Show silt salt luke during a trip through utah said A 0 levering of kansas city I 1 1 I wit hessed a most convincing proof of the weight of tho the salt laden waters of the great reat sa salt t lake A strong gale of wind las as blowing blowin ayer tho the lako lake and driving s surface i luto to low i whito cit capped pad tidies hilo hile along the the foam lay like oat flat b banks anks of new fallen snow if as strong a wind had passed across a lake of fresh water of equal extent it would atwould unquestionably have produced such an agitation of its surface that navigation in small boats would have been di difficult if not highly per perilous lous the waves thero there showed a curious resistance to the wind and rose only to a slight elevation yet there was an immense momentum stirred up in those choso low heavy slow moving waves I 1 ventured into the water at a point where the depth did not exceed three feet and found that it was wag impossible to stand against them as their sheer weight swept me along I 1 was told that it was impossible to dive through an oncoming wave after the manner practiced byli by bathers along the atlantic antio coast st louis globe democrat |