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POST OFFICES .- Blakely, Cedar Lake, Dooleyville, Helena, Lydia, Maple Glen, Margetown, New Dublin, Raven Stream, St. Lawrence, Sand Creek.
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SHERBURNE COUNTY.
SHERBURNE COUNTY,
Lying along the east side of the Mississippi, north-west of Anoka, has about 13 townships or 300,000 square acres, half level prairie ; sandy like Anoka, but of medium quality ; groves of timber around lakes and on streams from 100 to 300 acres in extent ; a body of timber 5000 or 6000 acres north-west of Elk Lake ; 23 lakes ; rich land in town 34, range 26 ; fine meadow land anywhere north of Elk River adapted to stock raising ; parts of township 33, range 26-7 more or less knolls, marshes, lagoons, and ponds ; the northern part of county especially, filled with lakes, brooks, marshes abounding in meadows and spots of sandy prairie and clayey brush land. Good water-power. Water and waste land in county, 12 per cent ; tamarack swamp, 6 per cent ; best land back from the river. Prices, $2 to $8 for wild; $5 to $40 im- proved. Population, 1860, 719 ; 1865, 819 ; 1869, about 2000 ; three-fourths American, balance principally from Sweden and British America. Vote for Grant, 205 ; Seymour, 148.
STATISTICS .- Land assessed, 146,528 acres ; value per acre, $2.41. School land, 13,352; homestead, 9996; railroad, large area ; cultivated 1649. Assessed property, 1860, $295,513 ; 1865, $376,714 ; 1868, $502,305 ; per- sonal, $130,794. Horses, 400; cattle, 1661 ; mules, 11 ; sheep, 1250; hogs, 280; carriages, 44; watches, 59; pianos, 3; merchandise, $5950; money and credits, $8625 ; schools, 18 ; houses, 13 ; value, $3975 ; scholars, 617 ; year's increase, 80.
VILLAGES .- Elk River and Orono 1 mile apart-both known as Elk River, 40 miles from St. Paul, by rail. County seat at ORONO ; 80 houses, first-class water-power and flouring mill, sash, door, furniture and carriage
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SIBLEY COUNTY.
factories, all kinds of machinery for manufacturing wood, a saw mill, tannery, hotel, 2 stores and shops, and an Episcopal church.
ELK RIVER has 40 houses, 2 hotels, 2 stores, steam saw mill and shops, and is a growing place.
BIG LAKE is a station and small village 50 miles from St. Paul by rail, has an elevator, some good buildings, several stores, and is a resort for sportsmen, the fishing being first-class.
POST OFFICES .- Brantford, Clear Lake, Lake Tremont, Livonia, Orlando, Pleasant Valley.
SIBLEY COUNTY,
Lying between Nicollet and McLeod, with its east line on the Minnesota River, has nearly 17 townships or about 380,000 acres, two-thirds rolling prairie and rich ; one-third " Big Woods " occupying the four eastern townships and Green Isle, and a portion of New Auburn, Kelso, and Arlington. The river bottoms from one-half to two miles wide on the river overflow in high water, but produce immense quantities of hay. There are 37 large lakes ; brick for building ; plenty of fine meadows ; well watered ; population, 1860, 3608 ; 1865, 4786 ; 1869, about 7000. Vote for Grant, 382 ; Seymour, 706.
STATISTICS .- Land assessed 177,918 acres ; value per acre, $3.51 ; under cultivation, 1867, 14,440 acres ; wheat raised, 153,885 bushels ; homestead land, 37,240 acres ; school land, 13,403 acres. Assessed property, 1860, $346,167 ; 1865, $574,992 ; 1868, $842,085 ; personal, $256,652. Horses, 1357; cattle, 6371 ; mules, 14 ; sheep, 3146 ; hogs, 2443 ; carriages, 93; watches, 49 ; pianos, 2 ; merchandise, $15,383 ; money and credits, $16,038.
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STEELE COUNTY.
School districts, 49 ; houses, 37 ; value $13,008 ; scholars, 2592; year's increase, 374. 7 or 8 mills; 10 or 12 churches-5 Catholic.
