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Show The great shrinkage of Salt Lake has set many a pen going. Some are predicting that the famous lake will soon disappear altogether. "We see no occasion for the fear. The fall of the lake is, no doubt, mostly due to evaporation. When mild winters win-ters come and there is little precipitation of moisture, mois-ture, the lake not only does not receive its usual reinforcement from the streams that flow into it, but tho atmosphere over all this great basin between be-tween the Sierras and Rockies necomes so dry that every wind blowing across the lake brings air that is so thirsty that It absorbs vast quantities quan-tities of moisture from the lake. One or two heavy winters, with great precipitation, will fill the lake, and so charge the air with moisture that it will no longer exhaust the lake In passing over it. |