GAME AXD FISH RESORTS. 5 I 



St. J'oseph County — 



South Bend. Pinnated grouse. Reached by rail. 

 Stark County — 



The Kaitkakce River which flows through the northwestern part of the State, 

 is a great resort for sportsmen from Chicago, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and other 

 cities. The game includes ducks of every variety, geese, brant, sand hill cranes, 

 pinnated and ruffed grouse, quail, snipe, woodcock and reed birds. Offish there 

 are bass, pike, pickerel, jack salmon, and muscalonge. One of the best centres 

 V-ir good sport, is English Lake, a small station on the Pittsburgh and Chicago 

 Railroad. There are two good hotels at this place for the accommodation of hunt- 

 ers and their families who come here from the prominent cities on the line of this 

 road. The hotels furnish boats, decoys, and a pusher, for which you pay $3 a 

 day, board $2 a day. Their boats are made double bowed, flat bottom, very 

 wide, and can go anywhere, from two inches to a fathom of water. A t English 

 Lake, Dr. George Yeakel will be pleased to give all needed information. 



San Pierre, on the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad, is three 

 and a half miles from the Kankakee River. Hotel $1 ; boat, team and driver $5. 

 Steuben County — 



Angola and other points in the county, reached via the Fort Wayne, Jackson 

 and Saginaw Railroad, afford good shooting and fishing. See Noble County. 

 Tippecanoe County — 



La Fayette. Quail, ruffed grouse and rabbit shooting on the line of the 

 Toledo, Wabash and Western Railroad. 



Vigo County— 



Terre Haute. The Wabash River affords fine bass fishing. 

 Wayne County — 



Centreville. The southern part of Wayne County is a good locality for small 

 game, such as squirrels, rabbits, and quail. Here are several packs of dogs, and 

 in winter great sport is enjoyed in " circling " foxes, and in hunting coons at 

 night. The trespass laws are rigidly enforced in this county. Centreville is the 

 nearest railroad station on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad. 

 Very good hotels. 



Wells County — 



Bluffton. Good wild turkey and quail shooting. Reached via the Fort 

 Wayne, Muncie and Cincinnati Railroad. Hotels, ^1.50; teams $2. Country 

 flat, heavy timber land. 



Keystone. Deer and wild turkey shooting within a few miles of town. Reached 

 via the Fort Wayne, Muncie and Cincinnati Railroad. 

 White County — 



Reynolds. Ducks, geese, pinnated grouse, woodcock and snipe. Reached 

 via the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad. Hotel $4 to $5 per week ; 

 teams $3.50 per day. 



Whitley County— 



Columbia City, and other stations on the line of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne 

 and Chicago Railroad, are in the vicinity of good hunting and fishnig. (See Noble 

 County.) The conductor and employees of the railroad will always give infor- 

 mation of the game localities. 



IOWA. 



Area, 50,914 square miles, population, 1,191,792. The State 

 has no mountains, the surface being generally rolling prairie. 

 In the north-western section is an elevated plateau called the 



