Show COAL Al Dr n nN ON N SALT Al T lA LAKE r l ISLAND lAND Government Thinks Th There re May Be and S Survey Will Be Made by U U. S. S to Determine the F Fact ac acIs TS Is CARRINGTON island in inI Is 1 I Great Salt lake fifteen miles west vest of Antelope island under under- laid taid with rich depo deposits its of coal I Is it valuable ble for its ancient beds o of ot guano guano or Is it mere merely y fit for grazIng grazing grazing graz graz- ing Ing- Ing I These are the tile questions jow low ow agit agitating agitating ting t- t ing the minds of ot land office officials here and In Washington they hey rhey arose as as' as asa a result of a recent app application for sl survey vey of f the island island I IThe The matter started last f wh when n F F. E E. Murray and H R W. W Seavy ap ap applied plied pIled to United States States SUrY Sur Surveyor pen Gen General enral en- en eral ral I I. I C. C to ha ve Island islands island's s eyed They indicated they Ethey they de desired desired desired de- de sired to to acquire the island the he s super super- super superficial per per- tidal area of which is approximately 1000 acres for tor grazing and agricultural agricultural agricultural tural purposes I REPORT INTERESTS TALLMAN The survey surveyor or r general recommended to Washington that the sun survey ey be granted At the same time h he ard th there r had been many many reports of large deposits deposit's of guano on Carrington as aswell aswell well weIl as on other islands in hi the lake As a matter of fact that such fertil izer has actually been mined on some of these Islands Is common Is-common common knowledge Sp Spurred on by mention of the guano Commissioner Clay Tallman of the general land of office rice evidently went into an exhaustive study of Carrington ton Island as indicated by a lengthy report received from him today in which he approves the survey survey application cation He sets out that Ca Carrington island is about six miles mUes e east et st of the west mainland has an average elevation elevation eleva eleva- tion of twenty feet and tl that t. t the contour contour con con- tour of the island has not been affected affect affect- ed by lake ae action since Utah became a a state This is to prove piove it is permanent permanent permanent perma perma- nent land lan He refers reters with with interest to the he reported guano deposits po and th then n discloses the ne fo following I which will probably be news news' to ev even n the oldest Inhabitant of Utah SOME NEWS FOR I Mr Tallman says that there is an atlas In the care of the librarian of the U U. S S. S geological department containing con con- taming a report by Clarence Ciarence King Ing in 1876 1576 of a geological survey along the fortieth parallel which took In Carrington Carrington Carrington Car Car- rington island As a government en engineer engineer engineer en- en Mr King reported that half the central portion of Carrington island Is und by coal Without having had a chance to look lookup lookup lookup up the records Ralph S S. S Kelley KeIley loc local l lI I chief of the field service division of I the land office said today toda It is hard to believe King made I I such a statement He was one of the mos most c conservative of ot engineers and I never stated a fact tact unless he knew It to be so It It Is especially hard to believe when it is a matter of common common common com com- mon geological knowledge that th the formation from from the Wasatch range wes west to California is such that quantities quan- quan titles of ot valuable coal cannot exist Inthe Inthe in inthe the nature of things I will await the report of the engineers with interest when the survey is made FUTURE ACTION Whether or not t Murray and Seavy had any other thing than grazIng grazing graz graz- grazI I ing in mind when they made application tion for the survey cannot be j a ascer ascertained O r tamed bec because use they could not be found today Mr said sad he will prepare Instructions on the survey which willbe will wll be forwarded to Washington at once and that the actual survey will be made as soon as they can get to It some time later in the season Alter After l' l the survey according to Mr 11 1 Tallman if the land and Js is valuable for guano Itcan it itcan itcan can be located under the placer location location loca loca- tion if valuable for coal it can be leased eased under the new mineral land leasing easing law if It it is valuable for neither it can be taken talen up under homestead entry Presumably the I public will have an equal right uness unless un- un less ess Murray and and Seavy h have ve Initiated j I ja Ia a a. squatters squatter's right I |