Show jgs&gnft v J'a - £ 209 feet four ance The It was a double-dec- feet clearance craft with three k and a half or between decks "This was plenty of clearand 300 head could be carried at a time" for sheep boat was constructed at the mouth of Farmington Creek and Although the the "Lady of the launched sideways down some greased planks Millers built Lake" was and-operate- d other boats their best craft Island was ideal for sheep There were some side and although the water was springs along the eastwas for sheep There brackish it satisfactory slightly was enough vegetation on the island to accomodate a herd of 2000 sheep Ye always tried to keep our herd down to that number The sheep lambed in the late fall and early The winter so that by April many were ready for marketmutton meat of this flock tasted more like venison than and would always bring a fancy price on the market even when ordinary mutton could hardly be sold6 Yhenever the market was right and the Millers decided to market a load of sheep they had merely to go to the isFremont round up as many as they wanted load them onto the But this was not quite so boat and bring them to market Since the sheep could not stray from easy as it might seem land the island and no vild animals could molest them herders were not necessary and the sheep literally became wild as deer To select a boat load or often a real task In order round up such a herd and corral them for shearing was to facilitate matters a sagebrush fence was built across 6 Islands" Hiller "Experiences 3 on the Great Salt Lake and Its |