Show r 8 salty for present use This method of curing meat was quite common among the Mormon settlers of the Salt Lake valley early In spite of the concentrated saline quality of the water ice is formed on the Great Salt Lake every winter The writer has skated many miles on ice near the shore during calm winter weather ’hat actually happens is that during relatively calm weather fresh water ''floats" on top of the salt water the two failing to mix Dr T C Adams that this fresh water formed a film as much as a foot deep above the salt water at the mouth of Bear River Bay At entrances of rivers and creeks this condition exists at all times during calm weather During the winter this fresh found water freezes unless mixed with the brine calm cold winter of During the rela- ice formed as much as ten inches thick from the mouth of Weber river all the way to Fremont Island making it possible for coyotes to cross to the island and molest sheep pastured there 9 Many people have recorded the existence of ice on the lake since its discovery in 1824 In 1833 Zenas Leonard reported that: "The water is of such brackish nature that only part of it freezes in the coldest weather of the winter tively 8 Salt 9 Charles Stoddard Lake Tribune 1943-4- 4 Nov 22 1932 "Coyotes on Fremont Island" 1 |