POINTS OF INTEREST i 



TO 



SPORTSMEN IN MINNESOTA. 



The lakes and streams of Minnesota are as a rule quite dissimilar 

 to those of Wisconsin and Michigan. They are usually larger 

 bodies of water, the shores are less wooded, and inclined to low 

 banks. The fish seem to average about the same in each of the 

 three States, but some species of small game, especially the prairie- 

 chicken, are more plentiful in Minnesota. 



IN NORTHERN MINNESOTA, and especially that portion 

 bordering upon the north shore of Lake Superior, the sportsman 

 can find plenty of large game, as well as small ; and in the vicinity 

 of Lake Winnebagoshish, Leach Lake, Mille Lacs and Red Lake 

 there is some of the finest sporting in the world. Either one of 

 these four inland seas is larger than the largest of Wisconsin's in- 

 terior lakes, and one of them covers over 300,000 acres ; but the 

 grandest of all hunting grounds that may be counted accessible are 

 in the vicinity of the LAKE OF THE WOODS. 



To reach this truly wild domain the sportsman must travel over- 

 land some seventy-five or eighty miles or go round by the way of 

 the St. P . M. & M. Ry. to Winnipeg, and then by the Canadian 

 Central Ry. to "Rat PortagQ," a station on the most north-westerly 

 extremity of the lake. For those who can spare the time and en- 

 joy back -woods life, this is one of the finest trips possible. There is 

 no lack of game; deer, bear, elk, cariboo and all the smaller varieties 

 abound. The lake is about seventy-five miles in extent, and is so 

 full of islands and bays that without a guide a man is liable to get 

 lost in short ordei. 



A favorite route for returning is by water, all the way except por- 

 tages; traversing Rainy Lake and River, Sturgeon Lake, Arrow and 

 Pigeon Rivers, etc., toLake Superior. Along this route one can hunt 



