Show GREAT SALT LAKE DOOMED BIG BODY OF BRINY WATER SLOWLY DRYING UP UP- Weather Bureau Chief I Says That If Storm Cycles Prove True the Coming Wet Season May Prove the Dead Seas Salvation in itt regard to a stor story printed in an Eastern Journal to the tho effect that Great Salt lake laie is doomed and would soon be a bed of or mines Section Director Murdoch said today There is no doubt douht that Salt lake is drying up but the l process Is 15 so slow alow that there Is no danger of oC our generation generation genera genera- tion or the succeeding one seeing the end of It Several thousand years rs a ago o othe the lake lako was as a body of or fresh water extending over all of oC western Utah rost eastern rn Nevada and southern Idaho tince Ince dropping below the level of ot Its Us outlet at Red Rock flock pass In southern Idaho It has fallen 6 10 feet Ceet Extends Over Long Periods This fall has extended over such long periods of or time that It Is not appreciable appreciable appreciable ap ap- ap- ap during an average lifetime The probabilities are that it will be slower lowel now than ever before because the lake Is now In a narrow deep channel channel chan ehan- nel while before It extended over oyer a a. flat shallow bed so o that evaporation would occur easily If there Is anything In the storm Ccle cycle cy cy- cle cia th theories orles of some of or the scientists we should have another period othea of ot hea heavy precipitation In a few years M My observation is that the thc lake rises Ver very rapid rapidly when hen there is any excess rain raIn- fall Several years of ot this kind would send the lake lalie up a great man many feet Dry Spell Since 1880 1886 Ye We have had a dr dry period since 18 i If H the dry and wet seasons each occur ever every thirty live years as the scientists claim we should have a i ic- ic e- e currence of or the wet wel period Inside of or two years ears The last wet season was at Its height In 1864 At that time the thc lake was thirteen feet higher than It Is now Say Lake Is Doomed Following is a dispatch published Inthe inthe In Inthe the New York Evening Post It appears ars that Gre Great t Salt lake In Utah Js is doomed Weather bureau officials announce announce announce an an- that the waters o of tho lake are rapidly receding and that unless N there Is 15 a large increase In the rainfall of that region tho the lako must eventually dry up Sup Local observers declare ro c that even an an increased cd rainfall would have no permanent effect in staying the drying drying- up process s. s Tho lake lako in the last ten years has receded seven or eight feet Wet Vet seasons do not seem H em to have ha made much difference the tho receding of ot the waters waters waters wa wa- wa- wa going on steadily though slowly year b by year car The lake lako Is the great grent survivor of a large number of or Ball salt lakes some of ot them much greater In extent Th They Y flowed over a large part of oC tho the Western and Southwestern territory and left behind In some In Instances Immense Im Im- Im- Im memo mense deposits of salt sail which are now no being converted cOn to commercial uses i There Thero are arc spots not so vcr very distant from the Salt lake where almost almo t pure salt can be ba dug up for Cor n mt many feet teet b below loW loWthe the surface and the tho vast alkali plains of ot the Southwest were undoubtedly covered coy cov ered with salt water at one ono time lime It Is supposed that Salt lako lale Was vas once a part put of tho the ocean Tho The dr drying ln up of or the lake seems a n. misfortune because tho the lake has so lon long lone b been en an object o of Interest Inte more to for the tho salt alt that can enn l be 00 extracted from Its Us waters than on an any other account account account ac ac- ac- ac count and these deposits can cnn be more easily rosily worked after aCler the waters have o subsided than now noo |