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GAME AND FISH RESORTS. 



The Southern Border Counties — 



These counties abound in fine game, including turkeys, peccaries, deer, ducks, 

 coyotes, sandiiill cranes, partridges, jack rabbits, with a smaller variety, eagles, 

 long billed curlew, herons, snipe. 



Brozuitsville, Cameron County, is a good centre to start from. The route is 

 via steamer to Brazos Santiago. 



Travis Couttty— 



A ustin. See Belknap, Young County. Austin is the terminus of the Western 

 Division of the Houston and Texas Central Railway. 



TIpshur County— 



Longuieiv. Deer, wild turkeys and ducks. Reached via the Texas and Pacific 

 Railroad. Board $6 per week, $20 per month. 



Van Znndt County — 



Will's Point. Deer, and pinnated and rufi'ed grouse. Reached via Texas and 

 Pacific Railroad. Teams $4 to $5. Provide camping outfit. 



Grand Saline. Deer in abundance. Reached via the Texas and Pacific Rail- 

 way. Teams $3. Prepare for camping. 



Young County— 



Belknap. All this northern part of Texas, embracing both the Cross Timbers 

 as a centre, and flanked by extensive prairies on the east and west, and abound- 

 ing in game (in their places and season), hold out their peculiar charms, and 

 invite the sportsman to the tented field. When acorns and other mast are plenty, 

 and have fallen, then in the open woods, the sportsman will find deer, ducks, 

 geese, and turkeys abundant, quail and rabbits plenty, antelope, grouse, and 

 squirrels medium, and bear occasionally, to say nothing of prairie wolves, foxes, 

 coons, possums, etc., not generally noticed. October, November and December 

 are the perfect months for sport, and January and February not bad, but having 

 a few days, at intervals, of rather cold weather — that is, a few inches of snow and 

 ice, with' cold, northerly winds — thus constituting what is so well known in Texas, 

 as a " norther." 



These remarks apply to northern Texas in winter, while along the gulf, or 

 southern coast, these same winter months have the mild climate of New York in 

 September. Connecting with the railroad running south from Dennison, near the 

 north line of the State, are stages which convey persons at once to almost any 

 part of the State desired. For central cities, in which to spend the winter for 

 health, as well as for sporting, San Antonio stands first, and Austin, the capital 

 of the State, second. These places cannot well be excelled, everything con- 

 sidered. 



UTAH. 



Utah has an area of io8,ock) miles. The Wasatch Chain travers- 

 ing the central part, and numerous other ranges give a decidedly 

 mountainous character to the Territor)\ Deep cafions, dashing 

 mountain streams, and plains are the principal features of the 

 country. Though the game found here is not abundant, the list 

 includes some of the larger game sought after by the hunter. Elk, 

 deer, antelope, mountain sheep, bears and the common fur bear- 

 ing animals with water fowl and the birds afford fair sport. The 

 mountain streams and the lakes abound in salmon and trout ot 

 superior size, and here the angler will find opportunity for his 

 highest skill. All parts of the Territory may be reached from 



