| Show GREAT SALT LAKE I Clogging of tile Salt Rocks Causes a Loss o Saline Strcntrth tPhlladelphta Tlmea t The Gieat Bait Lake Is I two feet lower toJay than ever before known in tile history of Utah and acocrding to competent observers It Is f rapidly changing Us chief characteristic and turning Into an Inland sen of freshwater fresh-water iver > fall the lake li I several feet lower than In the spring but this > enr the waters have subsided to such an extent that many of the bathing pav ilions and boathoincs are left high and dry upon the beach 11 has alvvnvs been believed by cxpcits I t tint the lake had an Underground outlet but no txplorer baa yet hem fortunate enough to discover dis-cover any H Is I cuppowd however Utica iRlst that outlets exist and that during the last six months they have gained no tlcrably upon the springs w hlcli supply the lake On tile northen slopes of the InUs shores and down the western border arc numbering tprlng which have always al-ways run pure brine Into the Inland sea These springs evidently come through Immune lucks or salt In tho earth and by washing through them they make the spring water Intensely briny by tile time It reaches the surface There have been signs of a change In these spring In rent Years Several times they lave ceased 10 flow aT roll Idly ns usual anti the water they pour1 up appeared fresher They have 110W boemno partly choked up either with rocks or salt and they lie longer give the same supply of salt water as they did jears ago In several other places nulably on ia t Antelope with in flttion feet of the brimming lake basin theie tire many fresh water springs that gush up at all scanting ot the Year and pour Into the lake These fresh water springs I have be come large and more ioverful since the salt water springs became clogged up and It Is supposed the underground res emir or water dlrted from Its usual course Is now seeking an ndequnte out let through the springs where no salt If this theory Is correct the Great Halt Lake will gradually turn to freshwater fresh-water and the surface will continue to fall until the winter and spring fresh etts from the mountain flll It again Tills additional liater will add 110 salt to the great Port but niiiki It fresher than er It has been well known for many years that the Great Salt Lak < li I fresher In the caily spring than In ummr land the phenomenon I probably prob-ably caused by the addition I of Brent quantities of water from tho now nnot streams oC the mountain Those engaged en-gaged In manufacturing salt on the lake sea y that It takes nix gallons oC Kilter to make one gallon of salt In the summer and fall hut that in cOlly spring It often toes even and even eight gallons to make the same quantity quan-tity There nre three larce streams empty Ing Into the Great Salt Lake the Ur Weler and Jordan riversbut they make no appreciable difference In the saltiness or the Jake except eatily I In the spring when they carry the melt Ing snow oC the mountain down 10 the lake So long ns the underground springs of salt continued to pour their brine Into the lake It required nn Immense Im-mense volume or fresh mater to neu trallze them The oOI Salt Lake Is I seventy miles long and fifty miles across In Its widest Iart and It has an area of 2 000 square miles Another peculiar change that has taken place In the lake Is I the gradual upheaval of the bottom In recent years Its greatest depth baa not exceeded forty feet while the average depth IS only from twelve to twenty feet Fifty sears ago the bottom could not be sounded In places and lines 100 feet long failed to strike bottom |
