Show BEAUTIFUL GARFIELD One of the Finest Bathing Resorts in the Country VISITED BY THOUSANDS Soiiietliinsr About the Waters of Americas Amer-icas Wonderful Dead Sea There Is No limiting in the World to Compare with 11 Dip ill the Great Salt Luke Expiessions of bumc Noted Writers The first mention of Great Salt Lake was by Baron La Hontou in 1869 who gathered from the western Indians some vague notions about its existence says n wellknown writer But until 1842 when Colonel Fremont visited it on his way to Oregon it is probable that its dead waters had never been invaded or the solemn stillness of its inland islands broken In the early spring of 1850 Captain Stansbury spent three months in making a detached survey sur-vey of the shores of the lake and its islands In all probability the whole area between the Sierra Nevada and Wasatch was onco a lake in which the mountains rose as islands The shores of the lake says another writer are the scene of a growing salt making industry by solar evaporation Besides crude common salt the brine of the lake contains a variety of sulphates borates and bromides from which salt cako may be made epsom and glauber salts sodaash bicarbonate of soda causticsoda and salsoda > Great Salt Lake is one vast laboratory where nature incessantly produces the crude material for a hundred compounds necessary to the sciences and arts Coal and iron the twin essentials for manufactures manu-factures lie in prodigious deposits side by side and no circumstance is wanting to make Salt Lake city a great manufacturing manufac-turing centre But it is as a health and pleasure resort that the lake is most famous and one enthusiastic en-thusiastic bather left his opinion of tho water inscribed on the walls of one of the bath houses at Garfield Beach in the following fol-lowing terms Took seventyfive baths gained twentyeight pounds am a newman new-man Garfield Beach is nearly twenty miles from the city and is reached by the Union Un-ion Pacific railway Here the shore is sandy and the beach forms an ideal bathing bath-ing place and the other appointments are all that could be desired The water is so dense that a person is sustained on its surface indefinitely without with-out effort Experience has proven its great hygienic effects The baths are extremely invigorating If there is any abrasion upon the skin it will smart for an instant when it touches the brine but after the bath the smarting is gone never to return re-turn and after rinsing off in the freshwater fresh-water provided in every bath room there is a sense of cleanliness more perfect than any other bath can produce It was once popularly supposed that the hike communicated with the ocean by a subterranean river which made a terrible terri-ble whirlpool somewhere on its surface eedlebs to say neither has been found Receiving so many streams and having no outlet it has became very saline from I concentration and tho inflow of salt springs The saline or solid matter held in solution by the water vanes as the lake rises or subsides In 1S12 Fremont obtained ob-tained fourteen pints of very white salt from five gallons of the water evaporated over a camp fire The salt was also very pure assaying 9780 fine In 1S50 Dr L D Galo analyzed a sample of it which yielded full 20 per cent of pure common salt and about 2 per cent of foreign salts chlorides of lime and magnesia Sergeant Ser-geant Smart U S A analyzed a sample in 1S77 and found an imperial gallon to contain nearly twentyfour and a half ounces of saline matter amounting to 11 per cent as follows l S Common salt um 11725 I Lime curbonnteuu 016 k Lime sulphate nnnnn 073 Epsom saltv uunuuuu 11 13 Chloride of magnesia MI5 Percentage of solids 13 709 i Water 86 MlO 100 Ono hundred grains of the dry solid matter contained Common salt unUnUUuuu S5n80 I Lime carbonate n 117 Lime sulphate 5il Epsom bait 8 145 I Chloride of magnesiaun 6 118 100 I It compares with other saline waters about as follows I Water I Solids 1 i Atlantic Ocean 965 35 Mediterranean W2 38 I Dead Sea GO I 210 I Great Salt Lake so 140 I And in spacific gravity distilled water i bemc unity 1 Ocean water 105 Dead Sea init 1 Great Salt Lake 11CT The solid matter in the water varies between I I be-tween sprint and fall between dry and wet seasons and also between different I parts of the lake for nearly all the water is received from the Wasatch on the east i It is the opinion of saltmakers that an 1 average of the lake at its present stage would show the presence of 17 per cent of solid matter It is undoubtedly a concentration con-centration of the waters of the ocean in which as in Salt Lake says Dr Smart the common and magnesian salts are held in solution while the insoluable lime salts are precipitated to the bottom Captain Stansbury found by experiment that it answered perfectly for preserving meats Ernest Ingersoll has written of the lake I think few persons realize how wonderfully wonder-fully strangely beautiful this inland sea is and Phil Robinson that restless traveler has said of itssunsets Whore have I not seen sunsets by land and sea in Asia Africa Europe and America and where can I say I have ever seen more wondrous coloring more electrifying effects than in the sunset on the Great I Salt Lake of Utah |