. 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 . 5. The total length of line entitled to these grants, isabout 400 miles, and the estimated amount of land accrued and accruing, will be about1,800,000 acr
. 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 . 5. The total length of line entitled to these grants, isabout 400 miles, and the estimated amount of land accrued and accruing, will be about1,800,000 acres. 94 The North and West Illustrated. St. Anthony, 10 miles from St. Paul, is at thejunction of the main and branch lines. The far-famed water power of St. Anthony Falls furnishesthousands of people with employment in the vari-ous mills located here, and the products of thesemechanical enterprises add largely to the businessof the railroad. The State University, now in suc-cessful operation, and an excellent high school, arelocated here. The main line crosses the Mississippi river here,on a substantial bridge, to Minneapolis, and thence,in a northwesterly direction, to the valley of Redriver. Wayzata, 28 miles from St. Paul, is a railroadstation on Lake Minnetonka, the largest and mostbeautiful lake in Minnesota, estimated to have ashore line of one hundred miles. It is dotted withbeautiful islands, and its shores are mostly covered. Collegiate Department, Lake Forest, III.—page 105. with heavy timber, among which appear numerousopenings, with the farms of industrious contains several good hotels, filled duringthe summer eeason with tourists from the steamboats run between Wayzata, Excelsior,and other points on the lake. Litchfield, 85 miles from St. Paul, a railroadstation, is one of the most important points on thisline. It is the county seat of Meeker county, andthe site of the U. S. District Land Office. In thefall of 1869 there was a grain crop
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