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Molding sand, 12 Morgan, Edward L., 827
Morgan, Jesse, 35 Morgan prairie, 35, 181
Morgan township, 37, 72, 153 .
Morgan township-First settlers, 153;
towns, 155; schools, 156 Morrow, John, 664
Morrow, Amy G., 668 Morrow system, 64 Mound builders, 17 Mound builders' relics, 22
Mount Tom, 8 Municipal debt, 217
Municipal Study Association, 290 Murders, 337 Mysterious events, 344
Natural gas, 227
Nelson, Emil W., 816
Nesbit, Otis B., 545
Newburg, Clara L., 822
Newburg, John P., 822
Newspapers (see the Press and under different names)
New York Central lines, 70
Nickel, 184
Nickel, Arthur E., 835
Nickel Plate, 69
Ninety-ninth Indiana Infantry. 110
Ninth Indiana Infantry, 106
"Normal Mirror," 92 Northern Indiana Normal School, 78
"Northern Indiana School Journal," 92 North Valparaiso, 195
North Washington street, 1912 (view), 194
Northwestern Indiana l'air circuit, 263 Nuppnau, Paul, 795
Oil, 228
Old college building, Valparaiso (view), 77
Old Joe Marks building, Valparaiso (view), 320
Old Salem church, 172
Old School Presbyterian church, Ilebron, 304
Old Settlers Association, 265 Old Union Band, 105 Ofson, Emil, 839
One Hundred and Fifty-first Indiana In- fantry, 111 One Hundred and Forty-second Indiana Infantry, 111
One Ilundred and Thirty-eighth Indiana Infantry, 111 One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Indiana Infantry, 111
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Order of the Eastern Star, 272 O'Reilly, Michael, 308 Osborne, Charles, 326 Osborne, Edgar G., 870 Osborne, Jonathan, 868
Pagin, James R., 692
Paine, Robert T., 256
Paramore, W. C., 243 Parker ditch, 64
Parochial schools, 84
Patrick, J. II. & Son, 560
Patrick, Robert J., 560
Pearce, Eliza L., 704
l'earce, George, 698
Pearson, Charles J., 799 Peat beds, 12
Peck, David B., 751
Peck, Jonathan B., 763
Peck, Elizabeth, 764
Peck, Ruthven O., 749
Peninsular railroad, 68
Pere Marquette system, 69
Peterson, Caleb, 772 Phillips ditch, 63
Phillips, William, 737
Physicians (see professions) Pierce, C. S., 873
Pierce, Gilbert A., 256 Pierce, Leroy M., 857 Pierce's addition, 195 Pierre, Don Eugenio, 31
Pine township, 159
Pine township-Colony of Poles, 159; organized (August 13; 1853), 159; first school house, 160; public schools, 161 1
l'inkerton, George W., 402 Pinkerton, John F., 399 Pinney, Finette MI., 434 Pinney, William E., 431
Pioneer life, 38 Pitkin & Brooks, 237
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad, 67 -
Plank road bank, 56
Pleasant township, 74
Pleasant township-First white settler, 162; first election, 162; firat birth, 162; first school, 162; public schools, 163; railroads, 163; Kout s. 16 .;; crimes and casualties, 165 Pleasant township system, 63
Plymouth Brethren, 312 Political campaign of 1860, 101 Pollentzke, August Il., 848
Poor farm, 61 Poor house, 61 Population, 141, 148, 152, 160, 174, 180, 190, 354
Portage township, 74
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Portage township-Fir-t settlers, 167; first birth, 167; first marriage. 167; schools and teachers, 167; postoffices, 168; railroads, 169; pubh. lughways, 169; macadamized roads, 169; pojudia- tion, 160 Porter, 188
Porter Camp, No. 116, Sons of Veterans, 284 Porter County Agricultural Society, 261 Porter county authors, 256
Porter County Bank, 222 Porter County Bar Association, 254 Porter County court house (view) fron- tispiece.
