. The North and West illustrated for tourist, business and pleasure travel : The popular resorts of California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, northern Michigan and Minnesota. A guide to the lakes and rivers, to the plains and mountains, to the resorts of birds, game animals and fishes; and hints for the commercial traveler, the theatre manager, the land hunter and the emigrant . ofthe ruins are still preserved. Wild land 6 to 12miles from Mankato, can be bought for from $10to $15 per acre, while cultivated farms sell for from$30 t
. The North and West illustrated for tourist, business and pleasure travel : The popular resorts of California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, northern Michigan and Minnesota. A guide to the lakes and rivers, to the plains and mountains, to the resorts of birds, game animals and fishes; and hints for the commercial traveler, the theatre manager, the land hunter and the emigrant . ofthe ruins are still preserved. Wild land 6 to 12miles from Mankato, can be bought for from $10to $15 per acre, while cultivated farms sell for from$30 to $50 per acre. In 1875, 1,500,000 bushels of wheat were sold from this county. In the city arethree schools, each having 500 scholars, Catholicand Lutheran church schools, twelve churches, oilworks, woolen mill, two plow factories, two ironfoundries and machine shops, fifteen hotels, anacademy of music, that cost $20,000, Turners hall,that cost $10,000, several flour mills, a paper mill,and a driving park. Ten or twelve flowing artesianwells supply ample water for public uses. TheJesuits are erecting a fine college building. Sports-men can have rare sport here, game and fish abound-ing. The St. Paul & Sioux City R. R. here givesus rail connections for the country traversed bythat line. Kasota, 434 miles from Chicago. This villageis 8 miles west of Cleveland, the county seat of LaSueur county, which is reached by stage, fare The McAllister Springs, Waukegan, III.—page 105. Around the village are many beautiful little lakes,from which fish may be taken in any season ofthe year. The Minnesota State insane asylum is onemile north, and a State prison is being erected adja-cent. The Kasota House, by J. W. Babcock, is thebest hotel. St. Peter, 437 miles from Chicago. In Nicolletcounty, 134 miles from St. Paul, by river—theMinnesota, or as once called, the St. Peter—may befound this city of 3,500 souls. It is built on ter-races, on the left bank of the river, and has a ver
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