The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 7, 1963 Page: 3 of 10
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By Vern Sanford
In a few more months Texas
will have a wonderful new fish-
ing lake.
One of the reasons is that
the Texas Game and Fish Com-
mission just recently has poured
thousands of large mouth bass
into the new Twin Mountain
Lake, west of San Angelo.
Growth rate of bass ir. West
Texas waters is very rapid. This.
was established only last year
when the season was re-opened
on Lake Sweetwater.
This lake had undergone a
complete kill. Then it was re-
stocked. Within something like
a year those bass had grown to
a catchable size. Now some real
"keepers” are being taken from
those waters.
Perhaps that is one of the rea-
sons West Texas fishermen are
loking forward to the time when
the Twin Mountain project will
start paying off big.
There are hundreds of fine
fishermen in West Texas, and
many of them live in and around
San Angelo. However, they’ve
had a hard time keeping up with
their fishing water. But now it
seems they have it made.
In the early days the Ange-
loans fished in one of the forks
of the Concho River, when there
was enough water.
Their first good water came'
something like a ijialf-century
ago with the little Ben Ficklin
dam.
Then, as San Angelo grew, the
Nasworthy dam was built. It cre-
ated one of the finest crappie
lakes in Texas.
Finally San Angelo got tired
of being constantly flooded from
the North Concho. So, the Corps
of Engineers was persuaded to
build a dam across this stream.
True, it was dry most of the time,
but it was a demon during flood
time.
So it was that Concho Dam
was built just north of San An-
gelo, barely out of the city limits.
North Concho Lake also pro-
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was so good it was picked for
the 1962 State Bass tournament
and it paid off.
However, this lake is on the
desert, so to speak, and is sub-
ject to roughness from the high !
winds that prevail in West Texas.
For that reason it really hasn’t
had the popularity it actually de-
serves
But floods persisted in the An-
| gelo area. When rains fell in
Western Tom Green and even
in Irion County, floodwaters roll-
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It became evident that another
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i Two years ago engineering
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produced to show a dam was
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site.
The dam now has been finish-
ed at a spot only 12 miles west
of the San Angelo Courthouse,
and rains are awaited to fill the
lake.
It was built by the Bureau of
Reclamation.
All new lakes afford excellent
fishing during their first few
years, and no doubt this new San
Angelo lake will live up to those
traditions.
However, it has more to offer.
Not only will it fill up with flood
water, but it will be spring fed,
too. Many springs along the Mert-
zon and Spring Creeks flow into
the Conchos.
Meanwhile, development work
is progressing on Lake Nas-
worthy. It will be a wonderful
little constant level lake.
During recent months develop-
ers have been busy running chan-
nels from Nasworthy behind
some of the lake cabins around
it.
This creates a paradoxical sit-
uation because generally San
Angelo is recognized as a part
of that great arid portion of
West Texas. Yet it will have the
most modern lake in Texas with
boat roads behind many of its
lovely homes, just like Florida.
So the coming of the Twin
Mountain dam will mean a great
deal to those west Texas fisher-
men who have been going a long
way for their outdoor recreation.
And it will mean a great deal
to San Angelo, too, in the way
of flood protection and additional
domestic water potentials.
Helen Ellis, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Coe Ellis, was home
from Midwestern last week be-\
tween semesters. Helen will do
her practice teaching as a physi-
cal education teacher this se-
mester.
The Archer County News
Thursday, Feb. 7, 1963
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In 1962, we paid $1961.64 taxes in Jack, Archer and
Clay Counties. We also pay vehicle registration taxes. We
pay taxes in two other counties. We pay franchise taxes
to the State of Texas. In the future we will pay more
taxes. Rural areas are more valuable where electricity
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Stults, Joe K. The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 7, 1963, newspaper, February 7, 1963; Archer City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth709320/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Archer Public Library.