INDUSTRY OF COUNTIES. 
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and good clay for brick; tlie pine lumber from the upper Wisconsin, on 
its way to southern markets, floats for sixty miles along our border, making 
building material cheap and easy to be had; we have a population repre¬ 
senting all the nationalities of western Europe—thrift prevailing among 
them all; but we need capital to improve our water powers, and work up 
our timber into desirable forms; we want skilled labor, more furnaces and 
rolling mills to work up our ore; we want intelligent farmers who will 
“ use the earth as not abusing it,” who w T ill increase instead of exhausting 
its fertility, so that there may be hope for the coming generations. 
SHAWANO COUNTY. 
BY D. H. PULCIFER, SHAWANO. 
This county is located in the northeastern portion of the state, and com¬ 
prises valuable timber and farming lands, is crossed by several large rivers 
and streams, and contains a territory of about 1,000 square miles. 
Wolf river is a large and steady stream, suitable for navigation as far as 
the village of Shawano, while above the village its falls furnish abundant 
water pow r er for mills, manufacturing, etc. The Embarrass and Red rivers, 
emptying into the Wolf, furnish excellent mill sites, and help to make 
available the large bodies of pine timber that are located near their banks. 
Shawano lake is a handsome body of watier about ten miles long and five 
wide, and lias connection, by means of inlets, with several other small lakes 
above it, and by an outlet with Wolf river, through which large amounts 
of valuable timber are run to market. 
About 1869 the county began to attract the attention of agriculturists, 
and since that time has made rapid progress in that direction. It has now 
about 25,000 acres of improved lands, which produce good crops of wheat, 
oats, corn, potatoes, barley, rye, grass, and all the various root crops. Hops 
and broom corn grow large and yield abundantly. Considerable attention 
is being paid to the cultivation of fruit, and, so far, with good success. 
Apples grow well, and prove well adapted to the soil and climate; the trees 
look thrifty and healthy. Cherries and plums grow well and yield largely. 
Berries of the various varieties grow wild in large quantities, and continue 
through the season, one variety following another; strawberries first, then 
red and black raspberries, followed by blueberries and whortleberries, which 
give place to the palatable and healthy blackberry, and the season ends 
with cranberries. 
Attention is being paid to the raising of good stock, and already several 
fine animals have been brought into the county for breeding purposes. 
The climate is unusually healthy for sheep; the pasture lands are extensive 
and cheap, and produce a variety of gasses, herbs and shrubbery, part of 