Porter County Literary Association, 93 Porter County Medical Society, 245 Porter county-Physiography, 1; the glacial epoch, 2; topography, 3; lakes, 4; Calumet region, 6; watershed, 6; Lake Chicago, 7; the beaches, 7; sand dunes, 8; the Cahmet river, 9; Kankakee basin, 10; the marsh lands, 10; prehistoric relies, 11; economic geology, 12; clay industries, 13; ar- Lesian wells, 14; altitudes, 15; fauna and flora, 16; a dependency of France, 31; organization of, 41; name of, 43; location of county seat, 47
Porter County Teachers' Association, 85 "Porter County Vidette," 91
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Porter, David Dixon, 347 "Porter Democrat," 91 Porter glass works, 236 Porter, Homer W., 622 Porter incorporated (1899), 190 Porter Lodge, No. 137, F. & A. M., 268
Portersville, 47, 192, 193, (name changed) 197
Portersville Land Company, 192
Porter township-First settlements, 170; first sermon, 170; schools and teachers, 171; postoffices and postmasters, 171 Pottawatomie Indians, 22 Pottawatomie village, 182 Poultry, 224 Powell's addition, 195 "Practical Observer," S9 Pratt, Daniel D., 255 Prattville, 184
Prehistoric relics, 11 Presbyterian church, 299 Presbyterian missionaries, 299 Presidential vote, 353
Press-First newspaper, 88; first daily paper "Valparaiso Practical Observer," · 89
Privates' battle of Belington, 106 Private school for young ladies, 74 Probate court judges, 251
Professions-Hardships of the pioneer doctor, 239; early physicians, 240; physicians in 1912, 244; medical so- cieties, 245; first hospital, 246; beneh and har, 248; literature and journal- ism, 256
Proscenting attorneys, 251 Public libraries, 93 Public school, Chesterton (view), 187 Publie school, Kouts (view), 164 Pythian Sisters, 281
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Quaker settlement, 146 Quinn lake, 5
Railroads, 65, 161, 163, 169, 183, 190 Railroad wrecks, 334
Rands, Joseph, 786 Rebekahıs, 277 Recorders, 348 Reeves ditch, 63 Reform Mennonite church. Valparaiso, 30G
Religious history-First missionaries, 292; an interesting relie, 292; Catholic missions, 293; carly Methodist pastors, 296; the Presbyterian church, 299; Christian church, 304; Catholic church, 307; Lutherans, 309; Episcopal church, 312
Rigg, James L., 524 Rigg, John W., 424
Robbins ditch, 64 Robhins, Lewis HI., 515
Robinson, Editha U., 723
Robinson, Philo M., 723
Rogers, Aaron, 327
Ross township, 38
Ruge, Ilarry W., 878 Ryan, John A., 437
St Andrew's mission, 313
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran church, Chesterton, 311
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran church, Valparaiso, 311
Salem church, 303 Sall Mountain Asbestos Company, 237 Salt creek, 6, 147 Salyer, Don A., 527
Salyer, G. Z., 323
Samuelson ditch, 64 Samuelson, Peter W., 760 Sand dunes, S
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. Sandstone, 13 Sandy Hook creek 5, 6 Sargent, Edgar D., 750 Sawyer, Fremont D., 461
" Seene on Flint lake, 5 Schenck, Harold J., 696 Schlundt, Frederick, 815 School statistics, 87 Schools (see educational development)
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Science building, Valparaiso Univer-ity (view ), 80 Scofield, Ilerbert D., 736
Sedley, 180 Selman, Stephen C., 609 Serpent worship, 19
Settlement and organization - Early ex plorers and for traders, 30; treaty of 1783, 31; Indiana territory, 32; Fort Dearborn, 32; first settlers, 35; first sale of public lands, 36; Waverly and Morgan townships, 37; pioneer cus- toms, 38; sports and amusements, 40; county organization, 41; first civil townships, 44; first elections, 16 Seventh Indiana Cavalry, 113
Seventy-third Indiana Infantry, 110
Sharp's' (John) sacrifice, 346
Shaw-ne-quo-ke, 132
Sheriffs, 349
Shilo Camp, No. 54, Sons of Veterans. . 285
