
 CLARI'NCE URNM3, 
 I Ashland Daily Newi. 
 
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 Cd The Ashland Sailu 
 
 )K)K)^ek^^c^^^.)^c^e^^^ 
 
 Jyress. 0> 
 
 Haley, S. Harry Higgins and John 
 Fitz,'erald, in the news composing room. 
 The Pbess force feels like a g^reat, big 
 family, and the "old man" wishes to 
 state that it is an aggregation of hnstlers 
 not equalled, and nearly all have held 
 positioos in the office a nnmber of years. 
 There are others, too, that have an im- 
 portant connection with the general 
 
 O M E degree of 
 delicacy must be 
 viuf erred whei ^ 
 new.-paper speak s 
 of itself. But the Press 
 has been so closely iden ti- 
 fied with tlie growth of the ■'Garland 
 City" from the early days, that its his- 
 tory mnst be eiven to complete the 
 chronicles made year by year in its 
 "Annual Edition." The Pbess was es- 
 tablished in 187a by H. O. and S im. S. 
 Fifield, The latter assumed charge 
 shortly after, and continued actively in 
 the buiinesi until June, IbSO, when 
 it was sold to the present proprietor. 
 The Daily Press was established in 
 188«. Some reminiscences of the early 
 days might be interesting— when it was 
 Impossible to count on trains or boats 
 at regular intarvals. Then the news of 
 the ontside world had to be picked np 
 the best way possible. The eai ly files 
 show that the Press enjoyed the dis- 
 
 THE "annual" PBBSS ROOM— 8H0WIK0 TWO OBANSTON PRESSES. 
 
 A OLl&lrSE OF THE DAILY PRESS EDITORIAL DKN. 
 
 c e p t the omnipresent 
 devil. Now there is a 
 pay roll that includes 
 thirty-five persons. 
 
 On this page we give 
 a glimpse of the editorial 
 sanctum, the news com- 
 posing room and the 
 press room. All of the 
 work on this elaborate 
 edition was done in this 
 little office, and part of 
 the time a night and day 
 force worked steadily 
 getting it out. 
 
 In mentioning the 
 Press we must include 
 those who helped to 
 make it 
 
 growth of the P&eas, and, in the noon- 
 tide of its prosperity we can never for- 
 get its founder, who has done so much 
 for the city in years past. 
 
 During the past year the Press pur- 
 chased two Cranston cylinder presses, 
 through Marder, Lnse & Co., and we do 
 not hesitate in saying that they are the 
 best presses made. Messrs. Webster & 
 Brandtjen, of St. Paul, the able man- 
 agers of Marder, Lnse & Co.'s branch 
 house furnished the type and material. 
 
 The paper fir this edition was pur- 
 chased of Jaa. H. Bishop & Co. . Minne- 
 apolis. They are especially popular 
 with the newspaper trade. The Stan- 
 dard Paper Co., of Milwaukee, furnishes 
 the bulk of commercial stock. 
 
 It is not wealth, nor rank, nor state, 
 But get-iip-aud-trt't tliat makes men ^rreat. 
 — Kiidjard Eipliue 
 
 tinction of occasionally printing an 
 edition on store wrapping paper, and 
 even wall paper was used in one emerg- 
 ency. But the files show a wonderful 
 record. City improvements, no matter 
 how trivial— were faithfully recorded. 
 The village looked upon its pioneer 
 newspaper as an oracle of no small 
 power. From its birth the Press begun 
 sounding the glories of Ashland, and its 
 founder attained fame as the champion 
 of the "New Wisconsin," and it is re- 
 marked confidentially, that his faculty 
 in telling good-eized realistic boom 
 stories on Ashland, has not been equalled 
 From a small edition, the Press now 
 has a large circulation, and in times 
 past the editor and proprietor filled 
 nearly every position on the paper — ex- 
 
 what it is 
 today. Aside from the 
 "old man," there is Will 
 H. Chappie, business 
 manager; Guy M. Barn- 
 ham, city editor; W. L. 
 McArthur, cashier and 
 superintendent; John C. 
 Chappie, superintendent 
 of circulation; John O. 
 Hall, foreman job room; 
 Horace Ryder and Mer- 
 ton Moore, job room; 
 Ben. F. Shallbetter, fore- 
 man press room ; Charlie 
 Lose, George Lewis and 
 John Johnson, press 
 room; Frank H. Bell, 
 Homer Lesperance, Miss 
 K. Dolan, Richard P. 
 
 THE "akhcal" oomposinq room. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 189?!. 
 
 Summer Resorts i Fishing Grounds 
 
 OF NORTHERN WISCONSIN AND MICmOAIV, 
 
 9-n„.lri'?l.o^ Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western R'y. 
 
 8HLAND is the 
 nort hern terminus 
 of the Milwaukee, 
 Lake Shore & West- 
 ern railway. It is 
 beautifully situated 
 on Chequamegon 
 Bay at the head of Lake Superior, the 
 cities of Washburn and Bayfield being 
 on the opposite side of the bay. 
 
 Pacts of Interest to Tourists and Sportsmen. 
 
 Qogebic Lake, Mich., Nature*^. Sanitarium. 
 
 Grj^ebic Lake is located in the Upper 
 Peninsula of Mioli. Gogebic Sr^tiou, !S()9 
 miles Irom Milwanliea luu b94 miles 
 from Chicago. The lake is five miles 
 from the station and is reached by stage 
 over a good road cat through a dense 
 forest. This drive of one hour through 
 the wilderness is most enjoyable fiud 
 romantic, at the end of whu-h the hotel 
 
 rections are followed, lasting benefit 
 and a possible cure to those afilicted 
 with throat or lung troubles. A 
 never-failing tonic for the careworn 
 brain and the exhausted nerves. This 
 remedy is net related to the patent 
 medicine nostrums which have "to be 
 well shaken before taken." The fact 
 that the rest or health teeker is here free 
 from the annoyances of the fashionable 
 resort makes this remedy which nature's 
 infallible chenjist has furnished, doubly 
 
 FISHI.XG StE>E AT EAGLE LAKE, NEAR EAGLE RIVER, ON M L. S. *; VV. KY 
 
 It is very appropriately named the 
 "Garland City of the Inland Sea.'> 
 In the entrance to the bay from Lake 
 Superior, stand like sentinels the 
 Apostle Islands (twelve in number) 
 picturesque, grand and beautiful. Mad- 
 eline, the largest and most prominent 
 of the group, has been made famous in 
 history by that heroic priest explorer. 
 Father Marquette. On this island the 
 old church still stands, also the moss- 
 covered gravestones with their quaint 
 inscriptions. These beautiful and at- 
 tractive surronudings, and the tonic of 
 the cool, pure air of this locality, make 
 Ashland a summer resort of great popu- 
 larity. 
 
 It is well supplied with good hotels : 
 the Chequamegon, overlooking the bay, 
 the Hotel Knight and the Colby House. 
 
 and cottages come suddenly Into view, 
 with the lake just beyond. 
 
 Gogebic Lake is a body of clear, cold 
 water, of good depth, and fed by springs 
 and streams flowing into it from tae 
 surrounding hills, which are heavily 
 timbered with pine, hemlock, cedar, 
 balsam, tamarack, fir, maple, birch, etc. 
 The lake is fifteen miles long and from 
 one and one-half to three miles wide. 
 It ij only twelve miles distant from 
 Lake Superior, an unbroken forest lying 
 between the two; 1,4U0 feet above the 
 ocean level and 000 feet above Lake Su- 
 perior. It is difficult to imagine a loca- 
 tion and surroundings which would be 
 a better guarantee of a pure, invigorat- 
 ing, forest-impregnated and health- 
 giving atmosphere than this. It is a 
 prescription ready prepared out of 
 nature's laboratory, sure to cure hay 
 fever, give immediate relief, and if di- 
 
 efifective, the rest more rapid, the cure 
 more sure. 
 
 We do not ask you to accept these 
 statements without supporting evidence, 
 and to that end ask you to read the fol- 
 lowing opinions expressed by physiciaas 
 and others who have been patrons of 
 this resort: 
 
 "St. Louis, Nov. 5, 1S90. 
 
 "I have spent part of several summers 
 at Qogebic Lake, Alich., which is the 
 best endorsement I cm give it. Cold, 
 bracing, climate. There can be no 
 doubt of the complete purity of its at- 
 mosphere, since there is nothing within 
 leagues of the hotel to breed contamina- 
 tion, only the untainted lake and the 
 primeval forests. Yours truly, 
 
 CUAS. A. Todd, M. D. " 
 "Chicago, 111., Dec. 19, 1890. 
 
 "To those who suffer from hay-fever, 
 or asthma, and are obliged during the 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 Bnmmer monCad lo tnsan a piauu wueia 
 they can be free from il8 torments; to 
 those who find it necessary to rest a 
 while from the cares and aniieties of 
 bnsiness and refresh both body and 
 mind, and to those who need not for 
 either of these reasons to leave home, 
 bnt love the excitement of shooting and 
 fishing in a qniet spot and way, I can 
 recommend Gogebic as a place where 
 the conditions exist to satisfy the needs 
 of the invalid, the careworn and the 
 pleasure seeker. 
 
 "The management of the hotel is ex- 
 cellent. 'Eyery attention is paid to the 
 comfort of the guests, and the table 
 abundantly supplied with whatever is 
 in the market at Milwaukee and Chi- 
 cago. W. C. Hunt, M. D." 
 
 "St. Louis, Nov. 17, 1890. 
 'For those who seek a quiet place 
 where they may obtain restot mini and 
 body, away from the claims of 'Fashion,' 
 
 your line ana at GugeMc Like, audi 
 am happy to say that I obtained entire 
 and immediate relief. 
 
 "I believe that the climate near Go- 
 gebic Lake is the best in the world for 
 hay-fever people and to those who enjoy 
 good tishiug, as I do, (here is no danger 
 of the time hanging heavily on their 
 hands. Yours truly, 
 
 "Richard Valentine, 
 (Valentine's School of Telegrapny.) 
 "Chicago. III., Dec. 2\ 1890. 
 
 "I take pleasure In Hpeaklof^ favorably of Go- 
 prebic Lake as a resort for ha.v-f#ver sufferers. I 
 have tried all of the 'Exeiiiiit Rejfions' in thU 
 country from California to the \Vhit4? Mountains. 
 My experience last year was that I Rot complete 
 exemption. Ibis lake is favorably situated, is 
 far enouKh north, is surronndiKl by dense forest. 
 Is easy of access, has a ^ood hotel. I think those 
 wishing a ()uiet time and good flshiuf^ will do 
 well to try It. llespectfully, 
 
 "G. W. PTANKoni), 
 
 (Lawyer, First National liank Huildini< ) 
 "Nasiivii.lk, 'I'enn., Dec. IS, 1890. 
 "I have been a victim of hay-lever for more 
 ilian tvvent.v years. I know ttf no relief save 
 
 Uie lur lowuuaui a uisuiucd of iwo 
 miles, from which point Judsoa Falls is 
 easily reached by a short trail. Ladies 
 and children may take this trip to the 
 falls and enjoy its romantic beanty, 
 without fatiguing or danger. In the 
 river below the falls many large brook 
 trout (ii 1-2 to 4 lbs.) have been taken. 
 Above the falls it swarms with smaller 
 trout and can be fished a distance of 
 from six to eight miles. 
 
 Other streams tributary are Troat 
 Brook, two miles from hotel, Six Mile 
 Creek, Merriweather Creek, all excellent 
 trout streams. The outlet is the On- 
 tonagon River with its many branches 
 all abonndine in trout. 
 
 The Rev. Robert Mclntyre, of Grace 
 M, E. church, Chicago, in an interview 
 granted the reporter of the Chicago 
 Inter -Ocean, said of Gogebic: 
 
 "I have traveled on four continents. America, 
 Europe, Asia and Africa; on do lovelier vijsion 
 have I rested my eyes. 
 
 Gogebic presents advantages not 
 possessed by many, while for the invalid 
 and those suffering from exhaustion of 
 the nervous forces, the purity and in- 
 vigorating character of the atmosphere 
 exeri a beneficial effect. Its altitude, 
 1,400 feet above the sea level, and the 
 fact that it is surrounded by pine and 
 hemlock forests, indicate that those 
 who have pulmonary troubles may ex- 
 pect to derive great benefit from a visit 
 to its shores. The victim of hay-fever 
 also will there find a certain immunity 
 from his annual attack, as I have seen 
 in several cases, and can personally tes- 
 tify. Yours verv trulv, ^ 
 D, C. Gamble, M. D." 
 "Janesville, Wis., Dae. 8. 1890. 
 
 "1 have spent hay-fever seasons in 
 Minnesota, North Dakota, Mackinac 
 Island, Mich., and Quebec, but at all of 
 them I failed to obtain entire relief, 
 
 "The seasons of 1888, 1889 and 1890 I 
 spent in Northern Wisconsin, along 
 
 TWIN LAKES, FOREST COUNTY 
 
 tiiffht to an exempt reunion. In 188t> and 1887 I 
 took refm?e on Gogebic Lake at the delightful 
 hotel then kept b.y Mr. Haviland. I found coni- 
 I)lete relief from my malady, a charming well- 
 kept hotel, and the best black bass fishing I ever 
 saw or hope to see. I hope to have the pleasure 
 of at least another season there. Truly .vours. 
 
 "HORArE 11 I.UHTON, 
 
 (.Tiidge Supreme Court, State of Tennessee.) 
 
 "1 liiid (Jogebic, Mich., not onl.v to be the best 
 place I have .vet found for ni.v hay-fever and 
 asthina. both vanishing in o few lioiirs nfter my 
 arrival, having tried it for two successive years, 
 but also to abound in the finest lilack bass fish- 
 ing it has been my experience to And an.vwhere. 
 "Yours truly, Charlrs H. Lkstkh, M. D., 
 4U6 and 4lKi Rialto Bldg. Kansas City. Mo. 
 
 Gogebic Lake its not noted alone as a 
 health resort, but also for its most ex- 
 cellent black bass and brook trout fish- 
 ing, not only snflBciently good to furnish 
 healthful out of door recreation, but 
 the trne fisherman, the honored disciple 
 of Izaak Walton, will here rest his sotU 
 and be satisfied. 
 
 The principal tributary to Gogebic is 
 Slate River, a charming stream naviga- 
 
 "It is indeed a place to refresh the jaded facul- 
 ties and restore the wasted energies, 
 
 "Find me a man who has had la grippe or 
 from some other cause needs a bracing up, I 
 prescribe a two weeks' holiday In the lake region 
 of Northern Michigan. Give him a rod in his 
 hands with a black bass dangling from the other 
 I'nd, I guarantee he^will receive more electricity 
 into his system in ten minutes than he would 
 were he to hold the baudleg of the strongest bat- 
 tery for an hour. 
 
