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The Lake Michk-ax and Mississippi Valley Water Shed. By T. H. Ball. 



Commencing near the headwaters of the Des Plaines River in Wisconsin, l)nt 

 a few miles from the shore of Lake Michigan, then jiassing southward, winding 

 slightly, passing within eight miles of Lake Michigan, and then, just west of the 

 city of Chicago, passing the south arm of the peculiar Chicago River, still going 

 southward, this line passes west of Blue Island, eight miles west of tiie Indiana 

 State line. It then passes southwest around the headwaters of Rock Creek, and 

 then, southeastward, around Thorn Creek, which is its most southei-n point in 

 Illinois, and is near Eagle Lake, two miles west of the Indiana line and directly 

 west of the Lake County village of Brunswick and twenty three miles south of 

 the State line monument on the shore of Lake Michigan. This line then passes 

 northward and enters Indiana and Lake County in section 30, township 35, range 

 10 west of the second principal meridian. It then bears southeastwardly around 

 the headwaters of West Creek, to a high, wooded ridge about a quarter of a mile 

 north of Red Cedar Lake, and then passes along a low, curving ridge on which 

 was once a wagon road, the most beautiful and best marked portion of the line 

 in Lake County. It passes eastward three miles over a timbered table-land, and 

 running south of the center of Crown Point about two miles, it passes across sec- 

 tion 17, on which was laid an "Indian float." and the south part of section Ki, 

 township 34, range 8 west, and then south on the east side of the old Stoney 

 Creek, and east across sections 3o and 3(i, in township 34, range 8, and into sec- 

 tion 31, range 7 west, where is now the village of Le Roy, and where it turns 

 northward, having reached its extreme southern limit in Indiana. Here it winds 

 around the head of the south branch of Deep River, passing between that and 

 Eagle Creek, and l)earing eastward, south of Deer Creek, it leaves Lake County 

 almost due east of the center of Crown Point, distant from that town seven miles 

 and a mile and a half, nearly, south of its point of entrance into the county. It 

 then passes north of a little lake, and then east, and then in a northeasterly direc- 

 tion across Porter County, running barely south of Valparaiso and north into 

 Liberty Township in township 3<5. range (>. then east across Jackson Township 

 into Laporte County. Passing the city of Laporte and running eastward near 

 the line of the Lake Shore Railroad, distant a few miles only from the north line 

 of Indiana, it turns again southward till it comes into Portage Township in St. 

 Joseph County, a little west of South Bend. And here on this noted portage be- 

 tween the St. Joseph and Kankakee Rivers, this notice of this watershed line 

 will close. 



