. 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 . nts, and has wide,shaded streets—in fact, there are so many shadeand ornamental trees within the limits, that thecitizens call their place The Park City.
. 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 . nts, and has wide,shaded streets—in fact, there are so many shadeand ornamental trees within the limits, that thecitizens call their place The Park City. Theprincipal hotel is The Kinney House. Claremont, 375 miles from Chicago. Popula-tion, 200. Is in the midst of a fine farming land sells from $6 to $25 per acre. Havana, 382 miles from Chicago. An unimpor-tant station, opened in 1875. Owatonna, 387 miles from Chicago. The name isfrom an Indian word, Ouitunya, meaning straight,hence Straight river is the official name of the streamon which this city is built. This is the capital of Steelcounty, which was organized in 1854, and has 11,000 100 The North and West Illustrated. inhabitants. This city the centre of a veryfertile county, and has a large trade in grain, mer-chandise, and agricultural implements. It has fineschools, two churches, a cheese factory, using themilk of 400 cows, stone-ware factory, flour millsan opera house, three banks, with $200,000 capital,. three newspapers, and a number of large manufac-tures. It has eight hotels, three at least being firstclass. The court house is well built, and adaptedfor county business. Mineral springs have beendiscovered H miles from the city, and are beingdeveloped by a company who own the land on which nine of the springs are located. The waterof one of the springs is said to resemble that of thecelebrated Vichy. Dodge City, Morton, AlbertLea, and Freeborn, are reached by stage from thisstation. Rice, Beaver, and Oak Glen Lakes are 2to 4 miles distant from t
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