INDUSTRY OF COUNTIES. 
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The large amount of permanent and durable water power, 
so easily improved, to be found in Waupaca county, would 
point it out as designed by nature for an extensively manu¬ 
facturing locality. The advantages exist, and the opportunity 
is here afforded for the investment of capital, of either small 
or of a larger amount. With skill and application to manage 
it, good returns will be sure to follow. 
INDUSTRY OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY. 
BY J. B. OSBOBN, OF OSIIKOSII. 
An examination of the map will show that Winnebago 
County is remarkably well watered; the principal streams being 
the Fox and the Wolf. The county has also numerous small 
streams which flow into these rivers and Lake Winnebago.— 
Springs are not uncommon. Besides Lake Winnebago there 
are the “Big Butte des Morts,” “Little Butte des Morts” and 
Lake Poygan (which are expansions of Fox and Wolf rivers), 
and Rush Lake. Fox river flowing from the “ Portage ” enters 
the county at its south-west corner, flows north-easterly to 
about the centre of the county, where it is intersected by the 
Wolf; it then turns to the south-east almost at right angles to 
its previous course, expands into the “Big Butte,” which is 
about four miles long and two broad, and after flowing about 
eight miles from its junction with the Wolf enters Lake Win¬ 
nebago, having at this point a depth of thirty feet, and a 
breauth of about an eighth of a mile. 
The outlet of Lake Winnebago, called the “Lower Fox,” is 
in the north-east corner of the county; it leaves the lake by 
two channels, designated the north and south channels respect¬ 
ively, which unite after flowing about two miles, forming a 
beautiful island of eight hundred acres, known as “Doty 
Island.” The stream then expands into “Little Butte des 
Morts,” which is about three miles long and from one-half to 
three-fourths of a mile in width. It is again contracted to its 
