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the most important cities in the nation^—with a soil almost inexhaustible, 
extending throughout her length and breadth—with her copper, lead and 
iron mines, that ere long will freight a fleet in a single day—with her 
railroads to take her products from her centre to her ships at her shores, 
Wisconsin will have become second to no State in the Union in her aori- 
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cultural, manufacturing and commercial interests; and by the law of pro¬ 
gress, she will stand in the centre of that grand galaxy of States which „ 
will then form a Republic—not only stretching its strong arms from the 
Atlantic to the Pacific, but counting its Stars from Hudson’s Bay to the 
Gulf of Panama. 
ROCK. 
The operations of the Rock County Agricultural Society for the past 
year have been characterized by the same spirit of improvement that is 
so manifest in all departments of industry throughout our country. 
Progress has not only been its watchword, but its history. The pre¬ 
diction of the result of its labors would have been pronounced visionary, 
but now the gratifying realizations are before us. 
Our premium list for the year 1852 amounted to $300, which, together 
with our incidental expenses we had paid, but we were obliged to com¬ 
mence the present year with a treasury nearly empty, and without any 
fixed locality at which to hold our Annual Exhibition, or any fixtures, 
&c. We, however, published a premium list offering premiums to the 
amount of twelve hundred dollars; and notified the public that a Fair 
would be held at Janesville, on the twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh and 
twenty-eighth days of September, 1853. 
A few of us then negotiated for a site for permanent Fair grounds, and 
purchased it, agreeing to pay $100 the first instalment, at the close of 
our Fair. We also incurred an additional bill of $400 for fencing and 
other expenses for nails, posts, labor, &c., making a clear indebtedness 
of more than $700, to be indemnified for which we depended entirely up¬ 
on the generosity of the farmers and mechanics of Rock County. At 
the time appointed we opened the grounds for the exhibition of the va¬ 
rious products of the Society, and our farmers and mechanics—and our 
citizens generally—were there . They came nobly to the rescue, and we 
