Identifier: reportofexplorat00jord (find matches)
Title: Report of explorations in Colorado and Utah during the summer of 1889 : with an account of the fishes found in each of the river basins examined
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931
Subjects: Fishes Fishes
Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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lowstone, none were visited by us. Commonreport says that all are well stocked with trout, and that the trout in all or most ofthem are wormy. The following tributaries of the lake were examined: Solution Creek is a small, narrow stream, with lava bottom and grassy banks linedwith willows. At the time of our visit it was dry for 2 or 3 miles above its mouth, andfor about the same distance below its source in Riddle Lake. In the standing poolsof its middle course were numerous young trout. Riddle Lake (so called because of the mystery of its outlet, solved by the dis-covery of the little creek) is a clear pond of roundish outline about 1£ miles in diame-ter. About its outlet are numerous lily-pads and other plants. Its shores are shal-low, and its bottom chiefly lava gravel. Trout seem to be numerous in the pond. Twowere taken, one a female with full ovaries, the other a male with shrunken testes. Bull. U. S. F. C. 1889.—(To face page 54.) Jordan. Yellowstone Explorations. Plate XV.
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Tower Falls of Tower Creek. (See page 5C.) EXPLORATION^ IN YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. 55 Both seemed to be free from worms. There is no evidence of hot-water action in Rid-dle Lake. The temperature of the lake is about 50°.Bridge Bay Creek is a small brook of no importance. Arnica Creek is a similar stream, the water of which is warmed by hot springs.No trout were seen there. Trout Creek is a clear stream with grassy banks and gravel bottom. Water clearand clean, about 58°. Its course lying chiefly in Eaydeu Valley it has no falls. Nofish were seen, although it is said to be a fair trout stream but inferior to the next. Both of these enter the Yellowstone River from the west some 12 miles below thelake. Alum Creek is a clear stream about 8 feet wide and 1 or 2 feet deep, rising in theContinental Divide opposite the head of Nez Perce Greek and flowing eastward throughthe grassy fields of Hayden Valley. Its bed contains much white alkali from the hotsprings above and there is a percep

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