Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-01-08
THE TROUT MINES OF LAKE BIGLER =
HANK MONK STRIKES A FISH BONE
ANA
ICE THAT ASSAYS A HUNDRED
WEIGHT OF TROUT TO THE
SQUARE YARD
SAILOR JACK CATCHING THE SPECK-
LED BEAUTIES WITH A PICK AND
SHOVEL!


The constant reader of the MORNING AP
PEAL is already informed of the unusua
glacial phenomena observable on and abou
Lake Bigler. Mention has been made in
these veracious columns of the freezing which
has so strangely soidifed the waters of that
hitherto uncongealable lagoon. The present
seems fraught with signs and wonders. The
singular conjunction OF our satellite with the
planetary system; the plaques and pestilences
Of the old Orient; the nnaccountable flow OF
warm water out of the Arctic Zone; the rising
of a new archipelago in the neither SEAS the
restoration of the maelstr0m on the coast OF
Norway; and the prolongation of the present
dry season past all precedents, these are some
Of the incidents of an epoch which defes all
theories, battles the profoundest scholarship
and confounds the gravest pundits of the
scientific world. The exact sciences, com}in-
ing their vast facts with the wierd play Of a
limitless and dauntless imagination discovers
worlds compared with which the hemisphere
that was found by the intrepid Genoese dwin-
dies into mere garden patch, and Jules
Verne, stealing the purer and more explicit
exacttudes of Flammarion takes lis upon the
wings of thought out to the far confines of
space and treats us to an insight i'll and
through ''The light of other days" The
freezing of Lake Bigler is of cognate nature
with these phenomena. Gifted FrenchInen,
formulating in audacious chapters the vague
worlds whose geography tolerates Xanadu
and through whose haunted iungles leap the
rilis which feed the Sacred River that flows
through measureless caverEs clown to a sun
less sea- have not hesitated to make sober
erudition play the Fantastic aid the
HARLEQUIN in the widest orgies of riotous
fantasy intoxicated with bedazzling whimseys.
But fact is stranger than fiction. The words
Of unanbitious statement are best Employed
IN dealing with the wonderful. When Ian
guage attempts to rival instead Of portraying
the sublime, the awful and the stupendous,
It's intensiyeness suggests the small pompos
tiles of the supercillious and reminds one OF
the wearisome impudence Of the superservi- |
cable and the pert. But we linger too long !
upon the edge of our story. Again are We
indebted to Hank Monk for the valuable in |
formation contained in the following: In the |
general freeze which has converted the Lake |
into a sea of ice Emerald Bay has been frozen |
solid. 1t is one vast ledge of ice from the
surface of its transparent waters to the bot
tom. More than ever is that beautiful bay a |
gem of purest ray serene, crystalized as it is
and firm set within its own rock bound shores.
From some cause best known to themselves.
the fish, especially the trout, have fairly
swar1ned there. When the great and sudden
freezing came it imprisoned them by hun
dreds of tons all over the Bay. There they
are, fixed, like bee in a drop OF amber. OF
course the fishermen of the Rubicon and its
neighborhood are reaping rich and novel
harvest. The present abundance of fish in
the Carson market is due to this remarkable
occurrence. Mr.. Monk says thai the Bay
presents wonderful appearance. He says
in all truthfulness that Sailor Jack and some
associates have actually sunl, a Wine in the
ice between the boat landing and Cap'n.
Dicks island, and that by dint of tunneling
mining out the imprisoned trout by the cart
load Hank says he has an interest in one of :
these extraordinary 'Fclaims.' and that he has
every reason to expect very prompt and quite
dividends. The present state of the
weather seems to guarantee continuance of
this strange species of mining for some days +
vet to come, if not, indeed, for the remainder
Of the winter. This class of phenomena oc q
eurs only at very rare intervals In 1915,
Back Cove, an arm of Casco Bay was scene
Of such a freezing as this All sorts of salt
water fish, such as frequent the more shallow v
pays and estuaries, smelt, Mood ees and q
founders were frozen III and captured by the J
Million The tom-cod when thus frozen may O
We thawed out in cool water and restored to T
ife For this reason this small member of
he fnny tribe is known as the frost fish.
The numerous specimens of lake trout at
and Clescovich's restaurants prove
he success of Mr Monk, Sailor Jack and the
est of the trout miners at Lake Bigler.
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