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bodies and determination of mind. Such were the
men who opened this vast expanse of territory.
"The wealth in the magnificent pine was alluring
to the pioneer as ever the gold fields of California
in 1849. The question of how to get at it to make
it marketable was the all absorbing thought of all
minds."
Despite these efforts, when the first German farm
settlers came to the Town of Stettin in 1856, about
11 years after Single established his mill on the
Little Rib, Marathon County still "presented the
appearance of an unbroken forest," wrote one old-
timer. Hardly a dent had been made in the harvest-
ing of the great timber crop.
A Single Trail
In 1855, the only trail in the entire present Town
of Stettin was apparently one between the settle-
ment at Big Bull Falls, or Wausau, to the Single
mill on the Little Rib. A sled road, only passable
in the winter months for sleds drawn by teams of
horses, existed between Merrill and Stevens Point,
"'touching at the small settlement" at Wausau.
William Glover writing in the Wisconsin Maga-
zine of History (pages 166-167, v. 25) describes

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