 "The ripple of a brook over its pebbly bed 
 heals, soothes and c^omfortg me. A ride of five 
 miles frtun the lonely station through a dense 
 forest brought us to the loveliest lake it ha« ever 
 beenmy lotto see. The lake In many respects looks 
 like the Sea of Galilee. It Is about the same In 
 size, color and general outline. Tbe Galilean 
 hills, however, are bleak and nude, blistered 
 ledges of limestone. The vineyards, olive groves 
 and tig orchards spoken of in Bible story are all 
 gone. Thenaked limestone takes the precipitate 
 downpour of the tropical eastern sun until the 
 eye aches. Not so with Gogebic. Around thia 
 lake the hills are bolder and are clothed with 
 greenery to their very crests. 
 
 "The water is as clear as mountain dew; it« 
 depths as blue as a Haxon baby's eyes. It iji 
 walled with forestt of sombre pine »nd silvery 
 birches, which overlean the crystal lake and 
 duplicate every leaf in the mirror below. Over 
 
THB ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 ail arched the clear azure of a northern sky. 
 Breezes, laden with the medicinal balsam of 
 hemlock and spruce, cuff the waters into adancinfj; 
 ripples. Deer come down to the waterTO drink. 
 At our al fresco dinner on the shore at Six-Mile 
 Bay we p;athered wild roses to decorate our 
 woodland (east and plucked the wild strawberries 
 from the vines growing close at hand. A more 
 idyllic spot could not bo conceived by an artist 
 or imagined by a poet. 
 
 "The creeks running into the lake thread the 
 gloomy pine woods with veins of pure, cold 
 water, lilerally swarming with brook trout. It 
 is the only place where m.v soul has been satiated, 
 and I gave up fishing only when too tired to take 
 any more — satisfied with love of sport. .ludson 
 Falls, just two miles distant from the hotel, is a 
 sight worth the whole trip. 
 
 '■The hotel is a home-like, restful, rool retreat 
 —just the place for shucking .yourself out of 
 everyday worries and loafing in indefinite rest. 
 A good table, cheerful service, soft, clean beds, 
 the sweetest silence, make this a place to refresh 
 the jaded faculties and restore the wasted ener- 
 gies. I shall certainly return there when I can 
 again steal away. Atrip there gives a renewal 
 of life, vigor and energ.v If you find any fellow 
 who is a little run down in these hot days tell 
 him to go to (iof^ebic " 
 
 i'Qe uoiel ana cottages will continue 
 under the manageiuent of Mr. G. P. 
 
 through the woods lo reach the best 
 trout waters, need never fail of bring- 
 ing in a string of fine trout. Accommo- 
 dations here are ample at reasonable 
 rates. Good guides can always be se- 
 cured on short notice. 
 
 TWIN LAKES, IN NORTHERN WISCONSIN. 
 
 North Twin Lake comes next to Go- 
 gebic in point of comfortable accom- 
 modatione, and is located five miles east 
 fiom Conover Station, which is ten 
 miles north of Eagle River, £75 miles 
 from Milwaukee, and 3t50 miles from 
 Chicago. The lake is reached by a good 
 road from Conover, passing the entire 
 dittance through the forest, charming 
 in its wildness. A comfortable convey- 
 ance (canopied buckboavd, not a lumber 
 wagon) carries passengers from the sta- 
 tion, to the home of the Twin Lakes 
 Fishing and Hunting Club, on the west 
 bank of North Twin, which, previous 
 to 1891, was known as "Crosby's Re- 
 
 level grouud on whicu the buildings are 
 located, and from which a magnificent 
 view of the entire North Twin Lake ia 
 to be had. 
 
 North Twin is five miles long and 
 from one to two miles wide, averaging 
 from aO to 30 feet in depth with numer- 
 ous rocky or sand bars over which the 
 water is from 4 to 10 feet deep, the 
 water baautifuUy clear, the shores 
 heavily timbered and high. 
 
 Soutli Twin is about two miles each 
 way and nearly round. It is connected 
 with North Twin by a short thorough- 
 fire (3 or 4 rods long). Like Gogebic, 
 these lakes are surrounded by many 
 miles of dense forest. It is 30 miles 
 southeast of Gogebic and is scarcely 
 second to that famed resort in the relief 
 it affords those suffering from hay- fever, 
 throat and lung troubles. Sooie of the 
 cures experienced here have been truly 
 wonderful. The nerveless, brain-weary, 
 overtaxed devotees of business will here 
 
 BaiDOE BETWEEN CONOVEtt STATION, ON M. L. S. 
 
 BY., AND TWIN LAKES, FOREST COUNTY, 
 
 McAdam. ' To those who have enjoyed 
 his hospitality this simple anuouace- 
 ment is a sufficient guarantee. Terms 
 $3.60 per day or $14 per week; special 
 terms to families or those staying a 
 month or more. A fine fleet of rowboats 
 and a steam yacht, under Mr. McAd- 
 am's management, and all at the service 
 of the guests for a reasonable charge. 
 Live bait always on hand, for which a 
 small charge is made. Guides can also 
 be furnished. Stages meet all passenger 
 trains from the south. 
 
 Watersmeet, so-called from its being 
 located at a point where the waters on 
 one side flow north into Lake Superior, 
 and on the other south into the Wiscon- 
 sin River, is noted among sportsmen 
 for its brook trout fishing. It is here 
 we reach the branches of the Ontonagon 
 Riyar, the most famous trout waters in 
 the entire northern region. The fisher- 
 man who is willing to go a reasonable 
 distance (say not to exceed 5 miles) 
 
 sort," the land and buildings having 
 been purchased by the club in the win- 
 ter of 1891, and several thousana dollars 
 expended, for the better accommoda- 
 tion and comfort of its members and 
 guests. Although owned and managed 
 by the club, it is open the entire season 
 (frofc June 1 to Nov. 1), not only to 
 members, but to all who may de'^ire to 
 avail themselves of the opportunities 
 here afforded those in search of health 
 or recreation. The buildings here con- 
 sist of several four-room cottages com- 
 fortably furnished. The dining-room 
 is in a separate building, as is also what 
 is called the "Assembly Room," with 
 office attached. In this large room the 
 guests assemble in the evening, tell of 
 the day's exploits or find amusement in 
 various ways, frequently in the im- 
 promptu dance. 
 
 The location is all that could be 
 wished, the bank rises from the lake 26 
 feet, at an angle of about 45 degrees, to 
 
 find not only the rest and recreation 
 they so greatly need, but also vitality, 
 vigor and restored health. As a fishing 
 resort it has no superior, for the sports- 
 man or for the man or woman who 
 fishes simply as a pastime. Here and in 
 the adjacent lakes, mentioned later, is 
 found that king of fresh water fish, the 
 lordly muskallonge, also in abundance 
 black bass and wall-eyed pike. 
 
 The mnskallonge of North Twin seem 
 almost of a different variety from that 
 taken in the surrounding waters, the 
 head being smaller in proportion to the 
 body and the body stockier, weighing as 
 a rule about one- third more on the basis 
 of length. In bright and beautiful 
 colorings also, these fish excel. It Is be- 
 lieved that this plumpness and fineneet 
 of fibre characteristic of the Twin Lake 
 fish, can be accounted for from the fact 
 that this lake is well stocked with • 
 species of white fish, and as these white 
 fish never bite the hook they remain on- 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 nioltated troni year to year increasing in 
 nnmbere and famishing food for tli • 
 mnskalloDge, black bass and pike. 
 
 There are in addition to North an'' 
 South Twin, fonr lakes within easy 
 reach. Pionter, one mile southwest of 
 South Twin, contains an island of goofl 
 size, and is alive with black basp, pik-- 
 and pickerel. It makes an easy and de 
 lightful trip to thia lake, for both ladies 
 and gentlemen, to leave the chiU 
 grounds after breakfast, take lunch o • 
 the island in Pioneer Lake, and back to 
 dinner at the club. 
 
 North Long Lake is reached from th 
 head of North Twin by a trail and fxirl 
 good wagon road of three 
 and one-half miles. At 
 the south end of thislaki- 
 the Twin Lakes Fishiiig 
 and Hunting Club liav 
 a cabin, an ice-hous^. 
 and boats for the accon - 
 modatiun of its patron 
 An easy thorongbfar 
 leads from Long to Bij; 
 Sand, both ot these lakfi- 
 abound in muskallongt 
 pike (wall-eyed,) black 
 bass and pickerel. On 
 the west sliore of Sand 
 Lake the "Eagle Rivei 
 Shooting and Fishing 
 Clnb," composed entirely 
 of Chicago gentleman, 
 have local ed their clul) 
 honte and intend keep- 
 ing it oten the entire 
 season. Fifteen minutes' 
 walk over a good trail 
 north from Sand will 
 bring one to Smoky 
 Lake, three miles long 
 and one-half mile wide, 
 with high hills on both 
 sides, QUO of the most 
 beautiful lakes in this 
 entile wonderful lake re- 
 gion, water clear and 
 deep up to the very 
 banks, shore and bottom 
 stony and the only fish 
 fonnd htre is black bass. 
 The line dividing Wis- 
 consin from the Upper 
 Peninsula of Michigan 
 passes through this lake. 
 From four to six miles 
 west of Big Sand Lake 
 are the waters of the 
 Brnle, in which brook 
 trout fishing is excellent. 
 
 Twin Lskes has already 
 become very popular as 
 a family resort. Many 
 gentlemen now take 
 their wives and childi'eu 
 each year, to enjoy with 
 them the fishing, rest and 
 benefit received from the 
 pure, invigorating air of 
 this piney country. 
 
 Last season a beautiful 
 steam yacht was placed 
 on North Twin by Mr. Harvey L. 
 Goodall, president of the club, which 
 contributed greatly to the enjoyment 
 ot the guests as it was used very 
 largely in their interest and without 
 charge, it being devoted principally to 
 excursions on the lake. At the east end 
 of the lake (the clnb grounds are located 
 on the west end) a pier at which the 
 steamer can land has been built, and 
 the coming season further improvements 
 will be made at this point in the line of 
 clearing up the underbrush and making 
 it suitable for picnic parties, It is a de- 
 lightful spot, sand beach and gently 
 sloping to deep water. This was for- 
 
 merly an old Indian camping ground 
 and wild fruita grow here in abundance. 
 It has been verv appropriate!}' named 
 "Indian Orchard Brach." 
 
 About one mile northeast from the 
 club grounds is a small but very pretty 
 island It was formerly an Indian 
 burying ground and has been nameii 
 "Manit<.n I-litnd," and it is the inten- 
 tion to build a pier, suitable for a 
 steamer landing, at this point. Other 
 improvements and irjcreased accommo 
 daiions for guest j are contemplated in 
 time for use this season (18ij;5). Mr. B. F 
 Kountz w ho bad immediate charge last 
 season will cctinneas sHporinttriden' 
 
 v\l(_.\\^\M M'.AK 1 \> l> I.AK1.S. ,M. i. S. 4 \\ - I 
 
 A]iplications for accommodations 
 should be addressed to B. F. Kountz, 
 Supt., Twin Lakes Fishing and Hunting 
 Club, Eagle Eiver, Wis., and for further 
 information address either Mr. Harvey 
 L. Goodall, President, Union Stock 
 Yards, Chicago, 111., or General Passen- 
 ger Agent of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore 
 & Western K'y, Milwaukee, Wis. 
 Prices will remain practically the same 
 as last year, viz: |IU per week or $a per 
 day. Boat 50 cents per day. Boat and 
 guide $3.00 per day. No finer fleet of 
 rowboats can be fonnd in this whole lake 
 region than that at Twin Lakes. Stage 
 meets all passenger trains from the sonth. 
 
 LAKE VIEW DESERT. 
 
 This lake is reached from State Line 
 Statio# and is five miles east, reached 
 by a wagon road through the woods. It 
 is in size about five miles both in length 
 and width and may be trnthf ally said 
 to be the home of the muskallonge. It is 
 the head waters of the Wisconsin River, 
 is very shallow for so large a body of 
 water, its greatest depth be ng only 12 ft 
 Its bed is largely overgrown with weeds 
 and rushes, which furnish protection 
 for small fish, the food of the "Musky," 
 also protection to his majesty, as it is 
 onlv in the early rart of the season (June 
 '"■ .Tiilvl that this fish can be caught here 
 in great numbers, on ac, 
 count of the weed 
 growth. Its banks ( ffer 
 ti tie camping spots. 
 BoHts. guides and lim- 
 ited accommodations ''an 
 be furnished by Mr. Len 
 Thomas, who resides 
 here. 
 
 STATE PAKK REGION. 
 
 Directly west of State 
 Line Station is a strip of 
 country, say ten miles 
 widebythirrv long, lying 
 partly in the State of 
 Wisconsin and partly in 
 Michigan. In this terri- 
 tory the lakes are so nu- 
 m e r o u s and many of 
 them larg-, that there 
 would seem to be more 
 water than land. Certain 
 it is that af ler a journey 
 by land of about five 
 miles frotu Stale Line 
 Station, the sportsman 
 tao, with a canoe, visit 
 most of the lakes in this 
 region entirely by water; 
 in a few cases short port- 
 ages would be necessary. 
 In fact a voyage from 
 State Line through these 
 lakes to Manitowish Sta- 
 tion is not only practical 
 but very enjoyable and 
 romantic. All that 
 would be necessary 
 would be a good guide, 
 light boat and light camp 
 outfit, and three or four 
 days' supply of provis- 
 ions. Many of these 
 lakes are practically nn- 
 fisbed. They are beauti- 
 ful beyond description 
 and all swarm with fish. 
 Those lakes whose waters 
 flow toward the north, 
 abound with black bass 
 and the lake or salmon 
 trout, the latter frequent- 
 ly weighing from twelve 
 to fifteen pounds. In 
 those lakes which empty 
 their waters touthward 
 are the muskallonge, 
 black bass, pike and (ick- 
 erel. For ampcing parties it is the 
 sportman's Eden. 
 
 Last season Mr. Geo. A. Delano 
 opened a well-equipped resort at Lake 
 Mamie, about twelve miles (by road) 
 west of State Line Station. The follow- 
 ing letter explains very fully the ac- 
 commodations of this resort: 
 
 "State I.ise. S.|it 7. 1S92. 
 "I hnvo iusl opeBPil up a larKf raiiKe of laliea 
 west of State Line on your road. Have put five 
 mites of new roail into tlie heart of the latte re- 
 prion weMt of 1 lie station. I think 1 ran trutlifully 
 say tllat these lalvcs furnish the best bass, trout 
 and uiuskalloDge fishing in the world. The catch 
 of bass for thia season from lakes around oar 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 hotel, by fishermen Btoppinj? with me is 7,73r) lbs. 
 We have done but little muskallonge and Mack- 
 inaw trout fishing as the season for them is just 
 beginninp:, but we have splendid trout and musk- 
 allonge fishing within a few hours' ride by water 
 of our camp. I never caught, less than Ave trout 
 at any one trip to Thousand Island Lake last 
 spring and got twelve at one trip. The iHrgest 
 was twelve pounds. Would average five pounds. 
 
