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EAU CLAIRE , a city and the county-seat of Eau Claire county, Wisconsin, U.S.A., on the ChippewaSee also: river, at the mouth of the Eau Claire, about 87 m
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E. of St See also: Paul
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Pop
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(189o) 17,415; (1900) 17,517, of whom 4996 were See also: foreign-See also: born; (1910 census) 18,31o
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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)
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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
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It has abundant See also: water-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, paper, See also: linen, mattresses, shoes and trunks
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The See also: total value of factory products in 1905 was $3,601,558
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The city is the See also: principal wholesale and jobbing market for the prosperous Chippewa Valley
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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
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In 1881 a serious strike necessitated the calling out of See also: state militia for its suppression and the See also: protection of See also: property
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