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trout fishing, partridge and woodcock hunting. On your 

 way to Rangeley Lakes from Phillips you pass through Mad- 

 rid and Redington and by Redington Pond, a famous trout 

 pond, where the fisherman is never disappointed. 



At Rangele}' is the famous Rangeley Lake, ten miles long, 

 three miles wide ; unexcelled land-locked salmon and trout 

 fishing, fly fishing in all this region ; here is the famous 

 Rangeley Lake House, with its golf links and its justly 

 famous spring of the purest water, J. B. Marble, proprietor. 

 Salmon caught in this lake weighing 15 pounds ; trout one 

 to ten pounds. 



From Rangeley the famous Quimby Pond is reached, six 

 miles by team ; unsurpassed fly fishing ; here is also the 

 beginning of the buckboard road to Loon Lake and the fa- 

 mous sporting camp of R. S. York, and the Kennebago region 

 12 miles, to Kennebago Lake, and the long and favora- 

 bly known sporting camps of Richardson Bros. 



It almost passes belief the amount of land-locked salmon 

 and trout taken in this region every season. The famous 

 "Seven Ponds," so called, is reached from Rangeley, 27 

 miles by buckboard from' Rangeley to Kennebago Lake, then 

 steamer across the lake, then buckboard to camps at Beaver 

 Pond, and the sporting camps of the famous Ed. Grant and 

 Son. No better fly fishing for trout can be found in the 

 world. 



From Rangeley is also reached Sandy River Pond, 

 three miles, trout fishing ; Round and Dodge Ponds, good 

 land-locked salmon and troUt fishing ; Long Pond, eight 

 miles, famous for trout and land-locked salmon ; Gull Pond, 

 or Salmon Lake, excellent salmon and trout fishing; 

 there are also many other small ponds, too numerous to 

 mention, reached from Rangele}', where good fl}- fishing may 

 be had. Here parties are made up, guides engaged, supplies 

 and camping outfits procured for fishing or hunting expedi- 

 tions of Butler & Cakes, Rangeley Mercantile Co., G. A. 

 Proctor, Mrs. Etta Dill and Mrs. L. D. Jacobs. Rangeley is 

 a great center of a vast hunting and fishing territory. Deer 

 are very plentiful in all this region, and large numbers are 

 annually taken, also some moose and bears. Rufled grouse 

 are very plentiful. 



