Show CO COMFORT FOR SALT SALTAIR AIR OWNERS The management of Saltair in iu its efforts to maintain main maintain tain lain the level le of Great Salt Lake may derive e some consolation from the fact that the Government is isha ha having hang ng the same kind of trouble with the Great Lakes But in the latter case Uncle Sam has made financial l provision for an investigation b by experts of the cause of the drop in iii the level le and for fOl the application of such means a as v will ill restore the great lakes aJ es to th their normal stage As A with Great Grat Salt lake sc scientists are arc puzzled puzz d over Pl the shrinkage in these large bodies of water and can of offer no plausible ble solution of the problem During the last few years ears 83 say the levels of the great lakes have dropped at an alarming rate and amI the point is if isnow now hOW reached where much fear is expressed ed for the future of commerce The condition becomes bomes more noticeable marine interests ts contend since the tendency tendency ten ten- dency of shipbuilding is toward the the larger n iud and d deeper draught craft Experts claim that Lal Lake e Michigan has shown greater reater shrinkage and old sailors sail sail- ors ot'S cis ci's bear out ont this iltis statement Some Sonic have declared that the drainage 1 ge canal canalis Is lar largely I to blame for the recent low water in Lal Lake Michigan although engineers engineers en en- of the latter scout seoul the thC theor theory It is understood under tinder stood however er to be he part of the Go Governments Government's plan to investigate in this particular condition Man Many plans and suggestions are arc offered as Th The one most talked of of by hr practical marine men and engineers engineers en en- is that of building a dam lam at some ome point upon the lower waters of the laJ lakes f likely Lal Lake Erie Eric near Niagara Prominent engineers who have han given the problem some study take the ground that it ma may b be practical to Jo erect such a dam and that the water could be raised fully three feet in Lake Erie Elie therel there there- l h by The effect of such an elevation elc it i is held would be le felt in ill Lake Huron but in lesser d degree degi re Th The water would be raised perhaps two feet t. It is not obvious ious how such a plan would materially benefit Lake Lalm Michigan and this thir point is causing much dis dis- dis Some Sonic claim that the thc latter's level 1 would be raised a foot h by such an undertaking although exp experts are aloof on that reasoning Even n if a a. solution so so- lution is is reached it is estimated that it will cost the Government nt millions of dollars to 10 relieve the condition con cou of low water |