 "We will have a line of boats all the way 
 through to High Lake next spring so that we 
 will have to portage no boats and can make the 
 trip in four hours. 
 
 "A'e have good comfortable chairs, a large 
 dining camp and set a good table. I keep the 
 best guides and boats, have a good, easy, covered 
 spring buckboard and charge S1.60 for passage 
 (12 miles) and $1.6i) per day for board: $3.50 per 
 week for boats, $2.r,0 per day for guides. All our 
 snides are cooks and are thoroughly acquainted 
 with the country between the two lines of the 
 Milwaukee. Lake Shore & Western Ry. 
 
 "I charge $5 per day for man and team to haul 
 camping parties to any of the lakes in the neigh- 
 borhood. 
 
 "Deer are more plentiful than they have ever 
 been known to be at this station and west of 
 here, so the old settlers say. Geo. A. Delano, 
 "State Line, Wis." 
 
 At Anderson Lake, eight miles west 
 of State Line, Mr. Harvey Rowell keeps 
 a boat livery which ia run in connection 
 with Mr. Delano'3 resort. 
 
 EAGLE WATERS. 
 
 The Eagle Coain cf Lakes are located 
 east of the railroa'1, beginning with Big 
 Sand and Long Lake northeast from 
 Eagle River Station, and ending with 
 Big Lake aoont six miles southeastfrom 
 Three Lakes' Station. So mnch has 
 been written of these waters in the past 
 that it does not seem necessary to give 
 a detailed description here, more than 
 to say that thirty lakes in this chain can 
 be navigated with a low boat without a 
 single portage, and by short portages 
 this number can be increased one-halt. 
 These waters ciin bereach> d either from 
 Eagle River or Three Lakes' Station. 
 Mnskallonge, pike, black bass and pick- 
 erel are fonrd in them. 
 
 At Eagle River excellent accommoda- 
 tions may be had at the Denton House 
 or Veronica Hotel. Rates |3 per day 
 and |7 to |10 per week. Experienced 
 
 fnides$3,&0per day, good boats |1 per 
 ay or $5 per week. 
 
 THREE LAKES.— Mr. Fred Johns will 
 continue to keep the old Lee place on 
 Laura Lake, and Mr. F. R. French the 
 Lake Shore Summer Resort, (opened by 
 him last year) located between Lakes 
 Laura and Medicine. Both of the above 
 are reached by a good road from Three 
 Lahes and are only two and one-half 
 miles distant from that station. 
 
 Mr. French proposes to increase his 
 accommodations and procure additional 
 boats for the coming season, and can 
 supply camping outfits at reasonable 
 rates. He also has accommodations at 
 Butternut Lake, where black bass fish- 
 ing is almost unparalleled. 
 
 Rates: Board |1.50 per day, boats 50 
 cents per day or |3 per week, guide $a.50 
 per day. 
 
 The Rev. Robt. Mclntyre, of Chicago, 
 in relating his experience with a musk- 
 allonge in the Eagle Waters, says: 
 
 "About 9 o'clock in the morning I had a strike. 
 It was a huge aid very gainey musknlltmge a 
 ^and specimen of the 'wolf of the waters,' ns it is 
 called. Away went my line with lightning rnpid- 
 ity, just as the rope coil does when a whale is 
 harpooned. Quickly we followed with our boat, 
 speeding to the deep water. I knew if my line 
 tightened it would snap— as well try to hold a 
 Texan steer with a silk thread as endeavor to 
 take one of those vigorous fish with a linen line. 
 I was in terror of losing the catch for t could see 
 the nickel bar of the reel— my line wna just ex- 
 hausted. Then the big fellow turned and came 
 right to the boat's side and surve.ved ua calmly 
 and reproachfully I thought, with his great gray 
 •yes. Next ho flirted with his tall, lashing the 
 water into silvery ripples. Again, back to the 
 deep where he sulked for half nn hour. When he 
 came ba^k to the surface we tried.to get the gaf! 
 in his gills, but ho had strength tor another fight. 
 Away sped the line for another 100 yards. I can 
 tell yon le was a fighter. After about ten min- 
 
 utes ho came again to the boat's side. I played 
 him for all he was worth and he was real game. 
 He would leap into the air and shake the steel 
 in his mouth until we could hear the trolling 
 spoons rattle an accompaniment to his rage. At 
 last old Tobac, the guide, got the gaff in his neck 
 and lifted him into the boat where his every leap 
 shook the little craft from keel to gunwale," 
 
 LAKES ON THE RHINELANDER DI'VISION. 
 
 MoNico, 240 miles from Milwaukee, is 
 the junction point of the Rhinelander 
 Division and the old line. It should be 
 borne in mind that from Monico north 
 to Lake Superior and northwe.st to Ash- 
 land is almost an unbroken wilderness, 
 the exception being only that portion 
 closely bordering the railway. The 
 Rhinelander Division was completed to 
 Hurley in the fall of 1889 and opened to 
 fishermen waters heretofore practically 
 inaccessible. 
 
 A book could be written descriptive of 
 the lakes and streams adjacent to this 
 portion of the line, but space forbids 
 more than a brief mention of the prin- 
 cipal waters. 
 
 Maple Grove Resort, on Sugar 
 Lake, fourteen miles north of Rhine- 
 lander, is reached by a two and one-half 
 hours' drive over a good road. A de- 
 lightful ride through northern woods, 
 passing several beautiful lake.s, this part 
 of the journey being one of the pleasant 
 features of the trip. 
 
 Oq reachins: the resort, which is kept 
 by Mr. Fred R. Tripp, the most charm- 
 ing and restful scene meets the eye that 
 it is possible to imagine. On an eleva- 
 tion of 30 feet above the lake and over- 
 looking it are located cottages, new and 
 substantially built of hewn lops, gi'ving 
 one an impression of thrift and comfort 
 seldom found in regions so remote, and 
 once inside of tbe home of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Tripp, the air of neatness and hospitality 
 which pervades it assures you that >ou 
 have not only found a place to rest, but 
 a delightful home while it is your good 
 fortune to stay. 
 
 It is impossible, in this limited space, 
 to describe the beauties of this lake; it 
 must be seen to be appreciated. It^ 
 water is as clear as crystal, the bottom 
 can be seen a depth of twenty feet, its 
 shores slope gradually to deep water are 
 of white sand, its bottom either white 
 sand or stone and its banks high and 
 hea'vily timbered. It has no outlet or 
 inlet but is fed entirely by springs. An 
 island which reaches nearly to the main 
 land on either side divides the. lake into 
 about equal parts, each being one and 
 one-half miles each way. 
 
 In October last, the -writer, with his 
 wife, spent a week at this resort and 
 considers it, without exception, the 
 most beautiful lake in all Northern Wis- • 
 consin, where every lake is a picture. 
 
 The fish taki n from this lake are black 
 bass and remarkable for their size and 
 quality. 
 
 Sugar Camp Lake, about ten rods 
 north of Sugar Lake, is larger and black 
 bass, pike and muskallonge are caught 
 in it There are several lakes within a 
 radius of five miles in which musk- 
 allonge are plentiful. 
 
 This is emphatically a family resort. 
 Take your wife and children and care 
 will fly away. They as well as yourself 
 will find rest and strength to battle 
 with the "Deuinition grind" ot the cares 
 and business of life. 
 
 You can write or wire Chafee & Jos- 
 lin, liverymen at Rhinelander, who will 
 furnish team and take yon to Tripp's 
 for |4. 
 
 This -will be the charge for one or 
 more, not exceeding five persons. Mr. 
 
 Tripp's charges are |3 per day or |10 
 per week, including the use of boats. 
 
 Tomahawk Lake, seventeen miles be- 
 yond Rhinelander, is neatly twelve 
 miles long, with a shore line of seventy- 
 five miles or more, and must be seen to 
 be appreciated. Its waters, as well as 
 those of the score or more of lakes easily 
 accessible from this point, abound in 
 muf kallouge, black bass and pike. 
 
 Mr. Chas. A. Sanders has purchased 
 the summer home of Messrs. Bradley 
 and Kelly and will furnish first-class 
 accommodations to all who may desire 
 to spend some time at this beautiful 
 lake. Rates: $3 per day and $7 per 
 week. 
 
 Trout Lake is reached from Wood- 
 ruff station by stage which daily con- 
 nects with the trniii. It is located 
 about ten miles north of Woodruff and 
 is a beautifully clear Dody of water 
 (fed by spring brooks), six miles long 
 and four wide. As indicated by its 
 name, lake trout (salmon trout) are 
 found here in abundance. They ate fre- 
 quently takeu here of great size (15 to 2l) 
 lbs,) These tish can be caught from the 
 time tbe ice breaks up in the sprinij un- 
 til the last of June, aud from tlie first 
 of September until the lake freeze over. 
 A hotel is located on Trout Lake where 
 comfortable accomodations can be had, 
 also boats and guides. The lake.s sur- 
 rounding Trout Lake, and there are 
 many of them, are all muskallonge wa- 
 ters. The outlet is Manitowish River, 
 and the Manitowish chain of lakes can 
 be reached from Trout L ike. 
 
 Manitowish Waters. — At Manitow- 
 ish Station, twenty-two miles north of 
 Woodruff, we reach the Manitowish 
 River. From here Rest Lake, the first 
 of this system of lakes, is reached by 
 either wagon road (seven miles), or river 
 (fourteen miles). Here are accomoda- 
 tions, boats, guides, etc , for a reasona- 
 ble consideration. From this point a 
 great number of large and splendid 
 lakes can be reached and fished. Camp- 
 ing spots, charming beyond description, 
 are met with at every turn while pass- 
 ing through this chain of lakes, aud the 
 muskallonge, black bass and pike fish- 
 ing -will satisfy the most e-\-acting 
 sportsman. 
 
 In addition to the accomodations at 
 the dam, Joe Odgers will continue his 
 camp at Star Lake, half a mile from 
 Manitowish Lake, where comfortable 
 quarters may be had, also boats, guides, 
 and entire outfits for camping parties at 
 reasonable rates. 
 
 There will also be a resort opened this 
 season at Big Lake, that will accomo- 
 date from fifty to sixty people. This 
 will be managed by Mr. Ernest Bray- 
 back, A good supply of new boats will 
 be found here Charge for boats, 75 
 cents per day and guides |3.50 per day. 
 A daily stage will run between tbe 
 Station (Manitowish) and the dam. 
 The charge for passage each way will 
 be |1.00 for each person. 
 
 Mr. L. W. Wakely, jf Chicago, who 
 visited the Manitowish Waters during 
 the last week in September, and the 
 first in October, has kindly giv- 
 en his consent to my inserting here the 
 fcllowing letter. (The gentlemen com- 
 prising tbe party were Messrs. Wakely, 
 Tenney, Hibbard, Webster, Root and 
 Jones, all of Chicago.) 
 
 Chicago, 111., Oct. 2'J, 1892. 
 In dne time we returned from our northern trip, 
 full of life and admiration for the magnificent rec- 
 reation country tributary to your lino. Wo 
 camped out two weeks, every day a perfect one, 
 with but two hours rain in that time. I never 
 saw such magnificent foliage effects In my life, 
 even along the Hudson river andthe LakoGeorge 
 country. We fished in several lakes north of 
 
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 Trout Lake, ^^'hilt? uiaklDg no effort for a reo 
 ord, tlBblnp; merely for diverBlon, we palled out 
 In the neighborhood of a hundred niuskallonge 
 and two huuilred and fifty red-eye. Hmall-mouth 
 baBfl, ranprinK froni three to six pounda. 
 
 The muflkallonjce ranged from l*n to twenty 
 poundB. All our fish were landed on light tackle; 
 we merely changed our spoons from time to time. 
 We threw back nearly all our flsh 
 
 L. \V. Waekly. 
 
 Turtle Waters. — At Mercer, 2 1-2 
 nii'es beyond Mrtnitovvish, we couie to 
 the Tui tie River, through which the 
 liikes called the Turtle Chain are 
 reached. 'Ihe lakes of tliis system ex- 
 tend from iiiar the Michigan slate line, 
 some twelve miles north of Mercer, to a 
 point about twenty miles south of Mer- 
 cer, anil the same varieties of fish are 
 found here as in the Manitowish waters. 
 Many of the lake.s both of the Turtle 
 Hnd Maiiitowisli are as yet practically 
 nnfished and are unconsciously inviting 
 the would-be Sir Waltons of this age to 
 hunt out their biding places in this 
 great forest, and there experience the 
 dreams which »re seldom more than 
 visions of our sleep, too improbable for 
 realization. 
 
 Boats and guides can be secured at 
 Mercer. This country is especially 
 adapted for camping parties. 
 
 Pelican Lake, 234 miles from Mil- 
 waukee, is the first lake reached on our 
 northward journey in which muskal- 
 longe are found. It is conveniently lo- 
 cated, the main line of the Milwaukee, 
 Lake Shore & Western Ry. for about a 
 mile borders its east shore. It is a very 
 handsome body of water and contains 
 two islands. The muskallonge, black 
 bass, and pickerel fisliing in this lake is 
 good and it has the advantage of being 
 BO located that it can be reached in one 
 night from either Chicago or Milwau- 
 kee and by either of the through pa'^sen- 
 ger trains without change, and so enab- 
 ling parties who may have but one or 
 two day.s at their disposal to spend all of 
 it, except their sleeping hours, on the 
 lake. 
 
 A hotel has been opened here and af- 
 ter June 1st will be abb to accomodate 
 twenty-five to fifty people. The supply 
 of boats will be increased to meet all re- 
 quirements. To secure accomodations 
 here address Mrs. L. L.Beaudette, Peli- 
 can Lake, Wis. 
 
 BROOK TROUT, 
 
 Dudley, Wis. — In addition to the 
 trout fishing previously mentioned, viz., 
 in the vicinity of Gogebic Lake and 
 Watersmeet, special mention should be 
 made of Prairie River near Dudley, 
 Wis. This is an ideal trout stream, the 
 finest, all things considered, into which 
 it has ever been the writer's good for- 
 tune to cast a line, for the following 
 reasons: It is aliye with trout and an 
 average catch will range from 8 oz. to 
 one pound each, the stream is from 25 
 to 50 feet wide and can be fished for a 
 distance of several miles ; its width will 
 permit of two persons wading abreast 
 the entire distance and casting without 
 being troubled by the trees and bushes 
 on its banks. The water clear and cold, 
 and every few rods rapids and quick wa- 
 t«r alternate with deep and placid pools. 
 A more perfect trout stream cannot 
 well be imagined and seldom found. 
 Dudley is seven miles from Parrish, a 
 terminal station on the Wisconsin Riv- 
 er Branch, which leaves the main line 
 at Pratt Junction. A good wagon road 
 from Parrish to Dudley. 
 
 The accomodations are furnished by 
 Mr. Henry Dudley and those who may 
 
 be so fortunate as to become the guesta 
 of Mr. Dudley and his good wife, will 
 find every wish anticipated and no want 
 left nnsupitlied which it is in their pow- 
 er to fill; the table good and supplied 
 with all the luxuries obtainable in this 
 remote region, including plenty of good 
 milk, cream and fresh eggs. 
 
