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Show DOOM OF GREAT SALT LAKE. W Scientists Say It Will Dry Up Within W Half.a Century. BJ Statistics indicato that Great Salt Bj lake, tho Dead sea of America, is BJ doomed that it Is gradually drying BJ up. Tho opinion now almost universal- Bj ly prevails among scientists that this H mysterious body of water, located at B an altltudo of 4,210 feet abovo tho sea lovol and 1,000 miles Inland, and B which has but a single rival, tho Dead H sea of Palestine, Is certain within tho B course of a half century to disappear B from tho map. Somo scientists, who B havo made n careful study of tho flu& B tuatlons of tho lako for tho past sever- al years, oven dcclaro that It will bo I dried up within a quarter ot a cent tury. Sixteen years ago, in 188G, tho area of the lake's surface was estimated at 1 about 2,700 squaro miles. Taking 1 twenty fcot as tho averago depth at 1 that time, ono may cstlmato 1,50 5,- I 433,600,000 cubic fcot as tho contonts I of tho lako. To-day, according to re- 1 cent surveys, tho lako has an area of J about 2,125 squaro miles. Multiplying I this number by 11, tho number ot feet in depth of tho wator that has disappeared dis-appeared and not boon replaced, gives CG9,778,400,000 cubic feet as tho quantity quan-tity of wator less than what thd lako hnd sixteen yenrs ago. Observers of tho lako havo assigned threo causoB for tho Bhrlnkago of its water. Thoy aro evaporation, Irrigation Irriga-tion and a subterranean outlot that somo supposo to exist. Thoro are ar-dont ar-dont advocates of each of theso theories. |
