"We can leave our fruitful prairie valley and in a few hours’ time, at a small cost, go to one of the finest resorts that is afforded to any people. There we will find lakes of clear, blue, deep water, the banks of which are clothed with the timber of the primeval forest. These lakes afford as fine an opportunity for anglers as the most inveterate disciple of Isak Walton need wish for. Pike, pickerel, bass, white and other fish await the opportunity of being caught. The bathing is good, the beaches are white, clear sand, and resemble the Atlantic beach."

"This is a charming spot. The business man, whose system has become debilitated by close application and confinement, and whose tired brain that is ringing and buzzing with a sea of figures – discount, interests, profit and loss, margins, etc., - can here find a blissful peace, and free from care."

"The grateful shade of the forest trees, the bright sparkling water of the lake, the sylvan quiet of the place, and the gentle influence of waving branches, and summer breezes, that are perfumed with the odor of wild flowers, will soothe his throbbing temples, and cure the pains of overtaxed nature."

"Mothers, whose strength has been spent in the long daily round of household cares, and little children whose delicate paleness gives warning of declining health, will here speedily find a cure."