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Other portions of the Territory are endeavoring to secure this lead trade and whenever it is brought to the shore of the lake, the magnitude of the trade will be such as to afford [lumber?] for a great number of inhabitants and thus be the means of building up a town.

Besides the rail road, it is proposed to improve the navigation of the Wisconsin and Neenah rivers so as to secure this trade to Green Bay, and efforts are now making to obtain an appropriation by Congress to accomplish this important work. The estimated expense of this [work] improvement as made by Capt. Cram is as follows.

[Table of pricing estimates].

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