. 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 . salmon. Thecity contains three hotels, a fine brick school house,that cost $28,000, and seven less costly ones. TheSwedish Lutheran church has a college h
. 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 . salmon. Thecity contains three hotels, a fine brick school house,that cost $28,000, and seven less costly ones. TheSwedish Lutheran church has a college here, the 102 The North axd West Illustrated. buildings and grounds costing over $50,000, of which$5,000 was given by the county, and $ and theland by the city. The State asylum for the insane,situated between Kasota and St. Peter, occupiesbuildings that cost $470,000 ; they are very com-plete, and are heated by steam. Oshawa, 447 miles from Chicago, is a villageof 300 persons. Nicollet, 451 miles from Chicago, has a popu-lation of 300, was laid out in 1874, has a grain eleva-tor, holding 60,000 bushels, one hotel, and a plowfactory. Swan Lake, one mile northwest, is 15miles long by 10 wide, and is full of heavily tim-bered islands. The Waupeton band of SiouxIndians claim this lake as their home, and twiceyearly return to its shores to offer sacrifices to theirgods, or to the dead in their burial place, on theshores of the Milwaukee Previous to 1835.—page 108 Courtland, 459 miles from Chicago, is a newstation. New Ulm, 467 miles from Chicago, is the countyseat of Brown county, which was organized in 1855,and immediately received from Chicago over 300Germans, who have since attracted many hundredfamilies of their countrymen to the city and city shows many marks of German thrift andcare, and is noted for its stability and Hall, and Arbities Hall, together cost over$80,000, and serve as gathering places for the socia-ble inhabitants. St.
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