WAUPACA REPUBLICAN

September 19, 1992

 

 

            The breaking away of the electric light Association’s dam a few years ago, has worked a change in the face of nature which is likely to prove an advantage to the city; especially if it is given a helping hand by the property owners on the east side of Main Street for a short distance.  The change is this:  The small island in the river back of C.P. Dall’s place caught some of the sands as they were washed down at the time the dam gave way, which made it much larger and it has been growing ever since, until the channel is nearly closed and the island is nearly a peninsula now.  Soon a large tract will be hard land back of the lots.  If the scheme is consummated to dig a channel so as to change the river’s course slightly back of Jens Hansen’s then the river will be far enough away from the rear of the buildings and lots to allow teams to reach the basements, which will make a great convenience in delivering goods at the rear storerooms or in hauling away potatoes or other produce from the cellars.  When the time comes that there can be good deep buildings put on the east side of Main Street and the basements made easy of access, then it will be that the valuation of property on that side of the street will not only inure to the benefit of the owners in every way but add to the assessed valuation of the city.