VILLAGES .- HENDERSON, the county seat, on the river, between Belle Plaine and Le Sueur, and half a mile from the railroad, has about 800 inhabitants, majority Ger- mans, with French, Irish, Americans, and Norwegians ; 8 dry good and grocery stores, 3 hardware, and 1 drug, 4 hotels, 1 saw and 2 grist mills, 1 brewery, a Catholic, German Reform, and Methodist church, 2 lawyers, 3 doc- tors, mechanical shops, 2 terms of court per year-5 to 10 new cases at each.
FAXON, 8 miles below, is not a good location, but a good point for business, having 2 stores, 4 groceries, and a saw mill.
NEW AUBURN, beautifully located on a lake, has 2 stores, 2 hotels, saw mills and shops, and will eventually be a good point for business, having a fine country around it-settled mostly by Americans.
ARLINGTON, 12 miles above Henderson, has a store and hotel.
POST OFFICES .- Dryden, Green Isle, Kelso, Rush River, and Sibley.
STEELE COUNTY,
South of Rice and west of Dodge, on the line of the St. Paul and Milwaukee Railroad, has 12 townships or 276,000 acres ; timber, prairie, meadow, and water conveniently distributed, as to make it a county of " ready made" farms ; 8 large lakes ; surface high, rolling prairie ; its southern part the highest land-the " Water- shed "-of Southern Minnesota, from which the water
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STEELE COUNTY.
radiates in all directions ; a belt of timber 1} to 3 miles wide on east side of the Owatonna River, bisecting the county from north to south ; soil a deep, rich, black loam, resting on clay subsoil ; brick and limestone for building. Population, 1860, 2862 ; 1865, 4932 ; 1869, about 10,000. Vote for Grant, 1137 ; Seymour, 503. Nationality, one- eighth German, one-sixteenth each of Irish, Bohemian and Norwegian, balance Americans.
STATISTICS .- Land assessed, 192,936 acres ; value per acre, $4.85 ; homestead, 9620 acres ; school land, 3649 ; under cultivation, 1867, 26,432 ; wheat product, 148,675 bushels. Assesssd property, 1860, $438,575 ; 1865, $886,- 445; 1868, $1,745,356 ; personal, $598,204. Horses, 2006 ; cattle, 5625 ; mules, 35 ; sheep, 2858 ; hogs, 1311 ; carriages, 121 ; watches, 279 ; pianos, 24 ; merchandise, $84,811 ; money and credits, $83,949. School districts, 64; houses, 46; value, $37,920 ; scholars, 2749 ; year's increase, 232.
CITIES AND TOWNS .- OWATONNA, 75 miles from St. Paul, the county seat, and point of junction for two railroads, be- sides the State Line and Owatonna road, not yet finished, located on Owatonna River, is a growing city of over 3000 people, two-thirds American, balance German, Irish, and some Norwegians, and does a large mercantile and manufacturing business. There is an agricultural imple- ment manufactory and foundry doing $200,000 worth of business, besides 6 dealers in such implements, 3 plow manufactories, selling over 400 breaking plows in the spring of 1868, 2 manufactories of furniture, 1 sash and blind, 1 of marble, 3 grist and 1 flouring mill, 2 breweries, 2 brick yards, 5 lumber yards, 1 pottery, shops of various kinds, 10 dry good stores, 12 grocery, 6 boot and shoe, 4 hardware, 3 drug, 2 book, 3 jewelry, 5 millinery, 6 clothing, 9 hotels, 4 eating houses, 9 saloons, 5 churches,
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STEARNS COUNTY.
a $20,000 school house, 3 lawyers, 7 doctors, 1 dentist, &c. Building improvements in 1868 cost $170,000, in- cluding Congregational church, $10,000 ; 2 flouring mills, $25,000 ; 80 dwellings, $70,000 ; 8 business houses, $40,- 000, &c.
MEDFORD, 6 miles north of Owatonna by rail, has 250 inhabitants, 4 stores and 2 churches.
