Show 230 the "Utah Rebellion" and install a new governor no salt xvas included in the regular shipment of supplies because the destination vas the Great Salt Lake where the product was to be had for the taking However when the army was delay- the guerilla war tactics of the Mormons and forced to go into winter camp near Fort Bridger the salt shortage became acute Hope of getting supplies from the States was futile As a result Brigham Young sent several mule loads of salt to the disgruntled army That General Albert Sydney Johnston believed the salt to be poison as has often been claimed is not likely It is more likely that as is pointed by ed out by his biographer he refused the salt because he felt that he could not deal with a rebel — Brigham Young9 At any rate the shipment was refused Nevertheless men in need of salt it found ways of obtaining on the "black market" One Ben Simons "took to the army 900 pounds of salt which he sold for two dollars and a half a pound" Some of the product no doubt reached the table of the commanding offi cer Although the salt industry began by using vats for was soon discovered that in many places almost boiling it pure salt had been laid down in bays where water had evapora— Johnston Life of A S Johnston 218-210 Mathias F Cowley Wilford Woodruff 393 9 W P 19 |