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Show level of water on 1200 new acres that will be covered. There will be 3 miles of new road built for the purpose of furthering fur-thering the work and hunter ac-cesibility ac-cesibility to the project. The importance of the Clear Lake project as a migratory waterfowl wa-terfowl nesting and hunting ground is being more generally recognized recogni-zed each year. The Department feels that this additional work will further enhance the project to the sportsman's advantage in line with the importance it places on this work, which is of a permanent per-manent nature. $will be produced at something less than one-third of the cost of hatchery hat-chery raised fish. Should this experiment prove successful, it will in the future be carried on in much greater scale. There is every reason presently to believe that it will be successful. success-ful. Director Egan announces the beginning last week of the Clear Lake project near Fillmore, Utah. The work being undertaken here is of a permanent nature. It is one of the larger projects the Department will undertake during this year. R. L. Turpin, Federal Aid Coordinator Co-ordinator for this office, has worked work-ed diligently to set up this project pro-ject and expedite its beginning. Arvon Johnson, superintendent of building maintenance, is overseeing oversee-ing the work with Department employees em-ployees and equipment. The total project is to be handled han-dled over a three-year period, and will total near $100,000.00 These funds are derived from the State's participation in the Pittman-Rob-ertson Act. This first year's work will exend slightly less than half of this amount. There will be 4 miles of new dikes built. This will control the Fish and Game News Notes . . . Director Egan announces the arrangements for use of several bodies of water throughout the State for fish raising purposes. This is in line with the thinking of the Department to raise more fish to legal size at considerable less cost to the sportsmen. Arrangements Ar-rangements have now been completed com-pleted for such a program to carry forward during the next biennium in four localities of the State. These waters are Crouse Reservoir,; about 35 miles north of Vernal, Koosharem Reservoir in upper' Grass Valley, Olsen Ponds in Joe's Valley on the Manti Range and Nine Mile Reservoir, north and east of Gunnison. By arrangements with the wat-erusers wat-erusers for these waters, work has been done and is being done to facilitate their use as natural rearing ponds. Already screens and catch ponds have been installed in-stalled at Koosharem and Nine Mile Reservoirs. It is the belief of the Department that the fish returned re-turned from these waters for planting in regular fishing areas |