Show UTAH Briel Notes on Its Fea I I I fly By J H Paul ture Resources and Development I iv STORY OP Oi Ti rIm lrA j im Great Salt hake lalle tic Is THE T dead sea Itc strange Story Is nartI shrouded In mystery It ItIs ItIs Is and con talus more mort salt than Dead sen aca ho roll over oer the sIt ites o of ancIent Sodom LIke that sea Aoa this receIves the vaters o of It ci S Sea II of the flyer Jordan anti time tho two areas are nr strikingly Salt lako U lIes In II a mere corner comer ot of lie basIn yet It covers coers 2700 miles III a l yet et feet tho ocean oClIn the tho Atlantic with t Ij pet l cent or of solid matter maller Is said to ho snit salty the lake Inke averages nearl 20 per pel cont of nf solid mutter In 6 solution O tr tons tOlls of salt and TSI torts of soda al ate a In Its clear sparklIng brine The Tho ocean waters teem with large lage and all as well as with mInUte onn of u life hut the lake no fish or larger sI species oles anI anti only three minute of living things Tiny brinG brine needlelike and amid about ono one quarter quartolo of nn an Inch Inch long are nu melous whon we look for or thorn them In sum summer mner mer III also so I a small fly that lIves upon lie tho surface and Upon ulon mInute yel 01 sea weeds In the wilier Its lana preys upon the brino Semi Sea gulls on Its wal a IS hatch their in III shallow nests In the tho sands and with pelicans amid crones make maka ot of some Home of oC the tho ported rookerIes where her the con in U it mc IH an 1111 odd onn ex cx to go o their nests In summer Time The gulls resembling huffy bails of whIte amid yellow down run about so thick that It Is Ii difficult to steppIng on them while the Iho par parent cat ent above your head In grent the tho all aIr cries IN LEVEL The rho bIte o Is shalloW with mimi average depth of oC 13 reel The thirsty attune take from mom Its surface halt hal Its from 60 O to SO Inches liS Is with 22 Inches front time the of oC Luke michigan TIme Tho water uvas cry ery low lov In 1850 bu but I rove rose to Its hIghest level leol In 1873 It sank till lii about It reached rached its lowest lowet point that It hiL hits Men been These Thele changes would happen happell I If the became much moore moist It Is now Tin Tho Water wate would fresher for Cor tim In 1850 It dl I 22 per cent o Of mutter In Iii 1873 13 per cent Ild amid In III 1901 25 Jr r I nt If I time the clImate moist for tor ages the would 11 tIll the lS as It once lIlI Induced thus whole o of tile tho great basIn wal was OICe once 0 oc b by an inland sea l muru or cm I Into limb two PIt parts by mountains Its cI center this lon sea the rivers mind of earth arth lemming forming deJa now lot left bIght Ild timid dry 1 an gI Ogdon Salt Lake o City Amen can 1 Fork 1100 Provo and Spanish I Fork ork StIll morn mono anciently the 1 thel was waH so 0 cold that Ihal BIO snow piled U up II iii tilt tho mountains tl till It hued time can nn minI slowly into time Iho water ator lIS IN ot of ice he or o glaciers ice I acted IIII like I a KIlt great lIon which tut lUt Oll Out 1 h 17 Into Inlo thin Ihn o of limo hol hod c thu tho up I Into th tho aloY or of ancient ar ann stilt ti tim ls h In iii mal ninny u tho lOl bug the Iho ice WI we do not time lice hae hen rush tom aft er It m nude 11 nit aim t Jet hit halt the Iho grew Krow warl lod mini dr dry It to a 1101 small saly 1110 mIte 1110 I hive 1 over ocr leIl seen 11 time tho of the thu imms 11 oh of tue 1 1111 rising hike Iko stePs lelH rca in time Iho bench hondl humid I II tho Hlo sIde They 1 by lio tIme of it IL lake lallo hint t base I mm hm just terrace nouv Is IN tho mINt ha I or its III level 1001 Jl 51 fo for I it that no WI formed Then li lit fun for nUl 11 Itc would cut ut Into Inlo thit terrace how 1101 Ihen lieu eln WI we l just how univ Will PI are Oi film Ih fun 1181 I lake Have ext untied 11 Cart tart I hi tle tilted Ih time great basin lUI mies flubs IU intUit l hao hol II abut hll t 1 0 foci ciel deep So ii cool Il mind n Wil time thc II lit tho lee 10 un hut Ihl spread ovum III all l of eada PI ni II I it ram mn over II at thin tho TI rh me lii rt t Ilium kim rivets IH Its II I mm I 11 I I ii It amis 1111 let cm ly d ral purl iy tilled iv it ii soil 11 I iii lun All til iett it limo tho was 11 ler II of I WI Hul Huh t Illo hike 1111 