The New Student's Reference Work/Eau Claire, Wis.

Eau Claire, Wis., a city in western central Wisconsin, the capital of Eau Claire County, situated on the Chippewa River at the mouth of the Eau Claire.  The two rivers divide the city into three sections.  Three lines of railway give facilities to its trade, which is largely of lumber.  Its industries embrace, besides iron and linen goods, furniture, shoes, paper-mills, machine-shops, foundries, flour-mills; but lumber is its chief export.  It has a number of grain-elevators and saw-mills, sash, door and blind-factories, etc.  The city is prominent as a summer resort, and has a public library, a high-school, a hospital, banks, newspapers and all the adjuncts of a modern city.  Population, 18,310.