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Show Thai N tk Howard J f wjofortneruljeai hna bseo tho agent f the EoaUiern r.v cifio Itailroici rotnpanyat Saltan, Is At IiomolnBonth Ta.atbnA on a learn of absence for sfw weks. Areportereiv joyed a Inlkwlihhtut about the Baltou sea, or lake, that has caused so much In tinwt throughout the country, Mr. Cone mjs a temperature of 114 and 120 degt tn the shade U quite a reitnUr and common thing at 81 ton, but that tbe fiw white people about the station and rait works manage to stand It pretty vrelL They preeptre prortimly and drink cnormonily, all the watet used at tbe station being brought from up the road by uiL TUy f.nd tint mixing OAlmfiil with tbe water Is nmir lihlng and that It prevent UlneM. D spite the great beat, sectionmen wcrk out in tbe hot tun regnlirly, but, wltii the excej tlon of tbe boss, they are Meal cnn Mr. Cone brought up tome excellent photographs of the IaU, the station nnd tho subuierged salt Works, from different points of view. He says the Inflow and tho eraporatiou cf tbe water a boat conn terbalanco cadi other, and that there fore tho level of the lake remain about the tame, attltough the wind sometimes carrtea floating debris tuck And forth tu a way to Ied to tlie Mief that the watet U Tiring or fAlltng. He belleres It likely that the basin will continue to fill np from the Colorado river to a level with 11 so gulf, and that ltwlll lie a inuanent body of water, with the Colorado flow tug through It to tho gulf. The salt deposits Are entirely tinier water, and that Industry i ruined. The I wanltouftaaud a small ortUm of U Hotithem ractne'e truok running beyond t tbo salt btls aro atlllal'ovo the level of the like, but tho main track Is still l.ouO feet cr tuoro from lit banks. rosudtm lOal.)Htar. |