June 5, 1909-] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
885 
PECULIAR KENTUCKY LAKE. 
Sinking Creek, in the northwestern part of 
this county, is not a running stream or creek, 
as one would imagine from its name, but it is 
a large lake, which forms only in the spring of 
the year, when thaws and rainfalls produce an 
overabundance of water. The formation of a 
lake covering 200 acres of land and sometimes 
300, comes with the suddenness of a rise in the 
Mississippi River. 
The lake is formed in a hollow entirely sur¬ 
rounded by gradually inclined hills of blue grass 
fields and meadows. These hills are at first 
imperceptible to the eye on account of the grad¬ 
ual and even slope of the surrounding country. 
A closer examination of the country shows that 
for miles around it all gradually inclines to the 
place where the spring time lake forms, but the 
place itself is merely a slightly rolling tract of 
land, over which various fences, trees and shrub¬ 
beries are seen. As the lake depends on the 
rainfall for its supply of water, it is larger some 
years than others and has been known to cover 
350 acres of land and the water all the way from 
five to 30 feet deep. This body of water is a 
veritable mecca for duck hunters at the time 
of the year when ducks pass through Kentucky 
on their way to the northern lakes. 
There is no outlet above the earth in the way 
of a creek or hollow. There is no cave or sink 
hole on any of the land which is covered by 
water through which the water may escape. Yet 
within one month this immense amount of water 
disappears. After the disappearance the earth 
which is covered, instead of being a wet, marshy 
place, as is the case of an ordinary spring time 
rise in water, is a beautiful, fertile, blue grass 
vale, over which blooded Kentucky stock roams 
during the summer months and fattens on the 
rich pasturage. No appearance of a marsh or 
water weeds, etc., is found after the lake has 
gone. 
Exactly what causes the “sinking” of the lake 
has never been determinated, although various 
geologists have visited the scene. It is a well 
known fact that quicksilver thrown into a pond 
or lake will cause it to soon sink, and it is 
claimed that the water forming this lake, as it 
is drained down from the surrounding hills, 
brings with it a composition of some kind simi¬ 
lar to mercury or quicksilver in its action on 
sinking a lake, and that this is the key to the 
mystery of Sinking Creek..—Cincinnati Inquirer. 
A DOG’S MISTAKEN IDEA OF DUTY. 
Recently a party driving across the Rancho 
del Paso, or possibly on a picnic there, stopped 
at a convenient place and had lunch. It is re¬ 
ported that they reside in the vicinity of Brigh¬ 
ton. They had with them a light-colored dog, 
a halfbreed shepherd, and when they went away 
they evidently did not think about him, presum¬ 
ing that he would take care of himself and 
follow. A day or two later Joe Heintz, who 
lives north of the Rancho del Paso, in passing 
along the road to the city, saw the dog lying by 
a piece of paper, which looked as if it had been 
used by someone to wrap up his lunch, and his 
movernents plainly indicated that he was watch¬ 
ing it. Mr. Pleintz did not pay much attention 
to him. but when, in passing backward and for¬ 
ward for two or three days, he saw the animal 
in the same place and still on guard, his curiosity 
was excited. Jumping from his wagon he picked 
up the paper, put it in the vehicle, and drove 
homeward. To his surprise the dog followed. 
After going about two miles Heintz threw the 
paper out near the school house on the San Juan 
Grant, not far from the residence of Findley 
McMillan, and the dog immediately stopped and 
resumed his watch over it. Since then the chil¬ 
dren attending the school have given the poor 
animal some of their lunch each day, for which 
he has been very grateful, but not sufficiently 
so to allow them to touch the paper, which he 
seems to have thought his owner had left in his 
custody. He was still there when Mr. McMillan 
came by again and allowed that gentleman to 
pat him, but touching the paper was another 
thing. The owner of a dog so faithful would 
do well to hunt him up.—Sacramento Record- 
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