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HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 
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Minnesota City, three hundred and three 
miles from Chicago, is located on Rolling 
Stone River. Brook trout in considerable 
numbers are caught in the streams at the head- 
waters of the river. 
Stockton, three hundred and eight miles 
from Chicago, is surrounded by timbered bluffs, 
affording good shooting. 
Rochester is in Olmstead county, Minnesota, 
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from Chicago, is situated on the outlet of 
Lake Hlyrian, in Waseca county, Minnesota. 
The lake is a beautiful body of pure, clear 
water, seven miles long, and is stocked with 
many varieties of fish, and recently salmon 
have been introduced. 
Eagle Lake, four hundred and twenty-one 
miles from Chicago, is in Blue Earth county, 
Minnesota, and in the centre of ‘The Big 
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LAKE MINNETONKA, MIENESOTA, 
Accessible by Chicago & Northwestern Railway. 
three hundred and forty-seven miles from Chi- 
cago. The ccunty is well watered by the 
-Zumbro (?) and Root Rivers, which afford 
good duck-shooting and fishing. The county 
is about two-thirds gently undulating prairie, 
the balance heavily wooded with oak, hickory, 
maple, aud other hard wood, affording excel- 
lent game covers. Rochester is located in a 
beautiful valley about two miles wide, through 
which the Zumbro (?) River flows. Picturesque 
bluffs lie along the valley, from the crests ‘of 
which many fine views are obtained. Game 
is abundant on the prairie around the city. It 
has thiee hotels, which provice excellently 
and well for their guests. 
Woeds,” which runs along the Minnesota 
| River for over one hundred miles. The village 
is built on the shore of Eagle Lake, which is 
five miles in circumference, and ‘full of fish.” 
No better water-fowl shooting grounds can be 
found in the country. Reed birds are found 
in countless numbers. Madison Lake, forty 
miles in circumference, is some three miles 
north. There is ouly one good hotel in the 
village. 
Mankato, four hundred and thirty-two miles 
from Chicago, is the county seat of Blue Karth 
county. Five rivers converge here and empty 
into the Minnesota; they are the Blue Earth, 
Maple, Cobb, La Sueur, and Wautonwan, and 
Janesville, four hundred and thirteen miles | cause the vicinity to be called the “ Undine 
