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Fishing and Hunting Resorts. 



Deer, bears, wild cats, foxes, ruffed grouse, woodcock, 

 duck and plover are very plentiful, and the moose of late 

 years have been rapidly increasing in numbers. Land- 

 locked salmon, trout, togue, white perch, pickerel and black 

 bass fishing is unexcelled. 



This county contains 147 lakes and ponds, and is a com- 

 paratively new section for the sportsman, being now for the 

 first time accessible by railroad, the thoroughly ecpiipped and 

 first class road, the Washington County R. R. being opened 

 for travel in 1899. This railroad is called the "Sunrise" 

 route, and the county is called the " Sunrise " County. This 

 railroad extends from Washington Junct., on the Mt. Desert 

 Branch of the M. C. R. R., 33 m. from Bangor, to Machias, 

 Hastport, Calais and Princeton, 100 m. through the finest of 

 hunting and fishing resorts. When speaking of fishing re- 

 sorts in this county what we say will apply equally as well to 

 them as hunting resorts. Twenty-five years ago when deer 

 had practically become extinct in Maine on account of the 

 depredations of the cru.st hunter, " pot hunter," market 

 hunters and wolves, Maine enacted stringent laws ; the 

 wolves suddenly disappeared and the State was re-stocked by 

 the deer in this county. At Washington Junct. you take the 

 W. C. R. R. for all points in this county. The old stage 

 route from this junction, or from T^ranklin Roads in Hancock 

 County, takes you to within easy reach of Flanders. Spring 

 River and other small poi)ds in this town, (Franklin), in 

 which there is good land-locked salmon, trout, togue, white 

 perch and pickerel fishing ; you pass along the shore of 

 Taunton and Hog Ba}' within easy reach of Georges, Don- 

 nells, and other small ponds and in close proximity to Fox, 

 Long, Gt. Tunk, Round, Rocky and other ponds, 20 m. to 

 Cherry field ; these ponds afford good salmon, trout, white 

 perch and pickerel fishing, and all along this route there is 

 first class deer, ruffed grouse, and around the waters most ex- 

 cellent duck shooting, but the railroad is the route the sports- 

 men usually take. Franklin is the first station after leaving 

 Washington Junct., beautifully situated on an arm of French- 

 man's Bay, and with Unionville next has many natural at- 

 tractions for the touri-st ; before reaching Unionville 3-ou pass 

 close to Donnells, Flanders, Great Tunk, Long, Rocky, 



