590 Wisconsm Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 



In Table 2 is given the per capita of real estate and personal 

 property and the native and foreign born populations with th^ 

 population per square mile for six towns of fixed boundaries/ In 

 this comparison the native born population increases in every 

 town except Wayne, where a slight decrease is noted between 

 1860 and 1870. But this to^^^l also shows a less increase per 

 capita for that period than any other town. Between 1860 and 

 1870 the population per square mile is doubled, the native and 

 foreign born retaining the same percentage as in 1850, while 

 the per capita is more than trebled. A greater increase, in the 

 per capita is shown in the to\vns where the native population 

 increases. This may be shown more clearly, perhaps, by a 

 comparison between the mining towns and farming towns of 

 this table: ]^ew Diggings and Shullsburg composing the first 



Table 3. — Percentages of increase and decrease of density in popu- 



lation. 



Benton 



New Diggings 



Shullsburg 



Wayne 



White Oak Springs 

 Willow Springs 



Increase, 

 Pee Cent. 



1850. 



Decrease, 

 Per Cent. 



1870. 



Population Per 

 Squarb Mile. 



1S.)0. 



1870. 



62 

 68 

 73 

 29 

 33 

 23 



class of towns and Wayne, White Oak Springs and Willow 

 Springs, the second class. The per capita of the real estate and 

 personal combined in the mining towns for the whole period 

 betAveen 1850 and 1870 is $64, while a similar per capita of the 

 farming to\vns is $224. But the area of the latter class of 

 towns is one-tenth greater than that of the former ; this would 

 leave the per capita of the towns of the farming class about 



iln computing the population per square mile, some difficulties arose 

 because of the changes in town boundary lines, the county history being 

 inaccurate in this respect. After a comparison of the Plat book for 

 1895, an atlas for 1847 and various maps found in the office of the 

 Secretary of State and the map room of the Historical Library, the 

 areas given in Table 5 in the Appendix were decided upon as being 

 approximately correct. 



