Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-06-24

u Eea-Ie-iike formations that ex-
| from Lake Geneva for nearly
niles north. This is the Ket-
Noraine, one Of Wisconsin's
reoIogical formations. In this
4 number Of the know Wis
In Better" series, the forma-
Of this section is described.O
! me- Glacier that visited Wiscon-
4 did not advance with one great
i I, front. 1t moved very slowly
ssrg It met a high obstruction
4 it's progress was less retarded
ssre It found an unobstructed
A~rqrd The front Of the ice sheet
series Of great protruding
T.. with reentrants between. One
Malicious lobe plowed along the
Of axe Michigan. Another, q
4 gIer one, pushed down the next
eat depression to the west, the
Arbern part of which is now oc-
lied by the waters of Green Bay
NJ Lake Winnebago. The third
s~nease lobe moved southwest
rd through the trough Of Lake
.rar.lr and on into Minnesota.
Built 100 miles of Kettles.
At the junction Of the ice tongue
1.ca pushed down Lake Michigan,
-b the one which moved down
,ean Bay, there was deposited
rg the higher land between
sn one Of the most impressive
'cIer-built ranges of hills on the
|m-inent-the great Kettle Nor
line This extends from close to
he southern boundary Of the state
sr Lake Geneva, for a hundred
fes uorthward. 1t is broad belt
most irregularly deposited ma
maI-humps and holIows (the lat
u called kettles and giving the
lame to the moraine), bowlder
rewn slopes and serpentine ridges,
mall lakes and marshes, and here
nd there a stream twisting back
and forth in an apparently hope
as attempt to find its way out of
the maze.
No road can follow straight
course ia this Kettle Moraine, and
no traveller can predict the pros
bet THAT viii be disclosed by the
mn in the road hundred yards
ahead It may turn abruptly about
a KETTLE full Of water-a lakelet
TOO small to make even a dot on
the major it may disclose a hill
side pasture with a herd of Guern-
ags Oh Holsteins. A few hundred
yards farther it may enter a sunny
open wooded area, and wind
through it ON ever changing levels
TOT q mile on two.
Kettle Moraine is not a range of
lids that stand up in marked ele-
yauoA above the surrounding area.
The elevations are all moderate.
Hills with a vertical distance much
more than a hundred feet from
base To summit are uncommon.
Much of the material used by the
glaciers to build up these hills is
gravel. Again the comparison of
he Ice sheet to a great milestone
comes home to us. In the grind
ing process the softer materials of
he rocks were ground finest and
mLy the harder and better stone
vas left as pebbles and powders.
thus this prehistoric milestone was
working for the Wisconsin of to-
lay and piling up great stores of
crave. Of selected quality ready
prepared building material, which
. now used in great quantities in
guiding roads and concrete con
.,mcdon.
Work of a Master Sculptor.
IT was a mastery work that the
.aoer accomplished. It is difficult
o picture to oneself when driving
Fer this broad gently-rolling area
Gifted with farm houses and viii
ages, that here once was pre-
.aclal valley, now buried to a
epth Of five or six hundred feet,
That a mile away the old rock
al. n ,he valley comes to within
jI feet Of the present surface.
re glacier did not always COM
.e-e Its work. Some of the old
...eys 1t only partly filled, depos-
ing 2 little material at one spot
=. m.me it high at another.
some master of design must have
1-Qea his cratic workmanship
Ale + resulted in the most attrac-
We features of the landscape-the
,oasaads Of lakes that dot the
Ao.e glaciated portion of the
ATE. The low 1,1acaS IN +ba old