The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-05-26

on Lake Bigler. Her commander
Captain Benjamin Coy, has lived in,
on and around the lake since 1859, anG
knows as much if not more of the
characteristics and eccentricities of the
water, the weather and the surround.
ing scenery than any man living
though he is modest, and it is only
through interrOgations that you can
draw out his experience and learn that
his rough exterior covers a heart as
large as a bullock's, and keenly alive to
all the beauty and grandeur of Ma
ture, coupled with a vivid imagination
and a mind liberalized by education
and stored with the richest treasures
of useful knowledge. His sole asso-
clate in the management of the steamer
is the engineer, fireman, etc, A. HES
tand, an old steamship and railroad
engineer, a man as intelligent and ge-
NAL as Coy, fond of an %anecdote, an
Interesting companion, and devotedly
attached to his profession.
OUT ON THE LAKE
The Truckee runs almost as smoothly
as a sail boat, but a faint culver being
felt from the motion of the machinery.
She makes the trip across in a little
less than two hours. Leaving Pray's
mill one can see the long lines of saw
dust formed OH the bottom by the &C
ton of the waves for be it knownth that
even as light material as saw dust will
not float far on the aeritorm fluid that
fills this vast chaSm) until a depth of
eighty feet has been passed. Then
comes the almost transparent indigo
blue, which indicates that we are
several hundred feet abOvet the bottoiH.
As the steamers prov throws the
spray to the right and left the little
snow white bubbles sink down in the
blue water as it their specific gravity
was the greater, and flash through the
blue and sparkle in the sunshine like
distant stars i'll Il clear sky. Leaving
the Hot Springs "Wednesday morning,
the lake being motionleSS as the face
of a mirror, we turned our back to the
sun and took a horizontal position on
the bow OF the vessel, 10 watch the
bottom of the lake. We could see, as
distinctly as if there had been no
water beneath us, every rock the size
of a mans head. This could be done
~ mile and a half from shore, where
the water was 100 feet deep. While
marking the speed of the steamer by
her passage over the huge rocks dis
tlnctly seen 50 far below, it was diff
cult 10 realize that there was else than
air between them. The Truckee fol-
lows several miles along the State
line, from the Hot Springs toward
where the depth of the
lake varies from 1924 to l,153 feet.
The valley or crater which holds Lake
slopes from the eastern to the
chain of the Sierra Nevada
and probably the deepest
water is about five miles out from the
mouth of Emerald Bay, where no
has ever been found. There
is no perceptihle change of tempera-
i'll the water Winter or Summer.
. person will oon freeze to death in
il the warmest August day. The
water never freezes, not ever around
margin of the lake, and snow
ils>OlveS as fast as it falls any
within ten feet of the waters
edge. The lake has been gradually
for the last two years, and is
aid to be now about six feet lower
han it was twelve years Ago.. From
July to February last it receded TWEEN !
.v-siN inches, and old settlers say that
.wo more ''dry Winters will cut off
he Truckee river-and Won Schmidt.
n ordinary easons the lake rises and
all> from four to eight inches. The
living streams which put into it from
very side have not diminished per-
for the past two years, and
yet the lake has fallen steadily. Re-
however, it suddenly changed
md rose eve inches in fifteen days.
VISITORS.
a large percentage of Eastern trav-
lers o take Lake Bigler in their
QUITE. Many of these leave the rail-
Dad at Truckee, come by stage to the
lot Springs, steam over to Glenbrook
nd return by the same route, while
theirs continue on to Carson and Nir-
inia and return to the railroad at Re-
.o-gOing east. Travellers visiting the
AXE on their western trip leave the
Dad at Reno and swing around to
TROUT FISHING. I
Just now trout bite eagerly. The
way to catch them is by trolling
18th lines from 200 to go feet long, !
brown out behind or at the siaes of a
mall boat which must be kept NOV
lg by sculling. The lines must be ,
cry strong and the hooks large, for I
ten or twenty pound trout, with the |
ressure of 80 feet Ofwater above him. n
just about as strong and contrary as
mule. MinnoWs u in schools and
re governed by the moons phases, II
lille the trout are governed by their J
ppetites and naturally follow the l
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