Show HIGHEST IND AND LOWEST what the or salt lake has been and what irwill it alu bo be professor marcus marcua E jones who Is well posted on tho the lake oscillation says on january ut 1839 tho the water arms 5 feet 7 inches share tho the zero point which la Is some three feet above tho lowest point mint over known the lake jko then than rose six alx lx inches reaching lu its highest on march it usually decd dot reach tile climax till juno but from tho the very slight it could get fet but little water waiter rod and bo be TOM rose but little it then hran hogan h ran to lo fau fall andrilli and with viLli tho the exception of a temporary tomp arary alao lu in april it fa rapidly foil fell durins it tho the hot weather tul till it had gone cone down thirty inches on september zid tho the further falt fall was arrested by rains of tho the latter part of september and october in november and december the liike lake rose two boches loches caused hy by the rho heavy rains and snows in tho the fall of tho the lake roto rose two loab no BO tho the total rise wua eight inches said and fill total fu fall thirty inches making a earn tour four inches of fill fall oil J andary 1890 tho the liiko lake was KM lhnn but olno dino inches being two inches above its lowest it rose five recites in aiji january and march cah it WM four raid and a quarter artor indies inches above that thai a total rise of eleven cloven nod and ons one fourth inalle since september thu tho question then arises its to what wu will bo be tile further rise this aomar arom march to tho the highest point touched la in june or july pur cur jn in tho ilia pal tile greatest au all rio was wai la in 0 A it was waa twenty schou la olics but bait that year tho the lalo rad only efto awl u before aarli lie making cie total rise 39 forthe for the year or that year tho the mol stare toll fell lu in february march and april and carom do dona a tn in I 1 a flood budora jb it had time to sauk ronk into tho the ground and la in addition tho the preceding two yours bad a rainfall of 1424 and 1593 inches while tho the two aoam year preceding 1680 1689 laid 1162 11 62 and inch inches 0 s in a rill g tho the ground all daiy diy y to a great depth there was thore for inches to bo by soaking frat into otho tho ground before tho the walter supply ot of title this mcahon would leave tho the ground jn in na as rood good condition ui an it was la in tho the total fall to date since ort oo labor isho Is about I 1 11 I 1 0 6 inches if ft 8 credit tile the purported records or of october ond and yo no vom bomber ber deducting from this thin will leave fadd inches which is considerably less IM than the tha mol ture wiloh foil during the abo rainy aud and snowy months of at the latter parti part of assi and 1644 wo we therefore oro are not nob justified in kopla that the Lak swill rise inore than thirty inch inched la it all 11 II this your year nud and it will trill fall considerably short of that unless we haro hare a of our wet weather eather of january and february so far as aa the records go a of wet months like ilko december De comber J january and rebr february uary havo have boon followed by la unusually unus ous nally dry monteas and wo we anro nut expecting anything else clao but it bon boa tho the weather IN it abnormal its it him has been so fur no ono one knows whon it will atop the tha amount at enow amow now flow in tile thu mountains lina has been grossly exaggerated wo havo have not hot it a it IL la nol possible to state what tile lake will tall fall this 3 icar ear but it la is not bet probable that it will bo be moria than eighteen inches or less thiu than tW twelve IIVO |