Show m T HEftS TO MAK U IrANY U CONTRIBUTE ON TO RECENT B BEAUTIFUL I s 4 I Ar I c cA I A SALT LAKE LuE SUNSET Photo by Harry Have you rou noticed the especially bril brilliant su ets with which Salt Lake has bas been favored during the past six weeks boat how at times the sk sky p from the tIte hori hon horizon Zen zon to the dome seems seems to be painted with every hue from the most fiery to the softest tint Thousands of residents and visitors to the city elty have attention caned calle to the west at sundown and many monr in inquiries have been made as to the cause or of the unusually splendid efforts made b by Old So Sd as the day dies away The artist is lavish in his praise of Utah sunsets just now while the man manof manof of science i lu ready with his tion One recIpe for a gorgeous sun sunset sunset set would read something like To a 3 naturally arid count country add a prolonged dry spell let the whole be beset beset set th a valley richly endowed with s scenic enic advantages Then stir In large quantities of smelter smoke containing ar arsenic enic and plentifully mixed with city soot This may be garnished with clouds and served with love of Nature and am a 3 roomy dreamy disposition as relish Under these theae conditions a sunset ma may maywell well be a feast east for the gods Conditions in Salt Lake Vall Valley y yIn i In Salt Sait Lake valley as it happens there are just these conditions Here is the naturally arid soil and hel here e much agaInst our wm will is the prolonged dry spell None will deny that the val valle valley le ley is well supplied nith th enic adva here are the and Wa Wasatch a satch mountains for the last rays ot of da day to hover on and there Is the long longstretch stretch of valley that reaches out a al almost most to the sun On the west there Is the lake that adds much to the attractiveness I I Were Ver all these here md no na smelter smoke there mIght be still lacking some Ingredient of a a perfect sunset I Fortunately Insofar as this subject is I concerned the smelters manage to send I out sufficIent smoke every eely day aay In the week to supply this need And Salt Lake with her countless chimneys s persists in aiding Nature to some ex extent tent ten t The remaining substances are quantities which Nature alone j and affect only the Intensity with I whIch the whole may be enjoyed They form as It were the pro proof of the sun sunset sunset set the inward by self or of Natures phenomenon The sunsets whIch Salt Lake has had during the past month o or two have not been the same ever every night There Is Isaha aha always 9 ot 01 course the vivid setting of orange and crimson the rosy hues th that t J shine the cloud rUts rifts At some times the sk sky seems to be with knobs of clouds Standing out per perpendicularly I from the film filmy wall waIl At others the clouds seem to bank UJ UI in regular periods forming a series I or 01 sk siy and vapor that extends high i from the lands end Here be I found the most delicate hues the higa I est banks which are last warmed by the I 1 deep heat rays ras Purple bl blue 11 e red yel yellow I low and gold all have their Explanation by an Artist In speaking lf f the recent sunsets Harry L Culmer who asan artist as made mad a study of these phenomena said to me every beautiful ful those of the past few weeks hive have been particularly so Indeed not only at dusk but aU all during the da day I have noticed for several weeks that the air seems full of color There is a more pronounced yellow ellow tinge than has been the case for some time past The cause of our brilliant sunsets can be found In hard scIentific facts and rules ChIef oZ of these Is the law of refraction tion and those governing the passage of from areas of pure to a uen atm atmosphere His It Is n a well known fact that white heat rays coming from the sun SUIl are up In thEir passage to earth oarth ino ello l id d and blue rays Each of f these has a 11 complement and subordinate which h often only Dilly th the artist can see or feel The rays have hae a certain On of these I d pend t pelIe The varying capacIty Of these ra rays s for or penetrating j varying densIties account for the me cUt dlf ferent hues which ma may be seen during sunsets The ol r Q the earth Itself I has much to do with the tinge to t ue in the nt at any time Thus in ina ina a desert ara where the thc ground may I have a reddish burned look this will willbe be mirrored In the sk sky To an artIst every object possesses 5 different varla varia I Hons of color which he knows are there even even th though ugh they ma not app appear ar pres oat ant to others I 1 have not the slightest doubt that smelter smoke the factors that gO goto to make an unusually brilliant sun sunset set This last co is bOrn out by br bythe the statement of a S lt Laker who for merl resided at Butte Mont He on the subject as fl T The smelter smoke has muth to do with ith the brilliant aid aiding lug cape espe in a a perIod of dry weather In Butte not Only are ari rays mace maut to appear of n peculiarly glaring vivid I colors color but the light of the moon wise affected ted I |