The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-08


~ lake is today almost as much
of a mystery as before the
dvent OF the pioneers. Civiliza'
hores. Conquering man, not daring. to
invade, has ignored it and the lake,
3 for centuries, still cherishes in its
cart the ancient wilderness. Desolate-
ess, hopelessness, lifelessness ooze
up from It's depths like a vapor and
he lone traveller upon it's iuhospitable
bosom returns TO the world OF men
eith the impression of having been TO
,thcr worlds where life is not and
never has been, There in it's depths
terility has taken its last stand, Sc.
ture from the unmasking hand of man.
The atlas will tell us that the lake
forty miles wide and eighty miles
ong, that its waters are so saline that
no organic life save dimlnutive
orm of shrimp, is found within them;
hat there are several barren islands
Within the lake, and that its shores
are bleak, salt.encrusted deserts. The
more recent publications tell OF the
wonderful engineering feat of the
Sodthern Pacific railroad in building
he Luciu cutoff across its northern
End. Also we are Informed, as every
Salt Laker knows of first hand, that
here is a famous resort at the south
srn extremity where thousands flock
each daY Of the summer season to
cathe.
Beyond such encyclopedia informa-
.iiou the books of the Savants arc ST.
p-nt. True. several native sons. nota-
Die among them Alfred Lambourpe,
have suug and painted the great lake S
nYsterY and wonders: many have
heard of the myriad birds that in
..-I.. L. 1,1, i
post every BODY knows about the herd
of hGffalo on Antelope island. but few
.inGeed az, the favored ones that know
.tie lake in all its magnificent dcsoIa
tiOn, few 5hat have poked inquiring
POSES into the bleak mysteries that
abide within It's waters. along its lone
" shores and on the wild, craggy is
lands that dot its surface.
Horizon-and Still the Lake.
In , general way, the average dwell
Ter by the III and sea Is aware that the
ase stretches off dimly to the west
10 Join the desert over which it once
held watery domain and that it runs
10 tie north beyond the horizon. Most
everyone has gazcd across from Salt
air 10 Antelope island and on clear
iays has trained his eye due west
across the lake to where Stansbury is
land rears its impregnable peaks. On
very clear days Carrington island
comes INTO view in the northwest, but
there the vision Of the land -ubber
halts
Hat island, the citadel of the birds,
where secure from man and all prey
ing beasts. literally millions OF sea
fowl rear their young and maintain
their colonies, is ever enveloped in the
veil VI distance. To reach it one must
brave the open sea and travel due
northwest from Saltair a full fifty
miles. At this season Of the year the
island is covered with nests and eggs
and birds to such Az extent that il is
almost impossible to walk along its
shores or scale its lone peaks without
creating havoc among them. The cries
of its featbered inhabitants echo cease
lessly over the waters that lap its
shorcs-cries so weird and inhuman
that the visitor is glad to put TO sea
after several hours among the rook-
cries.
Island Seldom Visited.
Probably not half dozen times a
year does man set foot on this island,
so isolated is it and so little pavi.