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road to Provo City in Utah, and passed several days 

 at Utah Lake, a large fresh water body of about 

 twenty-five miles in length by five or six miles in 

 width, and one hundred and twenty-five square 

 miles in area, situated thirty miles south of the Great 

 Salt Lake. We found this a magnificent sheet of 

 water, abounding in lake trout of a large size, where 

 we caught by trolling all we could desire, and in 

 fact gave away many to the neighboring Mormon 

 settlers. This lake has since been stocked with 

 bass, whitefish, and carp and now affords a very 

 large quantity of food for Salt Lake City, Ogden, 

 and the surrounding country. The large lake trout 

 natural to the waters are especially plentiful, and 

 we saw a seine hauled in while we were there con- 

 taining several hundred pounds of the large brown 

 trout. 



Carp and suckers, generally considered unfavor- 

 able food products, are given prominence in recent 

 returns of the industries of Utah among the products 

 of Utah Lake, and yielding of the latter, nearly a 

 million pounds in 1895. Owing to the altitude of 

 4000 feet and the coldness of the water, the suckers 

 are esteemed for food more than those taken from 

 warmer waters. 



The Great Salt Lake, a singular phenomenon of 

 nature in its extreme saltness similar to the great 

 Dead Sea and a large lake in Persia and some in 

 South America is entirely devoid of fish life, con- 

 taining one third of salt, and in density so great as to 

 float the human body with ease. It is larger than 

 the State of Rhode Island, and half as large as the 

 State of Connecticut. Although it receives annually 



