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Show In the fall of the year 199 the ( Like lake ) abounded in ( wild wild' wild ) ducks and geese , and was a favorite hunting ground , the hunters using boats to get to the islands . ( Dur- Dur ) ing the ( 3rears years ) , many settlers came in and went through , using the river to get in and then crossing the lake . Langley , who had a store up there , used the river and Mud Lake when open . John Knutson was 30 years in the vicinity and knew the lake since about 1892 . Frequently crossed the lake , small boats being used . In the early years used oars mostly , but later weeds and grass grew up and it was necessary to pole in many places . He frequently took hunters out on the lake in his boat and also did some trapping . Practically all of the settlers in the locality had boats . He saw gasoline boats coming up there , but they could not use them for the weeds . George Williams , of Thief River Falls , took one launch out there for the last couple of years before the dredge went there but he could not do anything with it because his rudder got full of weeds first few rods he made . Arpin had a boat up there in 1909 . He said the boat was too big and was never on the lake before the ditch was put in there . The boat pulled the coal barges for the dredge and was used on Thief River to haul coal to the dredge . The lake was drained in 1910 . John Gabrielson came to the country in 1904 . He rowed up Thief River into Mud Lake . The lake was tapped in 1910 . In that year he made 2 or 3 trips in the launch from Thief River to Grygla in the spring of the year , and then the water went |
