30 THE AUDUBON BULGE Sink 
Orchard, a gigantic federal game 
and recreational preserve. In my 
ignorance I had pictured a big 
body of water damned up on a 
prairie, with new trees stuck in 
the ground to make it look scenic. 
Crab Orchard .is rolling and 
wooded. It is 11 miles from one 
border to the other. The big lake 
has 127 miles of shore line. There 
are scores of camping and picnic 
and swimming areas. 
This essay ends up a big pitch 
for southern Illinois. 
Illinois is recreationally lopsided. 
Two-thirds of the people live in the 
upper part of the state, and two- 
thirds of the recreational facilities 
are in the southern half. This un- 
balance may be corrected by the 
completion of an expressway from 
the Loop to Cairo. 
St. Louis is only about 100 miles 
away, but the roads aren't ver 
good and the Missourians hay 
their Ozarks. But a new express 
way is on the books between her 
and St. Louis, and the traffic wi) 
increase. 
Enthusiasm for this partum 
Illinois has crowded: out some othe 
notes from our five-state junke 
Like the price of old Mason jar 
has gone up to $15 for some par 
ticular models, and common ol 
empty wood cigar boxes brin 
$3.50 and $3.75 in the artsy-crafts 
antique places. 
We didn’t buy. 
(When Mr. Mabley, associate 
editor of Chicago Today, gave 
us permission to reprint this 
July 28 column in the news- 
paper, he wrote he’d “be 
flattered to have the BULLETIN 
spread the word about the 
prettier half of our state.”) 
ATTEND THE N.R.C.I. CONFERENCE 
OCT. 17-18, 1970 
Saturday & Sunday 
Holiday Inn, Routes 52 and 66 
JOLIET, ILLINOIS 
* Two Saturday Workshops on the Environment 
® Good Fellowship of Conservationists 
® Speeches by Attorney General William Scott and 
State Treasurer Adlai Stevenson 
Award-winning Film “A Time for Man” 
A Guided Field Trip to Goose Lake Prairie State Park 
For Information contact: 
Raymond Mostek, Co-Chairman, Program Committee 
NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL OF ILLINOIS 
615 Rochdale Circle, Lombard, Ill. 60143 — MAyfair 7-8659 
Banquet Reservations and Registration $5.75 
