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Show 'Holiday' Article Describes The Strangest Sea Great Salt Lake, "The World's Strangest Sea" remains little known today, according to Wallace Stegner in the May issue of HOLIDAY HOLI-DAY MAGAZINE. "The country around it, once rich in vegetationf has for many centuries been a barren desert." he writes. The author reports this "largest lake west of the Mississippi'.' has risen six feet from its all time low back in 1940. He reveals this as contrary to the predictions of F. D. Gilbert back in 1880 who said the lake would gradually dry up as irrigation took more water from the Jordan, Weber and Bear rivers. In his tour of the area, Stegner points to the northern part of the lake as the most interesting with 1 its mass of wildfowl, desolate lake isiands, and "ghost-like" towns. The article cites the best approach to the region as offered by The Southern Pacific Railroad. It tells of the construction job being be-ing done at Little Valley, "the latest of the transportation boom camps that have made much of the lake's history." The author reveals that whole mountains will be brought down to the lake level on conveyor belts to supply rock for the fill which will stretch across the lake for thirten miles and have a depth of sixty or seventy seven-ty feet. The new trestle, he continues, contin-ues, will have a double track, full speed operation and will eliminate danger from fire or ice. Stegner mentions that when he was fourteen he sold hot dogs and hamburgers at Saltair. Unknown as it is even to Utahns, he observes that Great Salt Lake's name is familiar the world over, and millions mil-lions have sampled the two things it offers the tourist sunsets and non-sink swimming. |