Embraced white, burr, black, red and pin oak, ash, sycamore, hickory, walnut and elm. Portable saw mills in every township. Hickory cord wood is shipped to Omaha for meat curing. It is seldom flat except in creek bottoms. Eastern half embraces strips of a billowy sort of prairie, though this part is mostly hill land, once covered with timber and contains infrequent bluffs and ravines.
Blue grass is indigenous.
Around Brookfield land is in increase of price over the same land less favored in location with reference to market. Bottoms along Yellow, Locust, Parsons, Turkey and East Yellow creeks are from a quarter of a mile to two miles wide. Soil is black, alluvial. Prairie soil is black, vegetable mould, ten to thirty inches deep, favorable to grass, vegetables, corn, oats, rye. Each town is location of railroad shops, division offices and the home of trainmen.