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Haben & Ruck
7,000
Volgt & Wendorff 7,000
Wmn. Wakeman 7,000
Mrs. Hardy 4,000
David Evans 6,000
J. Horning & J. Baumgartner 5,000
Heisinger Bros 7,000
Jul. Heisinger 5,000
K. Dichmann & Son 8,000
Kaerwer & Ilenkle 3,000
Peters & McKeuzie 5,000
F. Hermann 10,000
Metz & Schloerb 6,000
J. M. Weisbrod .. 3,000
L. Bridge. 3,000
H. Bammessel 10,000
W. R. Kennedy 4,000
R. Mckenzie 5,000
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F. HERRMANN GROCERIES PROVISIONS
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H. B. Jackson
6,000
P. Kelly
7,000
Jos. Stringham 4,000
A. Andres
3,000
C. Ernst
3,000
E. Hubbard
7,000
M. Griffin
15,000
A. Meisner
3,500
Wm. Klotsch and E. W. Tiltou
7,000
M. T. Battis
6,000
Nelson Gill
10,000
Mrs. Bailey 5,000
Voigt & Wendorff
10,000
E. Luhm
3,000
George Condie
4,000
A. Tietzen
1,500
H. Peck
3,000 .
C. Kohlman & Bros
7,000
F. Herrmann 2 000
T. J. Kelly
3,000
C. Spore
3,500
Dichmann's Block
8,000
Hancock's Block
8,000
J. Willock
4,000
Beckwith House
25,00')
Tremont House
20,000
Union National Bank
12,000
First National Bank 22,000
Wm. Suhl's Steanı Bakery
7,000
Postoffice block
18,0.0
Masonic Hall. .
15,000
M & St. P. R. R. Depot.
18,000
Fraker's Opera House
15,000
Jail and Vaults 25,000
Bell & Rogers, Planing Mill 15,000
Williamson, Jones & Co.
16,00 }
Perry Ransom. 10,000
J. R. Loper.
6,000
M. T. Battis.
3,000
Coles & Forbes. 2,000
First Baptist Church 15,000
St. Peters Catholic Church. 20,000
In the above list are included 112 fire-proof stores.
FRAME BUILDINGS.
Griffith and \ akeheld
$ 7,000
Schmidt Bros 5,000
Oshkosh Wool n Mills 6,000
B. J. Musser & Co
J. N. Arnold
German-Englishı Academy
4,5,0
Evangelical Charch
6,000
Danish Church 3,000
German Methodist Church 10,000
Fifty other frame structures were erected during the season, comprising frame stores, livery stables, barns and mechanic shops; also five mechanic shops of brick.
RECAPITULATION.
Fire proof stores II2
First class hotels. 2
Banks. 2
Manufacturing Establishments 12
School Buil lings
Opera House I
Churches 5
Dwellings. 284
Mechanic shops, lırick. 5
Frame stores, shops, etc 51
Total 476
The actual amount expended in the con- struction of buildings, between the time of the
great fire, of April 28, 1875, and the 12th of January following, was $1,050,490.
CHAPTER XLV.
The Business Firms of Oshkosh After the Fire in Board Shan- ties - The City Protected Against Further Extensive Con- flagrations - A new Impetus in Progress and Improvement- The Public and Private Enterprises in Oshkosh in 1879- Nicholson Pavement on Kansas Street - New Bridge in Course of Construction - New Iron Railroad Bridge - Another Railroad Added to the Communications of Osh- kosh - The Construction of the Grand Exposition Build- ing - New Branches of Manufacture - The Government Ship Yard - State Editorial Convention - Popular Gather - ings and Amusements - The Northern State Fair - Geo. Peck's Comments on Oshkosh.
H E burnt district was a desolate look- ing tract immediately after the fire. One vast field of ashes and debris - the remains of the wreck of a city; but it soon began to assume the appear- ance of life and activity. The rapidity with which firms resumed business was a mat- ter of surprise to people at home and abroad. Little shanties began to spring up before the ashes were cold. In fact, the erection of tem- porary structures began the day after the fire, and in a few days many of the business firms were in new quarters - rough board structures which were erected principally on the side streets and intended for temporary occupancy. There probably was never another instance of such a wide-spread conflagration attended with so few failures and so slight an interruption to business.
