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WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
year 1870, there was manufactured in this county, besides a considerable 
amount of pickets, staves, etc.: boards and plank, 65,000,000; shingles, 
16,000,000; laths, 10, 000,000. 
There are several flouring mills in the county, and as near as can be 
ascertained, there were 200,000 bushels of grain of all kinds ground during 
the past year. 
The public schools are good, of which there are sixty-four now open and 
giving instruction to 2,593 pupils. 
The court house now in process of erection in the shire town, Menomo¬ 
nee, is of a character that will do credit to the county and will cost when 
completed, about thirty-five thousand dollars. 
EAU CLAIRE COUNTY. 
BY HON. J. G. THORP, EATJ CLAIRE. 
The following statistics, compiled from reliable sources, convey but a 
faint idea of the position this county must soon assume in its productive 
capacity. The recent introduction of a railroad (West Wisconsin,) in direct 
communication with the main highways of the state, has done and will do 
more to induce immigration, advertise its resources and develope its indus¬ 
try in a few years, than has been accomplished by the patient plodding of 
sixteen years. Its inland and isolated position, and the difficulty of reach" 
ing a reliable market have proved serious obstacles to development. 
Of late years a large home market has been created. The demand for 
the products of the farmer required for logging, lumbering and manufac¬ 
turing purposes generally within its own borders, has given a very marked 
impetus to this branch of industry. And with the prospect of a yearly in¬ 
crease in this direction, and the facilities afforded for reaching eastern mar¬ 
kets the farmer may congratulate himself that his prospects favorably com¬ 
pare with those of any other section of the state: 
Number of acres in county. 
owned.. 
improved. 
Wild lands capable of tillage unowned. 
Real estate in villages. 
Live stock over two years old— 
Number of horses... 
neat cattle. 
mules and asses. 
sheep. 
swine. 
Number of wagons, carriages and sleighs. 
pianos and melodeons. 
watches. 
Merchants’ and manufacturers’ stock. 
All other personal property. 
Acres. 
414, 720 
199,407 
34,973 
80,000 
1,959 
4,711 
75 
2, 228 
2,056 
1,026 
66 
155 
Real values.* 
$1,' 757*454 
1,637,370 
269,384 
143,942 
11,200 
5, 386 
18,062 
66,348 
13,290 
6,640 
502, 900 
292, 560 
* Taken from assessment roll and doubled in order to show the real values. 
