LA SALLE, a co. in n. Illinois, receives the Fox and Vermilion rivers, flowing into it from other counties, uniting with the bead waters of the Illinois river within its bor ders: 1152 sq.m.; pop. '70, 60,792 11,530 of American birth. It has a surface of broad prairie land slightly undulating, generally well timbered, and possessinga soil of remark able fertility, adapted to stock-raising and the raising of fruit and cereals. Large deposits of bituminous coal, sandstone, and limestone are found. Cash value of farms in 1870, $25.274,479. Total estimated value of all farm production, including additions to stock, $5.502,502. Value of all live stock in 1870, $3.906,367. Among its products in 1870 are 24,673 horses, 17,200 sheep, 273,374 bushels of wheat, 3,077,028 bushels of Indian corn, and 1,509,642 bushels of oats; other products are barley, buckwheat, tobacco, wool, potatoes, and 1,240,386 lbs. of butter, 52,416 lbs. of honey, also sorghum, flaxseed, and
hops. Value of home manufactures $91,928. It had in 1870, 206 manufacturing estab lishments employing 1349 hands, with a capital of $1,691,030, annual product $2.690,152, engaged in the manufacture of flour, agricultural implements, saddlery and harness, carriages, dressed flax, window glass, machinery, and other industries. It has 5 coal mines employing 379 hands, with a capital of $461,360, annual product $395,535. It is intersected in the s. by the Chicago and Paducah railroad where it crosses the w. division of the Chicago and Alton railroad, and by the Chicago, Pekin and Southwestern railroad; and in the n. by the Illinois Central, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific. Seat of justice, Ottawa.