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f R w x (I I I tf JULY 1960 20 CENTS OUTDOOR INDIANA HAROLD W. CRAWFO 1 rnor INDIANA DEPART E VATION Cormsldn Jbames M Tucker, ( r oli Kenneth NKunke s dr Harry ,: ed, afa DIVISIONS AND DIRE i an Homer R. Brown Enforcement-John D. State P Kenneth R. Cougill Engineering-Henry Prte nns-lone F. Harrington Entomology-John J. Faige te urces-Charles H. Bechert Fish and Game-Hugh Gry Acoun Harold B. Smith Forestry-Ralph F. Wilcox ' I.. R t ns-W. L. Thompson Geological Survey-John B. ittn m. C. Burns CONTENTS CHAIN O'LAKES STATE PARK DEDICATION .................... 1 PROTECTING VITAL GROUND WATER SUPPLIES............ 4 FOLLOW THE BUFFALO ..................................... 8 ELM ER .................. ................... ................. 12 SEE INDIANA FIRST-TRAVELOGUE V........................... 13 WHY FISH HATCHERIES?.................... ................. 20 FLOATING DOWN WHITE RIVER'S EAST FORK.............. 23 N EW SOGRA M ........................ ........... ....................... 26 CURTIS CREEK TROUT REARING STATION.................. 28 A CASE OF "DOGNAPPING"............................... 3rd Cover FRONT COVER-This beautiful property located near Kale Island and Pickwick Landing on Lake Wawasee is known as "The Japanese Gardens" and is owned by Edward F. Gallahue of Indianapolis. BACK COVER-"Pinnacle Rock", one of the several unusual rock formations seen on the East Fork of White River between Clarks Ferry and Shoals. See story, page 23. Vol. IV,No. 1 OUTDOOR INDIANA July, 1960 WALTER L. THOMPSON, Editor MARJORIE J. GROVER, Associate Editor MAC HEATON, Art Editor HERMAN MACKEY, Photo Editor PEGGY JONES, Circulation Published monthly by the Indiana Department of Conservation, 311 W. Washington St., Indianapolis 9. Subscription price $1.50 a year. Second-class mail privileges authorized at Indianapolis, Indiana. Permission for reprinting material from this issue is hereby given with a request that proper credit be given. 13 k n. ax7 Chain CHAIN OLAKES STATE PARK NDAANAS 20TH STA'TF PARK 1' A ^:3sP FAL_.P4}{?;, : L00 ; 3?4T.L ''45'd!TF.to. g, h5w:. Vo n my P.E3tLC > 'F t,4' *i, NOR' E A $ ; W AND O' Lakes C3 uf'.l g ,J.Iti ! y' t,7 INDIANA GCPAPTIA4;.N' Ot CI'OMSEilVA'TiON State Park DEDICATION ATTRACTS RECORD CROWD DESPITE A FOUR-INCH DOWNPOUR on the parking area was under water. A the eve of the long-planned dedication of number of cars were mired to the axles Chain O' Lakes State Park which for a and hauled out by tractor. The skies time threatened to cancel the program, remained overcast and threatened to re- a record crowd of about 2,500 turned lease another deluge at any moment. out. Last-minute changes were made to Slow movement of traffic and the over- provide adequate parking, for some of whelming crowd which kept arriving Ralph F. Gates and Harold W. Handley, past and pres- ent governors of Indiana, having an informal chat in the park office (above) just before the dedication cere- monies at which Governor Gates presided and Governor Handley delivered the key address. July, 1960 OUTDOOR INDIANA * Page 1 1. Part of the crowd of about 2,500 which gathered despite the continual threat of rain. Nearly four inches fell in the area during the night before. 2. The Lions Club of Albion prepared succulent barbecued chicken in never ending quantities . no one went home hungry. 3. High school bands from Churubusco, Albion and Kendallville, 200 pieces en masse, provided a rousing band concert for the gathering crowd. 4. Governor Handley talking with State Senator Lucius Sommers and an unidentified newspaper photographer before the program. Water in the background is the result of the all-night downpour which threatene to cancel the dedication program. 5. Posting of the colors by the Color Guard of Fort Wayne Legion Post 82, Sylvester Yaney, Commander. 6. The presentation of Governor Handley was met with a standing ovation. after the scheduled starting time for the The crowd, however, was in a holiday ceremony necessitated postponing the mood that neither delays nor damp speeches for nearly an hour. weather subdued in any way. The three Page 2 * OUTDOOR INDIANA July, 1960 WFE0k LA CHAIN O'LAKES STATE PARK - GENERAL AREA - bands did yeoman service enhancing the coming speech he introduced the guests holiday feeling with a continual band seated on the speaker's platform. Ken- concert. neth Marlin, Director of the Department The delightful aroma of barbecuing of Conservation, made a brief and perti- chicken from the hickory-charcoal pits nent talk. The principal address by the set up along the lake shore enticed many Honorable Harold W. Handley, Gover- an early arrival back for a second serving. nor of Indiana, was met with great en- The impressive program began with thusiasm. the National Anthem followed by the The final act of the ceremony was the Posting of the Colors and the invocation unveiling of the