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ment to a large number of hands, while the usual complement of workers 
in wood and iron in the finer, as well as coarser, varieties of the arts are not 
wanting. There are also three steam flouring mills, and one steam woolen 
mill of some half dozen looms, that furnish employment for a number of 
hands, and convert the produce of the country into marketable commodities. 
Princeton also is situated on the Fox river, a few miles above Berlin. It 
has an extensive trade and is a thriving village. It has an iron foundary, 
a flouring mill, wagon and other shops. Marquette is a river town of con¬ 
siderable trade, especially in lumber and grain. Markesan is an inland 
village surrounded by a very rich and fertile country; has a good water 
power, a prosperous trade with the surrounding country, and only needs 
railroad facilities to make it one of the finest points in this part of the state. 
Dartford, the county seat, is situated on the outlet of the lake, from which 
the county derives it name. It has a beautiful location, overlooking the 
lake, and, besides, the court house, jail and county offices, has two flouring 
mills and the'usual variety of mechanic’s shops. Kingston and Manchester 
are inland villages with each a flouring mill, and they are, each of them, 
the center of some trade. 
The lake, from which the county takes its name, is considered one of the 
most beautiful sheets of water in the country. It is twelve miles in length 
and from two to three in width. The waters are very deep and pure, and 
of a very beautiful light green color—so clear that the bottom can often be 
seen at a depth of twenty or thirty feet. The shores nearly always high 
and dry—though not as wild as those of Lake George, or as tame as those 
about most western lakes—are strikingly beautiful. 
There are within the county 96,994 acres of improved lands, 
producing in 1870, 536,185 bushels of wheat, 15,057 bushels of 
rye, 252,916 bushels of corn, 297,611 bushels of oats, 16,731 
bushels of barley, 89,659 bushels of potatoes, 119,423 pounds 
of wool, besides butter, cheese, hay, hops, etc., amounting to 
an estimated value of.$1,481,132 
Value of manufactured articles. 723, 265 
Total.$2,204, 397 
The surface of the county is undulating, no part of it can be called hilly, 
neither is but a small portion of it level. Brooks and creeks, and small 
lakes abound in every portion, and, except along the Fox river, water 
powers are found in nearly every town. 
The greater part of the county in its primitive state was covered with 
timber openings, The soil alternating between clay and sand. The east¬ 
ern portion for nearly its 'entire length and varying from one-half mile to 
seven or eight miles in width is prairie. All of it producing wheat as its 
first and most important crop, but gradually extending to other small grains 
and finally to grass and fruit. The grasses, especially clover, do well and 
are receiving much more attention than formerly. It is found that manure 
does no harm to the soil, and even gypsum has an increasing number of 
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