Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1877 — Seven Thousand Lakes in Minnesota. [ARTICLE]

Seven Thousand Lakes in Minnesota.

We have caused the meandered lakes in all the township plats to be counted, and there are in the actually surveyed portions of the State just 4,999 meandered lujces. Calling them 5,000 in number, and from reliable data in this office we find that these lakes average HOO acres, each this gives us an equivlent of 1,500,000 acres of water in the surveyed portions of the State. Now,, computing the lakes, in the unsurveyed portions of the State from reliable data in possession of tlie office, we lind that there are 2,000 more which make 7,000 in all. The number of lakes in a town is much greater in the unsurveyed portions of the State than in that already surveyed. They are found also to average greater acres. We find we are compelled to estimate -the 2,0C0 lakes in the unsurveyed portion at 600 acres each, which gives us an additional water area of 1,200,000 acres, making a total of water area on the surveyed lands of 2,700,000 acres of water within the limits of the State. This does not embrace the vast water areas included within thfe protected boundary lines of the State in Lake Superior and Lake of the Woods and along the great water stretches of the international line.—Sl. Paul Pioneer-Press.