HUNTING: AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 
at Ashland of Davis, the landlord of the Colby 
House; these gentlemen are all ready and 
willing to afford information. 
Chequamegon Bay, the northern ter- 
minus of the Wisconsin Central Railroad, - 
is on an arm of Lake Superior, running 
southwest down among the Apostle Is- 
Jands into the wilderness of Wisconsin. 
It is the basin that holds the waters of 
ascore of beautiful streams, whose crys- 
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Sioux, Sand, and Onion, and such lesser 
streams as Fish, Whittlesey’s, Vanderven- 
ter’s, and Silver creeks, and Trout Brook. 
All these and many others are excellent 
trout streams, on whose banks the worn 
business man can sit and angle to his 
heart’s content. 
Houghton Point, distant about five 
miles, extends into the bay and rises to a 
height of one hundred feet.. Here there 
Grand Arch, opposiite Ashland, Chequamegon Bay. 
tal, ice-cold waters are filled with spec- 
kled trout, black bass, and pickerel. It 
is the best harbor in the great Northwest, 
and is surrounded with vast forests of 
pine, and its atmosphere is as ethereal as 
Eden’s, as hazy as an Indian Summer, 
as medicinal as that of Southern Europe. 
It is the home of the Chippewa nation. 
Here, within the radius of twenty miles, 
are some of the finest fishing grounds in 
America, including such rivers as White, 
is a charming little cascade in the centre 
of a grove of Norway pines. The views 
from Houghton Point are grand. They 
overlook the Apostle Islands and the 
open lake beyond. Around. its rock 
bound shores, washed: for centuries’ by 
the waters of Gutchee Gumee, lurk’ and 
hide the speckled trout. . Many fine spec- 
imens are taken here every year. 
Bayfield, fifteen miles from Ashland, 
is a beautiful village... It might well be 
