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Show I CAN OYSTERS BE GROWN IN THE GREAT SALT LAKE MAY FIND AN ANSWER !N AN OLD EXPERIMENT To the Editor: In his biennial re-Hj re-Hj port the game warden recommends 1" the cultivation of oysters in the mouth of Bear river and along the shores of Great Salt Lake. It is to be hoped the scheme will succeed, but the chances are greatly against It. Some twenty -five or thirty years ago, as I well remember, the same pro-ecjt pro-ecjt was inaugurated by local talent of Utah, reinforced by expert biol-, biol-, ogists of Washington, but the ambitious ambi-tious purpose failed. It was found, at tho end of scv.eral weeks, that the acrid properties of the water in Great Salt Lake dissolved the shell of the oyster and left the poor tenant without with-out any clothes. This was generally commented on by the papers at the time but, as always, al-ways, when other vital matters absorb ab-sorb the public attention, the people forgttf. The oysters were then planted plant-ed near Saltair and along the shores ; around Syracuse. I It seems to me that the briny waters wat-ers of the lake where the fresh waters wat-ers of Bear river empties into them may be so diluted as to not immediately immediate-ly destroy the 'oyster shell, yet will he fail to thrive because the fluid of his habllitation will contain certain undetermined ingredients that will finally erode the house of the precious molusk? There is but one home of the clam and the oyster, and that is somewhere, most anywhere, in the Atlantic ocean. The oyster has been transplanted in ; the Pacific ocean but he does not ' thrive there, as you will observe who have ordered oysters on the "half shell" in San Francisco. Have "one with me" at Faneuil Hall Market, Boston, or St. Sier, Baltimore, and go away feeling that after all life is worth living. A. S CONDON. |