Show GREAT SALT BED BEDIN IN UTAH It ties In Tooele County Be Bei BetWeen i tW tWeen cn Pilots Peak and Ib apa TWENTY MILE IN LENGTH Pilet Ch Being I II It I rh I SUlo QI II Is IsTo To That Utah hR has hi i additon additIon to a Great Sal Salt Jt Lik t It a great sea lt talt 1 let In the tho aes rt ot of coun count t ly II is nerl known Yet It is 18 isa n a fact nr there I is right no now before th the land board a m us as to who shall get lon of C 1 It Th board his has the case to the tho government Cor or decision through the Utah delegation ton tion amid ld t the he decisIon II ha It wi will be bc Imon 0 or not I a great number o of placer pIncer claims claim nw now flied filed on the land are legal In the meantime the tho nr are tn cm file wit tho coon coun count t ty clerk Senator Peter Clegg cC C Tooele county confirms the stories ofa sea sea of salt alt Olt out In the tho de desert ert J Jt Is one more tion or the oct that when the men menat of at 40 years ears ego ago scared the west est branded It Lus lIS a ast of sandy desert hopeless and u the they Jut just took I a lOl long range Ic Instead of at In p tl is closely Var this the 10 gov eminent dearly Mi in railroad land band grantE white he SnIt Salt L Lake O pioneers Ind and the Moapa valley ley pl loers served to tUrn over the ancient theor each one ann annIn iti In Is its day Ild cud generation Wih With th the coming ol 01 the making It possible to iet ket the goods to ton toa n a market theta there la is a disco el cry of oC values al cs In western desert dort lands lunds and this Palt salt deposit I i the latest er such manifestations llon Qt of undreamed of at opportunity come conte from vat rol ley where they are putting In great truck gardens to sUpply Salt Lake from Crom Millard COlty county where they ther arf are plan lan fling irrigation canals to water acres of land and Creek Creele where shere mining the build lug InK o of the Iho Sail Lake Route with the po of at Q 0 Creek branch VIEl IE Ye Yea air SRI Sentor Clegg leg there thero Is a a lot of salt OtH titer It it Is a a foot fout to eight feet deep U tIe bed hed les lies In the desert RIC over mier the he vest edge of at I it The tra tract t II is or ten mies miles wide ald and from 20 0 to O 1 long le tic cording to various The Tho snit 15 i pure and white cad I is packed as ashor ashard hor hard nn as a rock s for tor O 0 years eara haf have been galloping owr or I it They talk tolk of It as the tho stretch ot of haid white pa out In the tho cert and your our tR uld Ind u a wonderful speed stretch It YOU OU ever wanted to hold I a contest with a an Ideal natural pavement to run Ol oi OlON ON WESTEn EDG EDGE When asked how t to got get to 10 the tho salt at bed Senator Clog Clegg said d that it lies B between Plot peal peal and and desert tle the track through 1 the Do you think It could bE be the old mouth ot of the Seller river which used to run tun into Ito the tho lake from that ton then 7 waP was asked ed edNo No replied Senator it Il seems to be h frol from a a big salt spring th water ot of which Is very fry salty located near The water from this spring has spread out over oyer the and evaporated year ar aCer after year ar whIle th th deposit hs his grown The Western wi f I trough through I it and this make makra claims a Ivey demand to locate salt rm LAND LAW LAWs LAWAs As s to whether the claims wi will stand Senator Clegg was no not so referred the r to the see o the land board The Tue provI provIsions stops o of S 8 of oC the enabling at act are th that t 1000 acres ot of lad land Ing al all saline lands are ara set apart for tor forthe the l use e of the or of Utah I It this land ts Is judged to ho be saline land ot of course It part of the tho land grant ant and proceeds of at 1 its lalo sale go to the funds How over nYer n a salt claim Is generally construed 11 1 a mineral mineraI proposItion ald and 11 may be ba bated ted filed the seme caine as anY apy other min minerai oral claim ni as a placer proposition Jn In I that vase ale the government would he hethe thoner the owner anI and the mIner would h hn have havea n a rIght to dig and ship the al I If tho b bed well were unknown to exist I lands were mentioned the Iho term would be construed to apply to the vast stretches ot of alkali land and water waterlogged logged land that surround the lake hIke and amid that are oro II iii 01 other her ports ot of the tho state It this l idea el should prevail mIners mIner may get ril rid ot of the he salt b by working placer claims antI then the tho university wl Inherit the tho land on w which the bel bed was S located The do on the tho mater nuttIer from Washington Is with great t interest b by those who ho have hae staked out claims 01 on the property Intending tO In hold them ti tIll time the e PacifIc Is ready to salt palt |