p. 884

Milwaukee

It will be seen that the amount of Milwaukee timber, shingles, and salt imported, has been increasing with a gradually augmenting ratio-while the importation of agricultural products which are now mostly supplied from our own soil- as pork flour &c. has been gradually diminishing, until they are now taking their places in the table of exports. The very great excess of business of the last year after that of former years is occasioned by the introduction of several new articles of trade, especially lead, shot, and copper which is brought overland from the western part of the Territory-The experiment now made, in the transportation of the valuable mineral products of our western counties, has shown that Milwaukee may, and soon will be made the outlet of most of that trade, even during the present unimproved state of the roads.-

and when greater facilities, which are now being made for transportation across our Territory, shall be completed, the amount of business of this kind which will be done here, can hardly be calculated.

The following is a statement 4. Statement of the amount received for the sale of public lands, at Milwaukee in the Territory of Wisconsin, from its first establishment in 1836, up to January 1st 1842.

[Table of Data].

Note.- The first sale of land in this District was held at the Green Bay Land Office, the proceeds of which would swell the above amount to a million and a half dollars.

1842 $149,816.86