. 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 . 0 miles fromSt. Paul. It contains about 2,000 inhabitants, hasfive churches, four saw mills, one flouring mill, anda sash, blind and door factory. Two wee


. 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 . 0 miles fromSt. Paul. It contains about 2,000 inhabitants, hasfive churches, four saw mills, one flouring mill, anda sash, blind and door factory. Two weekly papers-are published here. Itasca Station, six miles above Anoka. Oppo-site Itasca, at the mouth of Crow river, is the thriv-ing town of Elk River Station, is 5 miles from Itasca. The flourishing town of Orono, situated at themouth of Elk river, \% miles from the station,•contains churches, schools, five saw and grist is also at thestation a hotel,school house, two-Stores and a sawmill. A stage leaveshere tri-weekly for |pPrinceton, Minn, ft? At St. Francis, athriving village onRum river, a sawand grist mill is insuccessful opera-tion. The town ofPrinceton, 19 milesnorth of Elk river,is a pleasant villageof about 500 inhab-itants. It is theheadquarters of thelumbermen on thenpper Rum fine school housebas been built, at acost of $5,000 ; italso contains twohotels, grist andsaw mills. Big Lake Station. Ferry Hall, Lake Forest, III.—page 105. is 50 miles from St. is beautifully situated on the borders of a lake,after which it is named. It is the nearest stationfor the German and Swedish settlements near EagleLake; a good road is constructed, (Elk River iscrossed by a substantial bridge near the mouth ofthe St. Francis river) to Groton, where it inter-sects the State road from Sauk Rapids to Princeton. At Santiago, in Baldwintown, a water power onthe St. Francis river has been made available bythe erection of a good saw mill. Becker Stat


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