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Show riiic bki:: 8 Itcd Bock Gap to Join the Columbia river on It way to the Pacific, Gradually the gap In the mountain wore down, lowering the level cf the lake. Then the climate changed; the snow teased, the streams dried up, the lake shrank until it was below the level of Its outlet, ami gradually It has be- - BDUCATIONAb. ('niiilui'Nil J, I.. l M KNIGHT, PrindjMil Nurmul Traimiur Schl. order to houri a good man It jt.l as a n. 1.1 friulllh-- by sunshine and will be necessary to pay him well, much rain. Hal thought fitiumt be juggled out better. Indeed, than It ha been paying an. I worried out by heaping up inaPrlaU n man. Thought nwuk can n 1 and fructl. that In d ati.l tin hoiii of instruction nor by any ,.,,rt of precept; tin y must grow natural. iu-ri.n- creased . oik I ERNST M Atll. ' . In Hot allow the sclio.i to In dragged down into tin nitty . n of politic Save them from tin hand. of tided friends. tln-i- r pr-- t j ; t j In local school affairs perhaps there never was a hatefuller scheme, nor one seemingly with a more sinister motive back of it, than that by which it is proposed to turn the schools of this city poliover to the curbstone, gutter-snip- e ticians. There is no demand for any such nefarious legislation. There is no excuse for such a measure coming up at this time or at any time. It is as full of mischief as an infernal machine, and should be killed dead and at once. We have faith enough in the common sense and integrity of the members of the legislature to believe that that is what will happen to it. r ? s' ondered if, since advertising to the, world the kind of man it wants for superintendent, the board of education has received any more applications for the place! The specifications call for a man of rare ability, but then that is what the situation here demands. No ordinary man can fill the place satisfactorily, and no experiment can be safely made. It must not be forgotten that men of ability command good salaries elsewhere, and that not many would care to come to Utah merely for the climate and the future. But that is all right, too, for no doubt the board of education has already learned It has been w 1 The Great Basin. Tin basin proper, overs the western part of Utah, nearly all of Nevada, and a small part of Oregon and Idaho. Its western limit Is the base of the Shrtu Nevada moun- j j j tains. j a The lowest parts of the basin are the eastern and western sides, separated Eduenth n is a matter of drawing out, mountain illges which rise in the tint of putting in. The etymology of by Into these depressions the the word is against the (ramming pro- center. water cf the tegion drains, forming cess; so are the laws of physt hop gy, the s. whhh, having no outlet, are salt f edagogy, and all tin lakt principles lakes. The largest of these is the (treat great teat hers of the past and present. at the western base Then why, in the name of Heaven, do Salt Lake, lying of the Wasatch mountains. Since it we still have so much of it? The only has no outlet, its area depends upon the explanation is that, even when we between the water poured into It know what is right, we ate not brave ratio by the streams and the amount that enough to stand up and do what is evaporates. In seasons of much moistright. ure, the inflow greatly exceeds the 'Z e i l. all limit ; i , good I . 1 j t UTAH. Furthermore, accumulated By Anna Youngberg, Critic Teacher, thought cannot a c. rtain limit In a single h.a.l, any mortf Normal Training School. Inthan til. producing of a Held a;t II. lv i.f their own of the diMunl mountain. The principal tributaries are tin Gtten and Grand, which unite to form the Colorado. They have their source A hundred In the Bocky Mountains. ami twenty-fiv- e miles below their con. lluem-the San Juan pour in Its Come the remnant that it Is today. ;Stram. also brought from the Bockle. The records of this ancient sea can The tributaries of the west are the he rend in the old shore lines of the Uinta, which has Its source in the lake that muik the level of the water Uinta mountains; the Price, San Baal various limes. Thv consist of ter- - fuel. Fremont, Escalante and Virgin, races from thirty to one hundred feet, which receive their waters from thu in width. The highest waterline, high plateaus. kmwn as the Bonneville shoreline. Is a These are the' rivers that have ut l thousand feet above tlu leve of the jdown the plateau and made it a Ian of to t scut lake. canyons. In places they flew through West of the lake is a large barren long, narrow, deep trenches, with in.ir-tra- e t, known as the Gnat American cessihle walls, which lead down to ( n Destrt, which was once a part of the great channel, the Canyon of tins U lo- bed of the old lake. In tlu southwest- - iado. Out of this the Uoiorad ern ait of the basin is a depression be- etm.r;es through a mighty gateway a It el. This is Heath valley, in ,ow n-mjje j,, height, from whence Its course the whole extent of which there is no js through open, barren country, nd nothing hut bar. rock milling tin ds rts of the Basin. sue. Few sand. have shifting poisons The Basin Drainage Area. In the et tiled in crossing this terrible place, Great Basin there are many depression Stretching through the basin are into which the street ms from the mounmany short, isolated mountain ranges. tains pour their waters, forming lake almost parallel, extending north and of various sizes. The largest of these south. Between these are broad valare Great Halt Lake and Sevier Lake. leys whose level Hoots were made by We can, therefore, divide that part of the material worn down from the the Basin, w hich lies in Utah, into t ,vo mountains and deposited in the bed natural drainage areas, the northern of the old lake. The bases of the mounthe drainage area ef Groat tains are thus covered up, so that their (embracing Salt Lake and the southern that of Sesummits alone appear, rising like vier Lake. islands above the surface of the plain, as ages ago they rose like islands above (Drainage Clasitication continued next week) the surface of the inland sea. The mountains are not high enough to store much snow, therefore there are few streams flowing down from them, and the valleys between them are mainly n. E. MULVEY, Manager. deserts. The valleys that lie near the base of amount evaporated; the water rises Its area is and the area increases. given as about 2,100 square miles, its length being 7 o miles and width in the i re-wat- -- ! I j ! widest part 50 miles. The water is wonderfully clear and of a beautiful green color. On account of its shallowness the storms on the lake are very severe. The strong winds lift the water up in great waves that roll the Wasatch mountains are well waterto the shore and break with a great ed by the large streams, fed by the ENTIRE MONDAY, roar. lasting snows of their lofty summits. WEEK. The water of the Great Salt Lake They are of marvelous fertility, and contains 20 per cent of solid matter, this is the most habitable portion of MATINEES WEDNESDAY which is nearly six times as much as Utah. Three of the basin ranges, the the water of the ocean contains. It supof small animal life Oquirrh, ports a few species Stansbury and Lakeside in countless numbers. range, extend not only Jo the very The Great Salt Lake is a small rem- shores of the lake, but through it, formnant of a large lake which once filled ing three series of islands. the basin. Ages ago, when the climate DRAINAGE AREAS. of the whole continent was very difUtah may be divided into two drainIN ferent from what it is at present, mois- age areas, the Colorado Drainage Area ture fell in abundance and the moun- and the Desert, or Basin Drainage tains stood white with snow to their Area. The water parting is a very irvery feet. In that age the great streams regular line in the north, but in the d that flowed from the south follows the high plateaus. mountains spread out and formed a The Colorado Drainage Area. The great sea of fresh water covering an eastern part of Utah is drained by the area of 18,000 square miles, in the midst Colorado river and its numerous tribof which the mountains stood as is- utaries into the Pacific by way of the lands. The waters were carried through Gulf of California. As this is an ala gap in the mountains now known as most rainless region, the waters are flew 5 Grand Theatre .27 & SATURDAY. The Jules Qraus Opera Company NEW snow-covere- BOCCACCIO OLIVETT HIKADO er. |