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Show BATHING RESORT ON THE GREAT SALT LAKE- Salialr is a bathing resort with a foul smell that Is in part produced by sewage. Such, in effect, is tho report of a committee of doctors to the Salt Lake county health department, after a careful ln estigation. The committee declares that the i water of thp lake is uot sterile; that j it is filled with mlcro-organl6ms. Tho report says: "The discharges from the septic tanks are clarified, but the pathogenic or disease producing organisms are not destroyed. While none of the lake Is sterile, we believe the more objectionable organisms and matter found in the water around Saltair comes from the sewage discharged dis-charged Into the lake " The report adds: "We bellexe it desirable to eliminate any possible source of danger dan-ger due to sewage." It is noted in the report that Man agpr Nelson intends to fill in the lower ground with sand and mak- the shoreline as regular aB possible in an effort to prevent the accumulation .md decomposition of the organic mat ter a scheme which was recommend ed as a permanent remedy for the bad i odor by the county health department after He first inspection of the lake shore. The committee finds that the drains from the kitchen, ice chests laundry bath houses all run directly into the lake. If Saltair falls to act on the sug cestlons of the health authorities. Ogden Og-den people should renew their efforts to establish a lake resort near Prom ontory Point on the Ogden-Lucln cut off There 3hould be a first-class bathing resort at some point on the Great Salt Lake, and no place could be made more attractive than the sandy shore Just west of the small cliffs on the promontory' where the Southern Pacific crosses the inland sea. nn |