New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-19
IN take of the boys II you So and wen drag out

some oysters and show you."
NoMouth Lakel should say 100 rods long ana y
feotwhile ut the other il is shallow, WIN hat IL
sand bottom One popularity about the ase the water
has outlet. Two brooks into IL pi, Ie eyer
either soaks into tae sand evaporafes It's oted
changes The whole County OF Rosco o,crs run west
into Lake Michigan: from the south sIue . h north
sonthery toward Saginaw Bay anu the county is on
the summit. Mr. Powell and the men row. Of the
twenty feet from The shG S At tine deSp and dragged up
some oysters They good-looking oysIerJ az
had IN oyster Sy IF n" Sotcns the water
was salt. was filed with wonder; -, .. f. /, ina,
How came the water saltf' ! asked ~ p ~ Ju,,
about as sait as II the mouth Of Shrewsbury rive ~
well oyster; won't live IN iresh saw w the ocean gets
its salt from the goldfish but this Lake did NOT ge' iS
Where did Il come from T. I asked.
well I'll tell you the history OF my oyserraisng ID
the centre Of Michigan used to live at south Vysea
Bay, on Long Island We always used 20 plaht tne
oysters the mouths of the fresh water steams WHERE
they into the bay An oyster wants nan Iesn a."
half salt water New, found had lake here Win hn
no outlet Tnat is there il outlet IL is through tn9
sandy bottom Now. salt won't run thr9ngt sI p in
the sand twelve feet from the salt water hut IL Ws az
ways So sad il put salt into this NH ssy
there can make just ike OystorBay and Keep So ~!
cars taking lumber Saginaw. bad 10 come BACK empty;
salt nothing but the pumping III 10 N,o~
shipped back fifty carloads OF salt and put III 40
Lake Then sent TO smith Robinson at o0nth "! s.ci
Bay, had him ship me ten barrels Oh sinai W ~
little fellows larger than marbles ana solho vi t
the size of peas put them in the lake al the ouI ~
inc two fresn-water brooks. They nave grown IlSit
along Now I'm putting in some other salt n
like CLANS and blnefsh and they'll grow, VOC. an A6sp
my lake Just salty oyster Bay Know that any lis"
living in oyster Bay will live here" ..,.,
Then you propose 10 set up opposition TO the Atlantic
Ocean !" l suggested. ,. . ,,,,,o
NO; but Pin of here in the woods, and want niue
fun and wan; TO show the darned fools in the worm
who talk about shcuure that they can 90 10 nun LEI
with their theories. They talk ana write put WI"
raise sters CLANS and soft-sheil craDS LII '
igan." o,,o Ir,ob ~
But why can't they oysters in Salt Lake. utah
l asked and IN other salt lakes y . o.. Ait Salt
"Ihey can, but they don't know how 10 40 IL oai
Lake has been evaporaIing for thousands OF years an
the salt in Utah valley has into salt Lake as IL uS
no outlet II keeps growing salter Ii Is 700 SAT- 10"
salt or than the Now they can raise oysters IA
salt Lake II they will plant them at the mouth Oh Tue
Wasatch River the fresh that runs INTO Sat Lae
They want find place where the lake rs uueu Dy
resb water and when they find place just as SAT- as
OYSTER Bay oy sers will thrive there, ana know H.
On arriving al the house Mr. Powell gave Us an Uy
oysters on skewers and fried oysters-a from Ills iaAe
in the centre OF Michigan.