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The American Angler 



SECONDARY MORAINE ABOVE YELLOWBELLY LAKE, NEAR SAWTOOTH, IDAHO. 



About 8,500 feet above sea level. 



THE STORY OF THE REDFISH LAKES. 



BY BARTON W. EVERMANN, PH. D. 



Ichthyologist of the U. S. Fish Commission. 



The glacier stream comes striding down 



With roar and spring from echoing steeps, 

 Straight from the heights of yon snow crown, 

 Where, 'twixt ridged walls of gray and brown, 

 A serpent glacier downward creeps. 



Bound fast in cold lies yonder snow. 



In deep ravines, by rocky towers ; 

 The sun's touch comes, and 'neath its glow 

 With shock of life transmuted flow. 



In rushing streams, the crystal flowers. 



—Mrs. T. H. Huxley. 



The Sawtooth Mountains are rugged 

 and wild in the extreme. The general 

 direction of the range is north and 

 outh, on the west side of the upper 

 Salmon River valley, in central Idaho. 

 This valley is 6,500 to 7,000 feet above 

 sea-level, and possesses a rich soil 

 which would, under proper climatic con- 



ditions, prove extremely productive, but 

 the season of warmth is too short to 

 permit the ripening of any cultivated 

 crop. Native grasses, however, grow 

 wdth some luxuriance, and the valley 

 affords good grazing for several months 

 each year. 



On the right or east side of the valley 



