Show I OYSTERS a A Failure Predicted About their Growth in Great Salt Lake On Sunday morning we published a telegraph dispatch from New York in which Fish Commissioner Blackford was authority for the statement that a Mr House of Cor inne was about to try the experiment experi-ment of growing oysters in Great Salt Lake and that about 600 seed lin ITS would soon be landed in this territory from New York This matter elicited a good deal in fact an unusual amount of comment on Monday on the streets and various ideas were suggested as to the expediency ex-pediency or practicability of the experiment ex-periment There is no doubt but a vast majority of people whether posted or not have come to the conclusion con-clusion that the result will be disastrous dis-astrous Appreciating the fact that the successful outcome of this experiment ex-periment was a grand fortune for the man with the spirit and the nerve to go ahead and a great event for Salt Lake Citya HERALD reporter re-porter on Monday talked with a number of persons who have had experience in the matter and who are acquainted with the character of the waters of the lane in which it is proposed to attempt the cultivation culti-vation One gentleman urges that even if they should live and grow they would be unfit to eat but he is confident they will not survive He says the saline density of the lake is variable a fact which is not calculated to induce in-duce oyster growing and insists tnat if placed at a distance from the mouth of one of the rivers flowing flow-ing into the lake where the proper degree of salinity could be secured the bivalves would be destroyed by the mud Another gentleman who has thought for years of introducing oysters into this teintory and who has a place in his mind in which if they can be cultivated anywhere in the territoryoysters might grow is practically of the same opinion as the above He says there is no natural food for them in the lake and the expedient sometimes some-times resorted to of feeding them meal would not be profitable W here good clear water could be obtained it would be altogether too salt and where as somewhere near the mouth of a river the proper condition of the water could be secured se-cured the mud and silt carried down in the spring of every year would kill them all off He has an idea also that not a little difficulty would be experienced in finding a proper bed as it must be neither too I hard nor too soft but just so that they can bury far enough and not too far The conditions are all unfavorable un-favorable he thinks and he has nc hesitancy in saying that failure will be the result of the experiment a predIction which is supported by an attempt of a similar nature made a number of years ago Notwithstanding Notwithstand-ing all these facts and opinions and while few if any have faith in the enterprise every person would rejoice to learn that Mr Houses i experiment proven a success |