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Show " " ' -.m ISijlii iStilf.ia- 0biiRj7.Tj OM&r fWX- J s mA.&W MAEISON X- o g . J J ' ILLINOIS By EDWARD EMERINE WNU Feature. A balance has been struck in Wisconsin where the happiest hap-piest combination of farm and factory has been found! The state is rural in appearance, appear-ance, its industry so widespread wide-spread that it is never far from a dairy barn to a factory door. The truck and garden plot, the orchard and the country home are but a step from the gears of industry. in-dustry. In Wisconsin, the neighbor-liness neighbor-liness and friendliness of the small town is never lost. The milk of human hu-man kindness is never evaporated in the fiery ovens of a factory. A great industrial state, with more factories and mills than you can count, Wisconsin remains the land of milk cows, cheese, butter, apples and more milk cows! Everything grown in the north temperate zone is produced in Wisconsin Wis-consin in grains, vegetables and fruits. So varied is its agriculture that the state produces corn, wheat, rye, barley, hay, flaxseed, potatoes, sugar beets, tobacco (for cigar wrappers), hops, peas, sorghum and maple syrup. More peas are canned there than in any other state, and more hemp is raised. The state ranks high in cranberry production and also produces apples, cherries, plums and other fruits. Wisconsin remains a leader in the number of dairy cows, in cheese production and in the output of condensed milk products. Industries Are Varied. "Made in Wisconsin" stamps thousands of articles used all over-the over-the world, from the smallest radio tunate of states in transportation facilities. Steamboats ply the Mississippi Mis-sissippi and other rivers. Lake ships dock at Superior, Green Bay, Milwaukee, Mil-waukee, Racine and other points, and Great Lakes traffic is considerable. consid-erable. Fast, modern railroads speed across the state. Truck traffic traf-fic from city to city, and from Wis- along the shore (and whose descendants de-scendants still live in Wisconsin). Territory Organized. In April, 1836, over 200 years after aft-er Nicolet's visit, the "Territory of Wiskonsan" was organized to include in-clude what is now Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota and parts of the Dakotas and Illinois. The townsite of Madison, Madi-son, the capital, was surveyed and platted that year. Uradualry, however, how-ever, the territory shrunk in size after long and bitter boundary quarrels. quar-rels. To give Illinois an outlet on the Great Lakes, the boundary was moved northward and Chicago was lost. The northern peninsula, a region re-gion rich in copper and iron, was given to Michigan to replace territory terri-tory taken from Michigan by Ohio. Other boundary adjustments followed fol-lowed as the drive for statehood was accelerated. On May 29, 1848, Wisconsin became a state. The years following Wisconsin's admission as a state , brought a great influx of German and Scandinavian Scan-dinavian immigrants. Population doubled and trebled each decade. Railroads opened t.ie rich interior of the state to farmers and lumbermen. lum-bermen. Wheat became a basic commodity, with flour and grist mills springing up everywhere. Introduction In-troduction of livestock brought about Wisconsin's noted dairy industry. in-dustry. . By 18S0 many towns were offering offer-ing inducements to industry, and manufacturing was begun. Paper and pulp mills began orjeratine. and meat packing was introduced. Shoes and leather products followed naturally. nat-urally. The metal industry, now one of Wisconsin's greatest, grew rapidly because of the state's location loca-tion halfway between Minnesota's iron ore deposits and coal fields in Illinois and Indiana. The land of green woods and cool waters continues to grow and progress. pro-gress. Its industry, agriculture and good homes make life better. Wisconsin Wis-consin is a serene and balanced land. consin to the rest of the United States, is increasing steadily. Lived 'Like Badgers.' The pioneers found Wisconsin a vast wilderness. They cleared it, broke it, and built upon it. They dug deep into lead mines and often lived in holes in the ground "like badgers," some said. (That is why it is often called the Badger State.) But the people of Wisconsin, for all their industry, always have loved to play, to enjoy life, and to find refreshment re-freshment in the state's great playgrounds. play-grounds. . The northern half of Wisconsin is a great forest, smelling of pine pitch and brush fires. Rivers thunder thun-der over trap-rock ledges or flow quietly on clean sand beds. There are hidden ponds, many swamps and uncounted lakes. A third of the northern boundary juts out into Lake Superior, and the entire eastern east-ern length of the state is washed by the waters of Lake Michigan. In the southwest sprawls the coulee country, often steep and irregular, veined by streams and rivers, tributaries trib-utaries of the Mississippi. Apple orchards smother the ridges with their pink and white blossoms while the slopes are covered with sugar bush and abandoned gingseng beds. Wisconsin has 8,500 counted lakes, 10,000 miles of trout streams, 500 miles of Great Lakes shoreline, innumerable in-numerable rivers and springs. It has lakes for swimming, boating, fishing and all water sports Lake Winnebago, Lake Geneva, and the lakes around Madison, to name a few. On the Great Lakes, trim sailing sail-ing craft course out to the horizon, while outboards and racing boats split the water near the shores. Jean Nicolet was the first white man known to have set foot on Wisconsin soil. He came to the Green Bay area in 1634 and visited the Winnebago Indians who lived |