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of it finds its way to Galena in Illinois, whence it is shipped down the Missisippi and by way of the Ocean to New York. Within the last few years however much of it is sent by waggons to Lake Michigan, mostly at Milwaukee, and thence sent direct by way of the Lakes to New York. The experiment has been tried of boating lead down the Pekatonica and up Rock river to Beloit, whence it was sent to Southport; and a company has been incorporated to improve the navigation of the Pekatonica with a view of [to] securing this trade in that route; but nothing has yet been done towards accomplishing this object. A company has also been incorporated to construct a rail road from Mineral Point to the Mississippi.

Several other towns have at different times been laid out in Iowa county-among them are Albion, New Baltimore, Buchanan, Otterborne, Muskoda, [and] Savanna, and Shulsburgh-which have not grown to be towns of much size and importance.

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