400 WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
many to exist in workable quantities, in the veins of the trap 
rocks, as in the adjacent parts of Michigan; the soil especially 
in the elevated lands, is found to be rich and very productive, 
supporting an abundance of timber, both <}f pine and the hard 
woods; the fisheries on the borders of the lake are valuable; 
many of the fur-bearing animals are still to be found there; 
and there are doubtless other resources which future explora¬ 
tions will soon make known. In general character the country 
is much like that of central Wisconsin, where so much pine 
lumber is annually produced. Some settlements already made 
show that the soil is productive, and the climate not unsuited 
to the culture of the various ordinary crops. Snow usually 
falls in autumn, before the setting in of the severe cold weather 
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and thus keeps the ground from freezing, and protects the ten¬ 
der roots of plants. 
The lands have been recently surveyed, and subdivided into 
sections, so they are now subject to pre-emption, or may be 
purchased at the moderate minimum price fixed by the govern¬ 
ment. Measures should be taken without delay to ascertain 
and make known fully and accurately, the general character and 
resources of this part of the State. Thus would be corrected 
much erroneous opinion now existing in regard to it. 
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