Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-06-27 | Page 4 | Utah Fish, Game Paradise is Planned at Locomotive Springs

UTAH FISH GAME PARADISE IS ISi PLANNED AT LOCOMOTIVE SPRIN BASS PHEASANT AND DUCK HUNTING BUNTING IN SAME AREA IS PROJECT OF NEWELL COO 1 p Work Expected to Start Soon SOOl Ac Acres Acres' s To Be Included at Cost of to The greatest fish fi and D game in the west at Locomotive pr miles lIllies north of Salt Lake 10 mies norh CI City is i the plan pla of State l Com Commissioner Commissi m 1 s s i oner j Y Newell Newel B. B Cook The fish Rn and d game mogul off off- j caly announced i late Fiday Friday hat that he plas plans to convert convert convert con con- f vert acres acrs of ground west of or the promontory Into int a sportsmans sportsman's para para- d dise pa- pa pad While a B final fial agreement ins has ha not yet been ben reached with half hal a dozen 1 land an d owners in that section Cook stated today tay that tat J the te project Is 1 al- al Cook Cok WK V 4 most a certainty He is with wih the landowners again nga confer today tay N N decision was reached In i their Pr F day session t lIt It I will wi b be a a. four fold project t stated Cook including 1 Public shooting grounds 2 Bass Ba fishing 3 Mallard Malard duck preserve 4 Muskrat farm I EXPECTS TO START WORK VERY SOON Cook expects to start work on the te project within a a. month mont Ultimate expenditures will be around aroud to The Te warm wa water r springs will be U b and converted into numerous an int lakes The first and main dike die vm will probably cost in the neighborhood of Work will wi start star on that first It I will be a wonderful project declared Cook In In three thre or four fou years well we'll wel have better bass ba fishing than Utah lake ever offered And It will wil be b in a acre acre lake That Ad water Is I alive with wit fish food fo Bass B should thrive there like mosquitoes thrive in the marses marshes Duck hunting as you know kow is i already excellent I plan to have haye an open Sa season l for the public until ut the theother theother theother other lakes lake begin to freeze The Te ducks duck mallards especially flock fek to t the springs at that time Ume and will wl therefore be protected by law law They Tey arc are easily easly killed by the thousands thousand there now A ALSO EXPECT GOOD I PHEASANT HUNTING HUNING I r expect to produce excellent pheasant hunting also al There Tere l iv K plenty of food fo for these thes birds birs and hunters plenty of shel shelter r from Irom It is also als a a wonderful spot for lor muskrats The sale of oC pelts from these thes animals should shoud equal equa the cost ct of years maintenance within wih three te or four fou All Al in hi all al it is i the greatest I have ever seen sen to