476 
WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Structures built 30 years ago of these stone, have as clean and fresh an 
appearance as if built but yesterday. Peat is found in large quantities, 
and if ever necessary may be utilized to an unlimited extent. 
A mineral spring has recently been discovered at Waukesha, named 
“ Bethseda,” and is celebrated for its curative properties for many chronic 
diseases. In drinking no trace of mineral is discovered by the taste. The 
water is pure and limpid, giving to the taste and palate an invigorating 
sweetness and relish. 
A growing interest prevails in favor of* manufacturing. One woolen fac¬ 
tory is now in operation at Waukeslia, having three sets manufacturing 
cards, one set of custom cards, six spinning jacks with one 160-spindle- 
twister—in all over 1500 spindles and 16 broad looms, with the requisite 
finishing machinery to make a first class mill. It works up from 110,000 to 
125,000 pounds of wool annually. The patterns of the shawls manufactured 
here are in large demand, and so popular are they that Messrs. Meld, Leiter 
& Co., of Chicago, have contracted to take all the mill can make for three 
years; the capacity of the mill for shawls alone will be 30,000 annually. 
The educational interests of the county, generally, are very well sustained. 
Its common schools are well conducted. At Oconomowoc an excellent and 
well conducted ladies seminary is in successful operation. At Nasliota, the 
Episcopal society have a theological institute. At Waukesha, under the 
patronage of the Presbyterian society of the state, Carroll College is locat¬ 
ed, and under its efficient and well qualified management, is steadily advanc¬ 
ing, and by its mentis attracting full classes to its halls. 
WAUPACA COUNTY. 
BY J. WAKEFIELD, FREMONT. 
Waupaca county contains twenty-one townships and 756 square miles. 
The eastern and northeastern part of the county is heavily timbered, con¬ 
sisting of hard and soft maple, oak, birch, cherry, butternut, hickory, ash, 
elm, basswood, pine, tamarack, etc. The rest of the county is mainly oak 
openings; about three-fifths is timbered land. The surface of the county 
is gently undulating, except in a few places in the west and northwest, 
where it is somewhat broken by high hills and bluffs. The soil in the tim¬ 
ber varies from a light sand on the pine ridges, to a stiff, tenacious clay. 
The sand, although light, can be kept in “ heart ” easily, and pays well for 
the trouble and expense of cultivation; corn, buckwheat, beans and pota¬ 
toes do best on the light soils, while wheat, peas, oats and the grasses show 
a decided partiality for clay or a heavy loam. The openings are generally 
morn sandy than the greatest share of the pine timber lands. Yet there is 
much excellent soil to be found there, dark, rich, and, in many places, quite 
