Salt Lake Herald | 1890-11-16 | Page 5 | The Beach Lands

THE BEACH LANDS Further Testimony Adduced Yesterday as to their Character The hearing in the land contest case was resumed in the land office yesterday when W E Langford a farmer who resides at North Point was called He said lIe was formerly engaged with his brother and J B Meredith in the manufacture and gathering gath-ering of salt on the borders of tho Great Salt lake He had gathered salt upon the same lands as were now occupied by Jeremy Co to whom he and his partners sold the occupancy by deed and certificate Witness further said twentytwo or twentythree years had passed since he first gathered salt from the ponds on the land in question The dam across the south inlet of the disputed land was constructed in 1879 by himself his brother and Meredith Mere-dith Salt was deposited and gathered from this land prior to the construction of dams upon the same The Big Dam was built for the purpose of controlling the waters The ponds were natural ponds before any work was ever done upon them The waters from which the salt was manufactured man-ufactured flowed in from the Great Salt lake The lake had been at different levels since witness had known it Witness farm was located directly on the banks of the Jordan river almost directly east of the land in dispute from which it was distant i about twelve miles and he used the waters of the Jordan for irrigation Witness was well acquainted with the lands between the Jordan and those now in dispute He had never known anyone to reclaim and render valuable for agricultural purposes any of the salt sloughs within that area and did not think it was possible to do so The hearing will be resumed on Monday