 Mr. Dudley has a team and a good 
 spring wagon and will meet parties at 
 Parrish on arrival of train, if advised 
 by letter four or five days in advance of 
 the day and train passengers will ar- 
 rive. His addiess is "Henry Dudley, 
 Dudley, Wis." 
 
 Mr. Frank C. Randall, of Joliet, 111., 
 has kindly given me permission to in- 
 sert, herein, the following letter. 
 
 Jol.lET. Hi.. Sept. I7th, 1892. 
 
 We were at Dudley in August and the only 
 thing that we regret Is that weeould not prolong 
 our vacation beyond two weeks. Of Mr. Dudii-y 
 and family we will always cherish the kindliest 
 recollections There was no effort on their part 
 to make us feel at home, but it was simply a part 
 of their nature to do so and they succeeded as a 
 matter of course. 
 
 As far as the fishing is concerned 1 would pre- 
 fer to say but little and that is that we were per- 
 fecti.v satlHlied. 1 he river itself is just my ideal 
 of a jterfect tiout slream. aud I do not see how 
 any one can drop a tly along the eight miles or 
 mon; of perfect water without a feeling of su- 
 preme contentment with himself and the balance 
 of the world. We were, in fact, so well satisfied 
 that we intend to spend several weeks there next 
 year. F. C, Randall. 
 
 Evergreen Creek, twenty miles, 
 and one of its branches fourteen miles 
 from Antigo are excellent trout streams 
 and large catches were made in each 
 last season. Mr. Geo. Perry, livery- 
 man, of Antigo, will furnish comforta- 
 ble rigs and take parties to these trout 
 streams at reasonable prices. 
 
 The Shawano District. — There are 
 no doubt many who would prefer the 
 middle ground between the so-called 
 fashionable resort and the unrestrained 
 freedom of the Northern Wisconsin and 
 Michigan woods. We would invite the 
 attention of such to the numerous lakes 
 located near the line of the Oconto 
 Ijranch of the M., L. S. & W. Ry. 
 Starting east from Clintonville, Wis., 
 1.56 mile! from Milwaukee, this branch 
 line leads to Oconto, 55 miles distant. 
 
 Within a radius of two miles from 
 either Embarrass or Belle Plains Sta- 
 tions, four and eight miles respectively 
 from Clintonville, are four lakes, viz : 
 Pine, Grass, Long and Round Lake, fine 
 bodies of water, and well stocked with 
 various kinds of fish. There are a num- 
 ber of summer cottages around these 
 lakes. The shores are particularly 
 adapted for camping, and for those who 
 do not care to camp, good accomodations 
 can be secured near by. 
 
 At Shawano, a village of 1,500 inhabi- 
 tants, fourteen miles from Clintonville. 
 the visitor will find accomodations, 
 either at hotels or in private families, 
 that are first -class, at very reasonable 
 figures. Shawano Lake is two miles 
 distant from the town, is 5 1-2 miles 
 long and 2 1-2 miles wide and contains 
 black bass and pickerel. Improvements 
 have been made in the waterways, 
 which makes navigation direct from the 
 city through the river to the lake; they 
 also have a fine steam yacht on Shawano 
 Lake that carries from one hundred to 
 one hundred and fifty passengers, and 
 this steamer vpill carry passengers from 
 Shawano to the head of the lake, mak- 
 ing stops at various landings. The 
 north shore of the lake is a very t>eauti- 
 ful camping ground, and is well adapted 
 for bathing, the water at this point 
 being from three to four feet deep for 
 
 nearly one-half mile from shore, and 
 the bottom white sand and free from 
 stones or pebbles. 
 
 A hotel has been built at this point on 
 the lake for the accommodation of sum- 
 mer visitors. There is also a dock at which 
 the steamer will make regular stops. 
 
 Mr. James Beach, the proprietor of 
 this hotel, will be able to accommodate 
 from twenty to twenty-five boarders. 
 
 The location is near the best fishing 
 grounds and is within a mile of the best 
 locality tor ducks. 
 
 The City of Shawano is one of the 
 most romantic places in Nnrtheru Wis- 
 consin, it is a perfect little park. The 
 Keshena Indian Reservation is located 
 eight miles north of Shawano, and to 
 parties who have never seen Indians on 
 the reservation, a drive to this famous 
 Indian village would be very interest- 
 ing. 
 
 There are several livery stables in 
 Shawano aud conveyances can be se- 
 cured at reasonable rates. 
 
 The Milwaukee and Shawano Hunting 
 and Fishing Club, composed of Milwau- 
 kee gentleman, own one-fourth of a 
 mile lake frontage on the north shore of 
 this beautiful lake aud near to the 
 famous picnic ground at North Beach. 
 They have a comfortable club house, 
 boat house and hunting and fishing 
 boats, where members and their frien<£ 
 go during the hunting and fishing sea- 
 son. It is located alaout midway be- 
 tween the city of Shawano and the town 
 of Cecil. 
 
 Cecil, on the east end of Shawano 
 Lake, has two hotels, and several private 
 families who will take summer boarders. 
 Boats, guides or teams can be secured 
 at this point for trips on Shawano Lake 
 and to other lakes in that vicinity, 
 among wiiich Lake Me-shav-quette. six 
 miles north, is a very beautiful body of 
 water, with sandy be^ch, and the lake 
 is teeming with black bass and pickerel. 
 
 Within thirty minutes' drive from 
 Underbill's Station, 28 miles from 
 Clintonville, are several beautiful lakes, 
 viz. : Berry Lake, Christie Brook Lake, 
 SpeiceLake and Glaus; also some six or 
 eight other lakes in the immediate vicin- 
 ity. Parties will find easy access to all 
 of the lakes, and can traverse the coun- 
 try for miles around and drive from one 
 lake to another without meeting any 
 obstruction, owing to the levelness of 
 the country. Hotel accommodations 
 and conveyances can be procured at 
 this point. 
 
 Gillett. — This is the nearest station 
 for parties wishing to visit the famous 
 Kelly Lake; this lake is noted for its ex- 
 cellent bass fishing, and there are a 
 number of summer cottages erected 
 around it. 
 
 There are numerous other lakes in this 
 immediate vicinitv and an abundance 
 of trout may be taken in the neighbor- 
 ing streams. 
 
 The wagon road from Gillett Station 
 to Kelly Lake (10 miles) is an old trav- 
 eled turn-pike road, and is in first-class 
 shape. The trip from Gillett to this 
 lake can easily be made in two and one- 
 half hours. 
 
 The section of country described 
 above under the heading of the "Shaw- 
 ano District" is thickly settled by well- 
 to-do farmers, who may furnish accom- 
 modations, also supplies ef milk, butter, 
 fresh eggs, etc., to camping parties. 
 
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 T ^Wisconsin (Central I^ailroad. T 
 
 V E N a p rominent 
 author was induced 
 to remark "when a 
 man is traveling in 
 a beautiful country, 
 drinking in each 
 glorious 8 p e ctacle 
 as it passes before 
 his view, a 1 i 1 1 1 e 
 draught of something more substantial 
 as an interlude heightens his sense of 
 appreciation and makes his pleasure 
 greater." In the ride from Chicago via 
 the "Wisconsin Central" lines, the trav- 
 eler passes through a most picturesque, 
 interesting and prosperous belt of the 
 western world. 
 
 There is scenery most striking and a 
 series of the noblest cities, towns and 
 villages of every variety and size, from 
 the hamlet or the tiny 
 farm upward; mighty 
 fields of grain with their 
 thousands of workers; 
 the greenest and most 
 lasting pasturage; hilis, 
 snows and peaks start- 
 ling in the magnificence ^SS« 
 of their beauty; distant 
 views that are repeated 
 in dreams as of fairy 
 land; and a perfection of 
 comfort in traveling tnat 
 has never been sur- 
 passed. Ashland, "the 
 city of Iron Ore" and the 
 "Empress of the North- 
 em Sea," sits majestic- 
 ally on the bluffs over- J. 
 looking the great, cold ""^ 
 waters of the G i t c h e e 
 Gnmmee of the Maniton, 
 the presiding genins of 
 the frozen waters and 
 the Northern wilds. It 
 is one of the most thriv- 
 ing, energetic and beau- 
 tiful cities in the North- 
 west, Situated directly at the head of 
 Chequame^ton Bay, whose surroundings 
 are rich in the choicest legendary lore of 
 aboriginal glory and greatness, the city 
 is at once a treasury vault of historcal 
 reminiscencep and another treasury 
 vault of geological strata full of richest 
 wealth. 
 
 Within a few miles of her bnay 
 streets and wharves, jnst back among the 
 hills and clothed in the beanties of the 
 forest primeval, jwe wonderful steel rib- 
 bed ridges and blnSs; copper mines of 
 nnmeasurable valne; veins of many 
 minerals and areas of timber, feeding 
 
 night and day the scores of mills and 
 loading their millions of feet of lumber 
 at the monster docks stretching out be- 
 low the great red bluff that overlooks 
 the cold, grey waters of the bay. There 
 are ore docks and conveniences for ship- 
 ping the wealth of the mines in the hills 
 to a degree never yet excelled in any 
 shipping mart; health-giving springs that 
 rival in their beneficial effect the waters 
 of Saratoga or Wankesha; the electric 
 light of civilization ; and touching the 
 city's border, the striking contrast of 
 Indian life on the "Reservation." There, 
 too, is the superb Hotel Chequamegon, 
 whose palatial equipment and cuisine, 
 unsurpassed in America, entices thous- 
 ands of tourists year after year to its 
 hospitable walls. 
 
 The region is verily a paradise for the 
 capitalist, the home-seeker, the tourist, 
 
 from the observatory on the snmmit of 
 Bayfield mountain, the impression re- 
 ceived is one which never ceases to re- 
 vive a sensation of serene calm and con- 
 tentment as often as the scene is called 
 to mind. So much is to be seen about 
 these sentinels of Chequamegon Bay, 
 and so different is the view with every 
 change of wind and weather, that they 
 are simply indescribable. They form 
 the piece de resistanc of the rich feast 
 which is thrust before the visitor to this 
 wonderful region, and their quality can 
 only be judged of by the sweet taste 
 they leave in the mouth. Madeline, 
 the mother of the group, and the last to 
 sever herself from the inain-land, has 
 become famous in history and song for 
 her old church and warehouse, and the 
 moss-gown gravestones with inscrip- 
 tions of curious import. Bass Island 
 sandstone is known to architects and 
 builders the country over. Some of the 
 smaller islands are singularlv unique in 
 their structure, notably the odd little 
 Steamboat and equally odd, though 
 larger, Bear Islands, with their wonder- 
 ful rock formations. Altogether, the 
 scenes on the Wisconsin Central to the 
 "Garland City of the luland Sea" form 
 an ideal summer jaunt. 
 
 or the hunter. There is scarcely a 
 square mile of territory within fifty 
 miles of Ashland that is not traversed 
 by a living stream, cutting through 
 rocks of untold wealth. 
 
 No tourist ever visited Ashland, with- 
 out taking in the trip to Washburn, 
 Bayfield and the Apostle Islands. If he 
 did the omission must have remained a 
 source of regretful remorse to him for 
 the rest of his life. Whether the cir- 
 cumnavigation of the islands is accom- 
 plished by paddling, rowing, sailing, 
 steaming or spying with a telescope 
 
 Ofttimes I thiuk of those fair IstaDdH lyins 
 
 In the cool ripples of the inland sea; 
 Sometimes a spicy breath of plney fragrance 
 
 Brings message of remembrance unto me; 
 And then I close my eyes and vagrant fancy 
 
 Bears meawajr nnto a bygone time 
 When, perfect sea and sky and air nnfolding. 
 
 We sailed away into a golden clime. 
 
 Ofttimes I think, when pain and care and sorrow 
 
 Heem to pursue and darkly threaten me. 
 And feverish life seems scarcely worth the living. 
 
 Of saintly islands in_a summer sea. 
 And then ray heart grows calm and all npUfted 
 
 Above this petty, frail humanity, 
 Borne np on wluga sublime I see in visions. 
 
 The eadloaa vistas of Infinity. 
 
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 "Pictured 
 
 "^ ' 7^ 
 
 Rocks" 
 
 Of 
 
 
 Lake 
 Superior. 
 
 Situated four miles from Munising, a little stiition on the DULUTH, SOUTH SHORE & ATLANTIC RAILWAY, are the 
 famous "Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior." These Rocks form the coast line of Lake Superior for a distance of seven miles, 
 rearing their gigantic crests far iihove the blue-green water that musically meet and flow at their base. In the formation of 
 these rocks, Dame Nature has put forth every effort to make them appear beautiful, and she has certainly been well rewarded, 
 for their praises have been sung far and near. By the constant action of the waves the rocks have been worn smooth and their 
 grotesque lines and tracings have been thus exposed. In viewing them from the Lake at a short distance one can distinctly 
 trace pictures of animals, sliips, ca.stles and many other things, animate and inanimate, which we are familiar with in the daily 
 walks of life. A'distincti ve charm is lent to these pictures by reason of the variegated color of the rocks, which harmoniously 
 blend together, producing an artistic effect that could not be equalled by the master hand of any artist. Around these enchant- 
 ing pictures is cast a giant frame of sublimity, which ever causes the sight-seer to bow his head in reverential awe. Niagara has 
 been always spoken of as the greatest work of Nature's hand, but from a standpoint of beauty of detail and sublimity of envir- 
 onment, it is equalled if not rivalled by the "Pictured Rocksof Lake Superior." The lover of Nature should not fail to visit them 
 for when once seen, they stamp themselves indelibly upon the mind in the shape of a delightful memory. 
 
 Among the chief features of the "Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior" are "MINER'S CASTLE," the "GRAND PORTAL." 
 "CHAPEL ROCK" and the "SILVER CASCADE;" the latter a glistening stream of water which falls like a bridal veil from 
 an over-hanging cliff, one hundred and seventy-five feet into the lake below. 
 
 Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic R'y 
 
 IS THE ONLY LINE THAT REACHES 
 
 THE "PICTURED ROCKS OF LAKE SUPERIOR" 
 
 l&*The entire length of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan is traversed by this line, and its patrons are afforded delightful 
 glimpses of stream, lake and forest with which this section of the country abounds. 
 
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 PABST BREWING COMPANY, MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN. 
 
 The above enpravinff is an fxcellent birda-eye view of thp main plant oftheKreat Pabst Brewing rorapaiiy It is one of the siphts orf Milwaukee nnd cover* 
 apward.s of twenty acres. The annnal sales last year reached th^* enormo"s total of a million and a qnarter barrelw The Ashland Branch is in Charge of 
 Wn.fcWERDER, exclusive agentand all orders addressed to him for keg or bottled beer will receive prompt attention. 
 
 IF YOU ARE BALD AND WANT HAIR USE. 
 
