The village can be supplied with clay, sand, timber and the finest of red sandstone.

The country surrounding the village is excellent for farming purposes only a small portion being improved. The land is level and free from stone excepting along the lake shore, and the soil is composed of a mixture of sand and clay. Fruit and vegetables can be grown in abundance. Apples being especially fine. The soil is well adapted for raising potatoes and grass can be grown on the same land eight or nine years without reseeding. Good markets for all kinds of produce are found in Ashland, Superior, Duluth, Bayfield and Washburn.

WASHBURN.

Washburn, Bayfield Co. Population, 4,924. County seat of Bayfield county, located on Chequamegon bay an arm of Lake Superior, and on the C., St. P. M. & O., and the N. P. Ry's 13 miles from Ashland, 89 miles from Superior and Duuth, 188 miles from St. Paul, 359 miles from Milwaukee and 444 miles from Chicago. Express, American. Telegraph and telephone. First class shipping facilities and passenger service.

Has 2 banks, 3 drug stores, 20 grocery stores, 5 hardware stores, 3 department stores, 10 dry goods stores. 1 laundry, 4 school buildings, 30 teachers employed, 5 physicians, 5 lawyers, 12 hotels and 5 boarding houses, 2 newspapers, box factory, 3 saw mills, 1 dynamite plant costing $750,000. Machine shop, grain elevator, capacity 3,000,000 bushels, coal docks, lumber, cedar post and pole yard. Has a fine water system for household purposes, electric light plant, Catholic, Congregational, Episcopal, Lutheran and Methodist churches.

An ample supply of help could be secured in the city and adjacent country. Wood and coal are used for fuel. Wood is obtained from the surrounding country and coal from docks in the city. The city can be supplied with clay, stone and timber. The stone quarries adjacent to the city produce magnificent brown-stone.

Washburn is a summer resort, has good hotels and a number of boarding houses. The city would welcome any new manufacturing industries. This is also a good field for a veterinarian.

The surrounding country is suitable for farming purposes, only a very small portion of which is improved. The land is level and free from stone.

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BROWN COUNTY.

Brown county is located in the northeastern part of the state at the head of Green Bay. The area is 518 square miles. The population in 1905 was 52,026, a gain of 5,667 over 1900. Being one of the first counties of the state to be settled, the population is largely of native birth. Among the foreign settlers Germans, Belgians and Poles are the most numerous. Nearly all of the county is a heavy red clay soil of an exceedingly fine texture. Under careful farming this soil responds remarkably well. It is similar to the soil of Ashland, Bayfield and Douglas counties. There is practically no swamp land in the county. A few tracts of sandy loam are found near the shore of Green Bay. The area of the county devoted to agricultural purposes in 1905 was 284,000 acres, of which 174,000 acres were improved. The value of the farms together with their improvements was $4.205.892. A considerable portion of the western half of the county is occupied by the Oneida Indian Reservation. The principal crops and the acreage devoted to each in 1890 and 1905 were as follows:

Clover seed is also an important crop. A growing interest is manifested in the culture of sugar beets, about 625 acres being devoted to that purpose in 1905. The dairy interests of the county occupy an important position, there being 41 cheese factories and 12 creameries in 1905. The price of unimproved land ranges from $15 to $25 per acre, and for improved land the range of prices is from $35 to $69 per acre. Green Bay is the county seat. The following table shows the population statistics of the cities, villages and towns in the county for

City of De Pere, Brown Co. Population, 4.523. On C. & N. W. and the C., M. & St. P. Rys.. 44 miles from Green Bay, 42 miles from Oshkosh, 142 miles from Madison, 123 miles from Milwaukee and 20% from Chicago. Express, U. S. and American. Good shipping facilities and passenger service.

The city contains 2 banks, 4 drug stores, a laundry, 3 hardware stores, 2 High Schools, 11 churches, representing all the leading religious denominations, 3 hotels, 3 public halls, 4 physicians, 2 lawyers, elevators, flour mill, cooperage and saw mill machinery factory, foundry and sash and blind factory, 2 creameries, 6 brick yards, 3 lime stone quarries, 5 factories and one of the largest writing paper mills in the world. Has electric light

plant and telephone system and electric railway connection. Six newspapers are published in the city.

Situated at the head of navigation on the Fox river, gives the city water communication with all lake ports. The river presents a magnificent power of from 3,000 to 4,000 horse power at this point, and gives factories the advantage of a cheap power and lake navigation. Coal is used for fuel obtained via Lake boats from Buffalo and Cleveland. Plenty of help can be secured in the city and adjacent country. Vegetables can be furnished in sufficient quantities for canning. The natural products are sand, clay, stone and timber.

The city is very prosperous and enterprising, finely located and has much beautiful scenery. Has substantial business blocks, fine public buildings, and beautiful residences. A magnificent college is located here for the education of young men for the priesthood. Has two high school buildings, good hotels and a large number of manufacturing industries employing hundreds of laborers. This makes the city a good market for all farm products. Manufactured articles, cattle, country produce, grain and hay constitute the shipments. The city could be made a very pleasant summer resort. Is in need of a wood working factory.

The country surrounding the city is well adapted for farming purposes, the land is well improved and the soil very fertile.

GREEN BAY.

Green Bay, Brown Co. Population, 23,584. Situated on Green Bay at the mouth of the Fox River, 113 miles from Milwaukee, 194 miles from Madison and 198 miles from Chicago. C. & N. W. Ry., C. M. & St. P. Ry., Ki G. B. & W. Ry. south, The Hart Steamboat Line operates a number of boats to northern ports and the Lackawanna Green Bay Line connects this city with the east. Electric railway connections with all cities in Fox River valley; telephone connection; street railway; waterworks from artesian wells; gas and electric plants; Western Union and Postal telegraph; American and United States express.

Green Bay is the north-eastern metropolis of Wisconsin, and the natural market for a large territory both in this state and in Michigan. The country surrounding the city is one of the finest agricultural and grazing districts in the state. This fact, together with the excellent shipping facilities has made. the city an important manufacturing and commercial center. In 1905 there were 103 manufacturing establishments with a total capital of $3,749,056, employing 2,111 men and with an annual product valued at $4,873,027. Compared with 1900 there