Eureka Reporter | 1904-08-05 | Page 4 | When Water Blooms

when water blooms any one who ever been at any of the lakes in the middle and north of the united states will know that at a certain time of july or august they are said to flower Ms hermen are particularly well ac with this fact for at such times very few elsh can be induced to take the hook in some lakes nothing can be seen when they are flowering except by the natives who 1 now from the ap bearance pe arance of the water but in other lakes the water becomes quite thick and yellow seeming muddy or tawny in some parts and a clear gold in others this flowering of the lakes Is just what the name denotes although many of the inhabitants f the lake shores do not know what it Is and cannot ex plain it except by the vague state ment that at a certain time of mid summer the lakes eem to work the powering as a real flowering it Is due to the blossoming of a water plant which lives under the surface all year long till the times for flower ing when it rises toward the top and throws off myriads of small golden yellow spheres which fill the water