 Frewin's Hair Restorer ! 
 
 THE GREATEST DISCOVERY OF MODERN TIMES. 
 
 ^^viiris//^/^ 
 
 RESTORER 
 
 IWILL GROW HAIR 
 AFTER 30 YEARS 
 
 ^ALDMESS 
 
 PCR BOTTVt 
 
 Over 10,000 Ladies are now usiDg this Hair Tonie. It absolutely prevents Gray 
 
 Hairs and changes the Grayest Hair to its Original Color. 
 
 Fiewin's Wonderful Hair Restore r 
 
 Grows Hair After 30 Years Baldness. 
 
 It cleans the head, keeps it cool, guarantees to take out all dandrufl', cures itching 
 and scalp diseases of all kinds, and stops falling of the hair It is not only a most pleas- 
 ant hair dressing, but its continued use for a few months will restore the grayest hair to 
 its original color. There is no su^rar of lead or other injurious properties in this tonic, or 
 dye of any kind. This wonderful discovery simply assists nature to produce a new 
 growth of hair, and hence, as the new hair grows out, it possesses all the luxuriant prop- 
 erties of youth; no difference if the party using it is three score of years. 
 
 Price $1.0© per Bottle, 6 Bottles $5.00. 
 
 s, When three or more bottles are ordered at one time, the express charges are pre- 
 
 ^ paid to all points in the United States or Canada. In ordering it is usually best to send 
 ^"" bank draft, express money order or P. O. money order. Write for a partial list of par- 
 ^ ties who have been cured of baldness, dandrufty lieads, and gray hair changed to its 
 ^ original color. Respectfully, 
 
 The Fr^Win fi&ir Restorer (p., 
 
 604 CHAMBE^R OF COMMERCE BUILDING, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. 
 
 Kor Sale by all Druggists. 
 
THR ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 New trans-continental Routl 
 
 THE SHORT LINE BETWEEN 
 
 Lake Superior and the Pacific Coast. 
 
 From West Superior, Duluth, St. Paul and Minneapolis, to |)rin- 
 
 cipal points in Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana, Idaho, 
 
 Washington and Pacific Coast States. 
 
 Tra\?crscs "IK? only fl&bltabU Belt /Across th? (pntincn-l. 
 
 A region containing largest areas of cbeap Fanning Lands, capable of producing all tlie staple food crops. Finest pastures 
 and grazing lands, for horses, sheep, cattle, poultry — the Dairy. Greatest variety and quantity of minerals — gold, silver, copper, 
 lead, coal, stone, marble. Largest and finest belts of timber. "Forests huge, incult, robust and tall, by Nature's hand planted 
 of old." Many and valuable deposits of coal, ranging from brown Lignites to shining Anthracite. Numerous undeveloped 
 water power sites. "Nature does more than supply materials, she also supplies powers." Vast quantities of best building stones, 
 granites, sandstones and marbles of many colors. Huudreds of lakes and rivers for anglers. "Our plenteous streams a numer- 
 ous race supply, Swift, brigbt-pyed beauties, with scales of various dye." Unlimited fields for the huntsman. Large and small 
 game. Elk, Moose, Deer, Bear, Waterfowl and land birds An agreeable climate; plenty of air and sun, "Strength to the weary, 
 warmth to the cold, blood to the wasted, youth to the old." Many growing cities towns and villages, offering business with an 
 income at its heels. Publications ami infcirnintion about rates, routes, locations, business chances, etc . sent free by 
 
 F. I. WHITNEY, 
 
 GEN'L PASS. & TICKET ACT- ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS-ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 AND 
 
 Qmcaqo 
 
 cHicAGtir i^' 
 
 HE many points of excellence which have contributed to make the "CHICAGO & 
 EASTERN ILLINOIS RAILROAD, EVANSVILLE ROUTE, the favorite hne of 
 travel to Florida, the Gulf Coast and all points in the South, can be enumerated as 
 f.,llo«s- FiBST- It is the only double tra.k line from Chicago to the South and has a road- 
 bed which for smoothness is second to none in America. Its course is due south, as obse 
 to the air line as the physical configuration of the country it traverses will admit. Skcond: 
 It has the only vestibuled through trains from ri.icago to Nashville rea.h.ng that city with- 
 out chan-e, and making immediate connections with the several fast hues to Honda on he 
 Gulf coast. Thibu: Its train service is so perfect that it never IViils h, incite the favorable 
 comments of travelers. 
 
 DANVItl-E^,5' 
 Tuscoi^^ 'yr I . 
 JHEIBYVIUC ,eif^J?-. 
 
 INMHVILLE 
 
 FoUBTu : Its equipment comes from the I'allman 
 shops, and is romp.ised ol the latestimproved palacw 
 Bleepers and day coaches turned out by this mam- 
 moth car-buildinp establishment. 
 
 FiKTu: Its magnifleent dining cars dispense a 
 cusine seldom equalled and never excelled. 
 
 Sixth: It reaches Nashville. Tenn., nearly four 
 hours quicker, and .Tacksonville. Fla.. six hours 
 quicker than any of its competitors. 
 
 Seventh: Its representatives and employes are 
 ever ready to anticipate or comply with any reason- 
 _ able desires of its patrons. 
 
 The points enumerated above are those which conslitnte a flrst-class line of travel; they are 
 palpable truths as applied to the -Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad " An air Ime projected 
 from ChicaKO to Nashville would measure 8ome,vhat above 4(J0 miles. The route of the C. & E. I. 
 18 only 444 miles in lenstb. The figures tell the tale. Arriving in Nashville, the t.ains of the C. A- 
 E I •■Evansville Route" connect daily with the fast expresses diverging from there to the me- 
 ridional country. Two trains leave via the Louisville 4 Nashville U. R. for New Orleans, carrying 
 through sleeping cars to .lacksonville. Fla.. via Montgomery and Waycross. via Peusacola and 
 
 Rirer .lunctioD. or via 
 the Alabama Midland 
 and Thomasville, (>a- 
 Othor trains, leaving 
 over the Nashville. 
 ChattanoogaA St. 
 Louis ilailway. carry 
 through sleepers to 
 Jacksonville, via At^ 
 lanta, Macon and the 
 Georgia Southern & 
 Florida R. R., or via 
 Atlanta, Brunswick 
 and the Cumberland 
 route steamers. 
 
 The acme of comfort in travel is to 
 Dine on a C. & E. I. Dining Car. 
 
 Attentive Strvice 
 
 is a Feature nf the C & 11. I. Trains. 
 
 The great diversity of routes to Florida is another advantage which the traveler 
 cannot find by leaving Chicago over another line. 
 
 Through Sleepers to Nashville, Tenn., 
 
 Leave Chicago via the C. & E. I. Railroad at 4 p. m.. every day in the year and 
 make immediate connections with through sleepers to Jacksonville. Fla.. and Tam- 
 pa Fla either via Montgomery & Louisuille & Nashville R'y, or via Chattanooga. 
 Atlanta and Macon. Sleeping Car Accommodations can be reserved through from 
 Chicago to .Tacksonville, or Tampa by applying to Chicago City Ticket Office, 
 204 Clark Street. For any desirable information or maps, time tables, beautilully 
 illustrated guide book, apply to CH AS. W. HUMPHReY, Northern Pas- 
 senger agent, 170 East Third Street. St. Paul, Minn. CITY TICKET OFFICE 
 204Clark Street, Chicago, or to CHARLES L. STOIME, General Passenger 
 and Ticket Agent. Room 41.t First National Bunk Biiil.liiig. Chicago, 
 
 > 
 
 l.oV'Ts ol til. 1 riiginnt Wi^ed hnv.. n s 
 on 1 he Sleepers of t he c, * 
 
 .Sleepiiig-Cur Drawing Koou 
 
^^5^-^^5!^^^^^.^^5lL!55?^Z^NNI^^ 1893. 
 
 The New York Life Insurance Co 
 
 company has heretofore fully accepted'this pHn le Th 'now'v T "^'^'r"" "'"''"'"' "-° ^^^"-y ; b .t no ife 
 time has come when tins principle should be flv 'celled ann ^'^!' ''"""^'"^ ^"""^ '*« experien.; tha he 
 
 an apphcant bein, satisfactory, it will insur 'h n ^^thout ?utnr"r' *^:.*'^^ P'^-^'^'™' -editions, habits ete. of 
 
 Note the Company's Progress in 1892. 
 
 (From Annual Heport Jnn. 1. 1>93.) 
 
 Increase In beneflte to pollc.v holders j 1.328 5->l 48 
 
 Increase In ae.ets ,, 12,^:1 
 
 Increase in surplus IJl'T" 
 
 Increase In insarance written ( Total $172" "^■'^■^^ 
 
 005,C70) 
 
 Increase in Insurance in''^rce'(Total'*089.'- •^■'^'^ 
 
 it 
 
 THE NEW YORK LIFE 
 
 ACCUMULATION POLICY 
 
 timfri?ir/itl*r=Fr.«. - "- payment of 
 
 i» 
 
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 lapse. The privilege of borrowin 
 
 2-i8,r,:;9|., 
 
 per 
 
 IN PO 
 
 reinstatement in case of 
 
 60,103,421 00 
 
 .■ annum ilii^rest!^ You get extlnTeTL°sarr" r^'"' at 5 per cent 
 . POLICY. Paid-up insurance for amonnl^^"^'^"'' * Period printbd 
 
 simplest and mostPpromablelnsu'^rrcre^'nt^acTeve^';^:^^^:'- ^'^ ^^«*' 
 
 N. B.— You Need Insurance.' A 
 
 PROMPT 
 
 ^^^^!^^5ME?n:S^AmETHER_V0U^ 
 
 OOTSHALL & KNAUFT, 
 
 District /lanagers. 
 
 DULUTH, MINN 
 
 re you Insured? We invite compurison 
 
 Send a card stating age and receive a proposition from 
 
 OR DIE. 
 
 §TE\?E H §MITri. 
 
 E. H. TAYLOR. AssisUnt DIst. Manager 
 New Yorl< Life Insurance Co 
 Room 19, Shores Block, ASHLAND WIS 
 
 AMD (p^OCERlES. 
 
 211 Ellis Avenue, 
 
 A5HLAND, WIS. 
 
 FBRU^HES and \ 
 MRTiSTS/lATERl/lLj 
 
 Itocki 
 
 o^-Z"-i St, West- 1 
 
 -flSHl 
 
 LOUIS KOLMAN & CO., 
 
 MANUFACTURERS OF 
 
 Fine (pnfec*ionery 
 
 AND ICE CREAM. 
 
 Our Candies are Always Fresh and Strictly Pore. 
 
 Agents .or Bicycles. AgenU for Pasteur Qerm Proof 
 Water Filter. Dealers in Almost Everything. 
 
 C. E. BLUME, 
 
 -FANCY 
 
 QroccnVs, ^ Confectionary, 
 
 FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. 
 
 Fancy Bakery in Connection. 
 
 Cigars and Tobacco at Wholesale and Retell. 
 The Finest Line In the City. 
 
 ASHLAND. 
 
 WISCONSIN. 
 
 Telephone 228. 
 
 '^- 507 West Second Street. 
 
 ASHLAND, WIS. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 5 THE s— 
 
 Penn Mutual Life Insurance Go. 
 
 OF PHILADELPHIA, 
 
 Has Long Been Recognized as one of the Very Best Companies. 
 We wish to call your Attention to the Following Facts: 
 
 That 
 
 Its uoriralled record for houorable deallngH. 
 Its liberal dividends to policy holders. 
 
 Its improved forme of policy, emhracinK absolute incontestabil- 
 ity, paid up or extended insurance after two years 
 
 Make It 
 
 One of tb9 bi-st if not 
 
 The Best Company 
 
 In which our citizens can obtain insurance. The Penn Mutual has been 
 In businese 46 years, and points with pride to its splendid record for 1892. 
 The followin]? is taken from its 45th annual statement : 
 
 Gross assets. January 1. 1^93 $ 20,808.692 29 
 
 Surplus four per cent basis 2,623 648.81 
 
 New businesa for 1S92, 10,023 policies 29,0^4,652.00 
 
 Insurance om standing Dec. 31. 1892. 44,014 policies 117.925.418.00 
 
 Further information will be cheerfully furnished by 
 Charles H. Gallagher, or Wm. W. Macomber, 
 
 Special Agent, State Agent for Wisconsin, 
 
 Ashland Wis , Milwaukee, Wis. 
 
 BURCH & M'DERMOTT, 
 
 REAL ESTATE 
 
 INSURANCE. 
 
 COLLECTIONS. 
 Vaughn Library Building. ASHLAND, WIS. 
 
 LOANS, 
 
 j|®"lD8urance placed on all classes of risks. Manufactories, Lumber, Stores. 
 Stocks, UwellittK.s. Plate Glass. Rents, Accident and Lite Insurance. 
 
 JlS'Real Estate for sale in all parts of the city, including building lots, resi- 
 dence property, stores, mannfaetnrinp sit^s. business property, acreage 
 — anything in the real estate line cen be supplied. Terms satisfactory 
 to purchaser. Monthly, semi-annual and annual payments received. 
 Owners and proprietors of the South Park addition. 
 
 j^* Loans— Money loaned on approved real estate at lowest current stes . 
 
 JlS"CoIlectlon8 promptly made and remitted, rents collected, taxes aid- 
 estates managed. 
 
 J8S%Prompt and personal attention griven to all departments in onr office. 
 Satisfaction guaranteed 
 
 Reference: Northern Natiooal Bank, Ashland Wis. 
 
 J. A. COBB & SON, 
 
 Mcrchain-lr ^ Tailors. 
 
 107 EAST SECOND STREET. 
 
 One of the most popular merchant tailoring establishments In Ashland is 
 that of Messrs f'obb & Son, of No. 107 East Second street. This business 
 was established in 1881 by Mr. J. A. Cobb who conducted it until February 
 1893. when he took as a partner his son George F. The building :Wx90 is 
 TitUized for the purpose of the businesB, and in the sales department a fine 
 display is made of foreign and domestic woolens, cassimeres. cheviots and 
 tweeds Fine Tailoring is the Specialty, and it should be said Messrs. 
 Cobb 4 Son never fail to please their many customers. Mr. Cobb person- 
 ally superintends the cutting and completion of every garment that leaves 
 the establishment, employing some eleven skilled and first-class workmen. 
 Popular prices prevail and a brisk business is done. 
 
 PAUL NORDSTROM. 
 
 NCLS E. ROEN 
 
 ASHLAND FOUNDRY CO., 
 
 ANurACTunnns of all hinoe or 
 
 Iron * and « 3>'^ss * C^S"lin;^S' 
 
 FIRST-CLASS WORK GUARANTEED. 
 
