Show MlffiMMM mm ll Sunset scenes across the lake viewed from any point on the east side are among the most colorful ’'gorgeous and kaleidoscopic in the world and tourists as well as residents of the state travel far at the proper time of evening to witness these remarkable views But if the lake is beautiful viewed from a distance it loses most of its glamour when examined at close range Lack of trees bushes and grass along its shores gives it the true aspects of a dead sea And these shores become wider and wider as the lake decreases in size until at close range about all one can see of the lake is a broad strip of salt plain and mud vith a thin strip of water way off in the distance In 1924 when the lake was relatively high and the waters were deep at Saltair the lake presented an entirely different impression than in 1940 when from the same point a mile of muddy salt plain had to be traversed in order to reach water This long mud approach to the lake is often edged by a strip of black mucky mud that emits a most offensive and nauseous odor ”It would have turned the stomach of a tur- key buzzard” his first 17 18 18 Ludlow says Fremont found this mud upon approach to the lake and Stansbury gave a vivid Alter Utah the Storied Domain II 14 f Fitz Hugh Ludlow Heart of the Continent 398 |