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Grant County

the county, and on a Blue river in the northern parts, from which large fortunes have been realized by miners, smelters, merchants, and speculators. Grant county is surrounded on two sides by navigable waters, and probably has more good timber land than any other county in the Mineral Country, and also the most beautiful and undulating prairies, abounding with fine springs of pure [and limestone] water. There is said to be neither a swamp or stagnant pool of water in the county; the soil, in both timber and prairie land is very rich and fertile yielding all sorts of grain and vegetables with comparatively little labor to the farmer. Among the timber are found oak, walnut, hickory, lynn, or basswood, sugar maple, cherry, ash, iron wood, quaken aspen- grapes, wild plums, and crab apples grow in great abundance. On the river bottom there are also found the soft maple, elm, and birch-on the bluffs the cedar and white pine. The woods abound in game, the streams in fish.