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Show WATER IN LAKE 19 SLOWLY RECEDING. The records at the local weather bureau show that the water In the Great Salt lake started to recede on July 15. At that time there was one and nine-tenths feet more water In the lake than there was at an time last year The maximum, however, was reached on July 1, when the gauge showed that the water had rlBen tj.7 feet The gauge by which the water Is measured Is set permanently ut 421 :i feet above 8ea level, and the variations varia-tions of the water In the lake are measurod by the number of feet or the parts of a foot that It varies from the zero mark on the gauge, At present the water Is receding at thr rate of two Inches each month. Thlb recession reces-sion will continue for two or three months. |