Show THE SALTON SEA the salton sea the big body of water formed in california from the colorado river while on a rampage a couple of birb ao aio has haa I 1 iem eln the subject of government investigation since it was formed this big lake his been held accountable for the increased crea ed rainfall throughout the west wert during the hot summer months it be ing alleged thit th it the evaporation from the salton sea carried large of moi ture into the he dir an emie ex s h inge hib has the following follo wini wim to say of it ranil result of the great salton sea campaign for the of evaporation exten extending dinu over a feriod period of tivo beirs ae irs have been det irminiA ba b the united states geitter bureau in ind nill all be set alt forth in a report to be issued in th the near future ahat a standard formali for the study of ta tie e p eblem h his As been n A ith morl mori thin before ly is the of tile weather burlia en bals director A 11 Tl neson of the local iota bureau haij hag received i brief summary ri re ort issued b bi professor franl fran 11 II li icelow in anticipation of the general genera report pros profs or bigelow ba had charge of th nent n nt plants in the salton hei district gail to be the ind best station tor for the baudy of aval on cin tit in the world rhe formulas evulich dt at these rotations will prove ut f nestlin able value to engineers a degree of obtained ur been accuracy 1 1 racy having 1 knowledge on the I 1 pasting s e ing all previous fuestion lu estion among the significant points point brought out in the campaign are arc that barin bar in trie 1 dessure bolin ettli utterly ay ign r ed in figuring evaporation the experiments having shown shon that with other conditions similar the rate ot evaporation I 1 is the same ame on the plateau level af f 1000 0 flet feet as at sea ea leirl ai reg regious ards the balton sea the experiments have de e mined thit that at trie he present rate of evaporation it anil I 1 entirely en tirel within twelve nears icara ahe evau amounts to si ai fecca feet a ear and the depth of the lake is five flet ahe salton ballon sea as is formed at between 1905 ind 1907 when nhen the waters of the colorado river broke their bounds and ran into that stretch of country near the meeting places of alifornia all ali fornia fornin arizona and nv levidi 1 forming a I 1 like ike forn live miles long and fifteen miles aide ide and feet belov belo sea ea level |