1875 
125 
jf, , SIZJl; XAtiiur^'r WXiJ£ laY t> Y£.£1' HIGH. aox».i.x* i ^ x«j •I'njj iOOl'. 
"Army and Navy Journal" Official Report, dated Ocl. 3, 1874. 
the ** near as they can be decided: First, that there is no perceptible difference in accuracy between breech-loaders and muzzle-loaders, but that if anything 
luer are the best, as they are certainly the quickest; second, that in our clear climate we may look for even better shooting in the future; third, that 
^ . THE REMINGTON RIFLE Stands ahead of all others for Accuracy. 
the sanm^team"”*^*'*^'^^ rifles in the match scored thirteen points ahead of the same number of muzzle-loaders, and twenty-two points ahead of the Sharps’ breech-loaders In 
muzzle-loaders, three Remington, and three other breech-loaders weic used, t’apt. Fulton, Col. Bodine, aud L. L. Hepburn uSed the three Remingtons. 
lUil oincial reports see Army and Nary Joumaly Oci. 3, 1874. Fulton's score 171 out ofl80 — highest score ever made. 
MILITARY aMATcH RIFLES, juat out. Price $35 or §55, with Vernier and Wind-gauge Sights; also Pocket Vernier Guages for sighting military rifles, $2.50. 
Send for Treatise on Rifle Shooting (free) to RKMIMG-TOM SOKTS, 
Makufactukehs of BREECH-LO aging GUNS, RIFLES, FISTOLS, AMMUNITION, ETC. 
P. O. Box 3994. 
283 BROADWAY, N. Y. Armory, lUon N- Y- 
( CHICAGO OFFICE 237 State St. 
WASHINGTON OFFICE 521 Seventh St. 
I PITTSBURG OFFICE 10 Sixth St. 
Sportsmens Emporium 
AND 
Base Ball Bepot.. 
FISHING AND GUN TACKLE. 
BREECH-LOADING AMMUNITION. 
Fishing Rods made and repaired to order. Cartridges loaded to 
order— accuracy warranted. 
ENGLISH VELVETEEN, CORD AND DUCK, 
Imported expressly for Shooting and Fishing Suits. 
GEO. B. ELLARD, • 
144>^ WALNUT ST. (below Fourth), 
Old Red-Stocking Headquarters. CINCINNATI, O. 
FISHING, HUNTING AND 
Pleasure Excursions 
TO THE FA.MOUS 
ROCKY llIorNTAIlV RESORTS of COLORADO. 
SEASON OF 1875. 
Commencing Aprp 1, 1875. and during the summer season, 
TUE ST. LOUIS, KANSAS CITY AND NORTHERN RAILWAY, 
Will aell first-class tickets from St. Louis to Denver, and return for 
$55. Parties of ten, or more, wishing to visit CALIPt^RNlA 
During the season, can secure Round Trip Tickets to Sau Francisco 
the famous resorts in Colorado and the Rocky Mountains, call 
or address eithei of the following Travelling Agents of this Line : 
George I). Teller, Buffalo, New York; Jno. F. McCarthy. Cincin- 
nati, Ohio; F. A. Palmer, Iiulianapolis, Ind. ; E. R. .Moffatt, Ticket 
Agent, No. IIH North Fourth Struct, or J. J. Haulch, Ticket Agent, 
Biddle Street Depot. St. Louis, Mo. 
TICKE rs via this line arc on sale at all principal ticket offices 
East of the Mi-sissippi River, and at Company’s Ticket Office, No. 
113 North Fourth Street, and Biddle Street Depot, St, Louis. 
W. R. ARTHUR, C. K. T.ORD, 
Gen’l Sup't., St. Louis. Gen'l Pass. & Ticket Agt., St, Louis. 
JOHN P. LOWER^ 
SPORTSMEN’S DEPOT, 381 BLAKE ST., 
BEKT'VEPL, COL. 
A full aseortmeut of variong kinda of 
GUNS, RIFLES. PISTOLS. AMMUNITION, SI’ORTING RODS, 
FISHING TACKLE. CUTLERY, ETC. 
Colt’s, Smith & M eg^on’s, and othorcartridgo revotverg. SharjJP. 
■Wesson's, 'WinrhoBter and Maynard rifles, Brcech-loading, double 
and single guns. Ely’s shells, wads, caps, powder, shot, etc. In- 
dian beads, ornaments and curiosities, at lowest market prices- 
BSIGHlGAKr 
Central Railroad’ 
Detroit to Chicago 284 Miles 
An important link in the 
Great Through Iiine of Travel 
between -the Eii.-t and West. 
Parties desiring to visit any part of the West will find this road 
first-class in all respects. 
Connections are made at Chicago with all the 'Western Roads. 
C. WHlXfTWOllTK, 
General Pmeemjer Agt. , Cldcmjo, III. 
W e make no charge for Guns, or other ordinary traps for Sports 
men. Dogs carried at reasonable figures. 
Chicago & Alton Railroad. 
THE ONLY DIRECT RAILROAD from Chicago to 
St. Louis, and Chicago to Kansas City 
"WitTAOU-t OIaecaakg of Osii-s- 
First-class accommodations in everything 
SPORTSMEN \iVL\ find splendid shooting on the line of this 
road; prairie chicken, geese, ducks, brant, quail, etc. Conmets 
direct at Kansas City with the Kansas Pacific Railroad for the great 
BuU'alo and Antelope range of Kansas and Colorado. 
Liberal arrangements far trunsjjort of UoO'i for sjwrtsmen. 
