Show 188 the guano on other islands especially Hat Island but nothing very successful has come of this Occasionally even today hears that a company is about to be organized to exploit What the future has in the rich guano deposits of the lake store is very doubtful At the present time Gunnison Island is one of the fev one that has remained an island in fact Being relatively isolated in the north arm of the lake five miles north of the and 65 miles from Saltair it is very seldom Luein Cut-o- ff visited by lake travelers it being rather difficult to pass railroad trestle except in very calm weather Because of this Gunnison Island has continued to be the most important of the bird rookeries of the lake William H under the 60000 gulls 6600 pelicans and 32 herons breed13 The 1932 in there colony was only slightly decreased ing 14 when he visited the island in 1943 Carrington Island named after: Albert Carrington an Behle found explorer member of the "Mud Hen" crew and right hand man of the Stansbury expedition lies directly north of It was first surveyed by the Stansbury Stansbury Island expedition in 1850 although it had no doubt been visited by Indians at various times During low periods of the lake early Mormon s "Bird Colonies of Great Salt Lake" 34 14 William H Behle "The Pelican Colony at Gunnison Island Great Salt Lake 1943" np 15 Supra p 150 13 Behle |