Show salt laako and flats lure industries there ere is no need to sink a shaft to find salt in utah it is mined mine d on top of the ground where it ties lies many deep on the shores ot of great salt lake and in famous bonneville salt hats naturally the state is a large producer of both common salt and products people who go to the beaches of great salt lake find that they float like a cork in the water because of its saline content contend which ranges from 22 to 27 per cent the lake Is feet above seh sea level and has no known outlet except evaporation it is 80 miles long ond and from 20 to 32 miles wide great salt lake has ha several fine beaches because rf of its salinity no fish live in the lake but id 4 small brine shrimp no larger than a mans aln ger fi ernail nall exists in great numbers in if it west of the lake are the bonne ville salt flats flags where thousands of acres of white salt stretch on either side of the paved highway which crosses the area the flats are so level that many automobile speed records have been made on them hem ab jenkins former mayor of salt lake city and famed race driver prefers the flats to al all other courses claiming the salt keeps rubber tires cooler than a dirt or r board track the tha flats also are notable for their mirages |