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Show No Michigan Rivers Have the Tree-Like Pattern Thought of in Picturing Stream It may not help you catch more trout or perch or even bullheads to know that the river which you go fishing in is the longest one in the state, or the oldest or the swiftest. Lf the time between bites begins to stretch, such information will make your fishing that much more interesting, inter-esting, however, says Jadk Van Coe-vering Coe-vering in the Detroit Free Press. The St. Joseph river, for example is classed by geologists as the "oldest" "old-est" river in Michigan. It once drained to the Kankakee river and thence to the Mississippi. At one time the Raisin and the Huron were its headwaters; the Kalamazoo once entered it in the northern part of St. Joseph county. All this information informa-tion is to be found in "Michigan Today," which is a bulletin published pub-lished by the state department of public instruction. The Grand is the longest river in Michigan, but it is made up of older old-er rivers which have been diverted from the original channels. The Muskegon has the longest and narrowest nar-rowest valley, 45 miles wide, with few tributaries and but one stream of any importance entering from the south. It is worth noting that no Michigan rivers have the tree-like pattern that we usually think of when we picture a river. The Saginaw is the shortest major river. It is only 20 miles long, yet it has the largest drainage area in the state, due to its long tributaries, the Tittabawassee, Shiawassee, Flint and Cass. Trout fishermen will check the fact that the Au Sable river is the swiftest river in the southern peninsula with a fall of 669 feet The shorter Rifle is almost as swift as the Au Sable and one of the few streams in the lower peninsula which flow over rock rapids. rap-ids. The Oequeoc in Presque Is!e county Is the only river in southern Michigan having falls in its course. The St. Clair river is the third youngest river in the state and the only river in the world which flows from a lake, yet is forming a delta. The Detroit river, although the widest, wid-est, 2,200 feet at Woodward avenue, was the last river to be formed. |