Show SURVEY SU OF THE LAKE Interesting Work That May be Undertaken by the Geological Ge logi cal Survey It is within the range of probability that a survey of the meander shore shoreline shoreline line of Great Skit Salt lake at t its low water watermark watermark watermark mark will be made during the coming summer by experts in the tM employ of the government geological service The work will doubtless comprehend com more more than the running of lines and taking topographic observations According to a press preas dispatch from Washington Wa the geological survey bureau has taa sub submitted subI to the secretary of the Interior I I an estimate te of the cost coat of U the e study of water supply of the lakes and arid rivers for tor the ensuing fiscal year The esti tI estimate estimate mate calls for out of which h hsum sum is allotted to Utah for the survey of Salt lake The understanding of Director Mur Murdoch Murdoch doch of the local weather weRther bureau burea is that the lake survey surey by the geological department will be very thorough and that it will probably include an exam examination examInation examination into the feasibility of diverting the Ule Duchesne Du hegne river into the Provo and thence into Utah lake which flows through the Jordan Into the big lake which some people Ie fear is going In dry For the same seine purpose Director Mur lur Murdoch Murdoch doch assumes the survey surey may go so far faras faras faras as to determine the means of or diverting other streams into the Bear river an A another n nother other of Salt lakes feeders While discussing the matter of Salt lake Jake having receded recede so much in recent years Director Murdoch stated that a number numb r of the officials of the geological survey urey seem to think there is some mystery about the shrinkage e of the lake but he cannot agree with them that there is any mystery since a study of the precipitation records show that there are cycles of the lake level rail rais raising railing I ing and falling according to the excess or deficiency of rainfall in the great basin during periods of years He is of the opinion o that the cycle of deficiency of precipitation is 18 nearly at an end and his belief belle Is that the lake will In very soon begin to come cometo to a higher shore line While admitting that Salt lake is too valuable v a resource to the country for forI climatic and ancl other reasons to permit it I to go dry while additional rivers may maybe maybe maybe be turned into its feeders feeder Director Murdoch is not at au all aU fearful that it will be for the government to come to the rescue Nevertheless the study of the lakes antics by the zoo geo geological zoological logical survey would be profitable from froma a scientific view |