Show Ugly Mud Bottom Showing at Echo Even though Summit County residents knew that l cho Reservoir would probably be bo drained before the end of summer it i is still shocking to realize that it has rall really happened and strange to see dry land clear across neross the end nearest the darn dam itself Only a few d deep cp holes retain any water and this water i filled with the few remaining live fish and the carcasses carcases of thousands thousands thou thou- sands of dead ones Impact of the tho emptying lake was felt in 1 Morgan County Tuesday The Time clear blue waters of the Weber turned to a dark chocolate brown as the tho silt from the bottom of oft t the Q lake made its ita way downstream I lame Game Var Warden en Earl Barl Bagnell said saul Wednesday that the tho water remaining in iu pools in the tho lake bed is too mu muddy to allow salvaging of or trout Alrea Already marry many fish have suffocated in the mud However trout arc re in the great minority and the tho trash fish which survive will be artificially suffocated Ho lIe pointed l out but the fact that these fish are arenott are nott not but arc are suffocated and aid so aregood arc are good to cat ent if taken in time However he reminded reminded re ro minded that a fishing license is just as necessary necessary necessary sary for picking up fish as it is for catching them The Tho dam will b be left open until October r The rhe dam darn which was completed in 1029 has bas only rarely been drained completely Someone thought it had hat been completely drained only three times The lime fish were poisoned about four years ago when the dam was very low The black hulks of tree stumps their heads from the dam dl during ing the past few weeks as us the tho water reached lower and lower grades cs Workmen who assisted in buU building ing the tho dam recall that the trees were cut by hand near the tho winter season and that for three days temperatures temperatures tempera tempera- tures were 42 degrees below zero They were then thou covered with gasoline and amI burned to prevent prevent prevent pre pre- vent them from growing again One would think thick that thirty years immersion in water would have rotted them off but they are are arc still standing lg t tAs As islands of land appeared many fishermen during the tho past few weeks have tried their luck at ht l' l few fete f v more more catches Monday evening evening eve eve- ning ping even the tho isla islands ds had disappeared leaving ving only a n. few d deep ep holes spotted across the lakes bottom r There is still quite a bit of water remaining in the Van Wanship hip dam according to observers The Varis Wanship ip dam will win bo lie drained in October October October Octo Octo- ber officials said |