Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-02-11
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You Can't Convince the Old Lake sail
ors That There Are Not.

INC DOCKS nave been telling you
al your life than there are no tides on
the great lakes Scientific men the
country over are OF the same opinion.
Yet every seafaring man at the CITY
Of Green Bay will tell you there are
Lucs there writes Chicago Times
correspondent. They will give you
the reason that Arlomus Ward once
urged Tor believing TINT friend had
attended n meeting tho night before.
ror one thing saw him there :"
the hnmorist said. and the company
did not care 10 hear the many other
reasons held ia reserve. The Green
Bay people ARC certain Of the tides
because they have seen them and
have been seeing them eyer since
They have lived here. II is useless 10
argue against such reason
The tides come IN tho morning and
evening and IRE highest al Z D clock
q m, aud O'Clock D. m. From 3
o'clock TO O'Clock In the morning
The tide gradually comes in. After
that time il begins 10 recede. and Is
al ITS lowest point between / O'Clock
ana 2;3O 0 clock At the latter hour
the evening tide begins and ii rises
continuously until in the evening
when 1t begins TO reeede
The height OF the tide varies at
times Il triile but il s never less than
I've inches and seldom over ght
inches under ordinary circumstances.
Heavily laden boats % large Size are
detained frequently az this point dur
Ing low Tide waiting for the tide to
come ia. Captains are so certain that
there is a tide that they viii wait FOR
some hours 20 take advantage OF its
movements before attempting 10 leave
port They are certain that the
books are uli wrong and that there
arc tides on the great lakes
owing 20 Its peculiar shape the
waters Of Green Bay ure much affect.
ed BY tho direction OF the heavy
winds Ia heavy Southwest gale
tho water will Dc blown out Of this
neck Of tho bay Until ii Is three or
four feet lower than The ordinary
stage, Ihea. Us the gale increases.
raising the surface % Lake Michigan
several feet The water will back up
Until Il Is about lis normal stage IN
spite 81 The Wind Norlhcrly winds
haze the opposite cdec4 First tho
waicr viii, rise here uaiil Il has beer
lowered on Lake Michigan at The out.
lot % the bay thcn il will begin to
tail back But the tides come night
and morning whatever the direction
81 the wind and whether the water
il high or low In fact tho tide
seems very little affected 81 the
wind and runs regularly from hyc 10
eight igchc&
u ,hcrc = tide ID Green Bay and
you can not make the people here
think otherwise. then there Is tide
on Al! Inland lakes, II may be too
smAi % bc measured but il is there
ust the Same Green Bay Is shaped
not unlike Elhe bay 81 Fundy where
tho tides 81 tho Atlantic are com
pressed until they rise 70 enormous
heights II Is not unreasonable 10
suppose that lido 81 hall nm inch or
nj inch from tho wide stretch Of
Ailsbsa cast skAEAt NfHA iitAA.lAtta - - tAs
hundred miles from Georgian Bay
across Lake Huron through the wide
straits ot Mankinac across the foot 81
Lake Michigan and up the long mar.
row bay. would be 50 compressed rs
70 ~ nj last pcrccptible
II would be impossible to measure
50 small tide and scientific men
would BE- justified in denying alto.
gcthcr the existence Of lake tide
On Lake superior tho next longest
stretch cn,i and west Of fresh water
/ thoreis no bay whore the water would
DC compressed as Il is here Tho
Lake Superior tide might be even less
in volume thnn that coming over the
stretch of water from Georgian Bay
here