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Show SALT FLAT NEWS, JULY, 1971 Great Salt Desert (from page 6) for the Utah State Road Commission and his associates to construct the accompanying map. In our progress across the desert, we encountered the ravages rav-ages which mud, salt, sand, and thirst had made upon wagons and animals. In several spots we found the bones of oxen perhaps the very ones which James Reed had turned loose to fend for themselves them-selves when they became maddened mad-dened from lack of water and, in spite of previous incursions upon the flats, we found some artifacts at the site of the abandoned aban-doned wagons. Four low mounds still exist, and in them and on them, were pieces of metal, wood, and leather straps, all encrusted en-crusted with salt and sand and most of them ready to disintegrate disinte-grate at the touch of a hand. Most intriguing among our "finds" was a small spoon and a little compass, com-pass, the latter so corroded as to defy almost all our attempts to open it. Both objects speak eloquently elo-quently of the heartbreaking necessity for the pioneers to jettison their intimate belongings. We ended our journey at the Pete McKellar ranch where Pilot Springs still sends up a cool and refreshing flow of water. Although Al-though we were not parched as had been those early travelers who had moved with such agonizing agon-izing slowness along their route, we were able to appreciate the drinks we sipped from the "Bo nark Wells." And looking back over the sun-baked desert we had just crossed, we could understand un-derstand something of the feeling of the pioneers upon finally arriving ar-riving at this shady oasis. Letters to the Editor- (from page 3) Walter M. Katzenberger, former for-mer Chief Petty Officer in the U. S. Navy, is in charge of the Survey Sur-vey vessels and other equipment used in exploration of the Great Salt Lake. The vessels are the 42-foot G. K. Gilbert, the Clyman, a 22-foot motor dory, and the Oolite, a 12-foot lifeboat. The Utah Geological and Min-eralogical Min-eralogical Survey, in cooperation with the U. S. Geological Survey, has been underway since 1964 with a comprehensive study of the Lake. Study of the Chemistry of the inflow was begun by the U. S. Geological Survey in 1959. The Utah Survey obtained boats in 1965 which permitted observations observa-tions throughout the Lake. The brines have been sampled at known locations both north and south of the Southern Pacific Causeway and the recent salt cover in the north arm has been cored. Clay mineral samples from the south arm have been studied from the mineralogical point of view and this study is the subject of a thesis prepared in 1970. Eardley's work on Great Salt Lake sediments was published in 1938. Topographic mapping of the Lake and its surroundings has been completed and quadrangle maps at a scale of 1:24,000 are being published as rapidly as pos-sible. pos-sible. Knowledge available in 1966 was reviewed in the Guidebook Guide-book of the Utah Geological Society. Atmospheric and evaporation studies have been made and stream flow and lake level records are available for many years. Geophysical Geo-physical surveys have been made. In 1960 Eardley reported on a drill core which penetrated some 500 feet of Pleistocene sediments and recently he has drilled to 1,000 feet. The biology of the Lake has been studied, though more work is needed on microscopic micro-scopic life and its relation to the chemistry of the Lake and to pollutants pol-lutants entering the Lake brines. Industrial use of the brines is entering en-tering a new phase; the effects of the causeway are being studied and a report published on results through 1969. The Quaternary and older geology of the Lake basin and the entire Bonneville basin has been mapped in varying detail. Geophysical Geo-physical surveys give indications of subsurface conditions and it is to be hoped that deep wells will penetrate the full thickness of Quaternary and Tertiary sediments. The following is a list of published pub-lished data by the Utah Geological Geologi-cal and Mineralogical Survey for the study of the Great Salt Lake and Western Utah. Considerable attention has been focused for the benefit of scientific knowledge knowl-edge and economic management. It is my belief that researchers are, and have been for quite some time, busy at conducting full and complete scientific studies of the lake and all of the ecologic and geologic circumstances that surround sur-round the lake. These studies do show and will further bring to attention at-tention such matters as exploitation exploita-tion of the brines, evaporation in-vestigations in-vestigations and stabilization features. I know of several additional studies and investigations being made. Several technical reports as well as statistical summaries and re-examinations of earlier reports are, at present, being conducted. Additional mapping of the area is constantly being undertaken. In general, it may be stated that the topography and surface geology of the Lake basin are well known. The bathymetry, sediment sedi-ment distribution, chemistry, biology bi-ology and atmosphere-brine relationship rela-tionship has been studied and critical data assembled. The Great Salt Lake and the Salt Flats area, as well as western Utah, remain under constant observation ob-servation by the Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey and investigative in-vestigative "Missions" will continue. con-tinue. Refinements of knowledge are needed in many fields and the effects of everchangi ng works a nd products of man demand continuing con-tinuing studies. 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