Cn>i;i.TfiK. (.fp.J apfs. Agt.. (’bitago IlL 
Thomas Sparks^ 
Shot<§^Bai*Lead 
Ivl £Liiuifa.ct.uLrer , 
[Estiiblished, 18081 
Office, JVo.. 121 Walnut treet, 
Philadelphia, Pa, 
S. W. GOODRIDGB, 
GR.VFTOX. WINDIIASI, CO.. VERUOXT. 
Keeps constantly on hand a full supidy of fisliing rods. 
MY SHAD ROD, 10 feet long, made expres.sly for 
shad fly fisliing, and approved by Mr. Thomas 
Glialincrs. Price $ S.OO 
MY THOUT FLY RODS, 3 joints lO.BO 
BLACK BASS RODS, most a pproved patlern, . . 8.0('- 
All are liaiid-made. and of the Lest material, silver 
plated mountings, an-l metal cfiveied dowuls. 
All kinds of iine bait rods on hand, or made to order. 
All orders promptly attended to. 
Tlie 
Sporisman^s Sfoute. 
Chicago and North-Western Railway. 
This great corporation now owns and operates over two thousand 
miles of road, radiating from Ch cago like tht fingers in a maii’a 
hand, its linc^ rt-ach in all directions and cover about all of the 
country uo»!h, north-west and west of Chicago. With one branch 
it readies Raiine, Kenosha, Milwaukee, ana ibe country north 
thereof; with another line it pushes through Janesville, \\ atertown, 
Oshkosh, Fond du Lac, Cireen Bay, Escanal a, to N gaunee and 
^ iMarquette, with another line it passes through Madison, Elroy, and 
for fc»t. Paul and Minneupelis; branching westward Irom Elroy, it 
runs to and through Winona, Owatonna. St. Peter, Mankato, New 
Ulm, and stops not until Lake Kameska, Dakota, is reached; an- 
other line starts from Chicaj^o and runs through Elgin aud Rockford 
to Freeport, and, via the Illinois Central, reaches Warren, Galena 
and Dubuque, and the country beyond. St 11 another hue runs al- 
most due westward, and passes ihrouch Dixon, Sterling, Fulton, 
Clinton, (Iowa,) Cedar Rapids, Marshalliow n, Giand Junction, Mis- 
souri Valley Junction, to Council Bluff's and Omaha. This last 
named is the “Great Traks-Coktinental Route.” and the 
viouetr ovtrland line for Nebraska, C<»Lr>RAi)o, Utah, Idaho, 
Montana, Nevada, California, and the Pacific Coast. Ii runs 
through the Garden of Illinois and Iowa, and is the best, safest, 
shortest and best route to Omaha, Lincoln, and other points in 
Nebraska, and for Cheyenne, Denver, Salt Lake City, Vir- 
ginia C'lTY", Carson, Sacramento, San Fuan’cisco and all other 
points west of the Missouri river. 
See. then, what one company can do. If you want to go to M 
waiikee. Fond du Lac, Manitowoc, Sheboygan. Janesville. Wav 
town, Oshkosh, De Pere, Green Bay, Ripon, Madison, Barab 
Eaii Claire, Hudson, Stillwater, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth, 
Breekeiiiicige, Morehead, Fort Garr>, Winona, Owatonia, New 
Ulm, Fieeport, Warren, Plartsville, Galena, Dubuque, Waterloo, 
Fort Dodge, Sioux C'ity, Yankton, Council Blufis, Omaha. Lincoln, 
Denver, Salt Lake City, Sacremento, San Francisco, or a hundred 
other northern, norlh-wesiern. or western points, this gnat line is 
the one you should take. The track is of llie best steel rail, and is 
well ballasted and as free from dusi as a road can be inade. The bridges 
are strong and durable, and all the appointments uce first-class in 
every respect. The trains that run ov»t this route a»e made up of 
elegant new Pullman Palace Drawing Room and Sleeping Couches, 
built eapree.dy jor thin line, XwxwvuiMii, well-lighted and well venti- 
lated Day Cuaehes. and pleasant lounging and smoking cars— all 
built by this eainpany in their own shops. The ears are all equipped 
with tile celebrated MiPer Safety Platform, and patent Biillers and 
couplings, Wesiinghousc Safely Air Brakes, and eveiy other appli- 
ance that has hem devised for the safety of | assenger iniins. All 
trains are run by telegrajih. In a word this GRKA'l LINK has the 
best and smoothest track, and the most elegant and ci mforfable 
eqnipmeiiLif any road in the West, and has no competitor in the 
country, ft is eminently the favorite route with the Chicagoans 
triiveiling west, norili, or north-west, and is acknowledged by the 
travelling ]iublic to be the popular line for all points in Northern 
Illinois, Wisconsin. Minnesota. Northern Michigan, Dakota, West- 
ern Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho, 
Nevada, California, and the Pacific Slone. 
TO SPOllTS^IEN: 
This line presents peculiar advantages. For 
Prairie CUickeiis, Diieks, Geese nvicl Brant Sliooiti^, 
our Iowa Line to-day offers 
Mo r e T a v o r able To i u t s 
than any other road in the country, while for 
lYcerand Bear IliintiiiG; and for Brook Trout, knke Sal- 
mon, Pike, Pickerel and Bass pisliin|; 
p hnndred points on the N<>rthorn and North-western lines of thi 
Company wdll he found unsurpassed by any thing in the West. 
MAKXIA HUGHITT, Gen, Sup’t., Chicago. 
■W, H, STJiNNiETT, Gen. Paas, Agt., Wiicago, 
