;[4 HUNTING AND FISHING. 



Teams and guides can be hired on application to the 

 railroad agents. 



At Clarendon, 330 miles from St. Louis and 215 miles 

 from Cairo, is the White River, in which fish of various 

 kinds, principally trout, bass and croppie, can be found. 

 Duck, geese and other water fowl are plentiful, while the 

 banks and bottom tands both east and west of the railroad 

 furnish bear, deer and smaller game. 



South of Clarendon commences the Grand Prairie of 

 Arkansas, which can be reached from Roe, Ulm or Stutt- 

 gart. This prairie, 20 miles in width and 80 miles in 

 length, dotted with islands of timber, provides the finest 

 chicken and quail shooting in the West, while the bayous 

 and bottom lands of the White and Arkansas Rivers, 

 which bound the prairie on the north and south, are full 

 of deer and turkey. Teams, etc., can be hired at Ulm or 

 Stuttgart. 



Between Cairo and Maiden are what is known as the 

 sunk lands, vast marshy tracks, with ridges of dry lands, 

 swarming with duck, geese, swan, brant and all varieties 

 of water fowl. These lands can be reached from LaForge, 

 Ristine, Paw Paw Junction or New Madrid. Good hotel 

 accommodation can be had at New Madrid, also guides 

 and boats. 



The various sections of the country south of Maiden 

 partaking of the same general characteristics, it is hard to 

 particularize any special spot as either the best or the 

 most desirable, and as the localities which at one time 

 during the season may abound in game, at other times 

 may not be so well stocked, the best plan to pursue would 

 be to purchase tickets to the farthest point which time 

 and means will justify, and stop oft' at the intermediate 

 points en route until a satisfactory location is found. 

 This can easily be done, as Cotton Belt Hunters' tick- 

 ets provide for stop-oft" at pleasure both going and re- 

 turning. 



Below find conditions under which Hunters' tickets 

 are sold ; also round-trip rates from St. Louis and Cairo. 