bronze marker commem- by the Reverend R. V. Rosenthal of St. orating the date of dedication followed Mary's Catholic Church of Avilla. For- only by a benediction offered by Rever- mer governor Ralph F. Gates acted as end McGrath of the Burr Oak Baptist master of ceremonies. Following his wel- Church. -M. J. G. Final event of the Chain 0' Lakes State Park dedication ceremonies was the unveiling of the bronze marker. Members of the Allen-Noble-Whitley Joint County Park Board pictured standing left to right are: Fred Meyers, Woodburn, Vice-Chairman; Hon. Paul (Mike) Burns, Mayor of Fort Wayne; Hon. Rudolph Rehwinkle, Mayor of Kendallville; Earl Fisher, Columbia City, Chairman; Harry Holsinger, Rome City, Secretary-Treasurer, and William C. Thompson, Jr., Columbia City. PROTECTING VI TAL GROUND WATER ....... SU PPLI ES CHARLES H. BECHERT, Director, Division of Water Resources and WM. J. WAYNE, Glacial Geology Section, Geological Survey PURE POTABLE WATER is one of our most for domestic, industrial and recreational precious natural resources, but unfortu- use has played an important role in nately too many take it for granted. Not bringing about a vigorous stream pollu- until the supply fails and it becomes con- tion abatement program, but the fact taminated and unfit for human use does that they are visible to the eye has en- the average individual give it much con- abled the public to readily appreciate the sideration. need to do something about the matter. For many years, communities and Today we face another threat to our industries discharged their untreated water supplies. Pollution is now an wastes into the sewers and streams of the enemy that seriously threatens to damage state with little regard to the effect such the invisible waters beneath the earth's practices might have on them. As a result surface-our ground water. Undoubtedly of this thoughtless action many of these lack of understanding of the origin of our once beautiful streams became ridden ground water and how it moves has con- with filth and a menace to good health. tributed greatly to this problem. Fortunately, however, great strides have All the fresh water taken from water been made in recent years to abate such wells has fallen as rain on the surface of nuisances and restore these vital water the ground, probably not very far from courses to their former condition. The the place where it is pumped out of the fact that these same waters are needed earth through the wells. Much of the rain Page 4 * OUTDOOR INDIANA July, 1960 water that reaches the ground runs into know when this sort of situation might streams, but some of it soaks into the develop. ground. Plants take water out of the soil Earth materials-sand, gravel, clay-- but much of the water that enters act as a filter to purify water by taking the ground continues moving downward out such things as bacteria. In some kinds through the subsoil and underlying sand, of rocks, the water moves through the gravel or rock materials until it reaches rock too fast to be filtered effectively. a zone in which every pore space or crack This is especially true in cavernous is full of water. The water table is the rocks like limestone. Gravel is an excel- name given to the top of this saturated lent filter but it, like all filters, has a zone. limit that can be exceeded. Wherever All of the materials below the water large amounts of waste materials are table contain water but the pore spaces drained into the soil for disposal, the or cracks in some are so small that water possibility always exists that some of moves through them very slowly. Gravel that waste will reach drinking water and sand have large pore spaces and supplies. water will move through this material During the past 10 to 15 years, the quickly and easily. Clay and silt also problem has become aggravated because have many pore spaces but they are so numerous subdivisions have blossomed tiny that water will not circulate through around most towns and cities in Indiana. them. Limestone is a kind of rock in In some places these subdivisions have which water passes easily through cracks, been able to obtain water from local utili- but very slowly through the solid part of ties and to connect their sewers to munic- the rock. ipal sewage treatment plants. Residents When water trickles through the soil of a large number of subdivisions, though, and rock it dissolves a little of the mate- still must depend upon private wells and rial it passes. Hard water contains more private septic tanks for water supply and dissolved materials than does soft water. sewage disposal. Unfortunately, many of If water can pass through some source of these private systems do not work satis- bacterial contamination-for example, a factorily where the density of houses be- barnyard or the disposal area of a septic comes as great as that found in most tank-it will pick up some of the bac- residential areas.