OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS 



95 



TREE COLONY IN SALT CREEK REGION. 



Salt Creek Valley Preserve 



In the Salt Creek Valley Preserve you have laid out be- 

 fore you 684 acres of forest landscape that has been adjudged 

 the aristocracy in tree life by scientists who know the pines 

 of Maine, the redwoods of California, and the stately firs of the 

 North. 



Like the Desplaines Preserve this region is doubly attrac- 

 tive because of its winding course, following always the whims 

 of the Salt Creek, "Lovely Little River" as the Indians were 

 wont to call it. And none there is to dispute the taste and 

 judgment of those connoisseurs of nature. 



How distinctly individual is this charming little stream, 

 the banks of which have collaborated in the formation of this 

 preserve, is shown by the state geographical survey which cred- 

 its Salt Creek with being the one body of water in Illinois that 

 flows north. 



For a mile and a half this headstrong current upsets all 

 the geological precedents of the state and flows directly north. 

 Then as if to show its will all its own the stream makes an 

 absolute about-face and flows as directly south to join with 

 the Desplaines River a contortion all executed within the 

 limits of the preserve. 



