Iron County Record | 1935-01-10 | Page 4 | Odd Floating Islands Grow Trees, Vegetables

Odd Floating Islands Island Grow Trees Vegetables Near the City of Mexico It Is the Lake of ot rl O nearly covered with smith floating Ja gardens Mi railed chinampas on which lire are raised ed ell flowers and ve vegetables tiles bIn for the th thelt elt city They are HIP formed ld of ot Routing of at water hiatus with soil oll and secured by poplar stake The latter take root and surround the Islands with whit 11 using hedges heche Among the largest largent natural not nat ural floating Islands are ae those thole formed b by tangled Dla P of or trees tree and brush brushwood wood carried down Iown by great rivers On In the Ml Mh Mississippi sl I ppl and It its tarle these there are arl known fl t an rafts One of the most most remarkable of these rafts began foi forming ruing In the Ill one of or the lower arms of or orthe the Mississippi In ITS IT'S 8 and gradually Increased until by bv 1816 It had extended to ten mile miles In length o er six hundred hundred hun hun- dred yards In width DUt and eight feet feel In depth Although It rO rose 1 and fell rell with the theoter water oter It ft wits wale solid enough to 10 sup Imp support port the growth glowth of trees trEel tome come of or which were sixty feet In height This Thill n cast st t oll obstruction wa was finally removed remo h hy by th the state of Louisiana at great exp n e. e