44 GAME AND FISH RESORTS. 



Ford County— 



Gibson City. Pinnated grouse abundant. Reached via the Chicago and Padu- 

 cah, and other railroads. 



Franklin County— 



Benton. Good wild turkey shooting in the neighborhood. Reached by wagon 

 road from McLeansborougli on the St. Louis and South-eastern Railroad, or trom 

 Duquoin on the Illinois Central Railroad. 



Fulton County— 



The Illinois River. See Mason County. 



Lewiston is within a few miles of the celebrated sporting grounds of [he 

 Illinois River. Reached via the Chicago and Alton Railroad. 



Sancoch, County — 



Nauvoo. Deer and wild turkeys, with an abundance of pinnated grouse, 

 w^oodcock and quail. Reached by river steamer, or wagon road from Keokuk. 



Iroquois County — 



St. Marys. Ducks, geese, crane, plover, snipe, quail, woodcock, ruffed and 



Sinniited grouse. Reached via the Cincinnati, Lafayette and Chicago Railroad, 

 oard $2. 



Jefferson County— 



Calutnct. Duck and snipe shooting. Reached via the Illinois Central, or the 

 Michigan Central Railroad. 



Jersey County — 



Gra/ton is a few miles above Alton at the junction of the Illinois River with 

 the Mississippi. 



In the vicinity of the mouth of the Illinois River there is good deer hunting. 

 In the marshes and lakes are snipe in their season, and ducks most of the year. 

 In the corn fields and stubble, an abundance of quail. On the brushy hillsides 

 there are ruffed grouse, locally known as " pheasants." Great numbers of geese 

 and brants frequent this vicinity, and many are killed as they pass from their 

 feeding grounds in the fields to the sandbars" and lakes. There are a number of 

 places in the Mississippi, near the mouth of the Illinois, where the current is too 

 rapid and the shallow waters too turbulent to freeze at any time. Both geese 

 and ducks (mallards) frequent these open places. Take rail'to Alton, thence by 

 wagon road. 



Kane County — 



Batavia. The Fox River, from the Wisconsin line to its junction with the 

 Illinois River at Ottawa, a distance of about one hundred miles, abounds with 

 fish common to the tributaries of the Mississippi, and probably second to none in 

 numbers, variety and size. At the head of the river are a number of lakes abound- 

 ing in mascalonge, black, silver, rock and river bass, yellow perch, gar, pickerel, 

 wall-eyed pike, red horse, bull heads, silver eels, and four varieties of dace. 

 Batavia is on the Chicago and Northwestern Railway. 



Gejieva is built on terraces on both sides of Fo.k river, which is well stocked 

 with black bass, pickerel, pike, sun, and other fish. Its best hotel is The Union 

 House, which can accommodate one hundred guests at $3 per day. 



The surrounding country is rolling, and is about equally divided between 

 prairie and timber. The county affords fine shooting in season. Pinnated grouse, 

 quail, woodcock, partridge, and other game abound. JVelson\ Lake, Johnson s 

 Mound., and Barritigton's Island are popular resorts, one to seven miles from the 

 village. Take the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. 



Xa&e County — 



Deerfield. Black squirrel shooting is good in the woods about Deerfield. 

 Take the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, twenty miles Irom Chicago. 



Fox Lake. Fine hunting in the neighborhood. The duck shooting is 

 excellent. 



Lake Zurich. See Palatine, Cook County, 



Wazikegan. Game of most kinds abundant ; fox and black squirrels very- 

 plenty. Reached via the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. Good hotels. 



