WHY NEENAH IS THE PAPER CITY.

several years in the notion trade and in 1866 engaged in the
notion trade on his own account until he entered into this part-
nership in 1872. The firm did business as a partnership under
the name of Kimberly, Clark & Co., and in 1880 it was in-
corporated under the name of the Kimberly & Clark Co., and
Mr. Shattuck was treasurer. Mr. Shattuck was married June
6, 1876, to Miss Clara A. Merriman, a native of this county.
The Globe mill as first constructed had a capacity of one and
a half tons per day and employed about forty hands. The
capital stock was soon increased to $400,000, which in 1889 was
increased to $1,500,000. The growth of the concern was steady
until from a one-machine mill in 1872 it today owns and oper-
ates nine mill plants, containing seventeen paper machines
ranging in width from 67 1/2 to 155 inches, making all grades of
paper from coarse wrapping to fine writing papers. Its product
at present is 450 tons of paper, 110 tons of sulphite and 70 tons
of ground wood per day. It employs 1,500 persons, and the
amount of its annual pay roll is $750,000.
The business of this company, the Telulah Paper Company
and the Atlas Paper Company, was succeeded January 5, 1907,
by the Kimberly-Clark Company, whose officers are: J. A. Kim-
berly, president; F. J. Sensenbrenner, first vice-president; J. C.
Kimberly, second vice-president; S. F. Shattuck, treasurer;
Charles B. Clark, secretary, and P. R. Thom, general superin-
tendent.
The mills owned by this company are the paper mills at Ap-
pleton. The old Atlas, three machines, makes 58,000 pounds
daily; the Vulcan paper mill, one machine, 12,000 pounds daily;
Tioga paper mill, two machines, 25,000 pounds daily; Telulah
mills, two machines, making 95,000 pounds book and writing
paper daily. The Depere mill, built, by this company, was sold
to the American Writing Paper Company in 1900. At Kimberly
the wrapper mill has two machines, making 20,000 pounds
daily, and the writing mill operated by electricity has two wide
machines making 90,000 pounds daily of book, writing and bond
paper. At Neenah the Globe mill, one machine, makes 24,000
pounds daily; Neenah mill, two machines, makes 34,000 pounds
book paper; Badger mill, one machine, makes 25,000 pounds
writing and book, using all ground wood and fiber., At Niagara,
where the company has a 72-foot head of water on the Menomi-
nee river, they have two 156-inch width machines, making 140,-
000 pounds of paper daily, news and manila fiber. The ground

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