 Patterns made from drawlDfc and speciflcatlontt or drawings made to 
 order. Goods delivered F. 0. B. at onr factory. Address all business com- 
 manications to the cotnpany. Beeman A Bowman, lessees of Machinery 
 Department. New and rtpair work solicited. Honest work, fair prices. 
 W. 8. Beeman. Chas. T Bowman, 1305 to 131" St. Olalr st. Telephone 293, 
 
 Ashland, 
 
 Wisconsin. 
 
 HOTEL CHEQUAMEQON, 
 
 GEO H. HOPPER, PROP. 
 
 FINEST SUMMER HOTEL ON LME SUPERIOR. 
 
 Accommodations for i.ooo Guests. 
 
 ASHLAND, 
 
 WISCONSIN. 
 
 THE NEW LELAND, 
 
 H. E. LELAND, Proprietor. 
 
 Rates Medium. * Hot and Cold Water. « Large and Airy Rooms. 
 Electric Lights. Cnisine Unsurpassed. 
 
 213 THIRD AVENUE WEST, ASHLAND, WIS. 
 
 The oldest and best Commercial House In the Northwest. 
 
 Splendid views of Cbeqnamegoa Bay and the Apostle Islands. 
 
 Recently Refitted and Refurnished. 
 
 A Strictly First=CIass Hotel. 
 
 THE COnnERCIAL, 
 
 Mrs. Anna McNeil, Proprietress, 
 Ben S. Lucas, Planager. 
 
 CONTAINS ALL THE MODERN CONVENIENCES, 
 
 ASHLAND, 
 
 wrs. 
 
 R. F. SPENCER 
 
 The Largest Manufacturer of HARNESS '" Northern 
 Wiscongin. especially for Mining and Lumbering. 
 
 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. 
 
 SEND FOR CATALOGUE AND PRICE 
 LIST. 
 
 414 Second Street West, 
 
 Ashland, Wisconsin. 
 
 S^'SIGN OF THE WHITE HORSr 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 1r 
 
 V^llowstone 
 National Park 
 
 THAT 
 
 "WONDER OF WONDERS! 
 
 where it seems God left a portion of His 
 creative handiwork unfinished, that He 
 mi<:jht show His children 
 
 HOW THE WORLD WAS MADE !" 
 
 THI5 
 
 American Wonderland 
 
 " situated in the heart of the Rocky 
 Mountains, on the broad, rugged summit 
 of the continent, amid snow and ice and 
 dark, shaggy forests, where the great 
 rivers take their rise, surpassing in wake- 
 ful, exciting interest any other region yet 
 discovered on the face of the Globe," 
 
 IS CONVENIENTLY REACHED 
 
 Hy THE 
 
 Northern 
 
 Pacific 
 
 Railroad. 
 
 IF YOU WANT TO TAKE 
 
 THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME, 
 
 send for our illustrated tourist books, and 
 
 the latest and best maps published of 
 
 Yellowstone Park, Puget Sound, and 
 
 Alaska. 
 
 J. M. HANNAFORD, CHARLES S. FEE, 
 
 Uen'l Traffic Manager, Gen 'I Passen^ir Ag't, 
 
 SAINT PAUL, MINN 
 
 GIANT GEYSER 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDI PION, 1893. 
 
 Minneapolis 
 s^nd 
 
 OnA2iKa^ 
 
 Camp on Long Lake, near Cable, Wis., on C. St. P. H. & O. Ry. 
 
 To lovers of fishing the "Omaha" offers many a secluded lake and 
 well-stocked stream. At Kiver Falls, White Birch, Hayward, Gor- 
 don, Rice Lake, Chetek and many other points on the line, may be 
 had as fine trout or lake fishing as the most ambitious angler can de- 
 sire. Of course, at some excellent points like Cable, for instance, the 
 accommodations at present are limited, and the lakes some distance 
 from stations; it is well therefore in such cases to make arrange- 
 ments to rough it; and in most cases, parties form a distance can 
 make arrangements in advance with some reliable person who will, if 
 desired, attend to all details. Deer in I^orthern Wisconsin seem to 
 have increased in number during the last two years, being now very 
 plentiful, and good sport may be expected in season at many of these 
 points on the Northern division. 
 
 Cumbeiland. Wis., i8 within three hour, of St. Paul, and for natural beauty of loaition cannot be easily ^"jpassed 
 S^town is built on an island, at the lower end of Beaver Dam Lake, from wh^ch vanous arms branch ou m d.tfer- 
 ent dii^ctions one being eight miles long. The fishing is good, bass, pickerel, pike and other species of the fanny 
 triLbeiiabun^ Hotel accommodations are ample and goo.l. and boats of all kinds are to be had at moderate 
 
 prices North Wisconsin is the home of p,no, balsam and spruce, and the air about these lakes :s fragrant w.th 
 their aromatic breath. For map, time tables or any information apply to 
 
 T. W.TK/^SDAL£, Qen. Pass. A^cn-l, 
 
 ST. PAUL, MINN. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 Vaughn Estate. 
 
 Mrs. Emeline E. Vaughn, Owner, 
 
 V. A. Alderson, Hanager. 
 
 W. 0. Bancroft, Bookkeeper and Treasurer. 
 
 Office, Room 9, Vaughn Block, 
 
 ASHLAND, WIS. 
 
 City Property and Farming Lands 
 
 FOR SALE. 
 
 MINING PROPERTjE S. 
 
 Dwellings, Stores and Offices For Rent. 
 
 fi — 
 
 PERRIN & CORSON, 
 
 |i Wl Locksmiths and El^ctrici^nj. 
 
 :^^.wS^ 
 
 ♦ ♦ ♦ DEALERS IN ♦ ♦ ♦ 
 
 ^I^C'^rlc Qoods, /Ammunition, 5por't< 
 
 in^ Qoods; EnanAcled ^uha- 
 
 bers and Letters. 
 
 BICYCLE REPAIRING AND SAFE OPENING. 
 
 /I^^n"ls for fcn-lur^ (plumbi2L Bicy^cks- 
 ASHLAND, WIS. 
 
 /Diamond^ 
 
 l#%di MS 
 
 317 WEST SECOND STREET 
 
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 Columbian Engraving Company, 
 
 359 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO, ILL. 
 
 ,i "s-.t("^>,- 
 
 
 NA/E ARE RIC3MT I ISJ THE 
 
 F'or Rime Mewspaper Emgravings, sucH as Portraits sirtd Bi-Jildings, 
 
 HALF-TONl 
 
 NGRAVINGS, 
 
 igravimg of Bi_jslr-iess Cards, CInecl-cs, Letter, Bill and l\lot^ I— i^ads. 
 SEfMO ROR OUR ll_l_l_ISTRAXED CATAl-OGUE. 
 
 COLUMBIAN ENGRAVING CO., 
 
 359 OEARBORISI SX. CHICAGO. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAH^Y PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 IDAHO FALLS. IDAHO. U. 8. A. 
 
 G ATEW AY TO THE YELLOWSTO.NE NATIONAL PARK 
 IS THE NEXT BIG CITY IN THE UNITED STATES. 
 
 Idaho Falls 
 
 Is located on the great thermal belt around the world, where Pekin, London, Paris, New York, Chicago, 
 San Francisco and other great cities ol tiie earth are to be found. 
 
 2,500,000 acres of rich Farming Lands, in the great Snake River Valle)', surrounding this new city, produc- 
 ing from 45 to 70 bushels of wheat to the acre, 60 to 140 bushel of oats to 
 the acre, and other crops in proportion. 
 
 EXPORTS— 100 carloads, 1889 ; 400 carloads, 1890 ; 1,200 carloads, 1891 ; 3,000 carloads, 1892. 
 POPULATION— Sept. 1, '90, 150; Jan. ],'91, 400; Jan. 1, '92, 750; Jan. 1, '93, 1,500 
 
 WITHIN FIVE YEARS WILL HAVE 2o,oeo PEOPLE. 
 
 
 '%^%/%^%^%^%-'%''%^'%/%r 
 
 Birdseye Vie« of the Snake River Valley, Looking West. 
 
 Over $2,000,000 has been expended during the last three years in building mammoth irrigating 
 ditches in the valley around Idaho Falls. 
 
 WATER IS THE GOD OF THE HARVEST. 
 
 ^^ Business and residence lots in this new city at first prices. Unprecedented opportunity to purchase 
 town lots at low prices, which will increase many times in value. Unequalltd opportunities for desirable 
 French, English and German colonies to locate on lands. Finest in America. 
 
 126,000 hor.se power in the rapids of the famous Snake River, where the new city is building; which 
 guarantees it to be a great manufacturing ctnter. 
 
 CHICAGO TO IDAHO FALLS 
 
 WITHOUT 
 CHANQE OF CARS 
 
 Via. 
 
 CHICAGO &. NORTHWESTERN AND 
 
 UNION PACIFIC RAILROADS. 
 
 EMERSON ncCAFFREV, 
 
 CORRESPONDENCE 
 SOLICITED. 
 
 CHAIVIBEROFCOIVIMERCEBLDG, 
 r SUITE 604, 
 
 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, U. S. A. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAH^Y PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 (iUSTAFSON & PETERSON, 
 
 Planus, Organs, Picture Frames and Upholsteriu;;. 
 
 516 Second Street west, Ashland, Wis. 
 
 W. B. REA, 
 
 Real Estate Broker. City Proper!}' and Pine Lands. 
 309 Second street west, Ashland, Wis. 
 
 SHERMAN MURPHY, 
 Carpenter and Builder, Estimates Furnished. 
 Ashland, Wis. 
 
 HUNTER & STECKBAUER, 
 
 Ready Made Clothing and Fine Furnishings. 
 
 Iron River, Wis. 
 
 S. FIELD & CO. 
 
 Fresh and Salt Meats 
 
 40s Second street west, Ashland, Wis, 
 
 HESSEY & HATTON, 
 
 General Merchandise, Dry Goods & Groceries, 
 
 Iron River, Wis. 
 
 D. L. WIGGINS. 
 
 Inspector and Shipper of Lumber, Lalh & Siiiugies, 
 
 Shores Block, Asbland, Wis. 
 
 JOHN NELSON. 
 
 Clothing and Furnishing, 
 
 300 Second street west, Ashland, Wis. 
 
 C. H. ZIEHLSDORFF, 
 
 Merchant Tailor, 
 
 2U4SecoQd street wesf, Ashland, Win. 
 
 SMITH & HOPPENYAN, 
 
 Undertakers, 
 
 109 Third Avenue east, Ashland, Wis. 
 
 MoCLmTOCK& STRUBLE, 
 
 Lumber Inspectors and Shippers, 
 
 Shores Block, Ashland, Wis 
 
 G. W. HARRISON & CO., 
 
 Druggists, 
 
 404 Second street west, Ashland, Wis. 
 
 HEAVENRICH & CO. 
 
 Clothing and Furnishing Qaods, 
 
 Next to Colby House, Ashland, Wis. 
 
 BARDON & KELLOGG, 
 
 General Mercbanlise, 
 
 3a3 second street west, Ashland, Wis. 
 
 F". U. OULL-ArvinTY, 
 
 RlumkDing, Gas Fixtures, 
 
 MOT" NA/ATER M EAT I M G. 
 
 F'ifield Block. Ashland, \A/is. 
 
 IGArvj & CAl_l_AMArsj, 
 
 Building Contractors. 
 
 ESXIIVIATES RURIVJISMED. 
 
 ^O^ Pr^ntic^ Ave. Ashland, \A/ls. 
 
 U. \A/. CARR & CO. 
 
 Contracting Masons 
 
 AISID DEAI_ERS I r\J BRIC»<. 
 
 523 \A/. Second St. Ashland, \A/ls. 
 
 X. E. F=»UC3M, 
 
 Contractor and Builder. 
 
 ESXIIVIAXES FURrsllSMED. 
 
 S1S Ellis Ave. 
 
 Ashland, \A/ls. 
 
 JOHN M. F-OSXER, 
 
 Contractor and Builder. 
 
 ESXIIVIAXES RURMISMED. 
 
 Shores BlocWc. 
 
 Ashland, NA/is. 
 
 A. DOrsIALD & CO. 
 
 Building Contractors. 
 
 ESXIIVIAXES F-URIMISMED. 
 
 1100 Ellis Ave. 
 
 Ashland, Vv/is. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 A 
 
 {r-\cr\D^ Oi^ 'pin 
 
 Wisconsin Mineral Exhibit, 
 
 /^tTHe WORbD'S p^lF^.Cpf^ieFlGO. 
 §l^ow'io^^OfT^e4fjo2oli+hs,prese2ted ByT^)e 
 
 Prentice. Bf^owmstone Co. flsMuFiMD, Wis. 
 
 /sz 
 
 The 
 
 Rrentice 
 
 K. PRENTICE. Pres. 
 
 BroNA/n stone 
 
 F. E. aODDARD, Sec'y. 
 
 Co. 
 
 Prices. Grades. Analysis dtrength and Weight 
 F^RICES. 
 
 Being desirous of iutrodacing our beautiful and lasting stone more seaerally 
 into all the citif 8 and towns using stone, we ( flftr to furnish it notil further notice 
 at tie foUowintf low prices, f. o. b. cars or veS't-l^', at our quarries, adding 25 cents 
 per cubic foot for sawing two si ies and 50 c^nts for sawing four sides. 
 No. 1 uiill blocks, p.-omistuous sizes, 50 cents per cubic foot 
 
 No. 2 " " " •• as " ' 
 
 No. 3 a little coarser quality of stone with some few aggets equally as dura- 
 ble at lower price according to quality, 
 
 No. 1 ton stone _ _ . . . $3 50 per ton 
 
 No. 2 t( n stone ..... 1.50 per ton. 
 
 Rubble stone - - - - - - 4 00 per cord 
 
 Dimension ttote or extra large sizes, 10 cents per cubic foot ex^ra. 
 
 Where freights kts not too much tberecanbe a great paving made by buying our ton stone, as it is less than one half 
 the price of No. 1 mill blocks, and will in moat cases serve the fame purpose?, except where it is wanted for sawing. 
 
 GRADES. 
 
 No. 1 mill blocks shall be known as that stone frte from large blemishes of white, uniform in color, with foursquare 
 sides and sound. 
 
 No 2 uiill blocks shall be known as that stone not suflSciently clear and free from white to grade No, 1, with four 
 square sides ard sound. 
 
 No. 3 blocks with four square pides and sound. Sometimes a little coarser with some white streaks and aggets. Does 
 not saw as easily, but equally durable. 
 
 No. 1 tun stone to be known as that stone equal in quality to No. 1 mill blocks, but of irregular thape. 
 
 All of tHe above prices to toe f- o. to. cars or vessel at tHe quatrry. 
 
 AfSJ A1_YSIS. 
 
 Analysis of a sample of No. 1 intone from the Prentice Brownscone Company's quarrie?, by Prof. C. T. Chandler, Ph. 
 
 D. of the echool of mines, CtluinVia Collef e. New Yoik City, March 30. 1892, found to contain the following ingredients: 
 
 silica. 91.10 per cent. 
 
 Strengti-i and Weight. _ . 
 
