Show V FISH I 1 DYING BY THE WAGON LOADS according to visitors i at the leota ranch recently time lias has been a tragedy among the fish in the lake formed by the high water last spring As the water has evaporated shoals shoal vt of fish have been left upon the banks until come persons estimate the dead fish of various kinds by the wagon loads it 13 said that the fish can be been half out ot of the water gall gasping pilla for oggen and dying for fresh water and food feed the trout sevin seem to have haie died first but several other ather good edible varieties have followed in jhb death geese and ducks have hane been growing fat upon the fish and they are aae aa e seldom beldom molested it Is too bad the water couldn coulden t be turned into the lake and the fah caved haved we dont know whether the tame warden knows the condition or not but it seems hard lines to know of so many fish dying so near by and one cant get a fresh fish in the market hen ore ci c i siders the tact fact that the lindall lin tall basin has more good streams than nuy any other part of utah that ere are admirably adapted to fish culture it depins sepins too bad to see the fish we already have haie in green river dying for the lack of a little care the state has be been en unable to sand ben any young fry into uintah county thus far because of the long di distance stane to haul them so our streams have the native fish only trout being the fish sought by the sportsman in the clear streams in green river hier are trout cat fish round tails white fish suckers and humpbacks the cattish catfish have hae doubtless come from the colorado waters through the grand and white rivers there may bo a few other varieties arle ties also which have hane como com efrom from colorado the fact that it la Is ble to stock the streams higher up would seem to point the way in ay to our own GR state officers and either cither stock splendid spend ld streams or establish a fish hatchery in the uintah dain da ba in ln so jhc thc work mork could go en cm right heie and the fish be put into the streams aa soon as possible especially valuable able would it be to the now new settlers on cm the reser reservation Nation it if they could go out und catch a mess of fish occasional ly but to get a mess of fash now one must go into the hills and camp the gala gain would mould so tar fat exceed the ex pense that as a matter of can civic le economy it should be taken up with A ith the gazie game commissioners at once the hunting license fees this year will amount to many thousands of dollars and a goodly portion of the ll licenses licences licen cenes ces aie bought in this part of the state so we believe we ine are en titled cou than we me have hane been rece receiving liing it would mould seem that as a matter ot of economy to the state provisions should certainly be made to save sao the fish we e already have and which are lying bythe by the thousands in the lagoons along the green giai there aro are scores and no doubt hundt hundreds Z 0 of these ba backwater bialer lakes along the divor alv filled duling raring high water and only separated fi om the river alier for the most part by narrow sand bars in uintah county alone there are a great many of cf these fish traps and some of thern them aie now dry and the fish already dead some are so nearly dry and the water mater so baale the fish ITI are dking of staria starvation tion while others aie so shallow shallia the will ill all freeze up during winter e are a few which have hane sufficient water mater to keep the fish alho until ugh high water mater comes again A fend ew men could go up one side of the river 1 and nl do down 11 the other and I 1 with a I 1 little ittle work drain the lakes and put the fish back into the river or turn moro water mater in and eave aane them that way w ay that something fc hould be done out of mercy to the fish goes without saying the state game came and kish commissioner and wardens certainly certaine taini know of the condition condit lon if the do not then a great field has haa not been patrolled but we me believe they know of the lagoons and it if they dom dan t know of th ta fish should be apprised uintah county lies so far aw am ay from the main thoroughfares and is so seldom visited by the ferate officials that hi ht hir r needs are not known anoa n it las bas been hard to get any financial re recognition cognation because we me live ifie so far ott off the people at the capitol can t hoax hear our calls e mould rit notice our deficiencies so much if 0 wo o live next doot door to colorado over in rio blanco county tho the people ask for a steel bridge and they get tt it and they have formed a habit of them until the state has steel bridges for every place it la is needed now it we couldn coulden t see ail these things we would mould feel eel better but as it Is we feet eel in conclusion we think uintah uenta county should have a fish hatchery hatchery there are beneral BOer Ll la in the otate where hero they cant begin to do the good one could do here just now the fish that are dying should be looked latter waste not want not there Is ia a penalty for catching fish without a lic license emse what ahat about the justee of c letti letting mg them die san sae e the fish |