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northern portions being high rolling land and fine valleys, well 
watered, the principal of which is the Trempeleau. The ridges 
are mostly timbered with oak, and some patches of tamarac 
and pine along the streams and heads of branches. Scarcely 
a section of this but has its fine streams of water, or nice cold 
springs of soft water. Soil mostly loam or clay. On the east 
side of the river the land is mostly sandy, except the south 
tier of towns, which is mostly oak openings; and the fine 
crops testify to the qxcellent quality of these lands. North of 
this, for the most part, there is level sandy land, with occa¬ 
sionally an iron mound or sandstone ridge. Here are also 
some quite extensive cranberry marshes, and a number of 
small ones, tamarac swams, pine barrens &c. The pine along 
the streams is excellent and almost inexhaustible. 
Our county contains some 4,134 inhabitants, three-fourths 
of whom I should judge were engaged in agriculture, and the 
remainder are lumbering and manufacturing. 
Farmers have as yet only commenced building, although 
some fine houses and fine barns are found in traveling about 
the county. They are generally making calculations to build 
when they get their grain marketed. They stilljcontinue to 
enlarge their farms, and the new breakings around testify that 
new comers are making homes among us. Let them come— 
there is still room and land at fair prices. 
INDUSTRY OF JUNEAU COUNTY. 
BY J. T. KINGSTON, OF NECEDAH. 
Juneau County, lying on the west side of the Wisconsin 
river, and adjoining Sauk County on the north, is almost wholly 
a level plain ; the only exception to this being a small tract 
situate in the south and south-western portions of the county, 
which embraces a portion of the bluff range lying on and 
around the head waters of the Baraboo'and Kickapoo rivers. 
The soil in the valleys in this bluff country is a deep black 
