Excerpt from Lakes and Resorts of the Northwest: A Tourists' Guide to the Summer Resorts and Fishing and Hunting Grounds Reached Via the Chicago and North Western Line, With Information Covering Summer Train Service and a Complete List of Hotels With Their Location, Rate, and Capacity

With these things in mind, the seeker after rest and summer quiet looks each year for new territory in which to spend the vacation, and improved transportation facilities greatly encourage this search for an annual change of scene.

It is the purpose of this booklet to describe, for the benefit of the hunter, fisherman and traveling public in general, various summering places located on the shores of quiet lakes, surrounded by the shade of noble trees, equipped with those conveniences necessary for one's full enjoyment of the vacation period, and situated in a region easily reached by the train service of the Chicago and North Western Line.

Hundreds of delightful lakes and resorts situated in Wisconsin, the upper peninsula of Michigan and southern Minnesota answer this description. They are in a region where one may escape from the heat and dust of the city, where the nights are cool and restful, the days full of sunshine, and where there is an evenness in climatic conditions and a purity of atmosphere that cannot be surpassed.

Within a hundred miles of Chicago one can make choice of a place for the summer sojourn from among hundreds of these resorts, where the finest of fishing, bathing, boating and yachting are at hand, where golf and tennis, riding, driving and automobile tours, through the adjacent country, are at one's ready disposal, and where, with the complete quiet of rural surroundings, all the conveniences of city life are provided. The hotel accommoda tions at these resorts are ample and of a wide range of quality, which permits the full indulgence of individual tastes and means.

Farther afield are scores of fishing and hunting resorts, hidden away in the virgin forests of northern Wisconsin and the upper peninsula of Michigan, where the lover of Nature may make amp amid innumerable lakes and streams, surrounded by forests, where the soft balsam of the pines pervades the air, where speckled trout are abundant in the streams, and black bass and muskellunge in the lakes.

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