OSHKOSH COURIER

November 11, 1859

The Yankees Coming to Wisconsin

We learn that a large settlement of New Englanders intend emigrating to this State the coming spring, and settle on the Wolf river, somewhere in Outagamie or Waupaca counties, the exact location has slipped our mind, where they intend to erect several large factories of different kinds on one of the best water powers in the State, where the company have recently purchased a tract of land.

Mr. Stone, the agent of the company, has been traveling through different parts of the State the past summer, for the purpose of finding a suitable location peculiarly adapted for manufacturing purposes. Another object was to locate in a rich farming country where land could be obtained at a reasonable price. A still more important object, however, was to secure a location where access could be obtained to the lumber country, as this material would enter largely into their trade.

The company intend to commence the erection of their factories at once, so as to have a portion of the same completed by spring. – There will be a very extensive establishment erected for the manufacture of ware, of every conceivable nature, which will be the largest establishment of the kind in the country; also an extensive foundry, on a large scale, will be erected, a large cabinet factory, a carriage factory, also some weaving factories of different kinds. In fact it is intended to make this place a general manufacturing town, where all the articles peculiar to a New England settlement will be turned out, from a shoe-peg to the most useful articles.

The company find that it will be necessary for them to construct a sort of a feeder or canal, in order to make their water power complete; this will give employment to a large number of hands the coming winter, which work they will commence at once. Mr. S. will take back with him a large number of laborers for this purpose from this city, on his return from Cincinnati, where he is at present completing his arrangements for machinery. He has already employed a number of mechanics from this city, who will receive good wages and permanent employment for some six or eight months, and perhaps a year. The company pay all the expenses of the hands that they take from here. We believe the distance from this city is some ninety-five miles or more. A large portion of the machinery has been contracted for in this city, all of which is to be ready by the 1^st of March next.

We are indeed glad to receive such a valuable accession as this to the manufacturing department of our young and prosperous State, and we are well satisfied that when our facilities shall be correctly understood by the capitalists of the East, we shall witness enterprises of a similar nature springing up in different parts of our beautiful State.

We are promised a more extensive knowledge of the purposes of this company on Mr. S.’s return, which we shall then lay before our readers.

We received the above interesting sketch from a hasty interview with Mr. Wright, a master mechanic, who left this city yesterday, for the above place, with a number of mechanics.

- Milwaukee Wisconsin, 3d.