Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-05-20

| the names of some of the formations
which are exposed one above the 9th.
er. The names as given in the Geo
logy of Wisconsin," Vol. II, 1873-1877,
and the more recent ones are as fol
lows:
] Old names
| 1. Soil and drift.
| 2. Lower Tenton limestone.
(, 3. st. Peter sandstone.
4. Lower Magnetism limestone.
5. Madison sandstone.
| 6. Mendoza limestone.
T. Potsdam sandstone.
| New names
1. Soil and drift
g. Black River do1omite.
3. st. Peter sandstone.
4. Lower Magnetism dolomite.
5. Jordan sandstone.
6. st. Lawrence dolomite.
Z. Mazomania sandstone.
Pine Hollow
| About mile east Of Kings Corners,
almost opposite a rural school and
| cemetery, the buildings of farmstead
appear to hug a fringe Of wood, high
bluffs forming the sky line in the i'm
mediate background OF the picture.
Leaving the car at the home of the
owner, Walter WEIGH, short walk
, through grove brings the visitor
against the beetling bluffs; solid,
silent, eternities of rock. Pine Hol-
low is hidden away from the dust Of
hooting cars, and is delightful spot
wild and perfect in it's quietude. One
may wend his way almost a mile up
the sylvan slope along stream purl-
! ing in it's rocky channel
Reedsburg and Alderman
A picturesque, drive Of some forty
miles is the one to Reedsburg, the
County Farm, and return. Trunk Line
33 climbs the terminal moraine about
a mile west of Baraboo and from this
ice-deposited ridge one obtains an ex-
tensive view Of the upper portion of
the Baraboo Valley. When the ice
blocked the elongated depression be-
tween the two ranges of Baraboo
Bluffs, lake filled the cavity between
the hills to the west. Following the
retreat of the ice the water cut gap
in the moraine, draining the area COW
cred by the shallow lake.
AS one swings along, occasional
glimpses of the Baraboo River is OBJ
tanned; rounding a sharp curve
horseshoe bend is traversed; and two
miles farther, at Alderman, the Upper
Narrows Of the Baraboo River crowd
the sky line. AS with the gorge at
Devils Lake and the one at the Lower
Narrows, this was cut by stream in
ancient geological times, filled with
sandstone when the sea intruded, and
later was again erOded. Like the rem
nant of drift of snow in the late
spring, in the gorge is bed of sand
stone deposited by the intruding sea.
Along the crest on the opposite side
of the river as one rides along, con-
glomerate may be seen, seeming al
most ready to topple to the base be-
low. The cement pebbles tell of waves
beating on a far-off shore On the
right of the road, near the upper end
of the gorge, stands a picturesque
brock resisting the elements, an attrac-
tive land mark, carved by the eternal
sculptor.
AS Reedsburg is neared, fox farms
are passed The willy animals are
grown for their valuable pelts.
Just after crossing the Baraboo
River in Reedsburg. swing to the left,
climb the winding road, coast down to
the County Farm, turn to the left,
drive across Narrows Creek Valley,
entering Alderman just after passing
through the gorgeous gorge which cor
responds in geological history with
those of Devils Lake and the Baraboo
River.
Merrimack to Prairie du Sac
Take the launch &C Merrimack for
a river ride to the hydro-electric plant
at Prairie du Sac Down this river
went Joliet and Marquette, the first
white men in this region, in June
1878. Duluth and Hennepin were the
first to come UP the stream in 1880
Down the waterway went a French
force in 1927 to erect a Fort on the
Mississippi land along this course re
treated, in 1850, the last French garri
lson of Machinac, seeking the Illinois
country.
Other adventures and expeditions
have disturbed these waters in times
past and in the middle of the last cen
tury a procession of RATS plowed
southwark. Prior to the advent of the
railroad a few river steamers lodged
the sandbars as often as they coulo
1 but today naught but small craft
course the stream.
The boatman may show you the loca-
ton Of Roasalietown, near where the
river bends southwark, pioneer ham.
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