Show THAT SALT LAKE CORAL Causes a Logan Student to Express Views as to What Wight lie Dc lieTo lieTo To the Editor lAgon Fob I cb 2 1 your Issue of ot tho Ito tb Ih containing an nn article en entitled entitled entItled titled Tho The Omit Great Salt Holt Lako Lake III In tho tIme Very Vcr cry lang Ago AJO It Is that a coral rock has hiss been discovered In iii this tho lake lako basin i and It Is III therefore assumed ns os a IL positive proof that tho the lake Inko was taa a 1 purt vart 01 Ut ot the tho hn ocean It tl was time Iho Pacific or tho the At lantic 0 IH is mi mum open but tut without doubt this whole in region wan Willi once under water ns as geologically In various parts f C I tali nn an anti and suites states In northern Utah nell county tho the writer has frequently s I n t no In place pisco containing fossli II crul and marine marina shells shell while In fossil IIII fl deli 1111 h skeletons l chIt cil III in quarry Ilu lag Ing rock In lit several localities In May Iny ISM ml time tho r while engaged hl In a it 1 land survey sursey III hi south rn Utah ran a section hue lino line tho th sum Slim summit unit mit of ot one of or th the IhO highest h mountaIns of ot tho the In that region at nl nn an eleva elevation tion of OC not HOt less than So feet above th MA tho the survey urVe line lino passing close to a it lodge of ot oyster shells about I U 12 fret cot thIck solidly cemented together Ono One stile Dido of at hiS Ih ledge l dRO was broken ore off leaving a IL perpendicular ular face flo tho Iho shells which In every particular resemble those tho o of ot thu tue Present time limo both In size Ilzo and Ind shape As A coral and oysters are found only In seawater there seems no ito reason to doubt that time the locality where thOro ancient ro no roin in mains n I nil aro found today cro once under underwater water and have Inco boon elevated by volcanic forces forced nf ot the ihn Ih Interior of ot tho tim earth It Is la a 1 well authenticated tact fact that changes In the Iho of ot the tho earth carta constantly taking limbo today as us the Iho wait coast line IIno of oC Sweden Jen lull Chill which Is III slowly lowly rising rl aM New Now Jersey Jer o and other of or the Iho Atlantic A which art slowly Mil hut surely sinking Within limo tho lost last 20 2 0 yours years a n number of havo emerged from th the Iho seam S OI whIle Of 6 on nn tho the Kait lIlt ait coast n a 1 tract of 01 about 13 1 tulle miles onto onte d has haB sunk beneath tile Ihn will era of oC the time milan Indian ocean the tho tower timer and higher r portions of or a It 1 fort torI rising r above a bOv the Iho sea re Indicating the Iho habitation j of ot man mall let less leu than titan 3 years ego ago Bo Ha It tt Is I not nol at Rt all Improbable that tho tIme Great Belt Bait lAke Uke onca once foet fott to t deeper than tM today ns as evidenced by the tho bench merks olon along th Ih the m has hall slowly rl rJ n from the depths depth of 01 an ocean the ranges east west welt ant nna the Iho higher lands lania north and south retainIng r the waters of ot tho the lake laka IRI O In tn Its lis 10 lo locality 11 I J H n |