INDUSTRY OF COUNTIES. 
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Manufactures are confined principally to lumber, flour, farming imple¬ 
ments, tin and sheet iron ware, wagons, etc. We have eight mill propelled 
by steam and four propelled by water for manufacturing lumber, produc¬ 
ing eighteen million feet, valued at the mills at $216,000; and eight flour¬ 
ing mills propelled by water, producing 30,000 barrels of flour annually. 
Two plow factories, producing $20,000 value of plows annually; three 
wagon factories, one furniture factory and one iron foundry. The iron and 
steel used in manufacturing agricultural implement and wagons, is pro¬ 
cured mostly from Pittsburg, Pa., the wood from our own locality. There 
is annually cut within the county limits, about 20,000,000 feet of pine logs, 
valued when cut at five dollars per thousand, or $100,000; most of which is 
worked up into lumber here. 
There are ten church edifices in the county, valued at $57,500; a court 
house and jail worth $35,000; fifty-one school houses, built at a cost of $47,- 
000. For roads and bridges we expend about $16,000 a year. 
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The amount of general merchandise sold in the county per annum is 
about $755,000; of agricultural implements, $50,000 worth. 
During the year 1870 there were 540 steamboat arrivals and departures, 
on which were shipped 714,000 bushels of wheat, 68,700 of barley, 5,000 of 
oats, 24,740 barrels of flour and 9,400 pounds of hops. 
The West Wisconsin Railway, now in process of construction, and to be 
completed to Hudson during 1871, runs across the county nearly in an east 
and west line, near the' centre of the county, which will give us direct con¬ 
nection with Madison, Milwaukee, Chicago and the east, saving a distance 
of nearly ninety miles over the Minnesota railways, making us an excellent 
outlet for our products. 
SAUK COUNTY. 
BY JOSEPH W. WOOD, BABABOO. 
A glance at the map will exhibit the central position of Sauk county 
and indicate the striking features in relation to its water-slied and drain¬ 
age. It occupies the great bend of the Wisconsin river, which, refused a 
direct passage to the Mississippi by the miniature mountain range known 
as the Baraboo bluffs, makes its grand sweep to the eastward and rounding 
their eastern extremity turns an acute angle and endeavors by directness 
thereafter to make up for its previous loiterings. 
For sixty miles, or more, the Wisconsin forms a boundary line for Sauk 
county, and its citizens are deeply interested in the national scheme for im¬ 
proving its channel so as to make it a section of the national highway con¬ 
necting the lakes with the Mississippi. It is expected that not many years 
will elapse before its products shipped at our wharves can pass by either 
