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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Lower Greatest depth, 54.2 feet; area, 550 acres Mill Greatest depth, 51.5 feet; area, 61 acres East Troy Lake (Army) Greatest depth, 16.8 feet; area, 81 acres Similar tabulation for the Lauderdale chain shows: Green Lake Greatest depth, 56.8 feet; area, 282 acres Middle Lake Greatest depth, 50.0 feet; area, 282 acres Mill Lake Greatest depth, 50.0 feet; area, 304 acres These officially surveyed lakes have been of no inconsiderable economic value to the county. Their attractions for summer visitors do not as yet wither or grow stale, and their influence on the valuation of adjacent real estate is evident. NATURAL PRODUCTS. Stone crops out occasionally along the banks of creeks, but little quarrying has been found profitable. Cobblestones and boulders were strewn, not thickly, as in the rugged farther-east, but not difficult to gather, in the first half century of white man's needs, for wells and foundation walls. The lake shallows and creek bottoms supplied much of this homely but readily available material. A large three-storied hotel was early built at East Troy of little more than fist-sized pebbles, and seems time-defying; and a wayside inn, now a sober and substantial dwelling, was built at Tibbets before railways came this way, of gravel and lime mortar. Brick clay of variable quality has been found and used from an early date, making a substantial, though often homely article for home builders. The best is that at Whitewater, its bricks having the color and hardness of the cream-colored product which once made Milwaukee famous. Generally, the bricks from other kilns vary in color from grayish yellow to dull light red. Drain tiles have been made for home trade for perhaps a quarter- century. Beds of peat have been worked in the valley of Whit...