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Show LAKE KEEPS ON FALLING DESPITE HEAVY RAINS ' . Melting Snows and Storms of May Cannot Prevent a Lowering of Two Inches in the Level Great Salt 4ake Is falling rapidly instead in-stead of rising, as it was expected to do. The heavy rains of the latter part of May failed to raise the level and did not even keep it stationary. A reading taken by Dr. Hyatt at Garfield Gar-field yesterday showed the lake to be two feet and six Inches below normal. The reading of yesterday was a surprise sur-prise to Dr. Hyatt, who expected to find that a rise of an inch or more had occurred. oc-curred. Instead he found that during the time heavy rains were being recorded record-ed the lake was falling, and at the end of the fifteen days had become two Inches lower. Former Section. Director Murdoch, who has watched the strange body of salt water carefully for a number of years, predicted early In the winter that a rise of about three feet would occur this year, and that the lake would again rise to a foot above normal. For a time it seemed as though his -pi-eductions were to come true. The reading of yesterday, yes-terday, however, shatters all hope of Buch a rise. : Dr. Hyatt says he Is unable to account for the fall of two inches. "We have had much rain during the past fifteen days," he said today, "and I fully expected to find the lake level at least an inch or more higher. As to the cause of the fall I would not hazard an opinion until I have become more familiar fa-miliar with the lake." |