Show 199 visited the island "accompanied by the direction of Horace K Whitney" nent men a under These men climb- string band the mountain peaks and participated in a three-da- y roundup which was a great occasion According to Brown there were ed 1000 horses on the island at that time They were as wild as deer and the best horsemen of the West were on hand to help rope them Thousands of dollars were spent in imHowever as time passed interest in horses proving the herd began to lessen until 1871 when Briant Stringham (one of the foremost promoters of the herd) died "interest in the Island about also"1 Finally Chambers White and Sons Co contracted to take them off the island collecting fifty percent of the total for their trouble With the declining interest in the island as a range for horses came the growth of interest in its possibilities horses died as a sheep range March S3 1872 Christopher Layton bought the "Kate Connor" with which to transport sheep to Antelope Island from the mainland for Brigham Young and the Mormon Church Layton recorded that he had soon shipped 7000 head of sheep from Black Rock to the island13 a boat this early period its setting on the island During had np 12 Brown a rather interesting The romance daughter of a prominent "Description and History of Antelope Island" 13 Christopher Layton Autobiography 170 171 |