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THE VACATION SEASON. 
The familiar snowbird (Junco hyemalis) finds a congenial summer abode on the 
elevated table land where Kane is located, known as “Big Level,” which constitutes 
the boundary from south to north of the Pennsylvania oil and coal field. A fifteen 
minutes’walk along the railroad, westward from the Thompson House, will lead 
one to a locality where the Mourning, Hooded, Chestnut-sided, Pine, and Magnolia 
Warblers, also, the sweet-voiced Olive-backed Thrush, the secretive and melodious 
little Winter Wren annually rear their young. Pheasants or ruffed grouse are 
scarce, but squirrels are usually quite plentiful. In the early part of September, 
1889, the writer saw two gunners bring in over forty black squirrels which they 
had shot in one day, within half mile of the Thompson House, the principal hotel, 
where unusually good accommodation can be obtained. This temperance hotel— 
lighted and heated by natural gas—is built in the midst of a large park with an 
abundance of shade trees. 
Emporium, 
the county seat of Cameron, is 149 miles from Erie city v via Philadelphia and Erie 
railroad), and 297 miles from Philadelphia by the Pennsylvania railroad (via Har¬ 
risburg and Sunbury). The population is about 2,500. Until within a compara¬ 
tively recent period lumbering was the only important business engaged in, butnow, 
since this industry has very appreciably decreased, in consequence of the depletion 
of many of the heavily-wooded parts of the country in the vicinity of the town, new 
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enterprises have sprung up and are being pushed with much vigor and success. 
Aside from its important lumbering interests, and numerous saw-mills, Emporium 
lias a furniture factory of considerable size, extensive powder works and a large iron 
furnace which give employment to a goodly proportion of her industrious, frugal 
and good-hearted citizens. The principal hotels are the Warner House, Commercial 
St. Charles, City, Cottage and Cook’s hotels, where very good accommodations can be 
obtained at prices ranging from one to two dollars per day ; or from five dollars to 
eight dollars per week. The charges for livery teams are as reasonable as those of 
the average rural towns. 
Trustworthy guides—skilled in the use of both rod and gun—who are thoroughly 
acquainted with every section of the country can be hired at astonishingly low figures 
on application to the clerks at any of the hotels. Quail are almost unknown to the 