Shumake, Lydia, A., 634
Simpson, Jerry, 326
Singing schools, 41
Sixty-third Indiana Infantry, 109
Skinkle, Albert, 449
Skinner, DeForest L., 363
Skinner, Hubert M., 28, 257
Skinner, Leslie R., 373
Skinner, Samuel S., 321
Sleetistorm of 1871 (view), 328 Small, John E., 735 Small, Mary J., 735
Smallpox epidemic of 1899, 247
Smith, Benjamin F., 649
Smith, Myron B., 811 Smith's addition, 195
Snavely war, 148 Societies and fraternities-Porter Coun- ty Agricultural Society, 261; Mor- gan Prairie Anti Horse Thief Asso- ciation, 264; Porter County Old Settlers' Association, 265; Masonry, 267; Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows, 274; Knights of Pythias, 279;
Grand Army of the Republic, 281; Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, 286; Knights of Columbus, 286; Modern Woodmen of America, 287; Forestors of America, 287; Knights of the Maccabees, 288; Fraternal Order of Eagles, 288; "United Spanish War Veterans, 289; Knights and Ladies of llonor, 289; literary, social and civic organizations, 289
"Song of the Old Sac Trail," 28 Sons of Veterans, 284 Southwest Valparaiso, 195 Spanish-American war, 122 Specht, Charles P., 596 Specht, Claus F .. 790
Spooner, William F., 559 Spriggsboro, 180
Stage line, 35 Starr, Ruel, 323 State Bank of Valparaiso, 220 State n presentatives, 350 State senators, 351
Statistical review-Commodore Porter, 347; county officers, 348; population, 354; property valuation, 355
Steamburg, 144, 145
. Stephens, Joseph A., 840 Stevens, Walter P., 677 Stinchfield, Melvin J., 497
Stoddard, Laura, 704 Stoner, Daniel I., 484
Stoner, G. H., 523 Stoner, Henry, 533
Storms, 328 Storms, Henry J., 831 Sugar beets, 226 Suman, Bessie E., 391 Suman, Isaac C. B., 389 Suman, Kate M., 390 Sumanville, 145 Simmer, Sabina J., 714 Summer, Sylvenis J., 714 Superior court, 250 Swedes, 169 Swedish Lutherans, 309
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Swedish Methodist church, 299
Taleott, Charles R., 862 Taleott, William C., 258 Tannehill Clark L., 678 Tannehill, Nancy A., 678 Tassinong. 155 Tassinong Presbyterian ehureh, 303 Teachers' institutes, 85 Teeumseh, 25 Theorell, John J., 729 Thieving preacher, 327 Thirteen Club, 291 Thirty-fourth Indiana Infantry, 109
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Three per cent fund, 54
Three years' high school, 87 Titus, Emma, 704
Township history-First townships, 126; Boone township, 129; Center town- ship, 136; Jackson township, 142; Liberty township, 146; Morgan town- ship, 153; Pine township, 159; Pleas- ant township, 161; Portage township, 166; Porter township, 169; Union township, 174; Washington township, 180; Westchester township, 185
Tratebas diteh, 64
Treaty of Greeneville, 24
Treaty of October 26, 1832, 26 Treaty of 1783, 31
Trust companies, 220 Turk, Charles G., 713 Twelfth Indiana Cavalry, 113 Twentieth Indiana Battery, 114 Twentieth Indiana Infantry, 108
Twenty-mile prairie, 175 Twenty-ninth Indiana Infantry, 109
Union Mission church, Hebron, 311 Union school, Valparaiso, 76
Union township-First settler, 175; pioneer implements, 176; first frame house, 177; first school house,- 179; distriet schools, 179; first sermon, 179; railroads, 180
United Spanish War Veterans, 289
Upp, Austin E., 481
Upper end of Sager's lake (view), 137 Urbahns, Ben H., 594
Valparaiso -- Original plat of Porters- ville, 193; additions, 195; first build- ing, 196; early industries, 199; in- corporation of town of Valparaiso, 199; stage lines and mail routes, 201; incorporation as a eity, 202; first. eity election, 204; mayors, 201; city departments, 206; lighting and tele- phone service, 209; manufactures, 210; churches, 211; public school buildings, 211; Valparaiso Improve- ment Association, 213; Chamber of Commerce, 213; first paved streets, 214; mercantile concerns, 214.
