Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — An Extraordinary Lake. [ARTICLE]

An Extraordinary Lake.

Bridger lake, in Northern Wyoming, lias a queer characteristic, anil one which cannot be claimed for any other oody of water in America, as 'far ns tve have been Informed. It has this peculiarity: It discharges its waters into both _tlie Pacific ocean and The 3ulf of Mexico., During the average leasons the waters of Bridger lake flow >ut through a snuill river which is a Iributary to the Yellowstone, and tin water thus discharged finally reaches ;he gulf by wvy of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. During rainy seasons the level, of the lake becomes so nigh that the waters empty through another opening also. Tlife waters which are discharged through this second chasm flow Into Snake river, and thence to the Pacific ocean through the Columbia.