The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-26
UTAH GUASo COMPANY.
GunnisOn Island Deposits to Be In
corporated in That Name.

Within the next few days articles In
cooperating the Utah Guano company
will be filed with the county recorder and
the secretary OF the territory, and among
the incorporators will be some CT the
heaviest business men of the territory,
including Simon Bamberger, A. H. Can
non, John Beck, and others. 1t will be
the incorporation of the interests held by
on GnnniSon and Davis islands in the
Great San Lake. and the objects Of the
company will be the development Of the
beds and the marketing, both in the east
and here in Utah. of the product. Al of
the agreements have been drawn UP. but
there are some matters in connection
with the deal which are yet to receive at
tention before the final move Is made. T.
A. Perkins, OF Ogden, and several of the
north yesterday and in close consultation
with the Salt Lake people during the en-
tire afternoon. The gentlemen aid not
have much to say last evening but 1t
was CLEANED that the incorporation
papers were being drafted and would
probably be filed this afternoon. although
it may be a day or two later. The pro-
nnoters of the enterprise, and especially
the Ogden people, are confident that they
will be victorious In the coming legal
battle before Judge Smith in the Fourth
district court and their confidence is
leading them TO the organization OF a
development company before the result
of the contest is made known; in fact,
before the fight has fairly opened The
other side is just as confident of success,
and the Salt Lake locators also have no
doubts as to the outcome Of the result
filed with the Ogden court.
Although the details of the enterprise
about TO be launched have not yet been
made public II Is said that the organizers
of the Utah Guano company have in con-
temptation The putting on of a line OF
barges between Gum son island and one
OF the lake ports. f,r the purpose OF
conveying the fertilizer to the mainland,
where mills for the commercial prepare
ton of the guano are 20 be located. 1t
To 1I-i1 q
the product by making special induce-
Iua1ls - with fhe aid of the mills the
guano may also be prepared for the east
ern trade where the commercial article
brings $50 per ton and above.
While they have tied the hands OF the
Salt Lake people with a restraining or
sier tire merits of which are to be tested
OF ogden on Saturday, tne Ogoen locat or
have made expert examinations OF the
e1lano deposits and conservative estl-
mates place the weight of the fertilizer
which covers the surface of Gunnison and
naxris islands to the average depth of sew
aral feet. at from 100 o00 to 10000 tons.
This means at least a SI,5o0,0Oo PROPOSE
lion There are now at Syracuse twenty
tons of the guano awaiting shipment, to
this civ from where 1t is to be distribu-
fad throughout the territory as samples
of what the Salt Lake islands produce IN
The way of fertilizing agents. At present
the Salt. Lake locators have four people
on CsllnnisoI1 island while the other side
has but one Iney are maintaining
squatters' rights
over these valuable deposits. and the out
come OF the hearing before the. Ogden
court will be awaited with considerable
anxiety It is highly probable tnat ap-
naaie WIN he taken, no matter which side
makes a winning. The Ogden locators
claim the deposits by virtue of placer To-
cations made during the latter part or
Jsnuar1, and recorded in the county of
Rox Elder. while the Salt Lake people
are holding the island as the result Of
desert entry made-in the local lana once