The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-05-15
MINNESOTA UNRIVALED
RESORTS FOR VISITORS
Great North STAR State Possesses Many Attractions
With Its Beautiful Lakes, Filed With All Varieties
of Fish.-..Resorts Easily Accessible

Among the many summer resorts
famous in the large cities, as we'll as
many of the southern states are:
Osakis, Alexandria, Grey Eagle, An
Mandate, Walker, Cass Lake, Detroit,
Ortonville, Taylors Falls, Paramount,
Lindstrom, Chicago City, Glenwood,
Battle Lake, Clear Lake, Clitheral,
Sylvan, Wright, Minnetonka, South
J Haven, Otter Tail, Dorset.
Information relative 20 any sum-
mer resort in the state will be fur
nished upon application to this de-
partment.
while Minnesota's lakes, with
their excellent fishing. are a drawing
card for summer tourists and follow
ers of Isaac Walton" through the
summer months, fall, with it's unex-
celled sport in the forest and field,
is another important feature in Min
nesota's natural pleasures. Go in
any part of the state, and you will
find abundance of game in the fall
of the year. On the prairies of
southern and western Minnesota the
stubble fields at fall time furnish ex-
cellent sport, for in these parts the
turtle dove, snipe, prairie chicken,
pinnated, white breasted or sharp
tailed grouse, woodcock, upland
plover and golden plover are found
in great number, while later on IN
the fall geese and ducks are found to
some extent, particularly the latter,
who pay their annual visit to the
lakes and streams of this REGION,
while many geese and brant make
their feeding ground on the western
wheat fields.
In the timbered portions of the
state, viz: eastern, central and north
ern Minnesota, the quail, partridge,
ruf1e grouse and pheasant make
their home, and in the dense thick
cts, which are found in many parts
of this region, the partridge are
found in abundance, while quail and
grouse are taken in limited numbers.
Many ducks of all varieties are also
found in the rice beds of the many
lakes and streams, and some geese
are in evidence.
In the great woods to the north
still timidly clinging to their favor
lite haunt, though now on the fringe
of civilization, the white tail deer
are found in abundance, while
moose and bear are occasionally
seen, but the elk and caribou are
practically extinct. Stringent laws
protecting the game and fish of
Minnesota have been passed by our
legislature, and a state commission,
assisted by corp of competent
wardens, keep these laws strictly
enforced, and the good work is
already in evidence, for it is now
conceded beyond doubt that wild
game in this state, particularly
deer, prairie chickens and partridges,
are becoming more plentiful each
year, while the successful propaga-
cation of all kinds of fish in our
state fish hatcheries fortells the
fact that Minnesota's lakes will never
become destitute of fish.
Fur bearing animals of nearly
all varieties are found along the
lakes and streams, even in the
highly developed portions of the
state, while further to the north,
in the sparsely settled districts,
fox, wolf, and all other fur bearing
animals are found in great numbers,
and trapping is followed quite
extensively by many of the settlers
with profitable results. In the
deer country, the wolves are
menace to the deer, and the state
is paying a liberal bounty for everv
wolf killed.
A fair idea of the vastness of this
area, where big game abounds
(Which forms but small part of
Minnesota's park region), may be
observed by noting that it is greater
than New Hampshire, Vermont,
Massachusetts,, Connecticut and
Rhode Island combined. a
Comfortable hotels in hundreds
of picturesque hooks, upon lakes
teeming with bass and pike, in
nearly all parts of the state, and