Page 270 - La Société canadienne d'histoire de l'Église catholique - Rapport 1961

266 WISCONSIN HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS.
A Mr. RATHBONE built the first grist mill, now the City
Mills, in the year 1843.
BURKE'S Woolen Factory was built and put in operation in
1843.
The Eagle Mills were built by Capt. ANDERSON, in 1846 ;
the Stone Mills by Meeisrs. MEDBUI~Y IIOOVBR, 1846; the
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Phcenix Mills by the Messrs. COMSTOCX, 1847, and the Kil-
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bourn Mills by Capt. ANDERSON, 1848.
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Dredges.
The first dredge was built by Capt. ABEL HAWLEP, for the
Government. It was also used occasionally in the river, and
was run by horse power. He subsequently built a steam dredge
for himself, and then built the large steam dredge of late used
at the new harbor. Mr. HAWLEY dredged nearly all the docks,
from the water power to the mouth of the river. Also, the chan-
nels for vessels upon either side of the river, leaving the middle
ground, so called, which the city has been engaged in removing
for the last two years.
Newspapers.
I should fail of my duty if I passed this opportunity, with-
out occupying some, time in referring to the history of the
Press, which has borne so important a part in Commercial af-
fairs.
As I said, the Sentinel was being published meekly in 1840,
by HARRISON REED, a good writer and a patriotic and virtuous
citizen. It maintained then the Whig side of politics (although
in those Territorial days but littlewas said upon the subject of
national politics.) Mr. REED continued its publication and
proprietorship with some suspensions and slight changes until
1844, when ELISHA STARR, who had published for about one
year a small tri-weekly paper called the Cbrnrnercial Herald,
took possession of the Sentinel office, and blended his paper with
the Sentinel, and continued its ~ublication in the Dewey Block
for a while, when it again changed hands and passed into the