. 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 . village in 1856, and as acity in 1869. It has a graded school, with eightteachers and 1,000 scholars, in a building that cost$25,000; seven first-class ch
. 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 . village in 1856, and as acity in 1869. It has a graded school, with eightteachers and 1,000 scholars, in a building that cost$25,000; seven first-class churches, several agricul-tural implement and carriage factories, four flourmills, and a public hall, fitted up with stage andscenery, costing $15,000, and capable of seating800 persons. The city is supplied with waterworks, drawing full supply from artesian creek is three-quarters of a mile distant,and has good water power on it. B. C. Bailey &Sons keep The Revere House; can accommodate100 guests, and charge $2 per day. Three otherhotels also offer accommodations, at about $1 perclay. Lyndon, 9 miles; Prophetstown, 11 miles;and Spring Hill, 18 miles distant, are reached bydaily stage lines. Union Grove, 138 miles from Chicago, is thenext station reached. It is eight miles from theMississippi river, has a population of 100, and shipslarge quantity of grain, from a steam elevator,operated, at the depot, by E. O. Rock River University, Dixon, III.—page 13. country surrounding Gait is prairie—rich, produc-tive, and all thickly settled. Rock Island Junction, 115 miles from Chi-cago. At this point the Rockford, Rock Island &St. Louis Railway branches off, and runs south-wardly. (See Sterling.) Empire is 1% miles dis-tant on Elkhorn creek; it has flour mill-, a woolenfactory, and one church. Round Grove, 119 miles from Chicago, is builton the prairie, 3>£ miles from Rock river, and hasone school, one church, and one co-operative butterfactory. At this point
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