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p Ttion of our own State and Michigan, and which furnishes 

 the valuable ores of Lake Superior. 



Numerous deposits of bog ore occur, but none are at present 

 worked. 



If we except Michigan and Ohio, probably no state of the 

 northwest compares at all with Wisconsin, in the abundance 

 and redness of its iron ores. We have easy flicilities also for 

 their reduction water-powers, fluxes, and vast stores of fuel in 

 our northern forests. 



The ores are scattered in magnificent profusion over our State, 

 railroads are giving every needed facility of transportation, and 

 only capital is needed, to enable us to produce at home every 

 variety of iron and steel required for ordinary use. 



Note. — The portion of this article relating to lead, will probably appear in a 

 subsequent portion of this volume. — Ed. 



EURAL AEOHITBCTUEE AND EESIDENCES. 



BY D. S. CUETISS, MADISON. 



Perhaps there is no branch of the farmers' operations in which 

 they exercise so little good taste and economy, as in the style of 

 their buildings, and the surrounding conveniences ; which is the 

 more lamentable in this fertile prairie region where building and 

 fencing materials are both apparently scarce and costly. No 

 where, more than in the fresh growing country, among thrifty 

 farmers, should the prevailing style of architecture and its sur- 

 roundings be judicious and systematic — where "all-out-doors" 

 is fashioned on the Great Builder's most beautifal plans ; and 



