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R. 866
Green Lake
879
896
215
D.
17
1739
2348
R.
303
Iowa.
802
391
521
R.
411
1507
718:
R,
789
Jackson
1917
2418
296
D.
201
2874
4134
D. 1260
Jefferson
1045
883
463
R.
162
1714
1458
R. 256
Juneau
938
907
51
R.
31
1610
1432
R. 178
Kewaunee
247
558
201
D.
311
561
1654|
D. 1093
La Crosse
1409
1300
269
R.
109
2424
2299
R, 125
La Fayette.
27
15
169
G.
142
71
174
3908|
D. 1208
Manitowoc.
301
755
746
D.
454
668
1796
D. 1128
Marquette.
5843
6388
1228
D.
545
9981
12026
D. 2045
Monroe
1102
1096
1019
R.
6
2558
2030
R. 528
Oconto.
1059
764
157
R.
295
1813
1174
R. 639
Outagamie.
777
2005
992
D. 1228
1859
3608
D. 1749
Ozaukee
437
1579
17
D. 1142
583
5480
D. 1897
Pepin.
521
171
123
R.
350
836
394
R. 447
Pierce.
1523
545
408
R. 978
2135
985
R. 1152
Polk ...
916
363
60
R.
553
1019
362
R. 650
Portage
1080
917
728
R.
163
1855
1794
R. 61
2304
1906
112|
R.
3981
3560
2880| R.
680
Racine.
1968
1115
524
R.
853
2644
2481
R. 163
Lincoln
1365
1951
98
D.
586
2700
Marathon.
447
730
76
D.
283
697
1112
D. 415
Milwaukee.
1461
1175
1021
R.
286
2651
1514 R. 225
Kenosha.
D. 108
Door
307
GUBERNATORIAL AND PRESIDENTIAL VOTES-1877-1876-Continued.
COUNTIES-Continued.
Smith.
Mallory.
Allis.
Maj.
Hayes.
Tilden.
Maj.
Richland
1201
729
705
R. 472
2038
1591
R. 447
Rock
3375
1620
781
R. 1755
5755
2814
R. 2893
St. Croix.
1558
1489
93
R.
70
1775
1736
R. 39
Sauk
1826
922
574
R.
904
3395
2201
R. 1194
8hawano
269|
605
92
D.
336
582
873
D. 291
Sheboygan.
1598
1737
750
D. " 139
3224
3633
D. 409
Taylor.
195
254
53
D.
59
240
246
6
Trempealeau
2483
731
176
R. 1452
2360
790 R. 1570
Vernon.
1678
416
846
R. 1262
2764
1117| R. 1647
Walworth
2904
1374
160
R. 1530
4212
1970
R. 2242
Washington
994
2187
187
D. 1993
1321
3047
D. 1726
Waukesha.
2484
2388
276
R.
96
3129
3335
D. 206
Waupaca ..
1473
990
772
R.
483
2642
1592 R. 1050
Waushara
1282
257
377
R. 1025
2080
548
R. 1582
Winnebago
2068
2238
1887
D.
170
5092
4426| R. 666
Wood.
247
196
601
G 354|
658
745
D.
87
CITIES.
Appleton .:.
231
522
201
D.
291
549
911
D. 362
Beaver Dam
320
361
6
D.
41
357
465
D. 108
Beloit
377
109
240
R.
268
745
627
R. 118
Buffalo
25
17
R.
8
14
31
D.
17
Centralia
16
5 97
G.
81
64
93
D.
29
Chilton
31
128
33
D.
97 65
475
572 D.
97
Columbus ...
210
123
3
R.
87
254
212
R. 42
Eau Claire,
620
459
250
161
1205
1013. R.
189
Fond du Lac ..
862
884
520
D. 22
1382
1542 D.
160
Fort Howard.
150
85
195
G. 45
669
191
D.
70
Green Bay.
432
333
181
R.
99
696
647
R.
