Show DOOM OF CHEAT SALT LAKE scientists say it will dry up within half a century statistics indicate that G cat kit lake the dead sea of an aca s doomed that it is gradually arli p ip i p tee opinion now almost universal ly prevails among scientists that this mysterious body of water located at an alt tude of 4 feet above the sea level and 1000 miles island and which has but a single rival the dead sea of palestine is certain within the course of a half century to disappear from the map some scientists who baye boade a careful study of the flue of the lake for the past sever al ars even declare that it will be dried up athin a quarter of a cen tury sixteen years ago in 1886 the area of the lake s surface was estimated at about 2 square miles taking twenty feet as the average depth at that time one may estimate 1 cubic feet as the contents of the lake to day according to re cent surveys ur veys the lake has an area of about 2 sai are m les multiplying this number by 11 the number of feet in depth of the water that has dis appeared and not been replaced gives cubic feet as the quan city of water less than what the lake had sixteen years ago observers of the lake have assigned three causes tor the shrinkage of its water they are evaporation tion and a subterranean outlet that some suppose to exist there are ar dent advocates of each of these theor les |