BLOOMING PRAIRIE AND CLINTON FALLS are small settle- ments, and there are
POST OFFICES at Aurora, Berlin, Cooleysville, Deerfield, Dodge City, East Meriden, Elwood, Meriden, Morton, River Point and Steele Centre.
STEARNS COUNTY,
On the Mississippi River, north-west of St. Paul 70 miles, with about 40 townships or 920,000 acres; about one-third prairie, balance timber mostly, and meadows. conveniently distributed in every township, gently roll- ing ; 120 large lakes, besides streams of living water ; soil rich and productive ; very little waste land ; good water-power near Clearwater, Cold Spring, Paynesville, Sauk Centre, and St. Cloud ; at Sauk Rapids and Watab River, clay for brick; marl near St. Cloud for lime. Granite ridge across the county, running south-westerly, probably a continuation of the mountain range of Lake Superior, forming the St. Louis River Falls, Rum River Rapids, Sauk Rapids, and the rapids of the Minnesota River. Land $2.50 to $30 per acre-some government in the western part. Population, 1860, 4507 ; 1865, 7367; 1869, 15,000; Germans, 8000; Americans, 4000 ; Nor- wegians, 1500; Irish, 1000; others, 500. Vote for Grant, 1030 ; Seymour, 1524.
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STEARNS COUNTY.
STATISTICS .- Land assessed, 458,660 acres ; value per acre, $2.53 ; under cultivation, 1867, 21,385 acres ; wheat product, 131,533 bushels ; school land, 43,295. Assessed property, 1860, $420,903 ; 1865, $795,373 ; 1868, $2,089,- 648 ; personal, $672,928. Horses, 2080; cattle, 9603 ; mules, 136; hogs, 3380; sheep, 5691; carriages, 163 ; watches, 215 ; pianos, 37 ; merchandise, $80,740 ; money and credits, $26,700. School districts, 69 ; houses, 47 ; value, $13,100; scholars, 4281; year's increase, 703. About 18 flour and saw mills-13 run by water ; and about 17 churches.
CITIES AND TOWNS .- ST. CLOUD, the county seat, 75 miles by rail from St. Paul, and 180 from Fort Aber- crombie, on Red River, has about 3000 population, two- thirds Germans, balance nearly all Americans, some Irish and English. It is the shipping point for 300 tons of Hudson Bay Company's goods ; supplies for forts Wadsworth and Abercrombie, and the trade of the Sauk River valleys ; is to have a line of steamers above and below next season ; is a point on one of the routes of the Northern Pacific Railroad, on a branch of the Superior and St. Paul Railroad, which has a land grant of 10 sec- tions to the mile ; on a road to St. Peter and Mankato, which has a grant of swamp lands, and on a road to Min- neapolis. It has a $40,000 bridge over the Mississippi ; is the site of a State Normal School ; has 12 dry goods stores, 12 grocery, 5 hardware, 6 shoe, 4 drug, 3 book, 3 jewelry, 3 furniture, 3 millinery, 3 agricultural imple- ment, 3 flour and feed, 3 meat, and 3 harness shops, doing $1,500,000 of business annually ; 5 lumber yards, breweries, a distillery, 2 steam saw mills, 3 sash, door and blind, 5 wagon, and 1 plow factory, 2 brick and lime yards, shops, 13 hotels, 18 saloons, a Catholic, Presby- terian, Methodist, Congregational, and Episcopal church,
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ST. LOUIS COUNTY.
Catholic cathedral costing $50,000, 9 lawyers, 4 doctors, and two weekly papers. Building improvements in 1868, $170,000.
SAUK CENTRE is one of the thrifty cities of five or six years' growth, with 1200 to 1500 inhabitants, 14 stores, brewery, grist mill, door and sash factory, 5 hotels, 6 saloons, a Congregational, Presbyterian, Methodist and Episcopal church, a good water-power, and a weekly paper. A heavy business is done here.
RICHMOND, ST. JOSEPH, COLD SPRING, FAIR HAVEN, and CLEARWATER are thriving villages, with each a number of business establishments and a small population.
