Show miniature empire on island in salton sea we called says clarry C carr rr in the los angeles times on davis on mullet island in the salton sea lie tins lias an amazing little empire mud mild geysers spout stearn steam high into the air wild goats climb over the rocky hills of 0 his estate the pools beneath his mud geysers are drug stores store the salton sea Is a vast lake of medicated waters cy by executive order salton sea has been made a refuse ge where fishing Is not permitted the waters have been stocked with bass captain dasis says that the pelicans got all the iasa bass the first day on the other liand the pelicans have stocked the spa sea with mullet a strange greasy unpalatable fish dails salis sas that the mullets hibernate in mud and were brought in by pelicans encased incased in mud pellets lie ile has a 11 little museum among the relics Is a small bible whose flyleaf states it was presented in 1857 1837 by the countess of suffolk to sturges tomlinson it was found by the side of a bleached skeleton and the weather beaten remnants of a wagon near mullet island another relic recalls a tragedy A man named donaldson was traveling in a covered wagon wacon across the desert and his water gave out leaving his two daughters he struggled on to find a water hole when he came back they had shot themselves ile he went in to yuma told his story and killed himself |