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ARTICLE XIII.
SECTION 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for erime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subjeet to their jurisdiction.
SEC. 3. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
ARTICLE XIV.
SECTION 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, or subject to the juris- dietion thereof, are citizens of the United States, and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforee any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States ; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty or property without
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due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law.
SEC. 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the States according to population. counting the whole number of persons in each State, including Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote is denied to any of the male inhabitants of a State, being twenty-one years of age and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty- one years of age in such State.
SEC. 3. No person shall hold any office under the United States or under any State, who having previously, as an officer of the United States of any State, taken an oath to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid and comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two- thirds of each House, remove such disability.
SEC. 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, including pensions and bounties, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave :. but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
SEC. 5. Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
ARTICLE XV.
SECTION 1. The right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any State, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
SEC. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF COUNTIES AND CITIES
WITII GUBERNATORIAL AND PRESIDENTIAL VOTES.
Note .- The Republican or Democratic majority in each county is given as between Smith and Mallory. back majority is only given when the vote for Allis exceeds the others, and is taken from the highest vote.
Green-
GOVERNOR. 1877.
PRESIDENT. 1876.
COUNTIES.
Smith.
Mallory.
Allis.
Maj.
Hayes.
Tilden.
Maj.
Adams
580
233
116
R.
347
381
442
R. 539
Ashland
86
163
D.
109
189
80
Barron .
459
203
53
R.
256
644
257
R. 387
Bayfield
40
34
2
R.
6
86
74
R.
12
Brown.
1387
1740
1015
D.
353
2755
3647
D.
892
Buffalo
1075
810
76
R.
265
1186
1162
R.
24
Burnett
336
21
R.
312
285
28
R.
257
Calumet
450
1130
389
D.
680
1012
2145
D. 1133
Chippewa
685
693
589
D.
18
1596
1774
D. 178
Clark.
449
153
816
G.
367
1255
660
R. 595
Columbia.
2048
1597
118
R.
451
3532
2493
R. 1039
Crawford
800
1008
146
D.
202
1355
1604
D. 249
Dane
3613
3903
614
D.
290
5435
5726
D. 291
Dodge.
2333
4267
381
D. 1934
3236
6361
1. 3125
Door
477|
126
283
R.
351
1095
596
R.
499
Douglas.
21
28
D.
1-
42
67
D.
25
Dunn .
1174
407
412
R.
767
2033
894
R. 1139
Eau Claire.
1208
805
597
R.
403
2266
1785
R. 481
Fond du Lac.
3086
3414
1249
D.
328
4845
5660 D. 815
Grant.
2620
1938
1037
R.
682
4723
3198
R. 1525
Green ..
1823
849
580
R.
974
2601
1735
R. 866
Green Lake.
879
896
215
D.
17
1739
1514
R. 2.25
lowa.
1461
1175
1021
521
R.
411
1507
718 R.
789
Jefferson
1917
2418
296
D.
201
2874
4134
D. 1260
Juneau
1045
883
463
162
1714
1458
R. 256
Kenosha
938
907
51
R.
31
1610
1432
R. 178
Kewaunee
247
558
20
D.
$11
561
1054 D. 1093
La Crosse.
1968
1115
524
R.
853
2644
2481
R. 163
La Fayette.
1409
1300
269
R.
109
2424
2299
R. 125
Lincoln
27
15
169
G.
142
71
174
D.
103
Manitowoc.
1365
1951
98
1).
586
2700
3908
D. 1208
Marathon
301
755
746
D.
454
668
1796
D. 1128
Marquette.
447
730
761
D.
283'
607
1112
D. 415
Milwaukee
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
1818
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
R.
553
1019
362
R. 650
Portage
1080
917
728 R.
163
1855
1794
R. 61
Racine.
2304
1906
112
R. 398
3560
2880 R.
680
1174 R. 639
Outagamie.
777
2005
092 D. 1228
286
2651
2348 R.
303
Jackson
802
391
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GUBERNATORIAL AND PRESIDENTIAL VOTES-1877-1876-Continued.
GOVERNOR. 1877.
PRESIDENT. 1576,
COUNTIES-Continued.