Valparaiso band, 1858 (portraits), 104 Valparaiso Building Association, 222 Valparaiso Chamber of Commerce, 213 Valparaiso Chapter, No. 79, R. A. M., 270 Valparaiso Christian church, 305
Valparaiso Collegiate Institute, 78 Valparaiso Commandery, No. 28, K. T., 271
Valparaiso Couneil, No. 86, 271
Valparaiso Couneil, No. 738, Knights of Columbus, 287
Valparaiso fire department, 206 Valparaiso Gas Company, 209 Valparaiso Guards, 105, 107
"Valparaiso Herald," 92
Valparaiso Improvement Association, 213 Valparaiso Lodge, No. 184, K. of P., 279 Valparaiso Male and Female College, 77 "Valparaiso Messenger," 91 "Valparaiso moraine," 2 Valparaiso National Bank, 219 Valparaiso Presbyterian church, 201 Valparaiso Publie Library, 95
"Valparaiso Republican," 90
"Valparaiso Star," 92
Valparaiso Unitarian church, 311 Valparaiso University, 78 Valparaiso water works, 207
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Valparaiso Women's Club, 289
Valparaiso Woolen Mill Company, 231 Valparaiso & Michigan City Plank Road Company, 55 Vetter, Edward, 855
Vienna Enamel Stamping Company, 236 Views-Porter county court house (fron- tispiece) ; scene on Flint lake, 5; old college building, Valparaiso, 77; sci- ence building, Valparaiso university, 80; Hebron high school, 86; Hebron town hall, 134; upper end of Sager's lake, 137; public school, Kouts, 161; country scene, Porter county, 173; public school, Chesterton, 187: North Washington street, Valparaiso, 1912, 194; Central school building, Valpa- raiso, 212; old Joe Marks building, Valparaiso, 320; sleet storm of 1871. 328
Voight ditch, 64 Vote for president (sce presidential vofe)
Wabash railway, 69
Wagon manufacturing, 230
Walters Post, No. 229, G. A. R .. 283
Ward, Joseph H., 875 Ward, Sally O., 877
War of 1812, 24, 97 War of the Revolution, 97
Warren Featherbone Company, 237
Washington township-first settler, 181; first township election, 181; schools, 182; first tavern, 182; first white child, 182; first tavern, 182; rail- roads, 183 Waverly, 187 Waverly township, 37
Weiler, George E., 605
Wells, William C., 644 Westchester township, 185
Westchester township-Schools, 186. towns, 187; railroads, 190; popula- tion, 190
"Western Ranger," 88
West Valparaiso, 195
Wheeler. 180 Wheeler high school, 179
White, Fletcher D., 564
Wiesemann. William M., 806
William-, Clinton, 809
Williams, William H., 502
Wilson, Andrew, 769 Wilson, Edward A., 872
Wilson. James M., 569
Wilson, John D., 325
Wilson, John H., 863
Wilson. Thomas J .. 586
Wilson. William L., 620
Wilttong, Charles O., 833
Wolf Creek, 5 Women's Relief Corps, 284
Wood, Clayton A., 590
Woodhull's addition, 195
Woods, Mrs. J. B., 556
Woodville, 152
Young Men's Christian Association, Val- paraiso. 314
Young, Simon J., 420
Young Women's Christian Association, Valparaiso, 314
Zea. Joseph W., 681 Ziemer, Henry .A., 818 Ziemer, Mary A., 819
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History of Porter County
CHAPTER I
GENERAL FEATURES
LOCATION-BOUNDARIES-PIIYSIOGRAPHY-TIIE GLACIAL EPOCII- THE VAL- PARAISO MORAINE-TOPOGRAPHY-LAKES-WATERSIIED-THE CALUMET REGION-LAKE CHICAGO-THE BEACHIES-SAND DUNES-TIIE CALUMET RIVER-KANKAKEE BASIN-THE MARSH LANDS-SMALLER STREAMS --- UNDERLYING ROCKS-ECONOMIC GEOLOGY-CLAY INDUSTRIES-ARTESLAN WELLS-ALTITUDES-FAUNA AND FLORA.
