Show 39 doing an important transportation business bringing ore from Bingham canyon and coal from the Carbon County mines together for purposes of refining At its highest level Lake Bonneville covered 19750 square miles was 346 miles long and 145 wide and reached a depth of 1050 feet This is comparable to the combined areas of Rhode Island Connecticut Massachusetts and half The area of Bonneville compares favorably of Hew Hampshire with the other lakes of the United States as the accompanying table shows TABLE I COMPARATIVE DIMENSIONS OF LAKES The shore above the line of IN THE UNITED STATES4 Lake Bonneville level of the Great Salt Lake a thousand feet formed a very intri Gilbert Lake Bonneville 106 World Atlas Encyclopedia Britannica "Geographical Comparisons" 4 5 During the past century the lake has varied in area In At its lowest point in 1935 its area was 1420 sq mi 1873 when it reached its highest recorded level its area was 2250 sq mi 4 Compiled from |