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Wisconsin state agricultural society. 
with other states of this great west, Wisconsin holds an honora¬ 
ble position. 
The Wisconsin of 1870 thoroughly eclipses the Wisconsin of 
1860. 
CONDITION OF MANUFACTJRES AT THE TWO DATES. 
I860. 
1870. 
Increase. 
Manufacturing establishments. 
Capital. 
3,064 
$15,831,581 
4.268,708 
17,137,334 
27, 849,467 
15,414 
7,013 
$41,981,872 
13,575,682 
45,851,266 
77,214,326 
63,910 
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$26. 150, 291 
9,307,934 
28,713,932 
49, 364,859 
48,496 
Wages. 
Materials. 
Products . 
Hands employed. 
Here is indubitable evidence of progress, the increase per an¬ 
num in the value of products amounting in a single decade to 
nearly $50,000,000. 
All honor to the sagacious men who have seen opportunities 
for thrift, or for improvement, in our social condition, and have 
introduced a new industry. Our deficiencies in this department, 
though marked, are by no means discouraging, and the progress 
now making, shows that capital, genius and enterprise are moving 
in the right direction. 
The advantages possessed by Wisconsin to become a highly 
successful manufacturing state are unquestionable. Says one of 
our intelligent citizens, in a communication recently addressed to 
me : “ The water-power existing almost undeveloped on the Mil¬ 
waukee, Bock, Wisconsin, Black, Chippewa, St. Croix, Menomo¬ 
nee, and lower Fox rivers, is ample to drive the machinery of an 
empire.” Another gentleman known in the best circles of the 
state writes, after describing the vast water-power in various 
localities, “in addition, the forests abound with pine, birch, birds- 
eye and curly maple, butternut and other woods adapted to 
cabinet and wood manufactures of all kinds. The mineral wealth 
of the state is inexhaustible.” 
The very able report of the commissioner of immigration, pub¬ 
lished in 1873, gives a variety of interesting facts on this subject. 
From the animals raised on our farms are taken hides enough 
to supply all the necessary kinds of leather to meet the wants of 