Porter county is situated in the northwestern portion of the state. It is bounded on the north by Lake Michigan; on the east by Laporte county; on the south by the Kankakee river, which separates it from Jasper county; on the west by Lake county, and contains an area of 420 square miles. With regard to physiography, the county is divided into three well defined belts or sections, each with distinctive surface characteristics. Across the northern part stretches the Calumet region, so named from the fact that the Calumet river flows westward through this belt which contains about 85 square miles. South of this lies the Morainie region, which is the largest and most important divison of the county, containing some 230 square miles, or more than one-half the entire area of the county. Still farther south is the Kankakee basin, lying along the river of that name and extending to the southern
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boundary of the county. The area of this region is slightly in excess of 100 square miles. The entire surface of the county is covered with a sheet of glacial drift varying in thickness from 90 to 140 feet.
Centuries ago the country south and east of Hudson's bay had a climate similar to that of Greenland at the present time. Great masses of snow, never melting, accumulated into one vast field hundreds of feet in thickness. Near the bottom of this mass, the snow was eon- verted into a porous, plastie ice by the pressure from above and thus was formed a glacier, which began to move slowly south and south- westward. In this almost imperceptible motion, partially deeayed rocks and masses of clay were detached from the hill-sides and carried along by the glacier. When the ice melted the clay and rocks were left to form a glacial drift, many miles from where they were first picked up. The drift deposited in this manner is called a terminal moraine. It is a deposit of this character which forms the central or Morainie region of Porter county. The city of Valparaiso stands near the crest of the formation, which therefore takes the name of the "Valparaiso Moraine."
Frank Leverett made a special study of portions of this moraine and published the results of his investigations in a bulletin of the Chicago Academy of Science in 1897. According to Mr. Leverett, the moraine begins near the boundary line between Illinois and Wisconsin, extending thenee southward through portions of Lake, MeHenry, Cook, Dupage and Will counties, Illinois. It then turns toward the southeast and enters the State of Indiana from the southeastern part of Will county. After entering Indiana the trend is northeastward across Lake, Porter and Laporte counties into Michigan, where its course has been definitely traced as far as Monteahn county. Dr. Chamberlain, in the Third Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey (1883), says: "It may be likened in a general manner to an immense U embrac- ing the great lake between its arms. This gigantic loop is over 200 miles in length and from 90 to 150 miles in width. The parallelism of the moraine to the lake shore is one of its most striking features."
Where the moraine crosses the western boundary of Porter county
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it is about fifteen miles in width, extending from a point about a mile north of the Grand Trunk railroad to the edge of the Kankakee marshes about two miles south of the village of lebron. The erest of the mo- raine erosses the county line about half a mile south of the northwest corner of Porter township. It then extends a little north of east to a point about one mile west of the city of Valparaiso, where it is broken by Salt creek flowing northward. East of Salt creek it extends from Emmettsburg in a northerly direction to Liberty township, making a bend to the northward around Flint and Long lakes, when it again turns eastward and crosses the line into Laporte county a little south of Clear lake. On the castern border the moraine is only about five miles" wide, extending from near the southern line of Jackson township to within about a mile of the Calumet river.
The topography of the Morainie belt in Porter county is much more varied than farther west. North and west of Hebron there are a number of high ridges composed chiefly of clay and covered for the most part with timber. Then comes Horse prairie, a high undulatory region, which covers the greater part of the south half of Porter township. On this prairie are a number of bowlders of large size, showing evidences of the glacial origin of this portion of the country. North of Horse prairie a stiff, clayish subsoil is found near the surface, and a timbered area begins which covers the northern half of Porter and the southern half of Union townships. The soil over the greater part of this area is a whitish elay. Along the erest of the moraine this section is much broken by ridges. The northern part of Union township is chiefly sandy soil. A spur of the moraine abont two miles in width extends into Portage township and includes a portion of Twenty Mile prairie. In the western part of Center township the moraine begins to show more prominently and to assume more distinctive glacial characteristics. Here there are a number of high ridges, intersecting each other at various angles and presenting a broken surface. The component materials of these ridges, where exposed, consist principally of stiff, yellow clay and limestone pebbles, angular in form and little worn by the action of
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water. The city of Valparaiso is located on the slope of one of these ridges southeast of the main crest of the moraine. In Liberty township the northern slope of the moraine is much narrower and more abrupt than in any part of its course in Porter county. One standing near the Baltimore & Ohio railroad about two miles west of Woodville and look- ing .southward across a small tributary of Salt ercek may get a fine view of the morainie hills, which here rise to a height of from 100 to 150 feet above the surrounding country. Farther to the eastward the ir- regularities of the surface are strongly marked, and in Jackson town- ship, especially in sections 13, 14 and 15, there are to be seen many of the features of a typical, unmodified terminal moraine. Subordinate ridges branch off from the main one in all directions; the largest bowlders along the moraine are found in this vicinity and are so plentiful that the farmers have used them in the construction of fences; numerous rounded depressions are seen, some of them embracing more than an acre in extent, and alternating with these depressions are corresponding rounded knolls of the drepressions. W. S. Blatchley, state geologist, in his report for 1897, says: "These 'knobs and basins,' as they are called, owe their peculiar formation to the irregular deposition of the glacial debris, there probably having been a great isolated mass of ice imbed- ded in the debris where each basin now exists. By its melting, a cavity was left which was separated by a mass of drift material from a some- what similar cavity where another icc mass had been imbedded. The shape and size of each cavity or basin depends upon the shape and size of the ice block and the amount of drift originally covering it. Where an impervious bed of clay was left or has accumulated in the bottom of the 'basin,' the latter often fills with water and a small lake results. Such was doubtless the origin of Bull's Eye lake, two miles north of Valparaiso, whose area is but one-half acre, and whose waters are 45 feet in depth."
