REPORT OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 
61 
It will be observed that the foregoing table furnishes simply a 
statement of lumber manufactured, no account being made of 
the immense number of logs annually rafted out of the State 
for manufacture elsewhere. 
The hard-wood districts described on page 47 have fur¬ 
nished and still continue to yield large quantities of timber for 
rails, barrels, wagons, and various kinds of cabinet and other 
wooden wares, as, also, for the building of ships ; but the larger 
part of the lumber manufactured comes from the pineries. 
These may be divided naturally enough into the North-western 
Pinery—embracing the region occupied by the Chippewa, Black, 
St. Croix, and other rivers flowing into the Mississippi—the 
Wisconsin Pinery, on the Wisconsin River, the Wolf River 
Pinery, and the Green Bay Pinery, all of which are sufficient¬ 
ly localized by the names they bear. 
During favorable seasons, and in times of fair prices, these 
several pineries employ 5,000 to 8,000 men, and yield half a 
thousand million feet of lumber and three or four million 
bunches of shingles, with an aggregate value of over $5,000,- 
000 per annum. 
MANUFACTURING. 
This branch of our industry has not yet assumed the im¬ 
portance it deserves. Richly endowed with all the materials— 
minerals, timber and agricultural products—required for a va¬ 
ried and profitable business of manufacture ; provided also with 
an abundance of the best water-power on the continent, and 
with ready means of transportation of both the raw material 
and the manufactured product, Wisconsin w T ould seem to have 
been designed to take a high rank among the manufacturing 
States of the Union. 
It will nevertheless appear, from the statistics reported to 
the Secretary of State for the year 1860, that the w r hole valu¬ 
ation of manufactured articles but little exceeded eight mil¬ 
lion dollars. It should not be forgotton, however, that there 
is done a large amount of manufacturing of the articles enu¬ 
merated on so small a scale as to have escaped the officers who 
