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[Typewritten Page: On the Wisconsin River.]

The largest river is the Wisconsin, which empties into the Mississippi near Prairie du Chien. The same class of boats that navigate the upper Mississippi, have frequently ascended the Wisconsin to Fort Winnebago, a distance of over one hundred miles.- About 60 miles north of the portage or fort are the lower rapids; and at intervals from this point for 70 or 80 miles, in ascending the river, rapids are to be found, affording an immense water power, which to a great extent is turned to profitable account in the manufacture of pine lumber. Extensive and almost inexhaustible forests of pine are scattered through this region. Upwards of 20 saw mills, within the aggregate over 100 saws, are in operation at different points upon the upper Wisconsin. One mill lately built is calculated for 60 saws. Of the probable average amount of lumber annually manufactured here, and rafted to St. Louis and intermediate places, we have no definite idea.- It is doubtless immense; but from the dullness of the lumber trade in the Mississippi region, probably now on the decrease. The general course of this stream from the portage is south west. It forms a part of the southern boundary of Sauk county, touches the north west corner of Dane, and divides the counties of Iowa and Grant from Crawford and Richland, forming the northern boundary of the first two, and the southern boundary of the last.

[Typewritten Page: On the Wisconsin River.]

The largest river is the Wisconsin, which empties into the Mississippi near Prairie du Chien. The same class of boats that navigate the upper Mississippi, have frequently ascended the Wisconsin to Fort Winnebago, a distance of over one hundred miles.- About 60 miles north of the portage or fort are the lower rapids; and at intervals from this point for 70 or 80 miles, in ascending the river, rapids are to be found, affording an immense water power, which to a great extent is turned to profitable account in the manufacture of pine lumber. Extensive and almost inexhaustible forests of pine are scattered through this region. Upwards of 20 saw mills, within the aggregate over 100 saws, are in operation at different points upon the upper Wisconsin. One mill lately built is calculated for 60 saws. Of the probable average amount of lumber annually manufactured here, and rafted to St. Louis and intermediate places, we have no definite idea.- It is doubtless immense; but from the dullness of the lumber trade in the Mississippi region, probably now on the decrease. The general course of this stream from the portage is south west. It forms a part of the southern boundary of Sauk county, touches the north west corner of Dane, and divides the counties of Iowa and Grant from Crawford and Richland, forming the northern boundary of the first two, and the southern boundary of the last.