Show GETTING OUT GUANO Party at Work on the Deposits on Gunnison Island Albert Richter and a party of ton men are now on Gunnlson and Hot Isl ancls In the Great Salt Jake whore It Js said they are doing n good dcalof prospecting and piling up carloads of guano the shipment of which will be begun in the early spring Very little snow ever falls on the Inlands in the lake and this docs nol remain long so It Is fair to presume that excellent weather Is prevailing on Hot and Gun nlson and this will allow much work to be successfully prosecuted Several years ago James Hit ton Laron Cummings M L Cummings and othera explored Gunnlson Island sent In samples of the guano and had several sev-eral analyses made From these It was plain to be seen that the guano dc posits there are almost limitless so far as its Use In this section of the United States Is concerned and It was simply a question of railroad rates as to whether wheth-er shipments could be made to Eastern i and Western markets at a profit Then followed the organization of an Ogden company the Southern Pacific I sent out a party of surveyors with the I object of discovering whether or not they had a right to the Island or the I portion thereof on which lie the rIchest I rich-est deposits another company composed com-posed largely of Salt Lakers sprung In to existence Alfred Lamboume the ar ill i-ll l laid claim to a goodly p6rtlon i of It under the homestead law Then fol I lowed a fight In the Land ofllce and It i was decided that the land was mineral In character It Is believed that Ihe guano deposits will bo worked extensively from now on |