26
Janesville
771
605
31/
R. 166|
1036
1 848
R.
188
Kenosha
281
314
42
D. 33
514
544
D. 30
La Crosse
712
671
351
41
1085
1549
D. 464
Madison.
740
1057
13
D.
317
834
1252
D. 418
Manitowoc
349
284
17
R.
61
660
512
R.
148
Menasha
146
311
67
D.
165
291
344
D.
53
Milwaukee.
4816
5027
1050
D.
211
8218
9625
D. 1407
Mineral Point
260
249
21
R.
11
348
324
R. 24
Neenah
115
146
376
G.
230
511
385
R. 126
Oconomowoc
172
167
24
R.
5
222
238
D.
16
Oshkosh
724
954
375
D.
230
1496
1910
D.
414
Plymouth
69
127
28
D.
58
Portage
245
405
7
D.
160
366
532
D. 166
Prairie du Chien
155
267
3
D.
112
215
377
D. 162
Prescott
87
61
10
R.
26
143
108
R.
35
Racine ..
1052
921
82
R.
131
1672
1324
R. 348
Ripon
270
239
33
R.
31
397
333
R. 64
Shawano
55
73
13
D
18
87
83
R.
4
Sheboyga
248
440
68
D.
192
575
873
D. 298
Stevens Point.
252
270
145
D.
18
423
563
D. 140
Watertown
232|
687
164
D.
445
372
1295
D. 923
Waupaca.
210|
49
20
R.
161
280
52
R. 228
Wausau
76
170
300 G.
130|
210
595 D.
385
Berlin
219
197
36|
R.
22
456
312
R. 144
Chippewa Falls.
229
294
143
D.
R.
G.
60
121
Hudson ..
226
207
3
R.
19
250
224
R.
81
Grand Rapids.
50
42
110
D.
41
206
208
D.
2
Oconto.
270
311
6
D.
41
399
506
D. 107
New London
84
125
118
R.
288|
R. 49
D.
GOVERNOR. 1877.
PRESIDENT. 1876.
POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES.
Miles
STATES AND TERRITORIES.
square Miles.
1870.
1875.
1872.
STATES AND TERRITORIES.
Area in square Miles.
1870,
1875.
R. R. 1872.
States.
50,722
996,992
1,671
Pennsylvania.
46,000
8,521,791 217,358
258,239
136
California.
188,981
560,247
1,013
South Carolina ..
29,385
705,606
925,145
1.201
Connecticut.
4.674
537,454
820
Tennessee.
45,600
1,258,620
1,520
Delaware.
2,120
125,015
227
Texas ..
237,504
818,579
885
Florida,.
59,268
187,748
466
Vermont
10,212
330,551
675
Virginia.
40,904
1,225,163
1.490
West Virginia
23,000
442,014
'485
Wisconsin
53,924
1,054,670
1,236,729
1,725
Towa ..
55,045
1,191.792 1,350,544 3,160
Total States
1,950,171 38,113,253
59,587
Kentucky
37,600
1,321,011
1,123
Louisiana
41,346
726,915|
639
Territories.
Maine ...
31,776
626,915
871
Arizona
113,916
9,658
Maryiand
11,184
780,894
820
Colorado.
104,500
39,864
892
Massachusetts.
7,800 1,457,351 1,651,912
Dakota
147,490
14,181
Michigan*
56,451
1,184,059 1,834,031
Dist. of Columbia.
60
131,700
Minnesota.
83,531
439,706
598,429
Idaho.
90,932
14,999
Mississippi.
47,156
827,922
Montana.
143,776
20,595
65,350
1,721,295
New Mexico
121,201
91,874
75,995
123,993
828
Utah
80,056
86,786
375
Washington.
69,944
23,955
9,118
498
New Jersey
8,320
906,096 1,026,502 1,265
New York
47,000 4,382,759 4,705,208
4,470
North Carolina ..
