HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS, 
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ON THE GALENA DIVISION, 
Geneva is located on Fox River, at which 
point the river is well stocked with black bass, 
pickerel, and other (ish. The surrounding coun- 
try is rolling, about equally divided between 
‘prairie’ and “timber,” and affords fine 
shooting in season. Prairie chickens (pin- 
nated grouse), quails, woodcock, ruffed grouse, 
Lake, 
and other game abounds, Nelson's 
ON THE CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY, 
Nachusa is ninety-three miles from Chicago, 
White Rock, a popular pienic and fishing re- 
sort, is situated four miles north of the village, 
and is much frequented by parties from all 
portions of the State, The rock is a noted 
landmark, rising as it does sixty feet above 
the surface of the water of Rock River, and 
above the surrounding prairie, 
Dixon is about ninety-eight miles from Chi- 
HEAD OF THE BOYER, NEAR DENNISON, IOWA—-REACHED BY CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN R. R. 
Johnson’s Mound, and Harrington’s Island, 
are popular resorts from one to seven miles 
from the village. Its best hotel is the Union 
House, which can accommodate one hundred 
guests; charges, $2 a day. Geneva is thirty- 
six miles from Chicago. 
Flagg is seventy-nine miles from Chicago. 
On Kite River, some three-quarters of a mile 
from Flagg, there is fair fishing, while in the 
surrounding uplands quail and prairie chick- 
ens are found in large numbers. 
cago, and is the county seat of Lee county, 
and, of all the counties of Illinois, few equal 
it in productiveness of soil, and none surpass 
it in beauty of surface and healthfulness of 
climate. This Western Nden, in the northern 
portion of the Rock River Valley, has lost 
none of those attractions which famous wri- 
ters have so beautifully delineated in both 
prose and poetry. Forty years, it is true, 
have worked wonderful changes, ‘Then it had 
been said that the country bore the character 
