Show 228 lake where they were boiling salt” and reported having located a heavy salt deposit four to sir inches deep Two days later according to Howard Egan’s record:5 loads of salt arrived fron Salt Lake about three o’clock It is the best kind X have ever seen being as white 'as snow though somewhat coarse The brethern who brought it in remained on the shore of the lake a day or two boiling dovm the salt together with the for water in order to separate it from the particles of dirt with which it abounded Two Norton Jacob recorded in his journal that five men making salt with three kettles for boiling could make forty bushels a day just as white as Liverpool salt and just as fine’’6 The following year 1849 Howard Stansbury found plenty of salt while making his circuit of the lake Special note is made of huge salt deposits on the west side His entry for October 29 contains this:” first part of with small the plain consisted simply of dried mud scattered thickly over crystals of salt the surface Crossing this we came upon another portion of it three miles in width where the ground was entirely covered with a thin layer of salt in a state of deliquescence and of so soft a consistence that the feet of our mules sank at every step into the mud beneath But we soon came upon a portion of the plain where the salt lay in a solid state in one unbroken sheet extending apparentwestern border So firm and strong was this ly to its unique and snowy floor that it sustained the weight of our entire train without in the least giving way or crack- The Pioneering the West 111 Norton Jacobs ’’The Life of Norton Jacobs” 5 Howard R 6 Egan 120 Entry for August 10 1847 7 Howard Stansbury Exploration and Survey of the Talley of the Great Salt Lake 110 |