The Red Gods call out to you to take any one of these 

 trips or hundreds like them that might be mapped out. Get 

 full directions as to portages from guides. Prepare carefully 

 and you'll not waste your time. 



TRIP NUMBER ONE. 



Ely to Harding. Start from Ely. Put in at Winton. 

 Through Fall lake. A convenient portage to Pipestone river. 

 The trip down Pipestone river, portaging around Pipestone 

 falls, into Baswood lake. Prom here go northwest. Three 

 portages, through Crooked lake. Portage around Curtain 

 falls to Iron lake. Portage to Lac La Croix. From Lac La 

 Croix, portage to Loon lake, thence into Little Vermillion. 

 Three small portages around rapids in river, will bring ca- 

 noeist into south end of Crane lake. Harding is located on 

 this lake. From Harding stage can be taken to Vermillion 

 dam on Vermillion lake. Steamer to Tower on the Duluth 

 and Iron Range railroad. This trip will take approximately 

 ten days. 



TRIP NUMBER TWO. 



Ely to Clearwater Lake Across the Burntside State Forest. 

 This is an easy trip and will not take more than one day for 

 a good canoeist. Two or three days might be spent fishing 

 and the return trip made in a day. Put in at Ely and go up 

 the Burntside river. Portage to Burntside lake, down the 

 lake and then portage to Crab lake. Then portage to Wolf 

 lake, go down Kork creek to Kork lake. Then down the 

 creek into Clearwater late. 



TRIP NUMBER THREE. 



Grand Rapids to the Rainy River. This trip should be taken 

 only when the water is high. Start at Grand Rapids and go 

 down the Mississippi. Go up the Prairie river into Clearwater 

 river. * From there through Wabano (named after the old 

 Indian chief) into Trout lake. Wabano and Trout lakes are 

 beautifully situated, surrounded with hills partly timbered 

 with hardwoods. From Trout lake there is a one-mile portage 

 to Ruby lake. From Ruby lake through the Rice lake chain 

 there are two quarter-mile portages. The portages are all 



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