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market fully supplied ; but when productions increase beyond the capacity of 

 the home market, they will find ready access to a foreign one. The Fox River 

 Improvement, now in progress, will connect the county directly with the great 

 Lakes ; and fifty miles water carriage will bring the production of the county to 

 the nearest depot of the Rock River Valley Union Railroad, by which they can 

 reach Milwaukee and Chicago. The manufacturing villages which will naturally 

 arise on such noble water-powers as are found in that part of Fox River which 

 lies in this county, will always afford a steady and extensive home market, and 

 any surplus will easily be shipped either north or south. 



Our county is altogether too young to have attained much celebrity in the 

 raising of stock. The stock in this part of the country is of a superior character, 

 and a general desire is manifested to obtain good breeding animals. 



Though, as before stated, all crops that have been tried here have succeeded 

 well, yet the soil seems more expressly adapted to grazing. Garden vegetables 

 have succeeded well here. All kinds of fruit trees live, grow finely, and do much 

 better here than in more open countries. The extreme richness of the soil, and the 

 protection in winter afibrded by the heavy timber, enables almost every kind of 

 fruit tree to do well. The gardens in the various villages yield abundantly all 

 kinds of vegetables; and it is probable that fruit-growing will form a prominent 

 branch of industry in this county. 



The important point in considering the resources of this county is the water- 

 powers in that part of Fox River which lies within its boundaries. There are 

 falls at four points — at Grand Chute, at Cedar Rapids, at Little Chute, and at 

 Grand Kaukalin. At each of these points the P'ox River Improvement is in a 

 state of greater or less forwardness; and as about fifteen locks, and several miles 

 of canal will be needed in order to overcome the falls, some idea may be formed 

 of the amount of fall at the river between the head of the Grand Chute, and the 

 foot of the Grand Kaukalin. 



At the villages on the Grand Chute Rapids, are now four saw mills, a lath 

 machine, two planing mills and sash factories. A large edge-tool factory has 

 also been erected at Appleton, and preparations are now being made to build a 

 flouring mill at the same village in time for the next harvest. At Little Chute 

 there is a saw mill, and another at Grand Kaukalin. 



The Lawi'ence University of Wisconsin, under the patronage of the Methodist 

 Episcopal Church, is located at Appleton, in this county. At present only the 

 Academical Department of the Univei-sity is organized ; but as it Is liberally 

 endowed both witli land and money, it cannot be long before the Collegiate 

 Department will be in operation. It has hitherto labored under some embarrass- 

 ments, but it is hoped that these will soon be removed, and that the Lawrence 

 University will take a high rank among the Collegiate Institutions of our land. 



