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Wholesale Siouxhier of Fish. fAquillu Walker,a well koown rcai- ^ dent of Spring Creek, baa called oar { attention to a matter that seoma to re- j quire an investigation by the fish com- g rpissioner. lie says that on every Monday morning the banka and dry j places in the bed of the river are -strewn with dead minnows, that the ]number of dead and dying fish to be , thu3 leen will reach well up into the thousands each week.Mr. Walker attributes this terrible slaughter to the fact that the race gates at the Waterlo • dam are closed : every Saturday night, when the Union Milling Co- .shuts down. He says that closing fcbcaci urates shuts oil the watersupply below the dam, which is stillfurther reduce 1 by Lbt regular flow towards its mouth, and that by Monday morning many places in the bed of tUh river that wore covered by water Saturday evening are Jeft without snflicient moisture to sustain the Gah. If Ihla theory is correct, and itcartain-jy icasiple, the slaughter couldbe stopped by discontinuing the practice oJ' closing the race gates.Whatever may he the cause tho matter demands the immediate attention of the lish enniiruaaiuner. The laws enacted for the pro lection of the fish of our streams arc very stringent, yet here ia something destroying more fish iu one week than all the opeara in thecounty could kill in six months. It will bo useless for the commissioner to try to replenish the Cedar's supply of lisii so In rig as this wholesale devastation ic permitted to continue.
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Progress Review
La Porte City, Iowa, US
Sat, Jul 06, 1895
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