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Experienced stock-growers have discovered this fact, and availed them¬ 
selves of its advantage, and started herds of superior blood. Among the 
most prominent of the stock-breeders, are George Murray, Esq., Richard 
Richards and Henry S. Durand. 
The fauna of the county does not materially differ from other counties of 
the state. The assessed valuation of the county of Racine is 6,178 horses 
valued at $352,298; 15,401 head of neat cattle, valued at $213,033; 61 mules 
and asses, valued at $4,380; 36,008 sheep, valued at $55,883; 6,112 swine, 
valued at $24,268; 3.211 carriages, wagons and sleighs, valued at $90,588; 
283 pianos and melodeons, valued at $32,140; $200,000 bank stock, valued 
at $240,000: merchants and manufacturers’stock, $760,891; personal prop¬ 
erty, $632,682; 207,410 acres of land assessed, valued at $4,698,133; city 
and village lots assessed, $2,560,411. Population 26,742. Has 83,163 acres 
of improved land; 166,676 bushels of wheat; 3,570 bushels of rye; 145,816 
bushels of corn; 232,749 bushels of oats; 17,426 bushels of barley; 81,566 
pounds of wool; 94,868 bushels of potatoes; 358,878 pounds butter; 625 
pounds cheese; 26,383 tons hay; 9,300 pounds hops. Estimated value of 
farm products, $1,000,000. Estimated manufactured products, $3,174,825. 
Public debt, $300,00". Paupers, 25, supported at a cost of $5,000. 
The stone and lime business is largely on the increase at the city of Ra¬ 
cine. A little outside of the city limits are inexhaustible stone quarries, 
out of which is burned the very best quality of lime. The lime-stone be¬ 
longs to the Niagara group, and is of excellent quality for cellar walls, and 
for the basements of all kinds of buildings. The stone and lime find a 
ready market, and the demand is largely on the increase. 
The city of Racine is situated on lake Michigan; has a large and commo¬ 
dious harbor, and one of the finest elevators in the state. The city stands 
about 40 feet above the lake, and contains a population of 12,000, and is 
justly called the “ Belle City;” has fine railroad, steamboat and sail vessel 
connections with all parts of the country; stands out in the lake about 
four miles, on a promontory; winds from the northeast and west blow over 
it, making the city one of the most delightful places to live in in the west, 
and no finer summer resort can be found. The soil about and near 
the city is well adapted, as well as the climate, to the growing of apples, 
pears, plums, cherries, grapes and all small fruits. 
It has fine public school houses erected at a cost of over $75,000; a col¬ 
lege with over 200 pupils and eight professors, and buildings and grounds 
valued at $287,000; twenty-two churches, some of which cost large sums 
of money; and an orphan asylum built by the munificence of Isaac Taylor, 
deceased, at an expense of $75,090. The city prides herself on her large 
and valuable manufactures. Among the most prominent of which we 
mention J. I. Case & Co., who employed 280 hands, and manufactured 1300 
threshing machines in 1870; the Geiser Threshing Machine Co. employed 100 
hands and turned out 300 machines; Mitchell & Co., who manufactured 
