INDUSTRY OF COUNTIES. 
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ture and industry, is creating a lively trade and greatly advances the 
wealth of the county. Our main product, wheat, and other cereals, pork, 
butter, etc., are mostly shipped to Milwaukee, but some provisions, hay, 
etc., are sent to Lake Superior and the pineries of Michigan. Our leather 
is shipped to Milwaukee, Chicago or Boston, most of the other products to 
Milwaukee and Chicago only. 
The following list of shipments from the port of Manitowoc along, and 
embracing only a few main articles, will give an idea of the importance of 
our commerce even at this period: 
Bushels of wheat shipped in 1870 
Barrels of flour.do 
Cords of wood.do 
Railroad ties. .do 
Feet of lumber and timber, .do 
Rolls of leather.do 
Staves and barrels.do 
284, 896 
14, 610 
12, 965 
45, 900 
6,000, 000 
8,460 
675,000 
A great deal is shipped from Two Rivers, and the different piers built all 
along the lake shore. There are twelve or more such piers in the different 
towns along the shore; shipments from them not only are of great 
value, but enable our farmers to sell the timber on their lands at a fair 
price, instead of burning it as has to be done in the more western towns. 
Regular lines of steamers and propellers run between Chicago and 
lake Superior and intermediate ports, all stopping at Manitowoc. The lines 
from Chicago to the east also call regularly, giving to our merchants the 
benefit of a direct and cheap freight to and from the east; 498 steamers and 
propellers arrived and departed here during the year 1870. The bulk of 
shipping, however, is done in sailing vessels, of which our merchants and 
shippers own about thirty of various sizes. 
To the shipping interest the excellent harbor at Manitowoc is of the 
greatest importance, as well for taking and discharging of freights, as 
for protection from rough weather. Situated in a large and beautiful bay, 
five miles from point to point and three miles from the point to the inner 
shore, the bay is well protected against dangerous storms, and presents a 
good anchorage. It has been improved by the government at a cost of 
$150,000, and is one of the best, if not the best harbor on lake Michigan; it 
is accessable in all weather, and in all seasons. A good light-house is 
maintained by the government. At the last session, congress also made an 
appropriation for the purpose of improving the harbor at Two Rivers. This 
port is situated near the north point of Manitowoc bay; and the improve¬ 
ment of its harbor is of the greatest importance. 
In 1870 the county voted aid, to the amount of $2o0,000, to three several 
lines of railroad—one to Milwaukee, one to Appleton, and one to Green 
Bay. The building of these several roads has now been secured and will 
connect us with the leading roads of the state. Work has been com- 
menced on the western road to Appleton. 