50,704 1.071,361
1,190
Ohio ..
39.964 2,665,260
3,740
Oregon
95,244
90,923|
159
* Last Census of Michigan taken in 1874.
* Included in the Railroad Mileage of Marylar d.
PRINCIPAL COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD ; POPULATION AND AREA.
COUNTRIES.
Population.
Date of Censns.
Area in Square Miles.
Inhabitants to Square Mile.
CAPITALS.
Population.
China
446,500,000
1871
3,741,846
119.3
Pekin.
1,648,800
British Empire.
226,817,108
1871
4,677,432
48.6
London.
3,251,800
Russia ..
81,925,400
1871
8,003,778
10.2
St. Petersburg
667,000
United States with Alaska ...
38,925,600
1870
2,603,884
7.78
Washington
109,199
France ..
36,469.800
1866
204,091
178.7
Paris ..
1,825,300
Austria and Hungary Japan ..
34,785,300
1871
149,399
232.8
Yeddo ..
1,554,900
Great Britain and Ireland
31,817,100
1871
121,315
262.3
London
3,251,800
German Empire
29,906,092
1871
160,207
187.
Berlin
825,400
Italy .
27,439,921
1871
118,847
230.9
Rome.
244,484
Spain
16,642,000
1867
195 775
85.
Madrid
332,000
Brazii.
10,000,000
3,253,029
3.07
Rio Janeiro.
420,000
Turkey
16,463,000
672.621
24.4
Constantinopic
1,075,000
Mexico.
9,173,000
1869
761,526
Mexico
210,300
Sweden and Norway
5,921,500
1870
292,871
20.
Stockholm
136,900
Persia.
5,000,000
1870
635,964
7.8
Teheran.
120,000
Belginm.
5,021,300
1669
11,373
441.6
Brusseis.
314,100
Bavaria.
4,861,400
1871
29,292
165.9
169,500
Portngai
3,995,200
1868
34,494
115.8
Holland
3,688,300
1870
12,680
290.9
Hague ..
90,100
New Grenada.
3,000,000
1870
357,157
8.4
Bogota ..
45,000
Chili
2,000,000
1869
132,616
15.1
Santiago.
115,400
Switzerland
2,669,100
1870
15,992
166.9
Berne.
36,000
Pern.
2,500,000
1871
471,838
5.3 4.
Chuquisaca ..
25,000
Argentine Republic.
1,812,000
1869
871,848
2.1
Buenos Ayres
177,800
Wurtemburg
1,818,500
1871
7,533
Stuttgart
91,600
Denmark.
1,784,700
1870
14,753
120.9
Copenhagen.
162,042
Venezuela.
1,500,000
368,238
4.2
Caraccas
47,000
Baden.
1,461,400
5,912
247.
Carlsruhe
36,600
Guatemala
1,180,000
1871
40,879
5.9
Quito
70,000
Paraguay.
1,000,000
1871
63,787
Asuncion.
48,000
Hesse
823,138 718,000
1871
9,576
74.9
Monrovia
3,000
San Salvador.
600,000
1871
7,335
81.8
Sal Salvador
15,000
Hayti
572,000
10,205
56.
Port an Prince.
20,000
Nicaragua
350,000
1871
58,171
6.
Managna.
10,000
Urngnay ..
300,000
1871
66,722
6.5
Monte Video
44,500
Honduras
350,000
1871
47,092
7.4
Comayagua
12,000
San Domingo
136,000
17,827
7.6
San Domingo.
20,000
Costa Rica.
165,000
1870
21,505
7.7
San Jose ..
2.000
Hawaii.
62.950
7.633
80.
lionoinin.
7,688
Arkansas ..
52,198
484,471
25
Rhode Isiand.
1,306
Georgia.
58,000 1,184,109
2,108
Illinois
55,410 2,539,891
5,904
Indiana.
33,809 1,680,637
3,529
Kansas
81,318
364,399
528,349
1,760
857,039
2,235
990
Missouri.
