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Show SALT FLAT NEWS, JULY, 1971 Great Salt Desert (rom page 6) for the Utah State Road and his associates to construct the accompanying Commission map. In our progress across the desert, we encountered the ravages which mud, salt, sand, and thirst had made upon wagons and animals. In several spots we found the bones of oxen perhaps the very ones which James Reed had turned loose to fend for themselves when they became . maddened from lack of water and, in spite, of previous incursions upon the flats, We found some artifacts at the site of the abandoned wagons. Four low mounds still exist, and in them and on them, were pieces of metal, wood, and leather straps, all encrusted with salt and sand and most of them ready to disintegrate at the touch of a hand. Most 7 intriguing among our finds was a small spoon and a little compass, the latter so corroded as to defy almost all our attempts to open it. Both objects speak elo- quently of the heartbreaking necessity for the pioneers to jettison their intimate belongings. We ended our journey at the Pete McKellar ranch where Pilot I i I i Springs still sends up a cool and refreshing flow of water. Although we were not parched as had been those early travelers who had moved with such agonizing slowness along their rotate, we were able to appreciate the drinks we sipped from the Bo nark Wells. And looking back over the desert we had just crossed, we could understand something of the feeling of the pioneers upon finally arriving at this shady oasis. sun-bake- d I NEWS photo Letters to the Editor (from page 3) Walter M. Katzenberger, for mer Chief Petty Officer in file U. S. Navy, is in charge of the Survey vessels and other equipment used in exploration of the Great Salt Lake. The vessels are the 42-foG. K. Gilbert, the a motor dory, Clyman, and the Oolite, a lifeboat. The Utah Geological and Survey, in cooperation with the U. S. Geological Survey, has been underway since 1964 with a comprehensive study of the Lake. Study of the Chemistry . of the inflow was begun by the U. S. Geological Survey in 1959. The Utah Survey obtained boats in 1965 which permitted observations throughout the Lake. The brines have been sampled at known locations both north and south of the Southern Pacific Causeway and the recent salt cover in file north arm has been cored. Clay mineral samples from the south arm have been studied from the mineralogical point of view and this study is the subject of a thesis . prepared in 1970. Eardleys work chi Great Salt Lake sediments was published in 1938. Topographic mapping of the Lake and its surroundings has been completed and quadrangle maps at a scale of 1:24,000 are being published as rapidly as possible. Knowledge available in 1966 was reviewed in the Guidebook of the Utah Geological Society. Atmospheric and evaporation studies have been made and stream flow and lake level records are available for many years. Geophysical surveys have been made. In .1960 Eardley reported on a drill core which penetrated some 500 feet of Pleistocene sediments and recently he has drilled to . 1,000 feet. The biology of the Lake has been studied, though more work is needed on microscopic life and its relation to the chemistry of the Lake and to pollutants entering the Lake brines. Industrial use of the brines is entering a new phase; the effects of the causeway are being studied and a report published on results through 1969. ot 22-fo- ot 12-fo- ot Min-eralogic- al The Quaternary and older geology of the Lake basin and the entire Bonneville basin has been mapped in varying detail. Geophysical surveys give indications of subsurface conditions and it is to be hoped that deep wells will BUY SELL Q) Missions - Sincerely, Csriton Stowe Mineral Information Specialist Utah Geological and - Kitchen Cupboards Wash Stands Round Tables will con- tinue. Refinements of knowledge are needed in many fields and the effects of everchanging works and products of man demand continuing studies. - - OLD OLD FURNITURE PIONEER RELICS ANTIQUES OLD BOOKS, MAGAZINES, NEWSPAPERS, POST COINS CARDS AND LETTERS WRITTEN BEFORE 1930 , e - China Closets Secretaries Book Cases Dressers ' Chest of Drawers Clock Shelves Chairs Rockers Buffets Wardrobes Coal Cook Stoves Round Coal Heaters Beds Wrought-Iro- n Brass Beds Old Wooden Beds Wind-U- p Phonographs Organs Organ and Piano Stools Desks Show Cases Flour Bins Kerosene Lanterns Kerosene Lamps Chandeliers Clocks Apple Peelers Coffee Mills WE ALSO NEED HUNDREDS OF ADDITIONAL HOUSEHOLD AND FARM ITEMS Mineral Survey 1 BUYING SILVER DOLLARS PAY $2.55 FOR XF OR BETTER BEST PRICES FOR BETTER FOREIGN COINS AND MEDALS , SiM Quaternary and Tertiary sediments. The following is a list of published data by the Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey for the study of the Great Salt Lake and Western Utah. Considerable attention has been focused for the benefit of scientific knowledge and economic management. It is my belief that researchers are, and have been for quite some time, busy at conducting frill and complete scientific studies of the lake and all of the ecologic and geologic circumstances that surround the lake. These studies do show and will further bring to attention such matters as exploitation of the brines, evaporation investigations and stabilization features. I know of several additional studies and investigations being made. Several technical reports as well as statistical summaries and of earlier reports at present, being conducted. are, Additional mapping of the area is constantly being undertaken. In general, it may be stated that the topography and surface geology of the Lake basin are well known. The bathymetry, sediment distribution, chemistry, birelaology and atmosphere-brintionship has been studied and critical data assembled. The Great Salt Lake and the Salt Flats area, as well as western Utah, remain under constant observation by the Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey and in- Gen. Mgr. Write to J. Salt Flat News P.O.Box 11717 Salt Lake City, Utah 841 Phone 299-450- 4 L. Green, NO ELECTRIC APPLIANCES NO OVERSTUFFS We buy out old store items or estates FREE ESTIMATE GIVEN Contact UJf gnttque? 42 WEST 3RD SOUTH SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 1 1 SOC i WAS HERE- - ROY penetrate the full thickness of vestigative oowinv UTAH NIST. or Evenings 278-209- 2 WRITE OR STOP BY ' |