INDUSTRY OF COUNTIES. 
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exports of copper, iron, fish, furs &c., to §3,071,069. Among 
the items of export, and which ought to have been raised and 
exported from Douglass County, instead of being brought up 
from 700 to 800 miles from Ohio, Illinois and Michigan in- 
1859, were 313,724 lbs. butter; 39,259 bbls. flour; 71,738 
bus. coarse grain; 1,006 tons ground feed; 3,781 bbls. beef;; 
4,890 bbls. pork; 1,761 cattle &c.—A most disgraceful ex¬ 
hibit. The imports of i860, owing to the rapid increase of 
population, were at least 50 per cent, more than in 1859. Let 
the St. Croix & Lake Superior, or the Lake Superior & Missis¬ 
sippi Railroad be completed, and we will soon stop the impor¬ 
tations. 
In conclusion, I will add that the town of Superior occupies 
the most prominent position in the North-west, at the head of 
navigation, and it forms the gate of communication between 
the Eastern and Western travel, and for a two thousand miles 
of uninterrupted lake and river navigation to the Atlantic, and 
nearly the same distance to the Gulf of Mexico. A place with 
such a situation, surrounded by so magnificent a country, can¬ 
not but have a great and glorious destiny. 
INDUSTRY OF GREEN LAKE COUNTY. 
BY II. M. POWERS, OF DARTFORD. 
Green Lake County lies between 43° 24' and 43° 48 1 ' north 
latitude, and 89° 20' and 89° 35' west longitude. It contains 
about 374 square miles. 
Its surface is gently undulating; about one-fourth being 
occupied by some half dozen prairies of various sizes and un¬ 
surpassed fertility. The other three-fourths is “openings, 5 ' 
covered with the different kinds of oak that abound in the 
West, with an occasional grove where the maple, butternut, &c., 
are found to some extent. Portions of these openings are 
somewhat sandy, but generally they are rich and productive. 
It is watered by the “noble Fox” and its tributaries, the 
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