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near by, so as to allow a current of water to pass through the screen hi 

 the top and out of another screen in the bottom. These fish were des- 

 tined for Big lake. They were packed over the Minto trail to Inde- 

 pendence Prairie, thence to Big Meadows, Duffy Prairie, past Three 

 Fingered Jack mountain and on to the Big lake. Three days were actually 

 spent in traveling the forty-two miles. Stormy weather was encountered 

 on the summit of the mountains. This delayed the work for two days. On 

 the 12th of July the pack train passed over about three miles of deep snow. 

 That same night snow fell to a depth of two inches. We reached Big 

 lake the next day and planted 8000 of the trout. The remaining 2000 were 

 placed in Padgin and Buck Horn lakes just one mile southwest of Big lake. 



Big lake is on the Santiam wagon road just twenty-two miles west 

 of Sisters. It is an irregular shaped lake of about 3200 acres, with low 

 grass covered banks on three sides and a steep hill on the fourth. The 

 water is shallow near the shore line but very deep a few hundred feet out. 

 The lake has no over ground outlet, but flows over into Padgin and Buck 

 Horn lakes during high water. The majestic snow-capped Mt. Washington 

 stands like a sentinel overlooking the lake. Pine woods grow near the 

 water's edge at various points around the lake. Formerly there were no 

 fish in these three lakes. The stocking of them is of great importance 

 to the people of central Oregon and also to the tourist and campers who 

 pass back and forth over the Santiam road. The lake is also easily 

 reached from Marion lake and the Three Fingered Jack district. It is 

 fourteen miles from the Minto trail and eleven miles from Lake Margery 

 and Santiam lake. Big lake is landlocked. For this reason it would be 

 an excellent place in which to liberate young salmon. 



(Continued in September Issue.) 



ANEROID LAKE 

 A Typical Mountain Lake Stocked With Fing-erling* Trout. 



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