OSHKOSH NORTHWESTERN

March 17, 1868

 

LETTER FROM WAUPACA CO.

Correspondence of the Daily Northwestern

 

                                                                                                WEYAUWEGA, March 9^th, 1868

To the Editor of the Daily Northwestern

            About forty miles Northwest of Oshkosh, and about three miles west of the Wolf River, on a beautiful plat, stands the village of Weyauwega, quite industrious, but unassuming, enjoying all the advantages of prosperity and ultimate wealth.  The mills of Messrs. Weed & Gumaer have a first class reputation, and are doing an extensive business in breadstuffs, &c., as well as lumber and shingles.  The country north abounds with every description of timber, useful in the mechanics arts, pine being the most available, has been used to a corresponding extent.

            The village has an excellent water power; running two grist mills and two saw mills.  There are located here, two distilleries, a foundry, tannery, brewery and most other useful pursuits.  The skill is generally a sandy loam, quick, productive, and easily worked; yielding fair crops and maturing full as early as any other portion of the State.

            The lumbering season, now closing, may be said to be one of the best for many years past in this region. The quality is better than formerly, though the quantity may not be so great, in consequence of fewer small jobbers having gone into the woods than heretofore.  The weather, and the state of the roads are such, that nothing more than the hauling of “boom sticks” can be done profitably.  Many small camps have already broken up.  larger ones will hold on for a few days longer.