Smith.
Mallory.
Allis.
Maj.
Hayes.
Tilden.
Maj.
Richland
1201
729
705 R
472
2038
1591
R.
Rock
3375
1620
751
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
Shawano
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
D.
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.
488
2642
1592 R. 1050
Waushara
1282
257
377
R. 1025
2080
548 R. 1532
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!
Đ. 362
Beaver Dam.
320
361
D.
41
357
465
D.
108
Beloit.
377
109
240
R.
268
745
627
R.
118
Berlin
219
197
36
R.
22
456
312
1013 R.
189
Fond du Lac ..
862
884
520
D.
22
1882
1542 D.
160
Fort Iloward
150
85
195
G.
45
669
288 R.
81
Grand Rapids
50
42
110
G.
60
121
191 D.
70
Green Bay.
432
333
181
R.
99
696
647
R.
49
Hudson.
226
207
3
R.
19
250
224
R.
26
Janesville.
771
605
31
R.
166
1036
848
R.
188
Kenosha ..
281
314
12!
D.
33
514
544
D).
30
La Crosse
712
671
351
R.
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
New London.
84
125
118 D.
41
200
208
D. 16
Oconto.
270
311
6 D.
41
399
506
1), 107
Oshkosh.
724
954
375 D.
230
1496
1910
D.
414
Plymouth
69
127
28 D.
58
Portage
245
405
7 D.
160
:66
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
78
13
D.
18
87
83 R.
4
Sheboygan.
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
5
97
G.
81
64
93! D.
29
Chilton
31
128
33
D.
97
Chippewa Falls.
2_9
294
143
D.
65
475
572| D.
97
Columbus
210
123
3
R.
254
212 R.
42
Eau Claire.
620
459
250
R.
161
1205
Buffalo
25
17
R.
8
14
31
D. 17
Centralia
16
2
Oconomowoc
172
167
24 R.
5
238
R. 144
6
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POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES.
STATES AND TERRITORIES.
AreH in square MÌups.
POPI LATION.
Miles R. R. 1872.
STATES AND TERRITORIES.
Alea 11 square Miles.
1870.
1825.
Miles R. R. 1872.
States.
States.
Alabama
50.722
996.992
1,67]
Pennsylvania.
46,000
3.521.791
5,113
Arkansas ..
52.19%
494,471
25
Ithode Island. . .
1.306
217.353
258,239
136
California.
188.081
560,247
1.013
South Carolina ...
29.385
705,606
925,145
1.201
Connecticut
4.674
537.454
820
Tennessee ..
45,600
1,258,520
1,520
Delaware ..
2.120
125.015
Texas
237.504
818.579
865
Florida.
59.268
187.748
466
Vermont
10.212
330.551
675
Georgia ..
58.000 1.154,109
2.108
Virginia.
40,904
1,225,163
1,490
West Virginia ..
23.000
442,014
485
Indiana.
33.809 1.680.631
8.529
Wisconsin
53.921
1.054,670
1.236.729
1.725
lowa.
55.045|1.191.792
1,350,544 3.160
Kansas ..
81.318
361,399
528.349 1.760
Kentucky
37,600 1.321,011
1.123
Louisiana
41.346
726.9151
837.039
539
Maine ..
31.776
#26,915
871
Maryland
11.184
780,894
820
Colorado ..
104.500
39.864
392
Massachusetts.
7.800 1.457.351 1.651.912 1.606
Dakot:
117,490
14,181
Dist. of L'olumbia.
60
131,200
Minnesota.
83.531
439,706
599,429 1,612
Idaho.
90.9331
14,999
Montana.
143. 776}
20.595
Missouri.
65,350 1.721.295
New Mexico
121,201
91.874
375
Nevada ...
112,090
42.491
593
New Hampshire.
9.280
318.300
Wyoming .
93,107
9.118
498
New Jersey.
8.320
906,096 1.026,50211,265
New York ..
47.000 4.382.759 4.705.20814,470
Total Territories.
965.032
412.730
1.265
North Carolina.
50,204 1,071,361
1,190
Ohio
39.964 2,665,260
3,740
Oregon
95,244!
