. 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 . istances to share itwith the villagers andvisitors, who gener-ally turn out and makeit a gala week. Thevillage is well laidout, the site being alittle ele
. 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 . istances to share itwith the villagers andvisitors, who gener-ally turn out and makeit a gala week. Thevillage is well laidout, the site being alittle elevated andquite level, with highrolling hills to theeast, west and outlet of the lakefurnishes a valuablewater power, whichoperates a large gristmill, woolen mill andsaw mill. Geneva atpresent has about2,500 inhabitants, thecensus of 1870 show-ing 2,042. The townhas six churches,three hotels, one ofwhich is valued at$50,000, a large andflourishing ladiesseminary, a fine pub-lic school building,the most valuable inthe county, one bank,one newspaper, andthe usual amount ofstore and other villageproperty. Geneva wasfor many years thedirect point fromwhich most suppliesof lumber, flour, feed,and other pioneernecessities were ob-tained. The prospects of this town we think unusually flattering; with aproportionate growth in manufacturing, with itswatering attractions it must at no distant dayrank among the best towns of the 48 The North and West Illustrated. TO THE NORTH & NORTHWEST. The Chicago & North-Western Railway Company owns two lines that run fromChicago northwardly, and one of these lines, 62 miles beyond Chicago, divides, andthereafter two lines are formed that continually diverge until their northern and north-western termini are many hundred miles apart. Examine our map. Note HarvardJunction as the point of bifurcation—Ishpeming in the north, close to Lake Superior,as the northern terminus of one line, and Lake Kampeska as the northwestern terminusof th
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