Show THOUSAND LAKES A SiD singular gular group but little lettle known even in it its 0 own state A person might look on the map until he was blind says the new york sun without discovering the curious fact too insignificant from a geographical view to be taken into account in the collection of general topographical po data that huddled together in the northwestern corner of indiana are more than one thousand natural lakes ranging in size from ten to one hundred acres they are all within the boundaries of steuben de kalb lagrange noble and kosciusko Kosc lusko counties three hundred and twelve of them being in noble county alone such is the isolation of this extraordinary group of lakes that the average indiana citizen outsides outs out ldes sides of the small area in which the system is situated is unaware of its existe existence fice it is entirely separate from the river system of the state and an d corresponds in character with that famous group of lakes 1 in in orange and sullivan counties new york and wayne and pike counties I 1 pennsylvania literally great springs of cry crystal stal water with bottoms of the whitest sand the wild charm of mountain environment that is the characteristic of their eastern counterparts ter parts is lacking however in the indiana lakes although they occupy the highest situation in the state nowhere else in indiana is there a lake of any size whatever these sheets of water are the natural homes of the small mouth black bass and ex fish commissioner dennis of that 5 tate state declares that the small mouth black bass that inhabit the waters of every part of the country came from that group of lakes nowhere else on the continent have these fish been caught equal in size to those taken from indiana waters the largest small mouth black bass of which there is any record was caught this season in sylvan lake at rome home city by sidney E smith of that pl place ace it weighed nine and one half hal f pounds last season dr moyer of kendallville Kendall ville took one in the same lake that weighed nine pounds sylvan lake is the largest of the indiana waters its natural size having been enlarged by draining to make it a supply reservoir in the days of canal navigation it is five miles conr and a M mile i I 1 e wide |