Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1852-05-27
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causes have thrown in market, at reduced
prices. many improved farms in choice To-
cations in the older counties. The oppor-
tunity for Investment thus offered is wor-
thy Of the attention Of the emigrant: and
facts relative thereto may be easily ascer-
tanned on enquiry at private land Offices in
the larger towns in the State.
MANUfACTURES.
The artizan wiz find a fair field for his
labor, and for the employment Of capital
in Wisconsin
For the ordinary mechanical arts which
are inseparable from agricultural thrift
anywhere, the demand is importunate-
Builders Of every class and degree are lib
orally paid in the larger towns Mill
wrights are sure to find employment in
town or country, whether the mill power
be water or steam. Carriage making,
from the manufacture Of the rail road car
to the simple vehicle. whether useful or
tasteful. Is greatly in demand and cannot
fail to do well
Among the larger operations of manu-
facture. those of -four and lumber are be.
coming sources Of profit to the capitalist
and laborer, and beneficial to the farmer
Woolen fax aud cotton mills must soon
become fixed facts in Wisconsin. Tho
raw material for the two former, will soon
be among the larger and more profitable
home productions of her agriculture, while
the supply Of cotton Will through the
channel Of the Mississippi, be more direct,
safe and easy, than by sea, to towns on the
Atlantic border For all these operations
there IS abundant water power in suitable
locations
For the construction Of steamboats, and
every variety # lake craft. the western
coast Of Lake Michigan is emiuentlv a
dapted and it may be reasonably antioi-
pated that large share of the ship and
boat building for these inland waters, will
be done In the ports on that shore. The
iron and lumber Of Northwestern Wiscon-
sin, viii attract to that quarter much of
tie boat building for the Mississippi aud
its branches
Nor is 1t to be presumed that WiscoIl-
SIN will be long tributary TO Buffalo or
Iittsburg for its engines. whether for the
steamer. the locomotive or the mill No
point on the Lakes presents more advan-
tagcs than Milwaukee for foundries for
castings aud machinery Of every dcscrip-
ton
All thcse, and the thousand unenumor-
ated arts which go to constitute the social
maturity Of State, viii be Hospitality en-
tertaincd. and meet with an early devel-
opement in Wisconsin
TRADE.
Bordcrcd on the east aud the west.
throughout its entire length, by Lake Mi
chigan on tbe one hand, and by the Mis-
tho ntiar 1c IL
Stale has easy access to the Ocean. and
complete command of the eastern and
southern markets-an advantage which
will be appreciated by those who are
acquainted with the mutations, as well
as the fixed laws of trade
On the Michigan side. have sprung up
the towns, Milwaukee Racine, kenosha,
Sheboygan and Green Bay all fourishing
and promising The growth of Milwau-
kce, like that Of the State of which it is
the commercial mart, has been uncxam-
pied in the history of American cities 49,
Scarcely visited by the white man in 1885,
it has now, Q852), a population Of twenty
five thousand souls.
On the Mississippi border, the elements
Of wealth, Dountiful as nature has been,
have scarcely begun to be developed and
the question is still omen. rs to the posi-
tfou of its nrirciraI con,,,,or,.;rl ~,
The more prominent points at present, are
Potosi, Prairie du Cuien, Prairie Ia Crosse
and Willow River
OF tie interior towns there are in the
lead district Mineral Point aud Platte
vile in the basin of the Fox aud Lower
Wisconsin, Fort Winnehago. Oshkosh,
Fond du Lac and Menasha On the banks
Of the Rock, WATERFOWL. Janesville and
Beloit. Between tie Rockaud Lake Mich
igan. Whitewater and Waukcsha.
Madison. the CAPITAL Of the State. the
seat Of Justice of Dane county. and the
seat IF the University is beautifully luca-
ted in the basin Of the Four Lakes. mid
way between Lake Michigan and the Mis-
sissippi
GAINESVILLE. the most populous # tic in
terror towns. is tie seat Of the State Iussi-
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