Oshkosh, arisen from the ashes of her late conflagration, was, in 1876, a newly-made city. The immense district, over a mile in length, of bran new buildings, was a sight that is seldom witnessed. Donned in her new attire she was now ready to renew her career in the race of progress.
This was the third time that a large portion of the burnt district had been rebuilt, and this time it was wholly composed of fire-proof buildings. The danger of fire so long menac- ing Oshkosh, was now, to a great extent, removed, as all the wooden structures that for- merly endangered the business portion of the city were destroyed, and an ordinance pro- hibiting the ercction of wooden buildings in the newly prescribed fire limits enforced.
The fires that have occurred since that time in that portion of the city have been rare, and have not spread beyond the building where they originated - in fact, no building on Main street since it was rebuilt has been wholly
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destroyed, the fire simply consuming the inside finish. The business center of Oshkosh is, therefore, placed on a foundation of safety, and the danger which so long menaced the place removed.
Although times were unusually dull through- out the country at the time of the great fire, many of the business and manufacturing firms enlarged their facilities, and this was especially the case with the mammoth sash and door fac- tories.
EVENTS IN 1877. 1878 AND 1879.
In 1877-8 a number of fine residences were erected, and some additional business buildings. On Wednesday morning, January 24, 1877, the Revere House was destroyed by fire. £ This was a sad calamity as it involved the loss of life. Jefferson Murdock in attempt- ing to find egress from the burning building was intercepted by the flames and perished. His untimely death caused a wide-spread grief, as he was a young man of much promise, whose untimely end was mourned by a large circle of relatives and friends.
Among the events of the year was the Northern State Fair, which is held annually in this city. It was attended by an immense con- course of people and was universally pro- nounced one of the finest agricultural exhib- itions ever held in the Northwest.
In 1878 the Schmit Brothers erected the new trunk factory, which employs from forty to fifty hands, and is quite an accession to the manufactures of the city.
A SPIRIT OF PROGRESS AWAKENED.
The year 1879 ushers in an awakened spirit of progress and marks a new epoch in the advancement of this city. Thespirit of improve- ment and enterprise is fully aroused, and Osh- kosh is making rapid strides in public and pri- vate enterprise, giving her future an appearance of the brightest promise. Among the public improvements of theyear is the new Nicholson pavement on Kansas street. This fine piece of work was done by William Sharpe, with his usual dispatch and thoroughness, and adds very much to the handsome appearance of that main business thoroughfarc. The new brick block just constructed on that strect is an addi- tional improvement. Kansas street, with its fine brick blocks and Nicholson pavement crowded with teams, wears a decidedly busi- ness-like look and is a credit to the city.
The new bridge, now in course of construct- ion, to cross the river from Oregon to Light street is to be a massive iron structure, and is contracted to cost $27,000. Henry Schneider is the contractor for building the stone supports,
which is sufficient warrant that that part of the work will be well done.
The exposition building of the Northern Wis- consin Agricultural and Mechanical Associa- tion was completed in August. This is an immense structure, and is the largest agricul- tural exposition building in the Northwest. Oshkosh may well feel proud of her achieve- ments in the year 1879, and this and the new railroad are the crowning glories.
This mammoth building is four hundred feet long and sixty feet wide, and is another evi- dence of Oshkosh enterprise. A grand har- vest ball was held in the building on the sec- ond of September, The building was lighted with over one hundred lamps and presented a gay scenc. Over 600 persons were dancing on the floor at one time.
THE NEW NORTHERN RAILROAD.