90,923
159
Aggregate of U. S .. 2.915,203 38,535,983 60,352
· Last Census of Mlebigan taken in 1974.
· Included in the Rallroad Mileage of Marylard.
PRINCIPAL COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD ;
POPULATION AND AREA.
COUNTRIES.
Population.
Date of Census.
Area in Square AMÍlles.
luhabitants to Square Mile.
CAPITALS.
Population.
China
446.500.000
1871
3.741.846
119.3
Pekin.
1.648.800
British Empire.
26.817.108
1871
4.677.432
48.6
London.
3,251.800
Russia.
81.925.400
1821
8.003,778
10.2
St. Peter: nirg
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
l'aris.
1.825,300
AAustria and Hungary
35,904,400
1869
240.348
149.4
lionna
833,900
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.
414,484
Spain
16,642.000
1867
195 775
S5.
Madrid.
332.000
Brazil ..
10,000,000
3,253,099
3.07
Ito Janeiro.
420,000
Turkey
16.463.000
...
672.62]
24.4
Constantinople
1,075,000
Mexico.
9.173.000
1869
761.526
Mexico
210,300
Sweden and Norway
5,921,500
1870
292.871
Stockholm
136.900
Persia ..
5,000,000
1870
635.964
7.8
Teheran.
120,000
Belgium.
5.021.300
1869
11.373
441.5
Brussels
314,100
Bavaria ..
4.861,400
1871
229.292
165.9
Munich
169,500
Portugal
3.995.200
1868
34.494
115.8
Lisbon.
204,063
Holland
3.688.300
1870
12,680
290.9
Hague ..
90,100
New Grenada.
3.000.000
1820
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
Borne.
36,000
Pern
2.500,000
1871
471.838
5.3
Lima.
160.100
Bolivia.
2.000,000
497,321
4.
Thugnisaca.
25,000
Argentine Republic.
1,812.000
1869
871.848 7.533
Stuttgart
91,600
Denmark
1,784.700
1870
14,733
copenhagen
162,044
Venezuela
1,500,000
368.238
l'araccas
47,000
Baden ..
1,461.400
1851
5.91
247.
Carlsruhe
36,600
Greece ..
1,457.900
1870
19.353
75.3
Athens.
43.400
Guatemala
1.180,000
1871
40,879
2S.9
40.000
Ernador.
1.300,000
218,928
5.9
Quito
70,000
Paraguay.
1.000.000
1871
63.787
15.6
Asuncion.
48,000
Hesse
823.138
2,969
277.
Darinstadt
30,000
Liberia.
718,000
1871
9,576
74.9
Monrovia
3,000
San Salvador.
600,000
1571
7.335
81.8
Sal Salvador
15,000
Hayti ..
572.000
10,205
56.
Port au Prince.
20.00N
Nicaragua.
350.000
58,171
Managua.
10,000
Uruguay ....
300.000
18:1
66.722
6.5
Monte Video.
44.500
Honduras
350,000
1821
17.092
l'omayagua .
12.000
San Domingo
136,000
17.8221
7.6
San Domingo.
20,000
Costa Rica.
165.000
1870
21.505
7.7
San Jose.
2,000
62.950
7.633
40.
Honolulu
7.633
Arizona
113.916
9,65S
Michigan®
56.451 1.184,059 1.334.031 2.235
Mississippi.
47,156
827.922
990
Nebraska.
75.995|
123. 993
246.280
828
Utah.
80,056
81.786
Washington.
69,944
23,955
Illinois .
55.410 2.539,891
5.904
Total States
1.950,171 38.113.253
59,587
Territories.
POPULATION.
1870.
1875.
Wurtemburg
1.818,500
1871
211.4
Buenos Ayres
177.800
34,785,300
1871
149,399
232.8
Yeddo.
1,554,900
00.
2.1
120.9
4.12
Guatemala
2.580
52,540
LAbole
WATERTOWN
HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY.
TOPOGRAPHY.