POST OFFICES at Brockway, Clinton, George Lake, Kennebec, Kimball Prairie, Leedston, Luxemburg, Long Hill, Maine Prairie, Melrose, North Fork, New Munich, Paynesville, Rockville, St. Augusta, Spring Hill, Torah, Zions.
STEVENS COUNTY,
West of Pope, 16 townships, or about 370,000 acres ; gently rolling ; very rich ; fine meadows ; 47 lakes, and good running water ; timber rather scarce, but fine groves about the lakes. Land nearly all open to settlement, except about one-third owned by the Pacific Railroad, which passes through it. Population a few hundred, mostly Americans and Scandinavians.
ST. LOUIS COUNTY.
St. Louis County, on Lake Superior, with an area of about 6500 square miles, is a heavily timbered, rough,
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ST. LOUIS COUNTY.
mineral region, with 75 large lakes. (See " Northern Minnesota.") Population, 1860, 262 ; 1865, 292 ; 1869, 1500 to 2000. Vote for Grant, 66 ; Seymour, 20.
STATISTICS .- Land assessed, 81,549 acres ; value per acre, $2.10 ; school land, one-eighteenth. Assessed prop- erty, 1860, $76,186 ; 1868, $244,303. School districts, 3 ; houses, 1 ; value, $700 ; scholars, 103 ; year's increase, 21.
In this county are the Vermillion gold mines. Since writing of them in Part First, further developments and tests of the quartz mills and mines have not been en- couraging, and the prospect for profitable mining is not brilliant.
DULUTH, the county seat and principal town, the ter- minus of the Superior and Mississippi Railroad, on Lake Superior, has grown up within this year (1869) from 4 or 5 families to a population of over 1200; and lots from a nominal price to $1500 each. It has the United States land office, a hotel, Episcopal and Baptist church, 20 or 25 business houses, 3 or 4 lawyers, a bank, a weekly paper, real estate offices, and will in time make a large city.
FOND DU LAC is an old Indian trading post, located at the head of navigation on the St. Louis River ; has a settlement of about 100 souls, and is the nucleus of a good town.
ONEOTA, on St. Louis Bay, has a settlement of over 500 people, a saw mill, and other business establish- ments.
VERMILLION LAKE has a post office and small mining settlement. A large amount of money has been ex- pended here in testing the mines, and experiments are still going on.
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TODD COUNTY.
TODD COUNTY,
North of Stearns, west of Morrison, and east of Otter- tail, 24} townships, or over 560,000 acres ; mostly timber, prairie the exception ; southern and middle portion fair, rich sandy loam ; northern portion, lighter sandy soil, with groves of pine timber, numerous fine meadows adapted to grazing, and exceptional tracts of heavier soil. Fertile prairie 18 by 2 miles, east of Long Prairie River, Round Prairie 2 by 4 miles, and small prairies among the timber, in the southern portion. Considerable poplar and tamarac, as well as fine bodies of hard wood. Richest land in south-west corner, with upland meadows, yielding 2 and 3 tons per acre ; immense and innumerable meadows, as fine as any in the State, along the Long Prairie River, and the whole northern and eastern portion especially adapted to grazing ; meadows everywhere, and the yield of grass very large. Good water-power and 3 or 4 saw and grist mills, more wanted; 80 lakes ; fish without limit ; wild fruits, including cranberries, huckle- berries, and raspberries, in immense quantities. Good prairie and timber claims still open ; improved farms of 160 acres worth $2000 to $3000. Population, 1865, 117 ; 1867, 850; 1868, 1200; 1869, 1600; half Americans, balance Germans, with some Scotch, Irish, French, and others. Religion, Methodist, Catholic, and Covenanters.
STATISTICS .- Land assessed, 70,113 acres ; value, $1.94 per acre ; school land, one-eighteenth ; cultivated, 1867, 460 ; wheat raised, 4424 bushels ; homestead, 26,240. Assessed property, 1867, $153,225 ; 1868, $170,852; personal, $69,295. Horses, 169; cattle, 760; sheep, 264 ; hogs, 133; carriages, 6 ; watches, 42 ; money and credits, $1805. Schools, 9; houses, 5; value, $875 ; scholars, 296 ; year's increase, 37.
