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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
obtained is only partially employed. The river has a rocky 
bottom, with good banks upon each side for building, situated 
from four to ten rods apart. 
The waterpower here is among the most eligible for improv¬ 
ing that nature ever formed, and there is no place in the interior 
of any of the western States that can offer better inducements 
for the employment of capital in manufacturing than this. 
The south branch of the Waupaca river, discharging at low 
water about 800 cubic feet per minute, approaches the village 
from the south-west, bends to the east and unites with the 
main stream about two miles below. On this stream the u City 
Mills ” is situated a little south-east of the village—a flouring 
establishment justly celebrated for the quality and amount of 
the work it turns off. This south branch rises near the south¬ 
west corner of the county, and flows from south-west to north¬ 
east, through town 21, range 11, affording abundant water 
powers, only three of which are improved; the Crystal River 
Mills and Parfreyville Mills at Parfreyville; the Empire Mills 
at Rural. 
Little river, a small stream rising near the south-west corner 
of the county, empties into the Wolf, in town 21, range 13, a 
little below the mouth of Waupaca. This stream has several 
water-powers, two of which have been improved by the erection 
of saw mills. Several other saw mills have been erected upon 
the small streams, tributaries of the Little Wolf and Embarrass ; 
also, a very respectable flouring mill on the south branch of 
Little Wolf, in town 23, range 11, known as “ Scandinavia 
Mills.” 
Swamp Lands. —There are in the county 62,712 acres, or 
nearly ninety-eight square miles iu the aggregate, of what are 
reckoned to be swamp or overflowed lands. If we add to this 
an estimate of one-eighth, or 7,840 acres, we shall include the 
area of the small lakes scattered over the county. The swamp 
lands are more or less elevated, and nine-tenths can be drained, 
and thus converted into the best of lands for cultivation. This 
enterprise and industry will soon accomplish. 
Non-Resident Lands. —A large proportion of the timber 
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