When Southeastern Wisconsin first emerged from the ocean, it doubtless presented an essen- tially plane surface, having a slight inclination to the east and southeast. The inequalities which it now presents are due to subsequent changes, the results of three classes of agents, acting at different times and different conditions.
1. During the long ages between the emergence of the land and the drift period, the streams were cutting their beds deeper and deeper into the rock, and rendering the former level surface more and more irregular. The softer rocks were more readily eroded than the harder ones, and this helped to increase the unevenness. There was a tendency of the streams, so far as the slope favored, to follow the less resisting belts of soft rock, and, as these run in a north- erly and southerly course in this region, the main streams had that direction. The little streams gathered into the larger ones in a manner not unlike that by which the branches of a tree are united into the trunk. The unevenness of surface produced by erosion of this nature possesses a certain kind of system and symmetry readily recognizable. As this erosion occupied the time preceding the glacial period, we may conveniently designate the features produced by it, pre- glacial. We have the best example of this kind of surface conformation in the lead region, over which the drift forces did not act, and which has not been resubmerged, so that we have the results of this class of action pure and simple. As we proceed castward into the region of drift action in the central part of the State, these features are modified more and more by the results of glacial action, until in Eastern Wisconsin they become wholly obscured, except in their grander outlines. Jefferson County lies midway between the extremes.
2. The modifications of the surface constituting this first class of topographical features were produced by running water; those of the second class, which were formed next in order of time, were caused by ice, in the form of glaciers, it is confidently believed, and by the agencies brought into action through their melting. The work of the ice was twofold: first, in the level- ing of the surface, by planing down the hills and filling up the valleys ; and second, in the cre- ation of a new uneven surface, by heaping up in an irregular and promiscuous manner the clay, sand, gravel and bowlders it had formed, thus giving the surface a new aspect. Among the features produced by the action of the ice are parallel ridges, sometimes miles in length, having the same direction as the ice movement, hills of rounded flowing contour, sometimes having a linear arrangement in the direction of glacial progress, mounds and hummocks of drift promis- cuously arranged on an otherwise plane surface, oval domes of rock (roches moutonecs), sharp gravel ridges, often having a tortuous serpentine course, transverse to the drift movement, peculiar depression known as " kettles," and half-submerged rock gorges, known as " fiords," all of which combine to form a peculiar and distinctive surface contour. The melting of the ice mass gave rise to swollen lakes and flooded rivers, which eroded at some points and
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filled up at others, and so still farther modified the face of the country. All these pec liarities, being the result, directly or indirectly, of the ice action, may be denominated glaci features.
3. Subsequent to the glacial period, the wearing action of the streams was resumed, b under somewhat new conditions, and carved out a new surface contour, the features of whid may be termed post-glacial.
To the agencies, ice and water, assisted slightly by winds, the topographical peculiariti of the country are chiefly due. There is no evidence of violent eruptions, upheavals or ou bursts. There was, indeed, the gradual elevation and depression of the surface, and probab! some little flexure of the crust ; but the region has been free from violent agitation, and ow none of its salient topographical features to such causes.
Having thus briefly considered the general methods by which the present aspect of tl county was produced, we may now more satisfactorily examine its special features.
No part of Wisconsin can properly be said to be mountainous, nor does it, over ar considerable area, sink to a dead level. It presents the golden mean in a gently undulatin diversified surface, readily traversible in all directions by the various highways of cor munication.
Setting aside minor details, the State presents two general slopes-a short, abrupt decli ity northward to Lake Superior, and a long, gentler incline southward. Through tl center of this southward slope there extends a moderate north and south elevation, or ar -a low anticlinal axis-giving a southeasterly and southwesterly inclination to the strata ( either side.
The general inclination of the surface of the country is southward. The valley of tl Rock River (including that of Crawfish River), runs southerly and southwesterly through tl county, and at the point where it is covered by Lake Koshkonong, is only about one hundre and eighty feet above the surface of Lake Michigan. The surface on either side of this valle slopes toward it.
ELEVATIONS.