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WABASHA COUNTY.
POST OFFICES at Long Prairie and Round Prairie ; and a store and grist mill at Long Prairie. No doctor or lawyer in the county.
TRAVERSE COUNTY .- (See BIG STONE.)
WABASHA COUNTY,
On the Mississippi River, south-east of Goodhue, has 13 townships, or nearly 300,000 acres. A fine agricultural county, mainly prairie, with plenty of timber along the rivers and streams ; good water-power ; brick and stone for building ; lumber cheap ; price of land about like the adjoining counties of Winona and Goodhue. Population, 1860, 7191; 1865, 11,363; 1869, about 19,000 ; Ameri- cans, 11,000 ; Germans and Irish, 5000; Swedes and Norwegians, 1500 ; others, 1500. Vote for Grant, 1831 ; Seymour, 1143.
STATISTICS .- Land assessed, 286,157 acres ; value per acre, $4.72; school land, 2172; homestead, 17,870 ; under cultivation, 1867, 57,125 ; wheat product, 692,783 bushels. Assessed property, 1860, $941,985 ; 1865, $1,866,867 ; 1868, $2,686,924 ; personal, $1,005,856. Horses, 4455; cattle, 7490; mules, 129 ; sheep, 2556; hogs, 4122 ; carriages, 447; watches, 363 ; pianos, 37; merchandise, $130,280 ; money and credits, $75,610. School districts, 92 ; houses, 69 ; value, $45,360 ; scholars, 5067 ; year's increase, 710.
TOWNS AND VILLAGES .- WABASHA, the county seat, has over 2000 population-vote for President, 339-an Epis- copal, Catholic, Methodist, and Congregational church, a weekly paper, 5 lawyers, 3 doctors, about 15 stores, 4
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WASECA COUNTY.
hotels, door, sash, and blind, and agricultural implement factories, steam flouring mill, 17 saloons, &c.
LAKE CITY has about 3000 population-vote for Presi- dent, 508-an Episcopal, Catholic, Methodist, Congrega- tional, and Baptist church, a weekly paper, about 25 stores, a bank, 2 flouring mills, &c., &c. It claims to have shipped 502,283 bushels of wheat in 1868.
PLAINVIEW has about 1000 population, REEDS LANDING and MINNEISKA about 500, and MAZEPPA 350.
POST OFFICES .- Bear Valley, Cook's Valley, Elgin, Forest Mound, Glasgow, Gopher Prairie, Lincoln, Lyon, Melville, Mt. Pleasant, Old Abe, Pawseline, Smithfield, South Troy, Watopa, West Albany, West Chester, and Woodland.
WASECA COUNTY,
Between Steele and Blue Earth-similar in agricultural resources ; 12 townships, or about 276,000 acres ; 20 lakes. Population, 1860, 2599 ; 1865, 4174 ; 1869, over 8000 ; half Americans, quarter Irish, one-eighth Swedes and Norwegians, one-sixteenth Germans. Vote for Grant, 817; Seymour, 518.
STATISTICS .- Land assessed, 202,032 acres ; value per acre, $4.14 ; school land, 3000 ; cultivated, 1867, 14,312 ; wheat product, 118,855 bushels. Assessed property, 1860, $363,683 ; 1865, $582,816 ; 1868, $1,228,379 ; per- sonal, $430,164. Horses, 1443; cattle, 3983 ; mules, 18; sheep, 2721; hogs, 1813 ; carriages, 252 ; watches, 87 ; pianos, 5 ; merchandise, $36,320 ; money and credits, $23,189. School districts, 72 ; houses, 50 ; value, $15,341 ; scholars, 2493 ; year's increase, 259.
VILLAGES .- WASECA, on the railroad, a two-year-old town, has a weekly paper, 6 hotels, 16 stores, 5 produce
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WASHINGTON COUNTY.
dealers, and other establishments, 3 lawyers, several churches, and is a flourishing village.
WILTON, the county seat, has 5 or 6 stores, 3 hotels, 3 lawyers, 2 doctors, a weekly paper, churches, &c.
