The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-01-26


cessity have To cause the present III
cumbent TO be removed. Therefore b,
is causing to be circulated petitions il
which he recites the shortcoming D.
one John Bloom. Among other thingl
he charges that the said Bloom hal
allowed the fish hatchery at st. JOIN
to deteroriate, to be practically -aban
doned and that it is proposed to NOV,
the hatchery equipment to some 9th
er point.
Before the present incumbent be
came game and fish commissioners ths
flsh IN Fish Lake and several othel
lakes in the Turtle Mountains wert
destroyed. In the years following Z
growth OF algae formed in many oa
the lakes with the result that fish
life was entirely destroyed in many
other lakes, and the stencil arising
from the foul waters became SO Of.
fensive to summer cottagers that few
people made their home at the lake
as was their former custom.
Every effort known to science
within the reach of the game and fish
board, was resorted to in order to
restock the lakes, but upon the ad-
vice OF the best authorities in the
country the effort was abandoned un-
til such a time as the waters were
cleared up, these visitations occurring
at stated intervals in all the smaller
lakes thruout the northwest in which
there had been fish.
MIR. Af Eastgate, deputy game and
fish commissioner, who claims to have
been let out of his lob because he was
an 1. v. A. "a statement in which
there was not a word of truthl. de-
clared to the game and fish board
that it was impossible to conduct the
hatchery at Fish Lake so long as pure
water in abundance was understandable.
and he recommended tn the hoard the
abandonment of the hatch
erv. giving II as his belief that the
lakes had receded so much as to maize
further efforts futile and q useless ex-
pense. As 7 remember II Was the
only member of the hoard who on
pesed sueb a stem T insisted that the
should ha loft ;ntac+ +ba+ Il
should he preserved as well as noss;-
ble. the grounds Kent nm untiI s,,cb a
time as It was known that there was
no further hone and T was ahle to get
the hoard tn adont INV view We have
always stood readv to do anvtb;no
within onr nower have co-onerateJ
with the neonle interested in the laLas
and have maid for at least two sur-
veys, the object of which was, to drain
some of the SMALLER lakas into tha
larger ones At ono time VIC aoraed
10 nav $1,000 Of tbe axnanse of dra;n-
ing if the citizens who had nronertv
interests tn he benefited woI,Id hear
the rest of the exuense Mr.. C. 7
Lord. who with his brother Henry.
were deeplv interested and had ALWAYS
taken an active interest in the wel-
fare of the Fish Lake country. volun-
teerea To act an sreasusgs Of the corn
mittee or organization. The movement
had no sooner started than one of the
parties owning the land on which one
of the lakes was situated which it was
proposed to drain, objected. Then it
was found that others objected, with
the result that the plan was aban-
doned. Last fall, however, the agita-
tion was again resumed and at a
meeting held in September at Fish
Lake, at which there was a good at
tendance of people from Rolla, St
John and the mountains, it was decid-
ed to again make an effort to do
something. Another survey was or
dered, and estimates obtained, and
the board had practically decided to
authorize the expense. The recall cleo
toin soon followed, and before the
contract was let it was decided to first
ascertain whether such an expense
would be approved by the new state
auditing board, which has the last say
as to all expenditures the game and
fish board may make. 1t would be un-
fair to the people of the mountains to
have them do q lot of work without
knowing whether they would receive
their pay. ...
last fall after an examination of
the waters bv biological expert. /
was convinced that the waters of the
laks were clearinp nm. that the trou-
bles with which we had no control