Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-08-17
Finger Lake Region Between Buff
falO and Albany Has Many
Points of Interest for Traveller
BOTTOM OF TWO LAKES
BELOW THE SEA LEVEL
Unusual Ideas and Unusual PeO-
pie Have Come from this Sec
ton of State
eY b. {. COLE

New York is well named the En-.
pire state. The commonwealth has
wonderful resources, fascinating
scenery, and unusual people. New
York state contributed much to the
advancement of BarabOo and Sauk
county for her sons and daughters
were among the foremost in the up
building of the Barahoo region.
From New YORK came s. V. r.
Ableman, the founder of the village
which bears his name; C. C. Reming-
ton, for many years a Judge in Sauk
county; II. II. Potter, a pioneer of
BarabOO; and DIR. b. f. Mills. one Of
the earliest physicians in the Bara-
boo valley. From this same state
came Marvin Blake, Levi Crouch,
James McFetridge, DR.. McKennan,
William Stanley, Mrs. Stanley, ID. p.
Crandall, Baraboo; George Pelton,
Reedsburg; and William Johnson,
Sauk Prairie. The list might extend
indefinitely but the above shows in
a degree the stamp of people who ven
tured from a commonwealth of pic
turesque mountains, abundant lakes.
and fertile fields to carve places in
newer region.
Land az Buffalo
In our adventure into the east we
swan the car from Cleveland to Buff
falo, then taking a Dsssing glance at
East Aurora, made famous by Elbert
Hubbard, Niagara, renowned for the
falls, and Lockport, where a million
dollars have been expended to lift or
lower the crafts which follow the
Erie canal. 1t was along this artery
that many of the old timers found
their way west, in the days before
the railroad had become the king oe
transportation. MANY of those men
toned above and hundreds of others
were lifted in the locks at Lockport
that they might find their way over
the great lakes to Milwaukee.
New York Apples Abundant
The region about Rochester is
rich in fruit. While there the cherries
hung in deep crimson, the apple
boughs were beginning to bend. and
the grapes manifested a promise OF
an abundant crop. A million dollar
highway stretches between Niagara
and Rochester and to ride tin
licher section would be a difficult
thing to do.
The Finger Lake Region
One OF the superlatlve regions Of
interest in the state of New York is
the Finger Lake country. Recall your
geography of central New York and
you recall a group of lakes extend
ing in a northerly and southerly
direction, the two largest being Son
eca and Cayuga. Some of the others
have unpronOuncable aboriginal
names and will not be mentioned
here.
Seneca lake is 40 miles in length.
about the same as the distance by
automobile from Baraboo to Madi-
son, while Cayuga is Sc miles in
length.
There is something of interest geo
logically here. Long, long ago. in
ancient geologic time, the Finger
lakes region was the bottom Of a sh,l-
low interior sea. Later the water eva.
porated and the region became a sa-
line basin, accounting for the strata
OF salt found about two thousand feet
below the surface at the present
time. Layers of clay, sand, and lime
were deposited on the salt beds and
later, when the Appalachian noun
tains were uplifted, the Finger Lakes
region was carried upward with
them. Erosion cut deep valleys where
now repose the lakes.
When the glacier arrived il found
these valleys wider at the north than
at the south and as the ice advanced
from the north it was CONSTRUCTED and
plowed deep into the earth.
In some places the valleys were
made so deep that when ice receded
and the lakes filled the cav
tiles, the bottoms were below the
sea. This is the case with Seneca and
Cayuga, their depths being respec-
lively els and 435 feet. The lakes
were formed by the ice sheet drop
ping dams across the north end of the
valleys, much the same as was done
at both ends of Devils lake Lake
Michigan is the deepest body of
water wholly within the United
States and Seneca cones next.
Wisconsin having so much shore line
along Lake Michigan. Badgers are