St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-03
IN THE PARK REGION.

Few people of this section of Mime
sofa have anything approaching an ade-
quate conception OF the beauty and
richness of the Park Region of the state
and particularly of that portion of it
which lies in and abont Detroit, Becker
county. The name is exceedingly APP
propriate, for more beautiful natural
country could scarcely be imagined. The
magnificent forests here lose their mo-
notony of pine and the dense StumpS of
evergreees only occasionly appear to
lend charming variety. American lin
dens, huge oaks, broad elms, fiOuriShing
ash, towering chestnuts and grand
circle, like SentinelS, the open stretch
of prairie or crowd to the very verge
of the myriad lakes which here seem the
eXemplificgtlon of perfect waters. Blue
grass is feature OF the region and is a
striking change from the wild prairie
grass common all over Minnesota.
The name Park Region might have
been appropriately bestowed were it
only for the wondrouS profuSiOn OF wild
flowers all over this section Of the state.
The banks of many of the small lakes
fairly glow with brilliant flowers and
the wild rose, with its beautiful pink
petals, is conspicuous everywhere.
There are a thousand varieties of flow
ers literally wasting their sweetness in
every direction, and they seem to take
the place Of the rank underground and
weeds common to fresh springs. When
to these natural attractions is added the
fact that no more fertile wheat fields
are found beneath the sun, it is made
apparent that the name of this favored
locality is not misnomer. Just at this
time the wheat is in an exploded cOndi-
ton and heading out finely. The stock
and Beecher county is dotted over with
fields which give promise OF yield OF
forty bushels to the acre.
The Park region is famous for its
fishing grounds, even the most public
of its lakes, notably those at Perham
and Detroit, aboundS with bass and
pike. For fish stories that go without
affidavits Detroit allows no rival, and a
local drug store sports huge sturgeon.
which is pointed out to the inquiring
stranger as one of the ordinary products.
| hesitate to say how much over 100
pounds it weighs, but it is considerable.
1t was speared in Detroit lake, which,
with the chain formed by Lakes Sally,
Twin, Melissa and Pelican forms an
unrivaled resort for enthusiastic IZaak
Waltons. The bass have just finished
spawning and are biting ravenouslY,
while the greedy wall-eyes-the gamest
OF game fish--are always prime sporting
victims for city visitors.
The most successful of recent fisher
men at Detroit, so it is told, is G. F.
Williams, one of the most popular trav-
elers out of st. Paul. Early this week
he made an excursion to Twin lake, and
in one mornings fishing landed seventy
eight fish, bass and pike. Of the bass
there were seven that exceeded five
pounds each, and the aggregate weight
of the forty-two bass was 1877 pounds.
He caught and refused as many more
pickerel, but pickerel do not go in De-
troit. Nothing but bass, pike and
sturgeon pass current, and though the
waters are alive with croppies, sunfsh,
perch and pickerel. the fisherman is in
poor luck who must content himself
with such prey.