Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1924-03-03 | Page 4 | Great Salt Lake is Rising

GREAT SALT I LAKE IS RISING RIN Weather Man Contradicts Report That Water Is Drying Up I ISALT SALT LAKI March llarch 3 CA 3 l A-l Contrary to 10 the belief that Gr Great at atI Salt was drying Orling dr Ing up the he water r In Inthe inthe the lake is gradually rising and In Inthe inthe Inthe I the opinion of J 3 Cecil Alter In charge of oC the United Plates weather er or bureau here It will Ill leach each the thele le lesel leel el it was at when alien h n the If Mormon rmon first came camo in 1847 00 Government s show that tile the lake lako which I Is miles mUes long and 40 miles wide had bad an aver aver- average average age depth of 15 feet Ceet 1 10 0 v In in 18 8 nom thit limo until 1903 the voter ater gradually lowered lo HOW HOW- HOWever How However ever It lies has been steadily te rl-Ing rl since Ince reaching its iti low level and now nosY the average depth is 6 feet Ceet 4 Inches Great Salt lake lale is said to be hat I Is left of ancient Lake Bonn l Bonne silts which at one time lime mo most 1 of oC what hilt Is 19 no now Utah and part of Nevada eada The old shore lines ot of Lake ille are still vis visible Is-I Is ible ibis on the hills The Tho gradual rl rise of or the lake Is IsI I causing considerable trouble to I and fal The fortner for tor- 1 mer 11 have been obliged to raise their tra tracks ks and fal mers who set set- set settled tied on the shores shore 8 of the lake herl the water was ns as down do n have hive hid to tode de desert ert some of ot their lind which Is b being ln gradually gra submerged The water ater of Great Salt Lale Laie Is about 20 per Ier cent salt aalt and It Is estimated thit should all nil the he atel be e evaporated for the salt content about tons of the products prod prod- I would be obtainable The lake Is popular for because the Water Is so 80 buoyant that it Is Ie possible pos pos- i sible to stay afloat without effort cHort Thele Is no marine life on the lake because of the tho salty ll condition of 01 the th water and th the tho suggestion that fish be planted thre has haa been dIscarded bv hI L experts