WISCONSIN. 



WURTEMBURG. 



759 



gratifvin?,' increase in the agricultural product* 

 it' tlio Mate as compared with 1860, while 

 tlu-iv h.i- lii-i-i! a greater increase in manufac- 

 t ii riii:,' industry during the MOM MTiod. The 

 amount <ii ' wjifiit produced to each inhabitant 

 was 20.1 bushels in 1860, and 24 bushels in 



1870, showing a gain of nearly 02 per cent. 

 In 1860 the number of manufactories was 

 8,068; JUTS.. us employed therein, 15,414; 

 value of products, $27,849,467; while in 1870 

 there \\viv 7, UJ6 establishments, with 89,055 

 employe's, and products valued at $85,624,966, 

 showing an increase in establishments of 4,072, 

 of employe's 23,641, and of products of $57,- 

 775,499. "Other interesting statistics are as 

 follows: 



Public debts, counties, cities, towns .... $3,788,9(55 



Number of libraries -'.<: 



Nnniber of volumes 880,808 . 



Number of church organizations 1,703 



Number of church edifices \.:v.u'> 



Seating capacity of churches 458,088 



Value of church property $4,749,983 



Number of newspapers 



Circulation 281,685 



The following agricultural, manufacturing, 

 and social statistics are compiled from the 

 United States census for 1870 : 



I3CPBOVED LANDS. 



Number of acres 8.795,588 



Uushels of wheat 25,323.647 



Bushels of rye 1,356,736 



Bushels of corn 14,875,968 



Bushels of oats 19,878,794 



Bushels of barley 1,627,569 



Poundsof wool 4,086,638 



Bushels of potatoes 6,642,845 



Pounds of butter 22,257,117 



Pounds of cheese 1,494,145 



Tons of hay 1,280,432 



Pounds of hops 4,738,222 



Estimated value of all farm productions $77,507,261 



Value of manufactures produced 85,624,966 



Total taxes levied In each county 4,753,815 



PAUPERS. 



Number supported during the year 1,538 



Cost of support $147,879 



Railroad enterprise has not been inactive in 

 "Wisconsin during the year. The roads from 

 Madison to Portage, and from Eagle to Elk- 

 horn, have been completed; work on the Bara- 

 boo air-line road from Madison northwesterly 

 has been pushed forward energetically. The 

 Green Bay and Lake Pepin is in process of 

 construction from Green Bay to New London. 

 The West Wisconsin road has 115 miles com- 

 pleted, and will undoubtedly be finished to 

 the city of Hudson early in the summer of 



1871. The Milwaukee and Northern Railroad 

 is open to Cedarburg, and another section will 

 be completed in 1871. At the close of the 

 year it was intended to commence work im- 

 mediately on the Portage, Winnebago, and 

 Lake Superior Land Grant Railroad, and also 

 on the road from Oshkosh to Ripon, the latter 

 of which, it is expected, will be completed 

 during 1872. 



The State Board of Immigration have been 



very active in their efforts to induce immi- 

 grants to settle in Wisconsin : 24,000 pamphlets 

 have been issued in various languages for dis- 

 tribution, and agents have been employed at 

 Milwaukee and Chicago to give information 

 and assistance to immigrants intending to set- 

 tle in the State. 



The following statement shows the number 

 arriving in Wisconsin for settlement, from April 

 to October 10, 1870, as reported by the Mil- 

 waukee and Chicago agents : 



WURTEMBERG, a kingdom in Sonth Ger- 

 many. King, Charles L, born March 6, 1823 ; 

 succeeded his father, June 25, 1864. Area, 

 7,532 square miles ; population, according to the 

 census of 1867, 1,778,396.* 



The army of Wurtemberg, in 1869, consisted 

 of 34,953 men, of which 14,153 were in active 

 service. 



The session of the Wurtemberg Diet was 

 opened on October 21st. A further credit of 

 3,700,000 florins was demanded by the Gov- 

 ernment to cover the extraordinary expenses 

 of the war, and was granted, after a short de- 

 bate, almost withoitt a dissenting vote. Minis- 

 ter Scheurlin then spoke on the question of 

 German unity, and remarked that, as the elec- 

 tions for the present Diet had taken place at a 

 time when that important question had been in 

 an entirely different phase of its development, 

 the Government had thought it advisable to 

 order elections for a new Diet, to which the 

 treaty agreed upon with the North-German 

 Confederation would be submitted for approval. 

 This declaration being given, the minister read 

 a royal decree ordering the dissolution of the 

 Chamber of Deputies. 



The elections took place in December, and 

 their result was, as had been anticipated, de- 

 cidedly in favor of union. On the 19th, the 

 new Diet was opened by the King. The treaty 

 with the North-German Confederation was 

 immediately referred to a committee, and, on 

 December 23d, the Lower Chamber voted in 

 favor of the treaty by 74 yeas against 14 nays. 

 A few days after, the Upper Chamber likewise 

 approved of the treaty by a vote of 26 against 3. 



* For ecclesiastical statistics, population of the larger 

 cities, and finances, see AMERICAN ANNUAL CTCLOPJUJIA 

 for 1868. 



