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Show LAKE AT HIGH LEVEL. Great Salt lake Is on the boom. Within the last two weeks the level has risen C-10 of a foot, or from a level of 4.9 feet above the zero mark for May 15, the lake has risen to 5.5 feet abovo the line. The record a year ago was 3.9 feet above, so that the lake Is now 1.6 feet higher than it was on June 1, 1908.' The lakfc is at present pres-ent at the same level that it was in June, 1894, when It was on the decline. de-cline. Tho rise in the. lost three years has been two and a half feet. The tributary streams have , been greatly swollen within the last two weeks, while the evaporation has been at a minimum on account of the coolness cool-ness of the weather. Dut 'with the addition of warm weather evaporation will have to be taken .into account The heaviest Hoods are yet to come, 6o that it Is fair to assume the great lake will rise to six feet. |