In May, 1879, the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railway submitted to this city a proposition in substance as follows, viz: To issue to said Company its bonds to the amount of $75,000, bearing interest at the rate of seven per cent, and payable $15,000 fifteen years from date of issue, and that amount annually thereafter until the whole is paid; and said bonds to be placed in the hands of Alexander Mitchell in escrow, to be delivered to said Company when they shall build and fully com- plete a road from Oshkosh to connect with the road at Hortonville; and at the time of deliv- ery of said bonds, that the Company deliver to said City of Oshkosh certificates of stock in said road to the amount of $75,000, the said proposition to be binding on the City of Osh- kosh if approved by a vote of the people of this city. 1
The above proposition was submitted to avote of the people on Tuesday, June 24th. The election resulted in an almost unanimous vote in its favor, nine votes out of ten being cast for the proposition.
The route was immediately surveyed and the right of way purchased. The construction of the road is now in progress, and it is expected that it will be completed carly in the coming winter. This gives the city a direct road to the Northwest and is a much needed connection.
The summing up of public improvements in this city for the year 1879, as will be seen from the foregoing, are the Nicholson pave- ment on Kansas street, the new bridge to cost $27,000, the exposition building, the northern railroad and the iron bridge of the Chicago & Nothwestern Railroad.
RESIDENCE OF HON . S. M. HAY, ALGOMA, ST., OSKOSH, WIS.
PETERSILEA , HOMESTEAD, 1853 OSHKOSH, WIS.
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PRIVATE ENTERPRISES AND IMPROVEMENTS IN 1879.
The manufactures of Oshkosh have received an important accession in the establishment of the extensive carriage works of Parsons, Nev- ille & Co. This firm was doing a heavy busi- ness in Chicago, but believing that this city was a favorable location for their business, they moved their works to this place last spring. They occupy the building formerly known as the Vulcan Iron Works, which has been remodeled and is to be further enlarged. One hundred hands are employed and the force is . to be largely increased,
The moving of a grist-mill to this place from' Winneconne is one of the novel events of this season. · It was floated on barges and is prob- ably the only instance of a large building being moved in this manner.
The handsome residence and grounds of J. J. Moore have been purchased for the pur- pose of turning it into a hospital by the Broth- ers of Merey.
Among the business and manufacturing structures erected the present season are the large saw-mill of Geo. W. Pratt, Horn's large brewery, the brick block on Kansas street, Geo. Cameron's livery and sale stable, and several fine residences.
The inside construction of the Fraker Opera House is to be remodeled on a grand scale, so as to convert that splendid building into a first- class opera hall.
The Government ship-yards were in full blast last winter. A large steam dredge and steamboat were built to be used in the improve- ment of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers. This work in the ship-yard gave employment to a number of men.
The favorable weather last winter for lum- bering operations gave full employment to a large force of men, and the log erop is esti- mated at 120,000,000 feet.
POPULAR GATHERINGS, AMUSEMENTS, ETC.
Among the events of the season was the assembling of the State Editorial Convention in this city, the regatta of the Oshkosh Yacht Club, the rendition of the operetta of the Naiad Queen, which was given for seven successive nights to crowded houses; the Pinafore also raged extensively. The Hess Opera Company also gave two entertainments. These drew large crowds here from neighboring eities. Oshkosh is, in fact, becoming quite a center for popular amusements.
The annual fair of the Northern State Agri- cultural and Mechanical Association was attended by an immense assemblage, the
attendance one day being estimated at 12,000, and the fair is unanimously declared to be the best ever held in the State.
George Peck, during his attendance at the editorial convention sent to his paper, the Sun, the following communication:
They took the crowd of editors and their wives, and other female relatives all over town, through the busy streets, around the residence streets, where some of the houses and yards would do great credit to Grand Avenue, or Cass, or Marshall, or Division streets in Milwaukee. We could see the outside of the fine homes reared by hard labor of rich men who com menced life riding a saw-log, and are now honored by the state and by the nation. We passed mills that turn out the best of lumber in quantities to suit, and we drove to the bank of Lake Winnebago, where one day Oshkosh will have as fine a park as there is in the State. We passed the stores where men have been burned out so often that when they smell pine burning, they put their insurance policies in their pocket and go to pack- ing up their goods, in the belief that they will soon have to put up a board shanty to do business in. Every business man has the appearance of a man who is prepared for any emergency, be it from fire, flood, chinch-bugs, grasshoppers or the devil. Oshkosh has a crowd of men that know no such word as fail. If I were asked to pick out a hundred men that would illus- trate Western pluck and enterprise, I would go to Oshkosh, pick up the first man with a slouch hat on, and ask him to ring a fire bell and get the boys together, and the hundred. men could be picked out in four minutes by the watch.
