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Show I SHORE LAND OF 1 LAKE SURVEYED Cutoff Making Fresh Water Bay Adds to Utah Farm Prospects SALT LAKE, March 2 9. There are! approximately L'O.no.i -,n-. M of urwir- ( veyed lands between the old meander line of the Groat Salt Like and the j present short lino In fraction township 8 north, rung: 2. I, and 4 west, according ac-cording to tho land service bull' tin H-stisd H-stisd by the t'nltcd States Sonera I land office and received In Salt Lake yea-terday. yea-terday. a field survey at the northern extremity of the lreat Salt Ltke Is now In progn -The examination further shows that sinci; the construction of the ngdon-Lucln ngdon-Lucln cutoff across the lake, the water wa-ter to tho north of there, Into whli h the Bear river flows, have become frcsh. The6c unsurvi yed lands can be made suitable for agricultural pur-pOMfl. pur-pOMfl. according to the report, by dlk-' dlk-' Ing and draining and through, irriga tion. As a consequence of thin situation, the lands affected, both surveyed and - unsurvcyed, with certain expressly excepted ex-cepted areas, were withdrawn from set. locution, sale or entry the order being later modified to Include Inqds In townships X and 9 north, rang 5 west, and an Investigation directed to develop all of the fact". Field work under this assignment was commenced in August. 1921! Pre-! Pre-! llminury Investigation Involved a n-view n-view of records in Salt Lii: and C-den. C-den. with a view to ascertaining the I mean high water level of the lake at the various dates of survey, and to reducing re-ducing to sea level datum the zeros of the various gauges used from time to time for recording fluctuations of the waters of tho lake. Information on , tho subject was also obtained from several government agencies and from he railroads and other sources but much of the Information obtained Is unrelated and Incomplete. 1 The report states that probably the j , maximum yearly change In the eleva- tlon of the lakv surface Is three feet. ! with an average annual change of two feet. The else comes in the spring, i with the melting of snow in the mountains, moun-tains, and reaches Its he'.rjht In mld-! mld-! summer. It recedes through the late summer and autumn and reaches Its ' low water stage In winter. M l l ITION 17NU61 L i The field investigation is not om- ! plete. There are many problems of a i surveying, nature yet to lie -.:. .. in. I several legal questions to be determined. deter-mined. The situation Is not only deep- 1 ly Interesting, but Is unusual, for lo re I on the shore.- of one of the womb r i u lakes of the world. Is one of the great -1 est breeding grounds for waterfowl In I I the country. Especially in the fall of 1: the year millions of herons, gulls, II terns and edible waterfowl, such as ducks, geese and curlews, are to be found on tho water and on the take shores. Tho combination of fresh and salt water, character of vegetation, food abundance and climate and its comparative Isolation fr m the h.u.-n paths of human travel, render the re-; re-; glon unique and wonderful as a work m of nature and a veritable paradise in ' ' he realm of bird- |