Iron County Record | 1937-01-07 | Page 6 | Bunyan Created Lakes

Bunyan Created Lakes I Elk and Torch lakes the tea t finger lakes that stretch par pa parallel parallel aUel for tor miles along the shor shore c o Lake Michigan near El Ell Eli Rapids date back to the days of Pa Pau Bunyan according to thE old lum I I Lake Michigan they say wa scooped out by the mighty Pa Pato Patto Paul Pat to be used as a log pond of skidding the logs into a and floating them down to hii N pond Paul would hitch onto i section of land and drag it ove to the lake log off oft the timber and then haul the section bacOne badOne bad back One day Paul hooked onto t particularly heavy timbered s stier sed tier near the Boardman an ad started Babe the blue ox out t haul it over to the lake Then The had been a heavy rain thi tb ground was greasy and Babe feet slipped Torch and Elk lakes remain sj eternal testimonial to the blue a and the time his feet slipped Detroit Free Press