 Test of strength of the Prentic« BrownMtone mado by I'rnf. F. R. Button, school of mines, 
 ColQXnbIa Collepe, NewYork City. .Tnnuary :50. 1^9:i. Rave the followiDf? resnlta: — 
 
 SampieNo. 1 from No 1 Excelsior brownstone quarries, Wilson Island showed a compression 
 strength of 7491 lbs per »iquare inch. 
 
 Sample No. 2 from No 1 stone. Prentice Brownstone quarries showed a compression strength of 
 7U8y Ibe per square inch. 
 
 Sample No. :j from Prentli^e Brownstone Company's quarries, known as Prentice Excelsior, showed 
 a compresjiioii strength of "rtls Ibw per square inch. Average weight ir.O Ib-i. to the cubic foot. 
 Branch Offices: At the Quarries, Houghton, Baytleld Co., Wis., New York, 44 Broadway. 
 
 Farric Oxide 2 00 per cent. 
 
 Alumia 3.r».'i per cent 
 
 lime 2.5 per cent. 
 
 Magnesia Nonepercent. 
 
 Potash !^ -^ S(*, per cent. 
 
 Soda ^.1{.- _ .11 per cent. 
 
 Sulpher None per cent. 
 
 Carbonic Acid None percent. 
 
 Uoistnre <i5 per cent. 
 
 97.73 per cent. 
 
 MAIN office:, ASHLAND, NA/ISCONSIN. 
 
 Rooms 200-20e Knight Bloci<. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 CONOVBR, RORTEIR & RADLEIV, 
 
 ARCHITEICTS. 
 Office Second Floor of Knight B!ocl<, Cor. Second St. and Ellis Avenue. 
 
 Messrs. Allen D. Conover an<l Lew W. Potter have been establishtd in Madison, this state, many year?. In 1887 they 
 opened a branch in this city, and in 1890 Mr. Hcrace P. Padley was admitted to partnership, and has since had charge of 
 the business here. Among the buildiog for which the firm made the plans and superintended the constraction in this city 
 and vicinity are the 
 
 HOTEL KNIGHT, FIRST NATIONAL BANK, SECUR- 
 ITY BANK, COUNTY JAIL, COUNTY POOR HOUSE, 
 NEW VAUGHN BLOCK, BREEN BLOCK, 
 
 and many other private residences in Ashland, all of which are particularly noticeable for elegance of design and har- 
 mony of structure. This firm has designed and erected public buildings and private residences in almost every city in the 
 state of Wisconsin. They are at present engaged in desis^ning and superint'nding a number of residences and business 
 structures in Superior, also in Stevens Point, Rhinelander, Baraboo. Chippewa Falls, and many other towns. They have 
 also been the architects cf many of our foremost school-houses through the Northwest, and they furnish plans, specifica- 
 tions sketches, estimate."^, and detail drawings on the shortest notice and give sop-rintendence to construction when 
 desired. 
 
 J. F. VAN DOOSBR. 
 
 REAL EISTAXE. 
 Office Second F"loor of Knight BlocUc, "^ Rcaeam 209. 
 
 Reoognized Authority or-i th^ n/^Iuj^s of realty in all S^c^tic^ns of tH^ Oity ar-id 
 
 ISJorthern F^ortion of tine State. 
 
 Mr. \ iU Doostr gives peis jnal attention to ah branches of the real estate business, makes investments and disposes of 
 boldicgs f )r owners. He makes a specialty of pine lands, and has under his control valuable holdings in Northern Wis- 
 consin, ■which will be disposed of on veiy reasonable teim=. Mr. Van Dooser takes the entire management of estates, 
 pays taxe.=, secures tenants, collects rent=, and bays, sells and manages city, suburban, farm property and piue lands on 
 commission. Reliable and res ponsible, and all interests intrusted to him are certiin to be attended to in the most judicious 
 and trustworthy manner. References, the Northern National Bank, of this city, First National Bink of Rochester, Mian., 
 Hon. O. P. Steam, Dulutb, Minn., C. H. Chadbourn Sons', lavesment Broker?, and The Van Dasen, Harrington Co., 
 Grain Dealers of Mioneapclis, Minn , A. M. Osmun of Farwell, Osmnn & Kirk, St. Paul, Minn., and others. 
 
 R. KEIEINAN ^ O 
 
 Groc3rlos and Rrovisions, 
 
 709 East Second street EISTABLISHED MAY, 1SS©. 
 
 a7^. NOBLE, 
 
 Real Estate, Insurance. 
 
 The Best List of City Property and Acreage. 
 Insurance in all the Leading Companies. 
 
 Rookery Btdg. 523 W. Second St. ASHLAND, NAZIS. 
 
 GLObli uuAil FACTORY, , T'^"TT^^Zl , 
 
 ..„.ii™i™:;^rr„_,. Siuoke our Leader The (Jlok' 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 M. EHRMANN & CO. 
 
 Bouts, Shoes, Slippers and Rubber Gouds. 
 
 410 W»Bt Second etreet. Ashland, Wis. 
 
 I. C. SCHWAQER, 
 
 Fine Tailor Made ClotLing and Gents Furnishing Goods. 
 
 Bristol Block, Ashland, Wi<. 
 
 J. W. CLARKE, 
 
 Musical InstrumeLts, Wall Paper, Stationery, Books, Etc. 
 
 New Fifield Block, Ashland, Wis. 
 
 A. L. MORbE & CO., 
 
 Plumbing, Steam and Gas Fixtures, Hot Water Heatiug. 
 
 Vacglin Library Building, Ashland, Wis. 
 
 ANGVICK BROS. 
 
 Mattresses and Hunsebold Fniiilnre— New aad Stcjud Hand 
 
 S09 Second street, west, Ashland, Wis. 
 
 H. KRUSCHKE & CO. 
 
 Manufacturers tf Fine Bar Fixtures, Sta r Railings, Etc. 
 
 404 Ninth Avenue west, Ashland, Wis. 
 
 ASHLAND N. W. FUEL COMPANY. 
 
 J. H. Yonnker, M tnager, 
 5^3 Second street, west, Ashland, Wis. 
 
 HANLEY & HOLBROOK, 
 
 Commission Merchants. Wholtsale Meats and Provisions. 
 
 Warehouse on Omjha R'y, Ashland, Wis. 
 
 R. W. FRENCH, 
 
 General Hardware. Acorn Stoves and Rmges. 
 
 026 Secoi d street we^t, Anhland, Wis. 
 
 GLEASON & CO, 
 
 Ashland's Leading Milliners. 
 
 116 Second stieet west, Ashland, Wis. 
 
 N. C. ROONEY, 
 
 Wholesale aud Retail Wines, Liquors and Cigars. 
 
 Sly Second street west, Ashland, Wis. 
 
 COCHRAI;! & MARSHALL. 
 Shelf and Heavy Hardware. 
 705 Second Street West. Ashland, Wis. 
 
 FRED MILLER BREWING CO., 
 
 Milwaukee. 
 
 Louis Toepel, Agent. 319 Third Street West. Ashland, Wis. 
 
 M. W. HAGERTY. 
 Gent's. Clothing Furnishing and Fine Tailoring. 
 Qoeltz Block, Ashland, Wis. 
 
 U E. BLUAIE, 
 
 Fancy Groctrie-, Bread, Pastry, Cigarj and Tobacco. 
 
 New Fifield Block, Af hland, Wis. 
 
 BEKG & DANIELSON, 
 
 Staple and Faacy Groceiies. 
 
 720 Second street west, Ashland, Wis. 
 
 D. G. SAMPSON, 
 
 Real Estate, Acieage and Pine Lind^ 
 
 Sboie> B.ock, Ashland, Wis. 
 
 W. W. RICHARDSON, 
 
 Inspector «Ld Shipper ui Lumber, Lath and Shinglee. 
 
 Ashldud, Wis. 
 
 THE RACKET -SCflUTT BROS., 
 
 Crockery, Glassware, Limps, Hardware, Eic. 
 
 Ill ScCuiid Street, West. AsQlaud, Wis. 
 
 D. J. SEYLER. 
 
 Novelty Inni Works. 
 Asblaud, Wis. 
 
 ASHLAND SiEAM LAUNDRY. 
 J. J. Booth, Prop., 
 109 Front Street West. Ashland, Wis. 
 
 A. H. OAKEY, 
 
 Contractor and Builder. 
 
 Ashland, Wis. 
 
 bEEMAN & BOWMAN, 
 
 Lessees Machinery Depaitmeut Ashland Foundry Co, 
 
 A^hland, Wis. 
 
 W. J. ARMSTRONG, 
 
 Livery, Sale andFetd gtable, Ashland Bu3 and Transfer La. 
 
 Second avenue wtst, Ashland, Wis. 
 
 ASHLAND HARDWARE CO., 
 
 General Hardware, Sash, Doors, Glass, Lubricating Oils. 
 
 311 Second street east, Ashland, Wis. 
 
 F. J. POOL, 
 
 Dry Goods, Cloaks and Carpets, Wholesale and Retail 
 
 Vaughn Library Building, Ashland, Wis, 
 
 C. B. EDWARDS, 
 
 Livery Stable, Hearse and Carriages for Funerals, 
 
 Front street west, Ashland, Wis. 
 
 H. D, POZISKl, 
 
 Junk Dealer — Paper Rags, Second Hand Machinery, Etc. 
 
 Ninth avenue west, Ashland, Wis. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAH^Y PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 Wisconsin PcopU ^"^ "th? World's Fair 
 
 Will cast their tents at 
 
 CAMP - LINCOLN. 
 
 SIX nONTH'S ENCAMPHENT. 
 
 I nriltinn ,^— 
 
 One blufk souti) of the World's Fair 
 grounds, on the picturesque shore of 
 Lake Michigan. Tlie Illinois Central 
 E. R. depot, (South Shore) within three 
 minutes walk, and steamboat landing on 
 the lake front give unsurpassed facili- 
 ties for going to or coming fromtlie city 
 of Chicago. No e.xpcnse will be spared 
 to make Camp Lincoln the healthiest. 
 cleanest and most convenient home 
 during a visit to the World's Fair. 
 
 The Tents.. 
 
 AVill ' e ff various sizes, to accommo- 
 date Grand Army posts. Camps of Sons 
 of Veterans and families, and any num- 
 ber can be set apart for those who de- 
 sire quartei-s exclus vely for themselves 
 Every tent will have a boerd floor and 
 a fiy "(double roof), thus making it ab- 
 solutely waterproof, as well as cool and 
 comfortable in hot weather. 
 
 The Camp 1 ''" ^m 
 
 Will be fenced, have sidewalks and 
 electric lights, and be supplied with an 
 abundance of pure Inke water. The 
 camp will be under the constant care, 
 night and day, of competent police, es- 
 pecially detailed for this purpose. 
 
 The Beds. —^r- 
 
 Will be wire sprirg mattresses, upon 
 iron bedsteads, with blankets, sheets 
 and pillows, kept scrupulously clean. 
 Each te'it will be furnished with camp 
 chairs and stools. 
 
 A large Assembly Tent will be fur- 
 nished FREE for reunions and Sunday 
 services. 
 
 Advantages of Camp Life." 
 
 No intoxicating liquors will be per- 
 mitted on the grounds to be sold or 
 given away. 
 
 No intoxicated person will be allowed 
 in camp. 
 
 No gambling of any kind or nature 
 will be permitted. 
 
 Any conduct that would offend a lady 
 or cbild will not be tolerated or al- 
 lowed. 
 
 u 1^ 
 
 World's Fair Grounds Vv:!, ^ 
 
 
 65'-'' ST. 
 
 Uj 
 
 
 i» 
 
 
 '^ 
 
 
 Less Than Five Minutes' Walk to the World's Fair Grounds. 
 
 A^ DELIGHTFUL, -- BEAUTIFUL -- AND ^ SAFE ^ HOME. 
 
 For Grand Army Posts, Camps of Sons of Veterans, Old Soldiers and their families. Sons of Veterans and their 
 
 families, Organizations and Clubs of five or more persons and families generally. 
 
 OPENING MAY 1, 1893. CLOSING OCTOBER 31 , 1 893. 
 
 E. C. COOK & BRO., Proprietors, 
 
 A. J. CHENEY, General Manager. 
 
 40 DEARBORN STREET, CHICAGO. 
 
THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 R. C. HEYDLAUFF, 
 
 Real Estate 
 
 AND COLLECT I ON AGEINCY. 
 
 ESXABUISMED I IM 1SSS. 
 
 FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING, ASHLAND, WIS. 
 
 Choice Business and Residence Property. 
 
 I have some very choice acre tracts located on the newly established Belt and Terminal 
 Railroad, and am offering special inducements to manufacturers who wish to locate on the 
 Belt line. Ashland in 1886 had 3,500 people; in 1893 it has 16,000 people. In 1886 its 
 entire output consisted of the product of five saw mills. 
 
 In 1893, Ashland Has 
 
 8 saw mills, 5 planing mills, 2 sash, door and blind factories, 2 box factories, 1 sulphite 
 fibre mill, 1 flour )nili, 1 excelsior mill, 1 granite mill, 1 screen manufacturing plant, 1 ele- 
 vatcr, 1 blast furnace, 6 machine and boiler works, 1 electricial manuiacturing company, 
 2 bottling works, 7 cigar factories, 3 of the largest ore docks in the world, and the terminus 
 of four trunk lines ol railroad, with three other lines negotiating for terminal facilities makes 
 Ashland with its natural harbor one of the best locations on Lake Superior, and tiie best 
 place for investment in the United States. 
 
 (prrespondence 5o1ic'"t?d' Tajjcs p2kid for ^lon-t^^s'^^'^'^s- 
 
 R. C. HEVDLAUFF, 
 
 First Nst'l Bank Building. ASHLAND, NA/IS. 
 
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 181 
 
 THE ELECTRIC POWER AND STORAGE Co., 
 
 Manufacturers of the 
 
 RONA/LEV STORAG 
 
 BATTEIRV. 
 
 '^^/%/%/%^\/%/%/%^%^%^'%' 
 
 the: neina/ 
 
 '%/%/%/%/%/%-'%' '%'%^%^%^%/%. 
 
 PATEINTEID 
 
 APRILiath 
 
 BATTEIRV 
 
 1393. 
 
 '%^%/%/%/%>%,'%^/%/%/%/%^%, 
 
 '%/%/%/%/%/%/%,■%/%/%/%/%/%, 
 
 The Old Objection Overcome. 
 
 Our Batten/ is practkutL durahh and efficient, loliere an elec- 
 tric current is used/a/- any parpose. 
 
 We install complete Light and Power Plants with or without 
 Storage Batteries^ do electric wiring of all kinds^ sell electric sup- 
 plies^ invite correspondence and court competition. 
 
 Complete Electric Outfits for Dentists a Specialty _^.^^^^ 
 Storage ^zMzr'x^s and Mo-lor$ furnished for printing offices, 
 Launches, Small Boats, Sewing Machines, Fans, Etc. 
 Successful Plants in operation attest our ability to do as we claim. 
 Circulars, Rrice List, Etc., on Application. 
 
