Show WOROAD TSLAD Conditions of Forty Years Ago Again Exist LAKE IS RAPIDLY RECEDING John H White Who Recently Visited Antelope Island Says that Great Salt Lake Hnsi Droppd 26 Inches in Six Weeks andt Wagons May Novr bo Driven to it With Little Trouble Over the Four Miles Between it and Eastern Shore Old Timers Stories Recalled For the first time according to old timers since 1SG1C2 it Is now possible to drive a vehicle from the eastern mainland of the Great Salt lake to Antelope An-telope Island the route being via the Jeremy salt works to the southeast point on the Island The lake has been shrinking rapidly the past summer I und John H White who recently returned I re-turned from the Island expressed his j belief that the shrinkage In the last six weeks was twentysix inches How WAGON ROAD TO ANTELOPE ISLAND ISL-AND I GT42 The Unshaded Portion Leading from the Jeremy Salt Works to the Island f Isl-and Shows Where Teams May Now 1 ho DrivenAcross ever Weather Director Murdoch holds that Mr White must be misinformed as the records show that since June 1st the lake level has dropped Just nineteen nine-teen inches At all events the shrinkage shrink-age is sulllclent to partially uncover a bar extending between the points abovementioned above-mentioned nearly four miles so that a good roadway averaging say 200 feet wide Is now open pretty directly for three miles or over and then by zigzagging zig-zagging a little one can drive without entering the water over the hubs up onto the land of lie island Oldtimers cay that at times between Is IS and 1SC1 stock was driven over onto Antelope Island but since the great falls of snow in the early 60s the lake rose steadily so lint until this summer such a performance has not been again possible > The present condition of things Is occasioning oc-casioning some thought on the part of Ihc owners of stock on the Island Heretofore the complete Isolation oC the t place has been Its safeguard and the jCjitllc and buffalo have been securely caged up and unable lo wade out But now there Is a point of egress and the Island may have lo be watched Stansbury Island Antelopes mate and neighbor to the west has for sometime some-time been with similar land connections only more so as from near Grantsvllle across lo Stansbury there is quite a wide neck of rocky land In speaking of the possibilities and future of Antelope Island vcsterday Mr While said that II Is admirably adapted for summer resorts There are fine sandy coves and beaches with deep or shallow bathing There Is good spring water there so that It would not be necessary to carry any from the mainland and the benches arc free from the moss that drIfts Mp on the south shore Up on the east side Is a natural boulevard along the old Lake Bonnevlllc beach and were an electric line run over from this city profitable resorts and sanitariums might be erected ho thinks on Ihe Island with summer collages The eastern slope is susceptible of high cultivation as the soil Is loamy and altogether Mr White thought that some day such Improvements Improve-ments would be made A proposition was made in Methodist circles ten or twelve years ago to start a Chautauqua on Antelope but nothing further was done |