KICK COUNTY. 651 



Topography.] 



twenty-four hours. This mill never has water enough to run its full machinery, but is aided by 

 steam. 



Straight River mills, Faribault, owned by J. D. Green and Co.; head twelve feet; oneLeffel 

 40-inch wheel; one double roller, sixteen 'sets of single rollers, Stevens' break roller (Noye make) 

 and two wheat buhrs; capacity 350 barrels per day; partly run by steam. 



Walcott mills, owned by M. B. Sheffield, S. W. i sec. 16, Walcott, on the west side of the river; 

 head twelve feet; one48-inch new American wheel, and one 40-inch old American; two smooth and 

 two corrugated sets (double) of Stevens rollers, one single set of Stevens corrugated rollers, one 

 double set of Gray's smooth rollers, one double set of Rickerson's smooth rollers, one Wilmington 

 (Del.) single smooth roller; four run of stone (one for feed); capacity of the mill, using water alone, 

 225 barrels per day, and when aided by steam 280 barrels per day.* 



Topography. The eastern and southern portions of the county are 

 broadly undulating or smoothly rolling, with long swells running so as to 

 operate as the primary divides between the drainage valleys. The north- 

 eastern corner of the county, east of the Cannon river, is characterized by 

 considerable differences of level, separated by plains that extend like ter- 

 races along the river courses. The Prairie creek valley is thus a wide, 

 nearly level, expanse bounded by an abrupt ascent of about a hundred feet 

 to a higher flat which extends, with an undulating surface, right and left. 

 The Cannon valley is the great topographic feature of the county. Its outer 

 bluffs rise about a hundred feet above the water, at Northfield, about two 

 hundred and fifty at Dundas and two hundred feet at Faribault. The water 

 surface of Straight river descends northward, within the county, from the 

 level of about 1050 feet above the sea to about 950 feet. The Cannon river 

 in like manner, descends, in crossing the county from about 1000 to 890 feet, 

 its source in the lakes at Shieldsville being about 1090. The high prairies in 

 towns of Wheeling and Richland are 1150 to 1250 feet above the sea. The 

 high plateau east and southeast of Cannon City is in general about flat, but 

 has numerous deep valleys that penetrate within the St. Peter sandstone. 

 The head of Prairie creek runs thus south and southwest far enough to 

 unite with the Cannon valley. 



In the western, wooded portion of the county there is a greater diver- 

 sity of the immediate surface contour, but the average elevation is not so 

 great as in the eastern, no known elevations being above 1125 feet. The 

 lakes that dot the surface here add much to the variety of topographic 

 scenery. Some of these cover an area each of two to three square miles, 

 and have a depth of ten to fifty feet. 



*Tlic mill at Mcclford, Sleclc county, partly run by steam, was burned about the year 1880. It had no rollers. 



