WAUPACA REPUBLICAN

January 12, 1883

 

LOGS AND LUMBER

 

What is doing in the northern part of Waupaca County

 

Hanscomb and Bemis will bank 6,000,000 on the Little Wolf

 

            On Saturday the REPUBLICAN man cornered Wm. Hanscomb and W.S. Bemis in a smoking car on the train going south, and learned something of interest, that gives additional proof of the immense mine of wealth in the northern part of the county, that helps to swell the receipts from exports, and turn the balance or trade in our favor.  Mr. Hanscomb has been in the lumber business more or less ever since he was eleven years old, in fact, what he don’t know about the business and all the accessories thereunto belonging you will have to ask some one older in the business.  “Bill Hanscomb” is known far and near, and is universally liked.  Bemis is well known and is full of enterprise and public spirit and Waupaca can feel thankful that she has a firm within her borders that helps to contribute so much toward the material prosperity of our citizens.  We have it from good authority that Hanscomb & Bemis in connection with Ripley & Mead of Oshkosh, own some 500 acres of pine lands in various parts of northern Wisconsin.  But the lumbering - or, perhaps, logging operations - of Waupaca County is the subject before us. Messrs. Hanscomb & Bemis are running six camps, and employ some seventy men, 18 yoke of cattle and twelve span of horses. The wages paid to the men average from $30 to $40 per month and board. It will take 10 tons of hay, 60 tons of feed, 1,500 bushels of oats, 400 bushels of potatoes, 25 barrels, each, of prk and beef and $4,000 worth of miscellaneous groceries to run the camp, and besides the payroll of the help will amount to several thousand dollars more. Waupaca city is the principal supply point for the above trade, which is no inconsiderable item.  These camps are located as follows:

            One on section 32, one on section 34, and one on section 5, Helvetia; one on sections 7, 24, and 13, Union.

            They will bank 6,000,000 pine on the Little Wolf, which will be driven down the stream and sold to some of the big mill men in Oshkosh.