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has been for several years past improving the entrance of the harbor by 
confining the waters of the St. Louis and Nemadji rivers to a narrow chan¬ 
nel by means of cribs loaded with stone. By act of Congress, and by the 
state legislature, Superior is fixed as the terminus of several important 
land grant railroads now in process of construction. 
DUNN COUNTY. 
BY JOHN H. KNAPP, MENOMONEE. 
At the time of taking the census, in 1870, the population of this county 
was 9,491; nearly tliree-fourtlis of which settled here within the past ten 
years. Considering it is one of the new counties in the northwestern part 
of the state, the progress in settlement, and in development of its agricul¬ 
tural resources is almost magical. 
The county is nearly equally divided between open prairie country in the 
eastern half, having a fertile, sandy loam for soil, and heavy timbered land 
in the western half, with maple, oak, ash, butternut, basswood, etc., with a 
soil of rich clay loam. 
The principal cereals raised are wheat, oats, barley, rye and Indian corn. 
The statistics collected early in 1870, which, of course, show only the 
amount raised the previous year, give as the product of 1869, in round 
numbers: 
Number of bushels of wheat. 209,000 
oats . 262,000 
barley. 26, 000 
corn. 73., 000 
rye. 10, 000 
Number of pounds of butter. 204, 000 
tons of hay. 12,000 
pounds of hops. 7,900 
The root crops are usually large and of excellent quality, but owing to 
the ravages of the potato bug, the potato crop in 1869 was only 55,000 
bushels 
In many parts of this county wild fruits, such as whortleberries, black¬ 
berries, raspberries, strawberries and plums are abundant. There has 
been but little attention given to propagating tame fruits; sufficient, how¬ 
ever, has been done to prove that hardy apples, such as the Duchess of 
Oldenburg, Tetofsky and the crabs, known as the Transcendent, Hislop 
and Siberian, yield abundantly, and are hardy and well adapted to this 
latitude. 
Grapes do well also, particularly the Concord, Dracut, Amber, Delaware, 
Clinton, Hartford Prolific and Rogers’ Hybrids Nos. 15 and 19. 
Cattle, horses, sheep and hogs prove profitable stock here but there 
are no particular breeds raised deserving of special notice. 
The chief manufacturing business is that of lumber, of which, during the 
