Show 37 "The drainage of threo- followed by long periods of drought fourths of the district was gathered in those periods into o ” the grand expanse of Lake Bonneville its highest stage Lake Bonneville waters spread over many of the most fertile valleys of Utah and buried the present locations of numerous towns and cities where approxi-mate- ly 390000 people now live It covered parts of a dozen counties in Utah Idaho and Nevada some of them almost If the lake were to rise again to its former completely At level Utah’s four largest cities would be deeply submerged: Salt Lake City 850 feet Ogden 850 feet Provo 650 feet Towns and cities near the present shores Logan 500 feet of the lake such as Kelton Saltair Hooper Syracuse Lake- side and Promontory Point would lie under 1000 feet of water If such a rise should take place Morgan Mantua Thistle and Bingham would be lake port cities Travelers routes from east following the well established present-da- y to west would likely take boats at Morgan or Thistle and sail 150 to 175 miles to some point on the west side of the lake Bingham and Thistle would probably be lake ports 2 C E of Utah 41 Dutton Geological Survey of the High Plateaus This is a conservative estimate compiled from the 1079-10Sixteenth Census of the US 1940 I 278-23 79 See Map VIII p 38 80 |