Deseret Evening News | 1901-04-13 | Page 2 | Big Salt Mountain Located

pp n H MU SALT MOUNTAIN LOCATED Utah and Nevada Parties Partes make Alake Valuable Entries of Saline Lands Lan s sin in iii Lincoln County Along Lne Line of the Proposed Los Angeles Road Word has Just reached Salt Lake from tori St St Thomas on lle Lin Lincoln coIn coln county Nevada to the tire effect that Utah anul anI Nevada a people have 1110 n a 1 number of Important locations In in that tha t section covering practically all al of oC the time big salt sail aal mountain along the tire railway route which Is being so vigorously die dis disputed nt ut this iris time It appears that tho tire locations wore ero made mado tome sonic time ago on tele telegraphic telegraphic graphic advices from Hon hair I 01 A C C Cleve Cieve Cleveland Cleveland land of Nevada to business s associates In Utah and mid iris his hIl own state while he ire was In the tine Kant East himself lC The Tho locations are said Mil to be ho under insider some ome new rule of tire the general land hand or modified congressional law In but hut which It I Is Jun not quite certain Associated with wih Mr Cleveland leveland are ara Hon lion Robert noh t C Lund Iund of oC St St George other Utah and amid all Nevada With tho tire completion of a n railroad to the tire coast another big salt sail sal producing section will 1 be given to the time West S cst cat It I Is claimed that this will viii 1 wove prove I roven rove a n veritable bonanza to the th men Ien who have located locatell It ItIn ItIn In Its tire the th old days Salt Halt Mountain was wat Wi tine the principal saline supply point of south southern southern ern era Utah and antI Nevada Neda rind and the tire article was waR conveyed to the for tor a ii along I long hang Ion time by 1 y the time Indians carried the crude deposit l posit In irs nets upon their backs to whites whiles to whom they hwy twy traded It fur for such sueh articles of ot food fool mard wearing apparel that they did iia not themselves possess The Tire whites It In turn tur would boll boil It down dean and refine It I for domestic u use ue c For years ears It was hauled Into St George by uy freighters frel Who ho quarried It from coin the mountains and t retailed It I at ten tn cents a pound