An interesting bit of Pickleville history has come to light. For many years with the rise and fall of Bear Lake various metal cisterns would appear about 50 feet east from the shore between Ideal/Sweetwater and Bluewater. Kids have thrown rocks at the metal just to hear the ping or dropped things into the cisterns. If you have seen equipment on the lake bed, that is the Army Corp of engineers digging the cisterns out of their hiding places this summer. Also, if you know of any others, it would be helpful to inform the Army Corp. so people/boats would not get hurt on the remnants.
It has been suggested that when the lake was low that the cisterns were placed in the lake bed to gather water to be used as the farmers needed water for their crops which they grew on the lake bed.
Would love the rest of the story as Paul Harvey used to say.
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