Show 238 and accessibility difficult operational problems have kept production low During World War X (1916) the Salt Lake Chemical Com-pan- ya subsidy of the Diamond Match Company began operations to extract potash from the salt deposits on the desert west of the lake This operation was discontinued after the war but resumed during World War II although on a relatively minor scale "There are enormous quantities of potash dissolved in the water of the Great Salt Lake and this significant as a source of this as well as magnesium and other salts Although no fish or other wild life live in the lake attempts have been made to propogate oysters fish and eels at the mouths of streams Beadle writing in 1879 pointed out that:® may sometime be Oysters have been planted at the mouths of the rivers but when the wind has been up stream the dense brine in from the lake killed them Jordan was stocksetting ed with eels a few years ago but they floated down into the lake and died One was picked up long afterward on the eastern shore completely pickled The finder cooked and ate it and found it very palatable That the eel discharged into the lake would be pickled is 23 Salt Lake Tribune October 4 1936 24 Utah State Department of Publicity and Industrial Development After Victory Plans for Utah and the Wasatch Front 62 25 J H Beadle Western Wilds 178-1- 79 |