THE ARIZONA SILVER BELT — JUNE 15, 1905
A Pardonable Fish Story
The reliable and oft quoted Copper Era [newspaper from Graham County, Arizona] is responsible for a fish story which, if it emanated from any other source, would scarcely receive credence. In a quarter of a column a tale is told of a capsized picnic party, a floating lunch basket and the eventual recovery of the latter. But to quote:
“Mr Johnson had trouble in recovering a large lunch basket which had floated some distance down stream. When it was finally secured and brought to shore it was discovered that it was nearly half full of speckled mountain trout that were feeding on the lunch, which furnished the first fish dinner of the trip.”
If the story had said that the fish were cooked because of the basket floating into a submarine boiling spring we would not have questioned the accuracy of the statement for even a brief second.
From— Arizona Silver Belt. (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.), 15 June 1905 Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
