Show KNOW UTAH By ALBERT F F. PHILIPS Great Salt lake lako was waz the subject ot of conversation last evening Its early Its discoveries and the date ot the first vIsit ot of white men men made made to the great dead were sea were discussed It w was pointed o t that Baron Daron La In 1689 had gathered from the Indians In the western part of oC the continent some vague ague notions or of the existence or of the lake Jake and e romanced nt at great length ot of the numerous as the leaves lea ot of the trees and dwelling on Its fertile ter- ter tile shores and navigating Its placid waters on great rafts Then his story of at Utah's dead sea was not given ghen credence b by man many But he maintained that somewhere on the western continent he he- he had found a bod body of tasting bad water ater Carver In his travels learned from the that salt was found coming coming- down In caravans and in his records refutes the story stor of at La lie He says The story of La excited much speculation and received vanous van van- yari- yari ous addItions In his da day and the lake finally came cameto to be represented on the English maps Long Lang before beCore this date date- however reliable Information had been received b by- by bythe the Spaniards and the same samo- may have come to English trappers so that by 1826 reports of oC the existence ot of the Great Salt lake Jake may have cl It is needless to say that neither Carver nor La ever received information from the natives or elsewhere sufficient to justify map to place a great lake In the western part ot of the continent In Go Goroon's lons Historical and Memoirs of the North orth American Continent published In Dublin Dub Dub- lin in 1820 It Is written Concerning Ute the lakes Jakes and rivers of at this as yet Imperfectly explored region we have little to sa say or Of the former we have no certain tam tain account Two have ben been noticed In the western parts a a. salt lake about the thirty ninth degree degre of latitude the western limits of oC which are unknown and the lake Jake of at about the forty fort degree de- de gree of oC great but unascertained extent In a report submitted to congress on ray May 15 1826 It Is stated that many geographies have placed the Lake In latitude 40 40 but they have easU easily contused confused it with the Lake which extends from 39 to 41 and from which it appears I It Is separated b by a neck or peninsula the two approaching approaching ap- ap In one direction as close as twenty miles In another r report to congress submitted submitted by Samuel Sam Sam- uel Adams Ruddock it was stated that In 1821 he be journeyed from Council Bluffs to Santa le Ie and thence with a a. trading party proceeded b by way of at Great Salt laKe laie to Oregon The report says that on June 9 11 this party crossed the Rio Del Norte and pursuing a northwest direction on the north bank of the river Chamas and over the mountains reached Lake Trinidad Then going across the upper branches ot of the Rio Colorado of at California the party reached Lake which Is Inte intersected by the forty forty- second parallel of latitude then the boundary between the United States of America and Mexico This lake Is the principal source of t the river and the ot of Lewis and Clark The They then followed the course course of this river to its junction with the Columbia and reached the mouth ot of the Columbia on August 1 completing the journey from Council Bluffs In seventy nine days |