Show 184 its deposits on the '’island” and chief use has been as a cattle sheep range The map accompanying Fremont’s Memoirs indicates that followed the lake shore around the north point of the Stansbury peninsula' when he explored the south end of the he Salt Desert in 1845 However neither his nor other accounts indicate that he made such a side journey Mormon explorers were the first known to visit Stansbury Island in 1848 Two years later Howard Stansbury lake and crossed the after whom it was named made a thorough In 1947 the "island” was owned by 5 assessed at $100 an acre local exploration of it It is stockmen geologists Stansbury Island is remembered because This of the Stansbury Terrace so noticeable on its slopes terrace is approximately 330 feet above the present lake level Since it is most noticeable and distinguished on Stansbury Island it was given its name by G K Gilbert To 6 surveyed Lake Bonneville during the 1870 fs Named by Howard Stansbury in honor of Lt John E when he of the Stansbury expedition Gunnison Island is a small rocky isle in the northwest arm of the lake Lying in a relatively remote region it has not received the at ten Gunnison 5 Letter from Tooele February 5 6 1947 Supra p 48 County Assessor Wm R Judd |