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Title: The official Northern Pacific Railroad guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, its branches and allied lines : containing descriptions of states, territories, cities, towns and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation : and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products and natural features of the great Northwest
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Northern Pacific Railroad Company Riley, W. C. (William C.)
Subjects: Railroad travel
Publisher: St. Paul : W.C. Riley
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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blic institutions comprise six hotels, two newspapers, threed-rug, one jewelry, one boot and shoe, two millinery and fourgeneral stores, three wagon and blacksmith shops, a furniturefactory, a hardware and farm machinery establishment, a gristmill, livery stables and two banks. The village has churchesof the various denominations, and also one of the best gradedpublic schools in the State. The new county court house,erected at a cost of $25,000, is one of the handsomest buildingsof its class in northern Minnesota. Prominent among the features of this section are its advan-tages as a summer resort. Detroit Lake, one of the most beau-tiful sheets of water in Minnesota, lies only half a mile fromthe business portion of the village. Each year it becomesmore popular with the people of the neighboring towns, andalso with those who are accustomed to flee from the hot anddusty cities, and from the treeless prairies, during the summermonths. The lake, which is about a mile and a half wide, and
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Millucso:a Divisoj:. 93 seven miles long, in form somewhat resembles a hurseshue,with a sand-bar reaching from shore to shore, about midwaybetween the two ends of the lake, which is converted intoa most delightful driveway. Here is a high bank toweringabove the clear waters of the lake, and there the broad andpebbly beach, with an occasional opening, where a sturdyfrontiersman is carving out a farm. To the east, DetroitMountain, whose heights are covered by a dense growth oftimber, towers far above the surrounding country, lending itsrugged charms to the scene. The lake is stocked with allkinds of gamey fish, which are an attraction to the sports-man, the variety including pickerel, black and Oswego bass,wall-eyed pike, perch, and also California salmon, which wereplanted in the lake some time ago by the State Fish Commis-sioner. In 1882 the Detroit Lake and St. Louis Boat Club purchasedand improved a handsome piece of property fronting on theeast bank of the lake. They have nov/ a fi

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