44 GAME AND FISH RESORTS. 



FoTd County — 



Gibson City. Pinnated grouse abundant. Reached via the Chicago and Padu 

 cah, and other railroads. 



£'rariklin County — 



Benton, Good wild turkey shooting in the neighborhood. Reached by wagnr 

 road from McLeansborough on the St. Louis and South-eastern Railroad, or iroin 

 Duquoin on the Illinois Central Railroad. 



JB^iltoiv County — 



The Illinois River. See Mason County. 



Leiuiston is within a few miles of the celebrated sporting grounds of the 

 Illinois River. Reached via the Chicago and Alton Railroad. 



Sancoch County — 



Nauvoo. Deer and wild turkeys, with an abundance of pinnated grouse 

 woodcock and quaU. Reached by river steamer, or wagon road from Keokuk. 



Iroquois County — 



St. Mary's. Ducks, geese, crane, plover, snipe, quail, w^oodcock, ruffed and 



ginnated grouse. Reached via the Cincinnati, Lafayette and Chicago Railroad. 

 oard $2. 



tfefferson Cott/nty — 



Calu7net. Duck and snipe shooting. Reached via the Illinois Central, or the 

 Michigan Central Railroad. 



Jersey Couttty — 



Grafton is a few miles above Alton at the junction of the Illinois River with 

 the Mississippi. 



In the vicinity of the mouth of the Illinois River there is good deer hunting. 

 In the marshes and lakes are snipe in their season, and ducks most of the year. 

 In the com fields and stubble, an abundance of quail. On the brushy hillsides 

 there are ruffed grouse, locally known as " pheasants." Great numbers of geese 

 and brants frequent this vicmitv, and many are killed as they pass from their 

 feeding grounds in the fields to the sandbars and lakes. There are a number of 

 places in the Mississippi, near the mouth of the Illinois, where the current is too 

 rapid and the shallow waters too turbulent to freeze at any time. Both geese 

 and ducks (mallards) frequent these open places. Take rail'to Alton, thence by 

 wagon road. 



M.arte Coxmty— 



Baiavia. ' The Fox River, from the Wisconsin line to its junction with the 

 Illinois River at Ottawa, a distance of about one hundred miles, abounds with 

 fish common to the tributaries of the Mississippi, and probably second to none in 

 numbers, variety and size. At the head of the nver are a number of lakes abound- 

 ing in mascalonge, black, silver, rock and river bass, yellow perch, gar, pickerel, 

 wall-eyed pike, red horse, bull heads, silver eels, and four varieties ol dace. 

 Batavia is on the Chicago and Northwestern Railway. 



Geneva is built on terraces on both sides ot Fox river, which is well stocked 

 with black bass, pickerel, pike, sun, and other fish. Its best hotel is The UnioD 

 House, which can accommodate one hundred guests at $3 per day. 



The surrounding country is rolling, and is about equally divided between 

 prairie and timber. The county affords fine shooting in season. Picnated grouse. 

 quail, woodcock, partridge, and other game abound. J\'elson^s Lake., Johnson i 

 Mound^ and Harrington's Island are popular resorts, one to seven miles from the 

 village. Take the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. 



Xafee Cownfy— 



Deerfield. Black squirrel shooting is good in the woods about Deerfield. 

 Take the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, twenty miles from Chicago. 



Fox Lake. Fine huning in the neighborhood. The duck shooting is 

 excellent. 

 \ Lake Zurich. See Palatine, Cook County. 



Waukegan. Game of most kinds abundant ; fox and black squirrels vert 

 plenty. Reached via the Chicago and Northv?estern Railroad. Good hotels. 



