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uring and building purposes. Other flouring mills of no mean 
reputation, are in operation in this county. Sauk City mills. 
Honey Creek mills, Delton mills, the mills at Reedsburg— 
(these have been recently burned to the ground with a large 
amount of wheat in store, but we are told by the owners that 
they will be soon rebuilt in an improved and enlarged manner.) 
The amount of flouring at these mills confirms what has already 
been said in regard to the capability of the soil for growing 
wheat, and of the increasing progress in that department of 
husbandry. 
The academies and high schools in other parts of the county, 
as at Sauk, Reedsburg and Delton, must not be omitted ; be¬ 
cause they, together with those in Baraboo, compare well with, 
if they do not excel in the whole list of enlightened improve¬ 
ments going forward now among the inhabitants of Sauk 
county. 
INDUSTRY OF ST. CROIX COUNTY. 
BY DR. OTIS HOYT, OF HUDSON. 
In 1849 St. Croix County comprised the territory embraced 
in Pierce, St. Croix, Polk and Burnett Counties. At that 
time only four farms had been opened, in a territory embracing 
over 120,000 acres of land, The present St. Croix County 
occupies much less space on the map. 
It is watered on the west by St. Croix river and lake. Ap¬ 
ple river takes its rise in Polk and Dallas Counties, watering 
the eastern and southern portion of those counties, and run¬ 
ning in about a south-westerly direction, watering the northern 
part of St. Croix County, and discharging into the St. Croix 
river. Willow river takes its rise in the south-eastern part of 
Polk County and south-western part of Dallas County, and 
takes also about a south-westerly direction and discharges into 
the St. Croix at Hudson. Both of these streams furnish many 
very valuable mill sites, five of which are improved. The Wil- 