POST OFFICES .- Blooming Grove, Cobb River, Janes- ville, Marine, Okaman, Pedlar's Grove, and Vivian.
WASHINGTON COUNTY,
East of Ramsey and bordering 40 miles on the St. Croix, has over 10 townships, or 230,000 acres ; 3 or 4 town- ships in the southern part of first-rate soil, prairie and oak openings ; heavy timber in the north-east; large meadows in the north-west ; and the central part broken, oak openings of second-rate quality. Price of land, $3 to $50 per acre. Over 40 lakes. Brick, stone, and lumber for building. Population, 1849, over 1000 ; 1860, 6105; 1865, 6780; 1869, about 11,000. Americans, 5000 ; Germans, 1500; Irish, 1650; Swedes and Nor- wegians, 1800; Canadians, 600; English, 150; Scotch, 150; French, 150. - Vote for Grant, 1061; Seymour, 707.
' STATISTICS .- Land assessed, 241,976 ; value per acre, $5.24 ; school land, 6966 ; cultivated, 1867, 41,047 acres ; . wheat produced, 376,445 bushels. Assessed property, 1860, $2,012,320 ; 1865, $1,802,372; 1868, $3,043,191; personal, $1,050,754. Horses, 2168 ; cattle, 4628 ; mules, 126; sheep, 3486 ; hogs, 2596 ; carriages, 248 ; watches, 325 ; pianos, 50; merchandise, $258,508; money and credits, $135,528. School districts, 48; houses, 44 ; value, $28,275 ; scholars, 3020 ; year's increase, 387.
CITIES AND TOWNS .- STILLWATER, the county seat, had 609 population in 1849; 1865, 2145; and 1869, about
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WATONWAN COUNTY.
4000 ; four-tenths American, two-tenths Irish, two-tenths German, one-tenth Scandinavian, one-tenth French, Scotch, &c. Eight leading houses sell $1,575,000 worth of goods per year. Exports of lumber, 1868, 41,000,000 feet ; logs, 89,000,000 ; leaving in boom, 15,000,000. Value, at $12 for logs and $15 for lumber, at Stillwater, $1,668,- 000. 225 rafts left Stillwater in 1868, requiring each 23 men. The St. Croix pineries give employment to 6000 men.
Expended for building, 1868, for a court house $50,000, total expenditure, $171,000. Assessed property : real estate, $539,000 ; personal, $472,000.
Forty-eight inmates of the Penitentiary produce an- nually $50,000 of tubs, buckets and barrels. There are 3 steam saw mills, 1 water mill, 1 flouring mill, 45 busi- ness houses, 7 lawyers, 6 doctors, 1 bank, 2 Presbyterian churches, 2 Catholic, 1 Episcopal, and 1 Methodist ; 3 hotels, 10 or 12 saloons, 4 livery stables, &c.
MARINE MILLS had 173 population in 1849, and now has over 300.
AFTON, LAKELAND, and POINT DOUGLAS are the neuclei of small villages.
POST OFFICES .- Cottage Grove, Lohmansville, Newport, and Oakdale.
WATONWAN COUNTY,
Next west of Blue Earth ; gently rolling prairies of dark, rich soil; 12 townships, or 276,480 acres ; 20 lakes ; timber around the lakes and water courses-heavy bodies in north-east, scarce in west. Population, 1865, 249 ; 1869, about 2000 ; half Norwegians, 700 Americans, 300 Germans, Irish, &c. Vote for Grant, 199 ; Seymour, 57.
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WINONA COUNTY.
STATISTICS .-- Lands assessed, 19,530 acres ; $3.36 per acre ; school land, 16,796 ; under cultivation, 1241 acres ; wheat product, 13,806 bushels. Assessed property, 1865, $72,724; 1868, $118,261 ; personal, $63,566. Horses, 239; cattle, 964; mules, 8; sheep, 511; hogs, 113; carriages, 7; watches, 20; merchandise, $2500 ; money and credits, $910. School districts, 7 ; houses, 1 ; value, $500; scholars, 446 ; increase, 220.