. OSHKOSH MARKET REPORTS.
March, 1868 - Wheat, No. 1, $1.90; flour, $10; oats, 60€; corn, 90c; potatoes, 70c; pork, per barrel, $24.
March, 1869- Wheat, No. 1, $1.90@1.95; flour, 10.50; oats, 62c; corn, 65€; pork, mess, 32.00; potatoes, 75€; hay, tame, 14.00 to 18.00; lumber, common, 10.00; dimension, 12.00; cleasboards, 30.00; clear plank, 40.00; sugar, 16e; coffee, 25 to 40c; tea, 1.00 to 1.80;
Func, 1870-Wheat, No. 1, $1.85@1.90; flour, 9.50; corn, 90c; oats, 50€; potatoes 6oc; hay, tame, 10.00@12.00; pork, mess, per bar- rel, 32.00; butter. 20€; cheese, 16e; coffee 25 to 35e; sugar, II to 14c; tea, 1.00 to 1.60; lumber, common, 9.00; clear boards, 28.00; plank, first elear, 35.00
December, 1871 - Wheat, No. 1, $1.10; flour, spring, 6.50 per barrel; flour, winter, 8.00 per barrel; corn 75c; oats, 45c; pork, mess, 13.00; hay, tame, 12.00; potatoes, 80€; butter, 18@20c; eggs, 15c; coffee, 25 to 35c; sugar, 10 to I2c; beans, 1.00 to 1.50; lumber, common boards, 12.00; dimension, 12.00; fencing, 14.00; siding, clear dressed, 20.00; clear boards, 25@30.00; plank, first clear, 30 @35.00.
January, 1873-Wheat, $1.12 to .1. 15; wheat, winter, 1.26; flour, per barrel, 5.50; corn, 46c; oats, 35c; potatoes, 1.00; butter, 20 to 22e; pork, mess, 13.00; lumber, com- 21
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mon boards, 12.00; clear boards, 25.00 to 30.00; first clear plank, 40.00.
April, 1874-Wheat, No. 1, $1.20; flour, 6.50; pork mess, per barrel, 17.00; beans, navy, 2.50; potatoes, 1.00; corn, 70c; oats, 5oc; butter, 35c; coffee, 25 to 40c; sugar, 10 to I2c; cheese, 18c; lumber, common, 10.00; clear, 25.00 to 40.00.
August, 1875-Wheat, No. I, $1.05 to 1.15; corn, 75c; oats, 55 to 6oc; flour, spring, 6.00 per barrel; winter, 7.00 per barrel; but- ter, 18c; cheese, 14c; potatoes, 55 to 6oc; pork, mess, 18.00; lumber, common, II ; clear, 25.00 to 40.00.
Func, 1876-Wheat, No. 1, $1.10; corn, 55c; oats, 35c; potatoes, 20c; butter, 20c; pork, dressed, 9.00; beef, by the quarter, 5 to 7.00.
May 18, 1877 - Wheat, No. 1, $1.85, corn, 6oc; oats, 45c; flour, per cwt., 5.00; patent, 5.75; potatoes, 90c; butter, 15 to 16c; beans, 1.75; pork, mess, 16.00; beef, by quar- ter, 4.50 to 6.00; hay, tame, 9.00, lumber, common, 9 to 10.00; clear, 20 to 30.00.
January, 1878-Wheat, No. 1, $1.00; corn, 40c; oats, 28c; potatoes, 30c; beans, 2.00; beef, dressed, 3 to 4.00; pork, dressed, 3.25 to 4.00; tame hay, 9.00; lumber, com- mon, 8.00; clear, 20 to 30.00.
