17 A plesant Morning I receivd 2 letters from Jaques
& Clara I wrote 3 letters to Jaques Phebe & Clara
A great number of People are ariving to day & camping
We find Fish Lake to be 9000 feet above sea level
7 miles long 1 1/2 wide we crossed the Lake in a skiff
opposite our camp about one third of the length of the
Lake from the North End [FIGURE] we measured the
depths of the water from the west to the East shore & we
found the water the following Depth 50 feet, 75, 132,
143, 162, deepest 168 1/2, 125, 45 1/2, about 3 feet
at each shore. If we had gone through the middle of
the Lake or further South I think we would have
found the water over 200 feet deep. There is one pecu-
liarity about this Lake I never saw in any other Deep
water There is a vegitation growing in the bottom of the
Lake in Deep water like coarse weeds 2 to 3 feet high
thick Enough to mow a swath the water is vary clear
and cold. I consider Fish Lake the greatest depository
of Large fine trout of any body of water in the Rocky Mountains
The Lake is fed with half a doz small streams that
flow into it from the west Mountains & hills none from
the East. The Trout in the spring of the year go up these
small streams to spawn and a person the can throw
then [them] out of the water with their hands or knock them
in the head with a stick from 1 to 5 or 6 lb Men have
made a Dam & put in large gates at the out let
to hold the water on a reservoy to water vallies below
by this means have raised the Lake some 4 feet & not
having used the water this season and the water being
stoped at the outlet the large trout trying to com back
to the Lake get into vary shallow water had by
the Son sun many of [them] Died from 1 to 6 & 7 lb and
many others nearly dead the Brethren let the water
down to save those that were not Dead
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