ready market is found for mineral and all of the products of industry, which is paid for in gold and silver coin-bank bills and coppers having long since been repudiated in the lead mines. It contains 2,500 inhabitants, with 5 hotels, 12 dry good and grocery, 1 drug, 1 jewelry, and 1 tin and iron stores; 2 waggon, 5 smiths, 2 cabinet, 4 tailors, 4 shoe, 2 saddle and harness, 6 carpenter, and 1 gunsmith shops; 4 mineral warehouses, 4 church edifices-1 Primitive Methodist, 1 P. E. Methodist, 1 Catholic and 1 Congregational-the latter of which is built of stone. The court house is built of brick, 44 by 60 feet, with offices for county purposes, and the jail of stone. SHULLSBURG, Town, in the county of Lafayette, being a part of town 1, of ranges 2 and 3 E., in which is located the seat of justice of the county. There are 2 furnaces for smelting lead ore in this town. Shullsburg is noted for its inexhaustible mines of lead ore which have been worked for many years, and are the most productive in the mineral district. The Southern Wisconsin rail road is located through the entire length of the town from east to west. The population of the town is 3,500.

SHUNAKEE, Lake, see North Lake, Waukesha county.

SILVER, Creek, has its source in English Lake, in Manitowoc county, and running easterly, enters Lake Michigan about 10 miles south of Manitowoc.

SILVER, Creek, rises in town of Metomon, Fond du Lac county, and runs northwest into Green Lake, Marquette county.

SILVER, Lake, in town of Salem, Kenosha county, discharges its waters through a small stream into Fox river, near Salem P. O. It is about a mile in diameter.

SILVER, Lake, is nearly in the centre of town of Summit, Waukesha county. It is a mile in length.

SILVER, Lake, a small lake in eastern part of town of Sugar Creek, SINSINAWA, Creek, rises in Smeltzer, Grant county, and runs southerly, discharging its waters into La Fevre river, in Illinois.

SINSINAWA, Mound, is a conical elevation, one mile south of the village of Fair Play, Grant county.

SIOUX PORTAGE, Creek, in Portage county, is the inlet of Yellow Lake.

SISCOE, River, rises in town of Clayton, Winnebago county, and runs southwest into Wolf River, at the head of Lake Pauwaicun.

SKETCH, Lake, the largest of the lakes forming one of the sources of Red Cedar river.

SKILLET, Creek, a tributary from the south of Baraboo river, which it enters about 3 miles above Baraboo village.

SKINNER'S Creek, in Green county, a branch of the Peckatonnica, which it enters in the town of Cadiz.

SLAWSON'S Prairie, in Dodge county, east of Beaver Dam.

SLEEPING BEAR, River, (Nibegomowin), a tributary from the west of Burnt Wood river.

SMELTZER'S GROVE, P. O., in town of Smeltzer, being town 2 N., of range 7 W., in Grant county.

SMELTZER, Town, in county of Grant, being town 2 N., of range 1; centrally located, 18 miles southeast from Lancaster. It has 5 school districts.

SNAIL, Lake, or Shell Lake, see Pewaukee Lake.

SOMERS, Town, (formerly Pike), in county of Kenosha, being town

2 N., of range 22 E.; centrally located, 5 miles southwest from Kenosha city. Population in 1850 was 680. It has 7 school districts.

SOOCHERA, River, see Fond du Lac river.

SOUTH BRISTOL, P. O., in Racine county.

SOUTH GENESEE, P. V., in town of Genesee, Waukesha county, being town 6 N., of range 18 E.

SOUTH GROVE, P. V., in town of Walworth, Walworth county, being

SOUTH Fork of Black river, from the east, entering the same in town 23 N., of range 3 W.

SOUTH Fork, a tributary of Baraboo river, in Bad Ax county.

SOUTHPORT, Town, in county of Kenosha, being fractional towns 1 and 2 N., of range 23 E., on Lake Michigan. Population in 1850 was 363. It has 7 school districts.

SPAFFORD'S Creek, a small tributary of the Peckatonnica.

SPENCER, River, a small stream in La Pointe county, entering Lake Superior.

SPRING, Creek, a branch of Ockee creek in Lodi, Columbia county. SPRINGDALE, P. O., in town of same name, Dane county, being town 6 N., of range 7 E.