April 14, 1879- Wheat, No. 1, 88 to 90c; corn, 32c; oats, 28c; flour, spring, 2.38. per cwt., patent, 3.75; beef, dressed, 3.50 to 5.00; pork, dressed, 4 to 4.25.
August 1, 1879- Wheat, No. 1, $.98 to 1.00; corn, 35c; oats, 33c; flour, per cwt., common, 2.50; patent, 3.50; pork, dressed, 3.50 to 4.00; tame hay, 6 to 7.00; potatoes, 35 to 40c; wool, 25 to 28c; butter, II to'I2c; checse, 7c; coffee, 25 to 35c; tea, 50c to 1.00; sugar, 8 to I IC.
CHAPTER XLVI.
The City of Oshkosh - Its Situation, Tributary Country, Local Surroundings - Water and Railroad Communications - Description of the City - Its Manufacturing District - Busi- ness Streets - Elegant Residences and Grounds - Oshkosh as a Summer Resort and Watering-Place -The Yachting Center of the Northwest -The Oshkosh Yacht Club - Pub- lic Buildings.
wide.
THE City of Oshkosh is situated on one of the finest commercial sites in the Northwest; at the mouth of the Upper Fox river on the western shore of Lake Winnebago, a magnificent sheet of water thirty-five miles long and ten It is a situation of great natural beauty
overlooking the picturesque lake and river scenery of the vicinity. It attracted the at- tention of the carly explorers and adventurers who made it their favorite stopping place in their travels from the great lakes to the Missis- sippi. Lake Winnebago and the Fox and Wisconsin rivers formed the great commercial highway of the northwest, before the age of railroads, and many a glowing description was then written of the beautiful lake and river country now called Winnebago county-of its lovely prairies, openings and woodlands, its magnificent lakes and broad rivers, its fertile soil and salubrious climate, and it has well maintained its early reputation, and is regard- ed to day as one of the most favored spots for the habitation and enjoyment of man.
SURROUNDING COUNTRY.
The adjacent country and that stretching away from here to the south west, for hund- reds of miles is the richest agricultural district to be found in the habitable world. Its sur- face is undulating prairie and openings, with its rivers and lakes skirted with timber. The scenery of this combined woodland, prairie, lakes and rivers is surpassingly beautiful ; dis- closing picturesque views which stretch away in the far distance, like the varying pictures of a lovely panorama. The rivers and lakes abound in fish and water-fowl, the woodlands in game. The facilities for rural and aquatic sports have already made the locality famous for those enjoyments.
The well cultivated farms, spacious barns, and comfortable, well painted farm houses, with their tasty surroundings and orchards, very plainly indicate the general wealth and thrift of the farming community.
This county has taken the first premium at state fairs on its apples and grapes, and many of its agricultural products, and is famous for the excellent quality of its choice grapes, which are grown in profusion. At the World's Industrial Exhibition at Paris, it took the first premium on wheat, against the com- petition of the world.
THE " UP-RIVER COUNTRY, " NORTHERN WIS- CONSIN.
The tract of country lying between Oshkosh and Lake Superior, and cast of the Central R. R., embracing the valleys of the Wolf and Wisconsin, is about eighty miles in breadth and a hundred and fifty miles in length. This territory is naturally tributary to Oshkosh, and is one of the most valuable timbered tracts in the west, pine and hardwood inter- spersed. It is a country of vast resources- timber, mineral and agricultural. There is
RESIDENCE OF ROBERT ME MILLEN, W. ALGOMA ST. OSHKOSH, WIS.
RES.OF WMT. ELLSWORTH ALGOMA ST. OSHKOSH WIS.
RES. OF JUDGE DJ. PULLING; JACKSON ST. OSHKOSH WIS.
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every variety of character of soil, and face of country, from the sandy and rough and rocky, to the very finest sugar-maple lands, compris- ing whole townships in a body. The latter are as fine farming lands as can be found, with all the coveted advantages of rich soil, best of timber, plentifully supplied with the purest of running water-springs, brooks, large rivers and beautiful lakes.
