Show making ahing mill creek the kind of place one dreams about to build up the recreational facil ties of the la sal mountains to such extent that it will not be feces for them to travel hundreds of miles to find trout fishing is the members of the moab of the put purpose pose fish game association during the past three years the association which numbers some fifteen or awen moab citizens has spent liberally ty resto restocking cLing of time and money in creeks with fish la sal mountain and in improving the streams in 1923 the association initiated a movement to improve the fishing in this stream which fur 11 creek with water dater for rushes moab valley irrigation has its source in the high peak peaks of the la it is a beautiful brook carrying a large body of water at all times of the bear ear having watershed a drainage a good well timbered and vegetated area until it roily its water is never ai i gome some ten miles east of moab it is a natural I 1 I 1 full it was years ago trout stream beauties of the native of speckled restock at variety but as no efforts ing were made the natural supply of fish soon became depleted the first project of the moab fishing association in improving the facilities of mill creek was vw the erection the creek at a of a dam across above the old montgomery point just eite site a sawmill here on a natural consaga dam thirteen feet high was constructed impounding the water over an ten a a of about area contributed by a for the dam were burn nurn number ger of the progressive dessive citizens the I 1 coat cost being in the the town of of 1500 the dam darn was neighborhood large larget of constructed wrongly tron gly very were of cribbing two here tiers logs in I 1 V shape and the space erected in filled with rocks rocks and between wae was the dam a of gravel in the center provided and a fish spillway was constructed for the overflow ladder was and so that fish could go up the creek down immediately after the construction of 1923 a fall in the of the dam trout rambow of shipment the from fingerlings was 94 secured aured state fish fah and game commissioner in the lake the next and planted additional shipments of two season numbering about 1200 rainbows received and placed in the lake were original t y tg the to determine jw v fish planted in 1923 were thriving caught about a year several were inches in five measured later and creek and I 1 that the length proving i ovide ideal water for rain lake provide i further shipment bows last year a of fingerlings was also secured and planted in the creek several mile miles b bilow iona the laki the aim of the ae as is to keep the creek and lake well ell stocked by planting finger lings ach lach year with the natural increase through spawning mill creek should be a fis fisherman hermans s paradise within a few vears ears the creek has been closed to fishing until june 1 1926 by which time the first fish planted should have hae attained a weight of about half a pound or more to date the Tn members of the as cave have expended nearly 1000 in cash as ell as long hours of hard work in their effort efforts to make mill creek the kind of a place one dreams about to receive several thousand young trout at thompsons Thomp sons and transport them to the la sal mountains 75 mile miles distant involves somewhat of a talk task the generous assistance si of the moab garage corn trucks has been ipaty pany in providing nf tile the taylor brothers sheep outfit to meet the trucks at it the foot of the mountain with nule mule trains to carry fish on to the lake has made it possible to transport the young rainbows with practically no loss dozen or more moab men have liberally of their time in with the fish as it is necessary 4 e constructed by building Ruil ding a dam across lake was beautiful this bis of about ten aado the average it covers coven a an n area creek mill have been depth being 10 feet the lake and creek stocked with rainbow trout from truck to mule train M R T 1 4 4 moab garage trucks to taylor bro transporting mule trout trains from at creek bridge three miles below lake iowah the water in the anns fresh freh and constantly aerated by stirring the actual cost of transporting thirty cans of fish from thompsons Thomp sons to the mill creek lak lake if charged for would to at least thanks to the coope cooperate coo raton on of the mo ab garage company and the taylor sheep outfits the moab association has been able to plant fish at no cost to itself whatever this splendid spirit on the part of these moab peo pie will surely bring splendid re te suits and as a result the community be able to enjoy will in a few years some of the finest fishing in the west during the coming season the as I 1 will continue its good work the mill creek lake which has been christened lake jowah will be further enlarged it is likely that several other lakes will be constructed three or four more shipments of trout will be planted and steps will be taken to build some cabins on the I 1 shores of lake doali the la sal mountains are among I 1 the most beautiful in the west it is 13 doubtful if more picturesque mountain scenery can be found in the whole rocky mountain region all I 1 that the la lack is good fishing and in a few more years that will be available then instead of being visited by a few score people lake iowah I 1 aj it V A 4 C V 4 9 I 1 each year these hese t mountain mountains will be the mecca for thousands tho inanda of tourists lake aoah will be moab summer home the construction of ol three more miles of road will enable a car to reach the lake the climb from 1 Moab only 25 miles can easily be made in two hours then the tired I 1 after a week of grind in th thel hot 0 and sultry lowlands can jump 1 into his flivver and a short time be reclining under the spruce or angling for the festive trout fish planters 7 A to p f ss ori A reading from left t aba art of it ti arev of volunteer fish planters C clark don taylor Tylor I 1 L T quigley R right Rith tOA 41 A ilsen IL steiner W A E baldwin |