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combines the elements of wealth, prosperity, and domestic 
comfort; and I am partial enough to think, that when I shall 
have attempted to depict it in its brightest colors, the obser¬ 
vant stranger, like the Queen of Sheba on another occasion, 
will be led to exclaim—“ The half has not been told/' 
Manufacturing and agricultural advantages of a superior 
character—healthfulness of locality equal to the desires of the 
most timid valitudinarian—a population comparing favorably 
with almost any average, in enterprise and intelligence—as 
w T ell as the many other essentials to an independent and pros¬ 
perous community, are all so happily blended into one admira¬ 
ble whole, that little is left to be desired but the enterprise 
man. 
Rock river rolls its pellucid waters with a bold ‘tind rapid 
current, from north to south through the central portion of the 
county, dividing each of the flourishing cities of Janesville 
and Beloit into two nearly equal portions, and affording at 
either point a large amount of motive power, for driving mills 
and other machinery. That immense power has been exten¬ 
sively diverted from its wild waste to purposes of practical 
utility, and is at this time ministering largely to the comforts 
of an enterprising and thriving people ; but the quickening 
touch of capital is still required to bring that power into full 
subserviency to the public weal. 
A large number of mills and other manufacturing establish¬ 
ments, are now in successful operation in the city of Janes¬ 
ville and its suburban village of Monterey ; thereby furnishing 
employment to a large number of mechanics and other labor¬ 
ing men, and proving a fruitful source of prosperity and wealth 
to the city, as well as of comfort and convenience to the peo¬ 
ple of the surrounding country. But though so much of the 
power of Rock river has already been made to minister to the 
wants of man, enough still remains to admit of a profitable 
and further investment of capital, for manufacturing and me¬ 
chanical purposes. 
And while her sister city has thus drawn liberally upon the 
bounties of that beautiful river, the city of Beloit has not been 
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