Show 8 salt y 3 for present use This method of curing meat was quite Mormon settlers of the Salt of the salt water the common among the early Lake valley 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 What actually happens is that during relatively calm weather fresh water ’’floats" on top 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 Bay8 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 tively calm cold winter of 1943-4- 4 During the relaice 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 Many people have recorded the existence of ice on the its discovery in 1824 In 1833 Zenas Leonard reported that: "The water is of such brackish nature that lake since only part of it freezes in the coldest weather of the winter 8 Salt 9 Charles Stoddard Lake Tribune Nov 22 1932 "Coyotes on Fremont Island" 1 |