Having disposed of the salient features of the topography of the Rock River Valley, attenti is naturally directed to its minor characteristics. A consideration of these will be confined, in th connection, to Jefferson County. Among the most instructive are the elevations of differe points. The figures indicate the altitude in feet above Lake Michigan. By adding 589 feet those of any given point, the result will be the elevation above the ocean :
Township 7 north, Range 14 east ( Aztalan) .- Section 7, southwest quarter, 251 feet ; Se tion 17. village, 276 feet ; Section 18, northeast quarter, 297 feet ; Section 18, marsh, 25 feet ; Section 20, southeast quarter, river-bank, 226 feet ; Section 20, southeast quarter, wat level, 210 feet.
Township 5 north, Range 15 east (Cold Spring) .- Three-quarters of a mile south Hebron, 296 feet ; Bark River marsh, 223 feet ; Cold Spring Village, 226 feet ; Cold Sprir mill-pond, 212 feet.
Township 7 north, Range 16 east (Concord) .- Concord Village, 287 feet ; Section 3 324 feet.
Township 7 north, Range 15 east (Farmington) .- Johnson's Creek Station, 193 feet; Se tion 28, northeast quarter, 260 feet.
Township 6 north, Range 15 east ( Hebron) .- Cushman's mill-pond, 244 feet.
Township 6 north, Range 14 east (Jefferson) .- Jefferson Station, 221 feet ; Rock River, Jefferson, 206 feet ; mouth of Crawfish River, 200 feet ; Section 9, southeast quarter, strean 242 feet; Section 12, northeast quarter, hill, 365 feet; Section 15, near center west hal stream, 227 feet ; Section 17, northeast quarter, 269 feet ; Section 17, northwest quarte quarry, 260 feet ; Section 18, center west half, hill, 442 feet; Section 19, northwest corne 315 feet.
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Township 5 north, Range 14 east ( Koshkonong) .- Fort Atkinson Station, 249 feet ; marsh below Fort Atkinson, 200 feet ; Lake Koshkonong, 184 feet ; Kump's Quarry, 267 feet ; Sec- tion 23, center west half, 257 feet ; Section 27, southwest quarter, 252 feet ; Section 31, north- east quarter, quarry, 248 feet; Section 34, northeast quarter, 298 feet ; Section 32, center north half, valley, 252 feet.
Township 7 north, Range 13 east (Luke Mills) .- Section 1, west half, 265 feet ; Section 3, northeast quarter, 274 feet; Section 3, near center northwest quarter, 327 feet ; Section 3, middle west line northwest quarter, 311 feet; Section 3, southwest corner, 291 feet ; Section 4, center northwest quarter, 330 feet; Section 4, flat, 315 feet; Section 5, northeast quarter, hill, 370 feet : Section 6, southwest quarter, 398 feet ; Section 8, middle south line, 373 feet ; Koshkonong Creek, at Kroughville, 257 feet ; Section 10, middle west line, 315 feet ; Lake Mills Village, 260 feet ; Lake Mills Village, northwest part, 277 feet; Rock Lake, 250 feet ; Section 18, middle south line, 345 feet ; Section 19, southwest quarter, creek, 288 feet ; Sec- tion 28, middle south line, southeast quarter, 278 feet ; Section 31, southwest quarter, creek, 272 feet ; Section 33, northeast corner, 263 feet.
Township & north, Range 14 east (Milford) .- Hubbleton Station, 211 feet : Section 21, middle north line, 260 feet ; Section 24, northeast corner, 232 feet ; Section 24, middle south line, 222 feet : Section 33, northeast quarter, quarry, 284 feet ; Section 36, center north half, 295 feet.
Township 7 north, Range 14 east ( Milford, continued) .- Section 6, southeast quarter, outlet of lake, 228 feet : Section 6, southeast quarter, outcrop, 252 feet.
