Show BOTTOM OF SALT LAKE HOLDS LARGE LAHE AMOUNT OF SALT four hundred millions tons tolls of salt cry atala enough to supply th the lie national demand for many years lie at the bottom of great salt lake a scientific cap expedition cal t I 1 on reported recently after a four day careful survey of dead sea the study was made by A J El hardly ardly a salt lake city man now a int member milber of geology at tile alie university of michigan who has been investigating conditions on tile the lako ako tor for two summers mack alack demorest navigator and geologist of the university of michigan and captain acon stanley great salt lake yachtsman who has been mapping i ing the lako la kefor for two sumo mrs The party stansbury carrington ring ton bird and antelope islands recorded surroundings gathered surface life with plankton nets liets took lako lake temperatures at three ft intervals ili hi the water and collected samples f from rom islands and ana other scientific data captain stanley reported the lako lake Is four feet lower than ever before in its recorded history tills large bargo loss of water by evaporation lio lie sata said lias has left the lake saturated with salt sodium chlo ride arid glauber salts sod sodium lull sulphate ate the hitter bitter myriad ot minute crystals in ili leaving the water fill an opalescent white dhere last year the bottom could be loboen soan clearly to a depth of 16 ft tills this year it Is barley discern ablo at it a depth greater than one foot Co common nimon salt Is being precipitated very rapidly but unlike glauber salts very little remains in suspension I 1 lon but settles to the bottom of the lako and builds beautiful crystals the crystals are arc more than two indies deep allover tho the bottom of the lake hike on oil this aliis basis a conservative estimate of the amount of salt on oil the lake bottom is tons toils lle besides sides salt there are arc numerous chemic chemicals che micala alsAn in the lake tho the cam commonest of these being calcium carbonate lind and carbonate reported mr eardley all ail tj it tho the lake sediments underlying the ahr salt crusts are composed of 40 percent to 90 PC per r cont cent cal clur and I 1 linn juin carbonate carbona cur bonato tc the study mr hardly eardly continued has as revealed the presence of many life tows in ili the lake most conspicuous are arc tile the algae which have lave caused the precipitation of calcium carbonate the decay of tho the algae together with the larvae case cases of two species of flies which brood breed in ili tho the algae cause fetta fetid odor oro with which bathers in ili alio lake fire familiar flies are burled now under the salt Th the brino ebrine shrimp is ts doing well now contrary to popular opinion life is abundant in the lake jut but not in ili a very varied form the remarkable thing Is that forms which once were at homo home in ili the fresh water lake bonneville the predecessor of great salt lake have adapted themselves completely to the extremely salty waters wati xa of the present lake 1 sir air demorest Do morest remarked that the salt beds oil oh the shores of the lake are similar to the too ice flows in greenland in appearance salt lake tribune |