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55TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. REPORT
3d Session. No. 2001.
PUBLIC BUILDING, EAU CLAIRE, WIS.
FEBRUARY 6, 1899.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state
of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Mr. MEROER, from the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds,
submitted the following
REPORT.
[To accompany H. R. 477.]
The Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, to whom was
referred the bill (H. R. 477) providing for the purchase of a site and the
erection of a public building at the city of Eau Claire, Wis., have had
the same under consideration, and submit the following report thereon:
The city of Eau Claire is situated at the confluence of the Chippewa,
and Eau Claire rivers, and is the principal city of and distributing point
for northwestern Wisconsin. It is also the junction point of three rail-
way systems, the main line of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and
Omaha Railway Company (Chicago and Northwestern system), the
Chippewa Valley division of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Railway Company, the Wisconsin Central lines, and the Chicago, St.
Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway, northern division.
Its population in 1880 was 10,1 L8; in 1890, 17,415. The census of
children of school age in 1897 was 6,453, indicating a population of over
20,000; public school buildings, 16; capacity, 4,500 pupils; 93 teachers;
manufacturing establishments in 1895 employed 4,195 persons; annual
payroll, $1,740,456.71; invested capital, $10,436,086.47; value of annual
product for the year, $6,105,969.60; mercantile establishments do an
annual business of $4,837,000; employ 1,121 persons; annual pay roll,
$421,000; assessed valuation of taxable property for 1897, $6,074,243.50.
The city has 66 miles of streets, 4 miles of pavement, and 9 miles of
sewers; 6 miles of electric street railway, electric-light plant, with 40
miles of wire; a waterworks system, with 30 miles of main; a gas sys-
tem, with 11 miles of main; a telephone exchange, with 233 miles of
wire and 533 subscribers; also 3,000 feet of cable, which system is con-
nected with the long-distance telephone, affording ready communica-
tion with all the large cities of the country.
A public building is greatly needed to accommodate the post-office,
employing 17 persons, now located in a rented building, occupying a
floor space for the post-office force of 2,400 square feet, and 840 square
feet for the public. It is under lease at $1,350 per year, which expires
on September 30, 1900, but can be terminated at any time by lessee
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