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Show 'PUN TO ilE oraiH- UTAH. Experiments Indicate That Food Can Be Successfully Success-fully Grown Here. Fresh oysters cultivated in Utah bed.-? is the next food product of the state to be realized under a prospective successful success-ful outcome of ex peri merits soon to lo made by II. if. siddnway, state fish and fame cum miss i oner, under authorization from Governor Bamberger. Already the project Is under way. This week ilr. Siddowav wdl po to the v;tU-r ; areas in Hear Kiver Lay of the Di.-at fcalt Lake to collect samples of water for analysis by state Chemist Herman Harms at-- to the decree of salt impregnation in different sections of the region i mined i-ately i-ately contiguous to the mouth of Pear river. Ocean water in which the oyster thiives best is known to contain H per cent of j s-alt, but the bivalves will successfully ; exist where the impregnation is as high; as 4 per cent. It is to find water areas1 of sufficient size for oyster beds and ; Laving a percentage of 3 to 4 of salt im- I preenation that the v resent investigation! is to be pursued. I Since the building of the Pucin cutoff j of the Southern Pacific railroad, which . extends across the narrow mouth of Brar River bay from Bagley to Promontory point, the water In the bay lias been tin- ! salted to a great degree. It is contem-plat.vl contem-plat.vl that this fre?:-.e:iing process will continue as the years pass, but that the salt content will never entirely disappear, disap-pear, because the vent ways in the grade of the cuoff and the natural seepage through the railroad construction will continue to sup; Iv a certain amount of j saline feed perpetually. On this account , it is thought that eventually the entire Poar River !-:iv may become one ast ; oyter bed. although at present it is the j intention to experPnmt v.nth only such j una 11 area as will prove agreeable to ; survival of the lucions bivalve. I At the. present time, when the wind is j Ftrontr from either the west or the south- west." the intensely salt water of thpjnke. i which fines an average of to I'T. per cent is driven no into the month of Pear river to a .-onsuleiable distance. It i to get far enough into the areas 'east affected af-fected bv these winds, and f.t the wine time suffieientlv suit as to sustain Die oyster that Mr. Siddoway will collect his sauries. This sort of project lias heretofore been considered with reference if the mouth j of the Jordan river, but that vicinity is. so amenable to wind conditions that it ia been abandoned for the present in the consideration. It is thought, however, that the Hear River bay region is suf.i-ciemlv suf.i-ciemlv protected natural'v. and ihroucn the breaker formed bv the Lt'Hn cutoff, that the hrine percentage about the . mouth of Bear river will be suuicienfy j mild pnd pern-inient in ohaiactr as to lend itself conveniently to the cultivation of the oyster. If experiments show th-it ine plan if! feasible." the sovernor and state fish find j ca me commissioner will apply to the I federal government for a permit to ostah- ! lish the beds in the bay. j |