Township 6 north, Range 13 east (Oakland) .- Lake Ripley, 239 feet ; Red Cedar Lake, 233 feet ; Section 4, southwest quarter, 266 feet ; Section 5, south half, 280 feet ; Sec- tion 7, west line northwest quarter, 271 feet ; Section 13, middle west line northwest quarter, 343 feet ; Section 16, southeast corner, 330 feet ; Section 18, southeast quarter of southeast quarter, 246 feet ; Section 19, near northwest corner, 264 feet ; Section 19, center southeast quarter, 251 feet ; Section 19, southwest quarter, 234 feet ; Section 25, near northwest corner, 363 leet ; Section 25, west line northwest quarter, 270 feet ; Section 28, middle east line, 253 feet : Section 28, near middle south line, 227 feet; Section 30, southwest quarter. 257 feet ; Section 30, near center southwest quarter, 253 feet ; Section 31, southwest quarter, 214 feet ; Section 31, south line southwest quarter, 210 feet.
Township 5 north, Range 16 east (Palmyra) .- Palmyra Station. 260 feet ; Section 20, east half, 266 feet ; Section 20, northwest quarter, 278 feet : Section 22, southeast quarter, 290 feet ; Section 23, northeast quarter, 271 feet ; Section 28, north line. 241 feet : Section 29, southeast quarter, 220 feet ; Section 31, center, 221 feet; Section 32, west line, 221 feet.
Township 5 north, Range 13 east (Sumner) .- Lake Koshkonong, 184 feet ; Section 7, center south half, creek, 188 feet ; Section 18, near center, 228 feet.
Township S north, Range 13 east ( Waterloo) .- Waterloo Station, 241 feet ; Section 3, southwest quarter, 237 feet; Section 5, northwest quarter, 340 feet; Section 6, northeast corner, 341 feet ; Section 9, near middle north line, 222 feet ; Section 9, middle north line, R. R., 217 feet ; Section 9, creek, 209 feet ; Scetion 11, near center southwest quarter, 211 feet ; Section 16, northwest quarter, marsh, 275 feet ; Section 17, center west half, hill, 329 feet ; Section 17, center, marsh, 218 feet ; Section 18, northwest corner, 297 feet; Section 19, south- east corner, 279 feet ; Section 23, center south half, hill, 401 feet ; Section 24, Crawfish Marsh, 248 feet; Section 25, northeast quarter, 300 feet ; Section 25. near center east half. 260 feet ; Section 27, southeast quarter, 289 feet ; Section 29, near center, creek, 220 feet ; Section 29, east half, 245 feet ; Section 30, middle north line northeast quarter. 320 feet : Sec- tion 31, northwest corner, 326 feet ; Section 31, southwest quarter of southwest quarter. 350 feet ; Section 32, near center south half, 310 feet ; Section 32. middle east line southeast quarter, 322 feet ; Section 35, southeast quarter, 299 feet ; Section 35, middle east line, hill, 326 feet ; Section 36, center, 266 feet.
Township & north, Range 15 eust ( Watertown) .- Watertown Junction, 243 feet ; Section 21, middle east line southeast quarter, 345 feet.
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WATER-POWER OF ROCK RIVER.
The entire area drained by Rock River and its tributaries, in Wiseonsin, is three thousand six hundred and thirty-five square miles. From the Table of Rainfall, at Milwaukee, given in Dr. Lapham's report (Geol. of Wis., Vol. II), it appears that the average rainfall for the thirty years previous, was 30.27 inches, which may be assumed as at least approximately correct for the Rock River Valley. The average fall for some portions of Wisconsin is given in Gen. Humphrey's work on the hydraulics of the Mississippi, at thirty-five inches. But reckoning at thirty inches, the rainfall upon the drainage area under consideration, would be 253,344,960,000 enbie feet. Now, it is asserted by various authorities, based on experience, that one-half the rainfall can be utilized .. This would give 126,672,480,000 cubic feet per annum. Mr. Rugar says: " From personal observation, and after consulting many authorities as to rainfall, springs, evaporation, filtration, etc., I estimate that the total annual quantity of water passing in Rock River at the State line, including Turtle Creek, is 98,437,536,000 cubic feet," which may be regarded as a safe estimate. The daily supply by this estimate would be 269,691,879 cubic feet. We need next to ascertain what is the average descent of this volume. Some of it falls over six hundred feet, while other portions practically no distance. The average elevation of the rim of the basin above the point where the river leaves the State, is about two hundred and fifty feet, its average distance about fifty miles, showing an average fall of about five feet per mile. But this is less to the point than the following :
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