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tiful streams of pure spring water, well stocked with speckled trout and 
other small fish. There are two artesian wells at Sparta, the county seat, 
one of which has strong medicinal qualities, and the other has magnetic 
properties; both are found to be beneficial for health, and have cured many 
chronic and other diseases. The air is pure, healthy and invigorating, and 
the scenery delightful. 
MILWAUKEE COUNTY. 
(From the Immigration Pamphlet of 1870.) 
This county contains about 152,000 acres of land, of which about 9,000 
acres lie within the corporate limits of the city of Milwaukee. Four-fifths 
of the entire amount of farming lands are under improvement, and togeth¬ 
er with the unimproved lands, which are mostly timber, and often more val¬ 
uable than the improved, have an average value of $75 per acre. 
The present population of Milwaukee county (1870) is 89,936, of which the 
city of Milwaukee contains 71,461. 
As there are no public lands in Milwaukee county, its statistics will be 
chiefly interesting to immigrants, as they set forth the opportunities for pro¬ 
curing a livelihood in the different mechanic arts and the occupations 
attendant thereon. 
To the skilled artisan who intends to emigrate and follow his calling or 
occupation, the city of Milwaukee affords employment to large numbers in 
its foundries, machine shops, its furnaces and rolling mills, railway repair- 
shops, in the manufacture of furniture, of barrels and all description of 
cooperage, of boots and shoes, of clothing, and the numerous other, no less 
useful but minor handicrafts. 
For the common laborer, employments are to be found on the docks, in 
the lumber yards, breweries, freight warehouses, grain elevators, on its rail¬ 
ways; in the stores of the wholesale merchant, and the various labors inci¬ 
dent to the building up of a young and flourishing city. 
The annual report of the Chamber of Commerce for 1869, shows the 
assessed valuation of real estate and personal property in the city of Mil¬ 
waukee to be $43,493,313. In extent of marine commerce it ranks as the 
fourth city in the United States. The number of entries at the custom 
house during the year were 4,878, with a total tonnage of 1,974,119 tons, and 
of clearances 4,877, representing an aggregate tonnage of 1,938,414 tons. 
The receipts of grain for the year 1869 were 19,407,054 bushels, of which 
17,745,238 bushels were wheat. 
The receipts of flour were 807,763 barrels, and the amount manufactured 
in the city 481,511 barrels ; total 1,289,274. The shipments of wheat to 
eastern and Canadian markets during the year amounted to 14,272,799 bush¬ 
els, and of flour, to 1,220,658 barrels. 
