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[Typewritten page-Sauk Prairie].

Sauk Prairie, on the northern bank of the [the] Wisconsin, about 20 miles below Dekorree, and 25 miles north west of the seat of government, is the most flourishing and important settlement along the river. It was commenced but two or three years since, yet the present population of the prairie is not far from 400, and said to be rapidly increasing. This point, it must be admitted, possesses advantages of an attractive character- prairie and timber fairly proportioned, good water in abundance, a rich and productive soil, and a position on a navigable stream, leading to fine markets. The precise extent of the prairie we know not but there are yet doubtless many good farming locations to be had. The land here is now in market. A public sale is advertised to be held at the Mineral Point land office on the 23d day of October next, of the lands from a point opposite Dekorree, on the north side of the Wisconsin, to a point about opposite the north western corner of Iowa county- a strip six miles in width and extending 50 miles along the river. This includes the Sauk Prairie district, as well as the settled part of the Barabois region.

Sauk county, although its limits are prescribed by law, is not yet organized. For judicial and county purposes it is now attached to Dane.

From Sauk Prairie to the Mississippi there is no settlement or town worthy of particular note, at least in the immediate vicinity of the Wisconsin. Helena, on the southern bank of the river, in Iowa county, is the site of a shot tower, where an extensive business in the manufacture of shot. Muskoday is about twenty miles below this point; but a town merely in name. It is known only as the point where the land office for the western district of the territory was lately located.