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Show Great Salt Lake Rising. A paragraph par-agraph from the Agricultural Report for February, to the effect that Great Salt Lake has risen eighty inches in nine years and now yields one-tenth less salt, is going the rounds of the papers, pa-pers, padded with a silly query as to who can explain the cause of the gradual grad-ual rise. If some learned savant or other antediluvian gropist will tell why there has been an increased rain-fall the matter will be explained. We question if Great Salt Lake has not decreased its volume within the last twelve months. When the rain-fall during the summer months is large, and covers an unusual number of days, the decrease of the water by evaporation evapora-tion is not equal to the quantity poured into the lake by the rivers; for a rainy season is attended by cloudy weather, during which evaporation is necessarily limited. Cloudy, rainy weather, preventing pre-venting evaporation, the only means by which the water of the Great Salt Lake is reduced, is the cause of the rise in the lake; and by parity of reasoning, reas-oning, dry, cloudless weather during the summer will reduce the body of water. |