hull Os I of ItOl Ilium I lied Ill ou let IIII Suii t tho I be tel ii Iii lint to thu Ihn hut hUI kept HiI huh I l I mu ur of Irate tl I iii omit y a All nuil It wi I ice sl fluhs t xI the ut nf all II iii Wit that hlo 10 no hr HJ I Ii Ii m lukl hike 1 II I I hi mi I 4 1 to WI or of wilIer Willur time tIe part art ha has llen been Lake tan thu tho westen Lako A Probably I ought mint to talk sho simp here hOIe HaL It I teaching thIs sub subJect JoeL to a elites amid t to fInd or not they understood I 1 would proc proceed d as Dill ou Ocr ever bathe In Grat Great sI Salt lake Why cant YOI you In It Stilt SnIt water is much heavier lalor than freshwater fresh water 1 tel olgh I a or of rc h water arid and ii a quart ot of very er salty and account for the The Te lake water Itald most mORt of the summer at SO O degrees hare you ever oer of ocean bl In a alel asea lel sea so o warm In III tropical Oi only tho water ler Is sometimes SOt so tc 83 degrees Does Doe tw Un water get either me or on 10 so 1 cold ld as the oh air GIe What hat others ot or our lakes mire arc salty Wh Why Which a are fresh esh Why Four shore Ine from the laki level leel to 1000 feet above I It the tho highest Is coie called another Is 11 the Provo line these two lre are faInter maIo more ancient ones caled called the th inter intermedIate medIate Ild amid lowest ot of nil II feet another above the present the Is the thu most recent low how lnor of these can you limit I Front rom their relate relative ages ilo flo you ou the lake sometImes rose roso an anil sometimes fel fell Wh Why Is In there level lovel belch bench land landat at the tho mouth ot of your our Des Does It I a d delta lt r lna jol 0 Or I Iii It 1 II glaciers amid honda Any 1 level loel plaIns In your distrIct If Is the tho o of Major history II of Lake Hon Bon nele First the tho waters swore lo low occupying mu Great Suit Lake now noi do only u porton of the tho bottom tiC the basin basin Then Thon the they gradually most amid spread formIng In tin inland sea nearly Clua to Lake In extent with 1 a maxImum depth o of a feet Then Therm the fell fel and the thic lake lako not hot merely In Imi size hit but dIsappeared pared leaving a evell moro more desolate than the tho Grout SaIl Lake Desert of o today again rose surpassing oven even their for tor mer Might heIght amid eventually the ho basin It at ILl its norther the tho Columbia a 1 stream tu to River and nd lat last there thero la was n a second me IC In anti the tho shrunk until now only Great falt Salt Lako nn and two smaller lakes lake remain TIm OThER LAKES Lake mucH limo tho onlY flesh wlter water hud body within time Iho ivest o t or of tIme tho WI les I at nn an or of not thin tho Ir season o of tIme time mo dIverted ut iii hIgher levels and but lt lit litho tc ho reaches the tho lake Inke A luo huge runs from rom the north end of oC the Ink luike Into Sail county The Tho elo lo aton n Of lie tho ml gives to it Il great iK nut a natural reservoir Thin ho yearly front frum lImo tho 3 acres of It Ittu surface 11 hum h by lt itt four limo tho average is eight feet o of lit shores are marshy filled wIth ninth vegetation ellton and time tho gound of ci Dikes are aro to u hue he bui 1 urn time ho south east antI north shores l 01 nih these arnie the tho unter by b micros lel say II each eh year lQ 30 of C wIl wIler wat er en lost hy huy that 1 by 1111 antI lug 2000 of hand w will hc Titi rho acres now irrigated atea from limo tho lake he 1 set 1 only enough Wal 11 ir Tide wi their II r Timo Tho al ut o this Increase 1111 mind of the lie lan lanil the tho SUite fleet nt at HO Coven 1111 amid I a ml nut 1101 Thu unit oHl II of rankIng n it wi wIll bu be one ono tl harm Tear near micH Its southern In It its I iti In is IN a I fresh body III mit lt 11 mtr II iii tUlo o of 1100 feet Il it aur surface ce In an exquisite seen time tho tl towering Which I it lies e I Is II lutu near Bear river I the ho lall lake Is ii much wih wHim lh PI II luke lake on Il a of limo Iho m nome hum tho of nn I It Is IH timi II source l r rh fr or Url nol unI I 11 n III 1 the the Ihu Saucier tumid time tho Are IC lIthio nit lakes Luke lIko occupIes 1 a noCI noRm th the or of 71 I U I lui 11 I I ii di vim In I mm wi i I it 11 IL o tur HO tl to IO I vs II lit muon Me 1111 arid It away |