Some portions of this country are already well populated and in a high state of cultiva- tion, with fine farms, good houses and barns. Villages and manufacturing hamlets are spring- ing up on its water-powers and natural thoroughfares, and its resources are develop- ing with wonderful rapidity.
This is the country of the new railroad from Oshkosh north; a country that can pour into the lap of Oshkosh a flood of trade and busi- ness if railroad facilities are provided.
There is a large section of this country as yet comparatively unsettled, but immigrants are rapidly occupying it, and it soon will be one of the populous portions of the State.
The building of a railroad through this ter- ritory, which is large enough for twenty-five counties of the size of Winnebago, would facilitate its rapid settlement and conversion into farms and manufacturing villages, which would necessarily pour a copious trade on the line of their outlet.
Fortunately for Oshkosh, the richest and finest tract of Northern Wisconsin is open to the channels of her trade.
WATER COMMUNICATIONS OF OSHKOSH.
The Wolf river, flowing from the great pine and hardwood timber regions of the north, for a distance of over two hundred miles, forms a junction with the Upper Fox, about twelve miles from this city. The Wolf is navigable for steamers as far as Shawano, a distance of one hundred and fifty miles. A daily line of fine, commodious steamers run from Oshkosh to New London, a point on the Wolf river, seventy miles distant. Another daily line of steamers run from here to Berlin, on the Upper Fox. Steamboats also ply between here and Green Bay, making steamboat con- nection with Lake Michigan, while others run transiently to the different ports on Lake Win- nebago. Numerous sail vessels also ply between here and the east shore of the lake, engaged in freighting lumber, timber, building stone, sand and brick. The best of building stone, and the finest quality of material for brick-making is abundant on the opposite shore, and the trade in the same is an exten- sive one.
This unrivaled water communication is one of the commercial features of this city, as it occupies a commanding situation on that great chain of rivers and lakes, which is one of the grand, distinguishing characteristics of this continent, and of which Fox river and Lake Winnebago are important links in the connection of the Mississippi with the Great Lakes. It is, in fact, the great natural water thoroughfare of the continent, and the de- mands of our inland commerce have induced the Government to make the improvement of the rivers a national work. It will be seen, therefore, that the city has steamboat com- munication northby the Wolf River, southwest by the Fox and Wisconsin to the Mississippi, and east by the Lower Fox to Lake Michigan. These intersecting lines of trade, center here into a natural distributing point. It is here where the immense products of the pine and hard wood timber region of the Wolf river and its tributaries are brought to be manufactured and distributed through the agricultural districts bordering us on the south and west. A large portion of this " up-river " country is good farming land, and is rapidly =
settling up. " This city is the natural outlet of its trade, from whence it obtains its supplies, and where its products find their most
acces- sible market.
RAILROAD COMMUNICATIONS.
These are the Chicago & Northwestern, with its southern and western connections, and by the same, north to Green Bay, on Lake Michigan, and thence to Lake Superior; con- necting with the inexhaustible iron mines of that region; the Oshkosh & Mississippi Railroad, connecting with the eastern and and western lines of the Milwaukee & St. Paul. The Milwaukee, Lake Shore and West- ern Railroad is now in process of construc- tion.
THE SITE OF OSHKOSH
Is a tract with an elevation from twelve to twenty feet above the level of the lake. The city extends for a distance of nearly three miles from the shore of Lake Winnebago up the Fox River to Lake Buttes des Morts, occupying the tract between the two lakes and covering a territorial area of nearly eight square miles, about half of which is closely built over, the balance suburban. The river connecting these two bodies of water, and bisecting the city, is about 600 hundred feet wide, forming a spacious harbor, and being of slow current and not subject to freshets, affords great facilities for steamers, vessels and rafts. It is spanned at this point with four
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magnificent bridges, cach about 600 feet long ; two of which are the respective railroad bridges of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad and the Oshkosh & Mississippi Railroad ; the others for the accommodation of city travel- structures involving a cost of $100.000. Another bridge is now in process of construc- tion-an iron structure to cost $27,000,
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