The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-10

Another island in the great Salt lake
has been located. but this time not by
the guano hunters. or, at least. that is
the claim made by the locators.
Emanuel j. r. Manning and Frank
Blake, both of Syracuse, Weber
county. These gentlemen have taken
UP Darlington island under the desert
entry act and announce their intention
of reclaiming it with the aid of ar
tesian wells. which they feel certain
will produce sufficient water to irri-
gate all of the valley lands Of the
island. According to the entries, which
have just been fled in the land office
Manning claims tract of eighty acres
and Blake forty acres, all of the lands
being in the valleys. In explanation
of the locations they stated that mas
much as it seemed TO be all the go
to secure possession of one or more
of the islands in the lake and they
were DESTROYS Of securing Darlington
for sheep pastures, this seemed to be
the opportune time for the fling Of the
location notices. Both of the gentle
men declared that the island does not
have any deposits of guano, for the
reason that it is grassy and the sea
fowl do not make their nests there in
consequence, preferring the rocks and
barren wastes of Gunnison, Hat and
others of the rocky peaks on the bosom
OF the lake. Mr.. Manning stated that
it is the intention of himself and Mr..
Blake to transform the island into d
sheep pasture transporting The wool
growers over from the main land in
barges In the event Of their Securing
artesian water the fiocks might remain
there the year round, but without that,
in only the months when snow covers
the island would 1t be possible for the
sheep to live there.
I Darlington island lies slightly north
west of Stansbury island and directly
west Of the north half of Antelope. 1t
! is the third largest island in the lake
and those marines VINO have visited it
say that all of the low lands are
{ covered with heavy growth Of grass
and that there are no deposits Of the
guano there. unless it is on the cliffs
which line the shores. There can
hardly be much of the fertilizing agent
on the island, however, even should
1 this latter be true
! The contest over the possession OF
Gunnison island gives abundant pro
mise Of some lively Developments
Neither of the locating parties propose
/ for one moment to give up their rights
TO the island and the Salt Lake PEG
pie are confident that their desert
entry and squatters' claims will pro-
teot them in the coming inquiry before
the Fourth district court at Ogden
Suit was brought the other day ir
Ogden by the Perkins crowd which
claims the island by virtue OF placer
locations. and on the 10th Of the pres
ent month the order to show caush Il
returnable. Then the first brush vii
take place and both sides of the hous
propose to stay with the fight unit
one or the other is ousted from the
island and its future possession
There is no longer any doubt as to tht
value OF the guano deposits on the
island and there is much too large ar
amount of money involved for any Of
the contestants to let go without {
severe struggle.
Experts who have made a study Of
the matter since the location Of the
island and the subsequent develop
rnents which made it very plain thai
there would be a contest. are Of tht
opinion that the Salt Lake locatori
have the big end of the fight and vii