In this connection it is worthy of note that practically all the small lakes in Porter county are of morainie origin. The principal ones are Eliza, Quinn, Flint, Long, Bull's Eye and Clear lakes, each of which
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lies very near to the summit of the main crest of the moraine. Lake Eliza, one of the prettiest in the county, is situated in the extreme north- ern part of Porter township, about two miles east of the western line of the county. It contains an area of about forty aeres and it is surround- ed by oak groves. Quinn lake with an arca of twelve acres, lies about a mile southeast of Eliza. The outlet of these two lakes is Wolf creek, a tributary of Sandy Hook creek. Flint lake lies about three miles nearly north of Valparaiso and about a mile east of the erest of the mo- raine. It covers an area of ninety-five aeres, and its waters have an average depth of about forty feet. It is surrounded by high ridges,
SCENE ON FLINT LAAKE.
those on the north and east being covered with timber. Long lake oe- enpies a narrow morainie valley a short distance northwest of Flint lake, with which it is connected by a small drain. The natural outlet of these two lakes is a branch of Crooked creek, one of the tributaries of the Kankakee river. Long lake is about three-fourths of a mile in length with a maximum width of some forty rods. Clear lake is located on the line between Porter and Laporte counties about two miles north of the line dividing Jackson and Washington townships. It covers an area of about thirty aeres and its waters average about twenty-five feet in depth, but it has no outlet. All these lakes, as previously stated, lie near the crest of the moraine and their chief source of water supply is the natural rainfall, each lake draining a small area of the adjacent
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country. With the settlement of the country, the cutting away of the timber and the draining of the land, it is noticed that the water in these lakes is gradually diminishing, and geologists predict that the time will come when they will entirely disappear. The waters of Flint lake have receded more than fifty feet from their former margins. Much of this recession is due to the fact, however, that the city of Valparaiso draws its water supply from the lake, nearly a million gallons being taken from " it daily.
The drainage system of Porter county is governed almost exclusively by the topography of the central belt, the watershed separating the great lake basin from the Mississippi valley corresponding very closely to the summit of the moraine already described. Except the Calumet and Kankakee rivers, all the streams of consequence draining the county have their sources on or near the erest of the divide. . All those starting . north of the erest line flow into Lake Michigan either directly or through the Calumet river, while all those rising south of the erest, with one ex- ception, find their way into the Kankakee river. That exception is Salt Creek, which rises in Morgan township and flows in a northwesterly direction, piereing the erest not far from Emmettsburg, its waters finally reaching the Calumet river in Portage township. South of the divide the principal streams are Crooked and Sandy Hook ereeks. The former has no tributaries worthy of mention, but the latter receives the waters of Wolf creek, the west branch of the Sandy Hook, and Cornell creek. All these streams are of small size and sluggish in their flow. In addition to Salt creek, the principal stream in the northern part of the county is Coffee ereek, which rises near the erest of the divide in the southern part of Jackson township and flows in a general northwesterly direction until it empties into the Calumet river at Chesterton.
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