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Cooper Lake is said to be silting up rapidly, 10-foot de- 
posits having been found over one pipeline put in 11 years ago and 
recently pulled up. 
i Horseshoe Lake was “purchased by the state and is operated 
as a refuge. Huff says 1,000 to1,900 geese were counted there at various 
times last winter, and about an equal number of mallards, Olin says the 
refuge has improved the goose shooting 100 per cnet. 
It contains 2,720 acres, for which $199,000, or $75 per 
acre, was paid out of the conservation fund. Drainage was ihyea taunal 
and would have cost $50 per acre. One possible fault of this otherwise 
admirable refuge is that commercial preserves have been allowed to get 
control of all the surrounding country. 
Horseshoe Lake geese are said to decline rye fields and to 
eat wheat only. 
Fox Lake in Lake County is nominally a refuge but is 

occasionally opened to shooting during certain limited periods, and is 
therefore not properly classified as such. This and most of the other 
lakes in the northeastern part of the state are largely a mud hen pro- 
position, but doubtlesscould hold considerable ducks with a proper refuge 
system. 
Lima Lake in Adams County is understood to be both a 
valuable shooting and resting ground and is now threatened with drainage. 
It is owmed by D.M.Cummings of Chicago. Several previous attempts were 
® made to drain it, but were unsuccessful. Local sportsmen are advocating 
tts acquisition under the Norbeck bill. 
Inland Waters. In Tllinois there is the same evidence as in Ohio of the 
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deterioration of shooting on such second,class or inland waters as remain 
undrained, In the vicinity of Lawrenceville, for instance, good shooting 


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