developments. Even people from our own state travel the 

 intervening thousand miles to enjoy an outing there, when, 

 did they but know it, they had quite as attractive a place in 

 which to enjoy themselves at home. 



Yes, quite as attractive, but few have taken the pains to in- 

 vestigate. A disgracefully small proportion of the people 

 in the southern half of the state know what the northern half 

 is like. For what do we travel to Maine? Woods, game, fish, 

 canoe routes and scenery. Our north woods has them all! 



Woods! Over hundreds of thousands of acres our forests 

 stretch unbroken s'ave here and there where a lake or a rugged 

 hogback splits the cover. And that woods so closely resembles 

 the woods of Maine that only an expert could tell the differ- 

 ence. Pine, birch, cedar, tamarack, poplar and occasional 

 patches of other hardwoods. . 



Game? Where in the United States is the wild life more 

 plentiful than in that great reach of forest north of Lake 

 Superior? Moose, deer, bear, partridge and many of the 

 smaller animals are there in abounding plenty. As many as 

 twenty moose have been sighted in a day's paddling. The 

 drumming of the partridge can be heard at any hour of the 

 day or night. The deer are everywhere. 



Fish? The fisherman who cannot find what he wants in 

 some of the northern lakes or streams is certainly hard to 

 please. From the small boy who bobs for perch in the shal- 

 low lakes to the scientific angler who casts for muscallonge, 

 the black bass specialist finds plenty of sport in the lakes of 

 the -central north, the streams and the lakes of the northeast 

 abound in speckled and lake trout, and for the fisherman who 

 simply wants to catch fish, pike, crappies, blue gills and pick- 

 erel can be pulled from the water almost anywhere. It is 

 necessary only to pick the locality and the right kind of fish 

 are ready to hook. 



Canoeing? There is one portion of the State where the 

 canoe is the only practical means of travel. Beautiful routes 

 hundreds of miles in length, through rock bound lakes and 

 illusive streams, with short portages and ideal camping 

 places can be found for parties of all descriptions. Neither 



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