Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-02-23
GUANO In THE LAKE.
GGulIsOl Island Said 10 Have In.
m5lSo Deposits Of It.
SALT LAErRs STRANDED IurnE.
They Are Ernest aud Earl Cummings
and q llr. Jennings -litscucrs
TO start Out st Once,

From gentlemen who thought tatm-
solvcB uuittsfviowablu and who
fought 90 TO make themselves impcrvi-
Gus TO all Newspaper qursi0uiug
though politely and pCrsis,cnuy iOi-
lowed up Tor suvaral hours today aud
who only answered by oyaGl0n and
ucspiious, the frame work Of a most
intciostlns Article was obtained. Ia
sub. 90 % was thiG
Iosa ymo Time rast Mn NJ l.. Cum.
miug- %. tlU Utah Commercial and
saving baAE has had Information 10
Toe effect that there was Oh Gunnlson
leland in tho Lake valuable deposits of
ruaUo, and quietly soi about makug
nuauE,m O. locate them. On
Sunday, the l0!A ias, party
cJmp0soi OF Earl Cummings,
bic son, Ernest bic hrotnct
% guauo expert named J0unlugr, Hill
ton, The Continental uag man, George
Amos oi tnia city aud a couple OF h1ni-
men BET sail Tor the island from syrt.
cuse, taking with thUm u wUok's tuI -
Wy Ui pr0ylH.OlH and water, touts,
itJyta, bedding, etc., the expedition
uolug lifted up 0r the suocial purpose
Of gurruylug tho Island nuI locating
tho Huanl beds.
Tue isIaul which To forty miles from
Syracuse was reached boo uafcly aud
the tHul wvro uitrNrI and WORK began
bg. tIr party several days overdue hoe
not returned HnI anxiety and apple
housi1l have WEuu possession OF the
uiul1 OF relatives anu ffirnds CIu-
gyfui.g tuuig welfare AMI tui8 after.
noon CO.'S The NLNs goes o. pfU.s
Arrangements Wu.i 81 pt1grcas
% have Captain ID. T. Davis,
who knows GOO EaI. LfEH
U,tgr than auy other living man, man
20 boat and 100 90 Goo rescue, which BIO
Uf SOME ono cleo uau,c bis direction
viii probably do 1tuucr.
Amos Hut NHUa FIuu days ago luay.
IuE the hlrsr, tumHiusH nut Ju..
uiuHg on tne s,aHu and Mr. Hilton
.nl ono ni .uo n.uim|H stranded about
nine wiIus from shore aH.s- lHuy ore
probably waiting iHr u.sI. tau"..
There H.rma go Doc no good ronF1u '0r
believing that anything really SERIOUS
has Nu'gIlgu the party Ur tual tbUy Will
u,t hG reached ull Oh hL pfuviHl1uH
ana wgtuT however mus, bu pretty
scarce win tIum hy tlls time, uud uu-
til further usiuEs utg heard OF them
iuirtci auI anxiety viii increase very
fast.
Concerning ihC Eusu5 deposits Cap.
tain DAVIS slIi when gupsuauuI thus
uuUrugUt; 'l know uuu have known
iDr many years tIut guau0 exists on
GuuuisJu iHiuuI but DO not think there
are great quantities there. My I'm.
preston - that the deposits
viii not average more than Dix
Inches Ia thickneTs. 10 comes ct
tiIOly from the gulb who make
that rocky resting place their home
during the GrssIns OF the year they
are IN Utah. Now they are ON the
Pacific coast. This land d. very rocky
iu iia formation anu 10 highest point
above tue water IA probably $40 lOel. lts
area % luH1 than -Ju nCruH."
The location 0f thcse beds has been
something 10 which 90 ,gaGi two par.
Ties have been intensely iutnfuateI Tor
euvurnl weeks Aud we'll they might
be because 10 guano exists there he the
quantities they hope 90 dad thrru th0rr
be- lilt,o doubt tut that tho fabulous
rlch. they H1vu seen in fancy will be-
lhclrf-ur some one uHuH-in tGr
mgs. snEiH'o reality. Samples uf q,
ate now ou thuslrauIcd ioaLAu Ogden
expedition, 10 viii be remembered, r,-
turned from GunnlsDn island after
most oycu,iul voyage last week.
Their mission WIS tho same na that
n the Ms'r8. Cummings 90 nj, amt
they probably located tho beds also but
the former claim possession anu under
the Gqualteu' rights law will, N q
chemical aualysia iuslihos, seek 10
establish q legal little.