2,580
Nevada.
112,090
42,491
52,540
593
New Hampshire.
9,280
318,300
790
Wyoming
93,107
Total Territories.
965,032
442,730
1,265
Aggregate of U. S .. 2,915,203 38,555,983
60,85.3
Area in
POPULATION.
Miles R. R.
POPULATION.
States.
5,118
Alabama.
Greece ..
1,457,900
19,353
75.3 28.9
Athens.
Guatemala
40,000
Ecuador.
1,300,000
218,928
15.6 277.
Darmstadt
30,000
Liberia
2,000,000
497,321
Lima.
160,100
Bolivia ..
35,904,400
1869
240,348
149.4
Vienna
833,900
1,606
1,612
Nebraska
246,280
Munich Lisbon
224,063
241.4
1871 1870
43,400
2,969
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( DECEASED ) FIRST SETTLER OF DANE COUNTY. BLUE MOUNDS.
HISTORY OF DANE COUNTY.
CHAPTER I.
.
AREA AND POSITION OF DANE COUNTY-DRAINAGE-TOPOGRAPHICAL FEATURES-GEOLOGICAL FORMATIONS-ELEVATIONS OF DIFFERENT POINTS IN THE COUNTY-RIVERS-LAKES-NATURAL MOUNDS AND SINK-HOLES-THE VERONA CAVE.
AREA AND POSITION OF DANE COUNTY.
Dane is one of the largest counties in the settled portion of the State, having a total area of twelve hundred and thirty-seven square miles. Its shape is that of an almost perfect rectangle, the northwest corner of which is cut off by the Wisconsin River. From north to south it measures thirty miles, including the five tiers of townships numbered 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. From east to west it measures forty-two miles, including Ranges 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 east. It embraces thirty-five townships, two of which are fractional (Township 5, in Ranges 6 and 7 east). The county has a position about midway between the Mississippi and Lake Michigan, its western line being sixty-three miles from the former, its eastern line fifty-seven miles from the latter. Its southern line is twenty-four miles north of the Illinois State line. On the north of Dane are the counties of Sauk and Columbia ; on the east, the counties of Dodge and Jefferson ; on the south, those of Rock and Green ; on the west, the county of Iowa.
DRAINAGE.
With the exception of an area of about one hundred and twenty square miles in the north- west that drains toward the Wisconsin, the drainage of the whole county is shed southward and eastward, through different channels, into Rock River. This result is due to the fact that nearly the whole area lies on the south side of the limestone dividing ridge that limits the valley of the Wisconsin on the south. This high limestone prairie belt, which separates the systems of the Rock and Wisconsin Rivers, crosses Green Lake County in a south-southwest direction, enters Columbia County on the north line of the towns of Scott and Randolph, crosses the county in a line gradually veering to the west, and enters Dane County on the north side of the town of Vienna, trends thence south of west across the town of Dane, and then, bending more to the south, passes through the adjoining portions of the towns of Roxbury, Berry, Springfield, Middleton and Cross Plains, and leaves the county on the west side of the last- named town. The ridge has a general altitude of five hundred to six hundred feet, and a width sometimes of a whole township, but on both sides is rendered quite irregular by erosion, the the northern side especially projecting in long, bold points into the valley of the Wisconsin. The summit of the ridge is largely occupied by prairie-a continuation of the prairie belt that characterizes the same ridge in its passage across Columbia County-and has always, except in the towns of Middleton and Cross Plains, the Lower Magnesian as the surface rock. In these towns it rises into the St. Peter's and Trenton horizons.
