ee a a Ee ee em oe eG Tie cal aT — 
HUNTING AND FISHING GROUNDS AND PLEASURE RESORTS. 
hotel. Trussville Depot, Birmingham, and 
Jonesboro’, are in Jefferson county, and are 
good game centres. The county is mountain- 
ous, and contains a good supply of deer atid 
bears, while the fields and swamps are well 
filled with quail and woodcock. One hotel at 
Trussville, $2 a day; and at Birmingham, four. 
Jovesboro’ lies in an unsettled portion of 
Jones’ Valley, west one mile from Salem 
Sprirgs. East of Jonesboro’ and bounding 
Jones’ Valley runs the famous Iron Mountain. 
In the mountains are deer, bears, turkeys, 
squirrels, rabbits, &c., and in the cultivated 
fields and swamps are quail and woodcock. 
East of Jonesboro’ is Shades Creek. Vailey 
Creek runs through Jones’ Valley ; it is about 
ove hundred feet in width. and one of the 
prettiest in the State. It is fed by springs, 
and always has an abundant supply of water. 
The most remarkabie is Salem Springs, situ- 
ated at the terminus of the valley, overlook- 
ing it for miles. These waters differ from 
others, being sparkling and clear, carbonic gas 
escaping in large quantities, so as to give the 
main spring the appearance of constant effer- 
vescence. They are resorted to annually by 
invalids, who camp around them. It will be 
hard to find a place better suited for sports- 
men. It has one good hotel. For hunting in 
Sumter county, stop at Cuba. It has good 
hotel accommodations at $1.50 a day. 
On the Memphis & Charleston Railroad.— 
This lime runs through Colbert, Lawrence, 
Morgan, Madison, Jackson, and Lauderdale 
counties. Good shooting points are accessi- 
ble from Leighton, in Colbert county (one 
hotel—$1.50 a day ; 36 a week); Town Creek 
(one hotel—$150 a day; $8 a week), or 
Courtland (one hotel—$2.50 a day; Sl4a 
week); Hillsboro’ (one hotel—$1 a day; $5 
a week): or Wheeler (one hotel—$4 a week; 
$13 a month), in Lawrence county; Trinity 
(no hotel), in Morgan county: Brownsboro’ 
(ro hotel), in Madison county; Larkinsville 
(no hotel); Scottsboro’ (two hotels—$1.50 a 
a day: $5 a week); Bellefonte; Stevenson 
Station (one hotel—$2.25 a day ; $15 a week), 
in Jackson county; or Florence Station (one 
hotel—$15 to $40 a month). In the vicinity 
of Courtland is good deer, turkey, quail, and 
duck shooting. The Mountain House, eight 
miles distanz from Courtland, is a very pleas- 
ant Summer resort. Lawrence county is in 
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a beautiful valley, having a level surface. It 
is nine miles in width, with the Tennessee 
River on the north, and a skirt of mountains 
on the south. The Mussel Shoals on Tennes- 
see River are seven miles from Wheeler. 
Lauderdale county, perhaps, furnishes the 
best sport of any county in the State. It is 
Situated in the most noted game region of 
Northern Alabama, and splendid shooting can 
be had almost anywhere. Every field, it may 
be said, contains a covey of quail, and the 
woods are well supplied with deer, wild tur- 
keys, and squirrels; all the ponds and streams 
afford good wild-fow] shooting. The Mussel 
Shoals on the Tennessee River are a noted 
feeding-ground for wild geese, and every Win- 
ter they are there by thousands. The Mussel 
Shoals are some five or six miles wide, aud 
ere filled with small islands, covered with 
driftwood, in which the gunners conceal them- 
selves, and s!oot the geese as they fly over. 
The geese, from one cause or another, are 
kept constantly on the wing, and just before 
nightfall afford rare sport. The same remarks 
apply to the ducks, except that the ducks are 
found everywhere, all through the Winter. 
Deer and turkeys are found in every direc- 
tion. Shoal Creek affords splendid fishing, 
and is noted for black bass of large size. The 
Shoals are easiiy reached from Florence, South 
Florence, or Decatur, and are elsewhere de- 
scribed. They are also easily accessible from 
Aihbens, on the Louisville, Nashville & Great 
Southern Railroad. At either of these points 
good hotels can be had at from $1 to $3 a 
day. 
On the Montgomery & Eufaula Railroad.— 
This road extends from Montgomery to Eu- 
faula, a distance of eighty miles, and runs 
through the extensive pine forests of Mont- 
| gomery, Bullock, and Barbour counties, which 
are full of deer, bears, and wild turkeys. The 
best points are Greenwood, six miles, and 
| Buckshot, twelve miles, from Matthew’s Sta- 
tion, Mitchell’s Station, Union Spring, Pine 
| Grove, five miles: and Mount Andrew, seven 
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miles, from Midway Station, Spring Hill, and 
Batesville. At any of these points, one can 
get all the shooling he wants. The couniry 
is but sparsely settled, and consequently geme 
| has increased and multiplied till the fields fair- 
ly teem with quai] and the woods with deer, 
bears, turkeys, rabbits, squirrels, coons, and 
