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The village of Phillips, seventy-six miles south of here, on 

 the Wisconsin Central railway, is also a most charming sum- 

 mer resort. It is situated on the bank of Elk lake, a beauti- 

 ful little sheet of water, affording delightful rowing, sailing 

 and bathing facilities and the surrounding country also 

 abounds in fish and game. 



A great deal of game is killed in this vicinity by those 

 who take the trouble to hunt it. Mr. Fewell shipped over 

 3,000 pounds of venison from this place a year ago last winter. 

 Only a very little has been killed during the past winter. 

 More trapping has been done, however, than in previous 

 winters. He has shipped this past winter large quantities of 

 furs, mostly beaver and otter. I met here Mr. C. R. Patter- 

 son, an old Indian trader, who has a post on the headwaters 

 of the Flambeau river, about a hundred miles northeast of 

 Phillips. He described a lake that lies a few miles from his post, 

 called Trout Lake, which he says abounds in a variety of 

 trout closely resembling the brook-trout, but which differs from 

 them slightly in some respects, and grow much larger. They 

 often attain a weight of thirty pounds. They also differ 

 widely from the lake trout. They are readily taken with 

 either the fly or live minnow. Several Chicago sportsmen 

 have visited the lake, and can bear testimony to the superior 

 quality, large size and great numbers of the trout it contains. 

 The lake is eight miles long, six miles wide, and contains 

 several islands, each of which covers ten acres or more, and 

 affords beautiful camping-grounds. Mr. P. says all the varie- 

 ties of game that inhabit this country are abundant in this 

 locality. 



Taken all in all, this northern portion of Wisconsin is 

 probably the best fish and game country now to be found in 

 the Northwest. It is reached by way of the Chicago, Mil- 

 waukee & St. Paul and the Wisconsin Central railroads, 



