Show t r LAKE DRYINC or Ktmrk4h I1rarn Obfctnl In I the lieehae v 11 Iw A remarkable phyirii ihuu Im been going on In Minnesota nlih n U loot ten yeT of the rMinl ot ilu ill IJ canco or hlei few pcoii tale Ito ir Minnesota baa long been Iiiiow n u in i Lake stale It Wilt famoun LA cnnt IlIn leg a greater number and barely o beautiful lakes than any older nccllon at the country In an official report of Sui veysrOeneral J II llakrr puhllibpl t same aeven years ago In the Iloneer 1reaa H woe stated that thero were over 7000 lakes within the roil r-oil limits of the stale Hut the toot ten year baa wrought wonderful change In thin eharn terlnlc feature of of our landscaper A large propoi lion of these lakes hate dried up entirely and In many caaea culllat l Holds now Ot < upy their rich bottoms formerly corereil by from ten to twenty fret ot water nearly all the rest have giratly ahmnken volume and arc slowly disappearing dis-appearing These are a few exception but this la I the general rtic In reply la Imiulrlo n large number of correspondents bear utartllng leMI mon to the melancholy fact that na a rule the lake of Minnesota nro gradually gradu-ally drying up There memo to be no Instance In which even the largest and deepest lake though nourished by aprlngfed streams hove not eonildern lily dlmlnlahed In volume The same story cornea from every section ot the IaleIrom Nlcollela undine region which embraces the rountlni of I s Suenr line Iarlh and the adjacent dla trlrta nnd which waa an cnKrd from the Multitude 1 of lakes which dolled It liken like-n constellation lo the far more pro nounrexl take region which baa Ita neat chiefly In the counties of Decker Otter Tall and Douglas I Thero la I hardly to lie found In the world In the aamo ore t n more numerous or more extensile cluster of lakes than la comprised In these counties They term the natural reaervotra that auppl the hcadwaleia of the led river and of the northwestern northwest-ern pleats of the lsslwlpil l Thewi lakes seem to have felt the cause which have operated tn reduce their old volume vol-ume lea I severe than elwwhere I Hut our reports from that district are aa yet too partial be 1 able to name the list of exceptions If there be any to the gen oral rule |