Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-11
.SALTON SEA FULL
 OF LARGE FISH
Interesting Discussion Of Fish
 cries Possibilities r. Fish
 Appear To Be In a Half Starved Condition Present
(Phoenix Republican,

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 One of the most interesting sights enjoyed by the travellers over the Southern Pacific the present summer has been watching the fish in the Sal ton sea. When the water of the Col orado river broke into the bagan the great fish population was carried with it and there is now myriad of fish of varying size (many of them. like the Colorado Salmon, being of an edible variety.
 So numerous are the fish that where the railroad crosses an arm of the sea thousands may be seen from the car windows and platforms, sporting in the water under the trestle work and strange as it may seem they are ob- livious to the noise of presence of the train. The dining car employees dump the kitchen refuse into the water and the fish eagerly dispose of it. The theory advanced by some, is that the fish are starving to death and have learned that about the only feeding place is where the railroad crosses the water. That is the reason they crowd to that point having no fear of the train. They have learned to appreciate the whistle of the engine very much as the farmer boy does the dinner horn and respond just as quickly. When it IS remembered that the bed of the sea is nothing but sand and salt that very little vegetation grows along its banks and that little insect life in fests the locality it is not unnatural to suppose that the fish have a hard time to get enough to eat. This con dition is worse now than ever since the Colorado river has been shut out and no new water freighted with fisf | food finds its way in. while the wateI already there is constantly taking OF | a more saline nature through eYapO l ration.
 It may be expected as these condi
 tions grow more and more strenuous l that the fresh water fish will gradual. | ly evolve into salt water animals ol | following the impulse of man wht adapts himself to conditions, vii eventually have to carry canteens o fresh water for drinking purposes | There will surely be some interesting
 changes from the view point of thu
 nature fakir or else the fish will have
 to die. An alternative that the sym pathetic do not like to enssrtain. | It has been suggested by one stu dent of natural histcr! taat some on' with a commercial instinct may mak. a fortune by waiting until the sea G:iei up a little more and inc fish becUHi'
 so thoroughly satura-su with salt tGa they succomb. The salt in them wou., lpreserve them and all the busines llnan would have to do would De to d.. tine dead ones and box Lhem up fct | the market as dry salz tiaE. Anothe | ,r.s sF,.r nf lakes and planting it goldfish. It wil not dry up for a great many .:ea"S bu
 when the final harvest Gomes he woul( lt able to practically crntrnl the CT! codfish market If not sH0uSi fer col fish the sea could be planted to bar racuda, mackerel. sea bass and oceal fish. They would find enough to liv' on for a long time to come by eating lup the fresh water fish. By the tint | they were gone there would be enougl small salt water fish for the large II ones to eat and in that way a fishini | preserve could be built where th'
 most unskilled angler could be sur'
 of a bite. Transportation facilities would be incOmparable for the rail
 road is right there.
 fl If .t proved a success before th ] Std lludllN uAItu up II llS pIuLHOIti
 were not already millionaires and anX ioUs to retire it would not cost a grea | deal, not near as much as it did tt stop the Colorado intake. to construc H 8 pipe line and siphon enough wate | out of the Gulf of California to i'll tn
 sea up again, as the sea is two or threr hundred feet below ocean level. Th' man who has foresight enough to seiz hn icl
 market of the country for he will hay,
 his ocean fish where they can't ge away ana he can plant them so thicl
 he can be sure of catching them when lever he wants to.
 The gentlemen who have these idea
 m mind however are afraid to ar Iproach tn government for a lease 0 the Salton sea as they believe the gov Iernment is already wise to anothe possibility and they want to use thi ! great resource itself. It is cor ceived that a great deal of water pow Ter may be developed by this proposet isyphon, sufficient to run an immens refrigerating plant from which pipe icould be run under the water coolinl
 1t off materially, especially in the wir ter time when 1t is already chilly il those parts. The American seal rock ]. Ieries could then be transferred iron
 Alaskan waters to the Salton SC
 where the government could protec Ithem from the invasion of the JaI
 anese.~ Sealing would become hom industry and one more possible caus
 of war with Japan would be removed
 The seals could be taken in the winte
 time when the fur was best instea of summer time as is now the praS
 tice.