VILLAGES .- MADELIA, the county seat, is on the line of the Sioux City Railroad, and will be reached in 1870, has 4 stores, 2 of which each sell $50 worth of goods per day ; a fine flouring mill and saw mills, 2 saloons, shops, &c., a Methodist and Baptist church society, and a Masonic lodge.
POST OFFICES .- Antrim and Norwegeon.
WINONA COUNTY.
Area 400,000 acres ; eastern portions broken, with fertile and extensive valleys ; western and middle rich rolling prairies ; heavy growth of oak along the river bluffs ; dense bodies of hard wood in the south-eastern townships ; well watered ; limestone, brick, and lumber for building ; fine natural meadows; and good water- power. Price of wild land, $2 to $6 and $12; improved, $10 to $50-average, $20. Population, 1847, 1; 1851, 5 or 6 ; 1852, 200 ; 1854, 800 ; 1860, 9756 ; 1865, 15,638 ; 1869, 23,000 ; two-thirds Americans, balance Germans, Irish, Scotch, English, Norwegians, and others ; Ger- mans predominating. Flouring mills (water,) 18, be- sides saw mills ; churches, over 20.
STATISTICS .- Land assessed, 373,177 acres ; $4.83 per acre ; school land, 5925 ; cultivated, 1867, 74,054 acres ;
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WINONA COUNTY.
wheat product, 748,172 bushels. Assessed property, 1860, $2,241,710 ; 1865, $2,285,436 ; 1868, $4,405,462 ; personal, $1,350,462. Horses, 4663; cattle, 8692; mules, 119 ; sheep, 4013 ; hogs, 4157; carriages, 600 ; watches, 277 ; pianos, 68 ; merchandise, $383,316 ; money and credits, $235,474. School districts, 104 ; houses, 87; value, $99,151 ; scholars, 7025 ; year's increase, 415.
CITIES AND VILLAGES .- WINONA, the third city in popu- lation and claiming to be second in commercial import- ance, is beautifully located on a prairie 9 miles by 3, is the terminus of the Winona and St. Peter Railroad, the Winona Eastern connection with the Milwaukee and St. Paul, and several other projected roads ; and is the river outlet for a large portion of Minnesota and Wisconsin. It is the fourth primary grain market in the United States, being next to Milwaukee, Chicago, and Toledo.
Grain Trade .- Exports of wheat, and flour reduced to wheat, 1859, 130,000 bushels ; 1868, 2,432,086 ; barley, 77,702 bushels.
Railroad and River Business .- Received by rail, 1868, 68,670 tons. Four daily lines of steamboats ; 1869 ar- rivals up and down. Navigation from March 21st to December 8th.
General Business .- 1868, dry goods about $600,000; groceries, 2 houses, wholesale, $500,000 ; hardware, $300,000 ; boots and shoes, $150,000 ; clothing, $125,000 ; drugs, $175,000 ; liquors, $80,000 ; furniture, $50,000; lumber, $600,000 ; agricultural implements, $644,130.
Manufactures .- Two flouring and 2 saw mills, 2 foun- dries and 1 railroad car and machine shop, 6 sash and door, 1 steam pump, 1 furniture, 7 wagon and carriage, 3 fanning mill, 1 agricultural implement, 1 patent fence, and 3 cigar manufactories, are the principal establish- ments.
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WINONA COUNTY.
Population .- 1853, 60; 1855, 800; 1860, 2900 ; 1865, 4439 ; 1866, 5760 ; 1867, 6550 ; 1868, 7560 ; 1869, about 9000. Vote for Grant, 745 ; Seymour, 761.
Assessed Property .- 1867, $1,369,000 ; 1868, $2,080,- 000. Assessed at 45 per cent. of cash value.
Building Improvements .- In 1867 cost $304,375 ; 1868, $455,790-$106,650 being for brick stores and business houses.
Price of. Lots .- Best business lots, $100 to $150 per foot ; residence lots, in best part of city, $150 to $800- a few choice at $1000 to $1200.
Churches .- Thirteen, costing $100,000, and represent- ing all the leading denominations, besides 1 Unitarian, 1 Advent Christian, 1 German Presbyterian, 1 Evangelical Association.
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