440 
WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Tlie total number of liogs packed in the city during the season just closed 
was 175,000. 
The total receipts of foreign merchandise, exclusive of railroad iron, pig- 
iron, salt, plaster, and coal received at Milwaukee during the year 18G9 were 
111,256 tons. 
Of railroad iron there was received 31,G01 tons, 9,000 tons additional were 
manufactured there, making a grand total of 43,601 tons, worth $80 per ton, 
the sum of $3,488,080. 12,180 tons of pig iron were received during the 
year, and 4,695 tons of iron ore. 
Thus it will be seen, very succinctly stated, the business annually transact¬ 
ed in the commercial emporium of Wisconsin, and which is annually in¬ 
creasing with that marvelous rapidity incident to the rapid settlement of 
the western world. 
Milwaukee contains between fifty and sixty churches, belonging to various 
denominations, has nine large and elegant public school buildings, where 
the children of the poor and the rich are alike educated free of expense. 
For salubrity of climate it is unsurpassed in location, and the annual death 
rate per thousand is less than that of either of its neighbors, Chicago or St. 
Louis. 
Situated as it is, with its great facilities for lake commerce, and the thous¬ 
ands of miles of railways radiating throughout the great northwest, it can¬ 
not fail to continue to be, what it now is, the commercial emporium of Wis¬ 
consin, and one of the three great business centers of the northwestern 
United States. 
V 
OCONTO COUNTY. 
■ (From the State Immigration Pamphlet for 1870.) 
Oconto county comprises that portion of northeastern Wisconsin most 
valuable for its timber and farming lands, its immense and unrivalled wa¬ 
ter power, its mineral deposits and fisheries. 
It is hounded on the east by the waters of Green Bay and the Menomo¬ 
nee river, the first navigable for sail vessels and steamers of the largest 
size, having a shore of about forty-five miles in Oconto county, and receiv¬ 
ing in and from the same county, three large rivers and several smaller 
rivers and streams. 
Oconto county embraces an area of over five thousand square miles. It 
is estimated that the unsettled portion of the county, about one-third of 
the area, is covered with pine and hemlock, one-third with sugar maple, 
and other hard woods, and the remainder with cedar, ash, elm, tama¬ 
rack, and such timber as is usually found on alluvial soils. Almost the 
whole surface of the county is traversed and drained by numerous streams. 
