32 NORTHERN LAKES 



or fish as his inclination dictates, and always with a bounteous 

 showing. 



South east of Rainy Lake some forty miles is Vermilion Lake, a 

 body of water which will some day become popular as a resort. At 

 present it is fast becoming famous as the ''region of metals,'' gold, 

 silver and iron. There is no lack of game in any of these northern 

 wildernesses. Vermilion Lake is eighty five miles from Duluth, but 

 so primitive is the intervening territory that one might suppose 

 himself a thousand miles from civilization. 



West of Duluth along the Northern Pacific Ry there are plenty of 

 good hunting and fishing grounds. In the vicinity of Brainard, and 

 the head waters of the Mississippi, and in fact wherever a lake or 

 stream appears, game or fish haunts may be looked for 



THE PARK REGION of Mmnesota, including within its 

 borders over a thousand lakes, is probably the most noted of any 

 section of the State. The St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Ry. 

 pierces this famous region in all its parts St Cloud, Sauk Center, 

 Osakis, Alexandria, Ashby, Fergus Falls and Brown's Valley are all 

 familiar names to the knight of the gun and rod. In the neighbor- 

 hood of each of these towns are lakes — from one to a dozen all more 

 or less wooded and many quite primitive These waters produce all 

 the usual varieties of fish; bass, pickerel and wall-eyed pike pre- 

 dominating "Water-fowl, prairie chicken, partridge, grouse and 

 other game birds are plentiful. 



Along the Sioux City division of the C, St P M. & O. Railway 

 there is good fishing and considerable small game, especially in the 

 vicinity of St. Peter, Mankato, Minneopa Falls, Lake Crystal and 

 Worthington. Westward from Kasota, Redwood Falls, Lake Ben- 

 ton and along the shores of the UPPER MINNESOTA RIVER 

 there is also good sport, especially about Big Stone Lake, the 

 source of the Minnesota. 



Lake Traverse, just over the dividing ridge, and one of the sources 

 of the Red River of the North, is equally as good for sport as Big 

 Stone Lake. 



These two lakes, extending for about 50 miles north and south, 

 form part of the boundary line between Minnesota and Dakota. 

 The waters of one flow into the Gulf of Mexico, and the other into 

 Hudson's Bay, yet their head-waters are only about one-fourth of a 

 mile apart. 



Although one third of the State of Minnesota is said to be covered 