 OFFICE AND SALESROOIVI, 
 
 Knight Block, --- Ashland, Wis. 
 
 L. B. ROWLEY, Qcn^r&i Manager. 
 
182 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 Arc Hi tec t ofAsH land's ISIev^ Opera Mouse. 
 
 OSCAR COBB, 
 
 THEATRE ^ ARCHITECT, 
 
 
 « — ■ — 
 
 IWKNTOR OP 
 
 Fire-Proof Stage Ventilator Screens, 
 Side Graduating Drop Boxes, 
 Under Current System of Heat and Ventilation 
 Fire-Proof Asbestos Drop Curtain, 
 Upper Front Proscenium Head Light- 
 Modern Ftage Smoke Escape Ventilation. 
 
 All bad accoustics, resounds and echoes scientifically treated and made 
 perfect by a correct study of sound wave. 
 Complete and IVIodern Statues and Stage Appliances. 
 F'erfect l_lne of SigHt, Etc. 
 
 Office 
 
 Manhattan Block, 
 
 1509-1510, 
 
 CHicago. 
 
 Illlrioli 
 
 For Absolutely Correct and 
 
 Reliable Abstracts of Title, 
 
 To Real Estate in Ashland County, Apply to 
 
 ASHLAND TITLE ABSTRACT CO., 
 
 CMAS. F-ISMER, Secretary. 
 
 E. K. BRIGHAM LUMBER AND SUPPLY CO. 
 All kinds of Logging snppliea on short notice, 
 Bayfield, Wis. 
 
 TKEMONT HOTEL, 
 
 T. P. Wentworib, Prop. 
 
 Centrally Located. Fiist class $1 a day House. 
 
 D. DARWIN, 
 
 Dealer in R-'al Estate and Pine Lands, 
 
 Iroa River, Wia 
 
 C. D.CORNELL, 
 Contrai tor au'l Bnilder, 
 Ashland, Wis. 
 
 hOOTU PACKING CO., 
 
 Wholesale dealers in Fre.-h Lak« Superior and Oysters. 
 
 Bramhes: Anblatd, Wis., and Bayfield, Wis. 
 
 EDWARD BURTON, 
 
 Te^,ulin.; and C,<nii acting, 
 
 L ike <ir Bank Sand. 
 
 JOBN C. ROEdM, 
 
 Deiler ic Fresh and Salt Meats. Poultry and Game in season. 
 
 Ashland, Wis. 
 
 B. W. HARPER, 
 
 Contractor anl Builder, 
 
 Anhlan I. Wis. 
 
 PRUDUOilME SHOE CO., 
 
 Fine Shoes and Lnmbermen's Sapplies. Harness Department. 
 
 Washburn, Wis. 
 
 CITY DRUG STORE. WEST END PHARMACY. 
 Ewen & Frost, Prop; ietors, Washburn, Wis. 
 NevtB Depot, Prescriptions carefully filled. 
 
 DR. N. BOOTH, DENTISr, 
 
 OflBce Vaughn Library Building, Ashland, Wis. 
 
 Oldest Dentist In the city. 
 
 BLUMROSEN BROS. 
 
 Dry Goods and Clothiers, 
 
 108- '-10 S cond street west, Ashland, Wis. 
 
 MODEL CLOTHING STORE, 
 
 Chas. Levy, Prop. 
 
 lUO Second street west, Ashland, Wis. 
 
 JOHN— ASH BROS.— JOE 
 
 Manufacturers of Fine Confectionery and "A. B. C, D.'' 
 
 Opp. Chequamegon, Ashland, Wis. 
 
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 183 
 
 SccvjrH:j^Sai\?in^s Bank 
 
 /^sKld^nd, Wis. 
 
 OURSAVING DEPARTMENT. 
 
 The bankeafe is a nicktl-plated brass bank, with combina- 
 tion lock, and is highly ornamental and conveaient. 
 
 The banks are loMoed to anyone who will c r has a deposit of 
 $2 in our savings department, (for which we give a pass book) 
 who will agrea to save Iheir spare money in them and deposit 
 it with us at least every three nonths, with the understand- 
 ing if they lose the bank, or fail to telnrnit when we call for 
 it, we charge them |2. 
 
 Yon may hesitate to bring small amounts to a bank, but 
 these bank safes jon can have at j our home, where you can 
 deposit any amount and at any time when convenient. 
 
 Money deposited in the bank safe can be taken out only at 
 our bank, (as we teep the key) and when brought to us thd 
 amount is counted in your pr» S' nee and placed to your credit 
 on your pass book, where it draws interest. 
 
 Call and get one or more of these bank safes or boxes for 
 yotirself or child: en. They will help you save money and 
 cost you nothing for their use. 
 
 We pay four per cent, interest, compounded the first of 
 every January and July of each year, for all amounts of $a 
 or over if left for three or more full months. 
 
 Deposits made on or before the 5th of a month draw inter- 
 est from the first of the same month; if made after the 5th, 
 interest begins 1st of next month. 
 
 T5c S^^^wi'^y Bank 
 
 Does a general banking business. Sells drafts on all parts of 
 the United States and Europe. Also agents for steamship 
 
 lines 
 
 CALL. AMD EXArVIIIME. 
 
 Security Savings Bank. 
 
 e:d\a/in £i_i-is. 
 
 £. J. EI_I_IS. 
 
 Edwin Ellis & Co., 
 
 REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE, 
 Ashland, NA/isconsin. 
 
 W^ represent the -follow- 
 ing r^1i2Lble insurance 
 CO m pa n i ^ $ ^-^^^^^ 
 
 German American of New York; 
 Continental of New York; United 
 States of New York; Imperial of 
 England; Northern Assurance, 
 Norwich Union, Lancashire Man- 
 chester, Transatlantic, of Ger- 
 many; American Fire of Phila- 
 delphia; Northwestern National 
 of Milwaukee; Boylston, Ameri- 
 can of Boston; Mercantile Fire 
 and Marine of Boston; Granite 
 Grand Rapids, Oakland Home, 
 Farmers of New York; German 
 of Quincy, Citizens of Philadel- 
 phia. 
 
 IIMSURArsJCE ■ 
 
 Effected on the most favorable terms. Losses promptly adjusted 
 and paid. We should be pleased to have you call before placing: 
 your insurance. 
 
 We have a large number of lots for sale in all parts of the 
 city. Prices low and termi to salt the purchaser. 
 
 We have acreage and pine lands 
 
 for sale. 
 We /mve Water frontage. 
 We have houses to rent. 
 
 GIVE US A CALL. 
 
184 
 
 THE ASHLAND DAILY PRESS— ANNUAL EDITION, 1893. 
 
 Table of Contents. 
 
 A 
 
 
 Ditmar, F. V. 
 
 12 
 
 
 Dongan, Thos. 
 
 15 
 
 
 
 Dells of Wi-consia 
 
 42 
 
 Ashland Views 
 
 9 
 
 Dnrfee Mill 
 
 47 
 
 Apostle Islands 
 
 27 
 
 Dopp. G. W. 
 
 50 
 
 Ashland Cigsr & Tobaco 
 
 iCo 57 
 
 Dnllanty, P. J. 
 
 87 
 
 Ashland Hardware Co. 
 
 57 
 
 Drnmmond's addition 
 
 151 
 
 Armstrong's Livery 
 
 57 
 
 
 
 Ashland Lighting & Street 
 
 E 
 
 
 Railway Co 
 
 71-113 
 
 
 Ashland Restanrant 
 
 72 
 
 
 
 Armour Packing Co. 
 
 72 
 
 Ellis, J. s., res. 
 
 17 
 
 Ashland Foundry Co. 
 
 72 
 
 Ehrmann, M. 
 
 60-85 
 
 Ashland Lime, Salt & 
 
 Ce- 
 
 Evening Wisconsin 
 
 145 
 
 ment Co. 
 
 77 
 
 Editorial page 
 
 2 
 
 Ashland Water Co. 
 
 82-8* 
 
 
 
 American Express Co. 
 
 87 
 
 F 
 
 
 Ashland C nnty farms 
 
 89 
 
 
 Ashland Mine 
 
 101 
 
 
 
 Angvick Bros. 
 
 105 
 
 Fitch, J. B 
 
 b 
 
 Ash Bros. 
 
 106 
 
 Fischbine, Max 
 
 60 
 
 Aahland Rifles 
 
 107 
 
 Field & Co. 
 
 70 
 
 Ashland Iron & Steel Co. Ho 
 
 French, R. W. 
 
 70 
 
 Apostle Islands 
 
 116 
 
 Fifleld, Gov. Sam S. 
 
 4 
 
 Ashland Biewery 
 
 123 
 
 
 
 Ashland conns 
 
 143 
 
 G 
 
 
 Ashland Box Factory 
 
 152 
 
 
 Ashland Ff undry Co. 
 
 151 
 
 
 
 Ashland Daily Pkess 
 
 158 
 
 Gardner, C. M. 
 
 150 
 
 
 
 Gaiiiich. E. lB-98105 
 
 B 
 
 
 Griffiths, Cuas. 
 
 57 
 
 
 Ginsbnrg, H. H, 
 
 60 
 
 Bohn Mf'< Co. 
 Barker, N. W. 
 Buchanan. B 
 Back ot Iron River 
 Brown, L. 
 
 11 
 12 
 12 
 13 
 15 
 
 Gust af son & Peterson 
 Government building 
 Gleason & Co. 
 Germania mine 
 G. A. R , Com. Shores 
 
 70 
 
 75 
 
 87 
 
 101 
 
 120 
 
 Bancrolt, W. G. 
 
 15 
 
 H 
 
 
 Bnrch & McDermott 
 
 16 
 
 
 Bardon, Thos. (res) 
 
 17 
 
 
 
 Banks and B inkers 
 
 20-104 
 
 Hirt, M J. 
 
 150 
 
 Brnle luiprovement Co. 
 
 36-37 
 
 Hubbeli, F. F. 
 
 102-5 
 
 Brule Lumber Co. 
 
 38-105 
 
 Harmon, J. R. 
 
 5 
 
 Blunie, C. E. 
 
 70 
 
 Hunter, E. H 
 
 12 
 
 Booth's Itundry 
 
 70 
 
 Hyerdele, M. 
 
 12 
 
 Breen Bli ck 
 
 72 
 
 Hotel Thomas 
 
 13 
 
 Bieen resilfnce 
 
 87 
 
 Hessey & Hatton, store 
 
 13 
 
 Beeman & Bowman 
 
 78-87 
 
 Hotel Chequamegon 
 Hunter & Steckbaner. at 
 
 14 
 
 Brownstoue record 
 
 81 
 
 ore 16 
 
 Bailey Bio k 
 
 85 
 
 H..tel Knight 
 
 24-78 
 
 Building record 
 
 86 
 
 Heavenricn & Co. 
 
 57 
 
 Bardon's office 
 
 113 
 
 Harrison & Co. 
 
 76 
 
 Berg & D ini'-lfon 
 
 113 
 
 Harrison, Dr. G. "W. 
 
 154 
 
 Born, E. J. & Co. 
 
 115 
 
 Hageriy, M. W. 
 
 103 
 
 Bayfield 133 to 138 
 
 Hardwood indnstry 
 
 123 
 
 BayBeld 140-141-142 
 
 Haywaid.WiB. 
 
 149 
 
 c 
 
 
 I 
 
 
 Carr, W. S. portrait 
 
 12 
 
 Iron River Lighting Co. 
 
 13 
 
 Churches 
 
 18-19 
 
 Ingham, S. W. 
 
 15 
 
 Clarke, J. W. 
 
 76 
 
 Iron River Views 33 to 35 
 
 Colby House 
 
 78 
 
 Indian Agency 
 
 100 
 
 Contractors 
 
 86 
 
 
 
 Cochrane, Livy R. 
 
 93 
 
 J 
 
 
 Commercial Ilotel 
 
 102 
 
 
 CocQran & Marshall 
 
 105 
 
 
 
 Chicago Herald 
 
 139 
 
 Johnson, C, H. 
 
 15 
 
 Commerce 
 
 154 
 
 
 
 Chamber of commerce 
 
 4 
 
 K 
 
 
 Cochran, J. W. 
 
 154 
 
 
 County officers 
 
 147 
 
 
 
 Chequamegon Boating 
 
 Knigh^ Col. J. H. 
 
 4 
 
 scene 
 
 151 
 
 Knights of Pythias 
 
 150 
 
 
 
 Kennedy, Joe 
 
 5 
 
 D 
 
 
 Kennedy, Angus 
 
 5 
 
 
 Knniz, Geo. 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 Keehan, Jas. 
 
 5 
 
 Dnrfee, W. R. 
 
 43-5 
 
 Kennedy, D. A. and Mill 
 
 11 
 
 Dormady, P. 
 
 5 
 
 Keystone Lbr. Co. 
 
 43-154 
 
 L 
 
 Lore. Frank 
 
 L'-a & Ingram 
 
 Lindber^', A. 
 
 Lumbf-r shipments 
 
 Log cut 
 
 L-vy, J. I. 
 
 Leland House 
 
 Lake Superior Coal Co. 
 
 Litraries 
 
 Land office 
 
 Like Superior Beef Co. 
 
 L. M. & L. S. Trans. Co. 
 
 Lake o( Butternut, 
 
 11 
 
 11-12 
 
 12 
 
 43 
 
 44 
 
 60 
 
 78 98 
 
 79 
 
 83 
 
 88 
 
 92-93 
 
 96 
 
 146 
 
 M 
 
 13 13 
 12 
 
 16-5!) 
 48 
 59 
 
 Mnrpby, J. P. 
 
 M ckmiller, T. F. 
 
 Merrill, G. W. 
 
 Mowat, D. W. 
 
 M. L. S. & W. docks 
 
 M. L. S. & W. shops 
 
 M. L. S. & W., shops and 
 
 portraits 63 
 
 Marshall. G. W. 60 
 
 Mineral Lake Lnmber Co. 66-7 
 Mathews, .J. B. & Co. 94 106 
 Ml rse. A. L. & Co. 106 
 
 Madeline I^Und 3 108 110 
 
 Merrill, Geo. F , res. 76 
 
 McCaiiD, J. W. 5 
 
 McCord, W. E. 11 
 
 Macdon-ll 12 
 
 Macdonnell, A. A. 13 
 
 N 
 
 Nechfges, Jno. 
 
 5 
 
 NeUeuiu-i. J. D. 
 
 15 
 
 N-wton. I. P. 
 
 16-85 
 
 Northern Mt'g Co. 
 
 45 
 
 Normal school 
 
 53 
 
 N. W. Academy 
 
 53 
 
 Nelson, Jno 
 
 70 
 
 Norri« mine 
 
 101-117 
 
 New England store 
 
 103 
 
 Northern Grain Co. 
 
 144 
 
 N. Wis. Lua.ber Co. 
 
 149 
 
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