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Show Bear Like Trout Attract Anglers Picturesque Body Of Water Becomes Summer Mecca Of Pleasure Seekers 4 Montpeller, Idaho, May 4. Preparations Prep-arations for tne annual Influx ot campers to Bear Lake are being made now. Every summer a large number of camperij from all over Utah, Wjomtng and Idaho, come to the lake to spend their vacations and tho prospects are that this year the number will be much larger than over beforo. i Bear Lake Is known as one of tho llliv most beautiful spots In tho west. It Is twenty-five miles long and about eight miles wide. Il is an extremely deep body ot water and In some places plac-es the bottom has never been reached. reach-ed. The lake Is nearly equally divided divid-ed between Rich county, Utah, and. Bear Lako county, Idaho. The eastern side of the lake Is walled In by rocky cliffs and barren mountains, which give the lake a formidable for-midable aspect. At tho northern end, eighteen miles from Montpeller, is the famous Bear Lake Hot Springs. Salt Lake parties recently purchased these springs and ai large modern-hotel, modern-hotel, Improved bathing pool and many other' Improvements have ,ni creased their popularity , The water Is highly mineralized and contains impregnations ot excellent curative qualities. , , The, western side rolls .back from the shore In low, fertile hills and valleys, val-leys, dotted with farms. Several .resorts .re-sorts are located along the shore and a number havo summer cottages. Swimming, boating and various other aquatic sports aro predominant predomin-ant all through the summer. Excellent Excel-lent chicken hunting can bo found In the hills and grain stubblo. North lake, separated from Bear lake by a nanow strip of snnd, Is densely overgrown ov-ergrown with rushes and water plants nnd is tho breeding and nesting place of millions of ducks and geese. Bear lako trout aro famous all over the Intermountnln region nnd tho lako contains thousands of these finny beauties, Borne weighing flfteon and twenty pounds and morq. Many little creeks flow Into the lake and nro well stocked with trout and , afford lino fly fishing. Hear lako enjoys thauntque.rccord of never having a drowning. Tho lako Is located- about twenty-five 'miles from MontpeHor and Ms easily reached. Good roads mako motoring trips around the lake very Interest' ing. They pass many beautiful spots and through Garden City, Randolph and Laketown, Utah; Dingle, St. Charles and Fish Haven, Idaho, and several other prosperous little settle-ments. settle-ments. r |