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Show Ejects 3ottohles's':pit-, i; .- ? jE"GPiY-AS TO SALT LAKE : State Engineer Dorcmus Declares Lucin Cut-Off ; Merely Extends Oyer Soft Place. State Engineer Doremus says that he cannot imagine that the Great Salt lake at the point of the Lucin cut-off furnishes fur-nishes a parallel to the Humboldt river ' la Nevada, which has & subterranean outlet. Before the Union Pacific railroad rail-road was built he was detailed to make an examination as to the condition of the lake bed at that point with a view of learning the feasibility of running a ' track across the lake at the Identical point where the Southern Pacific's cutoff cut-off is now being attempted. . ! On' this examination he found channels chan-nels of great depth. He was prepared to tak soundings to a depth of 100 feet, .but even at that depth no solid bottom could be found. - V- Engineer. Doremns Is not of the opln-fWhowever, opln-fWhowever, that there is a bottom. U Vf hole at any point of the lake's bed. 21 is opinion Is that the obstacle en-copntered en-copntered is nrelyaottlaceanfl that ft is only a matter of the quantity I of material necessary to overcome it. I He says that a vast amount of ma- 1 terial would necessarily be used.. The soft places may be overcome by spanning them. This plan would have j 1 been cheaper to the railroad company in the first place, but it would now be i a question whether It would be cheaper cheap-er to span them at this time, or continue con-tinue to fill In the dangerous places with rock. Engineer Doremus concurs with Prof. Talma ge In his opinion that the area of precipitation of the sodium sulphite does not extend to the northern arm of the lake. In his sounding he found, where solid bottom was to be found that It was of heavy clay covered by a layer of oolitic sand. The clay whenever found would make a high grade foundation capable of withstanding any pressure or weight j that could be brought to bear on it. I |