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land are mainly settled by Irish. The other towns are mixed in population, 
the preponderance of “ Yankees ” being in the northwest part of the 
county, in the towns of Fox Lake, Trenton, Chester and Burnett. The 
town of Calamus is largely settled with Welsh, and the town of Ashippun 
by Scandinavians. 
The wealth of Dodge county is equal to any in the state except those 
embracing the large cities. Mineralogically, it is distinguished by its ex¬ 
tensive and valuable deposits of iron. Iron Ridge mine has been known 
and worked for years, still the capital of the company owning it was so lim¬ 
ited that its real extent and value has never been fully realized, until the 
present owners took it. It was formerly owned by the Sweed’s Iron Com¬ 
pany, who, in the fall of 1869, conveyed its interests to the Milwaukee Iron 
Company of Wisconsin, the North Chicago Rolling Mills Company of Illi¬ 
nois, and the Wyandotte Rolling Mills Company of Michigan. The prop¬ 
erty conveyed comprises nearly 600 acres of land in sections one, twelve, 
thirteen and sixteen of township eleven, range sixteen, and section twenty- 
six in township twelve, range sixteen, and comprises the southern point of 
the ridge. Beside the land, the purchase included the railway from the mine 
to the Milwaukee and St. Paul road, furnaces, etc., for the whole of which 
$500,000 were paid. 
The extent of ore is immense. So little has been said about it that the 
people of the west do not know what its importance really is. The ridge, 
or rather two ridges, rise perpendicularly about fifty feet, at the south end, 
and runs almost due north about thirty miles, or nearly to the city of Fond 
du Lac. The south end, however, is the only part positively known to con¬ 
tain ore, but it is now supposed that the whole ridge is enriched with it, 
the ore dipping very fast, probably, as you go north. 
The schools in every town, village and city in the county, are well organ¬ 
ized, liberally provided for, as to pay, school houses, libraries, etc. The 
churches are numerous. Milling privileges are good. In short, Dodge 
county is one of the best for settlers in the older parts of Wisconsin, espe¬ 
cially for agricultural pursuits. Land is for sale at from $5 to $50 per acre 
in all parts of the county. 
DOOR COUNTY. 
[From the State Immigration pamphlet for 1870] 
Door county is situated in the northeastern part of the state of Wiscon¬ 
sin, and between lake Michigan and Green Bay, is seventy miles in length 
with an average width of about ten miles. Lake Michigan, one of the 
great fresh water lakes of North America, lies on the eastern side of it, and 
Green Bay, an arm of it, on the west side. The proximity of the lake is in 
many respects valuable, and its influence on the atmosphere equalizing and 
beneficial. 
