. 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 . utter Pa, factory. Elgin, 43 miles from Chicago, divided by Foxriver into West and East Elgin. We here have abeautiful city of some 9,000 persons. It is t
. 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 . utter Pa, factory. Elgin, 43 miles from Chicago, divided by Foxriver into West and East Elgin. We here have abeautiful city of some 9,000 persons. It is the head-quarters of the dairy interest of the Fox River val-ley, and is the market for most of its dairy butter and cheese are noted the country overfor their excellence. Within five miles of the cityare cheese and butter factories that in 1875 producedover 2,000,000 lbs. of cheese, and 600,000 lbs. ofbutter. Besides manufacturing butter and cheese,the dairies ship large quantities of milk and creamto Chicago. The Illinois Milk Condensing Co.,using the Gail Borden process, buys about $8,000worth of milk monthly, and daily ships one carload of its product. The Fox River Woolen Manu-factory employs 50 hands, and uses daily 500 wool. The Elgin Packing Co. employs 100 men,and cans and packs corn and vegetables that cost atthe factory, $40,000 yearly. One carriage factoryemploys 35 men; one foundry makes castings for. Whiting House—Lake Geneva, Wis seven public schools, oneacademy, one catholicschool with 200 students, afine free public library hav-ing 5,000 volumes, threepublic halls, (Dubois seat-ing 1,200), two nationalbanks, four flour mills, twodaily, three weekly andtwo monthly newspapers,and several hotels, best ofwhich are The Waverly, byLasher & Sons, with 60rooms at $2 per day; TheWestern, at $1 per day;The City, by W. Shaw, at$2 per day, and The Chica-go, at $ per day. Thecourt house is of brick, andconnected with it is thejail and city offices
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