Show GUffllSON ISLE GUANO Deposits of the Valuable Fertilizer Just Located CLASSED AS DESERT LANDS THERE IS A CHANO6 OP A SHAIU COIfTEST S Salt Lake People Claim tlie Island Should Be Locntcil ns Desert While Ogden 1ocntors Lilt I na Mineral Land Dot Parties Jtenchctl the Deposits on tlie SomeDay Some-Day Dut the Local Claimants Seem to Hn > c like Whip Hnnd XiI Xi-I E iliuaie l That the Guano on the iHlantL Is Worth Millions Gunnison island in the Great Salt lake located west of the Promontory has been located as a desert entry by Laron Cummings for himself and several sev-eral associates among them Cashier Cummings of the Utah Commercial and Savings bank the proof and other necessary documents having been filed in the local land office yesterday The I I island is estimated to contain 260 acres j and Alfred Lambourne and George Amos certify that the tract contains no streams water courses springs or bodies of water but that on > the other hand the island is isolated and barren being surrounded by the waters of the lake which are intensely saline nd unfit for irrigating purposes The usual us-ual entry fee of 25 cents per acre was paid This on its face looks Innocent enough but as a matter of fact the location Is probably but the beginning of a pretty contest between the Salt Lake locators and a party of Ogden people who have also made location of the island but under the mineral entry en-try statutes Although worthless fr man m-an agricultural or grazing point of View the island is a very valuable piece of property for upon it are deposits de-posits of guano the great fertilizing agent worth in the neighborhood of 52000000 should the tests about to be made of the material give the anticipated antici-pated returns The value of guano lies in its ammonia contents and experts ex-perts state that if the percentage of the pungent chemical is equal to fifteen fif-teen parts then the deposits on Gunni son are worth a fortune to the posses ors Location vms made by the Ogden people as mineral entry they claiming < that the guano which is the accumulated accumu-lated droppings of countless birds which have made the island their hatchery for generations was a mineral min-eral I is anticipated that the desert entry just perfected will put a quietus on the mineral location and therefore the Salt Lakers evidently have a walkover walk-over should the other locators decide to make a contest The locations were made on the same day both parties par-ties arriving on the Island at practically practi-cally the same time some days ago But the Salt Lakers had visited the deposits several times previously and after they had posted their notices they remained on the island and will maintain a squatters right to the 260 acre embraced within the boundaries of the little speck on the bosom of the Salt Lake Since the day of location Ernest Cummings Earl Cummings and a Mr Jennings who was taken over to the island as an expert on Guano have maintained possession of the deposits but their return to this city is now daily anticipated a sloop having left Syracuse for the island for the purpose of bringing the party away The gentlemen named with George Amos and James Hilton left this city two weeks ago and proceeded to Syracuse from which point they sailed in n small boat to Gunnison Island There the Messrs Cummings and Jennings were landed with sufficient cient food and water and with Messrs Hilton and Amos and the boatman onboard on-board the boat set sail on the return trip Fortune was against It however how-ever and for six days the little craft floated around aimlessly at the northwest north-west end o Church Island having ben caught In one of those calms for which the lake Is notable The water I supply on the boat gave out and the passengers would have undoubtedly hav perished from thIN but for the presence of ice which was melted and made into coffee On Saturday night the boat effected a landing at Syracuse and Messrs Hilton and Amos returned to this city while the sloop left on the return trip to the Island with food and water for the others there An Investigation of the guano de posis on the island by experts has demonstrated dem-onstrated the fact that there 1 from six to twelve feet o the fertilizer covering cov-ering the entire tract and it is estimated mated that there will be fully 100000 tons of the commercial guano in the deposits In Philadelphia the material mater-ial is worth 60 per ton and on board cars at Syracuse It would be cheap at 15 per ton Statistics show that something some-thing like 520000000 worth of the guano was imported Into this country during dur-ing V r recent years Provided the GunnIson Island deposits will give returns turns of 15 per cent ammonia a Phia delphi house will make advances for I the entire tonnage Tests are yet to be mae and unti thfe returns are received re-ceived It will never be known whether I or not the peculiar salt impregnated atmosphere surrounding the island has had the effect of destroying the values of the deposits At any rate the Salt Lake people are not losing any sleep on account of the claims made by the Ogden locators for the simple reason that they are of the opinion that they have captured the prize and have i well in hand and the general opinion Is that bird droppings can not ibe located lo-cated as mineral mInera |