INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES AND CONDITION 
OF COUNTIES. 
In pursuance of the general plan involved in the Report of the 
Executive Committee on the Natural Resources and Industrial 
Progress and Condition of the State, we addressed letters to 
prominent men in all the Counties, asking concise County 
Reports of the same general nature. A few responses came 
promptly; others were obtained only after repeated applica¬ 
tions, and finally arrived so late as to require either their 
omission or the condensation of all; while several counties are 
not represented at all. The statement is due, therefore, to 
those gentlemen who have kindly furnished the Reports here 
published, that many of them were written on short notice; 
and to ourself, that the modifications which will be noticed in 
the case of some, have been made necessary by legislative 
limitations as to space. 
In several instances, where estimates of the crops of 1860 
have been rendered valueless by the statistical tables embraced 
in the Report of the Executive Committee, we have taken the 
liberty to either substitute statistics, or to omit the estimates 
altogether. 
As published, these Reports will be found to contain much 
valuable information in small compass, and until the comple¬ 
tion of the series of Agricultural Surveys just instituted by the 
Society, must be regarded, when taken in connection with the 
General Report of the Committee, as the most interesting and 
reliable records we have of the Industrial Capacity and Pro¬ 
gress of Wisconsin. 
