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406 Grant Co.

Grant county is represented as being better supplied with timber than other portions of the Mineral Country, and it has many fine prairies abounding in springs of pure water. There is neither swamp, lake, or stagnant pool of water of any kind in the county. The soil in both timber and prairie land is very rich and fertile, yielding all the usual crops (as will be seen by the statistics on the next page [collected by the United States] and with comparatively little labor to the farmer. Among the timber are found oak, walnut, hickory, lynn or basswood, sugar maple, cherry, ash, ironwood, quaken aspen; and grapes, wild plums, and crabapples grow in some parts of the county in abundance. On the river bottoms there are also found the soft maple, elm, and birch-on the bluffs the cedar and white pine. The woods abound in game, and the streams in fish.