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and bass, weighing from two to twenty-five 
pounds, are caught. The Pennsylvania House, 
kept by H. & L. Gund, is the best hotel to 
stop at. 
In the forests surrounding the village of 
Belle Plaine are deer and wild turkeys, and 
on the plains prairie chickens, quail, wood- 
cock, snipe, and other game-birds. Ducks, 
geese, and brant are found in all the streams 
and bayous. Distant from the village one 
and a half miles, are Iowa River and Salt 
water, affording excellent fishing for trout, 
bass, pike, pickerel, &c. There is fine shoot- 
ing over chickens, woodcock, snipe, and other 
game. 
At Marshalltown, two hundred and eighty- 
nine miles from Chicago, the Central Railroad 
of Iowa is crossed, giving direct connections for 
Liscomb, Eldora, Mason City, Northwood, ard 
other fine shooting centres north of Marshiall- 
town, and Grinnell, Oskaloosa, Ottumwa, and 
others points south, where sport equally as 
MINERAL DOCK, ESCANABA, MICH.— ACCESSIBLE BY 
THE CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN 
RAILWAY. 
Creek, affording fine piscatorial sport. The 
variety of fish embrace pike, pickerel, black 
bass, &c. There are four hotels, ranging in 
price from $1 to $2 per day. Belle Plaine is 
two hundred and fifty-four miles from Chica- 
go. 
At Tama, two hundred and seventy miles 
from Chicago, the Toledo & North-Western 
Railway connects with the Chicago & North- 
Western, and runs three miles northwest to 
Toledo, the county seat of Tama county. The 
county is well watered by the Iowa River, 
Wolf Creek, and other streams of pure spring 
good can be enjoyed. The road runs from 
Northwood south to Albia, a distance of sume 
two hundred miles. 
All kinds of feathered game abounds in the 
vicinity of State Centre, three hundred and 
three miles from Chicago. 
At Ames, three hundred and twenty-six 
miles from Chicago, connection is made with 
the Des Moines & Minnesota Railroad, running 
south from Ames thirty-seven miles, affording 
an opportunity to visit the shooting grounds 
along the line to Des Moines and the country 
beyond. 
