Beef Slough 



The Beef Slough Boom and Improvement Company 

 was organized in 1867, and chartered by the state of 

 Wisconsin to catch, sort, raft, and scale all logs coming 

 down the Chippewa. These were turned into Beef 

 Slough by a sheer boom at the head, and jam booms 

 farther down were used for holding the run in high 

 water. The company was allowed to charge sevent>'-five 

 cents per thousand feet for logs, and two cents each for 

 cross ties. 



It was soon demonstrated that this was a great im- 

 provement over separate operations by individual own- 

 ers, and when this company was taken over by the Mis- 

 sissippi River Logging Company, in 1873, it was soon 

 evident that the sufficient capital and vigorous and 

 intelligent management of this organization would take 

 excellent care of the Chippewa outfit and keep the 

 large mills regularly supplied, as long as the timber 

 supply held out. 



Beef Slough is a branch mouth of the Chippewa 

 river, leaving the main stream at Round Hill, and fol- 

 lowing down along the high Wisconsin blufifs for about 

 twelve miles, opening into the Mississippi just above 

 the town of Alma, Wisconsin. 



By dredging and digging at its head, and removing 

 obstructions in its course, the diversion was much in- 

 creased into this slough, and then a long, heavy sheer 

 boom placed diagonally across the Chippewa, not only 

 turned all the logs into Beef Slough, but greatly accel- 

 erated the current and gave good water to work on. 



