Show GUANO CONTEST COMING Desert Entry to tie Attacked In the Lnnd Oilice The promised contest In the land office of-fice over the location of Gunnison island I under the desert land act will be filed I some time during the week according to the statements made by members of I the Utah Gauno company As has been stated several times before the ground i of the contest will be that the island j had already been located under the placer mining act for the purpose of working the guano deposits and the further fact that the surface of the Island cannot possibly be considered as open to entry under the desert land laws it being Impossible to reclaim the acreage by irrigation This case promises prom-ises to be a warmly contested one as will also be that In the courts at Ogden Orders for the guano continue to flow in to the Utah Guano company by the dozens and several carloads of the product 1 pro-duct could easily be sold were they on hand It Is now stated that the next boatload of the fertilizer will not be received re-ceived at Lake Park before ten days I but the company expects tot market in the neighborhood of 100 tons before the end of thirty days Completed the Surveys Engineer O R Young of the ait Nebo Irrigation company Is back from the south where he has been for the past several days at the head of the field corps making the surveys for the canal systems of the company The eastside east-side system has been laid out and work on the canals Is to commence during the present week while the pipe line on the west side was mapped off in preparation pre-paration for the inauguration of operations opera-tions there also Mr Young Stated that the drain or outlet tunnel is completed with approaches and all but the shaft which is to connect from above is yet to receive the finishing touches before the flow of Current creek can be turned through the tunnel It is now thought that ten days will be required to make all of the necessary changes Work is then to commence In earnest on the dam Shipped the Cattle A E Parsons of Grand Junction yesterday yes-terday loaded out eight car loads of fat cattle from American Fork the consignment con-signment being made over the Rio Grande Western to Omaha Sometime during the week White Sons company will load forty cars of beef cattle at Red Rock Montana for the eastern markets The stock was recently purchased by the company from the feeders of that state |