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needless to say I saw no humor in the situation. 

 Above all I wished most heartily to be back in 

 the wilderness and God's open country again, 

 where people know a pack outfit when they see 

 it. 



This illustrates the evolution of half a cen- 

 tury — of much less than half a century. It il- 

 lustrates the rapidity with which our country 

 has been transformed, how readily we discard 

 the old and adopt the new, how quickly we for- 

 get the things of yesterday. It illustrates how a 

 country may pass through all the stages of evo- 

 lution within half the lifetime of a man. 



Fish Lake, famous among Utah anglers for 

 its trout, lies in the mountains back of Rich- 

 field. During the season preceding my visit 

 the State hatcheries secured 3,650,000 trout eggs 

 from this lake alone, to be hatched in the Mur- 

 ray, Springville, and Panguitch hatcheries. It 

 is the favorite resort of anglers of the valley, 

 who are always certain to be rewarded with 

 well-filled creels. Utah has five thousand miles 

 of lakes and streams suitable for game fish, and 

 her fish culturists are devoting themselves to 

 keeping their waters stocked. In the year 1910 

 the culturists planted 4,379,010 Eastern brook, 

 German brown, and rainbow trout fry, and 

 5,197,000 native trout fry, to say nothing of their 