In the northern portions of the towns of Middleton, Cross Plains, Berry and Mazomanie, the dividing ridge is cut entirely through by a valley half a mile to a mile in width, eighteen
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HISTORY OF DANE COUNTY.
miles in length, and one hundred to two hundred feet in depth, which connects the ground about the west end of Lake Mendota with that bordering the Wisconsin. The highest point of the valley is eighty-five feet above Lake Mendota, and in it are streams running in either direction. Black Earth River, the larger of the two, which runs westward to the Wisconsin, heads within three miles of the lake, and at only eighty feet above its level. It has been suggested that this valley indicates a former outlet, westward to the Wisconsin, of the Four Lakes. It is not impossible that such an outlet may have existed, but there is nothing in the structure of the region to show that we have here anything else than a case where two systems of erosion have approached one another until the dividing ridge has been partially broken down. South of Black Earth River, the high ground comes in again, and, taking a turn westward, to accord with the changed direction of the Wisconsin River, passes out of the county.
To the north and west, in the towns of Dane, Roxbury and Berry, the dividing ridge presents a very abrupt escarpment, which projects in long, bold points into the valley of the Wisconsin. Beyond the escarpment the low ground is occupied by numerous ontlying patches of the high country, of varying sizes, similar to those occurring in the adjoining towns of West Point, Lodi and others, in Columbia County.
Southward from the dividing ridge there is a general and much more gradual descent to the south and east, conforming with the descent in those directions of the underlying strata. West of a line drawn centrally north and south through the county, the general descent of both the country surface and strata is southward only. East of such a line, the line of greatest descent veers more and more to the eastward, until, along the northern part of the east line of the county, it is almost wholly in that direction. The drainage system corresponds with this general structure. In the northeast, in the towns of York, Bristol, Sun Prairie and Medina, the drain- age is eastward into Waterloo Creek. Farther south, in the towns of Cottage Grove, Deerfield, aud Christiana, the drainage is also eastward toward Koshkonong Creek, which itself has a general southerly direction. In the central part of the county, the drainage along the Yahara Valley is in a southeasterly direction, whilst farther west the Sugar River system runs almost exactly southward. In minor detail, of course, the directions of the streams are due to other causes.
TOPOGRAPHICAL FEATURES.
The valley of the Yahara, with its chain of lakes, is the central topographical feature of the county. The head-waters of the Yahara are a number of small streams which rise on the south side of the divide, in the towns of Springfield, Dane, Vienna and Windsor, and come together in the southern part of the town of Westport. From here to the junction with the Rock River, the valley has a southeasterly course, a length of twenty-seven miles, and a width, from high ground to high ground, of from four to nine miles. Its surface lies generally at from 250 to 300 feet above Lake Michigan, but is quite irregular, the irregularity being largely due to considerable accumulations of drift, but also to the occurrence of small rock outliers and to the projection into the valley, on either side, of low rock ridges. These have a general northeast- southeast trend, and tend to divide the valley into more or less separate parallel cross-valleys, which are very marked, and are doubtless to be attributed to the movement over the country of glacier ice, to which cause also is to be assigned the linear nature of the topography of all the eastern part of the county. The several lakes of the region about Madison are expansions of the Yahara Valley into such cross-valleys, the ridges between which here run entirely across the main valley, though not formed throughout of rock material. Lake Mendota occupies two of the cross-valleys, partially separated by the low ridge of Picnic Point and McBride's Point (" Maple Bluff"). Lake Monona lies in one similar valley, which extends far to the southwest- ward, and holds also the smaller body of water known as Lake Wingra. Further south, the glacial movement had a more nearly southerly direction, and the directions of the cross-valleys correspond. There is no prairie in the Yahara Valley proper. Along the head-steams, in the towns of Springfield, Westport and Burke, there are marshes of considerable extent.
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HISTORY OF DANE COUNTY.
Immediately east of the Yahara Valley the country lies higher, but soon sinks again, descending with the eastward descent of the strata, this part of the county running from 240 to 400 feet in altitude. Here we find a gently undulating surface, the ridges having a flowing contour, and all topographical features showing the linear direction induced by the glacial move- ment. Numerous narrow and linear marsh strips are found on the lowest portions, while prairies of some size occur on the highest, being for the most part underlaid by limestone.
