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20) THOMPSON'S COAST PILOT. With an uninterrupted water communication East and South, a har- bor five miles in length, capable of accommodating the shipping of the whole lakes, it will eventually be connected by railroad with every important point West and North, as the nearest route to and from the Eastern and Southern markets. Astor is the name of a suburb of Green Bay, lying at tie mouth of Fox River, while on the opposite side of the stream stands Fort Howard, surrounded by a village of the same name, where ter- minates the: Chicago and North-west Railway, running south to Chicago, 242 miles. | OCONTO, Situated on Green Bay, at the mouth of the Oconto River, is a new and thriving lumber settlement. It lies twenty-five miles north of the town of Green Bay, having daily communication by steamboat. : As regards the lumbering interests of this region, a late writer says : "Oconto County is a portion of the great Pine region of Northern Wisconsin, lying along the west shore of Green Bay, and is, for lumbering purposes, one of the most important counties in the state--being easy of access during the season of navigation, and supplied with an almost exhaustless amount of excellent pine timber." Menomonee is at the extreme northern verge of the county, at the mouth of Menomonee River, and is already the seat of an important trade., The settlement (which also includes " Mission Point > and " Marinette") is scattered along the bank of the river for a distance of some two miles, and contains about 1,500 inhabitants. The extensive mills of the New York Lumber Co. are located at this point, and are well worth a trip from your city to see. Some idea may be formed of the vast amount of business done by this Company, when the fact is stated, that they had within their booms, at the commencement of the season, over /fifty acres of logs. This vast amount of material will find its way into market, before the season closes, in the shape of good marketable lumber. This Com- pany's Mills alone turn out over half a million of feet per week, all of which, I believe, goes to the Chicago market. -- But it must be borne in mind that this is but a fraction of the lumber which is made in this county. There are, besides the mills