Show GREAT SALT DEPOSITS WEST VEST OF SALT LAKE LARE Interesting Conclusions Are Reached Ra Pat 5 b. b S S H Engineers Tho The existence pf pC vast ast saline alne deposits In the vicinity of or the Great Salt Sl lake has been well wel known to Inhabitants of Utah says S 'S the Ogden Standard The Tile presence oC or these bodies has been re recently recently re- re centy called caled to th the attention of or the tho people here by the passage ot or the roadbed roadbed road road- roae- roae bed bee of the Vest Western ern Pacific railroad over one of ot enormous salt SQl beds The Tho engineers o of the tho road have made madea a C partial exploration o of this bed bcd and have found It to be bc over eight miles mies wide Vide and over o forty miles long Ions Tho They sa say that from Crom a careful stud study of the time topo topography of this thus section tho they arc are l led lod d to believe belec that this salt sal bed overlies a great underground round basin tho the waters of which How Into Salt Sal lake take The deposit of salt sal Is so compact and the crystals so solidly bedded that the theties theties ties tes of the time road are arc laid lal directly upon the time salt sal and the time weight of the heaviest engine olgine makes no Impression on It It in its Is passage In fact It has been found necessary to resort to 0 dynamite In or order order order or- or der to excavate holes for time the erection of tel telegraph raph poles pole This Thus deposit is twenty-seven twenty feet teet higher than the surface of the lake on and tho the natural watershed Is In that di dl- dl Throughout Th this section there them arc aro rivers that at times limes disappear into the bowels of ot the earth erth and when the they reappear I If thc they ever do the volume of water has suffered a marked de ce- ce de- de crease It I Is believed that this water goes oes to feed time the vast underground reservoir the overflow of at which passes through subterranean passages Into Great Groat Salt Sal lake Inke |