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for mill purposes in general. The ori- 
ginal lake was some seven miles long and 
about four miles wide in the widest part, 
while the overflow of swamp land is prob- 
ably as much more. When full, the water | 
is raised twelve feet on the lakes, whieh | 
damages the sporting somewhat in the | 
ealry part of the Summer, but by about | 
the lst of September the water is near- 
ly down to the old bed, and fishing and | 
hunting are both good. A dozen or 
more ponds empty into the lake on the 
south and southeast side, among which 
are Bossout, Cat Mountain, Cow Horn, 
Olmstead, Darnneedle, Fish Pole, or Lit- 
tle Grass, as it issome times called, Lit- 
tle Gull, Curtis, and other small ones. 
Nearly all of these are good for trout or 
deer, and some of them for both. 
The hunting ground is reached by 
two routes. First—leave the Rome, 
Watertown & Ogdensburg Railroad at 
Gouveneur, going through Edwards, to 
Fine, twenty-five miles, by stage, three 
times a week, or by private conveyances. 
At Fine you can put up ata good hotel, 
or go on five miles to Griffin’s, where you 
will find as nice fare and accommoda- 
tions as can be had at a first-class farm 
house. Here, or at the hotel, you will 
get good guides with light boats for 
$3 per day and board; also team — 
usually oxen and sled—to convey boats 
and baggage to the foot of still water 
on the outlet or inlet, as the river is fre- 
quently called above and below the lake. 
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Second—you can leave railroad et Can- 
ton and go direct to the foot of Cran- 
berry Lake by team. The distance is 
about forty miles and is accomplished in 
a day. You can purchase good light 
boats weighing thirty to forty pounds 
at Canton, or hire rather poor ones at 
the hotel at the lake. You can get 
there with or without guides. Finally, 
one to three miles in length. 
THE SPORTSMAN’S AND TOUTIST’S GUIDE. 
there is plenty of work connected with a 
_ trip to this part of the woods, and the 
lazy ones had better stay at home. But 
those who are willing to rough it a Jit- 
tle can have a good time. 
IN NORTHWEST IOWA. 
Riding north from Algona, which is 
ou the Chicago, Milwaukee & Saint 
Paul Railroad, you enter upon an ele- 
vated prairie plateau, which runs west- 
wardly to the Sioux River, embracing 
numerous beautiful lakes, well stocked 
with every variety of fish known to this 
latitude. The pickerel, wall-eyed pike, 
muskalonge and black and green bass, 
and crappy dominating. Ten miles from 
the Iowa line in Minnesota is Fairmont, 
on the Southern Minnesota Railroad. 
Fairmont, four hundred and seventy-five 
miles from St. Louis, is a most inviting 
field for hunting and fishing. Itis upon the 
Centre Chain lakes: East Chain, Cen- 
tre Chain and West Chain from the main 
group of lakes there, with fourteen ad- 
ditional ones within a radius of twelve 
miles from Fairmont. Commencing five 
miles east of Fairmont, the East Chain 
running from north to south, is composed 
of thirteen lakes, the most southerly 
one of the group approaching near the 
| Towa line being a deep, clear lake, about 
four and a half miles long by one and a 
half in width, and the other lakes, ex- 
tending northward, varying in size from 
The East 
Chain has seventeen lakes, extending 
twenty-four miles upon a direct line from 
north to south, their borders covered 
with fine oak, walnut, sugar maple, and 
other timber trees, in the season covered 
with water fowl and filled with the finest 
fish, within thirty hours of St. Louis by 
rail. 
Prairie chickens in season are here by 
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