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EAU CLAIRE

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 839 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EAU CLAIRE , a See also:

city and the See also:county-seat of Eau Claire county, See also:Wisconsin, U.S.A., on the Chippewa See also:river, at the mouth of the Eau Claire, about 87 m. E. of St See also:Paul. Pop. (189o) 17,415; (1900) 17,517, of whom 4996 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 See also:census) 18,31o. It is served by the See also:Chicago & See also:North-Western, the Chicago, See also:Milwaukee & St Paul, and the Wisconsin Central See also:railways, and is connected by an electric See also:line with Chippewa Falls (12 M. distant). The city has a See also:Carnegie library with 17,200 volumes in 1908, a Federal See also:building, county See also:court See also:house, normal school and insane See also:asylum. It has abundant See also:water-See also:power, and is an important See also:lumber manufacturing centre; among its other manufactures are See also:flour, wooden-See also:ware, agricultural machinery, saw-See also:mill machinery, logging locomotives, See also:wood pulp, See also:paper, See also:linen, mattresses, shoes and trunks. The See also:total value of factory products in 1905 was $3,601,558. The city is the See also:principal wholesale and jobbing See also:market for the prosperous Chippewa Valley. Eau Claire was first settled about 1847, and was chartered as a city in 1872; its growth See also:dates from the development of the north-western lumber See also:trade in the See also:decade 187o-1880. In 1881 a serious strike necessitated the calling out of See also:state See also:militia for its suppression and the See also:protection of See also:property.

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