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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
both sides of the Baraboo river, about midway of its rapids, 
upon a beautiful, convenient and romantic site, surrounded by 
desirable building elevations. The river furnishes clear, pure 
and wholesome water, besides great water power for machinery. 
There are 2180 inhabitants in the town, and about 1500 in the 
village, with a proper proportion of stores, groceries, taverns, 
mechanics’ shops, &c.; but its chief pride is its schools. It 
has two incorporated institutions — one especially for females, 
besides three or four public schools. The county Court House 
in this village is a noble edifice; and, besides the Hall of Jus¬ 
tice, contains rooms for the county offices. 
The jail is an hexagonical pile of stone, with two stories 
above the ground floor, and contains rooms for the sheriff 
and his family. 
Dependent upon its water power arc two flouring mills, three 
saw mills with upright saws, two with rotary, one door and 
sash factory, two planing mills, three lath mills, two furniture 
factories and one woolen factory; and still the water power is 
scarcely half used. In addition to the manufacturing estab¬ 
lishments already mentioned, the Baraboo mills, superior to 
any other in the State and perhaps to any other west of Roch¬ 
ester, N. Y., are one hundred and thirty-two feet in length 
and thirty-two in general width, with three stories above the 
ground floor, and run six pairs of four feet burrs. These man¬ 
ufacture weekly through most of the year, and send to the 
Boston market from 600 to 800 barrels of flour, besides furn¬ 
ishing the village and many distant points with flour of a qual¬ 
ity that sells in the Boston market; another mill with two 
pairs of burrs is used by the same proprietor for custom grind¬ 
ing, for a large and populous neighborhood of farmers. In 
connection with these establishments is a full set of barrel 
machinery of sufficient capacity for making 4000 barrels per 
week. • There are now manufactured about 2000 barrels per 
week, by which these mills are furnished, and those of Delton, 
Portage, Lodi, Sauk, Honey Creek, &c., either in whole or in 
part. Some of these facts show the advantages possessed by 
this vicinity and this county in regard to timber for manufact- 
