INDUSTRY OF COUNTIES. 
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Manufactured goods, as well as agricultural products, are increasing from 
year to year. Tlie sum of farm products for the year 1869, is placed in the 
late census at about $2,000,000. The value of manufactures for the present 
year would nearly reach that sum. The chief articles are flour, lumber 
wagons; furniture, leather, etc. Two woolen mills at Sheboygan Falls turn 
out about $75,000 worth of woolen cloths, blankets, etc., yearly. There are 
twenty grist and flouring mills, supplied almost entirely with grain pro¬ 
duced in the county. The market, aside from home demand, is New Eng¬ 
land and New York. Twelve thousand barrels of flour are annually sent 
from a single mill at the Falls to Providence, Rhode Island. 
Commerce, so nearly allied to agriculture and manufactures, possesses 
superior facilities at Sheboygan, where surplus products of this county, as 
well as much from adjoining counties, find an outlet. The completed rail¬ 
road to Fond du Lac, and the harbor improved so that loaded vessels of the 
largest class may pass out and in without obstruction, has added much to 
the present and prospective importance of this city. 
A court house has recently been built here, at a cost of $65,000, also sev¬ 
eral churches and numerous brick blocks, which together with the maniv 
factories erected here recently, improve the aspect as well as the business 
of the place. When it is remembered that manufactories in the county 
are still in their infancy, that many of the numerous water powers on the 
streams are still unimproved or occupied by saw mills that must for want 
of timber soon give place to other machinery; that many articles now im¬ 
ported from the east may be made more cheaply here, both on account of a 
more ready access to the raw material and on account of living and build¬ 
ing more cheaply, it is certain that manufactures and commerce will event¬ 
ually continue to advance. 
TREMPEALEAU COUNTY. 
The area of this county is about twenty townships. Of these only about 
66,674 acres are improved. The soil is quite varied in its character; in 
some places, along the river bottom lands, there are patches where sand 
predominates, but much the greater portion of these lands are susceptible 
of cultivation and yield good crops. With this exception the soil is a rich, 
vegetable loam, underlaid with a clay subsoil. All the vegetables and 
cereals common to our state are easily raised here. Wheat, both winter 
and spring, is largely grown, and does well. The amount of our agricul¬ 
tural productions, as taken in the late census, is given as follows: Of wheat, 
516,664 bushels; of oats, 246,196 bushels; of corn, 147,550 bushels; of rye 
10,130 bushels; of potatoes, 47,653 bushels; of butter, 341,068 pounds; of 
wool, 38,523 pounds. 
The surface of the county is somewhat broken; along the courses of the 