On the west side of the valley of the Yahara is a high and hilly belt of country, from 400 to 600 feet in altitude, which extends southward from the town of Middleton along the adjoining parts of the towns of Verona, Fitchburg, Oregon and Montrose. Crossing the divide, in the Sugar River Valley, we find ourselves in an entirely different looking country, one where all irregularities are due solely to subaerial erosion ; where the ridges are high and bold, and the branch valleys ramifying, narrow and steep-sided. The two main branches of the Sugar River separate on the southern line of the town of Montrose, one setting back in a more westerly direction than the other. Both have numerous branch streams, each of which has its steep- sided, flat-bottomed ravine. Here the ridges rise to 500 or 600 feet in altitude, and are nearly always occupied by fertile prairie, while the valley bottoms stand at 300 to 400, are wooded with a growth of small oaks, and show, rarely, narrow strips of marsh.
As to the fertility of soil, Dane County ranks as one of the best in the State. The prairies, found for the most part on the higher ground, owe their special fertility, usually, to the under- lying limestone; but the low ground of the Yahara Valley, though often on the upper sand layers of the Potsdam series, has everywhere an excellent soil, which it owes to alluvial deposi- tions or to the drift materials. A poor soil is seen only on the low grounds adjoining the Wis- consin River, where the sand comes from the Potsdam sandstone. The St. Peters sandstone rarely affects the soil over any considerable area. East of the drift limit it is buried beneath drift materials, while west of the same line it appears only on the steep sides of ravines. The prevailing timber of Dane County is small oak, occurring in patches or groves, constituting what are known as " oak openings."
GEOLOGICAL FORMATIONS.
The Dane County list of geological formations includes nearly the whole Wisconsin series. The Cincinnati and Niagara, however, occur only on the Blue Mounds, and in the western tier of towns of the county. The Archaan does not come to the surface in the county, but the artesian borings at Madison reached it at some 800 feet below the surface, and 480 feet below the level of Lake Michigan, at which point a dark-gray feldspathic rock is struck. Into this, one of the wells penetrates for 187 feet, reaching a point 667 feet below Lake Michigan and 82 below the level of the sea. The Potsdam sandstone comes to the surface along the valley of the Wisconsin, and along the bottoms of a number of smaller tributary valleys in the towns of Dane, Roxbury, Berry and Cross Plains. It is also at the surface over a considerable area at the head of the Yahara Valley and in the bottoms of branch valleys in Springfield, Westport, Windsor, Burke and other towns; but in all this area only the uppermost layers of the formation are at the surface. The Mendota and Madison beds are the surface rocks over a large portion of the valley of the Yahara, reaching from the south side of Lake Monona to the south side of Lake Kegonsa. These layers are at surface along some of the valley-bottoms of Northern Middleton, Southern Springfield, and adjoining towns, as also on the flanks of the higher ground and outliers that border the valley of the Wisconsin. The total thickness of the two layers in Dane County is about seventy feet. The Lower Magnesian limestone forms the upper part of all the dividing ridges of the north part of the county. It forms, also, the flanks of the high ground on both sides of the Yahara Valley, whose bottom it becomes in the region south of Lake Kegonsa. It comes up again underneath the low, marshy ground that borders Water- loo Creek in the towns of York, Bristol, Sun Prairie and Medina, its eastern descent having carried it here far below the altitudes at which it is found on the west side of the county. It lies
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also at the bottom of the valley of Sugar River and its numerous branch valleys, crowns the outlying bluffs of the Wisconsin Valley, and occurs also in several small isolated patches within the Potsdam area of the valley of the Yahara.
