THE WAUPACA REPUBLICAN

June 18, 1886

 

            A trip to the granite quarry shows that there is lots of work being done and the boom the REPUBLICAN predicted a year ago is surely coming.  A dam has been placed across the river, a water flume and wheel put in and the foundation has been laid solidly fifty feet square to accommodate the building soon to be erected for lathe and polishing works, which will be run by water power.  The buildings for boarding house and barn are put up nicely painted and plastered, and things about the grounds have an air of neatness and solidity.  There has been from twelve to twenty-five men at work there all the season, and when the granite quarry and works are in operation a hundred men will find employ-ment right from the start.  The way the thing looks now, it shows that there is going to be business in that scotch granite hill, and some railroad had better be getting there in time to catch the transportation.  We hope through the medium of the quarry Waupaca may bet a competing railroad line.