Owosso

Owosso, a city of Shiawassee co., Michigan, on the Shiawassee river, at the junction of the Detroit and Milwaukee and the Jackson, Lansing, and Saginaw railroads, 75 m. N. W. of Detroit, and 25 m. N. E. of Lansing; pop. in 1870, 2,065; in 1874, 2,448. It is handsomely laid out, with streets crossing each other at right angles, and contains some fine residences. There are a saw mill, two grist mills, a plaster mill, two founderies and machine shops, two planing mills, an axe-helve factory, a chair factory, two cabinet factories, a brewery, a pump factory, a boot and shoe factory, a tile factory, four carriage and wagon factories, two brick yards, a marble yard, two wheat elevators, and a national bank. The city contains a mineral spring and bathing house, six hotels, a union school house costing $46,000, two weekly newspapers, and eight churches. Owosso was settled in 1835 and incorporated in 1859.

Owsley

Owsley, an E. county of Kentucky, intersected by the S. fork of the Kentucky river; area, about 460 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 3,889, of whom 75 were colored. It has a hilly and very broken surface, and a not very fertile soil. There are extensive forests and rich iron and coal mines. The chief productions in 1870 were 8,398 bushels of wheat, 103,055 of Indian corn, 20,072 of oats, and 42,073 lbs. of butter. There were 796 horses, 1,119 milch cows, 1,926 other cattle, 4,139 sheep, and 6,289 swine. Capital, Booneville.

Owyhee

Owyhee, the S. W. county of Idaho, bounded N. by Snake river, S. by Utah and Nevada, and W. by Oregon; area, 13,600 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 1,713, of whom 368 were Chinese. It is watered by the Bruneau and numerous other affluents of the Snake. The surface is uneven and mountainous, the county containing the Owyhee range. It is in parts heavily timbered, is well adapted to grazing, and contains some valuable farming land. The Bruneau valley is well sheltered, has excellent pasturage, and is a common wintering place of cattle. This county is one of the richest mining regions in the territory, and in 1870, according to the United States census, 5 gold (placer) and 9 gold and silver (quartz) mines were in operation. The agricultural productions were small. The value of live stock was $55,075. Capital, Silver City.

Oxeye

Oxeye, the common name of heliopsis Ioevis, a native plant of the composite family, which resembles the sunflower. It is a perennial, 2 to 4 ft. high, and not rare upon banks and in copses; though called Ioevis (smooth), its leaves are often rough. The sea oxeye (Borrichia frutescens) has close botanical relationship with the preceding; it is a somewhat shrubby plant, 6 to 12 ft. high, with yellow flowers, and is found along the coast of Virginia and southward. - Oxeye daisy is chrysanthemum leucanthemum (leucanthemum vulgare of some authors), a well known weed, which is described and figured under Daisy.