The thickness of the Lower Magnesian in Dane County seems rarely to be more than eighty feet, whilst its very irregular upper surface brings it often into the horizon of the next formation above. The St. Peters sandstone occupies a large tract on the east side of the Yahara Valley, where it appears to be never more than fifty feet in thickness. It is found, also, form- ing a narrow band around the Trenton area of the towns of York, Bristol and Windsor. West of the valley of the Yahara, it occupies much of the high ground forming the divide from the valley of the Sugar River. In the last-named valley and its branches, the St. Peters forms the lower part of the bluff sides, having its full thickness of eighty to ninety feet. It occurs also in sev- eral detached areas in the high country north of Black Earth Creek. The Trenton limestone occurs in detached areas, mostly of considerable size, capping the high ground on both sides of the Yahara Valley. Some of the areas, however, are quite large, covering one or two townships, as in Middleton, Christiana and Albion. In the towns of Springdale and Primrose, the narrow ridges between the streams carry the whole thickness of the Trenton limestone, being at times capped by the Galena. For the most part, the Trenton areas of Dane County include only the lower part of that formation. The Galena limestone occurs only as a capping on the higher parts of the ridges of the towns of Springdale and Primrose and in two or three small areas in the town of Christiana.
ELEVATIONS OF DIFFERENT POINTS IN THE COUNTY.
Chicago & North- Western Railway .- East Madison depot, 264 feet; station 60,t road crossing, 266 feet ; station 130, 273 feet ; station 175, summit, 305 feet ; station 262, summit, 325 feet; station 277, deep cut, surface, 355 feet; station 315, surface, Catfish Marsh, 255 feet ; station 315, grade, 277 feet ; station 400, 285 feet ; station 458, grade, 323 feet ; station 458, surface, 310 feet; station 520, Waunakee, 341 feet; station 570, 341 feet; station 667, surface, 369 feet ; station 667, grade, 395 feet ; station 787, Dane depot, 477 feet ; station 900, 365 feet ; station 1002, surface of creek, 233 feet; station 1002, grade, 267 feet.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway .- West line Section 12, Township 8, Range 12 east (Medina), 272 feet; west line Section 11, Township 8, Range 12 east (Medina), 280 feet ; Marshall depot, 286 feet; west line Section 10, Township 8, Range 12 east (Medina), 286 feet; west line Section 4, Township 8, Range 12 east (Medina), 278 feet ; Deanville depot, 305 feet ; west line Section 5, Township 8, Range 12 east (Medina), 295 feet; west line section 6, Town- ship 8, Range 12 east (Medina), 377 feet ; west line Section 1, Township 8, Range 11 east (Sun Prairie), 315 feet ; west line Section 2, Township 8, Range 11 east (Sun Prairie), 374 feet; west line Section 3, Township 8, Range 11 east (Sun Prairie), 393 feet ; west line Section 4, Township 8, Range 11 east (Sun Prairie), 369 feet; Sun Prairie depot, 356 feet; west line Section 8, Township 8, Range 11 east (Sun Prairie), 349 feet ; west line Section 18, Township 8, Range 11 east (Sun Prairie), 341 feet ; south line Section 13, Township 8, Range 10 east (Burke), 353 feet ; west line Section 24, Township 8, Range 10 east (Burke), 355 feet ; south line Section 23, Township 8, Range 10 east (Burke), 322 feet; west line Section 26, Township 8, Range 10 east (Burke), 321 feet ; west line Section 34, Township 8, Range 10 east (Burke), 277 feet ; south line Section 33, Township 8, Range 10 east (Burke), 270 feet ; west line Sec- tion 5, Township 7, Range 10 east (Burke), 286 feet; East Madison depot, 268 feet; West Madison depot, 275 feet ; Lake Monona (Third Lake), 262 feet; Lake Mendota (Fourth Lake), 270 feet.
Middle west line Section 32, Township 5, Range 12 east (Albion), 275 feet; middle north line Section 31, Township 5, Range 12 east (Albion), 284 feet ; east line southeast quarter
* The elevations given in this article are altitudes above Lake Michigan. By adding 589 feet to those of any given polnt, the result will be the elevatioo above the ocean.
