Show 9 10 "Icebergs" have been known to float about in the lake doing damage to boats and other equipment Christopher Layton while moving sheep to Antelope Island by boat in the 1870’s was caught in an ice floe The impact was season" severe enough to cause a leak in the boat causing a delay of forty-eig- ht hours 2 James Cecil Alter reported that on February 14 1919 "Another ice jam occurred on the east arm of the Great Salt Lake that it was and the ice piled up so high lifted over the tracks of the railroad fill In March 1942 Charles Stoddard vas crossing from Fremont Island in his truck following a sand bar covered by about a foot and a half of water when a large sheet of ice four inches thick struck the truck and pushed it about a mile before depositing it in a quicksand bog The ice some moving very slowly was grounded on the sandbar The writer has seen ice sheets piled high on the shores of the lake after a heavy windstorm These sheets of ice three or four inches thick sometimes collect in piles and float about the lake In 1942 one such mass of ice vas sighted between 10 Zenas Leonard Leonard’s Narrative 128 11 Donald E Jenkins "On the Great Salt Lake" Improvement Era January 1932 164 12 Christopher Layton Autobiography 170 Alter Utah the Storied Domain I 497 14 Charles Stoddard "Facts About Fremont Island" 13 James C 6 |