Show utah guino deposits Depa sits the following C article on the utah guano deposits taken from the engineering and alining journal of new york appeared in fridays F salt lake herald A unique mining venture the economic working of the only deposits of the kind north of the equator will soon be in progress salt lako in utah guano was discovered on gunnison island in box elder county utah III in the winter win ter of 1694 1894 5 by arich ter george payne and TG davis da vis I 1 immediately on learning th the value evalue of their find they prospected all the tit islands island and the shore line of the lake desiring to have a monopoly of this product product if possible under legal advice they located 12 placer mining 1 claims of 20 acres each eight beigh I on gunnison two on davis and two on hat is land respectively and these acres embrace all the deposits of this valuable substance so soon as it became be came noised about a party of jumpers filed a desert land entry on the gunnison acres acre s and shortly afterward tile the southern pacific company set up a claim to the better part of the beds alleging alleain that the ground was within 20 miles of its track hence in the limits of its land grant last winter a homestead entry was made on therun nison nion tract which rounds out the list of claimants the placer locators wore were poor men but alert and they succeeded in securing associates of means and enterprise to join with them and aid in protecting in their rights within a few montus months of the first discovery the utah guano company was incorporated with capital stock in shares of ft 1 the present officers being simon bamberger president A H cannon vice president T A perli parkins chis secretary W S mccornick mccormick treasurer A richter general manager these with jolin john beck and IV 0 C maginnis composo compose the directorate the railroad has now abandoned its claims to title of the land and in the district court courtat at oad ogdan on on may 3rd ard 1897 an order was entered making tile temporary injunction obtained by the guano company against the desert land filers perpetual at this hearing it was proven that these tracts tract s aro are not farming C land hence there is no way in which title can be had to these deposits save as placers the all important matter matte of title bein being 0 thus settled the guano company speedily made preparations to mine its placer deposits and to begin marketing its product this season A contract was at once lot let for the building of a three masted schooner tons burden adapted for navigating I 1 this treacherous sea and to bo be launched early carly lit in july A contract is practically closed for tons tor for heel beet sugar lands in CaH california forni which will compose the initial shipments geanos guanos aro are rated ac according cordin to their nitrogenous and contents from parts of chile peru find and the islands near by where there is almost no rainfall come the best of these fertilizers around salt lako lake there is considerable sid erable rain and a larger portion of salts is leach each bedout ed out analysis show the utah guano has about half the percentage ageos of the soluble ingredients 0 contained in tho the standard high hi h grade peruvian but the utah product is still worth 40 to tt 45 a ton in san Pran francisco cisco in thickness these deposits vary from ono to tw two 0 feet arid a recent estimate I 1 of tho the in in sight eight af ati ter a v very eai tho thorough rough e examination places the total at over tons ton tho the origin of these dp deposits posits is similar to that of tile the peruvian guano millions of gulls pelicans grebes brebes anil and blue cranes have chosen these tracts for their net nest ing c place at tint times esthey they cover tile the surface so that not a point can bo be seen save a broad carpet of live feathers and when thoy they rise on the wing win they hide the sun completely ely today it is impossible to stop step anywhere on the ground of the co without walk walkin walking in 0 on eggs gulls eg eggs gs are as margeas large as hens bens eggs which they resemble in taste and flavor while those of the other feathered denizens of the islands are not fit to eat cat the pelicans destroy large quantities of fish from the streams that flow into the lake in great salt like lake there are no fish or any anything tiling else in the way of animal or vegetable life with tile the single C exception of a sort of a diminutive shrimp colloquially collo qually styled the salt take lake shrimp |