to Lake Papakeechie and to pay as rental, for the use of water, 5,000 number two fingerling bass, annually, in addition to an apportionment of the surplus bass and other fish hatched, same as furnished to public lakes of the same size. The state kept its word. “As the lake is privately owned and the public is not permitted to fish therein, the bass, crappies and blue-gills have become so plentiful that it has been said ‘you can hear them ‘hollar’ at one another to lay over.’” Corporation Upon the death of Sudlow in 1915, his will established a Trust Company of Indianapolis as trustee of his estate. The company came into possession of nearly all the stock of the improvement company and for six years Papakeechie remained dormant. In 1921, the Northern Indiana Improvement Company parted with the title to the entire property to Thomas J. Prickett of Nappanee, who in turn sold it to Papakeechie Corporation, which had been formed and organized for the purpose of taking over the property. The corporation filed plats of the land surrounding the lake, subdividing them into suitable lots for summer homes. “No person can reach the waters of this lake without acquiring a lot from the company or trespassing upon the company’s lands and the company has taken pains to police the lake under a competent and careful custodian. It pays taxes on the lands under the water, as well as those surrounding it and it is absolutely a private lake." More than of the land belonging to the company remained unplatted and not for sale in 1923. Wild ducks were reported in great numbers. Nearly 100 lots were disposed of during the first year of the corporation’s management. Papakeechie Lake, in 1923, could only be reached by public conveyance over the Baltimore & Ohio Railway to Wawasee and then by boat to Papakeechie. The corporation began building roads around the lake and in the brochure stated it would have a boulevard surrounding it. Papakeechie mystery From the 1950s through late 1960s an aluminum airplane wheel with tire measuring some 7 to 8 feet (2 m) across lay on the shore of Papakeechie just to the east of the dam. It was never known how the piece of landing gear got there as it would have had to have been rolled up hill and over the earthen part of the dam.