Show great salt lakes Dec ltee toll na no 0 19 the de do clintin pro of the tho orting salt lake lale which hali beatt III 10 pro gro 99 for the tile last eit sixta 11 or neveu teen wre mrs bus has it matter ut 0 ontra unc tri to louil aud and ol 01 to in ii fifteen eurs mrs riding with mith loof the lake had haa fallen 9 9 feit felt it de clino line moro serious than at itt first realized ii i a iho ilia lako is enry shallow averaging loss less than twenty feet and as the eastorn eastern and Neg cetera tern s shores bores agn lually th it a all of 0 a foot loot in tho level exposes u many square miler of bottom budesa interests centering aroun arouni the lake havo have suffered suir tred so from the tile decline that within tile lilt faulve mouths a petition signed by a number 0 of prominent nt officials ciali of 0 utah was sent to the geological suney re r tig un an amt of the phenomenon Som eight is 13 thrown ou uti the inre movements ments of the lake laks in the twenty secord annual report of the sun ey in which careful compari compart bon u of rainfall records since sinco j haa has been made it is found that tho low water fluctuations of the like of which there havo beon several since that time wr I 1 in a a remarkable with periods of deficient rainfall and it haa has further been discoN disc ovond ertil that one ono inch of rainfall per year more or less upon the watershed of the laka a of ratio applied to the present low water on a bisi buia d of deficiency in rainfall for the last afif fifteen tec n years which amounts of 14 6 flinches inches seems seeing to account for lesa less than half of the present fall so that other t asea aws foi it must be found in recent ears cars it has axen be en bag sug that tho increase in creaso in arriga alon of adjacent lands ly by ater taken from the sart anis floding tho the lake take hae bas caused the lowering of its waters largo large quantities of water are spread upon farm landa by irrigation partly to bo be by vegetation partly to bo be aceil and kirtly to rt to tl fl 0 st streams reanis or lako in iii the form of springs on account of the artificial arti ficini con t it u t of ams feed ug tho lake the c causes of tho the present low water hau hano bacomo much complicated out careful gaug einga eings of lake levels aro are being made and additional ob taken to disc discover the canses of the decline and to leorn learn it if possible what part irrigation plays in it herald Heral dl |