| Show Bunyan Created Lakes Elk and Torch lakes the beautiful beautiful beautiful beau beau- finger lakes that stretch parallel parallel parallel par par- for miles along the shore of ot Lake Michigan near Ell Ell- Rapids date back to the days of Paul Bunyan according to the old lumberjacks lum lum- Lake Michigan they say was scooped out by the mighty Paul to be used as a log pond Instead of skidding the logs into a stream and floating them down to his pond Paul would hitch onto a section of land and drag it over overto overto overto to the lake log off the the timber and then haul the section back One day Paul hooked onto a particularly heavy timbe timbered ed section sec see tier tion near the Boardman and started Babe the blue ox out to haul it over to the lake There had been a heavy rain t the h e ground was greasy and Babes Babe's feet slipped Torch and Elk lakes remain an eternal testimonial to the blue ox and the time his feet slipped Detroit Free Press |