. Stations are 100 feet apart, beginning with East Madison depot as zero.
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Section 25, Township 5, Range 11 east (Dunkirk), 297 feet; west line southeast quarter Sec- tion 25, Township 5, Range 11 east (Dunkirk), 285 feet ; west line Section 25, Township 5, Range 11 east (Dunkirk), 285 feet; north line Section 26, Township 5, Range 11 east (Dun- kirk), 272 feet ; north line northeast quarter Section 23, Township 5, Range 11 east (Dunkirk), 269 feet; west line northeast quarter Section 15, Township 5, Range 11 east (Dunkirk), 280 feet ; south line southeast quarter Section 9, Township 5, Range 11 east (Dunkirk), 273 feet ; middle west line Section 9, Township 5, Range 11 east (Dunkirk), 279 feet; Stoughton depot, 279 feet ; south line Section 32, Township 6, Range 11 east (Pleasant Springs), 290 feet ; north line section 32, Township 6, Range 11 east (Pleasant Springs), 294 feet ; north line Section 29, Township 6, Range 11 east (Pleasant Springs), 267 feet ; north line Section 20, Township 6, Range 11 east (Pleasant Springs), 267 feet ; middle west line Section 17, Township 6, Range 11 east (Pleasant Springs), 278 feet ; north line Section 18, Township 6, Range 11 east (Pleas- ant Springs), 275 feet ; west line Section 7, Township 6, Range 11 east (Pleasant Springs), 269 feet ; south line Section 1, Township 6, Range 10 east (Dunn), 273 feet ; west line Section 1, Township 6, Range 10 east (Dunn), 282 feet; west line southeast quarter Section 2, Township 6, Range 10 east (Dunn), 296 feet ; McFarland depot, 289 feet; south line Section 34, Town- ship 7, Range 10 east (Blooming Grove), 292 feet ; west line Section 34, Township 7, Range 10 east (Blooming Grove), 276 feet; west line northeast quarter Section 33, Township 7, Range 10 east (Blooming Grove), 265 feet ; west line Section 28, Township 7, Range 10 east (Bloom- ing Grove), 265 feet ; west line Section 29, Township 7, Range 10 east (Blooming Grove), 265 feet ; west line Section 30, Township 7, Range 10 east (Blooming Grove), 270 feet; north line Section 36, Township 7, Range 9 east (Madison), 267 feet ; West Madison depot, 275 feet ; west line northeast quarter Section 22, Township 7, Range 9 east (Madison), 291 feet; west line northeast quarter Section 21, Township 7, Range 9 east (Madison), 291 feet ; west line Sec- tion 16, Township 7, Range 9 east (Madison), 299 feet ; west line Section 20, Township 8, Range 9 east (Westport), 326 feet ; west line northeast quarter Section 19, Township 7, Range 9 east (Madison), 332 feet ; west line Section 18, Township 7, Range 9 east (Madison), 340 feet ; north line Section 13, Township 7, Range 9 east (Madison), 345 feet ; Middleton depot, 34/ feet; west line Section 11, Township 7, Range 8 east (Middleton), 353 feet ; west line southeast quarter Section 10, Township 7, Range 8 east (Middleton), 365 feet; west line Sec- tion 10, Township 7, Range 8 east (Middleton), 360 feet ; west line Section 9, Township 7, Range 8 east (Middleton), 352 feet ; west line Section 8, Township 7, Range 8 east (Middleton), 353 feet ; west line Section 7, Township 7, Range 8 east (Middleton), 339 feet; west line Sec- tion 12, Township 7, Range 7 east (Cross Plains), 326 feet ; west line Section 2, Township 7, Range 7 east (Cross Plains), 300 feet; Cross Plains depot, 278 feet ; west line Section 4, Town- ship 7, Range 7 east (Cross Plains), 268 feet ; center Section 31, Township 8, Range 7 east (Berry), 250 feet ; Black Earth depot, 232 feet.
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