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In 1840 the United States Census shows that there were in this county 30 smelting furnaces, producing 8,909,000 pounds of lead within the preceding year, giving employment to 128 men and requiring an invested capital of $106,500. There were then in Iowa county 1,132 horses and mules, 4,567 mean cattle, 583 sheep, 7618 swine, 21 stores and groceries, 1 distillery, 2 breweries, 1 printing office, 4 grist mills and 7 saw mills. The products of 1839 were as follows 12,945 bushels of wheat, w,424 of barley, 147,782 of oats, 145 of buckwheat, 76,885 of Indian corn and 49.383 of potatoes: 4,152 tons of hay, 398 pounds of wool and 35 of wax. These statistics show the truth of the remark made on a preceding page that the mining country is also a good farming country; for it will be seen that while Iowa county produces the greatest amount of lead and copper, she at the same time produces the greatest quantity of oats, and the other agricultural products do not indicate a barron and unproductive soil. But [such is] the disposition of

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