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Title: 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
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Chicago and North Western Railway Company Stennett, W. H. (William H.), 1832-1915
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Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Chicago & North-Western Railway Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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& Co. make pumps and washingmachines; John Beck has a large boot and shoefactory, and two other concerns also employ a largenumber of men in the same line. In the city aresix ward schools ; Col. J. G. McMynn has a fineacademy; the Roman Catholics have several goodschools, one by the Sisters of the St. DominicoOrder being especially noted. Racine College,under Episcopal government, has 200 students.Twenty-five churches furnish sectarian variety to are made; it also has a butter factory, a goodschool, and a fine farming country around it. St. Francis, 81 miles from Chicago, is the seatof a thriving and unusually popular Roman Catholiccollege. It has a full corps of professors andtutors, and a large list of students. Its popularityis so great that large additions are now being madeto its already ample buildings. Bay View, 83 miles from Chicago, is merely asuburb of Milwaukee, and is the seat of vast ironmills, furnaces, etc. Milwaukee. Cities, says an eminent writer, have always been
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View of Cliff House and Seal Rocks, off San Francisco. please all. The Taylor Orphan Asylum is a meri-torious enterprise of Racine. Two public halls—The Belle City and The Garner—present ampleseating accommodations for the visitors to theatre,concert or show. Congress Hall, The HugginsHouse and The Bouton House are the leading hotels.The citizens of Racine have $800,000 invested insailing and steam vessels on Lake Michigan. Rootriver, which is crossed by two bridges, flows throughthe city; three miles from its mouth are the Rapids,on which are located flour mills, and, near by, ex-tensive lime kilns. Ives, County Line, and Oak Creek, are unimportant stations to the stranger making a tourover the line. At the last-named station millions of the celebrated cream-colored, Milwaukee brick the fire-places of civilization, whence light andheat radiated out into the dark, cold world; and theunion of men in large masses is indispensable to thedevelopment and growth of mankind. Fifty years a

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