The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04
SOUTHERN PACIFIC WANTS GuANo.
Claim That the Islands Are Inside
Its Grant.

Claim That the Islands Are Inside
Its Grant.
Still another contestant has entered
the field in the struggle for the guano
islands in the Great Salt lake and the
fight promises to be an everlasting one.
1t is the Southern Pacific Railroad
company which never forgets TO claim
everything of value within consider
able distance of its main line. The
claim that will be set up is that the
islands, and especially GunniSon, are
within the government land grant to
the company, being less than twenty
miles from the line of the road in its
passage across the western half of the
continent. OF course, there is serious
question as to the exact location of
any of the islands, there never having
been any surveys made, and for the
purpose of running the necessary lines
a party of surveyors in the employ of
the Southern Pacific left this city yes
terddy morning and at KeltOn left the
train with full equipment for the MAX
Ing of the surveys. 1t is hardly prob
able that the party will go out on the
lake, but more plausible that the meas
urementS will be made by triangula-
ton, the country to the west of the
lake and on the promontory havinai
DetH CTOSS-SeCllOIlGQ years ago.
1t be found that the islands, or any
of them, come within the lines of the
government grant, then the claims OF
both the Salt Lake and ogden locators
are to be contested in the land office
and the courFs by the railroad COM
pany. The members of the Utah
Guano company are not worryins
about the railroad claims and neither
are the Sale Lake loca tors, for all argue
that either location, desert or placer,
will hold in the event of a contest as
against that of the railroad company
II for no other reason that the lands
were unsurveyed at the time of the
locations.
No advices were yesterday received
as to the location of the sloop. or
schooner, sent over to the island by
the Utah Guano company last week
for the purpose of bringing away an
other load of the guano, but 1t is an
ticipated that it will arrive not later
than this afternoon. In the neighbour
hood of thirty tons of the guano, ten
tons more than the company will now
have for sale. have already been sold
to Ogden people. who have found mar
kets for the fertilizer without difficulty.
H L. Griffin, of Ogden, will make some
shipments 10 idaho. The extension of
the pier al Lake Park has been
pushed far enough to enable a
heavily laden vessel to make q
landing without difficulty, but it is an
ticipated that the extension will be
pushed out several hundred feet fur
Their still in order to make room for the
landing of an entire fleet of barges at
the same time. The company is now
negotiating with st. Louis parties for
some heavy shipments of the product,
and it is highly probable that con-
tracts will be entered into.
The general expectation is that the
suit in the court at Ogden will be
called up within the next week or two
for final disposition. as far as the jur-
isdiction of the. Fourth district is con-
cerned. Both sides have made, and are
still making, extensive preparations
for the coming struggle, which gives
promise of being extremely lively.