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Show p BAY IN SALT LAKE Similar to Frenchman's Scheme T..rin ' I ft'Sected or came I ,f the South- I r V Southern I I V ,rtlon I K K I ,n hu:nhmn. W : if- f I I 4 ms w M?;;; .1 w.-; I I .e nor I."' Ck-mi plan 'M'l" H K' ft E - vr.' W i 1 L-', u : ' Efce(?:lc U ivoul'i be r' - dB,-. : and Ihere KffH Trent further by say-m say-m i 4 I ith hank-1 Hfciit Is today. utRioinaN projkct. Sll.f .'..Tin af'.rr dealing. ft I i Xortb Sail Lax Hff'.'-.lu' B'.ar ltln-r ba .k-: i tost ! ike, be- j Kiv'jr the Bear, would eventually transform the barren shores of today to well tilled i res, but above all, whiio tho level of the western west-ern salt water would be lowered each year by evaporation, tho Incoming fresh -water having been reduced, on (-, contrary the level of the eastern I fresh water would be raised year hy year and as Its depth Increased the nurplus could be utilized to irrigate 'desert land In Box Elder county and I transform the sage brush plain lying between the Jordan river and the iase of Oqulrrh mountain. There could be no danger of overflow as the Jordan river would he a natural outlet l oi. ; .tori. TO REVERSE! "This wis th" most Interfiling fa-ture fa-ture of th.s report, as everyone knows; the Jordan rlVer flows north f rom i I'- i ; ik-, and empties Into the Great Salt lake, but under the plan pro-! prosed the eastern portion of tho Great! Salt lake would gradually rl6o and I would force the sluggish Jordan to Mow backward Into Utah lake. As the Jordan Is a very slow moving1 stream, nn engineer can Bee that raising rais-ing this proposed fresh water lako twenty feet might mako conelderablo dK.'er -m r In the level of the Jordan river and at the same time would provide fresh water fur the desert sections sec-tions l!ng w. st of th- Jordan and of I'tah lake in I'lah county, and even Fouth Into Juab county. "Such w:is the interesting ston given by -Mr. Iooley more than 2t lyi-ars ait.-r the Frenchman had left I the city and which wus utilized in ! makinp a feature story, not only to show thai Bear river lay was going to become fresh water but to indicate thai It had In years pat been projected along the same general lines of reasoning. reas-oning. It was all detailed to Mr. Hnr-riman Hnr-riman when interviewing him at a later date, so It goes without saving that tno great railroad man had a very complete "dream" of tho entire lake situation and that it was not Whollj ri "pipe dream" Is proved by the fact that at least one-half of tho fir. a that the Frenchman included in Ins si heme is In 1I22 a fresh water la:;-, and '.' there is un opportunity of irrigating the sage brush and cedar hills or flats west of L'lah lake cr v.i-.'. ot' the Jordan and at tho same time provide tor the greatest salt and Chemical works in the west, financiers ot Utah might well look Into this Frenchman's project of forty years ago which was visionary then, but might mtw Industry and wealth and paa-tcral paa-tcral development of today "The old plan provided for a railroad rail-road along t lie causeway to reach the area to be reclaimed " S. P. Bulletin. |