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Show SALT' LAKE; MAY. SOON BE. COMPLETELY EVAPORATED Great Inland Ocean Is Now Six Feet Lower Than in 1894, and Still Sinks Rapidly. - Deputy Sheriff S. H. B. Smith. -who has been stationed at Saltalr beach for the past four years, says that in 1SS9 the lake extended inland fully one mile further than it does at the preseift time, . and that at the pavilion the water was at least five feet deep, while now the beach is high and dry. Mr. Smith said: "At that time the water was fully four feet deep at the end of the north pier and the bathing was good for a , Quarter of a mile inland from the pavilion, pa-vilion, while the water ran inland a mile. "If the lake continues to fall for. a few more years," Mr. Smith added, "an electric road or a moving sidewalk will have to be built to carry the bathers bath-ers out to the water. Irrigation Is Responsible. "I believe that the great volume .' of water taken 'from the streams that feed the lake, and diverting it to irrigation irri-gation canals is responsible for the constant falling of the lake. "The water is now diverted and does not reach the lake, but the evaporation evapora-tion continues. It is a natural law that the shallower a body of water gets, the warmer it becomes,- and hence the evaporation is carried on more rapidly than when the water is deep and cold. "I cannot see how the lake can be saved to posterity unless some other water courses are diverted into It. The lake, under existing conditions, will continue to recede until Antelope island is-land is a part of the mainland and the only remaining water la in the deepest parts." 1 Pavilion Is High and Dry. The pavilion is now high and dry save for a few shallow pools surrounding surround-ing it, where the water is carried by the winds that occasionally rise. One can almost walk dry shod around the pavilion from the beach, save for these pools. In 1894 the level of the lake was nearly six feet higher than at the present pres-ent time, and the waves rolled to the banks of the railroad grade within a few feet of the "T" where the trains rturn, about a mile from the resort. |