Show DOOM OF GREAT SALT LAKE t 4 say it will dry up within v half a century v k statistic statistics indicate that great bait salt lake the dead eoa sea of america Is 19 t doomed that it la Is gradually drying up the opinion now almost universally prevails among scientists that this t mysterious body of water located at an altitude of feet above the sea level and 1000 miles inland and which has but a single rival the dead sea of palestine ie is certain within the course ct el a half century to disappear brorn the map some scientists who have mado made a careful study of the eluo tuat lons ions of the lake for the pat past sever al years oven even declare that it will be dried up within a quarter of A cen tury f six leen yeara years ago in 1186 86 the area of the lakes s aas as intimated idi mated ailt t about 2700 sra tre re miles taking twenty feet aa as the average depth at that time ore may estimate cubic feet as tho contents 1 of the lake today to day according to recent surveys tho th lake has an area of 0 f about 2125 square miles multiplying this nu aber by 11 the number oz 02 4 feet in depth of the water that has dis appes cd ed and not been replace 4 give gives cubic feet ae as the quan city of water alss than what the lake had sixteen years ago observer of the me lake have assigned three causes for he the shrinkage of its it water they are evaporation irrig tion ind a subterranean outlet that some suppose to exist there are ar ar J dent advocates ut of each of these theor lea |