Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-09-10
County Sup't.
IOWA COUNTY.
Her Ayr icutural and Minera Re-
Ource
A. J. SLYE,

AASI ASI1Cu GuTdl dnO M10Grd he
Ource
Among the many counties in the state of
Wisconsin, there are none of them any bet
ter, and but few of them as good as the
county of Iowa, and in some respects there
are few of them that can equal this county.
For a long time the mineral wealth of this
county has been source of much revenue,
and hundreds Of people are still employed in
the diggings, and though mineral is, com
paratively scarcer than it was some years
ago, the price Of ore being so high since the
war commenced, has offered to the miners
a good chance, (and some among them are
doing extra well, while all of them are max
ing comfortable living)
WEALTH OF SOIL.
But the mineral wealth Of this county is
far exceeded by her wealth Of soil. In no
part of the state is better soil to be found
for the production Of grass, or grain or veg
citation OF any kind, and where anything
like proper attention is paid to the raising
Of crops, the yield is abundant. The get
ting of mineral for good many Of years
occupied the chief attention Of the people in
this county, consequently agriculture did
not form leading business with them but
since tilling has been attended to, no section
of this state, or any other state, has yielded
greater crops in return for the labor; (and
for the most part the soil is easily cultiyated)
there are small patches billy, there are small
patches stony, and there are interspersed
through the country fine patches OF timber,
by no means an Inconvenience, but rather
a benefit as fire wood, and timber for other
nurposes is thus furnished to the people.
But the great leading feature Of the county
is fine rolling prairie Of rich loan soil to
the depth of many feet, and seeming uneX-
haustible in productiveness. All that is
needed here is the hand of skillful industry,
and abundance of all that rich soil IN TINS
climate can produce may be had. GOOD
spring water is very PLENTIFUL though there
are no lakes, nor large rivers, nor sWampy
marshes, nor stagnant boys; IN almost every
ravine clear stream of good spring water
NAV be found A better watered county
without waste cannot easily be met with.
Even in the north east part OF the county,
where the land is more uneven and hllly there
i abundant pasture, and thousands upon
thousands of sheep might be kept there, ana
sbeon culture we Judge, will some day be
leading business in these parts why II Is
that people are not more extensively en-
oaeed in it now is past telling, since the
Chances are so favorable.
coNvENIENCEs FOR MARKETING
Time was when the people complaiheo
+bot farming would not pay in Iowa county,
heconse of the distance to market, and per-
bone Of that day the complaint was true, but
the Mineral Point Railroad has settleo Vna'
matter, and now anything that people llato
70 DISPOSE of can be sold there tor casll'
There is however, very good plospeos
tho+ the Mineral Point Road will be eXteno-
~ a. 70 ;ntersect the Milwaukee and Pralrie
~, Chen Road. this will bring Ran ROAD
right through the neart o.
tho county and give the people o IN o.
two markets, thatof Milwaukee ana Cnlcago'
and should the road contemplated, 50 through
VAUDEVILLE ru which is very probable Doogg 3l
Vile the county seat of Iowa county n.y. st mt
h he the most important point in the state
u ueSt Of Madison, and for beauty OF locaIlo d
wa hotter site for town need be deslrea'
tb U Dodgeville. Elevated and healthy oo ID
t t', verv heart of thousands of acres as goIu
' Lno az was ever turned up by pious s;n
la,u ' hundreds of acres of this land is sun
i M in its virgin excellence waiting o, snr
y iya ~ If the cultivator-the genius Oh lao0i
10 .l,', 1';old bread for the million.
THE VILLAGE OF DoDGEvILLE'
Even without the Rail Road, the village aig
&c D1 nodgeville is progressing iaVo to y
u p Is an excellent court house; Two 1a -
4h nee. schoo-houses, three or four churGhesI
enree ~ excellent one and another exces rr
one one IN course of erection; 50 that p eodfy
t 9hg looks favorable for Rpf agd
u .iI and those who visit the place wiz 'ii'
here t the elements of progress