EXPLORATIONS IN EEL RIVER BASIN. 
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The followiug shows the place and time of investigations on Eel Eiver and the 
location of dams: 
a. The upper course of Eel Eiver at six different points, Airgust 1 and 2, from near its source, in 
Allen County, to the mouth of Blue Eiver. 
h. South Whitley, Whitley County, July 19 and 20, 1 dam. 
c. Collamer, Whitley County, July 21, 1 dam. 
d. Liberty Mills, Wabash Comity, July 22, 1 dam. 
e. North Manchester, Wabash County, August 26, 1 dam. 
/. Lafceton, Wabash County, July 23, 1 dam. 
g. Eoann, Wabash County, July 25, 1 dam. 
/i. Pettysville, Miami County, August 26, 2 dams. 
i. Chili, Miami County, July 26 and August 24, 1 dam. 
j. Mexico, Miami Couuty, July 27, 1 dam. 
Ic. llennisou’s Mill, Miami County, August 25, 1 dam. 
1. Adamsboro, Cass County, July 28, 1 dam. 
m. Logansport, Cass Couuty, July 29 and 30, 2 dams. 
2. Hull Xdl’e, in the west part of Allen County. This lake has an area of “about 
150 acres”; its banks are low and swampy. The bottom of the lake near the shore is 
soft muck, and the water has an inky appearance, imparting a dark color to the fishes. 
This body of water is drained by a small creek which, after meandering in a north- 
easterly direction for 2J miles, joins Eel Eiver in Allen County. Collections from this 
lake were made August 1. Fish are very abundant, but limited in number of species. 
Only five different species were secured from this lake. 
3. Mud Creeli has its origin in the east iiart of Whitley County, fiows in a general 
westerly direction, and empties into Eel Eiver on the ofiposite side and a few rods 
above the mouth of Blue Eiver. It is fed by living springs, and consequently fiows 
during the severest droughts. This stream was seined August 18, for a distance of 3 
miles, in its middle course. 
4. Blue River, Whitley Couuty, has its source in Blue Lake, near Churubusco. 
After a general southwest course of about 11 miles it joins Eel Eiver 2^- miles south of 
Columbia City. The first 2 or 3 miles in its upper course Blue Eiver fiows through 
low, marshy laud. Throughout the remainder of its course the channel is in the drift 
deposits and its bottom is of gravel and occasional long stretches of sand. This is a 
beautiful stream and well suiiplied with native fishes. Large numbers of suckers 
[Catostouius teres and Moxostoma macrolepidotum duqiiesnei) were caught with hook 
and line from Blue Eiver, at Columbia City, from the time the ice left the stream, about 
March 18, to the last of Axiril. Thelargest specimen of Catostonvus teres taken weighed 
5 xiounds. The mud puppy or water dog [Wecturus maculatus) was also frequently 
taken with angle worms, the bait used for suckers. Blue Eiver was examined 
throughout its course at xmints not more than 3 miles aiiart, August 16, 18, and 22. 
On May 20, 1893, Blue Eiver, at Columbia City, had an average width of 36 feet, 
an average depth of 18 inches, and a current of 6| inches iier second. This gives 
a liow of not less than 10,000 gallons jier minute. The tenix^erature of the water at 
3 IS. m. was 70°; of the air, in the sun, 94°. 
5. Bhie Lalce, 1| miles northwest of Churubusco, Whitley County. This lake has 
a length of 1| miles and a width of half a mile, and is said to have a “very uniform 
deisth of 40 to 55 feet.” It receives its waters from Epx>er Blue Eiver, a small stream 
from Eoble County, and from springs along the sides and bottom of the lake. The 
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