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Wheat has not yet been grown to any considerable extent, as there is a 

 lack of facilities to manufacture it, but Messrs. Sales and Cash, at Ontona- 

 gon, and persons at other points, have grown it as an experiment, and found 

 it, in both quantity and quality, to exceed their anticipations. 



Mr. Cash, on his farm near Ontonagon, grows as fine strawberries and 

 currants as are to be found anywhere, and in his orchards the apple, the 

 plum and the cherry prove successful. 



C. D. Lawten also reports hardy varieties of apples, as well as plums, 

 Morello cherries, and many small fruits, as successful in this county. 



The census of 1884 shows, in Ontonagon county, of apple orchards 1 acre, 

 40 bearing trees, yielding, in 1883, 30 bushels of fruit. 



Peaches, none. 



Total of orchard products, $36,00. 



Garden products sold in 1883, none. 



GOGEBIC COUNTY. 



Gogebic county was set off from the southerly and westerly portions of 

 Ontonagon, by act of the Legislature, approved February 7th, 1887, and the 

 organization was completed in pursuance of the provisions of such act, by 

 the election of the proper county officers, on the first Monday in April, 1887. 

 At the same election, by the vote of the electors, the county seat was located 

 at Bessemer. 



Owing to the very recent erection of this county, no statistics or other 

 information respecting its horticultural character is at hand, such infor- 

 mation, as well as its census statistics, being included in those of Ontonagon 

 county. 



It is supposed to lie southward of the copper bearing belt, and to include 

 the southwestern portion of the iron region. 



ISLE ROYALE COUNTY. 



Isle Royale and the adjacent islands which, at one time, had been part of 

 Ontonagon county, were erected into a seperate county, by an act of the 

 Legislature, approved March 4th, 1875. The organization was completed, as 

 provided in such act, by the election of county officers, on the first Tuesday 

 in July, 1875. 



The sheriff, county clerk and county treasurer, to be so elected, were 

 empowered and required to designate suitable places in the township of Isle 

 Royale for the county offices and the holding of the circuit court, until the 

 board of supervisors shall establish the county seat, which they were required 

 to do on or after the year 1880. 



The county was attached to Keweenaw county for judicial purposes. It 

 lies above eighty miles northwesterly from the north shore of Keweenaw county. 



