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Show OYSTERS IN SALT LAKE. The following dispatch indicates that an attempt will be made to establish in Utah an industry that every citizen will wish to see become successful: New York, Aug. 12.-Fish Commissioner Eugene G. Blackford, yesterday received an order from Henry House, at Corinne Utah, for two barrels of seedling oysters, House wrote that he intended to plant them and make an attempt to cultivate oysters in Great Salt Lake. Blackford said, to-day, that the two barrels would contain about 600 seedling oysters, and that the cost, together with freight charges, would be about $60. He said also that this was the first attempt made to cultivate oysters in Great Salt Lake, and that, no doubt, the experiment would have a satisfactory result, provided a proper bed for the oysters could be found, where minute animal food, upon which the young oysters lived until they reached Utah-and the water of Great Salt Lake was, without doubt, suited to them-in a year's time the young oysters, if they would live and thrive would be fit for food; and it is said, should the experiment result successfully, many more would be planted next year. It has been asserted that the waters of the Lake are too strongly impregnated with salt to admit of animal life in them, and that the successful propagation of oysters in the lake would be impossible except at points where fresh water streams flow into it, making the water merely brackish, or less salt than ordinarily. The result of Mr. House's experiment will be looked for with deep interest |