SPRINGDALE, Town, in county of Dane, being town 6 N., of range 7 E.; centrally located, 14 miles southwest from Madison. SPRINGFIELD, Town, in county of Dane, being town 8 N., of range 8 E.; centrally located, 10 miles northwest from Madison. It has 6 school districts.

SPRING GROVE, P.O., in town of same name, Green county, being town 1 N., of range 9 E.

SPRING GREEN, Town, in county of Sauk, being all of the ranges of town 8 in said county; centrally located, southwest from Baraboo. It has 14 school districts.

SPRING GROVE, Town, in county of Greene, being town 1 N., of range 9. Population in 1850 was 703. It has 7 school districts.

SPRING, Lake, is a small lake in town of Marion, Waushara county, tributary to the Neenah.

SPRING, Lake, in town of Green Lake, Marquette county, with its outlet, forms one of the inlets of Green Lake.

SPRING, Lake, is a small lake in the north part of Mukwonago, Waukesha county.

SPRING, Prairie, town in county of Walworth, being town 3 N., of range 18 E.; centrally located, 6 miles from Elkhorn. Population in 1850 was 1,344. It has 8 school districts.

SPRING PRAIRIE, P. V., in town of same name, on section 30, Walworth county, 7 miles east from Elkhorn, 70 miles southeast from Madison. Population 200; with 20 dwellings, 3 stores, 1 hotel, and one Baptist church.

SPRINGVALE, P.O., in Fond du Lac county.

SPRINGVALE, Town, in county of Columbia, being town 12 N., of range 11 E.; centrally located, 12 miles southeast from Portage city. Population in 1850 was 471. It has 4 school districts.

SPRINGVALE, Town, in county of Fond du Lac, being town 15 N., of range 15 E.; centrally located, 12 miles southwest from Fond du Lac. Population in 1850 was 588. It has 8 school districts.

SPRING VALLEY, P. O., in town of same name, Rock county, town 2 N., of range 10 E.

SPRING VALLEY, Town, in county of Rock, being town 2 N., of range 10 E.; centrally located, 15 miles southwest from Janesville. Population in 1850 was 766. It has 7 school

districts.

SPRINGVILLE, P.O., in Bad Ax county, on section 23, town 13 N., of range 5 W.

SQUAW PORTAGE, River, in La Pointe county, running nearly parallel to Namekagon river, entering the same a few miles above the junction with the St. Croix.

SQUIRREL, River, a tributary from the west of the Little Wisconsin.

STATE LINE, P. O., in town of Sharon Walworth county, being in town 1 N., of range 15 E.

ST. CROIX, County, is bounded on the north by La Pointe, on the east and south by Chippewa, on the southwest and west by the boundary between the State and Minnesota. The county seat is at Hudson, formerly Willow river, at the mouth of a stream of the same name, emptying into Lake St. Croix. It was set off from Crawford, and organized January 29, 1850; was attached to Crawford for judicial purposes April 10, 1843, and again fully organized February 26, 1848. The boundaries were somewhat changed March 16, 1849. It is attached to the third congressional district, to the sixth judicial circuit, and to the nineteenth senate district, and, with La Pointe, sends one member to the assembly. It is one of the largest counties in the State, being 130 miles in length, and 50 in width; presents to the agriculturist, in fertility of soil, well watered and well wooded farms, in the means of access to market through Lake St. Croix and the Mississippi, and in the perfect healthiness and salubrity of climate, advantages which are to be found combined in but few places in the West. The surface is generally undulating north of the Falls, of St. Croix. It is mostly timbered with maple and other hard woods, while south of the Falls is a due proportion of prairie and openings. But little attention has yet been paid to the pursuits of agriculture, and the manufactories are confined for the present to pine lumber. It is well watered with fine streams and beautiful lakes. The principal streams are Willow, Kinnickinnic, Vermillion, Isabelle, and Rush river. Population in 1846 was 1,419; in 1847, 1,674; in 1850, 624; with 181 dwellings, 4 farms, and 2 manufactories. In 1846 the census returns included all of the present Territory of Minnesota, east of the Wisconsin river, also the present county of La Pointe. In 1847 it included the same, excepting the county of La Pointe. This is the reason why there appears to be a decrease in the population from 1847 to 1850, County Officers: Judge, S. S. N. Fuller; Sheriff, A. S. Youle; Clerk of Court, Joseph Bowman; District Attorney, Benja